tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25117441614189178772024-02-21T23:53:18.593+07:00Raffasyanagudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335854574278616801noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511744161418917877.post-77347537318172421842011-09-20T20:50:00.000+07:002011-09-20T20:53:36.738+07:00Canton Tower : The Longest Spiral Staircase Design In The World<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk_Ja0tN5rdGeIWH-ZWWZByM8fdlZlXQEZZ-EhuYOTZ08TDxKygLC6r3EU4dY1nBCbbHw5Jh7bDhjRGlHVhB5NpWAT0mbxWD5SmBedY-GyIr8KRWu7EDygbgkUIAAGM6mY-QfVtdWFmUg/s1600/Canton+Tower++The+Longest+Spiral+Staircase+Design+In+The+World+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img style="width: 600px; height: 377px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk_Ja0tN5rdGeIWH-ZWWZByM8fdlZlXQEZZ-EhuYOTZ08TDxKygLC6r3EU4dY1nBCbbHw5Jh7bDhjRGlHVhB5NpWAT0mbxWD5SmBedY-GyIr8KRWu7EDygbgkUIAAGM6mY-QfVtdWFmUg/s640/Canton+Tower++The+Longest+Spiral+Staircase+Design+In+The+World+%25281%2529.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Canton Tower formerly known as Guangzhou TV And Sightseeing Tower. is an observation tower near Chigang Pagoda, Haizhu, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It was topped-out in 2009 and became operational on September 29, 2010 for the 2010 Asian Games. The tower is the tallest tower in the world, replaced the CN Tower at 553 m in Canada, which previous held the title for 34 years. Also the tallest structure in China (preceded by SWFC) and East Asia, the Canton Tower is the fifth tallest structure and the second freestanding structure in the world (after Burj Khalifa). 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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. Pelochelys cantorii</span> (Cantor's giant soft-shelled turtle)
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<br />The turtle is found primarily in inland, slow-moving fresh water rivers and streams. Cantor's giant soft-shelled turtles can grow up to 6 feet (about 2 meters) in length and weigh more than 100 pounds (about 50 kilograms).
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. Matamata Turtle</span>
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<br />The mata mata inhabits slow moving, blackwater streams, stagnant pools, marshes, and swamps ranging into northern Bolivia, eastern Peru, Ecuador, eastern Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern and central Brazil. The mata mata is strictly an aquatic species but it prefers standing in shallow water where its snout can reach the surface to breathe.
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. Patagonian Cavy</span> (Mara)
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<br />A large rodent that looks sort of like a rabbit, sort of like a donkey. The Patagonian Mara lives in Central and Southern Argentina. Maras inhabit arid grasslands and scrub desert
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. Saiga Antelope</span>
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<br />Saiga is classified as critically endangered by the IUCN. There is an estimated total number of 50,000 Saigas today, which live in Kalmykia, three areas of Kazakhstan and in two isolated areas of Mongolia
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">5. Star nosed mole</span>
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<br />The Star-nosed Mole lives in wet lowland areas and eats small invertebrates, aquatic insects, worms and mollusks. It is a good swimmer and can forage along the bottoms of streams and ponds. Like other moles, this animal digs shallow surface tunnels for foraging; often, these tunnels exit underwater.
<br />The incredibly sensitive nasal tentacles are covered with almost one hundred thousand minute touch receptors known as Eimer's organs
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">6. Elephant shrew</span>
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<br />They are widely distributed across the southern part of Africa, and although common nowhere, can be found in almost any type of habitat, from the Namib Desert to boulder-strewn outcrops in South Africa to thick forest.
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">7. Long-beaked echidna</span>
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<br />Echidnas are one of the two types of mammals that lay eggs (the other one is platypus). The long-beaked echidna is found in New Guinea, where it is widespread.
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">8. Pink Fairy Armadillo</span>
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<br />It is found in central Argentina where it inhabits dry grasslands and sandy plains with thorn bushes and cacti. It has the ability to bury itself completely in a matter of seconds if frightened.
