Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Churchill museum picture missing cigar LONDON, June 15 (UPI) -- Officials at a British museum dedicated to Winston Churchill said they do not know who altered a prominently displayed photograph to remove the leader's cigar. Advertisement John Welsh, manager of The Winston Churchill's Britain at War Experience museum in London, said he was shocked when a museum visitor pointed out the picture hanging above the entrance, a reproduction of an iconic image of Churchill giving the "V" for victory salute, had been digitally altered to remove a cigar from the World War II leader's mouth, The Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday. Welsh said he does not know who was responsible for the doctored image. "We've got all sorts of images in the museum, some with cigars and some without. We've even got wartime adverts for cigarettes in the lift down to the air-raid shelter, so we wouldn't have asked for there to be no cigar," he said. Advertisement 'Corpse plant' nears stinky bloom CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 15 (UPI) -- Officials with the University of North Carolina Charlotte said a rare plant in its greenhouse with an odor resembling rotting flesh is about to bloom. Biology professor Larry Mellichamp, director of the campus botanical garden, including the McMillan Greenhouse, said the Amorphophallus titanium plant, known as "the corpse plant" for its smell and nicknamed Bella by the school, is expected to bloom for three days starting July 1, releasing its signature stench into the greenhouse, the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer reported Tuesday. "On the morning that the bloom opens, you'll know it from a quarter-mile away," Mellichamp said. "That's when we'll have 'The Big Stink.' It'll throw this awful odor, trying to attract beetles and flies to bring it pollen." The plant, native to Sumatra, Indonesia, was 3-years-old when it was obtained by the university in 2001 and bloomed for the first time three years ago, bringing about 4,000 plant enthusiasts to view the event. William and Harry visit snakes in Botswana GABORONE, Botswana, June 15 (UPI) -- British Princes William and Harry were nearly urinated on by an 8-foot African rock python during a joint appearance in Botswana. Advertisement The royal brothers appeared at a nature reserve outside of the capital, Gaborone. Prince Harry uttered "Whoa!" when the snake wrapped itself around his neck and urinated twice as William held it in his hands, The Times of London reported Tuesday. "It's peeing," William said as the snake relieved itself. "It's obviously very relaxed." The brothers were also offered their choice of snakes to be named for them at the Mokolodi Education Center. "Big brother chooses the python, little brother gets the common brown," said William, who was given first pick. "It's the same color as your hair." "Mine will bite you," Harry joked in return. Prince William is a patron of the charity Tusk Trust, which supports the nature Woman shot shoulder; doctors left sprain NILES, Mich., June 15 (UPI) -- A Michigan woman who shot herself in a bid to obtain treatment for a shoulder sprain said doctors still did not treat that earlier injury. Kathy Myers, 41, of Niles said she shot herself in the shoulder Thursday because she was unable to obtain treatment for a painful shoulder sprain without insurance, but doctors repairing the gunshot neglected to treat the sprain, The Detroit News reported Tuesday. Advertisement "I regret it because I accomplished nothing," Myers said. Police said the Berrien County Prosecutor's Office is mulling whether to charge Myers with misdemeanor reckless discharge of a firearm, which carries a sentence of up to a year in jail.
