Showing posts with label World. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World. Show all posts

30 April, 2013

Beautiful Tree House Community (18 pics)

Beautiful Tree House Community - Beautiful treehouse community built in the mountains of Costa Rica. You can rent a room in a treehouse for the price of $100-$275 per night.

The Highest & Heaviest Outdoor Elevator (7 pics)

The Bailong Elevator - The Bailong Elevator (literally Hundred Dragons Elevator) is a glass elevator built onto the side of a huge cliff in the Wulingyuan area of Zhangjiajie, China that is 1,070 feet (330 m) high. It is claimed to be the highest and heaviest outdoor elevator in the world.

30 Facts to Know More About London

Facts to Know a Little More about London - A few facts you probably didn’t know about London.

23 April, 2013

Arabic Tuning Using Coins (23 pics)

Arabic Tuning Using Coins - Arabs once again surprise us with their creative ideas. This time, they decorated cars with coins. One car took a little more than 55,000 coins in various denominations.

09 April, 2013

Boy 8 Marries 61 Year Old Woman (6 pics)

Boy 8 Marries 61 Year Old Woman  — In South Africa an 8-year-old boy married a 61-year-old woman because his dying grandfather told him to do so. After his death the family was fearing a supernatural punishment from boy's grandfather, so they arranged the wedding. The woman is a close friend of the family and the boy knows and loves her. They are not going to live together.

11 March, 2013

Amazing Chic Hotel in a Bomber (11 pics)

Amazing Chic Hotel in a Bomber - Teuge village near the airport in the Netherlands, is a Cold War bomber IL-18, bound to the earth forever. It made comfortable with one number. But the room is very huge, occupies the interior of the aircraft. It has everything you need for a good rest. The Dutch businessman has spent on this project 7 years and 450,000 euros. The aircraft is equipped with a bathroom with sauna and Jacuzzi, and living room, and a room with a king size bed ...It is a pity that in the ordinary passenger aircraft is no such comfort.

Man Made Tropical Island Resort of Germany (23 pics)

A Manmade Tropical Island Resort — Located in Krausnick, Germany, this tropical island retreat is completely artificially constructed and contained in an unusual place.  The hotel opened in 2004, offering a beach, lagoon, water slide, restaurants and exotic birds, flora and fauna. It basically has everything you could want from an island resort. Except it's nowhere near an island. Because this warm, beautiful beach surrounded by snow. It's built inside a long-distance cargo hangar on a former Soviet airbase. It's 360 meters long (1181 feet). 210 meters wide (689 feet). And 107 meters tall (351 feet), which is tall enough to enclose the Statue of Liberty.

11 February, 2013

Barbie Inspired Cafe (21 pics)

Barbie Inspired Cafe - “Barbie Cafe” is a Barbie inspired restaurant that has just opened in Taiwan’s capital city, Taipei. Barbie’s manufacturers, US toy company Mattel, hope to promote Barbie as a fashion brand to the Asian market.

German Artillery Silencer (4 pics)

German Artillery Silencer - Used by the German Army on an M-109 155mm self-propelled gun. This was a prototype artillery silencer at Bundeswehr Technical Center 91 in Meppen.

"Since the universal use of noise suppression systems for tube weapons of the German Army for training purposes is inconceivable due to the high system mobility frequently demanded, the aim of the study was to develop effective muffler systems for a few very problematic cases".

In other words, the neighbors bitched that the Germans had an artillery range in their backyard.Hey, do you want to be safe or do you want silence while watching re-runs of the A-team? Picky, picky.

World’s Largest Cigar Ever Made (7 pics)

Private Collector Orders Gigantic Cigar - A cigar enthusiast living outside the United States commissioned the world’s largest cigar ever made to add to his own collection. The cigar is made using a quantity of tobacc0 equivalent to 25,000 normal-sized cigars and cost a massive $185,000 to create.