<br />The Pink Fairy Armadillo burrows small holes near ant colonies in dry dirt. It feeds mainly on ants and ant larvae near its burrow.
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">9. Long-eared Jerboa</span>
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<br />"The Mickey Mouse of the desert" - mouse-like rodent with a long tail, long hind legs for jumping, and exceptionally large ears. The jerboa, found in the deserts of Mongolia and China, is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List
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<br /></span>nagudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335854574278616801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511744161418917877.post-57388694769775346912011-03-31T11:08:00.000+07:002011-03-31T11:16:03.414+07:00Top 10 Amazing Cities You Will Never Visit<p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">For thousands of years cities have been the manifestation of humankind’s artistry, imagination, and instinct to succeed. They embody our strong social desires and longing to create grand masterpieces. London, Constantinople, Paris, New York, Ancient Rome, and Tokyo have been just a few of the dazzling trophies mankind has built. But there have been many cases in which someone’s vision for a better, more efficient, or more fantastic city collapsed into a heap of broken dreams. These are ten cities that were never built, ten cities you will never visit. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span id="more-22671"></span><a target="_blank" name="item-10"></a></span> </p><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" class="itemheading"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="itemnumber">10</span></span> <div class="itemtitle"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Dongtan</span></div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="noBottomLine"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/1806203428_e02c997c79-tm.jpg?w=400&h=264" alt="1806203428 E02C997C79" vspace="4" width="400" border="1" height="264" hspace="4" /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Just a couple of months ago it was reported that China’s planned city of Dongtan would not become a reality. It was highly publicized and anticipated since it was to be the first mega eco-city of its kind.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Slated to be twice the size of Manhattan, the site was an island near Shanghai and was to change the way humans interacted with their environment. The exodus of individuals from the countryside to cities in China, therefore creating more environmental waste, spurred a movement for more environment-friendly projects, and Dongtan was by far the most ambitious one.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">The self-sustaining city would have produced its own energy from solar, wind, and bio-fuel power, and recycled city waste. Public transportation would have been powered by clean technologies such as hydrogen fuel cells, and a vast network of foot and bicycle paths would have substantially cut down on vehicle emissions. In addition, organic farming methods were to be used inside the city limits.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">It was to be a green model for the entire world, but, like most projects of this scale, resistance and problems arose. Many considered it a pipe dream which was never really plausible, while others claimed China’s rapidly developing cities would negate any benefits Dongtan presented. When Shanghai’s mayor (the project’s biggest supporter) was arrested for property-related fraud in 2006, the plan fell into further disarray with permits lapsing and enthusiasm waning. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Eventually, the global recession all but sank the undertaking and the innovative ideas planned will have to be put on hold. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a target="_blank" name="item-9"></a></span> </p><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" class="itemheading"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="itemnumber">9</span></span> <div class="itemtitle"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Triton City</span></div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="noBottomLine"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/fuller_triton-tm.jpg?w=400&h=299" alt="Fuller Triton" vspace="4" width="400" border="1" height="299" hspace="4" /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Buckminster Fuller was a brilliant visionary, scientist, environmentalist, and philosopher who, in the 1960s, developed a bold design. It was dubbed Triton City and was intended to be a floating utopia for up to 5,000 residents. His giant, floating city was designed to encourage people to share resources and conserve energy. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Fuller was initially commissioned by a wealthy Japanese patron to design a floating city for Tokyo Bay. He died in 1966, but astoundingly enough, the United States Department of Urban Development commissioned Fuller for further design and analysis. His designs called for the city to: be resistant to tsunamis, provide the most possible outside living, desalinate the very water that it would float in for consumption, give privacy to each residence, and incorporate a tetrahedronal shape which provides the most surface area with the least amount of volume. Everything from education to entertainment to recreation would be a part of the city. Fuller also claimed that the low operating costs would result in a high standard of living. