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World's Largest Mouth - Francisco Domingo Joaquim

2013-06-18T09:45:00.001+05:30

Known as the Angolan Jaw of Awe, 20-year-old Francisco Domingo Joaquim has earned the title of “world’s widest mouth.

Francisco, known as Chiquinho, had become an Internet sensation about two years ago, when videos of his incredible mouth stunts became viral on Youtube, but scouts of the Guinness Book of Records just recently managed to track hm down, in his Angola hometown. His jaw-dropping tricks have been viewed thousands of times, earning Francisco quite a reputation as the man with the world’s largest mouth.

Francisco Domingo Joaquim easily won the contest and thanks to his rubbery 16.99 cm wide mouth, he also became the man with the world’s largest mouth, according to the Guinness Book of Records.

Extreme Ironing

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Underwater Photography Contest 2013

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Top 5 World's Most Famous Aquariums

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1. The largest aquarium in the world The Georgia Aquarium is
located in Atlanta, USA.

The volume of water of this amazing aquarium is about 31 thousand cubic meters, and lives in it for more than 120,000 live exhibits belonging to five hundred species. The largest animals aquarium beluga whale is, as well as several species of dolphins, whale sharks, skates and rays.

2. Sydney Aquarium

The aquarium is one of the main attractions of Australia. Exposure aquarium includes about seven hundred species of animals. Especially convenient to observe the aquarium visitors to this the life of sharks that live in the aquarium "Open Ocean".

3. Dubai Aquarium & Discovery Center

Part of this center is a large aquarium with a capacity of about 33 thousand fish species and marine animals more than eighty-five species. Live here, and several species of sharks, including sand and a giant shark. This aquarium is known for its viewing window is listed in the "Guinness Book of Records" as the largest acrylic viewing window in the world. Its area is about 273 square meters, and it holds back thousands of tons of water. And the aquarium is the largest indoor aquarium in the world.

4. Oceanário de Lisboa is located in Lisbon, Portugal

This is the largest aquarium in Europe, as it is created by American designers. Oceanarium consists of five giant glass aquariums, each of which simulates the habitat of the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, the Arctic (or Southern) Oceans. Because of this, visitors can learn about the life of the world's oceans, see the brightest inhabitants of oceanic waters. Sharks, rays, barracuda, tuna, moray eels and other feel at home here.

5. The Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium (Tyuraumi)Japan.

Before the construction of the aquarium in Atlanta Tyuraumi was the world's largest such facility. Seaquarium has four floors and is designed to be able to fully display the life of the Japanese islands.

Amazing Things Created by Animals

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World's Coldest City

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Yakutsk, a remote city in Eastern Siberia along the Lena River, is the coldest city in the world. Located 1840 km away from Irkoustk and 5000 km away from Moscow, this city founded in 1632 by the Cossacks imposes upon its inhabitants an extreme way of life. And yet, despite particularly harsh conditions, Yakutsk boasts a population of 270,000, or a quarter of the entire population of Siberia. No other place on the planet experiences the temperature extreme found here: in winter, the temperatures regularly fall to minus 40° (the coldest temperature recorded was –64°C) and in summer often reaches temperatures above 30°C. Photos: January 2013. A scene in Yakutsk, Siberia, the coldest city in the world.

Clean Water at Verzasca River

2013-06-10T08:55:00.000+05:30

The Verzasca River, in Switzerland, is known all over the world for its clear, turquoise waters, but until now its beauty had only been captured from the surface. Photographer Claudio Gazzaroli decided to change that, so he put on a diving suit, took his waterproof camera and dived onto the riverbed to take some truly mind-blowing photos.

Aqueduct Bridge at Netherlands

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The Ringvaart (known in full as Ringvaart of the Haarlemmermeer Polder) is a canal in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. The Ringvaart (Dutch meaning “ring canal”) is a true circular canal surrounding the Haarlemmermeer polder and forms the boundary of the Haarlemmermeer municipality. Ringvaart is also the name of the dike bordering the canal.

Near Roelofarendsveen, the Ringvaart crosses the A4 Highway by means of an aqueduct. It was built in 1961, making it the oldest aqueduct in the Netherlands. In 2006, construction was completed of two new portions: on the east side for crossing new north-bound lanes for the expanded highway; and on the west side for the new HSL-Zuid high-speed railway. The new aqueduct is 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) long. Link

The Ringvaart is used for commercial and recreational boat traffic. A portion of it forms part of the sailroute from Hollands Diep to the IJsselmeer, passable for ships with masts over 6 meters (20 ft) tall.

