Faroe Islands


The Faroe Islands is a group of 18 islands in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of Scotland and halfway between Iceland and Norway. The Islands have a population of nearly 50,000 and a language and culture of their own. The Faroe Islands are undeniably beautiful: green, rugged and wind-swept. The countryside is dominated by steep mountains, vertical sea cliffs and picturesque valleys. During summer, the Faroe Islands turn extraordinarily green and this is usually the best time to visit.
There are over a hundred villages in the Faroe Islands. Nearly every single one of them is situated near the ocean, and to new visitors they may all seem to be very much alike. The houses are either painted in bright colours or the traditional black, whilst the roofs are often turf covered. The buildings are usually built very close to each other, which is very cosy. In most places sheep occupy the outfield throughout the whole year.
Although the history of the Faroe Islands dates back to the 6th century, towns didn’t start to appear until very late. For instance, the capital, Tórshavn, only counted about 100 inhabitants in 1900, whereas today the number has escalated into nearly 20,000. In the Faroe Islands the traditional village was to a certain extent self-sufficient. When the fishing industry took off in 1872, it was the beginning of the end for the traditional way of life in the small villages as fishing replaced farming and the growing population chose to settle in the fast growing towns instead.
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Nathan Walsh’s Oil Paintings of Urban Landscape


Nathan Walsh creates amazing photorealistic paintings of cityscapes. “I am fascinated by the city”, says Nathan Walsh. “It's visual complexity and constant state of flux. The act of painting is an attempt fix this information and give vision to our experience of living within it.”
“By using simple mathematical ratios I can begin to describe concrete form within my picture plane. Over a period of time I will draw and redraw buildings, manipulating their height, width or nature in relation to other pictorial elements. By introducing spatial recession to these elements I aim to present a world the viewer can enter into and move around. Some of the more recent works deal with layers of information, whether this be the description of reflective surfaces or the combination of inside and outside spaces.”
Nathan Walsh was born in Lincoln in 1972. He studied at the Liverpool School of Art before completing his Masters Degree at the University of Hull. He has exhibited at the Royal Academy, Lambeth Palace and Eton College. Recently he has had hugely successful shows in London, California and Zurich. His work can be found in public and private collections worldwide.
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20 World’s Most Visited Museums


Each year, millions of tourists take in beautiful art and artifacts at these top-ranked attractions in London, New York, Paris and Washington, DC. It’s no surprise that the Louvre has yet again claimed the title of the world’s most-visited museum—it’s only the home of the world’s most popular woman: Mona Lisa. This article lists the most visited art museums in the world. Several major art museums, such as the Palace Museum in Beijing, which annually draw close to 12 million visitors, the Vatican Museums of Rome, with 5,078,004 visitors in 2011, and the National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico City, with 1,767,092 visitors in 2011, were not included.

01. Musée du Louvre, Paris

Identify the Indian cities

Identify the Indian cities

How to Identify Cities in India?


Scenario 1

Two guys are fighting and a third guy comes along, then a fourth and they start arguing about who's right. You are in Kolkata

Scenario 2

Two guys are fighting and a third guy comes along, sees them and walks on. That's Mumbai

Scenario 3

Two guys are fighting and a third guy comes along & tries to make peace.The first two get together & beat him up. That's Delhi

Scenario 4

Two guys are fighting. A crowd gathers to watch. A guy comes along and quietly opens a chai-stall .That's Ahmedabad.

Scenario 5

Two guys are fighting and a third guy comes he writes a software program to stop the fight. But the fight doesn't stop b'cos of a bug in the program. That's Bangalore

Scenario 6

Two guys are fighting. A crowd gathers to watch. A guy comes along and quietly says that "ANNA" doesn't like all this nonsense. Peace comes in.That's Chennai.