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">HUD eventually sent the plans to the U.S. Navy where they were dissected and analyzed even further. The city of Baltimore, upon hearing of the project, became interested and petitioned to have Triton City moored off of its shores in Chesapeake Bay. However, as municipal and federal administrations changed, the project languished and was never brought to light. Today, there are derivatives of Triton City, such as the artificial island Kansai and its airport in Osaka, Japan, but they pale in comparison to the scope of Triton City.</span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a target="_blank" name="item-8"></a></span> </p><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" class="itemheading"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="itemnumber">8</span></span> <div class="itemtitle"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Broadacre City</span></div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="noBottomLine"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/98378257_591e30b88c_o-tm.jpg?w=400&h=311" alt="98378257 591E30B88C O" vspace="4" width="400" border="1" height="311" hspace="4" /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Originally designed by one of the most famous and respected architects in history, Frank Lloyd Wright, in 1932, Broadacre was meant to be a “New Town” utopia. It did not fit into its own category because it had many characteristics of a conventional city of the time as well as incorporating the principles of an agricultural nation which Thomas Jefferson championed. In essence, he wanted to abandon the crowded, machine-age, industrial city, but avoid a rural community.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Just like Jefferson believed every citizen should have their own “vine and fig tree”, Wright planned the city so that each denizen would grow their own food on their one acre plot of land. In what was a controversial characteristic, citizens of all social classes would intermingle much more than in any other city or town of the day. Wright also despised centralization so it was essential that the city be sprawling and widespread, which severely differentiated itself from a city. In Broadacre, homes, factories, offices, and municipal buildings would all be separated by large expanses of parks planted with lawns and trees. Cleanliness was paramount and there was to be only light industry and all utility wiring would be buried underground. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Opponents of Wright’s city were vociferous however. Because he believed that the automobile was “the advance agent of decentralization” he envisioned extremely little mass transportation which many city planners vehemently disagreed with. Wright’s vision never was realized, and the closest thing we have today are the sprawling suburban communities that blanket much of our planet. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a target="_blank" name="item-7"></a></span> </p><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" class="itemheading"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="itemnumber">7</span></span> <div class="itemtitle"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Disney Resorts</span></div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="noBottomLine"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/mythia-tm.jpg?w=400&h=213" alt="Mythia" vspace="4" width="400" border="1" height="213" hspace="4" /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">These are not cities by definition, but anyone who has been to a Disney resort knows that they are basically self-sufficient cities in their own right. Considering the amount of real estate the conglomerate already owns and operates it’s amazing how many other things they planned that never came to fruition. It’s also interesting to realize what we could have had from the world’s largest entertainment company since most of these would have been great places to visit:</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Mythia: A Greek and Roman myths and legends-inspired park planned to be built near Disneyland.<br />WestCOT: A West Coast EPCOT Center planned for California.<br />Disneyland East: A large park to be built on the site of the 1964 World’s Fair in Queens, NY.<br />Port Disney: An American version of Tokyo DisneySea planned for California.<br />Disney’s Asian, Venetian, Persian, and Mediterranean resorts to be built near Disney World.<br />Disney America: A patriotic theme park that was to be built in Virginia.<br />Discovery Bay: A land inspired by Jules Verne‘s various works. Some ideas were later incorporated into Disneyland Paris.<br />Beastly Kingdom: A mythical beings land planned near Animal Kingdom in Florida.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Dark Kingdom (Shadowlands): A park near Disney Word that would have showcased all of Disney’s villain characters and be the antithesis of the Magic Kingdom. Maleficent’s Castle would have been in the center of the park.