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An earth house (also known as an earth berm or an earth sheltered home) is an architectural style characterized by the use of natural terrain to help form the walls of a house. An earth house is usually set partially into the ground and covered with thin growth. Modern earth houses are built with concrete walls and insulation. Earth houses are some of the most energy efficient.   Earth House

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This road accident in Czech Republic will bring tears to your eyes. images source

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There are creatures that lurk out there in the dark, that haunt the isolated forests of the world, that hide in the icy depths of the deepest lakes. They appear unexpectedly and inexplicably, then vanish just as mysteriously, usually leaving witnesses dumbfounded, frightened and, unfortunately in most cases, without a shred of evidence. But, do these creatures really exist? Did they ever exist?

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A timelapse of the construction of Maersk Line's very first Triple-E vessel at the DSME shipyard in Okpo, Korea. image source The timelapse was produced by Discovery Channel and Maersk, and it consists of 50,000 photos taken over 3 months. Video: Building the World's Largest Ship (in 76 seconds) from Maersk Line on Vimeo. Read more about Maersk Line's Triple-E vessels here:

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Across Europe in many predominantly Catholic or Orthodox countries are sites known as ossuaries, often referred to as "bone churches". Creepy by today's standards, these churches decorated from floor to ceiling with human skeletal remains were often used in places where major plagues had hit or where burial space had become scare.  Though the original intention in many areas was for bones to be

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The Eiffel Tower is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair, it has become both a global cultural icon of France. At 320 metres (1,050 ft) its the tallest building in Paris and one of the most recognizable and most visited

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This is a compilation of the 8 incredible swimming pools around the world.  These pools are anything but ordinary. Enjoy!   Marina Bay Sands Sky Pool image source Located along the Marina Bay waterfront in Singapore, Marina Bay Sands features three cascading hotel towers topped by an extraordinary sky park. At the top of the 55-storey hotel is a 150-meter infinity swimming pool, the world’s

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The pope is the Bishop of Rome and the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church. In the Catholic Church, the Pope is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter, the Apostle. Saint Peter, who was the first Bishop of Rome and the first pope, is thought to have reigned for over 30 years (AD 29 - 64?/67?), but the exact length is not reliably known. The current office-holder is Pope Benedict XVI [image

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Three films have received the so-called ‘Big Five’ Academy Awards. The ‘Big Five’ Awards are those for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and screenplay — either Best Adapted Screenplay or Best Original Screenplay. This list is current as of the 85th Academy Awards nomination ceremony held on 24 February 2013. This three winners were:   It Happened One Night (1934) image

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A meteorite unexpectedly pierced through the atmosphere over the Urals Region in Russia on Friday morning and exploded about 12 to 15 miles above ground, creating a shockwave that damaged houses, shattered windows and injured more than 1,200 people. According to NASA, the celestial body, which measures 17 meters in diameter and 10,000 tons in weight, crossed the atmosphere at the supersonic

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The land speed record is the highest speed achieved by a wheeled vehicle on land. There is no single body for validation and regulation; in practice the Category C ("Special Vehicles") flying start regulations are used, officiated by regional or national organizations under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. The record is standardized as the speed over a course of

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Love and luck don’t always go hand in hand! Especially on Valentine’s Day, if you don’t play your cards right, before you know it you may be single and without a love. Many people take this lightly but women surely don’t as research suggests that more than half the women who are unhappy on Valentine’s Day end up breaking up with their partner. In situations like these, things can get tricky and

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Machines have really changed our lives to great extent. Work that took days is now done in hours or may be minutes. See the world's biggest/largest machines ever built on land, water and air. These machines are the real monsters.   World’s Biggest Digging Machine – Bagger 288 image This is the largest digging machine (or trencher or rotating shovel) in the world. It was built by Krupp and is

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To see the world’s biggest bonfire you’ll have to visit Alesund, Norway, where wood pallets are stacked over 40 meters (131 ft) high on an artificial island. The reason for this colossal bonfire is ‘Midsummer’ (Sankthans), an annual festival in commemoration of John the Baptist’s birth. About 30-40 people partake in the build, and to light the structure someone must climb to the top to ignite

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This is a list of 10 unusual, strange, vintage and unstoppable snow vehicles from around the earth.   Tucker Trans Antarctic Sno-Cat image The Tucker Sno-Cat is a tracked vehicle or a family of tracked vehicles for snow conditions. Different models have been used for expeditions in the Arctic and the Antarctic during the second half of the 20th century. It differs from other truck-sized snow

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The human body is the entire structure of a human organism, and consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs. By the time the human reaches adulthood, the body consists of close to 100 trillion cells, the basic unit of life. These cells are organised biologically to eventually form the whole body. Below is a list of the world's biggest human body parts…     World’s Biggest Head

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For David DiMichele exhibit his work can definitely need huge spaces where he can install it, because his pieces are huge and are specifically designed for large spaces where the artist has the opportunity to play with the audience's perspective. It must be amazing to be in one of these rooms and feel tiny next to all this!   1. EUROARCH   2. WHITE CUBE   3. GLASS   4. HILLS AND

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Inflatables are an obvious choice for space vehicles and satellites, a small sized payload than can be inflated once up, yet for some reason they aren’t the norm. The first passive communications satellites were inflatable spheres, such as the Echo series, which mylar was developed for, and early prototypes for space stations were inflatable. More recently, funding for the inflatable replacement

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To mark the 100th anniversary of Titlis cableways on Mt.Titlis, one of central Switzerland's most popular ski and snowboard destinations, a more than 300-foot-long (100 meters) suspension bridge is being built at nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) above sea level. Called the Titlis Cliff Walk, it is believed to be the highest suspension bridge in Europe. The bridge is expected to open Dec. 7, 2012

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We've already seen a burger priced at $5,000 on the menu at a gourmet restaurant in Las Vegas, and a $1,000 caviar-coated omelette on offer at a plush New York hotel. Now food-lovers with expensive tastes - and deep pockets - can pick up what is thought to be the world's priciest cheese on a donkey farm in Serbia. Produced in Zasavica - one of Serbia's most famous natural reserves - the

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Perhaps you heard that Christo recently revived his plan to build the biggest artwork of all time? Before the passing of his partner in love and art Jeanne-Claude, the duo began to scheme about a work of massive magnitude. Constructed from 410,000 variously-hued oil barrels, the proposed beast would tower around 492 feet high and glow golden in the sunlight. And now, it might actually be

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The longest word is Titin, which is a chemical compound, whose full name has 189,819 letters. It is not included in the dictionary – few lexicographers accept chemical formulae as words. But when people go round Googling “What’s the longest word in the English language?”, they don’t really care if it’s a “real” word or not. Titin is the largest known protein. Furthermore the gene for titin

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OK so we have all seen the Rags to Riches stories. Well we thought we would turn it on its head and see if anyone has gone from Riches to Rags. The rock n role lifestyle is notorious with people making a lot and then blowing it all. I guess it does not matter if you’re rich or if your poor managing your money and living within your means is pretty important. Click on Image to Enlarge. Source

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This mind-blowingly skilled cocktail-creating bartender could comfortably take the title of World's Best Barman. Image: YouTube Alexander Shtifanov certainly has some serious talent when it comes to showing flair, effortlessly twirling bottles in the air, juggling, splashing boozy concontions through the air like gravity ain't no big thing. Image: YouTube He appeared on a recent episode of

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