WORLD'S AMAZING THINGS

50 Life Hacks to Simplify your World

2013-10-23T14:34:00.000+05:00

Life hacks are little ways to make our lives easier. These low-budget tips and trick can help you organize and de-clutter space; prolong and preserve your products; or teach you something (e.g., tie a full Windsor) that you simply did not know before.

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The 50 Most Perfectly Timed Photos Ever

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By Internet standards, a perfectly timed photo occurs when two of the following three conditions are met:

1. Perfect Place
2. Perfect Time
3. Perfect Angle

Photograph by REUTERS/Luke MacGrego (via Reuters Olympics on Facebook)

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Photograph by MARCO QUERAL (via Daily Mail)

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Photograph by ADAM PRETTY (via Photo Blog on NBC News

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Photograph by Ensign John Gay/U.S. Navy

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10 Most Dangerous Spiders

2013-10-04T16:02:00.000+05:00

There are many dangerous spiders but the most dangerous 10 spiders out of these have been listed. These spiders cannot only poison the small mammals but also affect the humans by making them very ill. Most of the time a bite by these spiders results in some kind of headache or illness or vomiting. Some of these spiders can even result into death due to the poisonous venom they exhibit. Though other spiders are comparatively less dangerous but they do result in pain, redness and swelling at the site of bite. Treatment by a doctor is required as soon as possible after being bitten.

1. Brown Recluse:

This spider is mainly found in the America and its bite can cause great trouble. They usually hide in dark places and if bitten by this spider can result in fever, vomiting, shivering along with redness around the bite and swelling.

2. Black widow:

It is also known as the latrodectus Hesperus and mostly they are black but a few of them are also found in brown color. They tend to live in hot climate and are found in the United States. 1 percent of the total bites to the people have resulted in the death by the female black widow.

3. Brazilian wandering spider:

This spider is also known as the banana spider and these spiders tend to be very aggressive and dangerous. These spiders are found in the countries like Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia,Peru, Venezuela, Columbia, Argentina and Cost Rica. There venom is dangerous but in order to affect a human, they have to inject sufficient amount of the venom.

4. Funnel-web spiders:

These spiders are basically found in Australia. These spiders are also dangerous and 10-15 minutes after their bite you can develop breathing problems which can also lead to coma. A slightly less effected person would undergo fever, vomiting, drooping eyelids and shivering.

5. Mouse spider:

These spiders can survive in any country and environment that is available to them. The color of the female and the male is different. The females are black and the male ones are brown. The symptoms by the bite of this spider resemble a lot to that of funnel-web spider. The spider is very aggressive and would respond to any thing that the spider feels dangerous.

6. Red back spider:

This spider is usually found in Australia and it is very dangerous to very young people or old people. This spider lives in the dry areas and looks a lot more similar to the previously discussed black widow. Mostly the bites recorded by this spider have occurred during the summer. Its bite results in vomiting, weakness in the muscles, pain along with sweating.

7. Wolf spider:

The color of these spiders is mostly brown or gray. There are many types wolf spiders and 125 of these types are found in USA while 50 of them in Europe. There bite is not very dangerous but it does result into an infection. Ice should be put on the place where this spider has bitten until treatment has been taken.

8. Goliath Birdeater Tarantula:

It is one of those largest spiders that can cause panic and fear just by its appearance. Though this spider is very large it is not as dangerous as the spiders that have already been mentioned. Its bite however still results in minor pain and swelling.

9. Sac spider:

These spiders have venom that can result in the killing of cells. The bite is not very dangerous but may cause illness and irritation along with a mark in the area where it has bitten.

10. Hobo spiders:

These spiders are brown in color and their legs have a lot of hair on them. Death of the tissues can occur at the place of bite by this spider. It takes a lot of time for the bite to heal and the marks of the bite would remain. The worst example is pictured below. A bite by this spider would result in a severe headache which would not be treatable by the use of medicine.

No matter what area you live in spiders are going to be there. Which ones all depend on your region however with spiders you should always precede with caution as you never know what you might be encountering. We suggest annual pest control maintenance in any home to secure that most of the deadliest pests won’t be visiting you.

Picture on the dust

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Cool memo stickers

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Mount Huangshan

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World's Rare Flowers.... Its Amazing

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Narilatha Mala

A very rare Narilatha flower at Somadasa Abeywickrema’s

house at Baddegama.

