The Beast from the East
Nikolai Valuev is the tallest and heaviest recognized champion to this day, standing at 213 cm (about 7 feet) tall and weighing in at 145-150 kg (320-330 lb). He formerly had the nickname “The Beast from the East” but he now prefers to be styled “The Russian Giant.”
Valuev was born on August 21, 1973, in [...]
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Model Making at Its Best
The P-51D Mustang model was built by Young C Park who surprisingly is a dentist by nature. Built exactly like the original plane, it is on a 1/16 scale. Like you can imagine, a lot of hours of work has gone into it. He has worked for 6000 hours in a span of three years [...]
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Barack Obama Transportation
Air Force One is the official air traffic control call sign of any United States Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States. Since 1990, the presidential fleet has consisted of two specifically configured, highly customized Boeing 747-200B series aircraft – tail codes Special Air Mission (SAM) “28000″ and SAM “29000″ [...]
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Leech Farm
An employee of the International Medical Leech Centre demonstrates with a leech on her face in the village of Udelnaya, some 30 km (18.6 miles) from Moscow, December 4, 2009. The leech farm makes a tidy profit shipping them to doctors worldwide. Like many discarded elements of traditional medicine, they have made a come-back as [...]
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Disney Sketchbook Jigsaw Puzzles
Disney Sketchbook Puzzle reflects a series of drawings which were created for each character and each movie that would help the animator consistently maintain the integrity of each and every character. Snow White’s hair appears perfect even when sleeping is just one of many instructions for maintaining the elegance and beauty of this Disney Princess.
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CIA Spy Tricks
For decades, rumors of top-secret “magic” manuals swirled within CIA circles.
The long-lost guides were said to have been written by a prominent magician, but many officers dismissed them as myth, believing them too fantastical to be true.
But in 2007, retired CIA officer Robert Wallace unearthed an extraordinary archived file and is now making its contents [...]
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World Oldest Music Instrument
The Divje Babe flute is a cave bear femur pierced by spaced holes that was found at the Divje Babe archeological park located near Cerkno in northwestern Slovenia. It has been suggested that it is the world’s oldest known musical instrument, but this is in dispute. The continuing dispute notwithstanding, the artifact remains on prominent [...]
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Airbus A380 airline Emirates
The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus, a subsidiary of EADS. The largest passenger airliner in the world, the A380 made its maiden flight on 27 April 2005 from Toulouse, France, and made its first commercial flight on 25 October 2007 from Singapore to Sydney with Singapore [...]
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Gold Reserve
Engraving machine be marked on the bar with a gold content of 99.99% (GOST 28058-89) at the Krasnoyarsk plant of nonferrous metals. VN Gulidov. Mandatory labeling contains the serial number, test, precious metal letters, the stamp of the manufacturer, year of manufacture and weight of the ingot in grams or ounces. Ingots Guests have a [...]
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Abandoned Pepsi factory in Cambodia
The plant looks exactly as it looked like in 1975.There are even bottles on the bottling line.The plant was operating since 1960s.When the Khmer Rouge took over in 1975, the plant abruptly ceased operations and the former employees were sent to work in the fields.
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12 Weird Things to Do With Your Cremated Remains
As cremations have become more and more popular in recent years, people have devised a number of unusual ways to commemorate the dearly departed. If you’re looking for a unique way to be remembered, here are 12 strange things you can do with your cremated remains.
1. You Can Be Shot Into Space
Celestis made headlines in [...]
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Worlds Greatest Sail Ship
5 times bigger than the Titanic, Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the oceans is the world’s biggest passenger vessel of all time constructed. Oasis left her shipyard in Republic of Finland on Friday and is set to come at her home, Port Everglades, in Fort Lauderdale, Sunshine State on November 20th. With her Maiden voyage adjust [...]
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Dedicated to Sushi lovers
The remarkable variety of terrestrial insects. Well, who else loves sushi?
The traditional form of sushi is fermented fish and rice, preserved with salt in a process that has been traced to Southeast Asia, where it remains popular today. The term sushi comes from an archaic grammatical form no longer used in other contexts; literally, “sushi” [...]
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Five Hot Dogs That Will Kill You
Sure, most hot dogs will kill you slowly with their high levels of fat, salt, cholesterol, sodium, and cancer-inducing nitrites. But if you want to expedite the process, take a bite of these deadly dogs.
1. Crif Dog’s Breakfast Hot Dog
Start the morning right with the Breakfast Hot Dog from Crif Dog’s in New York. Wrapped [...]
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World Most Expensive Mineral Waters
Drinking water is very expensive now, $0,4 just for a quart of water. And our country is rich in water. But there’s more water is extraordinarily expensive price. “Beverly Fillico Hills” is thedrinking water from springs that are produced by the company with the name Vieluce in Osaka, Japanese. Source of water used is a [...]
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The 10 Most Ridiculous Rapper Chains
Rappers love their jewelry. Some rappers don’t even have their own homes but as long as the ice is right, it’s all gravy like Fat Joe’s dinner table. I’ve seen some cool rapper chains…but I’ve also seen a lot of terrible ones. More often than not rappers seem to buy chains for reaction rather than [...]
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Star Trek convention in Vulcan
Sci-fi fans gathered in a town called Vulcan for a Star Trek convention called Spock Days…Thousands of Trekkies converged on the Canadian town of Vulcan, Alberta, which shares its name with the home planet of Mr Spock
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10 Failed Doomsday Predictions
With the upcoming disaster film “2012″ and the current hype about Mayan calendars and doomsday predictions, it seems like a good time to put such notions in context.
Most prophets of doom come from a religious perspective, though the secular crowd has caused its share of scares as well. One thing the doomsday scenarios tend to [...]
