ARL Football Success Ranking System The ARL Football Success Ranking System for men’s European club football establishes for certain the clubs most successful of each nation and in the whole of Europe. It is a system of scoring points to clubs based on what trophies and how many have been won. Different trophies score different... Continue Reading →
Facts ‘n’ Things
Dog Fall Kills Three Passers-by, 1988
When a poodle fell off a high rise balcony in Buenos Aires, it is hard to understand how it could result in the deaths of three pedestrians below. Cachi’s beady eyes were locked on to the tennis ball the Montoya family’s youngest boy bounced, so engrossed his head nodded up and down to its rebound.... Continue Reading →
Spain’s 15 Most Successful Football Clubs, Ranked (June, 2023)
ARL Football Success Ranking System The ARL Football Success Ranking System for men’s European club football establishes for certain which clubs are the most successful of each nation and in the whole of Europe. It is a system of scoring points to clubs based on what trophies and how many have been won. Different trophies... Continue Reading →
England’s 26 Most Successful Football Clubs, Ranked (May, 2022)
ARL Football Success Ranking System The ARL Football Success Ranking System for men’s European club football establishes for certain which clubs are the most successful of each nation and in the whole of Europe. It is a system of scoring points to clubs based on what trophies and how many have been won. Different trophies... Continue Reading →
Grim Reaper Refuses to Let Death Row Escapee Live, 1980
One man's fate to die on a date in 1980 was so strong even escaping Death Row could not postpone his mortality. Read here how he met his end. Such is the antisocial, troublesome character of some people you meet that you just know they’re destined to be dead or in prison before they reach... Continue Reading →
Andorra’s 44 Years of World War finally Ended, 1958
The time one disregarded European state forgot to end the 'Great War' For its main belligerents, World-War-I lasted from 1914 until 1918, yet bizarrely Germany remained at war, technically, with one country for another 39 years. Andorra is a European minnow state of 468 km (181 sq mi) and just 76,000 call it home. It... Continue Reading →
The 14 Year-Old Cop, 2009
The embarrassing episode for the Chicago Police Dept. when they discovered a teenager had managed to get hold of a uniform and go under cover as a cop. Find out what duties he performed during his 'shift' and try to figure out how he slipped through the net. It was just past lunchtime and a... Continue Reading →
French Sink Greenpeace Ship, 1985
How on earth did Greenpeace get mixed up in the seedy world of covert operations to result in one of its ships getting mined? Read about how the world-renowned conservation group annoyed the French so much they launched 'Operation Satanique' against them. Sticking to the shadows, sheathed in black and deadly with any weapon, the... Continue Reading →
The Dyatlov Pass Incident, 1959
When investigators found the bodies of nine missing trekkers in the Artic tundra half-dressed and away from their tent for no apparent reason, it began perhaps the spookiest mystery in Russian history. It was the depths of winter and 23-year-old Igor Alekseyevich Dyatlov with eight other fit, young men and women arrived at the town... Continue Reading →
The ‘Baltic Gold’ Gift from The Sea, 2015
The oceans have always proved bountiful for coastal communities, providing not only sustenance but valuables lost in the sand or washed ashore from shipwrecks. For the people of the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad in 2015, however, the sea gifted a hoard of 'Baltic Gold'. Amber is hard, transparent fossilised tree resin, the sort famous for... Continue Reading →