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The design is suspended over a courtyard, meaning that it is supported on all sides. The narrow walkway creates a fun, winding grassy path but also serves another purpose – at only 80cm (31in), it minimizes the amount of sunlight that the walkway blocks from the courtyard below. The reflective underside also helps blur the walkway’s lines for viewers looking up at it from below.
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Do you see white and gold or blue and black? Psychologists, neuroscientists and celebrities are all joining in the dress colour debate that’s gripping the world.
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Share this video for the sake of the human race!!
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Lloyd was shocked, but simply selected another chicken for dinner that night.
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18 months after he first lost his head, sometime in the middle of the night, Mike began choking. Something had slipped down his exposed esophagus. Sadly, they were unable to save Mike in time.
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This Buddha Statue from the 11th or 12th century looks like an ordinary one, but inside, there are the mummified remains of an ancient Chinese Buddhist monk whose organs have been replaced by ancient Chinese scrolls.
Scientists knew that there was a mummy inside the statue, but the CT scan gave them their first close-up look at the skeleton inside. A CT scan of a Buddhist statue from the 11th or 12th century has revealed an extraordinary secret – it houses the mummy. That’s when they discovered the hidden paper scrolls and figured out that the mummy was the body of Liuquan, an ancient Buddhist master from the Chinese Meditation School.
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The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is a world famous festival held before Lent every year and considered the biggest carnival in the world with two million people per day on the streets. The first festivals of Rio date back to 1723.
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The Blue Grotto cave is a natural wonder known for the brilliant and mystical blue hue of the walls and the water.
Other colors are absorbed in the water and only blue light reaches the interior of the cave. As a result whole 54 m long and up to 15 m deep cave is illuminated with a mysterious, phosphorescent blue light. Visitors to the cave are illuminated from below, and if one puts his hand in the water, the skin is glowing eerily. One more interesting feature is sulphur springs at the bottom of cave – thanks to this the cave is very rich with marine life.
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Blue waters of Grotta Azzurra seem to glow, but the illumination was considered eerie for centuries after Tiberius. The Blue Grotto, known as Gradola long ago to locals, was abandoned and “feared by local sailors because of legends of spirits and demons which inhabited the cave.” But in 1826, the cave was “rediscovered” by German poet and painter August Kopisch and his friend, painter Ernst Fries. Kopisch described its extraordinary beauty in a book
There are many local legends abound about the Blue Grotto according to Savory Adventures: “Was it really the home of the Nereidi–fifty nymphs of the sea in Greek mythology, each of them personified by slow soft waves that brought that brought calm and serenity to those who entered their abodes? You be the judge. According to legend, during moonlit nights, the Nereidi danced and sang in the proximity of the coastline near Positano bay, chosen for its clear waters and excellent acoustics to echo their enchanting songs.”
The cavernous interior, known as the duomo (cathedral), rises from seven to 14 meters (46 feet); the water below is 13 meters (42.6 feet) deep. The cave has two entrances – a smaller one (1.5 m wide) at the waterline and at least ten times larger one – below the sea. A small 1 – 2 m thick barrier below the sea level divides both entrances. Thus – a little sunlight enters through the upper hole – and this bright spot of light does not allow to see the large hole below it. A lot more light enters through the enormous underwater hole.
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The Maya are probably the best-known of the classical civilizations of Central America. Their civilisation was renowned for its many great achievements before Spain conquered its lands. The Mayas made great strides in the fields of astronomy and mathematics. They built massive pyramids with no modern tools. The Mayas also invented the field of cosmetic dentistry, but it was much different from what you might imagine.
The Mayas often went to their dentists, but not for fillings or to get a new crown put on. They went to have their teeth beautified with gemstones. From what anthropologists have found, Maya citizens from all levels of society had their teeth decorated, regardless of class.
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Is it possible to rank the world’s best beaches? Of course it is.
Every year Trip Advisor releases a crowd sourced list of the best beaches in the world. The list is “determined based on the quantity and quality of traveler reviews and ratings” over the course of a year and the results are pooled and calculated.
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While glowing car paint is already available, as are glow-in-the-dark car wraps, the bespoke, ultraviolet-energized paint created especially for Nissan is unique thanks to its secret formula made up of entirely organic materials. It contains a very rare natural earth product called Strontium Aluminate, which is solid, odorless and chemically and biologically inert.
Mihaela Noroc is a photographer from Romania that quit her job and started a new life. She took her backpack and camera and begun to travel around the globe, photographing hundreds of natural women surrounded by their culture.
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For years doctors have wondered about the benefits of a good laugh. You’ve probably heard that laughter is the best medicine. Don’t be suprised when your physician advise you to up your daily dose of laughter to improve your health.
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Let’s be honest with ourselves the way that these Valentine’s Day cards are. If you happen to feel pressured to say something nice, here are brutally honest cards that will give you a reason not to. Enjoy!
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Ever wondered what it’s like to jump off a nine-story building while you’re on fire? No? This guy did. And he jumped! Without a helmet, without protection, with flaming pants and GoPro camera.
