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Not everything depends on the president...
Here is the list of the wealthiest and economically healthiest world's cities, according to Arcadis NV, a global design and consulting company. Arcadis ranks cities across three sectors of sustainability: People, planet and profit. So, basically, the 'people' sub-index rates social performance including quality of life. The 'planet' sub-index captures 'green' factors like energy, pollution and emissions. And the 'profit' sub-index assesses business environment and economic health.
It’s been 15 years since the terrorist attacks took place in New York City where the twin towers of the World Trade Center were razed to the ground. A series of four coordinated terrorist attacks was organized by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda which also resulted in the deaths of 2,996 and the injuries of over 6,000 others.
This is the Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation located inside Mount Pony in Culpeper, Virginia. From 1969 to 1988, the campus was a high-security storage facility operated by the Federal Reserve Board. The facility was decommissioned in 1992 and was transformed into the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. Today it stores 6.3 million pieces of the library's movie, television, and sound collection.
Sometimes our world is a cruel and a sad place, but it takes only one small act of kindness to restore our faith in humanity, inspire us and show us that there is always a chance to make things better.
This guy decided to recreate several scenes form famous movies by visiting their exact locations. Here is how it turned out.
"Terminator 2: Judgment Day" was released in 1991 and became an immediate hit. Let's see how the iconic movie locations have changed in the last 25 years.
Here is the report of The Economist Intelligence Unit about the 9 most expensive cities to live in the world. Such factors as food costs, fuel costs, and salaries were taken into account.
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