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1-5 Interesting Facts About New Year 1. Some people wear adult diapers while celebrating New Year at Time Square due to the lack of toilets. – Source 2. Ethiopia has 13 months. Their current year is still 2013 and they celebrate New Years on September 11. – Source 3. Until 2006, the Space Shuttle never flew on New Year’s day or eve because its computers couldn’t handle a year rollover. – Source 4. In an effort to reduce drunk driving, every New Year’s Eve the AAA will tow your car a...

comments The sun is slowly sinking behind the mountain and the lights are starting to twinkle on snowy hillsides. All is snug and cosy — gemütlich, as they like to say in these parts — except for the most peculiar noise: silence. I am in Ischgl, the Austrian ski resort famous for the most boisterous apres-ski party scene in the Alps. Normally, sundown would herald the thud of dance music in a resort known as Ibiza On Ice. For years, its marketing slogan was — and still is — Relax. If y...

An Icelandic media outlet saw an extensive lines last week as hundreds showed up to submit entries for the country’s 2013 Eurovision song selection. After the midnight deadline was reached on Monday (15 October), Reykjavik-based broadcaster RÚV said that it had received 240 total entries for Iceland’s Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins. Expectations remain high that the North Atlantic nation will win the 2013 Eurovision competition in Malmö, Sweden, as Iceland has made the finals for five consec...

Weather in Reykjavik for today, accurate weather forecast for today for Reykjavik, Greater Reykjavik, Iceland.

January 29th, 2007 In October, DiS writers Colin Roberts and Raziq Rauf ventured to Reykjavik for the annual Iceland Airwaves festival. Whilst there, as well as scaling churches, dipping in lagoons and drinking bad alcohol, we caught up with Klaxons - mere days after finishing their debut LP Myths Of The Near Future, which has seen the light of day this week. Now, we take an insight into their thoughts on their album, MySpace, Black Grape and the drugs in music debate. All this, and also cli...

21 New Holiday Songs Out This Week The holidays are upon us, and whether you’re feeling festive or not, musicians are climbing aboard the tinsel bandwagon with new songs for the season. We offer to you a week’s worth of them, nestled in one place, like gifts under a tree. We already posted  dozens of new holiday songs this year so far. Here are more that came out this week. THE SOUL SANTAS (BEAK>) - CHRISTMAS CRACKERS, VOL 1 The Soul Santas are Beak>s Geoff Barrow and Billy Fuller, plus ...

The always-busy Kormakur also started shooting season three of his hit Icelandic crime series Trapped this year, and is developing a feature slate through his own company RVK Studios. He hopes the first to shoot in 2021 will be the survival thriller Beast, starring Idris Elba. We came to shoot Katla in Vik [a village on the south coast], which is usually the most crowded tourist place in Iceland. And then we showed up and there was not a single soul — it was like 28 Days Later. My other g...

Pleistocene Park One Russian scientist hopes to slow the thawing of the Arctic Sergei Zimov is a polarising figure, but the results from his Pleistocene Park seem promising so far P ERCHED ON top of a cliff on the northern edge of Russia, Sergei Zimov doffs his beret, letting his long grey hair tumble down his back. His eyes glow as he leans his weathered face toward the frozen ground. Under the haze of never-ending northern days, he looks like a figure lifted from the golden background of a Ru...

Sales and market share more than double REYKJAVIK, Iceland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#fishskin–Kerecis is the fastest growing company in the regenerative-tissue market in the United States according to SmartTRAK Business Intelligence, which compared industry-sales and market-share data for 3Q 2020 to 3Q 2019. During that time, sales of Kerecis Omega3 Wound grew 120% in the U.S., making Kerecis the fastest growing company in this billion-dollar market. The increase in quarterly sales makes the comp...

Airthings Masters | chess24 The second event on the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour is also the first Major, with a $200,000 prize fund. The winner gets $60,000 and a guaranteed place in the Grand Final. Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura and Skilling Open winner Wesley So are among the 12-player field, which will be reduced to 8 players by a 3-day preliminary stage. The remaining players will battle it out in a knockout that takes us into 2021. January 16 – 31 |  Tata Steel Masters | Wijk aan...