10 Most Beautiful Satellite Photos of Earth
Have you ever wonder how the Earth look like from the satellite ? These amazing pictures of earth taken by the Landsat 7 satellite.
Take a look at the photos and I’m sure you’ll be amazed…
The different micro-organisms under the microscope
The different micro-organisms under the microscope, like fleas, mites and other disgusting creatures big-sized.
Not recommended for people with fear of insects ...
The Flying Hotel – Manned Cloud
This is an alternative project around leisure and traveling in all its form, economic and experimental, still with the idea of lightness, human experience and life scenarios as the guiding principles. The spiral of Archimedes is the driving force of this airship in the form of a whale that glides through the air.
The airship is a floating hotel called the Manned Cloud, and according to its designers, it will be capable of circling the globe in a few days.
The 20 bedrooms will provide the ultimate room with a view as the airship cruises at a height of 18,000ft, a capacity of 40 passengers and staffed with 15 persons, that on a 3-day cruise in 170 km/h permits man to explore the world...
World’s Biggest Indoor Swimming Pool
“Ocean Dome”, located in Miyazaki, it’s the biggest indoor swimming pool in the world. It’s 300 meters long and 100 meters wide, and it’s located 500 meter from the sea. The temperature inside the pavilion it’s always around 30 degrees and the roof is sky-blue and it has even “clouds”. It has an artificial volcano and also an artificial waves generation system.
Rapa Das Bestas – Spanish festivals struggle with horses
The "Rapa das bestas" is an ancient festival in Galicia, Spain for the domestication of thirion. Men and women will fight together with the wild horses using only their hands, so as to stop their manes and tails them.
It is a noble tradition, in which the man replies power towards the "beasts" without weapons, using only their hands and the courage. The festival lasts 3 days, and after the horses are released back into the wild. The festival does not include hardness and deaths...
The Red Bull Art of Can
The Red Bull Art of Can is a hunt for creativity and is open to everyone, from fulltime artists to simple those with the creative flare as written in competition website.
There are no rules but one: Red Bull can must be primary material for the art work. You can make whatever you want: a sculpture, a picture, a 3-D model or anything else you can think of.
Terracotta Army
Myth says that in 206BC the first Emperor of Unified China, Ch’in ShiHuangdi, decreed that after his death his body would be clothed in jade and cast adrift in a lake of Mercury. The lake, within a pyramid, was to be protected by an everlasting army. Like Tutankhamun, in Egypt, lord Pacal, in Mexico and the Viracochas’, of Peru Shi Huangdi taught the super-science of the sun and the higher orders of spirituality. They say that, after he died, he flew to the sun to live forever.In 1974, archaeologists actually discovered the first of more than 8,000 life-size terracotta warriors buried near...
Hill of Crosses in Lithuania
The Hill of Crosses, Kryzių Kalnas, located 12 kilometers north of the small industrial city of Siauliai (pronounced shoo-lay) is the Lithuanian national pilgrimage center. Standing upon a small hill are many hundreds of thousands of crosses that represent Christian devotion and a memorial to Lithuanian national identity.
The city of Siauliai was founded in 1236 and occupied by Teutonic Knights during the 14th century. The tradition of placing crosses dates from this period and probably first arose as a symbol of Lithuanian defiance of foreign invaders. Since the medieval period, the Hill of Crosses has...
Amazing Miniature City Replica
Elancourt lies just 30 km from the center of Paris and if you ever visit France, it’s a trip worth taking.
It’s here, at Elancourt, where you can see a big part of France’s culture and history…in miniature. There are over 5 hectares of land covered with typical French landscapes, complete with castles, mansions, ponds, courts, pastures, all built at a scale of 1:30.
There are over 160 miniature French monuments from all over the country, 60,000 miniature people, over 20,000 small trees, 5 rivers and 2 hectars of water. A visit in miniature France gives an overview of all important regions of the country, so it spares you a very long, expensive tour...