Friday, November 12, 2010

Great Sand Sculptor


By piling, digging, carving and hollowing out this common element, turning it into mythical scenes and fairytale figures, sand sculptors have turned the art of carving in sand into a new trend in many big cities.
Known as a modern art for only 20 years, sand sculpting is a popular and recreational art capable of drawing widespread attention from the public. Sand sculptures can create new tourist programmes wherever they go, bringing in considerable commercial profits. From this point of view, the art is the result of the perfect combination of modern art and modern commerce and is closely linked with tourism. For the last 20 years, this symbiosis has greatly promoted the development of sand sculptures around the world.

Sand sculptures can now be found in more than 100 countries and regions, especially in popular coastal cities. Sand sculptures have become one of the most popular itineraries during sea visits. Meanwhile, the art has also spread to the inland cities.
Over the past few years, the art has aroused widespread interest in Asia -- with Japan, Singapore and China as hosts to various sand sculpture contests. With the launch of the International Colored Sand Sculpture Festival in Yunnan Province , China, the art is also becoming richer in content.

Instant-Disintegrating Art
Sand and seawater are the basic materials for sand sculptures, which are molded into various patterns by digging, carving and hollowing out sand. Sand sculptures contain no chemical adhesives. Once a piece of the sculpture is completed, a special glue-water solution is sprayed over the surface to set the sculpture. Normally, the sculpture can be preserved for several months. Since it is not easy to preserve sand sculptures, which disintegrate over a period of time, the art form is also known as "instant-disintegrating art".


Sand sculpting is also a kind of land art that blends with nature and without emitting any pollutants. Sand sculptures, unlike most traditional sculptures, are admired for their large scale.
Sand sculpting is also a marginal art -- an amalgamation of the elements of sculpting, painting, construction and outdoor recreation. Requiring no professional training, the art can be taken up by anyone. Sand sculpting is known as a fashionable, healthy and exciting program for leisure and entertainment purposes.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

SpeedCrunch and RedCrab, Two Alternative Calculators Feature Rich

 calculator-green Operating system such as Windows and Linux usually bundled with Calculator (Calculator), and seem to be required software. It’s a standard calculator. But if we want to get more complex features of these calculators, It’s not available. Alternatively, we can use  SpeedCrunch or RedCrab Scientific Calculator with many features and mathematical expressions.

Both programs are freeware so that we can use it for free. In addition, SpeedCrunch is open source and can be run either on Windows, Linux, Mac. Here's more complete review.

SpeedCrunch Calculator

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SpeedCrunch is a free open source so that we use. Besides easy to use, this program has many features that are not owned Calculator program default operating system. Its main features include:


Unlimited Variables.

We can use variables to store data, such as x = 0.75 that can later be used in the calculation such as y = 3 * x

Syntax highlighting.

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SpeedCrunch displaying mathematical expressions in a different color, making it easier when I have to write complex mathematical expressions

Function with Automatic Completion.

In addition to standard operations (+, -, *, /, ^, **), other functions can be obtained with Auto completion feature (press Ctrl + F to display the functions available)

Accuracy to 50 decimal
display mathematical expressions that have been written before (history)
Smart Correction, automatically justify some typing error or expression
Keyboard Friendly, easy to run with a keyboard shortcut

This program can be run on the Windows operating system, Mac OS X, Linux (Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo Linux, Fedora, OpenSUSE and others). On Windows systems  Portable version also available, so that we can immediately run without having to install. To try it, please download in the download page correspond to your operating system

SpeedCrunch (Size 2.4 MB for Windows, for Linux, Mac OS 1.6 MB and 6.6 MB)

RedCrab Calculator

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In accordance with the motto as a Scientific calculator, RedCrab provides a formula editor with a wide view, so that we can enter a formula or mathematical expression that can not be inserted easily in the regular editor. The calculation result is also shown in the same view, so much easier.

The advantage Calculator compared with the  ordinary calculator is the ability to insert symbols of various mathematical expressions, so that will clarify and more convenient. Be sure to read the manual (included in the download) to be able to use this Calculator.

