Curious giant sculpture of a man resting.
Pencil drawings of celebrities
agosto 30th, 2010 | 34 views Meg Ryan, Sean Connery, Colin Farrell, Charlize Theron, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Morgan Freeman and more in pencil.
Strikingly similar
agosto 27th, 2010 | 979 views An interesting experiment, they took family photos of parents and children and simply stuck in one image. Look at what happened.
Kiss on the roof
agosto 27th, 2010 | 320 views Kiss on the roof. Weird pictures of people kissing the ceiling. Art? … therefore, I think so.
12 heroes of our time (amazing!)
agosto 26th, 2010 | 2.031 views Let’s look at the courageous people who deserve respect. Be sure to read the captions.
Ed Stafford
Achievement: He worked his way along the Amazon River from its source to its confluence with the ocean for 859 days.
While all the great expeditions have already taken place, a British traveler Ed Stafford undertook another. April 2, 2008, he began a journey along the Amazon River from its source to its confluence with the ocean. All the distance he walked and it was 6437 km. Over the way a researcher faced with hostile local zhitelemi, drug smugglers, disease, otsutviem food and a variety of dangerous animals and insects. Also, he found a companion, Jo Rivera, who joined him already on the way and went with him most of the distance. August 9, 2010, after 859 days, the journey finally ended when Stafford and Rivera have plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, ending one of the most dangerous journey of our days.
Belchite – ghost town in Spain
agosto 26th, 2010 | 888 views The city was destroyed during the civil war in Spain. So it stands since 1937, after his surrender.
Circum-Baikal railway
agosto 26th, 2010 | 32 views Circum-Baikal railway lies on the narrow coastal strip of Lake Baikal. To place the railway in rocks everywhere cut down shelves. Were placed at retaining walls to expand and strengthen the road. Cut a tunnel through the headlands and cliffs, constructed bridges and viaducts over rivers and bays of Lake Baikal.
Many rivers and streams because of their steep temper had put a stone troughs, pipes and trays. Strengthened even rocks. Judge for yourself. Builders have erected 41 tunnel. Of these, 40 survived. The total length of tunnels about nine and a half miles. It was built 15 stone galleries and 3 of reinforced concrete. Through rivers, streams, valleys, ravines, coves of Lake Baikal was airlifted about 470 large and small bridges and six viaducts. To protect the road was built about 270 different fortification: retaining walls, paving and others. It was built in 1918 of stone pipes and trays. By some estimates, for every 100 meters of road in the Circum-Baikal railway engineering account for a technical construction.
