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Aerial video from town closest to Japan's mega-quake epicentre


Explosion at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, at least 4 injured

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Canada’s Goldstream River Turns Green for the Holidays

The winter holidays are now behind us, but it seems I missed one of the biggest pranks of 2010 – the green river of Goldstream Park.
It happened on December 29, 2010, in Victoria’s peaceful Goldstream Park. The waters of the river suddenly became neon green, and everyone passing by it rubbed their eyes to make sure what they were seeing wasn’t just an illusion. It was very real, but was it that made Goldstream River look so alien-like? After an hour or so, the fluorescent coloring vanished, but the questions about the bizarre phenomenon remained unanswered.
After analyzing the neon-green water, the local Environment Ministry said it was the result of a chemical called “fluorescein”. Neither the substance itself nor its products of degradation are toxic, and experts believe that fish and their habitat were not affected, judging by the concentration and flow rate of the river.
Authorities haven’t yet identified the culprits, but believed the dumping of fluorescein in the Goldstream River was just a holiday season prank.

Giant Porcelain Rabbit Is Made from 30,000 Plates

The people of Jingdezhen City, China have found an original way to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Rabbit – they’ve built a giant statue of a rabbit from 30,000 porcelain plates.
Ever since the Song dynasty, 1,700 years ago, Jingdezhen has been known as the “porcelain city” because of its porcelain-making history, so it made perfect sense the locals used centuries-old skills for the celebration. Just like that porcelain dragon from Yangzhou that I posted about last week, this giant rabbit sculpture features a metal frame covered with thousands of porcelain plates.

The Sphinx, Egypt

The Sphinx, Giza Plateau, near Cairo, Egypt

The greatest monumental sculpture in the ancient world, the Sphinx is carved out of a single ridge of stone 240 feet (73 meters) long and 66 feet (20 meters) high. The head, which has a markedly

Egyptien Pyramids of Giza ;)

The Pyramids of Giza

Among the major tourist sites, there is only one considered to be “The major” and on top of any list - The Pyramids of Giza

There are three main Pyramids here, which were built in the 4^th Dynasty (circa 2550 B.C). The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt were built as tombs for Kings (and Queens), and it was the exclusive privilege to have a Pyramid tomb. However, this tradition only applied in the Old and Middle Kingdoms. Today there are more than 93 Pyramids in Egypt; the most famous ones are those at Giza.

 

Ancient Wonders and Desert Hallucinations

The plant called felesles lured me by its radiance and fragrance, like an irresistible sorceress tricking a man into a trap. Its purple flowers were the brightest, its leaves the most vital, and its entire body among the most conspicuous of all bushes that thrive in the central Sahara—a place where rainfall is nonexistent, dew is imperceptible, and the closest water lies 400 meters underground. Only the White Crowned Wheatear, a bird with black and white plumage, matches the felesles’ visibility. Now I rolled the leaves of the felesles covered with soft hair between my fingers, and then raised my fingers to my mouth…

The Hills Have Eyes: Joshua Tree’s Spook-tacular Skull Rock

Skull Rock, a naturally weathered granite rock formation located in California’s Joshua Tree National Park, stares out across an otherworldly landscape of shattered boulders,

From Cappadocia to Missouri: Over 30 Gorgeous Cave Houses

Stone houses invoke thoughts of dark, cold, and damp places full of creepy creatures.

Water Vehicles to Float Your Boat

First there was the guitar boat, the wooden Ferrari boat and the ‘spider that ate San Francisco’. Now come 12 even cooler and crazier watercraft designs and concepts from super-high-tech water-cleaning ‘whales’ to the lowest of the low tech – duct tape and

Libya’s Landlocked Lakes: Wet Spots In A Sea Of Sand

Libya is one of the hottest, driest countries on Earth, but even in the midst of the Sahara’s windswept desert dunes one can find an oasis or two… or more! The Ubari Lakes

Then & Now: The Stunning Speed of Urban Development

Twenty-one years ago, Dubai was a desert. It sprang up seemingly from nothing into the lively and technologically advanced world-class city that it is today. This is just one

Locks of Love

All around the world, lovers have unique ways of showing their affection for one another. But few are as sweet and enduring as the act of locking a couple’s love with a padlock and throwing away the keys. Love padlocks can be seen adorning walls, fences, chains, bridges

10 Crazy Colorful Football Fields

Want some artificial color with your synthetic stadium turf? Be careful what you wish for: Turf the color of surf is now a reality at many U.S. schools and the possibilities are mind-boggling… or at least, eye-boggling. These 10 colorful football fields and turf tint

Chinese Ghost Town

Ordos in China - a modern ghost town. District Kangbashi, designed for more than a million inhabitants, remains deserted, even five years from the date of commencement of
construction. Photo by Michael Christopher Brown.

Russian Pensioner Amasses a Fortune of Five Million Kopek Coins

Yuri Babin, a retired military officer from the Russian city of Novosibirsk, has spent the last 13 year collecting a fortune of about 5 million kopek coins.
The kopek is 1/100th of a Ruble, the Russian equivalent of a cent. Babin began collecting them in 1998, following wide scale Russian bank defaults that caused the kopek to become practically worthless. Instead of trying to get rid of them, this Russian version of Mr. Scrooge decided to put together a huge collection of coins. He would pick them off the street and ask vendors to change his currency in coins of the lowest denomination.
The “kopek millionaire”, as locals know Yuri Babin, now has a fortune of around five million coins, which weighs over 7.5 tonnes, but is worth just 50,000 rubles ($1,500). But it was never about the value for Mr. Babin, he just loves bathing in his impressive fortune, and has even used a few kopeks to make his wardrobe shine.