The program is only for Windows operating system, and at least a Pentium 4 with 512MB RAM. Also windows Courier New Font and Symbol must be installed (In Windows system, it is already included).

  • Calculation range: 1.7e 308 to 5e-324
  • Accuracy: 18 digits
  • Display: 15 digits

To try it, directly download  redcrab.zip  (1.3 MB)

Photos of Mount Merapi Eruption

Since its initial eruptions on October 25th, Indonesia's Mount Merapi continues to spew hot gases and ash as far as 5,000 meters into the atmosphere, wreaking havoc on surrounding villages and farms, and disrupting air travel - and more than 140 people have been killed by the eruptions over the past two weeks. Hundreds of thousands of residents have been displaced, many of them living in temporary shelters until the Indonesian government reduces the existing 20 km "safe zone", and allows them and their livestock to return. Collected here are recent images from the area near the unpredictable Mount Merapi as it still rumbles and erupts. (39 photos total)

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A farmer stands in a rice field as volcanic material from Mount Merapi erupts, in Klaten, Central Java on November 4, 2010 near Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Over 70,000 people have now been evacuated with the danger zone being extended to over 15km as the volcano continues to spew ash and volcanic material. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)

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2. Mount Merapi volcano spews smoke as seen from Deles village in Klaten, near the ancient city of Yogyakarta, November 1, 2010. (REUTERS/Dwi Oblo) #

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3. Houses are in flames as volunteers rescue burned victims of an eruption of Mount Merapi in Argomulyo village early on November 5, 2010. (SUSANTO/AFP/Getty Images) #

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4. Volunteers rescue burned victims of Mount Merapi eruption in Argomulyo village, devastated by deadly hot clouds of volcanic ash early on November 5, 2010. (SUSANTO/AFP/Getty Images) #

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5. Lightning strikes as Mount Merapi erupts, as seen from Ketep village in Magelang, Indonesia's Central Java province November 6, 2010. (REUTERS/Beawiharta) #

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6. Dead trees and ash cover a damaged house with the erupting Mount Merapi in the background in Sleman, Yogyakarta province, central Java, on November 6, 2010. (BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images) #

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7. A pair of shoes sit covered in volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Merapi in the abandoned village of Kaliadem, Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Nov. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Trisnadi) #

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8.  Survivor Sri Sucirathaasri, 18, stands beside her injured sister Prisca in a hospital in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Nov. 5, 2010. The hospital at the foot of Indonesia's most volatile volcano is struggling to cope with victims brought in after the mountain's most powerful eruption in a century. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) #

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9. Villagers gather at the grave of the victims of Mount Merapi eruption for a mass burial at Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) #

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10. A villager takes a stroll at Ketep village in Magelang, Indonesia's Central Java province, November 6, 2010, as Mount Merapi volcano erupts spewing out towering clouds of hot gas and debris in the background. (REUTERS/Beawiharta) #

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11. Dead trees and mud clog a river as clouds of hot ash spew from the erupting Mount Merapi in Sleman, central Java, on November 6, 2010. (BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images) #

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12. Volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Merapi covers a village in Muntilan, Central Java, Indonesia, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Trisnadi) #

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13. A search and rescue team looks for victims at Wukirsari village in Sleman district in the Indonesian Central Java province November 7, 2010. (REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas) #

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14. A kitchen is covered by ash in Cangkringan village off the Indonesia's Central Java province, November 6, 2010. (REUTERS/Dwi Oblo) #

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15. A pet bird, killed during the eruption of Mount Merapi, lies in its cage in the abandoned village of Kaliadem, Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Nov. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Trisnadi) #

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16. A melted radio-cassette tape recorder sits covered with volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Merapi in the abandoned village of Kaliadem, Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Nov. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Trisnadi) #

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17. Bodies of victims of an eruption of Mount Merapi rest amongst ashes and debris in front of a house in Argomulyo village, Cangkringan, in Sleman November 5, 2010. (REUTERS/Aditia Surya) #

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18. Rescuers remove the charred remain of the body of a victim of Mount Merapi eruption in Argomulyo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Trisnadi) #

