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Stacey Herald worlds smallest mum only 28-inch tall. Giving birth is a big event for any woman, but for tiny Stacey Herald it is momentous – and extremely risky.

Stacey Herald worlds smallest mum only 28-inch tall

Doctors warned 2ft 4in Stacey off pregnancy. They said a baby would grow so large inside her body it would crush her organs, strangling her from the inside out. But bravely she defied their warnings. And now the world’s smallest mum is just four weeks§ away from having baby number three – her first boy. Stacey, 35, has osteogenesis imperfecta, which means she failed to grow. She is only twice the size of daughters Kateri, three, and Makaya, two – both born by caesarean. She needs a wheelchair to get around and relies on her 5ft 9in husband Will, a trainee priest, to do most things around the house.

Although Stacey admits being pregnant is “uncomfortable” and leaves her looking like a “beachball with a head and little feet”, she is looking forward to the latest addition. And, after fearing she would never become a mum, she wouldn’t rule out the possibility of more. What's up with Henry Earl? Henry is The Man So there's this guy named Henry Earl.

What's up with Henry Earl?

He lives in Lexington, KY. I don't know much about him except that he goes by the name "James Brown", (which is cool in and of itself) and that he likes to get drunk. He likes to get drunk a lot. And he gets busted a lot. Well, Henry has earned something of a cult following (he's even been mentioned in Newsweek/MSNBC). Henry's Impressive Record Henry's become so popular that Drew, the guy who runs Fark, was asked by guys at Fayette County to stop linking directly to their offender database as the traffic was crashing their server.

I just had to get some sense of the overall scale of Henry's recidivism. Automating it was clearly the only way. More Info About Henry Even though there are a few other, more "full-featured" web sites devoted to Henry, none had the capability to display real-time jail stats -- hence this page. Feel free to link to this page as much as you want.

Donate to Henry About That Henry Status Firefox Plugin... Article on Trepanation. Warning: Certain icky bits that follow are NOT for the squeamish.

Article on Trepanation

You have been warned. From Eccentric Lives & Peculiar Notions by John Michell. Amanda Feilding lives in a charming flat looking over London's river with her companion, Joey Mellen, and their infant son, Rock. She is a successful painter, and she and Joey have an art gallery in a fashionable street of the King's Road. Another of her talents is for politics. The founder of the trepanation movement is a Dutch savant, Dr Bart Hughes. The higher state of mind he sought was that of childhood. Joseph Mellen met Bart Huges in 1965 in Ibiza and quickly became his leading, or rather one and only, disciple.

[A few paragraphs that detail Joseph Mellen's early experiments with LSD, and how he finds out about Bart Huges have been removed for brevity.] The time came when Joey felt he had preached enough and that he now had to act. The most gripping passages in Bore Hole describe his various attempts to complete the operation. Bogdan: The seven-year-old Serbian boy who appears to be 'magnetic' By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 12:23 GMT, 24 February 2011 A seven-year-old boy in Serbia is attracting worldwide attention after his family claim he is magnetic.

Bogdan: The seven-year-old Serbian boy who appears to be 'magnetic'

To prove their claim, the family paraded the boy in front of an camera crew, with a variety of objects stuck to his chest. The boy, called Bogdan, seemed unfazed by the attention - nor did he seem to mind having a variety of cutlery stuck to his body. Scroll down for video Bogdan the magnificent: A Serbian family claims seven-year-old Bogdan is magnetic, a odd gift he has had all his life Attracting the media: Even the reporter's microphone ends up attached to Bogdan's body.

The footage ended up on MSNBC, where reporter Al Stirrett said Bodgan did indeed have a unique ability. Mr Stirrett told MailOnline that the family did not offer their last name, possibly because of the age of the boy. Nevertheless, they're happy to show off Bodgan's ability - which they claim he has had since birth.