Sun Cruise Ship at Jeongdongjin Beach

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Electricity from Foods

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Orange Battery

Back to Light is a creatively scientific series by photographer Caleb Charland that explores the naturally electrifying power of ordinary objects like fruits and loose change. The images in the series features a number of materials, including consumables readily found in one's pantry, generating enough power to light lamps and LED lights.

The ongoing photo project, which began in 2010, was initially inspired by the powerful simplicity of the potato battery. The science enthusiast explains, "By inserting a galvanized nail into one side of a potato and a copper wire in the other side a small electrical current is generated. The zinc coating on the nail gives off electrons due to the electrolyte environment within the potato. These electrons then travel along the copper wire providing the electrical voltage to illuminate a small light emitting diode. The utter simplicity of this electrical phenomenon is endlessly fascinating for me."

Additionally, Charland reflects on his own project by saying: "This work speaks to a common curiosity we all have for how the world works as well as a global concern for the future of earth’s energy sources. My hope is that these photographs function as micro utopias by suggesting and illustrating the endless possibilities of alternative and sustainable energy production."

Charland tells us that he hopes to expand his project this summer by making "little hydro electric generators and installing them in the landscape." Until then, the photographer is showing a selection of his works at Schneider Gallery in Chicago and has a solo show coming up at Gallery Kayafas in Boston from May 17th through June 7th.

Battery From a Single Potato

Grapefruit and Pomelo Battery

Vinegar Battery

Fruit Battery Still Life (Citrus)

Garage of Organic Batteries

Potato Power, Van Buren, Maine

Coin Battery

Electricity From a Ring of Apples

Fruit Battery with Hanging Apples

Limes and Lemons

Vinegar Batteries with Glassware and Shelf

Al-Bahar Tower - Abu Dhabi

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One Queen and 12 U.S. Presidents

2013-04-08T11:17:00.003+05:30

1. Queen Elizabeth and (former) President Herbert Hoover

2. Princess Elizabeth and President Harry S. Truman

3. Queen Elizabeth and President Dwight D. Eisenhower

4. Queen Elizabeth and President John F. Kennedy

5. Queen Elizabeth and President Richard Nixon

6. Queen Elizabeth and President Gerald Ford

7. Queen Elizabeth and President Jimmy Carter

8. Queen Elizabeth and President Ronald Reagan

9. Queen Elizabeth and President George H.W. Bush

10. Queen Elizabeth and President Bill Clinton

11. Queen Elizabeth and President George W. Bush

12. Queen Elizabeth and President Barack Obama

Sanjay Dutt's Childhood Pictures

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Star Daughters in Bollywood

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Alia Bhatt: Daughter of Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan

Kajol: Daughter of Tanuja

Kareena Kapoor and Karisma Kapoor: Daughter of Randhir Kapoor and Babita

Konkona Sen-Sharma: Her mother Aparna Sen is a critically-acclaimed filmmaker

Narmada Ahuja: Daughter of 90's star Govinda

Pooja Bedi: Daughter of suave Kabir Bedi and late Odissi dancer Protima Bedi

Sagarika Ghatge: Daughter of character actor Vijayendra Ghatge

Shazahn Padamsee: Daughter of ad guru Alyque Padamsee and singer-theatre personality Sharon Prabhakar

Riya Sen and Raima Sen: Daughters of popular 80's and 90's actress Moon Moon Sen

Shraddha Kapoor: Daughter of once-popular villain Shakti Kapoor

Shruti Haasan: Daughter of South superstar Kamal Haasan

Soha Ali Khan: One of Sharmila Tagore's two daughters

Sonakshi Sinha: Daughter of Shatrughan Sinha

Soniya Mehra: Daughter of late actor Vinod Mehra

Sonam Kapoor: Daughter of Anil Kapoor

Twinkle Khanna: Daughter of India's first superstar, the late Rajesh Khanna

Sun Pictures by Alan Friedman

2013-03-25T13:03:00.001+05:30

Alan Friedman is a fascinating guy. By day he’s a maker of greeting cards and a lover of hats, but in his spare time he’s a self-proclaimed space cowboy who points a telescope skyward from his backyard in downtown Buffalo, directly into the light of the sun. Using special filters attached to his camera Friedman captures some of the most lovely details of the Sun’s roiling surface. The raw images are colorless and often blurry requiring numerous hours of coloring, adjusting and finessing to tease out the finest details, the results of which hardly resemble what I imagine the 10-million degree surface of Sun might look like. Instead Friedman’s photos appear almost calm and serene, perhaps an entire planet of fluffy clouds or cotton candy.

