Footbinding, literally “bound feet”, was a custom practised on young females for approximately one thousand years in China, beginning in the 10th century and ending in the early 20th century. In Chinese foot binding, young girls’ feet, usually at age 6 but often earlier, were wrapped in tight bandages so that they could not grow and develop normally; they would, instead, break and become highly deformed, not growing past 4-6 inches (10-15 cm).

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Just few days ago, a TV news channel reported the birth of a baby at Franciscan Skemp Medical Center in La Crosse. Chuck Berendes and his wife were surprised to know that their baby was born at exactly 9:09 on 9/9/09 and weighs 9 lbs, 9 ounces.

Are there other babies born in same-number combination?

Meet Xander Riniker, born at 8:08 a.m. on August 8, 2008 and weighs 8 pounds, 8 ounces. Xander was born at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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The following is a list/photos of people with unusual long names. They have received media attention because of their unusual (weird?) long names. The longest name for a person belongs to a German immigrant to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His name is (beat this) :

(First and middle names — representing every letter of the alphabet)
Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvim John Kenneth Loyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor Willian Xerxes Yancy Zeus

(Last name)
Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorffvoralternwarengewissenhaftschaf
erswesenchafewarenwholgepflegeundsorgfaltigkeitbeschutzenvonange
reifenduchihrraubgiriigfeindewelchevorralternzwolftausendjahresvorand
ieerscheinenbanderersteerdeemmeshedrraumschiffgebrauchlichtalssein
ursprungvonkraftgestartseinlangefahrthinzwischensternartigraumaufde
rsuchenachdiesternwelshegehabtbewohnbarplanetenkreisedrehensichu
ndwohinderneurassevanverstandigmenshlichkeittkonntevortpflanzenund
sicherfreunanlebenslamdlichfreudeundruhemitnichteinfurchtvorangreifen
vonandererintlligentgeschopfsvonhinzwischensternartigraum

He later shortened it to Mr. Hubert Wolfe, although there are times that he used the name Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr.

Here are the rest of them with strange long names:
1. Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi (short version: Alexander Siddig) Sudanese-born English actor, also known as Siddig El Fadil and Alexander Siddig.
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Here are photos of the world’s largest soap bubbles. ‘Bubbleologist’ Samsam Bubbleman set the record for the world’s biggest free-floating soap bubbles.
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They are amazing stunts for the viewers, but certainly the stunts do not look pleasant for the person doing the act. Have you seen photos of the most painful stunts? OMG, you can only ask if these people are still sane…

Painful stunt 1: Chinese man attempting to wrap himself with steel wire using special breathing techniques.
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Yoga gurus must be happy for these drunk people! Even drunks can do something productive with their lives by doing yoga positions. The photos you’ll see below are from a popular blog that shows photographs of people taken while asleep and drunk. Alongside the picture is an image of a yoga position which looks very similar.

Enjoy: “Drunk People and Yoga Positions” photos

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TLC featured the World’s Tallest Children. TLC traveled to Jamaica and even to a remote place in Thailand to find the World’s Tallest Children under age 18.

Here are the photos of the Tallest Kids as of July 2009.

15-year-old Marvadene from Jamaica — stands 6 feet 9 and one half inches.

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