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19. An Indonesian veterinarian tends to a cow injured after Mouth Merapi's eruption in the village of Umbulharjo, in Sleman, central Java, on October 29, 2010. (ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images) #

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20. Molten lava flows from the crater of Mount Merapi captured in this long exposure photograph taken from Klaten district in Central Java province late on November 2, 2010. (SONNY TUMBELAKA/AFP/Getty Images) #

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21. Mount Merapi spews lava and smoke as it erupted again on Wednesday as seen from Sidorejo village in Klaten on November 3, 2010. (REUTERS/Beawiharta) #

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22. Residents ride their motorcycles in Yogyakarta, blanketed by volcanic ash falling from Mount Merapi's latest eruption early on October 30, 2010. (CLARA PRIMA/AFP/Getty Images) #

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23. A woman wearing a raincoat, rides a bicycle on an ash-covered road after another eruption of Mount Merapi volcano, in the city of Yogyakarta October 30, 2010. (REUTERS/Andry Prasetyo) #

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24. Villagers flee their homes following another eruption Mount Merapi in Klaten ,Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) #

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25. Mount Merapi erupts, as seen from Wukirsari village in Sleman, near the ancient city of Yogyakarta, November 4, 2010. (REUTERS/Beawiharta) #

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26. Stumps are all that remain of trees felled by an eruption of Mount Merapi, at Kinahrejo village in Sleman, Indonesia on October 27, 2010. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) #

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27. Residents leave a danger zone as Merapi volcano releases ash clouds above Balerante village, Klaten on November 1, 2010. (ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images)#

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28. Villagers escorted by police carry a suspected looter caught in an abandoned village in Sleman located in Mount Merapi's danger zone on November 1, 2010. (ARYA BIMA/AFP/Getty Images) #

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29. Indonesian soldiers of Special Force of Kopassus evacuate an elderly woman who refuses to leave her home during an evacuation after a new violent explosion in Umbulharjo, Sleman on October 30, 2010. (ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images) #

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30. A woman prays in a temporary shelter at Maguwoharjo Stadium in Yogyakarta, November 5, 2010. (REUTERS/Beawiharta) #

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31. Refugees rummage through second-hand clothes that were distributed at a refugee camp in Yogyakarta, Central Java November 7, 2010. (REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas) #

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32. A girl weeps at a temporary shelter for those who are affected by the eruption of Mount Merapi in Bawukan, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/AK Hendratmo) #

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33. Refugees look out from inside a tent during rain at a temporary evacuation center set up as a result of the repeated eruptions of Mount Merapi, in Keputran village, Klaten, Central Java on November 4, 2010. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) #

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34. Lava and ash spews from the top of Mount Merapi, viewed from Klaten district in Central Java province before dawn on November 6, 2010. (BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images) #

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35. A view from a domestic flight from Denpasar to Yogyakarta that was subsequently diverted to Surabaya airport shows a plume of gas and ash billowing some 10 km (six mi) high from Mount Merapi, during an eruption on November 4, 2010. (CLARA PRIMA/AFP/Getty Images) #

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36. Search and rescue team members from Yogyakarta carry a victim of Merapi volcano's eruption at the village of Ngancar in Sleman on November 8, 2010. (CLARA PRIMA/AFP/Getty Images) #

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37. The hand of a victim of the eruption of Mount Merapi, among body bags at a hospital morgue in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Slamet Riyadi) #

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38. A farmer walks through his corn field covered in volcanic ash from Mount Merapi eruption in Muntilan, Central Java, Indonesia on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010. (AP Photo) #

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39. Mount Merapi, viewed from Sidorejo village in Klaten on November 1, 2010. (REUTERS/Beawiharta) #

Monday, November 8, 2010

An Actor with Masked mistakenly Shot Dead

Perhaps because of very good in the act, a Filipino citizen does not know that an actor is performing in his village. As a result, these actors have been killed, hit by a shot because the masked killer mistakenly perceived as members of the herd.

CNN news reported that this incident occurred in a village in Cebu, central Philippines, when a British company was producing a film titled "Going Somewhere".

Actor Kirk Abella, 32, is required to act as a masked robber with a motorcycle. Abella also brought a toy gun to support his role.

