The 10,000 Bedroom Nazi Hotel That Was Never Used
Stretching for over three miles along the white sandy beach on Germany's Baltic Sea island of Ruegen, lies the world’s biggest hotel with 10,000 bedrooms all facing the sea. But for 70 years since it was built, no holiday maker has ever stayed there. This is hotel Prora, a massive building complex built between 1936 and 1939 by the Nazis as part of their "Strength through Joy" ("Kraft durch Freude," KdF) programme. The aim was to provide leisure activities for German workers and spread Nazi propaganda. Locals call Prora the Colossus because of its monumental structure.
Prora lies on an extensive bay between the Sassnitz and Binz regions, known as the Prorer Wiek, on the narrow heath (the Prora) which separates the lagoon of the Großer Jasmunder Bodden from the Baltic Sea. The complex consist of eight identical buildings that extend over a length of 4.5 kilometres and are roughly 150 metres from the beach. A workforce of 9,000 took three years to build it, starting in 1936, and the Nazis had long-term plans for four identical resorts, all with cinema, festival halls, swimming pools and a jetty where Strength Through Joy cruise ships would dock.
World's Only Immortal ANIMAL..
Turritopsis nutricula is the world’s only immortal animal. It’s a tiny jellyfish, 4-5 mm in length. When the jellyfish reaches sexual maturity, it transforms its old cells into new ones through the process called trans differentiation. By renewing the cells continuously, the jellyfish stays young forever. It dies only when it gets killed or eaten by other animals. As of today, this jellyfish is the only known immortal animal on Earth, capable of reversing the aging process.
Here is how it looks:HOW TO START A FIGHT
HOW TO START A FIGHT:The Unreasonable Mother-in-law
One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift...
The next year, I didn't buy her a gift.
When she asked me why, I replied,
"Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!"
And that's when the fight started...
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Religious Thought 136
Good people come to worship me for different reasons. Some come to the spiritual life because of suffering, some in order to understand life; some come through a desire to achieve life's purpose, and some come who are men and women of wisdom. Unwavering in devotion, always united with me, the man or woman of wisdom surpasses all the others. To them I am the dearest beloved, and they are very dear to me. All those who follow the spiritual path are blessed. But the wise who are always established in union, for whom there is no higher goal than me, may be regarded as my very Self.
- Bhagavad Gita 7:16-18
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The mind is something more radiant than anything else can be, but because counterfeits--passing defilements--come and obscure it, it loses its radiance, like the sun when obscured by clouds. Don't go thinking that the sun goes after the clouds. Instead, the clouds come drifting along and obscure the sun.
- Ajaan Mun, "Heart Released"
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Sign Board in Punjab
Warning 'Sign Board' on a Highway in PUNJAB:
"Kutta, Bhains ateh Sohni Janani, Tinno Accident di pakki Nishani"
"Kutta, Bhains ateh Sohni Janani, Tinno Accident di pakki Nishani"
JOKE OF THE DAY
A male patient is lying in bed in the hospital,
Wearing an oxygen mask over his Mouth and nose,
Still heavily sedated from a difficult four hour surgical procedure
A young student nurse appears to give him a
Partial sponge bath.
Nurse,' he mumbles, from behind the mask 'Are my
Testicles black?'
Embarrassed, the young nurse replies
'I don't know,Sir.
I'm only here to wash
Your upper body.'
He struggles to ask again,
'Nurse, are my
Testicles black?'
Concerned that he may elevate his vitals from worry about his testicles,
She overcomes her
Embarrassment and sheepishly
Pulls back the covers.
She raises his gown, holds his
Penis in one hand and his
Testicles in the other,
Lifting and moving them
Around and around gently.
Then, she takes a close look and says, 'No sir, they aren't and I assure you, there's nothing wrong
With them, Sir !!'
The man pulls off his oxygen mask,
Smiles at her and
Says very slowly,
'Thank you very much. That was
Wonderful, but listen
Very, very closely.....
Wearing an oxygen mask over his Mouth and nose,
Still heavily sedated from a difficult four hour surgical procedure
A young student nurse appears to give him a
Partial sponge bath.
Nurse,' he mumbles, from behind the mask 'Are my
Testicles black?'
Embarrassed, the young nurse replies
'I don't know,Sir.
I'm only here to wash
Your upper body.'
He struggles to ask again,
'Nurse, are my
Testicles black?'
Concerned that he may elevate his vitals from worry about his testicles,
She overcomes her
Embarrassment and sheepishly
Pulls back the covers.
She raises his gown, holds his
Penis in one hand and his
Testicles in the other,
Lifting and moving them
Around and around gently.
Then, she takes a close look and says, 'No sir, they aren't and I assure you, there's nothing wrong
With them, Sir !!'
The man pulls off his oxygen mask,
Smiles at her and
Says very slowly,
'Thank you very much. That was
Wonderful, but listen
Very, very closely.....
' A r e - m y - t e s t - r e s u l t s -b a c k ?'