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Archive | May, 2010

Abandoned Soviet Nuclear Rocket Launch Silos

Posted on 31 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

We are all aware of the fact that Cold War Soviet Union doesn’t exist anymore. But, once, it was real military machine which was eating the most of the tax income of all Soviet Union states. Military was on the very first place and everything other came after that. We can see that North Korea [...]

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The Moeraki Boulders – Almost Perfectly Shaped Natural Stone Spheres

Posted on 30 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

The Moeraki Boulders are amazing stone spheres and they remind me a lot on those mysterious spheres which can be found in South America or some European countries. Unlike the mysterious spheres from South America for which archaeologists do not have reasonable explanation, those are something different. Those spherical boulders are formed in sea floor [...]

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Hyper-Realistic Paintings by Richard Estes

Posted on 29 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

I have always considered those painters who are trying to make their paintings look more realistic as a real artist. I am not a big fan of abstract paintings and artworks which are far away from reality. Richard Estes is painting artist from United States who makes great realistic paintings that look like real photos. [...]

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Breakfasts From Around the World by Oliver Schwarzwald

Posted on 27 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Food

Breakfast is the major meal and all food experts will tell you how important it is. Oliver Schwarzwald is German photographer who tried to make little photo-story about the most usual breakfast in different parts of the world. Here you can see a series of photos which were made by Oliver for the ‘Feld Homme’ [...]

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What Would Superheroes Look Like in WWII?

Posted on 26 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, WTF

We all know about superheroes like Spiderman, Superman, Batman etc. but most of us have never imagined what it would look like if such super heroes were present in World War II and similar memorable historical events. Indonesian photographer and illustrator Agan Harahap made some amazing Photoshop artworks. He decided to insert some of super [...]

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Beautiful Bavarian Town of Nordlingen Built in a Meteorite Crater

Posted on 24 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

If you come by near the town of Nordlingen which is located in Bavaria, Germany, you will probably be surprised with the placement of it’s streets and buildings. As you can see from photos, the main part of this interesting Bavarian town is ‘designed’ to look like a circle. But, that is not without the [...]

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Unusual Paintings on Floppy Discs and Cassettes

Posted on 23 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Floppy discs have definitely became the part of history. Once, they were inevitable part of any computer and most of us remember the days when we had to deal with those not so cool magnetic drives in order to store our data. Nick Gentry is an artist and he is one of a very few [...]

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AT-AT In Salvador Dali Style

Posted on 21 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Funny&Crazy

This is how At-At probably would look a like in Salvador Dali’s eyes. I can’t tell you for sure that it is very well done.

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Real World Adventures of 8-Bit Super Mario and his Fellowship

Posted on 20 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Super Mario is one of the most recognizable and most famous game character of all times. There is no many people who didn’t play Super Mario game, and the game is popular even today. Super Mario is hero and he can overcome any problem, he can beat any beast including that fire-spitting dragon. But, according [...]

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Salar de Uyuni – The World’s Largest Salt Flat

Posted on 19 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

Salar de Uyuni is placed in southwestern Bolivia and it is the world’s largest salt flat. It covers the surface of about 10,000 square kilometers. Its white surface and bright blue sky sometimes can make incredible scenes for viewers especially during the wet season when those salt fields are covered with water, then, this place [...]

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Stalin’s Gulag Prison – The World’s Deadliest Prison of All Times

Posted on 18 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

You thought that holocaust was horrible? Then, you probably should know something about the Gulag prison which was one of the worst prisons of Soviet regime. This complex of buildings can be found even today in Taga forest, in Russian Siberia. This place is known as huge death factory which was working during the Stalin [...]

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Monkeys Are Great Posers – An Outstanding Photography by Jill Greenberg

Posted on 15 May 2010 in: Animal Oddity, Featured Articles

Who doesn’t like monkeys? Sometimes weirdos, irritating but always entertaining. Jill Greenberg took one step further and made some photos that are really unusual. Who knows how much time she needed but  – mission accomplished.  Her goal was very simple: Place a monkey in front of camera and wait until they make some funny and [...]

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Eaglehawk Neck – A Beautiful Place With Horrible History

Posted on 14 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

Eaglehawk Neck was once a horrible place where prisoners were tortured and terrorized. Today, it is beautiful calm place where nature has almost erased the trails of its bad history. Eaglehawk Neck links island Tasman Peninsula to mainland Tasmania in Australia. This island is known by tessellated pavement, rare nature phenomenon caused by erosion. The [...]

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The Big Hole in South Africa – World’s Largest Hole Which Humans Dug

Posted on 11 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

The Big Hole which is also known by its other name, Kimberley Mine, in South Africa is the world’s largest hole which humans excavated. It was dug by 50.000 miners who were working in diamond mine after first diamonds were found there in 19th century. They found there amazing amount of diamonds, precisely, they have [...]

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Champagne Pool – An Exciting Geothermal Spring in New Zealand

Posted on 10 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

Champagne Pool is unusual geothermal spring which makes this place look like it is huge champagne pool indeed, because of a lot of CO2 bubbles which are coming from water. This natural feature is about thousand years old and it was formed by hydrothermal eruption. The Champagne Pool is about 60 meters deep and its [...]

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White Desert, Beautiful and Still Undiscovered Nature Reserve in Egypt

Posted on 06 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

Egypt is really wonderful touristic destination with many attraction for tourists. We all know about Egypt’s main features like pyramids and other historical monuments. But Egypt is not only rich with historical monuments it also has many valuable natural features which deserve to be placed in touristic guides. One of such places is the White [...]

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The Great Blue Hole of Belize, World’s Deepest Sea-Hole

Posted on 05 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

If you ever come by near the coast of Belize, you shouldn’t miss an opportunity to visit the Great Blue Hole, one of the world’s most recognizable natural wonders. The Great Blue Hole is located in Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, about 60 miles away from Belize City. It is believed that this hole is [...]

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Pamukkale – A Complex of Terraced Pools in South-Western Turkey

Posted on 04 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

Even if we know that earthquakes are horrible and their consequences are always bad for humans, we have to admit that in this case, earthquakes brought us something useful. Here you can see amazing photos of beautiful terraced pools in Pamukkale, Turkey which were created as a consequence of earthquake. Pamukkale got its name from [...]

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Abandoned Complex of Russian Anti-Missile Defense System

Posted on 03 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

You have probably heard about American project Echelon which is used by American intelligence to intercept different communication signals from all ower the world. They are pretty famous by their mysterious sphere-like shape. Well, United States are not the only who made such buildings. Russians made a few of them which are almost exactly same [...]

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Stormtrooper As a DJ In LEGO World

Posted on 01 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, WTF

Did you asked yourself what do Stormtroopers do, besides of talking “move along”, when they have spare time? Maybe some of them listen some tunes and few of them are making their own. Well, this could be happen if they lives in LEGO world and making fun everyday all day. Enough of words, play it [...]

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