Eddie Cuizon, 52, a security guard in the village, said he was not informed in advance about a movie being filmed in the area.

Parian district police chief, Alexis Relado, said that Cuizon shot Abella when this Filipino veteran actor is trying to escape. In fact, according to Relado, Abella was in acting.

Cuizon said that he just got up and did not realize what was happening. He is the middle to tighten oversight of the village following a number of reports gunmen in the area. Most murders in the streets of the Philippines conducted by masked riders.


Viewing Abella as the masked robber, he then tried to stop the actor motor. However, Cuizon said, instead of stopping, Abella even just step on the gas and injuring Cuizon knee. This village guards cash out his gun and fired. Abella dying in place.

Cuizon detained by police on charges of murder and violations of the laws of firearms ownership. Meanwhile, British director Alan Lyddiard who worked on the film can not be questioned about the incident that befall the actors.

Why Our Body Liquid Taste Different

Not many people know or realize the magic of what we had: tears, ear, and saliva. This scientific fact is sometimes overlooked, even though all three have different functions that are created so by the Creator so that we can live very well.

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Salty taste of Tears

Tears taste salty because it implies that includes leusinenkefalin, adrenocorticotropic, and prolactin and some electrolytes, protein and fat binding immunoglobulin. Collectively, this produce taste salty.

The main function of all this is to maintain the condition of the whole eye in order to remain stable. Fat-binding proteins themselves make the outermost layer consisting of layers of fat that works to protect the eye moisture intact.

Ear Liquid taste Bitter


Our ears liquid taste bitter , it is actually a result of secretion from the glands in the ear that is alkaline and sticky. This secretion allows the ear that hole was always open and without cover,  when insects or other small creatures enter it, it make them can not bear to linger in it and get out of the ear.

Sticky liquid tends to make small objects that enter to the ear hole tend to be trapped and can be released as earwax.

Fresh saliva taste

Our saliva taste fresh. This is because the function thereof is related to the taste of the food we eat. Can you imagine if we changed saliva taste? Very, very uncomfortable at all sure in time to eat food.

This, too, would you feel when you are sick. Drinking fresh water also taste bitter. Very uncomfortable. Saliva contains several proteins and enzymes and antibacterial substances.
At the time you get sick, the content of the saliva changed such that the composition of it tends to produce a slightly alkaline fluid. This is why you feel the bitter taste when ill and very uncomfortable when eat food.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

20 Weird And Wacky Incidental

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1. Walter Kellner

In 1979, Germany magazine - Das Besteran - held a writing contest. The authors must send the unusual story, but should be based on a true story.

The winner, Walter Kellner of Munich, eventually won the contest and the story published.
He wrote about accident when he flew a Cessna 421 between Sardinia and Sicily. The plane experienced a problem at sea, landing on the water, he finally floated with emergency floats for a long time before finally rescued.

This story was accidentally read by an Austrian citizen, whose name was also Walter Kellner, who accused the German Kellner had plagiarized the story. Austrian Kellner said that he flew a Cessna 421 over the same sea, experienced engine trouble, and finally had landed in Sardinia. So basically, it's the same story, but with a different ending.

The magazine checked both the truth of their stories, and both was right, almost exactly the same.

2. King Umberto I

On July 28, 1900, Italian King Umberto I have dinner at a restaurant in the city of Monza. Apparently the owner of the restaurant face exactly the same as the king. The name of the owner of the restaurant was also Umberto, and his wife's name is also similar to the name of the queen, even the restaurant was opened on the same date with the inauguration of the king.

The restaurant owner Umberto was shot dead the next day. So did King Umberto.

3. Claude Volbonne

Volbonne kill Baron Claude de Tarazone Rodemire from France in 1872. 21 years earlier, the Baron's father had been killed as well by someone else who was also named Claude Volbonne

4. Jean Marie Dubarry

On 13 February 1746, a Frenchman, Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed for having killed his father.
Exactly 100 years later, on 13 February 13, a French as well, also named Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed - also for the murder of his father.