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Sci-Fi City: Planned for Tokyo Disneyland, this would have been an immense park with an endless amount of science fiction rides and attractions. If built it would have been the most extensive and impressive “tomorrowland” ever created.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Disney’s Snow Crown: A Disney-themed ski resort situated at the Mineral King glacial valley in northern California which was ultimately prevented by preservationists.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">These are the biggest resorts and parks that were conceived by Disney but never built. There are hundreds more attractions, rides, restaurants, etc. whose ideas were put to paper but never became reality for a multitude of reasons.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a target="_blank" name="item-6"></a></span> </p><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" class="itemheading"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="itemnumber">6</span></span> <div class="itemtitle"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Slumless, Smokeless Cities</span></div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="noBottomLine"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/garden_city_concept_by_howard-tm.jpg?w=335&h=350" alt="Garden City Concept By Howard" vspace="4" width="335" border="1" height="350" hspace="4" /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Sir Ebenezer Howard was the father of the garden city movement, which is a suburban town near a large, metropolitan city that is designed to not be reliant upon its bigger neighbor. Garden cities were intended to provide a pleasant environment with open public land while at the same time contain industry and agriculture. He succeeded in spearheading the building of many garden cities, beginning in the United Kingdom, to mixed results. But his vision of the slumless, smokeless cities model has gone unbuilt.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">His design is very interesting, and if one is to peruse his self-drawn diagram, the aesthetics appear quite pleasing. A number of characteristics are notable. The entire design resembles a big wheel, with the Central City being the hub with six smaller, surrounding garden cities. Each city is surrounded by a circular canal, and one large circular canal, the Inter Municipal Canal, connects each of the six outer cities. Continuing with the canal theme, independent straight canals cut through all six cities and run directly into the Central City. Roads also ran along these straight waterways. Running inside the outer towns would be the Inter Municipal Railway. Inside the Railway, Howard planned for such things as farms, an insane asylum, reservoirs, an agricultural college, industrial homes, cemeteries, and a “home for waifs”. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">The overall design was to relieve the huddled crowdedness and dirtiness of big cities but still have the feeling of connectivity. Since it would have been such a daunting project, and there wasn’t quite enough support for Howard’s plan, these connected cities never materialized.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a target="_blank" name="item-5"></a></span> </p><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" class="itemheading"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="itemnumber">5</span></span> <div class="itemtitle"><span style="font-size: 100%;">California City</span></div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="noBottomLine"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/ccsign1a-tm.jpg?w=400&h=300" alt="Ccsign1A" vspace="4" width="400" border="1" height="300" hspace="4" /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">While this is a city that you can visit, you will never see its original plan fulfilled. Nat Mendelsohn was a developer who had a dream of developing a city that would rival Los Angeles in terms of grandeur. He ambitiously began building on a 320 square kilometer piece of land in the middle of California’s Mojave Desert complete with a huge park and artificial lake. If one were to look at a satellite picture of the city it may seem like Mendelsohn had at least come close to realizing his dream. However, if you are to look closer you would notice something conspicuously missing – houses. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Although hundreds of streets, complete with cul-de-sacs, crisscross in one continuous, gigantic grid, the network is just one, prodigious ghost town. But at least ghost towns have structures; these streets are lined with absolutely nothing, not even a telephone pole. It kind of looks like an intricate crop circle mysteriously made in the middle of the desert or threadbare hiking paths run amok twisting through the dirt and sand.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Mendelsohn had the same idea as many real estate developers of the time. He would buy a vast amount of land, divide it into thousands of home plots, then sell them to families who longed for a piece of property to call their own. The gamble did not pay off for him however, because 50 years later decaying streets still lie there empty. One reason is that dust storms are a common occurrence in the area, but he mainly overestimated demand.