Please, don’t try this at home.
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There are bets that go south and some – like the famous Archie Karas, who burned through $40 million in the space of three short Las Vegas weeks in 1995 - that make it all the way to the South Pole. But for our money the worst bet ever was one that won.
This wasn’t a wager about the outcome of a sports event or even a matter of a high roller like Archie K in a casino, this was something altogether worse.
Brian Zembic is a professional gambler and part-time magician. But since 1996 he has had more than just a few tricks hidden up his sleeve.
Whatever it was about the mid-1990s, Zembic had it in spades. He was bet $100,000 by a ‘friend’ that he would not dare have a boob job. What’s more, they obviously discussed this in some detail, he insisted that to claim the cash Zembic had to keep his new cans for more than a year.
Nineteen years on and Zembic is still proudly sticking out his surgically enhanced chest as a proud winner. In fact, as part of the package he pulls in an additional $10,000 for every year he keeps it up.
Avoiding an outcome like Mr Zembic’s is fairly straightforward. Our advice would be ‘don’t make bets when there’s tequila in the room’.
More seriously, there are increasingly clever ways to tilt the odds in your favour, especially when it comes to sports bets. For example, the betfair math betting app is capable of calculating all the data that feeds into the assessment of a football match.
It means that however crazy your own judgement might be – and there are definitely some people who need this more than others – you ought not to be too far away from coming out on the right side of the deal. There are also apps that will help you through the complexity of poker and other casino games, but that’s another story.
The bottom line is there is a winning space – somewhere between Archie Karas and Brian Zembic – that is easier to reach than ever before. And the very good news is that it doesn’t have to involve either seeing your money head south or having to fork out for new underwear.
Local newspapers in Mogolia are reporting that scientists recently found a mummified monk in the Songino Khairkhan province. His body has held up pretty well considering the circumstances and it’s clear to see that he was in a meditative state when he passed.
Senior Buddhists say the monk, found sitting in the lotus position, is in very special spiritual state known as ‘tukdam’ and not dead… and is instead one stage away from becoming a real-life Buddha.
The monk was discovered after being stolen by a man hoping to sell him on the black market.
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What the other, the dark side of the Moon looks like? The side that can’t be seen from the Earth?
You may have heard references made to the “dark side” of the Moon. This popular term refers to the fact that the same physical half of the Moon, the “near side”, is always facing Earth, which in turn means that there is a far side or so-called “dark side” that is never facing Earth and can only be seen from space.
So why can we only see one side of the moon from Earth? We all know that the Earth rotates on its own axis, so theoretically, the Moon should also do the same, allowing us to get a full picture of the planetoid. Why are we limited to seeing only 50 percent?
It turns out that the speed at which the Moon rotates has led to this particular phenomenon. Millions of years ago, the Moon spun at a much faster pace than it does now. However, the gravitational influence of the Earth has gradually acted upon the Moon to slow its rotation down, in the same way that the much smaller gravitational influence of the Moon acts upon the Earth to create tides. This influence slowed the rotational period of the Moon to match that of its orbit – about 29.5 days – and it is now “locked in” to this period.
If the Moon didn’t spin at all, then eventually it would show its far side to the Earth while moving around our planet in orbit. However, since the rotational period is exactly the same as the orbital period, the same portion of the Moon’s sphere is always facing the Earth. [via]
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Gauguin’s “Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?),” painting of two Tahitian girls from 1892, has been sold from a Swiss private collection for close to $300 million!!
Gauguin’s painting that broke the price record. It is the highest prices believed to have been paid for an artwork both in Europe and America.
The painting The Card Players by Paul Cezann that sold believed for a museum in Qatar, for about $300 million, nearly 25 percent higher than the most expensive painting ever sold.
According to the New York Times an art collector has sold “Nafea Faa Ipoipo. The painting was long owned by former Sotheby’s exec Rudolf Staechelin. Staechlin’s family lent to the Kunstmuseum Basel for almost 50 years.
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You probably have no idea what the people behind some of the most famous photos in the world actuall look like. Till now. US photographer Tim Mantoani aims to fix that.
In 2006 Mantoani shoot portraits of Jim Marshall and Michael Zagaris. Since then, he has photographed more than 150 other photographers and the photos that made them famous. Now the amazing portrait series is available in book form on Amazon.
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We’ve come a long way since the days of believing that lightning bolts were the work of angry gods, but some natural events continue to mystify us. Despite the efforts of scientists, there are still some unexplained natural phenomenon that boggle our minds. We’re talking about events that are witnessed by thousands, photographed, well-documented and yet are utterly baffling.
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Valentine’s Day is here once again. Love and romance is still the most popular subject for songs.
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One of the most popular questions today is “are we alone in the universe?” Astronomers believe that every star in the galaxy has a planet, one fifth of which might harbor life. Only we haven’t seen any of them — yet.
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Some dedicated Star Wars fans in Japan have just created what may be the most epic pieces of Star Wars art that world ever seen.
23m-wide and 15m-tall epic monument to Darth Vader and his Imperial forces is made of 3,500 tons of snow and is part of the 66th annual Sapporo Snow Festival.