These are Narilatha Flowers

Above flower is called Fly Orchid

Above flower is Swap Pink

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Below is ARISAEMA CONSANGUINEUM (Like Cobra Head)

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Below flower is not artificial... Its Real....

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Beautiful Pink Puya

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Red Sunflowers (This photo has taken from www.pxleyes.com)

Below is the Youtan Poluo

(The smaller & thicker then your one hair)

Below is the Nepenthes Tenax

Below is the Kadupul Flower

Below is one of rarest Silversword or Ahinahina Plant

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Birds love Ylang-Ylang & so do I. Depending upon whom you ask, the name means Flower Of Flowers, Rare or Wilderness. In trad herb lore, it is a flower of Venus & the essential oil is officially recognised for langour & euphoria inducing qualities, along with the ability to help cure various ailments from motion sickness to high blood pressure. Margaret Mead noted that the South Pacific island dwellers used it liberally as an aphrodisiac, sprinkling it on beds & what-not.

Personally, i love the reek of it so much that i bung it everywhere; into big bottles of sweet almond oil to make body oil, into the sheets wash, floor wash, in an atomiser bottle to spray around as room freshener…Would cook with it if i could. The Wiki for it has this fabulous line re the scent; “The fragrance of ylang-ylang is rich and deep with notes of rubber and custard, and bright with hints of jasmine and neroli.”

And, a la the G.F.C. situation AND increasing concerns re toxic ingredients in perfumes, why not create your own concoctions with actual ingredients proven to enhance mood et al? Anyway, if you don’t have any in the house, try to snort some essential oil of Ylang-Ylang before the Full Moon & see if you do not notice the effect.

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The Plumeria Metallica Thai

Blue Bell Tunicate

Flower Power

Luscious Lotus

Orchid in the Blue

Purple Foxglove

passion flower

This is a rare / endangered species endemic to Mount Diablo.

Lachenalia viridiflora

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Bi Color pineapple lily

Shape is usually maintained through pruning, These plants grow well is most potting soil and are really easy to care for..

These flowering plants are hard to find to purchase or even to see it growing in someone’s yard, hopefully it will begin to become easier to obtain.

If you want to see more rare flowers got to www.toptropicals.com for an incredible show of exotics.

The Canary Tree is a small evergreen tree, with yellow flowers and an orange center and are so bright and beautiful as you can see in the pictures from top tropical’s.

This small tree is perfect if you want to grow this in your garden or if you decide that it’s best for you to grow them on a patio or deck in a container.

When growing this exotic house plant or as tropical garden flowers make sure to keep soil evenly moist. If it is under watered the leaves will wilt and may even fall off.

Make sure not to over water. Well drained soil is best and keeps this plant from getting too much moisture. The blooms will attract lots of butterflies and bees which I love having around my garden.Flowers help the bees with pollination which is very important for the reproduction of all plants.

This one is Abutilon grandifolium, Sida grandifolia

Even the buds of these flowers are pretty!

be a climber with thick green leaves growing up a small trellis. You will most often see this plant in hanging baskets where this magnificent plant does best with its incredible white or pink flowers draping over the sides.

The Hoya Plant needs bright light to bloom well, but will grow in medium light.

Temperatures should be between 55 and 75 degrees F.

You can grow these plants indoors in hanging pots or if you grow them outside you must live in climates where you don’t have frost in the winter warm temperatures and little humidity always helps.

For growing your plants outside you will have to use a trellis or planting sticks with tie backs, once it starts to bloom, the blooms can get heavy and may start to droop over which is fine or you can support them.

H. Ciliata

Great Picture By Martin Heigan

Macgillivaryi

H. Florde Cera

Imperialis

H. Parviflora

H. Shooting Stars

hoya SP.

Subcalvas

Compacta

Hserpens

kerrii

These pictures are thanks to toptropicals.com for awsome rare and exotic plants to purchase.

Capparis Sandwichiana the Rare Caper Plant

The pictures above are thanks to Forest and Kim Star

Now the Caper Plant Capparis Spinosa The more Common Caper

As You Can See The Flowers On Both Of These Caper Plants are Very Similar and Both Very Beautiful....

Below Flowers are called "Bleeding Heart"

This was taken at the United States Botanical Garden

Below are the Cigar Plant or Firecracker plant and ALL its colors!