From his artist statement: My photographs comprise a solar diary, portraits of a moment in the life of our local star. Most are captured from my backyard in Buffalo, NY. Using a small telescope and narrow band filters I can capture details in high resolution and record movements in the solar atmosphere that change over hours and sometimes minutes. The raw material for my work is black and white and often blurry. As I prepare the pictures, color is applied and tonality is adjusted to better render the features. It is photojournalism of a sort. The portraits are real, not painted. Aesthetic decisions are made with respect for accuracy as well as for the power of the image. Although the photos above are amazing, Friedman offers extremely high-resolution views of his work on his Tumblr and you can pick up some prints over on Photo-Eye. He also recently gave a TEDx Talk.

Skype Office in California

2013-03-25T12:55:00.004+05:30

Skype has somewhere around 250 employees in the Palo Alto area and neede to renovate their current space to be something more work-friendly and enjoyable. To do this, they hired Blitz, who has this to say about the project: “Skype’s primary goal was to create a world-class office that would differentiate them from their Bay Area competitors in the recruitment of talent. The project entailed a tenant improvement of 54,000 square feet of existing office space to support 250 employees involved in high technology development.

The space reflects Skype’s spirit of innovation in a highly functional yet creative workplace designed to encourage interaction and spontaneity, as well as meet specific acoustic requirements in support of their extensive use of AV. The project is registered for and seeking LEED Silver certification.

World Largest Aquarium in Georgia

2013-03-25T12:38:00.002+05:30

The world’s largest aquarium is located in Atlanta, Georgia. It houses more than 120,000 animals, representing 500 species in 8.5 million gallons of water. There are 60 different habitats with 12,000 square feet of viewing windows, and it cost $290 million to build.

Georgia Aquarium was the result of the vision of one enterprising businessman Bernard Marcus, who dreamed of presenting Atlanta with an aquarium that would encourage both education and economic growth. Marcus was so inspired by aquariums that after visiting 56 of them in 13 countries with his wife, he donated $250 million toward what was to become Georgia Aquarium. Additional $40 million came in as corporate donations. The land was donated by the Coca Cola Company.

The Hanging Fangweng Restaurant Above Yangtze River

2013-03-25T12:32:00.002+05:30

Fangweng Restaurant is located in China, in Hubei Province, about 12km north of the city of Yichang, near Sanyou Cave, or “The Cave of the Three Travelers”. The restaurant is in the Happy Valley of the Xiling Gorge, an especially scenic stretch of cliffs, caves and park land located around the area where the Chang Jiang River flows into the Yangtze. The entrance to the Fangweng Restaurant is an uninspiring grey brick building, but at the far end of a narrow concrete bridge, the restaurant caves into the cliff, the floor hanging several hundred feet above the ground. From this end, customers can view the flowing water of Yangtze River. For the daredevils, a bungee jumping platform is nearby.

Walking into the restaurant and down the steps, one will come to a natural “cave lobby”. Rightward, a 30-meter-long plank road has been built along the cliffside. It leads to another natural cave, which has been transformed into a dining hall. Warm lighting from the ceiling lends a golden yellow glow throughout. Dimly lit and Chinese-style furnishings blend in with its surroundings. Part of the dining hall hangs out of the cave, where some dining tables are placed. This is a place sitting high in the air, where the flowing waters can be watched from above.

Bollywood Actress Then and Now

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Babita

Tina Munim

Jaya Prada

Tanuja

Asha Parekh

Rai

Saira Banu

Waheeda Rehman

Salma Agha

Vaijayanti Mala

Mumtaj

Glasswinged Butterfly

2013-03-22T14:09:00.002+05:30

Have you ever seen a glasswinged butterfly (Greta oto)? You might think that this creature is a figment of one's imagination, perhaps a Photoshopped composite shot of a butterfly blending into a serene setting, but the truth is that it exists! The aptly named insect is a brush-footed (or four-footed) butterfly whose wings appear to be made of glass, though they're not. The tissue within their wings lack the usually colorful pigments found in other butterflies; thus, they have a glassy, transparent appearance.

