Roar Into the 'Year of the Tiger' With Fortunes and Traditions of the Chinese New Year
WS's Andy Corbley details the up close version of the Chinese New Year, and the traditions of the Year of the Tiger.
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Man Who Tells the Queen He Engineers Solar Panels is Stunned When She Orders Some Installed on the Castle
George Goudsmit tells the Queen he's in solar energy and was stunned when she ordered some panels installed on her Scottish castle.
A Chair Bought for $5 in a Junk Shop Sells at Auction for over $16,000
A rare wooden chair bought in a junk shop in England for five bucks has sold at auction for over 16,000, as an important Vienna design.
Hockey Fan Spots Cancerous Mole on a Staffer, Gets $10,000 Medical School Scholarship from Grateful NHL Team
A concerned fan thought she spotted a cancer on a Vancouver Canucks staff member. She alerted him, it was true, and so the team rewarded her.
The Small Victories That Make a Huge Difference in Our Daily Lives
The average person tallies four small wins a day, or 1,460 every year, and they like to celebrate them, says a new poll.
Man Who Had Heart Surgery Wins $1Mil Lottery on a 'CashWord' Ticket in Get-Well Card - the Winning Word was HEART
Recent heart surgery patient Alexander McLeish won $1 million in a lottery 'Cashword' game-and the word that won him the jackpot was 'heart".
Surviving the Nazis and Fire, 2000-Year-old Caligula Mosaic Finally Returns to Museum
After 90 years, a lost Roman mosaic that escaped a museum fire before being sold as a coffee table in the 1960s in NYC, has returned home.
Teen's Balloon Letter to Dad in Heaven Gets Touching Response From 400 Miles Away
16-year-old Ashlynn Marracino wrote a long note to her father who died of a brain aneurysm on the side of a silver balloon and let it soar up to the heavens. She described how she loved and missed him and wrote, "Show me a sign please." The balloon was found 435 miles away by someone who wanted to giver her that sign.
War Veterans Reunite After Unknowingly Living 18 years as Neighbors
Veterans of the Vietnam war reconnected a few weeks ago after not having seen each other for almost 50 years. The two old friends lived around the corner from each other for nearly two decades, but didn't know it
Minn. Sheriff's Deputy Finds $3000 Blowing in Breeze
Lucky for the owner that the person who found and collected $3,010 flying around off a county road near Brockway Township was a sheriff's deputy.
42 Years Later, Man's Missing Gold Ring Found in the Ground
James Murphy never gave up hope believing he'd find the high school class ring he lost in 1972. Friday, a Chicago man operating a metal detector found the gold ring in the same yard where it originally slipped off Murphy's finger, after the new owner allowed a search of the property.
Woman 'Miraculously' Finds Rare Liver and Donor Becomes His Wife
Doctors diagnosed Nicole Munda with a rare liver disease and the guidelines for a donor were strict. If the 29-year-old didn't get the perfect liver soon, she would die in six months.
Ex-con Saves Baby on Side of Road, Plays Gospel to Calm Her
A Georgia man who served ten years for manufacturing cocaine is being credited with saving a 15-month-old baby he found alongside a highway. Bryant Collins, an auto repair man who says he has been free and clean for five years, spotted the girl crawling alongside a Madison County highway, east of Atlanta.
Honest Toilet Cleaner Gets to Keep $80,000
Chamindu Amarsinghe was speechless this week to hear he will get $81,597 of the cash he found while cleaning the toilets at a Melbourne television station.
Stranger Captures Humble Sidewalk Marriage Proposal in Magical Photo
Some marriage proposals are elaborately staged affairs, but for one Rhode Island couple, a simple and spontaneous engagement in the rain, on a New York City sidewalk, will always be remembered, thanks to the priceless photos by a stranger.
Man Hits $10 million Jackpot After Store Clerk's Mistake
Fifty-three-year-old Jerry Kajfasz (of Lancaster New York) won a $10 million jackpot from a $20 scratch-off ticket he purchased after the clerk nearly handed him an extra ticket.
Mattress on Moving Day Catches Toddler in 3-Story Fall
If Konrad Lightner and his wife, Jennifer had not been stuck in an elevator for 30 minutes earlier in the day, they would not have been at exactly the right place to rescue a child who fell from a third-story window. It was moving day for the Burbank, California couple, when they were exiting the apartment carrying another load -- this time, the box spring mattress to their bed.
Scrap Dealer Finds Missing $20 Million Faberge Egg
When a scrap metal dealer from U.S. Midwest bought a golden ornament at a junk market, it never crossed his mind that he was the owner of a $20 million Faberge egg hailing from the court of imperial Russia.
Couple Stumbles Upon $10 million in Buried Old Coins
During the California gold rush of the 1800's, what did people do with their treasure when banks were rare, and sometimes untrustworthy? They buried it. Now a middle-aged couple has staked a claim to part of the state's legendary gold treasure after walking the dog on their rural property in Northern California and noticing a buried can jutting out of the ground near a tree.
Good Samaritan Gives Driver $225 After Cab Fare Skips Out
A longtime Victoria cab driver got a taste of the kindness of strangers Friday after he was stiffed on a $225 cab fare. When Roberts realized the passenger had skipped out, a stranger turned up out of nowhere and pushed a wad of cash into his hand.
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