Lucca the heroic three-legged war dog wins medal - video

Twelve-year-old military dog Lucca is awarded the highest war medal for her service with the US marine corps. The German Shepherd has been honoured with the PDSA Dickin medal in London – the equivalent to the Victoria Cross – after completing 400 missions over the course of six years, keeping troops safe by sniffing out munitions. During a patrol in Afghanistan in 2012, an IED detonation cost Lucca her leg, but not her spirit
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sing for cancer

in a new study doctors  tested saliva in a welsh choir of 193 cancer patients before and after their sang.they found a signican t drop in stress  homones including cortisol and increase in cytokines which aid to fight the illness.

rant issue 4

holidays why do people like to shove them in your face ,the last one i had was 1 year in ilfarcombe,stayed in a b annd b with  now wife and 2 kids and on the dole ,adverts did you know if you watched your fav tv programs without them an 1 hour would be about 45 minutes long,housing assocication can not name legally are not very good at accepting critism as if you ring up thier make you feel like crap and wasting thier money ,doctors yes do a good job when you get to see the one you are under as a major pain regoing over your illness to locum ,i wonder dear rant reader do you have some rants you wish to share,when did we become scared of diong things wasit tv ,radio or just the fear factor in as ,recntly the pm was in trouble for having a tax free payment yes not illegal but a moral wrong when you wish this to stop and have the high ground.google chrome seems to not like me as every time downloD DOES NOT WORK WHICH IS A SHAME AS LIKE SOME OF APPS.

the-vikings-uncovered

Dan Snow uncovers the lost Vikings in America with space archaeologist Dr Sarah Parcak. Sarah uses satellites 383 miles above the earth to spot ruins as small as 30cm buried beneath the surface. As Sarah searches for Viking sites from Britain to America, Dan explores how they voyaged thousands of miles when most ships never left the shoreline. He also tracks their expansion west, first as raiders and then as settlers and traders throughout Britain and beyond to Iceland and Greenland. In North America they excavate what could be the most westerly Viking settlement ever discovered.see on bbc i player

poo museum

this is a museum that displays human stools,animal droppings and fossils 140 million years old.some things you can see are a turd that looks like a cereal bar ,a kids shoe in which a cat has had a dumped in and you can get faesces facts hidden under toilet seats .all this can be seen at the national poo museum ,isle of wight zoo,sandown and been curated by nigel george.

buy a village

west heslerston,north yorkshire -23 homes,21 bed historic manor house ,pub,all in 2,000 arces and untouched  virtually for 50 years and you can buy for 20 million pounds.

rare atlas

a rare  17  th  century atlas that has 9 volumes and 600 eitchings has been found.