If you saw this coming over the horizon, you'd be inclined to give up and just accept your fate. One tornado is difficult enough to deal with. Seven at once would surely consume everything in its path and leave nothing in its wake but broken wreckage. Fortunately for the person who created this image, that isn't really what we're seeing.
This is actually a time-lapse photo, showing the same tornado being formed. It starts out life as a funnel cloud before connecting to the ground, and then picking up shape and speed as it becomes a full-blown twister. Even though it looks huge and powerful in its final stage, this is a comparatively small tornado which probably didn't represent much in the way of danger and will have blown out quite quickly. That's probably why the photographer felt safe to stay there and record the entire event.
To insure one’s house, one’s car or to underwrite a life insurance policy, that is common practice. But who would pay an insurance premium for his/her thumb, legs or smile? Stars, of course.
At the top of the ranking are the legs of Mariah Carey, worth 810 million USD: The diva became, in 2006, the Gillette brand muse for the advertising campaign «Legs of a Goddess». She then took out an insurance policy with London Lloyds to protect her legs, a decision that is far from being insignificant. Among its customers, the London insurer then included several icons of music, such as Bob Dylan or Rod Stewart.
David Beckham’s body insured for 195 million USD: European champion with Manchester United in 1999, David Beckham was in 2006 the most renowned footballer of the planet. In relation to his sporting activities, he took out an insurance cover for his legs. The huge amount paid for his insurance would reportedly exceed the 103 million USD disbursed by Real Madrid for the cover of Christiano Ronaldo in 2009. The fashion model would later extend his insurance cover to his entire body.
15 million USD in insurance for Kim Kardashian’s curves: The curves of Kim Kardashian are her number one beauty asset. The reality TV star, who is crazy about plastic surgery, has underwritten an insurance policy worth 15 million USD to protect her famous butt.
The culinary critic Egon Ronay assured his taste buds: The famous Hungarian culinary critic has insured his taste buds since 1957, for the amount of 400 000 USD. An original insurance policy which allows him to cover his sense of taste without which he will no longer be able to practice his job.