Scenario 7

Two guys are fighting. Both of them take time out and call their friends on mobile. Now 50 guys are fighting. You are DEFINITELY IN PUNJAB

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10 Weird Animal Sex Habits


Animals have sex. And as diverse as the animal kingdom is, their sexual habits are bound to reflect just how different they truly are from one another. You have to imagine a furry mammal with opposable thumbs would reproduce by a means vastly different from an ungrippable cephalopod. And what one might call a “pleasure of the the flesh,” another might literally call a pain in the neck. Here are ten of the weirdest sexual behaviors–at least according to us humans anyway–that can be found right here in the animal kingdom.
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Man may truly have its closest common ancestor in this ape, as it thinks of nothing but sex. After all, everything it does is draped in a hyper-sexual overcoat: they use sex to greet each other, resolve conflict (i.e make-up sex), and as bargaining chips to trade for food. They engage sexually in many of the ways us humans do (e.g. mutual masturbation, oral sex, French kissing) and some we do not (sometimes they fence with their penises, like phallic swashbucklers). And as a result of this sexually-saturated kind of culture, they are an incredibly peaceful species, although they may enjoy the occasional cock spar.

Oldest Sisters in the World

A pair of centenarians have officially been crowned the oldest sisters in the world after notching up an astonishing 213 years between them.

20 Unusual Phobias That You Hardly Know...

A phobia is an irrational, intense and persistent fear of certain situations, activities, things, animals, or people. Phobia is also described as an unreasonable or abnormal fear. Well! Everyone is afraid of something. The most common phobias include falling, water, height, spiders, and the dark. Then what are some uncommon phobias? Here we bring you 20 such interesting yet uncommon phobias, take a look.

Hyper-realistic Sculptures by Marc Sijan

Milwaukee based artist Marc Sijan's Super realistic sculptures are "homages to humanity's fascination with its own forms - a fascination which has compelled artists throughout the millennia to mirror life in virtually every medium." Sijan's figures are incredibly lifelike, sensuous and graceful. In fact, they are so lifelike, they seem always on the verge of movement, a mere instant away from action. The pores in the skin, the tiny hairs, and veins; even the bald spots, the blemishes, the individual shapes of the faces that make human beings so similar, yet so unique: These are the essence of what makes Marc Sijan's work so arresting.

Seagulls Stealing Ice Cream in Britain's Seaside

Maurading seagulls that are blighting Britain's seaside resorts are starting to get picky about the kind of ice cream they are willing to steal. With their noisy calls and voracious appetite they are a distinctive feature of the British seaside.

Bookshelf Building

Creative parking garage of the Kansas City Public Library looks like a giant bookshelf filled with classic books.   The building was designed by Dimensional Innovations. Local residents selected the titles of the books that are displayed on the bookshelf.

Crescent Lake in Dunhuang China


Crescent lake also called Yueyaquan in Chinese is a beautiful crescent-shaped lake located 6 km south of the Dunhuang city in the arms of the Echoing-Sand Dune. The Crescent Lake's water is so pure and clear that it looks like an emerald jewel in the sand. Along the side of the Crescent Lake is a pagoda in traditional Han Chinese architecture. A street lined with souvenir stalls leads up from the entrance to the complex. Many tourists ride camels here, organized by the complex operators, to get to the summit of the sand dunes.
The lake has been in existence for at least two thousands, but for the last few decades it has been gradually disappearing. According to measurement made in 1960, the average depth of the lake was 4 to 5 meters, with maximum depth 7.5 meters. In the early 1990s, the area of the lake had shrunken to only 1.37-acre (5,500 m2) with average depth of 0.9 meter (maximum 1.3 meter). Crescent Lake has dropped more than 25 feet in the last three decades while the underground water table elsewhere in the area has fallen by as much as 35 feet.
In 2006, the local government with help of the central government started to fill the lake and restore its depth; its depth and size have been growing yearly since then.
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नाखूनों से खोदकर बनाई गई थी यह खूबसूरत झील

माउंट आबू राजस्थान के प्रमुख पर्यटनों में से एक है, और इसी माउंट आबू की शान में चार चांद लगाती है यहां की नक्की झील या नक्की लेक। यह झील राजस्थान की सबसे ऊंची झील है और इसे माउंट आबू का दिल कहा जाता है।

