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One journalist even managed to fry an egg on the hotspot. The half-finished 37-storey tower in central London has been thus dubbed the Walkie Scorchie. As a precautionary measure, the City of London has agreed to suspend three parking bays in the area. We did do solar analysis and modelling but it wasnt picked up. A similar effect occurs atVdara Hotel at CityCenter in Las Vegas. Visitors to the swimming pool have had their hairs singed, and plastic drink cups and shopping bags melted....

Each plots consist of about 600 trees per acre. Use of chemical pesticides is limited, as integrated pest management processes are employed. Sawdust and the refuse from harvesting is chopped back into the soil, limiting the need for chemical fertilizers. The wood chips are used for paper manufacturing, while older, taller trees are harvested for lumber products. Any part of the trees that cant be made into boards is turned into pulp or hog fuel....

The statue is 40 meters tall and wrapped in 250 tons of gleaming stainless steel. The statue is symbolically pointed east towards his birthplace. The Chinggis Khan Statue is currently the biggest equestrian statue in the world. Sources:NYTimes,Wikipedia

The Rapa valley is the artery of Sarek. It is a splendid piece of unspoiled wilderness with dense thickets of mountain birch, osier and herbaceous plants. The flora is poor in most of the park, but the animal life in the valleys is rich. If you are lucky you might see bear, wolverine, lynx or one of the unusually large elks. The Rapaatno river has an enormous flow and carries green glacial water from about thirty glaciers....

The Zabbaleen are descendants of farmers who started migrating from Upper Egypt to Cairo in the 1940s. The local Coptic Church in Mokattam Village was established in 1975. In fact, the Cave Church of St. Simon in Mokattam is the largest church in the Middle East. Photo credit The garbage city.Photo credit Sources:Wikipedia,A.P.E.

People look forward to it for months, and in summer they spend weeks and weeks preparing for it. Huge floats are made of wire, cardboard and papier-mache and entirely covered in dahlias in intricate designs. Twenty gigantic flower sculptures took over the town on Sunday, mesmerizing thousands of spectators, young and old. From statuesque Esher-like floats, to playful designs about funfairs. This years winning float was titled Gekkengoud by Laer-Akkermolen, designed by Steven van Erck and Stefan van Steen....

When illustrator Mica Angela Hendricks pulled out a new sketchbook she had specially ordered, she was apprehensive. The reason of her worry was her 4-year-old daughter who was playing nearby. Mrs. Hendricks relented, and thus began a strange new collaboration between a professional artist and a kid. I LOVED what she drew. Flipping through my sketchbook, I found another doodle of a face I had not yet finished. She drew a body on it, too, and I was enthralled....

Once in the air, these fishes can glide over considerable distances. These fishes are known as four-winged flying fish. It then spreads its pectoral fins and tilts them slightly upward to provide lift. The curved profile of the “wing” is comparable to the aerodynamic shape of a bird wing. The fish is known to take advantage of updrafts created by air currents to increase its time of flight. Their pursuers include mackerel, tuna, swordfish, marlin, and other larger fish....

The museum is located in the Southern Lebanese city of Mlita, 50 kilometers north of the Palestinian-Lebanese border. Mleeta was one of the most important sites of the Lebanese resistance. Visitors can see bunkers and walk through a tunnel 200 meters long, used during the 2006 war. Sources:Wikipedia,Independent,

If eight people are crammed into one tent its only going to cost them a few quid each. At the end of the day its down to the individual. A huge clear-up operation began within hours of the annual Bank Holiday event closing on Monday. Some will be offered to local charities but damaged or unplaced equipment will be destined for landfill sites. The clean-up operation is expected to take 2 weeks....

Half of the worlds perched freshwater dune lakes occur on the island, producing a spectacular and varied landscape. The worlds largest unconfined aquifer on a sand island has also been found here. These dunes progress across the island often burying forests and other plant communities. These dunes will gradually stop moving when they reach areas protected from the winds. The island is part of the Fraser Coast Region and protected in the Great Sandy National Park....

This scarce source of water feeds the lakes and was also used by travellers in the old days. Photo credit Sources:Libyaherald,Temehu,

In fact, Spaghetti western films were once shot here, because the land was so dry and barren. These endless fields of greenhouses appeared at the beginning of the movie “Blade Runner 2049”. Temperatures can reach more than 45 degrees Celsius inside. Many farms have no toilets and women are often forced into prostitution. Some workers are also sold contracts to work, which have to be repaid to their bosses. A few small towns in the area have been completely swamped by the white plastic farms....