Interesting Word And Phrase Facts

Language was invented to communicate with people and without language nothing is really possible. English is considered as the universal language which is common to all. Word are the group of letters that give some meaning and phrase refer to any group of words. These words and phrase are part of the English language. The evolution of some of these words and phrases has curious facts hidden in it. Now let's take a look at 20 interesting facts about the words and phrases.

Largest Stadiums in the World

A stadium is a place or venue for outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event. The size of the stadium does not only depend on the area it covers but also the number of spectators it can accommodate. So, here we have collected the top 12 largest stadium in the world. Take a look...  

1. Rungrado May Day Stadium

World's Most Dangerous and Controversial Zoo - Lujan Zoo in Argentina

This controversial zoo in Argentina allows tourists to have extremely close encounters with some of the most dangerous predators in the world.

World's Most Tattooed Woman - Julia Gnuse

Julia Gnuse - nicknamed the ' illustrated lady ' - has 95 per cent of her body covered in ink, ranging from jungle scenes and cartoons to her favorite actors.

Miss Gnuse, from California, got her first tattoo 20 years ago and when she was 35, she started getting tattoos on her legs after developing a skin condition called porphyria, which causes the skin to blister when exposed to sunlight and became addicted to body art after first getting tattoos on her legs.

World's Strongest Boy - Richard Sandrak

Richard Sandrak, also known as Little Hercules was born in April 15, 1992 and is a Ukrainian-born, American bodybuilder, martial artist and actor, renowned for his physique at an extremely young age. He is probably best known for his appearance in the documentary The World's Strongest Boy, which has been shown on several TV channels across the world, and for his dedication to bodybuilding

Travel photos by Eric Lafforgue

top 10 new species of 2012

 

A 'devil's worm', a sneezing monkey and an orchid that only blooms at night 

have been named in the latest top 10 list of new species. 

Chosen by scientists from 200 nominated animals and plants described for the 

first time last year, a venomous jellyfish, giant millipede, parasitic wasp and 

a blue tarantula also make the top 10.

1: Sneezing monkey

 

The sneezing monkey, or Rhinopithecus strykeri, is the first snub-nosed monkey to be found in the 

high mountains of Myanmar and is believed to be critically endangered. It is distinctive for its mostly 

black fur and white beard and for sneezing when it rains. The odd-looking monkey is known to avoid 

dripping rainwater in its turned up nose by sitting with its head between its legs. Gesundheit! 

The Atlantic Road in Norway

Opened on July 7, 1989, the Atlantic Road is a National Tourist Route and was honoured as Norway’s Construction of the Century in 2005. The road is built on several small islands and skerries, which are connected by several causeways, viaducts and eight bridges.

The Atlantic is an 8.3 kilometer (5.2 miles) section of Country Road 64 which runs between the towns of Kristiansund and Molde, the two main population centres in the county of More og Romsdal in Fjord, Norway.

Stunning Examples of Long Exposure Photography

A long exposure can show you the evolution of various things and how time affects everything. To obtain a perfect long exposure photo, you need to follow a few basic rules. Here are three of them:

1. Long-exposure photography is often used in a night-time setting in order to produce a near daytime effect in the photo. By leaving the camera’s shutter open for an extended period of time, more light is absorbed, creating a brighter product. If the camera is stationary for the entire period of time that the shutter is open, a very vibrant and clear photograph can be produced.

2. For light painting technique, a scene is kept very dark and the photographer or an assistant takes a light source—it can be small penlight—and moves it about in patterns. The light source can be turned off between strokes. Often, stationary objects in the scene are illuminated by briefly turning on studio lights, by one or more flashes from a strobe light, or by increasing the aperture.

3. Long exposures can blur moving water so it has mist-like qualities while keeping stationary objects like land and structures sharp.

In this article you can see 27 stunning examples of long exposure photos which will definitely capture your attention. 

Poleg Beach, Rocks, Sunset

STRANGE STUFF ON A CATHEDRAL

These are just some pictures circulating the Internet and in e-mails. And they show a Cathedral of Salamancawith something completely unusual on its wall  an astronaut. All of this wouldn't be so strange if the cathedral wasn't built in 12th century, in the time astronauts didn't even exist, so it remained mysteryhow did he get there.

Yellow Flowering Rapeseed in China

Limestone hills rise up amid a sea of flowering rapeseed plants in Luoping, southern China. Situated in the eastern part of the Yunnan province, Luoping is a small city with a population of 500,000. Its vast farmland is covered in the blossoming rapeseed crops every February and March, drawing flocks of tourist and photographers. The 250,000mu (Chinese measuring system) area blanketed in rapeseed flowers give the impression of a golden ocean. Travellers refer to the area as the weirdest 'sea' in the world. Not only the base for rapeseed production, Luoping County is also the national base for raising bees and processing honey products. 

Beautiful Paintings _ By Samarskaya Elena Mihajlovna

Macro Photography Work

Life is Full of Colors

Still Life Photography

Beautiful Exotic Nature Flowers

Fantastic Photography

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CITY NIGHT SHOTS

 

Top 10 Asteroid Impacts On Earth

10. Clearwater Lakes

The Clearwater lakes are twin lakes that formed at the same exact time in Northern Canada. The asteroids that made them were huge, at 16 miles and 22 miles respectively. The lakes are named after their clear water; that, and the fact that there are 25 lakes in the area also called “Clearwater lake” really says something about Canadian creativity. No one’s sure how two large asteroids managed to hit the same area at the same time. One expert says it may be because asteroids have their own small moons, or it may be that it used to be one big asteroid and split in two in our atmosphere.

Incredible Finger Paintings by Judith Braun

As strange as it sounds, New York-based artist Judith Braun creates all these wonderful landscapes and abstract patterns using nothing but her fingers dipped in charcoal dust. Braun says that she often uses her both hands simultaneously to the extent of arms’ reach as this allows the inherent symmetry of the body to generate a gestural vocabulary of mark making.

“Abstraction keeps the images free to be anything, while the symmetry resolves that fluidity into something, like liquid energy crystallizing. The crystal metaphor is also reflected in the carbon medium of graphite that, under heat and pressure, becomes a diamond. Working within constraints prompts a proliferation of possibilities that self organize into groups and subgroups, from which I then choose some to render carefully by hand…with diamond dust.”

Website: judithannbraun.com

REAL differences between men and women

Baghdad in black and white - rare photos

Baghdad in black and white - rare photos


 

Amazing Realistic Galz Drawings

Slightly Mature (I will not grade them as "Adult") but beautifully sketched

This is not a photograph, as it may seem at first sight. It's actually - the drawings. This style is called - hyperrealism.

Amar Bharati – The Right Hand of Shiva

Sadhu Amar Bharati is an Indian holy man who claims he has kept his right hand raised in the air since 1973. Now, 38 years later, his hand is just a useless piece of skin and bone, but has become a symbol for Shiva worshipers around India.