Grande Hotel Beira was opened in Mozambique in 1954 and was claimed to be the most luxurious hotel of Africa. The building with the area of 21,000 sq. meters had over 130 rooms, several dance halls, conference rooms and a huge swimming pool. The hotel was never profitable and was closed in the early ‘60s. Over the next decades it served as a refugee camp, a jail for political prisoners and the living quarters for the police and army officers. Today the building is occupied by several thousand squatters.
The selection of pics from the "Concurso de Feos" (Ugly Competition) organized recently in Spain.
You have been doing it wrong all the time…
A stray kitten hid in the engine compartment of a minivan to escape four chasing pit bulls. The dogs tried desperately to get to the kitten and to sink their teeth into it. Here is what they did to the vehicle…
The map of all the earthquakes with a magnitude of 4 or higher recorded since 1898.
Chuchok is a legendary character who became extremely rich from being a beggar. He is believed to bring wealth and luck, and some Thai Buddhists invite entertainers to dance in front of Chuchok’s statues to thank him for fulfilling their wishes.
Summer days are almost over, but don’t get too upset – there are things much worse than that happening in this world.
These pictures should be a perfect warning.
A Spanish woman in her 80s became very upset when a plaster portrait of Jesus in her local church started to crumble away. The elderly worshipper took some paint and decided to restore a deteriorated fresco by herself…
Here are the pictures of a cell in Ila Detention and Security Prison in Norway, where a mass murderer Anders Breivik, who confessed to killing 77 people, is being kept.
Because having a picnic on the grass with just a hamper of packed meals is too mainstream.
Every problem has a solution. See the most amusing examples of homemade lifehacks.
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