Below are the beautiful pink Cuphea Cyanea

Below are Cuphea Micropetala

Below, the Candy Corn Vine

12 of the Most Bizarre Tights

2012-03-03T10:07:00.003+05:00

Fashion these days just keeps getting weirder and weirder. But that's not to say we're not a fan. How do you feel about these skeleton leggings?

Bulbous veins tend to plague women all over the world who would do just about anything to get rid of them. But for those who think that veins make a unique fashion accessory, there are veiny tights that can give the desired effect. Perfect with miniskirts and short shorts so all you vein lovers can show off your bulging red and blue veins.

Nude tights… how about these for bike tights? FYI, these are stretchy pants. Look at the person's ankles and arms.

Up until now I had never seen men's tights, but they exist and people buy them. Maybe someday every man will wear them. But me and my band of merry men aren't ready for it yet. Are you?

They come, as a lot of the strangest items of clothing do, from Japan. They can be yours for a mere 2,000 Yen (i.e. $25) if you can figure out how to navigate this Japanese website. I'm pretty sure there's an entire Japanese subculture devoted to them. They're perfect for playing like you're a terrifying doll come to life, or maybe some sort of C3PO-ish android.

These Etsy, Inc. Twitter Tights are fairly self-explanatory but they probably won't help your Twitter following unless your Twitter name is sewn onto the other leg.

Some people spend a lot of time on their knees. We don't know why. We don't really WANT to know why. Having seen these super-special Marios knee-pad leggings though, we're forced to conclude that they do it because they like to clean the floors with their clothes. And they need fishnet leggings with shag-pile kneepads to do it. Obviously.

Walmart tights.

Fish scale, for those who have always dreamed of being a mermaid.

You always wanted a tattoo but didn't love the idea that it stays forever......
These amazing tights will be perfect for you; they create the feeling that you have a tattoo on your leg, and let's be honest - an awesome one.

Gal Stern two-tone printed tights. One leg is black opaque, the other leg is black print on flesh-coloured mesh.

Things Probably Didn't Know About Sex

2012-03-03T10:00:00.002+05:00

Genetics Can Affect When a Person Will Lose His or Her Virginity

Obviously, each person makes the individual decision of when to have sex for the first time, but recent studies show that your genetics can play a role in how early you make the decision. In fact, a study of twins who were separated at birth shows that there is a strong genetic link in the age a person chooses to lose his or her virginity.
"It's not like there's a gene for having sex at a certain date," says Nancy Segal, a psychologist at California State University in Fullerton, who led the new study. But inheritable traits such as impulsiveness do affect the decision, although social mores play a major role as well. In fact, there was less of a consistent genetic effect in twins born before 1948 than those born after 1960.

The Clitoris is Mostly an Internal Organ

By now, most people know about the clitoris and where it is located…or at least, they know about the tip of the organ. While you might think that little bump that drives women crazy is the whole enchilada, as it turns out, that's just the tip of the iceberg. In fact, the majority of the clitoris is located within the pelvis and, when erect, it actually wraps around the vagina –making the vagina and sex more pleasurable (for both parties) as the woman gets more excited.
So why does everyone think of the clitoris as only the little bump on the outside? Well, for one thing, it's role as the visible part certainly makes it the most noticeable, but more so, researchers didn't start to learn about the amazing expanses of the organ until they were able to view it through an MRI machine, something they couldn't do until the 90's. It wasn't until 2009 that the world was introduced to a complete 3D sonogram image of the organ.
Of course, the little bump we're all familiar with is pretty darn important. In fact, it has over 8,000 nerve fibers –more than twice the number found in the head of a penis.

Sperm is Surprisingly Nutritious

At around 15 calories per “serving,” sperm contains the same protein as the white of a large egg, along with vitamin C, calcium, magnesium, potassium, vitamin B12 and zinc. Sure, it might not be as healthy as a multi-vitamin, but few vitamins come with such pleasurable effects.

Sex Can Help You Stay Healthy

Having sex once or twice a week can actually boost your immune system, as it increases the levels of immunoglobulin A in the body. Immunoglobulin A is an antibody that lives in your saliva and mucous linings that helps stop colds and flu before they start, by fighting the viruses off before they get past your nose or mouth.

Having Sex Can Make Women Look More Attractive

When women have sex their estrogen levels double, making their hair shinier and skin softer. “Estrogen seems to be the fountain of youth for women,” says Patti Britton, PhD, clinical sexologist.
Additionally, increased blood flow from an orgasm makes their cheeks more rosy and their lips redder –although, apparently, only in warmer temperatures. So if you ladies out there want a quick beauty treatment, consider heading to a steamy bedroom rather than the beauty salon.

