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Tashirojima - The Cat Island of Japan
The Cat Island , officially called Tashirojima , is a modest isle inwards Ishinomaki City , Miyagi Prefecture , Nippon , that is inhabited yesteryear to a greater extent than cats than people. The isle has function known equally "Cat Island" due to the large stray truthful cat population that thrives equally a resultant of the local belief that feeding cats volition select wealth as well as proficient fortune. The truthful cat population is instantly larger than the human population on the island.
Rocky Attractions of Norway
Norway’s rocky coastlines is habitation to 3 rattling spectacular stone formation that draws thousands of stone climbers as well as adventurous tourists public over each year. Apart from the thrill of climbing , these places offering a sentiment that words cannot describe.
The Great Banyan Tree
The Great Banyan Tree located inwards Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden , Howrah , nigh Kolkata , Bharat , is the widest tree inwards the public inwards price of the surface area of the canopy it covers. It is estimated to live nigh 200 to 250 years one-time as well as occupies an surface area of nigh fourteen ,500 foursquare meters (1.5 hectares).
Garden of the Fugitives: Fossilized Victims of the Vesuvius Eruption
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius inwards 79 AD is ane of the most catastrophic as well as famous eruptions of all time. The explosion of the eruption threw deadly cloud of stones , ash as well as fumes to a meridian of 20.5 miles , spewing molten stone as well as pulverized pumice at the charge per unit of measurement of 1.5 ane M one thousand tons per 2nd , ultimately releasing a hundred M times the thermal liberate energy released yesteryear the Hiroshima bombing. The urban nitty-gritty of Pompeii was obliterated yesteryear pyroclastic flows as well as an estimated sixteen ,000 citizens perished inwards the event.
Where Children Sleep
American journalist Chris Booth as well as lensman James Mollison toured the public as well as took photos of children's' bedrooms as well as compiled them into a volume Where Children Sleep. The differences betwixt the sleeping spaces of children from unlike regions is striking. "I promise this volume volition handle children scream upwardly nigh inequality , within as well as betwixt societies roughly the public ," says Mollison inwards his introduction , "and mayhap get-go to figure out how , inwards their ain lives , they may respond."
Goat Dragging Festival
Goat Dragging or Buzkashi is a pop Afghan sport played on horseback inwards fundamental Asian countries such equally Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan , Uzbekistan , Tajikistan , Kyrgyz Republic , northern Islamic Republic of Pakistan , Bharat as well as Kazakhstan. Buzkashi tin post away live compared to the game of Polo – in that location are 2 teams as well as players ride on horses , simply similar inwards Polo , but instead of the ball is used a carcass of a headless caprine animal or calf.
The goal of the game is to catch the carcass as well as and thus teach it clear of the other players as well as pitch it across a goal line of piece of occupation or into a target circle. Competition is typically tearing , equally other players may purpose whatsoever forcefulness brusque of tripping the Equus caballus inwards companionship to thwart scoring attempts. The riders volition bear a whip , oft inwards their teeth , to fend off opposing horses as well as riders.
Storseisundet–The Bridge to Nowhere
No , this is non a ramp to launch spaceships. It is a brace on ane of Norway's most scenic as well as pop tourist roads - the Atlantic Ocean Road (Atlanterhavsveien inwards Norwegian). The brace named Storseisundet makes a acute curvature equally it jumps over a publish of modest islands as well as waterways. The approach to the brace looks scary equally the brace seems to destination abruptly as well as equally if whatsoever endeavor to maintain would resultant into the vehicle flight out as well as dropping into the waters below.
Trees Cocooned inwards Spider Webs After Islamic Republic of Pakistan Flood
An unexpected side-effect of the flooding inwards parts of Islamic Republic of Pakistan concluding twelvemonth has been that millions of spiders were driven upwardly into the trees to escape the ascension inundation waters. Because of the scale of the flooding as well as the fact that the H2O has taken thus long to recede , spiders receive got built massive webs on trees turning them into ghostly cocoons. Such a phenomenon has never been seen before.
On the flip side , people inwards Sindh receive got reported fewer mosquitoes than they would receive got expected given the total of stagnant H2O inwards the area. It is idea the mosquitoes are getting caught inwards the spiders' webs , reducing their numbers as well as the associated run a hazard of malaria.
Eye Deceiving Wall Murals yesteryear John Pugh
California based creative someone John Pugh specializes inwards the fine art of inwards ‘trompe l’oeil’ , which way 'to deceive the eye’ inwards French. Pugh uses his skills to create huge 3D scenes on the side of buildings that fools the eye. Take for lawsuit the wall mural painted on a wall inwards Los Gatos , California. It looks equally if an earthquake had shaken away the walls of these buildings to let out Egyptian architecture hidden inside. And that adult woman peering into the ruins? She is non existent either.
Photographs of Television Screens the Moment They’re Turned Off
German lensman Stephan Tillmans took photos of one-time Cathode Ray Tube tv screens the minute they are switched off as well as produced a fantastic fine art projection called Luminant Point Arrays.
Unlike inwards moving-picture demonstrate theatres where the whole prototype is projected on a enshroud at ane time , a video prototype produced on tv is composed of apace scanning lines across a enshroud starting at the laissez passer on of the enshroud as well as moving to bottom. When the tv is switched off , the scanning lines decays as well as for a fraction of a 2nd , a bunch of gradually thinning scan lines appear on the screen. Stephan Tillmans has captured these lines.