Hotel for Chicken Opens Up in Cornwall

The Chicken Hotel created by 31-year-old David Roberts, from Boskenwyn, Helston, is almost just like any other hotel out there, with one big difference – instead of people, it offers accommodations for chicken. I know it sounds like a joke, but this  place is for real, and apparently  it’s also very successful.
“With more people looking to escape the rat race and move out in the country with a little bit of land, keeping chickens is becoming more and more popular. But what do you do if you go away on holiday? Who looks after the chicken?” asks Mr. Roberts, who opened his unusual establishment to encourage people to raise their own chicken. A former cabinet-maker, David Roberts built the chicken coops himself and now rents them for 2 pounds each, plus 75 pence per chicken.

Each coop in the Chicken Hotel holds up to eight chicken and the current offer includes
buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner of local produce, served in open-air. Guests are allowed to roam around the hotel grounds all day, before being gathered to roost at night. According to Mr. Roberts, the hotel was fully booked over Christmas time, and he hopes half term and Easter will be just as successful.

High 5 Stars: Checking Out The World’s 10 Tallest Hotels

High cost of travel getting you down? Well, things are looking up… WAY up! Check in to any one of the world’s 10 tallest hotels and you’ll enjoy heavenly views not seen since Mary

Bottle Caps: 31 Reasons To Create Gorgeous Recycled Crafts

Bottle caps typically only come to mind when one is cracking open a beer, or drinking a classic bottled soda. With little changes to the actual function of caps (minus the ability to twist off in some cases), the bottle cap is a holdover from earlier times and seems

Bronze Sculpture: Traveling With Bruno Catalano

Bruce Catalano is an international sculptor who has fun giving you only part of the picture. His skills with bronze are legendary, and though his subject matter is pretty

Ancient Wonders of Green Design & Technology

We have come a long way since humans first used biomass fuels for their fires over

7 Geological Wonders from the World’s 7 Continents

Will wonders never cease? Probably not, Mother Earth has had 5 billion years to sculpt

Wet, Wild & Weird Deep Sea Animal Wonders

Earth’s ocean depths are often referred to as the planet’s last great unexplored frontier.

5 Arctic Animals that Turn White for Winter

Imagine for a moment if you were a Siberian Tiger or a European Hare, stuck in the snow. Your natural colors, which are perfect for your actual (or summer) habitat would start

Color-Changing Wonders of the Animal Kingdom

Can you spot the animals in the images above? The lizard blends so perfectly it is hard to see even when pointed out. The ability to change color seems like an animal superpower at times – some of them can alter their appearance to blend with the colors, materials and textures of virtually any surroundings. For some this ‘costume change’ happens quickly, for others it is seasonal – for many it helps them avoid predators, for a few it enables them to

The Many Faces of our Amazing Moon

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The Moon has a fascinating and colored place in human history. The Earth’s only natural satellite, and the fifth largest natural satellite in our solar system is also the only celestial body to which humans have traveled and landed on, with the United States Apollo program being the only one to achieve manned missions to date (a total of six landings

Symbiotic Wonders of the Seven Seas

Evolution alone is an amazing thing – but species that evolve together can be all the more spectacular, protecting, feeding and cleaning one another in incredible ways. Sharks pair

Phenomenal Wonders of the Animal World

Truth is stranger than fiction, they say, and nowhere is this more true than in the natural world. Symbiotic pairs, camouflaged critters and color-changing animals are one thing, but

Phenomenal Wonders of the Natural World

The classical natural wonders are huge and hard to miss – vast canyons, giant mountains and the like. Many of the most fantastic natural phenomena, however, are also least easy to spot. Some are incredibly rare while others are located in hard-to-reach parts of the planet. From moving rocks to mammatus clouds and red tides to fire rainbows, here are seven of the most spectacular phenomenal wonders of the natural world.

Abandoned Wonders of the Former Soviet Union: From Mining Towns to Oil Rig Cities

The former Soviet Union has a complicated history that is told in part through some of its deserted infrastructure. Many of these structures, cities and areas were abandoned suddenly and thus provide a kind of snapshot of Soviet life frozen in time. Others tell

7 Abandoned Architectural Wonders of Modern Asia

(Thanks in part to contributions by urban explorer and photographer Jon Dubar)

7Abandoned Wonders of the World [Most Remote]

With some abandoned places in truly far-flung locations, the mystery is less about why they were abandoned – it is how there were people there in the first place. Take these seven wondrous examples of human stubbornness in the face of extreme environmental conditions, from one temperature extreme to another – and marvel at our ability to leave

Dominoes Competitions: Knocking Over A Line of World Records

Amazing and Record-Setting City Roads and Streets

Everyone hates traffic, but how about trying to wind around 8 switchbacks in one city block, crossing 12 lanes at a single intersection or parking on a 38 degree incline? The latest in the ever-popular 7 Wonders Series, here are the scariest, steepest, longest, widest, narrowest, most confusing and most crooked urban streets in the world!

7 Urban Wonders of the Modern World

1) The Narrowest Urban House in the World