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94046 1Tiger’s Nest Monastery (Bhutan) Taktshang is the most famous of monasteries in Bhutan. It hangs on a cliff at 3,120 metres (10,200 feet), some 700 meters (2,300 feet) above the bottom of Paro valley. Famous visitors include Ngawang Namgyal in the 17th century and Milarepa. The name means “Tiger’s nest”, the legend being that …
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1Princess Juliana International Airport (Saint Martin) Princess Juliana International Airport serves Saint Maarten, the Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin. It is the second busiest airport in the Eastern Caribbean.The airport is famous for its short landing strip — only 2,180 metres/7,152 ft, which is barely enough for heavy jets. Because of this, …
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 …