QUIRKY WORLD ... Husband dies 20 minutes after wife passes away
Henry and Jeanette De Lange died on July 31 at Platte Care Centre.
Their son, Lee De Lange, said his 87-year-old mother suffered from Alzheimer’s and had been in a nursing home since 2011. He said his 86-year-old father visited her daily before recently entering the same nursing home.
After his mother died peacefully, he told his father that “mom’s gone to heaven. You don’t have to fight anymore, you can go too if you want.”
He said his father looked at his wife, closed his eyes, and died minutes after.
From tourist to refugee
A Chinese tourist who lost his wallet in Germany signed the wrong paperwork and ended up at a refugee home.
Christoph Schluetermann, an official with the German Red Cross — which runs the home — said the man “set machinery in motion that he couldn’t get out of”.
The unidentified man’s trouble started when he lost his wallet after arriving in the city of Stuttgart. Officials have figured out that, instead of going to police to file a stolen goods report, he somehow ended up at an authority that presented him with an asylum application. From there, he was sent to the refugee home in north-western Germany. Schluetermann said he had to wait for 12 days while officials put his story together.
No language barrier here
A schoolgirl has achieved seven straight As at higher level despite English not being her first language. Alishah Nazir grew up speaking Urdu at home and burst into tears when she got her exam results yesterday morning.
Her head teacher believes she could have the best results in Scotland.
She studied higher English, maths, chemistry, biology, and French during school hours at Eastwood High School, Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, adding English as a second language through an after-school club and Urdu at nearby Woodfarm High in Thornliebank.
She said: “I actually worked quite hard this year because obviously highers are really important, so the pressure was on from teachers, from parents, from friends around us trying to see who could get the best results and I think it just all paid off.
“I was so overwhelmed when I got my results. I looked at them and started crying because I didn’t expect my results to be as good as they were.”
The 17-year-old speaks Urdu at home in Darnley, Glasgow, with her parents but said the hours of studying rather than language issues posed the greatest challenge. “It was a little bit more challenging because there were more hours that had to be put in for these sessions, but overall it was fine.
“It was all because of the huge amount of support from the teachers — I wouldn’t have been able to do it without all the help with supported studies and after-school sessions that they ran.”
Nazir is considering a career in medicine but will be returning to school for sixth year when she plans to study at least three advanced highers.
Dolphin an Apple fan
A woman trying to take a picture of a dolphin at SeaWorld in Florida with an iPad apparently got a bit too close because it snatched the device right out of her hands.
Video shot by another parkgoer shows the dolphin reaching over the side of the viewing tank at SeaWorld Orlando, where visitors can touch the dolphins.
After the dolphin grabs the iPad and tosses it into the water, the woman retrieves the device and then quickly walks away.
A voice can be heard over a loudspeaker saying: “As you can see, the dolphins can reach your loose items.”
A ‘Buddha-like state’
Tom Watson has revealed he tries to enter into a “Buddha-like state” during prime minister’s questions to avoid his reactions being misinterpreted on social media.
The Labour deputy leader told The Guardian his aim during the weekly set-piece in the House of Commons is to “keep a straight face” when he sits next to Jeremy Corbyn on the frontbench.
He said: “If I laugh at a Jeremy joke, two hours later on social media it’s either interpreted as me laughing at Jeremy, or laughing at an opposition joke.”
Amputee scales heights
A mountaineer who lost his hands and feet after suffering frostbite is thought to be the first quadruple amputee to climb Switzerland’s Matterhorn.
Jamie Andrew, 47, from Edinburgh, scaled the 14,692ft Alpine summit using prosthetic legs and specially adapted poles.
He was stranded in a storm when completing the North Face of Les Droites in the French Alps in 1999, and had his hands and feet amputated after being rescued.
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