If You Are Sexually Active, You'll Probably Get an STD

Studies show over 80% of all sexually active adults will contract an STD at some point, although most won't notice. That's because 80% of all people who contract one of the 25 varieties of STDs don't show any symptoms and most don't even realize they have one. In fact, the American Social Health Association estimates that 80% of sexually active people contract the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) at one point in their life. While those statistics were taken before the HPV vaccine was released, the vaccine only prevents two of the most dangerous strains of the disease, meaning even those vaccinated can still catch one of the many other strains.

While the numbers sound scary, the upside is that most people who contract an STD won't suffer any negative effects as a result.

Birth Control Affects Women's Taste in Men

The pill may have done wonders for women's lib, but it turns out it might also be hurting their sex lives. A recent study has shown that women who are on the pill get with partners they find less attractive and worse in bed because these men offer better opportunities for a long-term relationship. While the women were less sexually satisfied, they were, on average, much happier with the non-sexual aspects of their relationships. Additionally, women on the pill stayed in relationships for an average of two years longer than those who were not on the medication.

Researchers believe this is because the pill affects the chemistry of a woman's brain, making them more interested in obtaining a long-term relationship than finding someone they would be more sexually compatible with.

Diet Can Affect the Flavor of Semen

Gentlemen, if you want your lady to be more orally fixated, you might want to consider switching your diet for her pleasure. As it turns out, sugary fruits like kiwi, watermelon and pineapple make semen taste lighter, while beer and coffee leave it with a strong, bitter flavor. Meat and fish can make it taste more buttery, while acidic fruits like cranberries, plums and liquors can give it a sugary flavor. Whatever you do, don't chug milk before hitting the hay as dairy can cause semen to taste foul due to its high bacterial levels.

Female Sexuality is Still Largely a Mystery

There is, as yet, no scientific consensus on whether or not the G-Spot exists or if female ejaculation is real. Critics of the G-Spot largely focus their arguments on the fact that because so many women do not experience vaginal orgasms, that it must not exist. Additionally, they point out that there is no area inside the vagina with more nerve endings than any other area. They also use the discovery about the clitoris being internal to argue that vaginal orgasms are caused by the same organ, not a separate erogenous zone.
Proponents of the G-Spot argue that the vagina does have an erogenous zone that swells up when excited and that this area provides an additional lubricant when it is sexually aroused. They also show that ultrasound studies show changes to the area during sex.
The debate on female ejaculation is often tied in with the G-Spot argument as proponents argue that ejaculation is tied in with stimulation of the G-Spot. While it is widely accepted that some women have been known to gush fluid during orgasm, the debate largely centers around what the fluid is actually made of. Many critics claim the fluid is simply urine. Some proponents argue that it is a separate substance, while others debate that it is urine; but urine is filled with a unique selection of chemicals, making it qualify as a sexually-induced ejaculation regardless of the connection with the bladder.

Women's Sex Organs Are Now Being Studied More Often

There are a few main reasons that so little is known about female sexuality. For one, the clitoris, the G-Spot and female ejaculation, are all completely unrelated to reproduction and are instead all about pleasure (as a matter of fact, the clitoris is the only organ that exists solely for the purpose of pleasure), making many scientists believe they deserve less interest than the ovaries, vagina, penis or testicles. Of course, now that these sex organs are pretty well understood, scientists can feel free to move on to understanding the more complex role of non-reproductive sexual functions.

Funny cats

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Clever Transforming Furniture

2011-07-07T10:59:00.002+05:00

Why is transforming furniture so alluring? Does it appeal to our sense that innovation is progress, the fact that fewer materials for more uses is sustainable or simply a return to the childhood love of things that we can actively change and shape as we wish? Whatever the reason, these designs range from humorous and impractical to jaw-droppingly cool. Be sure to scroll all the way down: the best (pictured briefly above) has been saved for last and check here for more unusual urban furniture.

This comfy number is not one nor two but three pieces of furniture in one: a sofa, lounger and a chair. A good deal of transforming furniture looks or feels better in one configuration or another, but this three-in-one by Roel Verhagen-Kaptein is appealing in each of its transformations.