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">The city is not empty though. It has a population of roughly 14,000 people comprising a small town. The entire town, however, only takes up a small corner on the outskirts of the boundless, barren grid. Although it’s a town with services, it will never be a large city the likes of Los Angeles that Nat Mendelsohn conceptualized. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a target="_blank" name="item-4"></a></span> </p><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" class="itemheading"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="itemnumber">4</span></span> <div class="itemtitle"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Minnesota Experimental City</span></div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="noBottomLine"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/houston-dome-tm.jpg?w=400&h=240" alt="Houston-Dome" vspace="4" width="400" border="1" height="240" hspace="4" /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">The Minnesota Experimental City (MXC) was the brainchild of a private partnership between the University of Minnesota and the Federal Government in the 1960s and would be intentionally open to observation and evaluation by urban studies experts. Like its name suggests, the city would be a combination of experimental ideas never before tried on such a large scale.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">The city would accommodate about 250,000 people, and it would focus on open spaces such as parks, farms, and wilderness. Only one sixth of the area would be paved and the city would be partially covered by a geodesic dome (designed by Buckminster Fuller). This design is extraordinarily strong, is hurricane and tornado proof, and is widely used today. The city would be car-free, with cars parked at the edge and people-movers whisking people into the center of the city. A futuristic and highly advanced automated highway system, in which magnetic, driverless cars were used, would connect people to the outside world. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Perhaps the most drastic and controversial departure from conventional cities was that there would be no schools. Instead, the practice of lifelong learning would be practiced. Lifelong learning states that everyone is a teacher as well as a student and that education takes place through social interactions, observations, and joining groups and clubs among other things.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Budgetary problems as well as logistics quashed the city’s groundbreaking.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a target="_blank" name="item-3"></a></span> </p><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" class="itemheading"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="itemnumber">3</span></span> <div class="itemtitle"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Welthauptstadt</span></div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="noBottomLine"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/ger-welthauptstadt_germania-tm.jpg?w=400&h=232" alt="Ger-Welthauptstadt Germania" vspace="4" width="400" border="1" height="232" hspace="4" /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Welthauptstadt Germania (World Capital Germania) was to be the jewel of the Third Reich. Adolph Hitler, unmatched in his hubris, was convinced that Germany would become the center of Europe, and perhaps the world, and had begun to plan his capital city, which was a rebuilt Berlin, even before World War II began. His goal was to exceed the quality and splendor of other world capitals such as London, Paris, and Washington D.C. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Plans for this grandiose city included a stadium that could house 400,000 spectators, a Chancellery with a lavish hall twice as long as the one at the Palace of Versailles, the Triumphal Arch (based on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris but much, much larger), and a giant open square to be surrounded by large government buildings. The centerpiece of the new city would be the Volkshalle, or People’s Hall, which would include a humongous domed building designed by Hitler himself and chief architect Albert Speer. If this domed building was built it would still today be the largest enclosed space in the world, being sixteen times larger than the dome at St. Peter’s.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Even though the War began before construction could begin and put a halt to commencing building, all the necessary land was acquired and engineering plans were developed. Hitler’s plan was to win the war, finish construction on Welthauptstadt, hold an extravagant World’s Fair there in 1950, then retire. Needless to say, the crushing of the Nazi regime and Third Reich at the hands of Allied forces put an end to the future of the great city.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">One humorous aspect of the planning of Welthauptstadt is that the marshy-like ground of Berlin never could have supported the monstrous structures Hitler wanted as the showpieces of his city.