By admin on October 20, 2011
Sonia Yang is only 10 years old but she can speak an incredible 10 languages. The young student at private Greenbank Preparatory School in Stockport has been crowned the north west of England’s best young linguist after stunning teachers with her detailed knowledge. Sonia, from Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, was born in Taiwan but moved to [...]
Posted in Amazing People, From Around The World | Tagged 10-Year-Old Sonia Yang Speaks Ten Languages, 10-year-old student can speak an incredible 10 languages, Cheadle Hulme, Chinese, English, French, German, Greenbank Preparatory School in Stockport, Heather Burnett, Japanese, Kazakh, knowledge of other tongues, language contest, native Taiwanese, Portuguese, Sonia Yang, Spanish, Stockport, the north west of England's best young linguist, the Ugandan language of Luganda |
By admin on July 24, 2011
For the Chinese, “4” is considered a taboo number as the number sounds like “death” in Chinese. And for the superstitious, “13″ is considered the unluckiest number. But for acclaimed musicians, that number is 27. Welcome to the 27 Club, also occasionally known as the Forever 27 Club or Club 27, is a morbid moniker [...]
Posted in From Around The World, The Odd The Weird The Wacky | Tagged 13 is considered the unluckiest number, 27 Club, 27 Club Just Admitted Its Latest Member Amy Winehouse, 27 Clubbers, 27 Club’s newest member, 4 is considered a taboo number, 4 sounds like “death” in Chinese, a morbid moniker for the group of talented and influential but troubled performers who died at the age of 27, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Amy Winehouse’s song Rehab, asphyxiation, Back to Black, Big Brother and The Holding Company, Brian Jones, Chas Chandler, Chinese, Classic Rock Magazine's "50 Greatest Singers In Rock", Club 27, Courtney Love, Duffy, grunge band Nirvana, James Douglas "Jim" Morrison, James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Janis Lyn Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix was found dead after overdosing on pills and drowning in his own vomit, Johnny Allen Hendrix, Keith Richard, Keith Richards, Kurt Cobain, Kurt Donald Cobain, Lewis Brian Hopkins Jones, Mick Jagger, Mick Taylor, psychedelic hippie rock band, Rolling Stone magazine’s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, Rolling Stone magazine’s 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time", serious substance abuse problem, suicide by a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head.Amy Jade Winehouse, The Doors, the first British singer to win five Grammys, the Forever 27 Club, the greatest electric guitarist in musical history, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band, The Queen of Psychedelic Soul, The Queen of Rock and Roll, The Rolling Stones, the spokesman of a generation, They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no no no', Woodstock |
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