Normally we think of convertible furniture as transforming from one useful thing into something else with a practical function. These simply elegant folding chairs by Studio Dror collapse into something you might actually want to use simply for wall decoration: a simpler refined furniture solution than sticking cheap folding chairs back into the closet.

Next time you go on a picnic with some friends you may want to grab a second basket, the so-called Mealbox by Igland Design. Fourteen puzzle pieces slip out of this simple container and assemble into a table and chairs that seat six – a humorous variation on fast food.

Compact, clever and portable, the Fence Chair by Alain Berteau is a simple blend of traditional picket fence vernacular and sustainable modularity. The repeated use of a single simple form allows for compact shipping and the seats can be split or joined as needed.

A storable box or subtle side table by all appearances, this articulated shelving system by Bertrand Pinceman folds out into a rather nice bookcase. It is designed to work both on its side and upright.

Marta Antoszkeiwicz’s design is not like most transforming furniture that relies on clever bends, twists and hidden tricks to work. This simple table and chairs set relies only on sliding pieces under and out from under one another. The result, though, is impressive: chairs that go well with the table in either configuration and don’t look like extra elements.

Similar in principle to a Murphy bed (which folds down from the wall when needed) this cabinet dining room set has everything one needs to sit down to a comfortable meal and then slides back into place. Neat as this complete furniture solution sounds, though, it isn’t clear how much space is needed behind-the-scenes to make it work.

Yellow might not be the best color, but you have to appreciate this simply brilliant Tetris-based Chairs + Table design. Aside from the sofa, bed, and chairs-and-tables configuration these also pack up nicely to be stored. The material is designed to be soft enough to be comfortable but resilient enough to work as an eating or work surface. Also, one could imagine that, with sufficient pieces, other creative furniture constructions would be possible.

We’re all familiar with beds that fold out from sofas, but few do so as easily and elegantly as this one by Flou. In Modernist tradition, the form of the bed is also partly visible in the form of the couch with each fold-out layer articulated individually.

Now this one is particularly strange: a stove and kitchen workspace that doubles as a comfortable chair? An odd combination to be sure, but it is a step in an interesting direction. This kind of out-of-the-box thinking could result in furniture that not only serves a similar function to its counterpart but that would have different purposes in various rooms around a house.

Would you believe that everything shown in the above image can be fit into a box that is less than 3 feet by 4 feet? The creative furniture within can be carried, unpacked and rapidly assembled by just two people. It probably goes without saying but: the box itself is also reused in the final results. Check out the video below to see the boxed room in action and go here to see more awesome urban furniture!

Amazing Wooden Horses

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Amazing Hotel Rooms

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Dullness in construction

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About what builders were thinking when such things do?

"We are open" says this picture :)

+ 1 more from Cristina Munteanu

World's Longest Eyelashes

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Wonder how she is going to see this beautiful world with that long eyelashes. Er, girl, do you comb it everyday? Be careful not to hurt your eyes and oh, tie it with a ribbon…it will look pretty nice.

THE COOLEST PLACE ON EARTH

2011-07-06T11:57:00.000+05:00

Antarctica is the coldest place on the earth

Antarctica is a special place, no matter how you look at it. It’s the highest, driest, coldest, and windiest continent, for starters. One way that it’s very special is its position, squatting right on the south end of the Earth.

To begin with, the seventh continent is in the middle of its own lithospheric plate, completely isolated from other continents. It was part of Gondwanaland throughout the Paleozoic, stuck together with Africa, South America, Australia, and India. But then during the Jurassic that supercontinent slowly broke up over a hundred million years, until Australia split from it and left Antarctica alone, beginning in the Eocene about 50 million years ago. You can follow the history at the Paleomap Project site.

Ever since that time, the ocean has surrounded it on all sides, turning around it in a great westward current. Antarctica has gotten colder and colder, cooling the rest of the planet along with it. Over the years, it has accumulated a gigantic layer of ice to a height of 3,000 meters. That huge central mound stands up nearly halfway through the atmosphere, so like a bald-headed man with no hat, it loses heat directly to outer space. The cold air that results flows right off the ice cap by gravity, picking up speed as it goes, until the resulting katabatic winds roar off the continent’s edge onto the sea.

The cold winds freeze the seawater, building up immense areas of solid pack ice every Antarctic winter. The water left behind is saltier and, because salty water is denser than the rest of the ocean, it sinks and slowly moves northward on the seafloor to the rest of the world.