29 January, 2013

Unique Potato Chip Rock (8 pics)

Unique Potato Chip Rock - Probably many of you have already seen this picture, from which shivers are running through the skin. This unique stone ledge is located in San Diego and is aptly named “Potato Chip Rock.” But...In fact, it’s a matter of perspective. The stone is located at a low altitude (no more than 10 ft.) and can withstand quite a lot of weight.

Oscar Travel Around the World (27 pics)

Oscar Travel Around the World - The dog named Oscar was adopted from animal shelter in South Africa. He has travelled around the world with his new owners. Recently, Oscar was killed by a car in California.

Incredible Archaeological Discovery (7 pics)

Incredible Archaeological Discovery - The girl from the tribe of the Incas, which is over 500 years old (8 photos) Teenage girl 14-15 years old, who had sacrificed some 500 years ago, all of the last century lay on the ice at the top shestitysyachnika, contributing excellent safety. Next to her, frozen bodies of two more young victims: seven year old boy and a six-year girl.

Instead of the traditional analysis of DNA, scientists have studied the proteins in the tissue, and found that in apparently healthy girl had a bacterial lung infection resembling tuberculosis. For the first time the infection was detected in mummies.

22 January, 2013

Robot Restaurant in China (14 pics)

Robot Restaurant in China  - Since opening in June 2012, a restaurant in Harbin, China, has been gaining popularity through the use of robots for cooking and customer service in the hall. Robots can work continuously for five hours after a two-hour charge and can display more than 10 expressions on their faces and say basic polite phrases to customers.

Modern Mowgli - Unusual Childhood (17 pics)

Modern Mowgli, Unusual Childhood - She was born in Africa, in a family of French photographers. Her name is Tippy DeGraw (Tippi Degre), she had a very unusual childhood. Girl growing in the African desert, among the wild animals, which eventually developed warm relations. The girl began to resemble the modern Mowgli. As a little girl, Tippy said, "I have no friends. Because I've never seen children. Thus, animals, my friends. "

The girl's parents wrote a book about her childhood "Tippi of Africa" (Tippi of Africa), which was published in 1998. They also made a documentary film "Bridging Gap to Africa" (swinging bridge to Africa), after which the girl-Mowgli has become very popular. Leaving aside the obvious concern of parents, it is safe to say that Tippy had a happy childhood.

15 January, 2013

Tanah Lot - A Wonderful Rock Formation (14 pics)

Tanah Lot, A Wonderful Rock Formation Near Bali - Tanah Lot is a rock formation of the Indonesian island of Bali. It is very popular site of tourism and its home of a pilgrimage temple, the Pura Tanah Lot, and a popular tourist and cultural icon for photography and general exoticism.

The iPhone Shaped Steve Jobs Memorial (11 pics)

The iPhone Shaped Steve Jobs Life So in Death it Shapes His Memorial - In the Russian city St. Petersburg a memorial to Steve Jobs was erected in the form of an iPhone 5. The memorial displays key moments in his past with photos and videos that can be viewed by the public.

31 December, 2012

World's Tallest Girl has Found Love (17 pics)

World's Tallest Girl has Found Love - The world's tallest teen, Elisany da Cruz Silva, 17, from Salinopolis in Brazil measures an unbelievable 6ft 8in tall. She suffers from a form of gigantism, as a result if a tumor on her pituitary glad which regulates growth, doctors have since removed the tumor. She lives a somewhat normal life, with several day-to-day struggles but regardless of the hardship, is in pursuit of a modeling career. And she has to bend down to plant a kiss on her 5ft 4in lover Francinaldo da Silva Carvalho, 22.

25 December, 2012

The School for One (5 pics)

The School for One - Hu Yang is an ordinary eight year old schoolboy who attends school everyday. However, in the Fujian Province of China in which he lives, the other children who used to attend school with him have either quit school or left with their parents in search of work in the cities. Now, Hu is the last remaining pupil of the original 80 pupils who attended the school and receives tutelage, alone, from two teachers each day.
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