Found primarily in Central America (Mexico through Panama), the glasswinged butterfly's name in Spanish is Espejitos which translates as little mirrors. In certain lights, the translucent wing parts have a glossy, almost reflective quality to them that makes their Spanish name effectively accurate. Whether they're seen as glass or mirrors, though, there's something absolutely fascinating about the way these butterflies' wings offer a surreal look at the environment around the insect. It's like they're tiny ornaments designed to draw the eye to the scenic appeal of nature.

10 Most Popular Persons in Twitter

2013-03-21T19:33:00.001+05:30

10. Kim Kardashian - 17,158,415 followers - 160 following - 14,345 tweets

9. Shakira -19,241,907 followers - 72 following - 1,642 tweets

8. YouTube - 21,733,947 followers - 435 following - 6,754 tweets

7. Taylor Swift - 22,762,995 followers - 82 following - 1,634 tweets

6. Britney Spears - 23,147,571 followers - 412,108 following - 2,230 tweets

5. Barack Obama - 25,689,754 followers - 667,259 following - 8,250 tweets

4. Rihanna - 27,791,642 followers - 900 following - 7,287 tweets

3. Katy Perry - 31,101,996 followers -118 following - 4,482 tweets

2. Justin Bieber - 32,831,230 followers - 23,405 following - 20,423 tweets

1. Lady Gaga - 32,962,434 followers - 136,693 following - 2,558 tweets

India's Highest Paid Actresses

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1. Priyanka Chopra - 9 crores

2. Kareena Kapoor - 8 crores

3. Aishwarya Rai - 6 crores

4. Katrina Kaif - 4 crores

5. Bipasha Basu - 2/3 crores

6. Deepika Padukone - 3 crores

7. Vidya Balan - 2 crores

8. Sonam Kapoor - 1.5 crores

9. Anushka Sharma - 1.5 crores

10. Sonakshi Sinha- 1.5 crores

World's Largest Cigar worth 200,000 Dollars

2013-03-21T17:21:00.002+05:30

Juan Panesso had a lot of strange requests over the years he's managed his online cigar store but a 20-foot long stogie with a $200,000 price tag was easily the strangest. And the most stressful.

Bollywood Actress Without Makeup

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The Enigmatic Moray Agricultural Terraces of the Incas

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One of the most visually stunning Inca ruins is at Moray, an archaeological site in Peru approximately 50 km northwest of Cuzco and just west of the village of Maras. In a large bowl-like depression, is constructed a series of concentric terraces that looks like an ancient Greek amphitheater. The largest of these terraces are at the center – they are enormous in size, and descend to a depth of approximately 150 meter, leading to a circular bottom so well drained that it never completely floods, no matter how plentiful the rain.

The concentric terraces are split by multiple staircases that extend upward like spokes of a wheel and enable people to walk from the top to the bottom of the bowl. Six more terraces, in connected ellipses rather than perfect circles, surround the concentric heart of Moray, and eight terraced steps that cover only a fraction of the perimeter overlook the site. The purpose of these depressions is uncertain, but the most widely agreed theory is they used to serve as ‘agricultural research station’.

One of the most remarkable feature of the site is the vast difference in temperature that exist between the top and the bottom reaches of the structure, which can be as much as 15°C. This large temperature difference created micro climates, similar to what is achieved in greenhouses in modern times, that was possibly used by the Inca to study the effects of different climatic conditions on crops.

It is no coincidence that the temperature difference corresponds to the natural difference between coastal sea level farmland and Andean farming terraces 1,000 meters about sea level. Furthermore, pollen studies indicate that soils from different regions of the Inca empire was imported to each of the large circular terraces. It is now believed that the Moray terraces were used by Incan priest-scientists to experiment with vegetable crops to determine which should be disseminated for domestic production to farmers with fields all over the Andean region.

Another enigma is the way how drainage for water flowing through the aqueducts worked. The lowest level is perfectly drained and never gets flooded even after incessant rains. It is suggested that there must be underground channels built by the depressions' bottom allowing water to drain. It is also argued that the bottom is over a very porous natural rock formation that enables water filtering toward the earth's interior.

We might never know why Moray was constructed, but the agricultural research station is a very likely possibility. Perhaps it is not surprising, since about 60 percent of the world’s food crops originated in the Andes, including hundreds of varieties of maize and thousands of potato varieties.