Throughout most of geologic time, the Earth has had a warmer and more equable climate than today. Large areas of the continents were covered by shallow seas, where the limestones and shales and coal measures we see today were laid down. Antarctica has been keeping the world cool lately, though, and by piling up more and more ice, it has drawn down the level of the sea. I’m grateful for that, because I like dry land.

Antarctica is not really responsible for the ice ages we’ve been living through for the past few million years, though. For that, you might blame Panama, which rose out of the water about 3 million years ago and cut off the Atlantic from the Pacific Ocean. Now we have a complicated setup, involving Greenland with its ice cap and currents in the north Atlantic Ocean, that seems to switch back and forth between a cold-climate state and a warmer state, where we are today.

Amazing Pics...... Unvelievable

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Unbelievable Pics ~ You may have never seen before ~

World Tallest Building In Dubai

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Burj Dubai, World Tallest Building In Dubai

Skyscraper Burj Dubai At Night Photo

About Burj Dubai Skyscrapers - World Tallest Building In Dubai

Burj Dubai, the skyscraper is under construction in Dubai District. It will go to be world’s tallest man-made building ever built. This skyscraper is constructing at Downtown Dubai, at Doha Street along with Sheikh Zayed Road. Construction of this project was begun on 21st September, 2004 and expected to be completed and ready for use in September 2009.

Burj Dubai Tower Hight

This tower is also expected to break the record for tallest man-made building, which is held by 2,072ft tall the wire-assisted KVLY-TV mast in North Dakota, US. The developer, Emaar Properties said that the final height of Burj Dubai is kept secret till completion. Last year, Local media reports said that Burj Dubai’s final height would be 818 meters.

Burj Dubai Comparing To World's Skyscraper

Burj Dubai Compare Skyscraper

Burj Dubai Construction Detail

World’s tallest building, Burj Dubai is being constructed by the famous and well-known South Korean Company Samsung Engineering. This South Korean Company had made many famous and antique buildings and towers like Petromas Twin towers and The Taipei 101. The Samsung Engineering & Constructions is building the Burj Dubai in a join Venture with two companies, one is a Belgium Company Besix and another is Arabtec from UAE. The project manager of the main construction contract is Turner. The Reinforced is the primary structural system of Burj Dubai. They used more than 110,000 tones weighing reinforced concrete, which is over 45,000 m3 it means more than 58,900 cu yd to construct the concrete and steel foundation. This concrete and steel foundation has 192 piles buried more than 164 ft deep.

Burj Dubai Under Construction Snap

After the Burj Dubai would complete there are use of steel more than 39,000 tones and the use of concrete will touch the quantity of 330,000 m3. It is such an unbelievable thing. If this steel will lie on whole earth end-to-end then it can cover a quarter of the way. This construction will have taken about 22 million man hours.

As construction of the tower progresses, it is becomes more and more difficult for the vertical concrete pumps to pull the concrete at the head of the tower. This work had broke all the records to pump the concrete vertically and made a world wide new record.

Burj Dubai Wallpaper Dubai UAE

During the extension of the Riva del Garda Hydroelectric Power Plant in Italy had the record for pumping concrete at the height of 1,745 ft in 1994. But now Burj Dubai has achieved this record as the date of 19th August 2008, as it has pumped concrete to 1,759 ft. On 8th November 2008 Burj Dubai will broke its own record and register a new record to pump the concrete at the 1,972 ft. According to our data, Burj Dubai had achieved a height of 2,320 ft on 26th September, 2008.When the world’s tallest skyscraper would build, and it will have more than 160 floors with about 56 elevators. There are also apartments, shops, corporate suits, offices and swimming pools. The Burj Dubai would be the only skyscraper which has the most floors. This man-made skyscraper has set the record of highest vertical concrete pumping of about 1972 ft, before this project the record of highest vertical concrete pumping was named on Riva del Garda Hydroelectric Power Plant which was 1,745 ft.

Burj Dubai World Tallest Building Quality

During the construction, engineers and other responsible persons are taking all required quality tests, because one small mistake can make dangerous result. The head of Concrete Quality Checking has checked each batch of concrete and test it to see resist certain pressure. As the Gulf Temperature is as high as about 50 °C it is very hard to withstand the thousands of tones pressure. To solve this problem they poured the concrete at night instead of Day so the temperature is low than day. Additionally they ice to mixture the concrete to cool down the temperature. The other reason is that cooler concrete mixture is less likely to set too quickly and crack. One small crack could put the Burj Dubai project in Danger.