5. GreenBerry Hill

On November 26, 1911, three men were hanged at Greenberry Hill in London after being found guilty of the murder of Sir Edmund Berry. The name of three of them, among others, Green, Berry and Hill.

6. George Feifer

British actor Anthony Hopkins delighted when he got the lead role in a film based on a book called The Girl From Petrovka written by George Feifer. A few days after signing the contract, Hopkins went to London to buy the book. He tried several bookshops, but nothing is selling. While waiting for the train home in Leicester Square, he saw there was a book that lay abandoned on a waiting chair. Miraculously, it turns out that the book title was The Girl From Petrovka. It turned out that coincidences do not stop only there only.

Two years later, while filming in Vienna, Hopkins was visited by George Feifer, author of the book.


Feifer mentioned that he lost his own book. He lent his books - with some notes in his own handwriting - to his friend, who then lost the book somewhere in London. With astonishment, Hopkins gives Feifer the book he found. 'Is it your book? " he asked, 'with notes on the outskirts of the page? " It's the same book.


7. Haunted by the Lightning

A British officer, Major Summerford,  fell from his horse because it struck by lightning while fighting in the Flanders region in February 1918, and he became paralyzed from the waist down. Summerford retired and moved to Vancouver.

One day in 1924, when he was fishing on the riverbank, a lightning struck the tree where he was sitting and paralyze his right part body. Two years later Summerford was sufficiently recovered and was able to walk in the park. And he was walking in the garden in the summer in 1930 when a lightning snatched back, and eventually incapacitate permanently. He died two years later. But the lightning seems to have not satisfied and still catch up. Four years later, during a storm, lightning struck the cemetery and destroyed a tombstone. Who is buried under a gravestone? Major Summerford

8. Deadly Lightning

In 1899 a lightning killed a man when he stood in his backyard in Taranto, Italy.

30 years later, his son died in the same way in the same place.

On 8 October 1949, Rolla Primarda, grandson of the first victims and children from the second victim, is become the third victim in the same way and place.

 

9. Catch by Destiny

Ziegland Henry thought he had managed to escape from his destiny.

In 1883, he broke with his girlfriend. Due to stress, the  girl killed herself. The girl's brother is very angry that he was pursuing Ziegland and shot him.

The man once thought he had killed Ziegland, using that  pistol to kill himself. But Ziegland is not dead. Bullet, it appeared  only scratching his face and lodged in a tree. Ziegland so convinced that he is a lucky man.


But a few years later, Ziegland decided to cut down the tree, which still have bullets in it. The task seems difficult, so he decided to blow it up with some dynamite.

The blast threw a bullet to the head and killed Ziegland

 

10. Separated Twin

The story of identical twins who live together are almost as stunning, but perhaps nothing can equal the story of two identical twins who were born in Ohio. The twin brothers separated at birth, adopted by different families.

Although not know each other, these two different families together they named James. And the incident is  not stop there. Both James grew up not knowing each other, but both are looking for law-enforcement training, both had the same ability in mechanical drawing and carpentry, and they are both married women named Linda.

They both had a son, the one named James Alan and the other one named his son James Allan. The two twin brothers also divorced their wives and married other women - who are both named Betty. And they both had dogs named Toy.

Forty years after they separated, both twins were reunited, and then share their life stories that were similar to each other (Source: Reader's Digest, January 1980)

11. Based on True Story that Didn’t Happen Yet

In the 19th century, the famous horror writer, Egdar Allan Poe, wrote a book called 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym'.

The book tells of four people who survived the accident at sea, they were on the ship on the open sea for days before they finally decided to kill and eat the cabin officer named Richard Parker.

Several years later, in 1884, a ship, Mignonette, sank. The survivor only 4 people, who are in a small boat for days. Then known, the more senior crew members, kill and eat the cabin staff.
Cabin Officer's name was Richard Parker

 

12. Same Way and Time

In 2002, two 70-year-old identical twin brothers died within the same hour on the same path but different accidents in Finland.

