2015년 2월 11일 수요일

This bull's semen is really, really expensive

BBC News Magazine
 
 
 
Afternoon all,

This is Yuvraj the bull. He is Karamveer Singh’s most prized possession. He has really, really expensive sperm. It costs ten times more than your average bull’s. People come from all over India to collect a dose.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Karamveer really loves this animal. Two years ago he was offered over a million dollars for him and he refused. At first Karamveer explained it just wasn’t enough – he would only settle for at least three times the amount. That would be enough to buy a helicopter. But he seemed to change his mind muttering concerns about living without him. But wouldn’t you, if your bull was producing the most expensive sperm in India?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The bull whose semen is worth $3,000

As the debate over plane noise rumbles on, it’s worth remembering there is one much quieter form of air travel. Let us present the airship.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
They were quiet but they were also huge. So huge that inside this one was a tea room and a two-tier promenade deck.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
But they weren’t fast - getting to Australia would take 10 days. That's a lot of time to look out of that window.

A curious British airship experiment

Before apartheid, there were areas of South Africa that were not segregated by race. Victor Mokine lived in one of them. Sophiatown was home to black, white, mixed-race, Chinese and Indian people. But it was the first in a series of forced removals on the pretext of preserving racial harmony. And Victor remembers it. He was 10. Nelson Mandela had given a speech saying the time for passive resistance was over. But when he realised how heavily armed the police were likely to be, he advised residents not to resist. Victor told us he remembers being woken up early one morning by the sound of horses' hooves. When he eventually went outside he realised that 2,000 police had descended on the sleeping neighbourhood.

The town destroyed to stop black and white people mixing
 
 
 
 

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