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Educative Antelope Canyon: Arizona, USA

Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. It is located on Navajo land near Page, Arizona. Antelope Canyon includes two separate, photogenic slot canyon sections, referred to individually as Upper Antelope Canyon or The Crack; and Lower Antelope Canyon or The Corkscrew.

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28 Jul 2012 14:41:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Art by Christian Faur

Christian Faur is an artist based in Granville, Ohio. Looking for a new technique, he experimented with painting with wax, but he didn’t feel the results were satisfactory.Then, at Christmas in 2005, his young daughter opened a box of 120 Crayola crayons he’d bought her, and everything clicked into place. Faur decided he would create pictures out of the crayons themselves, packing thousands of them together so they become like the colored pixels on a TV screen. He starts each work by scanning a photo into a computer and breaking the image down into colored blocks He then draws a grid that shows him exactly where to place each crayon The finished artworks are packed tightly into wooden frames. He actually makes the crayons himself, hand-casting each one in a mould.

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28 Jul 2012 10:03:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Pictures of Recent Events [July 28, 2012]

Bob Steele, of Jefferson, Texas, positions his bears during The Great Bear Show at the Dubuque (Iowa) County Fair on July 25, 2012. (Photo by Jessica Reilly/Telegraph Herald)

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28 Jul 2012 08:43:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Snow Wall in Japan

The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route is an international mountain sightseeing route some 90 kilometers (56 miles) long. The route goes across the 3,000-meter-high North Alpine mountains, the so-called “roof of Japan,” and connects Toyama and Shinano Omachi. You can enjoy the panorama by taking a train, highland bus, trolley bus, cable car, and ropeway. Since the lines opened in June 1971, the Tateyama mountain area has been transformed from an isolated spot into one of the nation’s best sightseeing areas, where a million guests visit every year.

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27 Jul 2012 09:28:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Found on Flickr: Photos of Gillian aka GillyFace

“Valentine Shmalentine”, 2011. (Photo by GillyFace)

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27 Jul 2012 09:21:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Red Bull Flugtag Moscow 2011

A makeshift aircraft plummets into the Moskva River during the Red Bull Flugtag Moscow 2011 competition. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)

Spectators in Moscow were treated to the site of humorously designed makeshift aircraft plunging into the Muskova River during the Red Bull Flugtag Moscow 2011 competition. 38 teams took part at the Flugtag – which means “flying day” – a competition in which teams in fancy dress attempt to pilot human-powered, home-made flying machines off a six-meter-high platform into water.

Photo: A makeshift aircraft plummets into the Moskva River during the Red Bull Flugtag Moscow 2011 competition. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)

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27 Jul 2012 08:09:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Statue of Liberty in Paris (1877-1885)

When a French politician remarked that a monument should be raised in honour of American independence at a dinner party in 1865 he probably didn't imagine that the result would become an international icon of freedom. ...

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27 Jul 2012 04:07:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Moscow City Racing 2012

In Moscow, on 15 July 2012 - for the second time – the Ferrari Formula 1 participates in an event on the Red Suqare with thousands of spectators. The Scuderia Ferrari Community, in collaboration with Kaspersky Lab, will pick 10 premium users from the Community, who will participate in this extraordinary event. ...

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