Computerised Image Of Complete Burj Dubai

Total budget for the Burj Dubai project is about US$ 4.1 billion. The CEO of Emaar Properties, Mohamed Ali Alabbar had said the price of office space at Burj Dubai had were sold at about $4,000 per sq ft it means around $43,000 per sq meter and that the Armani Residences, in Burj Dubai had reached about $3,500 per sq ft.

Looking Into the Past

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Images are made by finding old photographs of places, printing them out, and then holding the print up in the modern day location that the original photograph was taken. So far, most of the historical images have been available for free at the Library of Congress.

Best of Christmas Photos

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Christmas lights house, Melksham, England.

Vatican Mess. Benedicte XVI.

Christmas Santa sculpture made of sand, Puri, India.

School kids, Bhopal, India.

Christmas market, Nurnberg, Germany.

Christmas lights, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Christmas on US Air Base, Afghanistan.

Bird’s Nest stadium, Beijing, China.

Santa musicians plays in aquarium, Fuzhou, China.

African goat babies, Kids Crealy Adventure Park, Exeter, England.

Santa Claus skydiving, Southern Highlands, Sydney, Australia.

Adrenalin high speed boat Santas, Sydney harbour, Australia.

Christmas elephant, Jirasart school, Ayutthaya province, Thailand.

Christmas celebration, Beirut.

“Eco-friendly” Santa, Kidzania Theme Park, Tokyo, Japan.

Santa Claus parade, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Christmas fireworks near the Cathedral of Virgin Mary, Moscow, Russia.

Palestinian christian scouts outside the Church of Nativity, Bethlehem.

Indian street artist paints Jesus Christ face on the street of Kolkata, India.

Capital Holiday Tree, Washington, USA.

Santa Claus, somewhere in Laplandia.

Mountain Santa climber, near the Buckhan, South Korea.

Christmas marathon, Kioto, Japan.

Bavarian highlanders, Schoenau, Bavaria.

Christmas Place de la Concorde, Paris, France.

Christmas tree decoration, Moscow, Russia.

Laptop's Desktops

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Bolly Actress with-without Makeup

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The World's Fattest Giraffe?

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Too weird and strange to be true? Well I don't know what to believe either. Some say yes and some say it's obviously edited. I saw this thread on my friends blog, and it's quite an unusual and interesting topic so I decided to put it here also. So, what's your call? Is this for real? Me, nah too tired to dig this up.

The L'Aquila earthquake

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Early Monday morning, central Italy was struck by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake caused serious damage to several medieval hill towns in the region, killing over 260 residents, injuring over 1,000 and leaving 28,000 homeless. Despite the dangers from aftershocks, the search for survivors continues, and will be maintained until Sunday, after which the daunting tasks of cleanup and reconstruction willl begin.

Shattered roofs of collapsed houses are seen against the backdrop of snow-covered mountains after an earthquake in the Italian village of Onna April 6, 2009. (REUTERS/Chris Helgren)

An aerial view of the destruction in the city of L'Aquila, central Italy, Monday, April 6, 2009. A powerful earthquake in mountainous central Italy knocked down whole blocks of buildings early Monday as residents slept - the country's deadliest quake in nearly three decades, officials said. (AP Photo/Guardia Forestale, HO)

Part of the wall of a house still stands amongst the rubble of collapsed buildings in the village of Castelnuovo, central Italy, Monday, April 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

The Duomo Cathedral of San Massimo is seen damaged in the town center of L'Aquila, central Italy, on Tuesday, April 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Six-year-old Sara Luce and her mother eat as they rest outdoors after an earthquake caused the collapse of St. Salvatore Hospital in Aquila April 6, 2009. (REUTERS/Giampiero Sposito)

An Italian military carabinieri walks on debris past destroyed buildings after an earthquake, in downtown Aquila April 6, 2009. (REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi)

Rescue workers search for bodies amongst the rubble of a destroyed building on April 6, 2009 in L'Aquila, Italy. (Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

A destroyed house is seen April 07, 2009 at the entrance of the off-limits village of Onna, near the epicenter of the April 6, 2009 earthquake in the region of the Abruzzo capital of L'Aquila. (CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP/Getty Images)

Hands of a lifeless body lie amidst the debris of a collapsed home in the city of L'Aquila, after a strong earthquake rocked central Italy, early Monday, April 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