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Nerdy references can seem like a foreign language to the uninitiated, but that’s exactly what can make them so endearing and even intimate. These creative nerdy Valentine’s Day cards will show you just how quirky or even romantic a nerdy message can be!
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These are amazing, crazy, funny and overall most WTF moments ever caught on Dashcam.
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This crazy footage is everything you need to prove that video monitoring police officers can save lives and get bad cops off the street. South Carolina state trooper Sean Groubert asks Levar Jones, an unarmed black man, for his license. When Jones reaches in his car to retrieve the license, the officer opens fire on him…
Unfortunately, many people pay little attention to correct spelling. These pictures proves that simple spelling errors can change everything. There are a number of reasons why good spelling matters. See some of them below.
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We all have problems, it’s part of life. It’s how people deal with the problems that fascinates me. Some people are obviously better at problem solving than others.
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How many of these look dirty to you? You will be surprised how dirty your mind actually is.
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Yet another selection of so-called OH SH*T! moments. The internet is abound with pictures shared by people who have captured images at just the right moment… or rather, at the worst time…
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National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, Will Gadd, climbing the famous glaciers found at the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain in the world.
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The dramatic moment a TransAsia Airways plane crashed in Taiwan is captured on video by a motorist. Plane crashed into the Keelung River shortly after take off from Taipei, Taiwan.
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It’s a pretty exhilarating feeling diving with sharks. As they curiously and elegantly glide by you, there’s that overwhelming sense of both fear and respect.
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You’ve seen disturbing images and videos of factory farm animals being forced to live in the absolute worst of conditions, but a new overhead video captured by a spy drone reveals a whole new sector of disturbing factory farm activity.
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When impoverished inventor Nikola Tesla died in New York City, the U.S. government confiscated his notes. Why? Were they trying to steal his technology? Did they ever relinquish the notes?
Perhaps one of Tesla’s most famous inventions deals directly with energy, something that is the talk of many social and political conversations and something that could be free to everyone if we used Nikola Tesla’s invention. Over the years, as more and more people begin to recognize the game being played in our society, Nikola Tesla and his story has been becoming more and more popular.
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Höme Improvisåtion, a hilarious game created by a small team in just 48 hours as part of Global Game Jam 2015, accurately recreates the frustrating experience of assembling IKEA furniture.
In the game, you receive a delivery containing multiple interlocking pieces and no instruction manual. And you thought it was tough trying to follow IKEA’s wordless pictograms.
Check out a clip of the game below, then download it for free for Windows or OSX at Höme Improvisåtion.
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Visiting abandoned places is a really amazing adventure. These real life ruins offer an eerie glimpse into a world without humans. Their dark walls inspire a sense of wonder like you’ve never felt before.
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All these pictures are made by Martijn Fabrie. For more please visit artist;s website martijnfabrie.com | Facebook
The amateur photographer Bryan Stokely took a series of photographs, which captured the most unusual and funny moments in the life of passers-by.
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Everybody knows there are certain natural substances that you can eat or smoke to feel awesome or weird, depending on your perspective. But what about ordinary foods?
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Now you can spend the night at 2743 meters (9000ft) above sea level. It’ probably not the best place to sleep if you sleep walk, as it’s located at the highest point of the Courchevel ski resort in French Alps.
It may look like a simple ski lift at first sight, but it’s actually a fully furnished room that accommodates 4 people. Guests can enjoy a magnificent panorama but unfortunately, there is no bathroom, so they have to use the one at the cable car station.
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Let’s start with a question: Are you addicted to sugar? That white, powdery substance which just makes you feel good. You can’t get it off your mind, and you keep coming back for more.
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Earth is a beautiful place full of wonders. Unfortunately it is inhabited by people and they are the one’s who f&%k things up. Thanks to politics and wars, some parts of the world are extremely difficult to see (unless with a gun in your hand..). Take a look at the following set of photos that feature one of the most visually dynamic places that you’ll (probably) never see in person.
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Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign country in South Asia. It has a 1,046-kilometre (650 mi) coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest and China in the far northeast.
The territory that now constitutes Pakistan was previously home to several ancient cultures, including the Mehrgarh of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilisation, and was later home to kingdoms ruled by people of different faiths and cultures, including Hindus, Indo-Greeks, Muslims, Turco-Mongols, Afghans and Sikhs.
The area has been ruled by numerous empires and dynasties, including the Indian Mauryan Empire, the Persian Achaemenid Empire, Alexander of Macedonia, the Arab Umayyad Caliphate, the Mongol Empire, the Mughal Empire, the Durrani Empire, the Sikh Empire and the British Empire. As a result of the Pakistan Movement led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the subcontinent’s struggle for independence, Pakistan was created in 1947 as an independent nation for Muslims from the regions in the east and west of Subcontinent where there was a Muslim majority. Initially a dominion, Pakistan adopted a new constitution in 1956, becoming an Islamic republic.A civil war in 1971 resulted in the secession of East Pakistan as the new country of Bangladesh.
