Tran Van Hay may have the world's longest hair. At
approximately 6.2 meters long the 73 year-old
vietnamese man keeps it balanced on his head under
a scarf and it looks like a giant turban. He
unravels it for visitors and his wife lays it out
on the table to show them just how long it is.
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Japan suffered a severe earthquake registering 7.2
on the Richter Scale with the city of Kobe
seriously damaged. Rescuers are searching the
rubble and people are being brought out alive as
other teams assess the damage.
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Using only his bare hands, french Spiderman Alain
Robert scales an 150 meter building in Abu Dhabi
in the United Arab Emirates. People watch as
Robert easily reaches the top of the National
Telecommunications building in 20 minutes.
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South Vietnamese troops fighting against the
Vietcong in a ferocious battles on the Newport
Bridge during the Tet Offensive. The South
Vietnamese sustained heavy casualties and injured
children caught up in the crossfire were rescued.
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New York Dominatrix and Fitness Instructor Miss
"Victoria" puts her overweight clients through an
aerobic workout that she has devised named
Slavercize. As her willing and submissive 'slaves'
they must perform push-ups, sit-ups, jumping jacks
and 'play fetch' dressed in latex and threatened
with a whip.
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Following the suburban trend of special haunted
houses that open for viewers only in the haunted
season, urban New York City has come up with few
of its own. One such spook-fiesta is Blood Manor
on the west side of Manhattan.
Blood Manor is a labyrinth of dark halls, 12 rooms
of terror and what it's owners claim is the city's
only haunted 3-D maze. One of the persons laughing
hard in the Blood Manor is actor Guy DeMatties,
who enacts the role of lunatic Dr. Shock in a
special room, littered with fake corpses and
blood.
The Nightmare Haunted House cost about $200,000 to
build.
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Gruesome body parts greet customers of a bakery in
Ratchaburi, Thailand. Artist and baker Kittiwat
Unarrom has sculpted life-like heads, feet and
hands from dough in the bakery's kitchen and
exhibits them in glass cabinets in the shop. He
says his edible art lures one hundred visitors a
day.
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South Vietnamese troops and US Marines battle to
recapture the town of Hue, with bodies being
checked for booby traps and civilians caught up in
the fighting and leaving. The battle was part of
the Tet Offensive.
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On 2nd April 2005 Pope John Paul II died after a
prolonged struggle with ill health. Thousands of
pilgrims queued for the chance to see him lying
for public viewing at Saint Peter's Basilica at
the Vatican in Rome, Italy.
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