Giulio Colangeli is carried away by rescuers as his father Antonello reacts, in the city of L'Aquila early Monday, April 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

Rescuers work to recover victims from inside a building overnight on April 8, 2009 in the Abruzzo capital L'Aquila. (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)

A view of Santa Maria Paganica church, severely damaged after the earthquake of April 7, 2009 in L'Aquila, Italy. (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)

A resident sleeps in a car in a yard in the Abruzzo capital L'Aquila on April 8, 2009 . (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)

Local people who were evacuated following a violent earthquake the day before wake up after spending the night in a shelter set up in a gymnasium of L'Aquila sport center university early on April 7, 2009. (MARIO LAPORTA/AFP/Getty Images)

A coroner carries the body of an infant to place with its mother in a coffin, after an earthquake in the Italian village of Onna April 6, 2009. (REUTERS/Chris Helgren)

Crushed cars are seen on a field in the Italian village of Onna April 7, 2009. (REUTERS/Alessia Pierdomenico)

Destroyed houses in the village of Onna are seen in this aerial view near L'Aquila, Italy on April 7, 2009. (REUTERS/Max Rossi)

A damaged house in the village of Castelnuovo, central Italy, following a strong earthquake, Monday, April 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

An aerial view of Santa Maria Paganica church in L'Aquila, central Italy, on Tuesday, April 7, 2009, a day after a powerful earthquake struck the Abruzzo region. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

A survivor sits in an ambulance a day after an earthquake struck the Italian village of Onna April 7, 2009. (REUTERS/Chris Helgren)

An entrance hall in a destroyed house is seen the morning after an earthquake struck the Italian village of Onna April 7, 2009. (REUTERS/Chris Helgren)

A rescuer continues to look for survivors in the remains of a collapsed building on April 8, 2009 in the Abruzzo capital L'Aquila. (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)

The Worlds Most Dangerous Roads

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Guoliang Tunnel Road in China

Deep in the Taihang mountains in China is the Guoliang Tunnel. It took 13 villagers 5 years to carve the 1200m-long tunnel through the mountains to connect their isolated village with the outside world. The tunnel was chiselled out with hammers and steel tools. The walls of the tunnel are unstable and with many twists and blind corners, one could easily drive over the edge into a seemingly never-ending drop. It is not surprising, then, that some of the villagers
lost their lives trying to build this road.

Lena Highway

The M56 Lena Highway in Russia is a truely dangerous road. Despite being a federal highway, it is just a dirt track, that during heavy rains in the summer,turns to impassable mud that can swallow small vehicles whole. The highway gets its name from the nearby Lena river, which feezes over in the winter and drivers can actually drive over the frozen river to reach the city of Yakutsk. The highway is famous for its lawlessness, as trucks get stuck in the mud and become victim to people breaking into them in search of food and warmth.

Bolivia’s Road of Death

This road, like the Lena Highway, is the only connection between many isolated villages in Bolivia. As such, people are forced to navigate this treacherous road that has claimed many lives. It is estimated that 200-300 people a year die on this road and it is littered with crosses showing the places where travellers have lost their lives. Its sheer cliffs, lack of guardrails and its single-lane width, combined with loose rocks and common fog have rightly earned this road as “the world’s most dangerous road” in 1995.

The Halsema Highway

This road offers a beautiful view along its 100km stretch from Baguio to Sagada in the Phillipines. However, with many twists and turns through the mountains it can become a very dangerous journey. It is the highest highway in the Phillipines and the sides of the mountains are liable to landslides and include many ravines and narrow paths, making this journey truely dangerous.

The Skippers Canyon Road

This narrow road snakes its way through Skipper’s Canyon in New Zealand and features vertical drops down to the Shotover River. The 17km-long road has many dangerous bends, and one slip could mean certain death. With the increase of traffic due to technology and tourism, this road has to be maintained regularly to ensure driver safety. Nevertheless, rental car companies don’t allow customers to travel on the road due to its dangerousness.

Highway of Death

This road linking Kuwait to Basra, Iraq was the site where many Iraqi military personnel and civilians were killed by American aircraft. This road has become one of the most famous images of the Gulf War, as both sides are littered with debris and hundreds of vehicles that were destroyed in the attacks. Officially known as Highway 80, its moniker serves as a startling reminder as to how dangerous some roads can be, especially in war-torn areas such as Iraq.