Unveiling Hidden Facts

  Doctors in Edinburgh have recently released the case history details of a man who claimed that he had not slept for 10 years. Since he traced his remarkable story of insomnia to a road accident that had knocked him unconscious for a moment, he was able to collect more than 12,000, or about $28,000, in seven years of litigation, and to stay out of work all the while on various disability pensions. This insomniac, accompanied by his wife, consulted numerous doctors from 1970 to 1980. He complained to them about his headaches, about the problems he had concentrating and walking and, of course, about his inability to sleep. But the prescriptions for sleeping pills did not help him, he said, and three weeks of physical examinations at the National Hospital found nothing telling. He took extensive psychological tests while there, too, but appeared to be normal in all respects. Finally, early last year, he and his wife spent four days and nights in a twin room at the sleep labor...

  Alan Kurdi (born as Alan Shenu), initially reported as Aylan Kurdi, was a two-year-old Syrian boy (initially reported as having been three years old) of Kurdish ethnic background whose image made global headlines after he drowned on 2 September 2015 in the Mediterranean Sea along with his mother and brother.  Alan and his family were Syrian refugees trying to reach Europe from Turkey amid the European refugee crisis (see timeline). Photographs of his body were taken by Turkish journalist Nilüfer Demir and quickly went viral, prompting international responses. Since the Kurdi family had reportedly been trying to reach Canada, his death and the wider refugee crisis became an issue in the 2015 Canadian federal election. Kurdi is believed to have been born in Kobanî, Syria.He was two years and two months old when he died.  A Syrian journalist stated that the family name was Shenu; "Kurdi" was used in Turkey because of their ethnic background.  After moving between vari...