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Everyone knows that sometimes there’s nothing much to do at work. These photos may give you some ideas what to do at work when you are bored.
These unusual and thrilling coins came from different countries of the world. They are all must-see examples of the world’s most bizarre money.
Take a look at how you can lengthen a ship. It’s not that difficult as it might sound at first.
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Collection of documentary photographs of different places and most controversial figures taken by NYC photographer Peter Beste. He likes to travel around the world and shot London strip clubs, Houston hip hop scenes and other unusual events.
The first house you'll see is an unusual underground home known as the Aloni house was built in Greece by Deca Architecture. This house surrounded by beautiful landscape is 240 square meters. Its walls are made of earth, and its roof is green.
This map looks as if it had been drawn by a child. Still it illustrates European wars from the BC era to the 20th century in a funny way.
Manshiet Nasser is a strange community in Cairo, Egypt. People call this place The City of Garbage because tons of trash come here from all over the capital of Egypt. The most unusual thing about this place is that people actually live here. Another strange thing about Manshiet Nasser is that local residents, the Zabbaleen, including women and kids dig through the garbage looking for something to resell. About 80 per cent of this trash is recycled and resold later on.
Cairo is not the only city on earth where such a model of Manshiet Nasser exists. It is already copied by communities in Los Angeles, Bombay and Manila.
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This plane had some technical problems and the pilots couldn’t land it properly. But they found a solution to this problem.
Amazing photographs that capture motion we can’t notice in reality. Photographer Harold Edgerton knows perfectly well how to extend our awareness of time.
In childhood many of us dream to live in a fairy tale house. But only a few of us implement these dreams into reality and build amazing houses that seem to come alive from a fantastic world of books and movies. All these houses are real and they reproduce famous fairy tales and cartoons. I think it would be amazing to live in such a house.
The amazing photos were taken by Dr. Vaggelis Fragiadakis who is an amateur photographer, who was originally from Greece. The people in the black and white photos are mainly down on their luck. You can practically tell their life story by looking at their wrinkled faces.
The photos in this post are of some wonderfully real wall art. People actually painted this beautiful art on the walls of existing buildings. It took some real artistic talent to make paintings this large look this good.
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Tsingy is the Madagascar stone forest that attracts many birds and lemurs. This place is fantastic. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990.