Ninety-year-old grandma skydives from a height of 13,000 feet

Just imagine having to hurtle down to earth at a speed of 113 mph from a height of about 13,000 feet! It should be a terrifying experience even to imagine it. And add to that just imagine a 90-year-old grandma performing this unbelievable feat to mark her 90th birthday.

This was what 90-year-old Danish grandmother Elsa Bak achieved with her 80-year-old husband Asger recently. Elsa and her partner who have been married for 55 years were treated to this experience by their son and despite their age decide to go ahead with the sky-jump. "The experience was even greater than I expected. Wonderful," Mrs Bak said after the jump. "Absolutely lovely."

Mr Bak was also thrilled with the experience: "Lovely," he agreed, as he hugged his ecstatic wife.

Mrs Bak was so happy she wanted to jump again. "Can't we do it one more time?" she said.
 

Return of the missing mom after 52 years

Sudden disappearance of an Alaska native, Lucy Ann Johnson, in British Columbia Canada, in 1965 was taken seriously by the Canadian police when they found she had actually disappeared in 1961.

And they treated it as a homicide and her husband was intensely interrogated as the suspect.

Marvin who died in the late 1990s, was suspected of murdering Lucy and disposing her body in their back garden, which was fully excavated during the investigation. But the case was dropped as they could not find any evidence and the missing person's trail went cold.

Lucy's daughter Linda Evans, who was only seven or eight when her mother disappeared, placed an advertisement in a newspaper calling for any evidence connected to her mom's disappearance, after reading the news release of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police [RCMP].

We received a phone call from a woman in the Yukon who called and claimed that she had seen the picture of the missing person in the newspapers, and said the missing person we were looking for was actually her mother," RCMP spokesman Cpl. Bert Paquet said.

Paquet said Evans was able to connect with a half-sister who she didn't know existed and eventually discovered that her now-77-year-old mother has been living in the Yukon with another family.

Evans, learned that she has four new-found half-siblings - three brothers and a sister, and said: I have a lot of questions, and they're all 'Whys?' Evans, who never dreamed of finding her mother alive,said that she has no hard feelings towards Johnson and looks forward to reuniting with her.

"I just hope I can be part of her life," Evans said.

"The wheels were set in motion and it led to finding Lucy Johnson alive and well," said Paquet and added, " It's life-changing event. She's certainly got some explaining to do to her family.'

World's smelliest flower!

Eight-feet tall and awesomely massive flower - if you call it a flower you won't have any word for flowers like roses 'anthuriums' - has unfurled its petals in full bloom and has attracted over 5,000 people to the National Botanic Garden of Belgium.

The Corpse flower in full bloom

But almost everyone who comes to view this uncommon specimen have their nasal avenues closed with their hands.

It is because of the stinking smell that emanates from this flower.

The plant, a striking violet flower unfurled around the stalk looming over onlookers, weighs in at close to 300 pounds.

According to a researcher and botanist at the Botanic Garden that houses the "Titan Arum" Bart Van de Vijver it smells like a dead rabbit that has been lying in the sun for two weeks and you open the box.

Rightfully it is also called the "Corpse Flower" because it releases its rotting "perfume'. Van de Vijver also indicates that the pungent aroma of the flower is designed to attract certain flies that usually feast on rotten meat.

They happen to be its polinators. Lisa Yee, 52 who was one of the onlookers said; "It was horrible, but I was expecting to pass out, which, in a strange way, would have been exciting," said Yee.

"I thought I had smelled public restrooms that were worse." Why doesn't someone think of making a very special perfume out of the aroma of this stinking corpse flower?