</span></p><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a target="_blank" name="item-2"></a></span> </p><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" class="itemheading"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="itemnumber">2</span></span> <div class="itemtitle"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Seward’s Success</span></div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="noBottomLine"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/208682-bigthumbnail-tm.jpg?w=400&h=249" alt="208682-Bigthumbnail" vspace="4" width="400" border="1" height="249" hspace="4" /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">A planned city across the bay from Anchorage, Alaska, the name was a reversal on “Seward’s Folly” which was the name bestowed on the transaction that Secretary of State William Seward made when he purchased Alaska from Russia. It was to be a city unlike any in the world.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">First and foremost, it was to have a colossal, glass dome covering it which made it completely climate controlled. The city would have amenities for 400,000 citizens including a sports arena, mall, schools, and petroleum center. Transportation would be quite innovative and included moving sidewalks and an aerial cable car line that would shuttle people around the city and to nearby Anchorage. Skylights and large windows would give people the sense of openness but would not compromise the climate-controlling properties of the dome. Cars would be nonexistent inside because it was a city “for people, not cars”, and all energy used in the city would be provided mostly by natural gas. Later, plans called for a subway under the bay that would also lead to Anchorage.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Failure to make lease payments on the land, and the impracticality of it all, ensured that Seward’s Success would, in the end, not be such a success.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a target="_blank" name="item-1"></a></span> </p><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" class="itemheading"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="itemnumber">1</span></span> <div class="itemtitle"><span style="font-size: 100%;">BoozeTown</span></div> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="noBottomLine"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/boozetown-pst-scan-tm.jpg?w=232&h=350" alt="Boozetown-Pst-Scan" vspace="4" width="232" border="1" height="350" hspace="4" /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">No, this was not an insincere idea concocted by someone just to garner attention. Back in the 50s it was the dream of one man who doggedly fought to make it an actuality. It was to be a resort city completely centered around the culture of drinking, where alcohol would be embraced, loved, and revered.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Mel Johnson loved to drink. As a young man he traveled the world to see the great drinking cities: Dublin, New York, Havana, Rio, Barcelona, New Orleans, and Paris. But the drinking culture of these cities just wasn’t enough for him; he wanted something more. He was a very intelligent man who dropped out of Harvard University and served in the armed forces, but after World War II he had his epiphany and set out to create BoozeTown. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">His city would be comprised of dozens upon dozens of bars and nightclubs, all with different themes. He was meticulous in his planning and fleshed out every detail. Street names would allude to alcohol, such as Gin Lane, Bourbon Boulevard, and 21st Amendment Ave; there would be a moving sidewalk and an electric trolley system which would help escort staggering drunks home (or to another bar); much of the alcohol would be brewed or distilled inside the town which would produce revenue; every bar and liquor store would be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week; drinks would be allowed everywhere, even banks and places of worship; the city would have its own currency, BoozeBucks; there would be a police force, the Party Police, but instead of harassing drinkers they would be there to assist them; the BoozeTown Bugle would keep citizens abreast of the current news; and no children would be allowed inside. There would be a big daycare just outside city limits for visitors. Johnson figured that the permanent populace would consist of “retirees, artists, and goof-offs”, people who wouldn’t be responsible for children in the first place. He believed that famous artists, writers, and actors would in time flock to the city to live. In the middle of the city would be a towering building shaped like a martini glass in which Johnson would have his home and headquarters.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">He scouted out areas for BoozeTown, such as somewhere in Middle America, northern Nevada, and an island off of the western coast of Mexico. Johnson had money from the death of his wealthy father but he needed much more capital and held numerous, lavish fundraisers in order to raise it. He printed up a plethora of trinkets such as maps, postcards, and matchbooks with BoozeTown’s logo on them to help persuade investors. At times, he believed he had enough money and set various opening dates for his city. However, very few people were actually serious about ponying up the money Johnson needed. This, added to the fact that he was acting increasingly more erratic and eccentric, and that the press was vilifying him, basically ended his dream of BoozeTown. In 1960 he gave up on the dream and was later committed to a hospital and diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He died just a few years later.