प्रकृति की सुन्दरता से सराबोर यह झील चारों ओर से पहाड़ों से घिरी हुई है। झील में स्थित टापू की सुन्दरता बढ़ाने और पर्यटकों को आकर्षित करने के उद्देश्य से इस पर फव्वारों की विशेष व्यवस्था की गई है।सर्दियों में इस झील का पानी अक्सर जम जाया करता है।राजस्थान और गुजरात की छाप लिए माउंट आबू का प्रमुख बाज़ार इसी झील के किनारे है।

कहा जाता है कि इस झील का निर्माण देवताओं ने अपने नाखूनों से खोदकर किया था, जिस कारण इसका नाम नख की झील पड़ा। समय परिवर्तन के साथ यही नख की झील ने आज नक्की झील का रूप ले लिया।पेश है इस अनोखी झील की कुछ आकर्षक तस्वीरें।
तस्वीरों में देखें, नाखूनों से खोदकर बनाई गई थी यह खूबसूरत झील!

Beautiful & Colourful Birds

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the Tallest Bridge in the World


The Millau Viaduct is a cable-stayed road-bridge that spans the valley of the river Tarn near Millau in southern France. Designed by the French structural engineer Michel Virlogeux and British architect Norman Foster, it is the tallest bridge in the world with one mast's summit at 343.0 meters above the base of the structure. It is also the 12th highest bridge in the world, with a 270 meters drop from the bridge road to the valley below. The 2460 meters long bridge is a stunning architectural and design feat. And it is beautiful to look at as well.
The bridge was opened in 2004 to close the "missing link" on the A75 autoroute that connects Paris in the north to Perpignan in the south; the Millau Viaduct was the result of 17 years of ideas, proposals, and design that resulted in shaving 37 miles off the former route through the region. But rather than choose a mundane design that simply did the job, the French went big.

Saddam Hussein’s Golden Weapons


Saddam Hussein is no longer in this world, but he left behind a lot of interesting secrets. A huge collection of weapons made ​​of pure gold and silver was found. There are grenade launchers, and pistols and assault rifles.
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Health benefits of spinach



 
 

1. PROTECTS AGAINST CANCER – 
Spinach contains a strong antioxidant called kaempferol, 
which helps prevent the formation of cancerous cells 
in the body.

2. BRAIN FOOD – 
These leafy greens will help slow the effects of ageing on the brain due to 
its folic acid conten, a B vitamin which also assists the body in maintaining 
a healthy heart.

3. NUTRIENT-DENSE – 
Low in calories and high in vitamins, just one cup of spinach contains 
more vitamin K and vitamin A than your daily requirement 
and nearly 40% of your magnesium requirement.

4. LOWERS BLOOD PRESSURE – 
Just a single portion of spinach will help lower high blood pressure 
within hours due to the mineral magnesium, which helps prevent 
cardiovascular disease.

5. ALLEVIATES FATIGUE – 
Spinach holds high levels of iron, which carries blood and oxygen 
throughout the body and is responsible for lessening fatigue 
and giving you that added energy boost.

Man who lost his legs crawling


Man who lost his legs as a child scales 

19,000ft-high Kilimanjaro by crawling on his 

HANDS for seven days


It's a feat most able-bodied people would struggle to achieve - 
scaling one of the highest peaks on the planet.
Spencer West managed it using just his hands.
The 31-year-old, from Toronto, Canada - who lost his legs when he was 
just five years old - reached the summit of the 19,341ft high Mt. Kilimanjaro 
on Monday after a slow, gruelling and awe-inspiring trek.
Spencer West, celebrates at the peak of Kilimanjaro on Monday, after scaling the tallest mountain in Africa on his hands
Spencer West, celebrates at the peak of Kilimanjaro on Monday, after scaling the tallest mountain in Africa on his hands

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