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Expressive Portraits Of Homeless People

Posted on 21 September 2011 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

How hard can life affect us, and can it be read on our faces? Photographer Lee Jeffries has shown that it’s possible by taking very expressive portraits of people. But not just any kind of people; all of his models are homeless men, women and children that he has met in Europe and the United [...]

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Small Things Get Really Big

Posted on 01 August 2011 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

Spanish artist Romulo Celdran wanted to make small things look bigger, a lot bigger. He turns everyday objects like gloves, sponges and match sticks, and turns them into oversized items that are overwhelming. He has taken a lot of photos where himself is sitting next to the things. This of course makes him look so [...]

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Most Scary And Creepy Playground Ever

Posted on 08 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, WTF

A lot of people think that clowns are creepy, or even the porcelain dolls, like a lot of children too. But the most creepy thing from children has to be this playground. I really don’t understand what kind of children would enjoy it in here. This is a playground or children park in Sergeevka in [...]

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Russian Prisoners Life Style In 1891

Posted on 01 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

When old photos are shown in sepia style, which was the only way to color the photos back then, it almost always look like taken from a horror movie. Maybe it’s because we have seen too many old sepia photos in scary movies nowadays, or it just was a lot of horrible things happening then [...]

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Anamorphosis At Its Best

Posted on 30 June 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Without a cylindrical mirror these paintings would look meaningless. This kind of art is called Anamorphosis and comes from the Greek words meaning “formed again.” It’s basically paintings that can be viewed only with a special device. In this case a cylindrical mirror is the solution, and the amazing paintings are made by Indian artist [...]

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The Smallest Library In The World

Posted on 17 May 2011 in: Featured Articles, WTF

Some of you have probably already seen miniature books that people make for fun, but how about a mini library full of those books? Yes, it’s actually existing. Jozsef Tari has  been a collector of mini books since 1969, and he has collected about 4500 books since then. His collection includes the world’s smallest book [...]

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Real Life Shrek Existed

Posted on 13 April 2011 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

For those of you who don’t know who Shrek is, let me explain: he is a big and not so attractive green ogre in this animated movie that goes by the same name. Yes he is a fictional character, but imagine the real life Shrek. He actually existed! The French Maurice Tillet, born 1903, was [...]

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Fun With Old Album Covers

Posted on 09 April 2011 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

You can have more fun with album covers than you can imagine. Here you can see some examples on illusions that are made by holding different album covers in front of different people. Some are using the musicians head as their head, some are using half of their bodies as their own body parts, etc, [...]

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Human Towers in Catalonia

Posted on 26 November 2010 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

These amazing human towers developed throughout Catalonia, but it is popular all over Spain. The performers are called castellers and they have strict rules about how to put up a human tower. They even have special names and positions to be perfectly accurate when they climb up, and there are usually men that creates the [...]

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Top 15 World’s Richest Royals

Posted on 27 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Some countries still got it, others don’t, some think it is old-fashioned, others will say that it is traditional and should be kept alive. Both ways the monarchy and the royal families are still popular among people and in the media, and they still get cheered when making public appearances. According to Forbes’s new ranking [...]

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Meet the Thermometer Man

Posted on 10 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

Thermometer Man is the perfect name for the 83-year-old Richard T. Porter. He has the biggest collection of thermometers, almost 5000 in different shapes and sizes. Before losing his daughter to a brain tumor he promised her to do something with his collection, and therefore he opened The Porter Thermometer Museum in the small village [...]

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The Replica of Las Vegas Made From 24 Million of LEGO Bricks

Posted on 14 June 2010 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

Las Vegas is one of the world’s most famous and in same most controversial cities. It is known by the gathering points for gamblers and rich people who do not know what to do with their money. There are a few architectural features which are unique for this place and different from other buildings in [...]

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Carving On The Desks

Posted on 08 February 2010 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

A London-based artist, Ben Turnbull born in 1974 and expelled from two schools where he used to spent time drawing and carving out some exquisite caricatures on to a desk which today had led him to be one of the controversial artists with his controversial works, surely knows how to make strong impact with his [...]

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Model of Moscow

Posted on 18 January 2010 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

Showcased in one of the Moscow exhibitions, that is being held in the Moscow city town-hall, this mini Moscow or the Model of Moscow depicts the real city layout as if providing someone with an amazing aerial view of the Russian capital. This mini model was built in 1988 and is specifically used for the [...]

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Abandoned Top Secret Soviet Underground Submarine Base

Posted on 28 December 2009 in: Featured Articles, Places

Balaklava, in Ukraine, can even today be remembered for having been one of the secret places in Russia that was extremely famous for its Nuclear Submarine Base. The place witnessed a huge underground submarine base and amazing docks, in USSR, and this was functional till 1996 when the last Russian submarine left Ukraine. But the [...]

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The Most Beautiful Italian Women

Posted on 09 October 2009 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

This is the list of the most beautiful Italian women ever. Maybe someone will disagree with this list but still I think that it’s a hard work to create a perfect one. Giada Pamela De Laurentiis Giada Pamela De Laurentiis  is an Italian American chef, writer, television personality, and the current host of the Food [...]

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