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">You can almost picture yourself driving down an open stretch of road in the middle of nowhere then, suddenly, seeing a titanic martini glass pop up on the horizon beckoning you to come experience BoozeTown, “Where It’s Always Happy Hour”.</span></p><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/TheListUniverse/%7E3/wDpMITqdU4U/"><span style="font-size: 78%;">source</span></a></span>nagudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335854574278616801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511744161418917877.post-58582906687466104532011-03-29T19:25:00.000+07:002011-03-29T19:39:45.519+07:008 Real Photographs That Prove Hell Exists on Earth<p>A wise and sagely woman once posited that heaven is a place on a Earth. And if that’s true, then hell is just two exits down on the left. Oh, it exists, do not doubt it. It’s real, it’s right here and I have the goddamn pictures to prove it. Literally. These are images damned by God.</p> <h2>His Coming Shall Be Foretold</h2> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://crazybee.net/pictures/hell_1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-291" title="hell_1" src="http://crazybee.net/pictures/hell_1-500x338.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="338" /></a></p> <p>“Welp, looks like we’ve angered the Hellephant again. Water? Ha ha ha! What the fuck, Steve?! Is this your first day? No. Bill, you break out the iron cruciforms. Gus, start stabbing the hoses into virgins. Carl, I’m so sorry — you’re on Batchild patrol.”</p> <p>This is actually an undoctored picture of a fire at a chemical factory in the Netherlands. It took 150 firefighters to put out the flames, and while the plant burned completely to the ground, no injuries were recorded despite the toxic fumes. Though surrounding citizens were warned to stay inside to avoid possible respiratory infections and rampaging Balrogs.<br /><span id="more-290"></span></p> <h2>His Shadow Shall Block the Sky</h2> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://crazybee.net/pictures/hell_2.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-292" title="hell_2" src="http://crazybee.net/pictures/hell_2-500x323.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="323" /></a></p> <p>This is what happens immediately after you finish signing that contract with Satan, and all you’re left with is a mysteriously echoing laugh. This is the Fourth Sign of the Coming, right before the ground starts bleeding but just after all cats disappear from the Earth. This is how you know God is displeased with your selection of Pope.</p> <p>OK, so it’s actually a picture of a volcanic eruption at Fimmvorduhals in Iceland. But if you don’t think “flames overflowing the Earth, resulting in a dark red cloud blocking out the moon itself” is some sort of portent of the endtimes — then thanks for reading, Azazel of the Thousand Mouths! I appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedule of raping betrayers to read my stuff. While you’re here, maybe you can click that Facebook share button; I bet Despair and Calthogh the Worm would get a kick out of this shit.</p> <h2>The Earth Shall Bleed</h2> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://crazybee.net/pictures/hell_3.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-293" title="hell_3" src="http://crazybee.net/pictures/hell_3-500x293.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="293" /></a></p> <p>What, you thought I was kidding about the Dark Eclipse coming right before the Earth starts bleeding? What kind of horrible jackass would joke about something like that?</p> <p>This is a picture of, no shit, a place called Blood Falls in Antarctica. Here’s the actual explanation: “2 million years ago the Taylor Glacier sealed off a small body of water that contained a community of microbes. This small pool of wild animals has not seen oxygen, sunlight or heat since that time. As the earth warmed and the glaciers in Antarctica melted away, these organisms have been independently evolving for eons without any outside contact. Until now, when they’ve suddenly sprung forth from the glacier. The frothy water is rich in iron, which gives it the striking red color. These strangely alien microbes may exist nowhere else on earth, and they give scientists an idea of what kind of life may survive after the earth becomes uninhabitable by almost all other life forms.”</p> <p>So, there’s a place called Blood Falls, located on the frozen, cruel and empty continent of Antarctica, that contains strange life forms which have been sealed away for untold ages, and have now awoken and spilled forth onto the world. Oh yeah, and they’ll probably be the last things alive on the planet.</p> <h2>His Servants Are Among Us</h2> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://crazybee.net/pictures/hell_4.