26 Okt. 2008 - Sungguhpun pernah ditawarkan dengan harga yang tinggi, seorang pewaris sepasang meriam tetap enggan menjual warisan nenek moyangnya yang didakwa berusia lebih 200 tahun.
Sahibah Mat, 74, berkata, meriam itu sering menarik perhatian pengunjung ke rumahnya di Kampung Penipah, Daro dekat sini.
''Ramai yang bertanya tentang kewujudan meriam dan ada orang luar sanggup membeli RM25,000.
''Saya lebih gemar menyimpan meriam ini kerana diwarisi turun-temurun daripada nenek moyang saya," katanya ketika ditemui baru-baru ini.
Dua meriam itu diperbuat daripada tembaga tulen. Satu daripadanya seberat kira-kira 60 kilogram dan panjang kira-kira 120 sentimeter.
Manakala yang lebih kecil beratnya 20 kilogram, sepanjang 50 sentimeter.
Kedua-dua meriam ditegakkan dan diikat kemas pada tiang dalam rumah.
Tidak ada apa-apa tulisan terdapat pada badan dua batang meriam, hanya ukiran corak bunga.
Menceritakan lanjut, anaknya Kipli Rasdi, 39, berkata, meriam itu dijadikan hantaran kahwin generasi lama keluarga mereka.
''Ketika Jepun datang menjajah Sarawak dahulu, emak kami menyembunyikan meriam ini dalam tanah di bawah rumah. Dia bimbang meriam warisan keluarga dicuri," jelasnya.
Beliau percaya meriam itu sudah wujud sebelum kedatangan James Brooke ke Sarawak.
Rumah mereka turut menyimpan sebuah tempayan dikenali sebagai 'pergam' yang dianggarkan berusia 100 tahun.
Ia sengaja ditempatkan dalam bilik tidur emaknya agar tidak dicuri.
Menurutnya, tempayan yang digunakan untuk menyimpan beras satu ketika dulu, pernah dicuri tetapi dapat dijumpai semula.
''Warisan turun-temurun keluarga kami akan dijaga baik-baik dan tidak untuk dijual," katanya.
Monday, October 27, 2008
World's heaviest man marries in Mexico - Monday October 27, 2008
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP): The world's heaviest man is tying the knot.
Wearing a white satin shirt with a sheet wrapped around his legs, Manual Uribe left home Sunday to marry his longtime girlfriend in a civil ceremony.
A flatbed truck towed his custom-made bed to an event hall in northern Mexico. The bed -- which Uribe hasn't left in six years -- was decorated with a canopy, flowers and gold-trimmed bows.
Two police patrol cars escorted him ahead of a long line of traffic.
The 43-year-old tipped the scales in 2006 at 1,230 pounds (560 kilograms), earning him the Guinness Book of World Records' title for the world's heaviest man.
He has since shed about 550 pounds (250 kilograms) with the help of his fiancee, whom he met four years ago.
Wearing a white satin shirt with a sheet wrapped around his legs, Manual Uribe left home Sunday to marry his longtime girlfriend in a civil ceremony.
A flatbed truck towed his custom-made bed to an event hall in northern Mexico. The bed -- which Uribe hasn't left in six years -- was decorated with a canopy, flowers and gold-trimmed bows.
Two police patrol cars escorted him ahead of a long line of traffic.
The 43-year-old tipped the scales in 2006 at 1,230 pounds (560 kilograms), earning him the Guinness Book of World Records' title for the world's heaviest man.
He has since shed about 550 pounds (250 kilograms) with the help of his fiancee, whom he met four years ago.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Britain releases secret UFO files
Britain's Ministry of Defence on Monday made public its secret files on UFO sightings, with the dossier including a range of reports from a close encounter with a UFO over Kent and a letter from a woman claiming to be an alien warrior.
The 19 different incidents were recorded between 1986 and 1992, and published on the National Archives website.
Among the recorded incidents was a letter dated March 1990 from a woman who claimed she was an alien whose spaceship had landed during World War II and was recovered by the military.
"The crashed vehicle contained two males from Spectra, a planet orbiting the star Zeta Tucanae, and a female from one of the two inhabited planets in the Sirius system, Amazon the planet of warrior women," she wrote in the letter, which also included sketches of herself and of Spectrans.
"That female was me," she wrote.
Though the letter did not spark an investigation, another report from an Alitalia pilot did.
On April 21, 1991, the captain of an Alitalia plane was en route to Heathrow Airport when it had a close call with a UFO over Kent, the newly-revealed documents showed.
"At once I said, 'Look out, look out,' to my co-pilot, who looked out and saw what I had seen," Achille Zaghetti said in a report on the incident.
"As soon as the object crossed us I asked to the ACC (area control centre) operator if he saw something on his screen and he answered 'I see an unknown target 10nm (nautical miles) behind you'."
Meanwhile, a local television station had broadcast a story of a 14-year-old boy who said he had seen a low-flying missile disappear that same evening.
Radar images at that time initially labelled the object "Cruise missile??", but it was later confirmed that it was not a military weapon.
By July 2, however, a defence ministry inquiry found the UFO had not come from any Army firing ranges, and added there had not been any "space-related activity" that night.
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