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Educative Giant Crystal Cave in Naica, Mexico

Cave of the Crystals or Giant Crystal Cave is a cave connected to the Naica Mine 300 metres (980 ft) below the surface in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico. The main chamber contains giant selenite crystals (gypsum, CaSO4·2 H2O), some of the largest natural crystals ever found. The cave's largest crystal found to date is 12 m (39 ft) in length, 4 m (13 ft) in diameter and 55 tons in weight. The cave is extremely hot with air temperatures reaching up to 58 °C (136 °F) with 90 to 99 percent humidity. The cave is relatively unexplored due to these factors. Without proper protection people can only endure approximately ten minutes of exposure at a time.

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20 May 2014 07:56:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Kotakoti Barbie Doll

Everyone meet Dakota Rose, she’s a 16-year-old girl who goes by KotaKoti and looks a lot like a Barbie doll. Recently, photos of her have gone viral on several Asia and Arabic social sites because of her incredible resemblance to Barbie.

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26 Dec 2013 10:18:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Mazes

A young girl navigates her way around Hampton Court maze in the spring sunshine on May 2, 2009 in London, England. The Hampton Court maze is one of the most famous hedge mazes in the world and was planted between 1689 and 1695 by George London and Henry Wise. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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12 Jun 2011 09:31:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Simply: Cats

A little girl hangs three Siamese kittens on a washing line in a garden in Croydon, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 14th July 1931

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28 Jun 2011 11:31:00,post received 0 comments

Fact A Look at Life in Pakistan

In this Tuesday, December 20, 2016 photo, Mohammad Ramzan, right, reacts while talking to The Associated Press with his young bride Saima in Jampur, Pakistan. Saima was given as a bride to the older man by her father so he could marry the groom’s sister, a practice of exchanging girls that is entrenched in conservative regions of Pakistan. It even has its own name in Urdu: Watta Satta, “give and take”. A mix of interests – family obligations, desire for sons, a wish to hand off a girl to a husband – can lead to a young teen in an a marriage she never sought. (Photo by K.M. Chaudhry/AP Photo)

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31 Dec 2016 10:08:00,post received 0 comments

Fact The Week in Pictures: January 22 – January 30, 2015. Part 4/7

Members of the “Avalon” team wearing 14th century knight costumes fight against each other on the bank of the Yenisei River during the regional amateurs tournament of clubs of historical reconstruction, “The Battle of the Nations 2015. Siberia”, in Krasnoyarsk January 24, 2015. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

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31 Jan 2015 13:09:00,post received 0 comments

Fact PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West) protests in Belgium

Members of the Belgian branch of Germany's anti-Islam group, PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West), take part in a demonstration in Antwerp, March 2, 2015. Germany has experienced an upsurge of anti-Islam sentiment in the form of weekly PEGIDA protests in Dresden. REUTERS/Eric Vidal

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06 Mar 2015 09:56:00,post received 0 comments

Fact “Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem” Festivity in Portugal

Members of a music band rest before the procession of “Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem”, in Constancia April 6, 2015. (Photo by Rafael Marchante/Reuters)

Members of a music band rest before the procession of “Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem”, in Constancia April 6, 2015. This benediction has been held annually for about 200 years. In the past, goods were transported by the Tagus river in small boats to Lisbon, 100 km south. The sailors, as the navigation was dangerous, blessed their boats every year during the festivity of “Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem”. (Photo by Rafael Marchante/Reuters)

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07 Apr 2015 11:14:00,post received 0 comments