They call themselves the Maasai Cricket Warriors. Bauer was sent to Kenya’s Laikipia region to work on a research project about baboons. The boys took to it, and she agreed to come back and coach them twice a week. Their curiosity soon turned into a desire to have a go themselves. With their help, Bauer managed to secure additional kits for their training. By this time, the Massai warriors had started playing proper matches against teams from Tanzania and around....
A means of removing the water to get at these deeper deposits was needed. With the industrial age in full swing, the ready answer was the use of a coal-fired steam engine. Water, however, was abundant. Self-taught engineer Robert Casement was tasked with the solution. Casement built a system of channels that diverted water from hillside streams including the local river into a cistern.
A private pilot, Light owns a small, two-seat, high-wing aircraft specifically designed for aerial photographic work. But there are no houses. No lawns, no pools, no sidewalks. Once they get built, its hard to un-build them, says Light. From the air the sculpted earth reads like a strange code cut into the brown hills. The ferocious demand for housing over-sized, over-watered trophy housing resulted in major alterations to the landscape....
Two years ago, it was a tiny village of 400 people. Most refugees walked for 3-12 days to reach Yida camp. Many suffer from severe cases of diarrhea, malaria and malnutrition. Conditions inside the camp are grim. Incidences of domestic violence and sexual exploitation of girls and women are reportedly high. There is no formal schooling available to the estimated 7,000 primary school children in the camp. Food supplies are sufficient for survival but provide little nutritional benefits....
As a child, you may remember collecting flowers and sticking them between two pages of a thick book. A few days later they would be fragile and paper-thin, but would last an eternity. According to Arad, he is not destroying the cars, but immortalising them. Each car was put sideways in the press and then smashed mercilessly. The result was a 12-centimeter-thick metal sandwich. Arad says he used a “little makeup” on the squashed cars....
Slope Point is the most southern point of New Zealands South Island. The region is consistently lashed with fierce and cold southwesterly winds that blow up from Antarctica. The spectacularly steep cliffs drops down to the sea below. The views are truly amazing over the rocky coastline and surrounding cliffs.
To allow ships to pass underneath, this whole assembly rotates as a single, rigid structure. Visually elegant when static and in motion, the bridge offers a great spectacle during its operation. Small ships and boats up to 25 meters tall can pass underneath. Watch the video of the bridge in operation at the end of this picture gallery.
But Cueva de las Manos in Patagonia contains an exceptional assemblage of cave art. The entrance to the cave is screened by a rock wall covered by many hand stencils. Some scenes show individual hunters and others groups of ten or more men. The paintings belong to three distinct cultures. The first human group were long-distance hunters whose main prey was the guanaco. Around 7,000 BC a second cultural level can be identified, distinguished by hand stencils....
The six flak towers in Vienna, however, remained almost unchanged until today. The other three are unoccupied since the end of the war and their access remains restricted.
Each party was given one square meter of space to create their own scale models of utopia. A total of 4,000 hours were invested into the project. Due to a comprehensive provision with fast internet connections, rural regions have become attractive economic locations. Making Germany fit for a digital future: Germany is the number 1 country for digital growth in Europe. Schools are equipped with the most recent technology, and facilitate barrier-free learning....
Italian artistMarcello Barenghidraws incredibly realistically with the help of colored pencils and occasionally markers or watercolor. His subjects everyday objects such as soda cans, playing cards or crumpled banknotes. Each drawing takes the artist approximately 4 to 6 hours to complete. Marcello Barenghi was born in Milan in 1969. Finally, in 1985, the discovery of the airbrush allowed him to improve the texture of his illustrations. Marcello Barenghi currently lives and works in Milan....
Built between 1881 and 1893, the Corinth Canal is considered a great technical achievement for its time. Ships can only pass through the canal one at a time on a one-way system. Larger ships have to be towed by tugs. The canal is nowadays mostly used by tourist ships, with 11,000 ships using the canal every year. The bridge lowers the bridge deck 8 meters below water level to permit waterborne traffic to use the waterway....
The annual event has continued in the same fashion almost uninterrupted to the present day. The herds live on land managed by two different federal agencies with very different management strategies. Photo credit: Erin Kirkland Photo credit Photo credit: Associated Press Sources:Chincoteague.com,Wikipedia
