Chen Si is a Chinese man who has stopped more than 300 people from committing suicide off the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing, China. Since 19 December 2003, Chen Si has spent every weekend on the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, a notorious spot from which to commit suicide. Si patrols the bridge on foot […]
Six pack rings or six pack yokes are a set of connected plastic rings that are used in multi-packs of beverage, particularly six packs of since 1989, six-pack rings have been manufactured to be 100 percent photo-degradable, so the plastic will begin to disintegrate in just a few days, allowing animals to easily free themselves […]
Match Group, Inc. is an American Internet company that owns and operates several online dating web sites including OkCupid, Tinder, PlentyOfFish, and Match.com. The company also operates the test preparation company, The Princeton Review. Match Group is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and operates as a subsidiary of IAC/InterActiveCorp. Match Group went public on November 19, […]
The word “checkmate” derives from the Persian phrase “Shah Met” which means “the King is Dead.” The term checkmate is, according to the Barnhart Etymological Dictionary, an alteration of the Farsi phrase “shāh māt” (شاه مات) which means, literally, “the King is helpless”.[7] Others maintain that it means “the King is dead”, as chess reached […]