Despite the fact that corpse flowers bloom once every 10 years, a rare phenomenon becomes a summer tradition in Chicago Botanical gardens. For two years in a row there it the stinking giants. It seems that this time the Botanic garden visitors can enjoy not one flower, and two (most importantly, do not breathe deeply). Yet the buds was named Java and Sumatra in honor of the Islands of Indonesia,…

British actor Roger Moore, who won international fame playing secret agent 007 James bond, died Tuesday at the age of 89 years. About it on the official website of the actor on Twitter said his family. «With a heavy heart we must announce our loving father, sir Roger Moore, died today in Switzerland after a short but courageous battle with cancer,» wrote three of his children in the Twitter. With…

A relatively small life expectancy in new York city in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is easily explained by the outbreaks of various diseases such as yellow fever, smallpox and cholera. With the gradual development of medicine, the average life expectancy in the city has increased steadily for 70 years. Only here for the last three years it has become to decrease. On Friday, the Department of health and mental…

Last year paid vacation in the United States amounted to an average of 16.8 days per year. These are the findings of the annual survey conducted in the framework of the project, Time Off, funded by the tourism industry, reports Bloomberg. The survey showed that the average number of vacation days has increased more than half a day, compared to 2015 year, and almost the whole day in 2013, but…

In Chicago at the opening of the promenade showed a «fire waterfall». Last weekend in Chicago took place the solemn opening of the area quay length of 1.3 miles. Residents and visitors are lucky — opening coincided with the warm may weather that finally returned to Chicago. The opening night of the waterfront with live music, competitions on dragonbot (boats, made in the form of dragons) and various performances ended…

Another lucky man from California broke a jackpot by playing the Powerball lottery. 5 digits, dropped out of the drum during Sunday’s draw brought the winner a six-figure sum — $480 287. The winning ticket was sold at Chevron gas stations in Anaheim, and the owner may claim his half a million from Monday. As for the main prize, he was not awarded to anyone, and its amount increased even…

City officials announced that new Yorkers can pay for Parking in Brooklyn and Staten island from your mobile phone. The Department of transport presented the system of payment of Parking via mobile devices, existing now in these two districts on Thursday. In December of the same system to work in Manhattan and the Bronx. Queens have yet to join this the benefits of civilization in the future. In order to…

Many users on Twitter on Friday faced with the fact that the social network is just not working, not allowing users to tweet and view the updated news feed. Twitter acknowledged the problem at 8:43 am. A message posted on the official social accounts says: «Some users are currently experiencing problems with access to Twitter and publish tweets. We are aware of this issue and are working on a solution.»…

Only in new York city today, there are 119 of monuments of history and architecture. One of the last, these were recognized as hotels , Waldorf Astoria and UN Plaza, and the Ambassador Grill. But two members of the legislative Assembly intend to expand this list. State Senate brad Hoylman and Liz Krueger asked the Commission for the protection of monuments with a request to consider the inclusion in the…

Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks shamed a serial offender of the rules of Parking in the Upper East side in Manhattan. On his page on Twitter star of «Forrest Gump» and «Sally» posted a picture of a car with a dozen receipts Parking fines on the windscreen. The photo was signed by Hanks: «Sir? Move. Your.