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-294" title="hell_4" src="http://crazybee.net/pictures/hell_4.jpg" alt="" width="434" height="400" /></a></p> <p>Let’s be fair: This is just a portrait of an unfortunate woman. Unfortunate because she’s lived just a bit too long and has grown to resemble some horror-trope crone. Unfortunate because she’s clearly suffering from some bizarre health issues. Unfortunate because she does not have access to care to correct these issues. And perhaps most unfortunate of all, because she has given her body over to demons who now walk the Earth in human skin, only distinguishable by their black eyes and the goddamn horns growing out of their heads.</p> <p>This is most likely a common skin condition called a cutaneous horn, which is basically just compacted keratin — the same protein in hair and nails — protruding from the epidermis. If this is indeed a cutaneous horn, they’re often benign and can usually be removed surgically. Though that does not treat the underlying cause, which is either excessive sun exposure to already damaged skin, or the devil coming to live inside the empty shells left behind by suicides.</p> <h2>Beware His Little Messengers</h2> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://crazybee.net/pictures/hell_5.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-295" title="hell_5" src="http://crazybee.net/pictures/hell_5.jpg" alt="" width="405" height="450" /></a></p> <p>If doves are the messengers of the Lord, then the Satanic Leaf Tailed Gecko is probably Old Scratch’s preferred postal carrier. Though you should know that these guys are utterly harmless. They’re tiny — usually two to five inches long — and are endemic to the little island of Madagascar. So you’re not likely to stumble across one in the first place, and it certainly won’t hurt you if you do.</p> <p>It won’t hurt you at all. It needs you.</p> <p>It might ask you to hurt others, though. Oh, softly enough at first, in half-heard whispers borne on the wind, but they will grow louder, more frequent and more insistent — until one day you wake up to find yourself in a bathtub filled with liquid that used to be your family. And what will the Satanic Leaf Tailed Gecko do? Why, just take a gander at that picture again: It will smile, friends. It will smile.</p> <h2>On a Fiery Steed He Rides</h2> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://crazybee.net/pictures/hell_6.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-296" title="hell_6" src="http://crazybee.net/pictures/hell_6-500x317.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="317" /></a></p> <p>This is either a picture of the exact moment that Satan busted out his hot rod and started tearing ass into the apocalypse, or else poor Marty’s stuck right at 87 MPH again. This photo was taken at Serra da Leba, a landmark road in Angola, and while it hasn’t been digitally altered, it is a long exposure taken over 60 seconds. You could cry foul that a manipulated image shouldn’t make the list, hypothetical reader, or you could choose to contemplate the implications of that fact instead. Perhaps evil moves at a different speed than man; perhaps it is a slow and creeping thing. And maybe, if you weren’t so rash, so impulsive — if you could just stop and consider it for one little minute — maybe you could finally trace back its fiery path.</p> <p>Or hey, maybe it just looks bitchin’ and I’m trying to show you a neat picture. Either way — shut up, hypothetical reader. God, you are being such an ass right now!</p> <h2>In His Unholy House</h2> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://crazybee.net/pictures/hell_7.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-297" title="hell_7" src="http://crazybee.net/pictures/hell_7-500x333.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" /></a></p> <p>The entrance to hell is a labyrinth. A vast, snaking maze of caverns bathed in fire, where the lost and the damned wander, uncertain and afraid, for untold eons. The fires burn so hot and for so long in those twisted, screaming caves that the rock itself melts and drips down like water. The burning liquid passes through skin like air; it fuses to bone.</p>nagudihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05335854574278616801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2511744161418917877.post-1967435499206737472011-03-29T09:07:00.002+07:002011-03-29T09:11:58.433+07:00Most Expensive Dessert Cake In The World | Birthday And Wedding Cakes<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnrUxS8sgSzD0St1CL_7f8Gh6vLgZ74uRxTGFFRsen00vRKzq5wpaahvH157vWhZ7NF_tKuy29DqDATplSY4-WU3645BtYdNRT5NA9S4kS1rWbt7LNbhriMp1fm6VrvrpJVaiwr3TxNH8/s1600/Most+Expensive+Dessert+Cake+In+The+World++Birthday+And+Wedding+Cakes+%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img style="width: 600px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnrUxS8sgSzD0St1CL_7f8Gh6vLgZ74uRxTGFFRsen00vRKzq5wpaahvH157vWhZ7NF_tKuy29DqDATplSY4-WU3645BtYdNRT5NA9S4kS1rWbt7LNbhriMp1fm6VrvrpJVaiwr3TxNH8/s640/Most+Expensive+Dessert+Cake+In+The+World++Birthday+And+Wedding+Cakes+%25281%2529.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Most Expensive Dessert Cake In The World | Birthday And Wedding Cakes<br /><br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Chinese cake decorating designs ideas in Philippines sure know how to ring in their new year in traditional values and a dash of luxury. 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