1Ubari Oasis (Libya) Ubari is an oasis city in South-Western Libya, in the Targa valley. It lies between the Messak Sattafat plateau and Idhan Ubari sand dunes and lakes.The oasis is the second centre after Ghat for Kel Ajjer Tuareg. Neighbouring villages include Germa, and In Garran.The water is salted like the dead sea, but …
Note from reader MR: the Puma ad is from poland, dated around 2004-2006 so its not vintage. nice to see it here tho.
1AquaDom: world’s largest cylindrical aquarium Placed at the lobby of the Radisson SAS Hotel in Berlin, the 25 meters high AquaDom is the largest cylindrical aquarium ever built. Filled with about 900,000 liters of seawater, it contains some 2600 fish of 56 species. Combined with a vast amount of sandblasted glass, the giant AquaDom gives …
1Gay bombs:Strong aphrodisiacs to cause “homosexual behavior” “Gay bomb” is an informal name for a theoretical non-lethal chemical weapon, which a United States Air Force research laboratory speculated about producing. In 1994 the Wright Laboratory in Ohio produced a three-page proposal of a variety of possible nonlethal chemical weapons, which was later obtained—complete with marginal …
1GUNKANJIMA (Japan): the Ghost (and forbidden) Island Gunkanjima is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. The island’s most notable features are the abandoned concrete buildings and the sea wall surrounding it.It is known …
The famous “SOTP” sign (in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) In Cape Town, South Africa Makerere, Uganda Come again?! A power line pole in the middle of the road (BuruBuru, Nairobi, Kenya) How to paint a pool (in Lusaka, Zambia) In Lagos, Nigeria.
In front of the Ernst & Young building (Los Angeles) Optimus Prime (Southern China) The “Magic tap” (found in “Aqualand” of Cadiz, Spain), which appears to float in the sky with an endless supply of water. Actually, there is a pipe hidden in the stream of water that holds the whole structure. A Mona Lisa …
Lost Cities were real, prosperous, well-populated areas of human habitation that fell into terminal decline and whose location was later lost. Most lost cities are found, and have been studied extensively by scientists. From the lost city of Pompeii to the Machu Pichu, meet the ten most fascinating lost cities in history. 1MACHU PICCHU (Peru): …
As seen in our first article, badly placed ads can have unexpected results.Since then, many of our readers have been sending us some more (thank you!). So here are the best 15 of them! Nice NIPPLE ! The article on this german newspaper deals with the suffering of the gypsies inthe nazi concentration camps like …
By 2010 –the year Dubai’s known oil reserves will most likely be tapped out–, prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum is expecting to attract 15 million tourists. Here’s how. 1Burj Dubai: world’s tallest building The Burj Dubai will be the world’s tallest building when it opens in 2009. The building is part of a …