According totheir website, the owners of Pinnacle Peak Steakhouse has cut over a million ties from unsuspecting customers. To boost sales of his small business, the owner began serving dinner on the weekends. Photo credit More Restaurants Like This:
But the stadiums history goes far beyond the 19th century. Indeed, it is one of the oldest stadiums in the world. These games started in 566 BC and continued into the 3rd century CE. A vaulted passage under the east retaining wall terminated at the back of the stadium. A triple-arched marble bridge spanning the the Ilissos River provided access to the stadium from the city. The Athenians were justly proud of the Panathenaic Stadium, which was unrivalled in the world....
This figure appears to vary by region, race and ethnicity. Certain ethnic groups produce more twins than usual. While researchers agree that identical twins happen by sheer chance, having fraternal twins is hereditary. In fact, race and ethnicity seems to play a major role in twinning. As many as45 to 50 sets of twinsare born here per 1000 live births. In other words, nearly 10% of the population are twins....
The Badain Jaran Desert occupies parts of China and Inner Mongolia covering an area of 49,000 sq. kilometers making it the third largest desert in China. Some of these dunes have been measured to reach heights of more than 500 meters. Badain Jaran has an extremely arid climate with an annual precipitation between 50-60mm. Nearly 40-80 times of the precipitation gets evaporated away before it falls as rainfall. Its these lakes that give the desert its name which in Mongolian means “mysterious lakes”....
Kuthodaw Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa, located at the foot of Mandalay Hill in Mandalay, Burma. These 730 slabs of marble are figuratively called the world’s largest book. Some of the 729 stupas at Kuthodaw Temple. The last stone tablet records how it all came into being, taking the count to 730. These are arranged in neat rows within three enclosures surrounding the pagoda. The last tablet stands at the southeast corner of the first enclosure....
Marsh began his project by takingSouth African copper mines as his subject. Later he started photographing gold mines and recently diamond mines, all located in his home country. Then using a rendering engine and some quick adjustments for scale, Marsh inserted each orb into the landscape. For diamond mines, Marsh shaped the extracted diamonds into a single massive jewel. East Rand Goldfield Established in 1887, the East Rand is the second oldest of the Witwatersrand Goldfields....
The most notable among these are Wadi Hadhramaut and Wadi Dawan, in eastern and central Yemen. The undefined northern edge of Hadhramaut slopes down to the vast drydesert of Rub al Khali. The upper portions of Wadi Hadramaut contain alluvial soil and floodwaters while lower portion is barren and largely uninhabited. Haid Al-Jazil, a village perched entirely on a boulder. Many of them hang above the rocks. The houses are build of mud bricks with wooden floors and rises several stories tall....
The site was named after the Army Air Defense Commands third commanding general, Lt. Gen. Stanley R. Mickelsen. The Safeguard complex became operational on October 1, 1975. Twenty-four hours later, Congress decided to shut the program down, deeming it militarily ineffective. Five months later, the Army began pulling the complex down. The time from detection to launch of the system was just six seconds. Construction of the Mickelsen complex began in 1970....
Ireland is mostly a rocky island composed of Carboniferous limestone formed about 370 million years ago. At that time, Ireland was part of a shallow sea between two land masses near the equator. These rocks extracted from the earth became the most commonly used building material for the Irish population. Particularly ubiquitous are the stone walls that criss-cross the country. The stones for these walls are usually unearthed from the field itself....
Photographing the bridge at high tide is hence a favorite activity among tourists and beach goers. The beach stretches from Belhaven to the north of the River Tyne. Photo credit Sources:VisitScotland/Photos of Edinburg/Wikipedia More Bridges That Serve No Purposes
Its a popular hiking and climbing destination in the Jura Mountains in western Switzerland. The word “Van” is also of Celtic origins, and refers to a rocky valley. At the bottom of the depression, the subsoil below the debris normally remains frozen during the whole year. Over this grows a forest of arctic-alpine flora. Sources:Wikipedia/Myswitzerland.com/Architectural Papers/Jura Mountain Rambling
Looking around, you might imagine that branches, leaves and flowers grow at random, haphazardly. The Fibonacci sequence is so simple its almost baffling. The same principle is at work in the formation of pine cones, sunflowers, pineapples, and cacti. The Golden Ratio, which you might have heard before, is just another manifestation of the Fibonacci sequence. All plants are geometrical one way or the other. However, there are plants whose geometry is more pronounced than others....
The precious salt is, hence, extracted from clay. Photo credit: George Steinmetz The region has about 20 springs whose water is itself quite briny. However, its the clay from where salt is extracted. A man then stomps the mixture with his feet to create a thick slurry. The briny mix is then left to settle for several hours. Algae grows in some of the ponds and also colors the water....
