Word: queene
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...came to pass that Her Majesty the Queen of England decided her website needed a little juice-up. Thus, on the 13th day of February in the Year of our Lord 2009, she stood before her subjects and held aloft the royal remote control and behold, there appeared on a screen behind her what nobles and seers would come to call QE2.0, the new and improved official website of the British Monarchy...
...present at the launch, which is not bad considering it's mostly a glorified Facebook page. Why does Her Maj even need a website? She doesn't. As she explains on one of the crackling vintage radio addresses available on the royal YouTube channel, the point of being queen is to serve. It's we regular folk who need the website. In her munificence, she provides it. (See the 50 best websites...
...long ago as 1872, Francis Galton, the man behind eugenics and fingerprinting, reckoned that monarchs should live longer than the rest of us, since millions of people pray for the health of their King or Queen every day. His research showed just the opposite - no surprise, perhaps, given the rich diet and extensive leisure that royal families enjoy. An oft discussed 1988 study by cardiologist Randolph Byrd of San Francisco General Hospital found that heart patients who were prayed for fared better than those who were not. But a larger study in 2005 by cardiologist Herbert Benson at Harvard University...
...Gods to give me a fist bump. It’s fun.THC: Very manly! And what was it like playing a woman last year?WBP: That was a huge trip. I had huge hips, huge boobs, and played a magic mirror. I was supposed to be this big disco queen and really just looked like a giant disco ball! There are some really terrifying pictures on Facebook that I’m sure will ruin my political career someday.THC: Besides the embarrassing pictures, what’s the single best thing about performing in a drag show?WBP: It?...
...befits such a massive enterprise, the cover is a closely guarded secret; even the model featured on it isn't informed until the last minute. TIME caught up with this year's cover girl, Israeli model Bar Refaeli, just an hour after she found out. (See pictures of pinup queen Bettie Page...