His  brother died when he was hit by a lorry as he rode the bike in Raahe, 600 kilometers from Helsinki.  And the younger brother died just 1.5 km from the place where his brother was killed."This really happened worth remembering.  Although the course was fairly heavy, but accidents do not happen every day, "

The police officer Marja-Leena Huhtala told Reuters in an interview "I was so cringe when I know they were brothers and identical twins. I got to thinking maybe that's up there has a plan for this.

13. Saved by the Monk

Joseph Aigner was a portrait painter in the 19th century in Austria who seems to be a man who is not happy.

He attempted suicide several times. The first time, at the age of 18 he tried to hang himself, but prevented by the presence of a mysterious Capuchin monk.

When he was 22 years old, he tried to hang himself again, but he was rescued by, again, the same  monk.

Eight years later, he submitted to the gallows for his political activities.

Once again, his life was saved by the intervention of the same monk. At age 68, Aiger finally managed to commit suicide, this time using a pistol.

Funeral ceremony led by the same Capuchin monk - a man who even Aiger just never knew his name. (Source: Ripley's Giant Book of Believe It or Not!)

14. Lucky Winning

In 1858, Robert Fallon was shot dead by his poker mate.

Fallon, according to them, have won $ 600 by cheating. After Fallon's position is empty and no one player was willing to take the money $ 600 which “ full of bad luck”, they then found a new player to replace Fallon seat and gave the money of the dead,  $ 600 for the stake.

When police arrived to investigate the murder, a new player has doubled the money,  from $ 600 to $ 1.200.

Police ask for $ 600 to be given to the Fallon descendants  - and apparently the new player is the son of Fallon, who has never met his father for 7 years!

(Source: Ripley's Giant Book of Believe It or Not

15. Russian Spy

When Norman Mailer started his novel Barbary Shore, he does not plan to use a Russian spy as a character in his novel. But while he writes, he began to introduce a Russian spy as a minor character.

The more he writes, the spy became the dominant character. Having finished his novel, U.S. Immigration Service arrested a man who lived one floor above Mailer in the same apartment.
He was Colonel Rudolf Abel, a suspected Russian spy working class in the U.S. at that time. (Source: Science Digest)

16. Bingham Powell

In 1920, three Englishman were traveling by train through Peru.
By the time they met, only those in the room. Their introduction never imagined.
Men's last name was Bingham, and 2nd man last name was Powell. The third man was named Bingham Powell.

The three of them are not related at all.

17. Deadly Taxi Driver

In 1975, while riding a motorcycle in Bermuda, a man was accidentally hit death by a taxi.

One year later, the older brother of this man's death with  the same way. In fact, he rode the same motorcycle.

Not only that, he was also struck by the same taxi driver, even the taxi was carrying the same passenger!

18. Lucky Late

In 1950, in Nebraska, 15 people of the town choir members should gather at the church at 7:20. They rarely late, even almost never, but they all came late in that day for various reasons. Suddenly at  7:25, church were destroyed,  hit by a plane. 15 people had survived by chance

 

19. Baby Saver

In 1976 a baby fell from the 14th floor and landed right in the arms of a British man named Joseph Figlock. A year later, a baby fell from the same floor, and re-saved by Joseph Figlock

20. The Ring

A Dutch woman finding her own ring that has long disappeared, inside the potato which she wanted to eat. Possibly  the ring fell into the fields of potatoes and finally be in potatoes

Newly Found Species, Monkey with The Nose Facing Upward

Species of unknown type is usually very difficult to trace. The researchers now are looking for a new primate species in northern Myanmar.

But the researchers are convinced by the local population that rare monkeys are not hard to find. They just have to wait until it rains.

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This new species, previously known as a kind of pug-nosed monkey named Rhinopithecus Stykeri, have a nose that facing upward, thus making the animal sneezed loudly when rain falls.
According to local hunters, to avoid water entry, a new type of monkey is sitting with their heads enclosed position with their knees. Similarly, as quoted by LiveScience.

This discovery was made by biologists from the Myanmar Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Association, primate experts from Fauna and Flora International, and the people of the People Resources and Biodiversity Foundation.

The research team previously worked for a gibbon monkey survey in southeastern Myanmar in early 2010, and the local residents informing them about the new monkey species.

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Based on the description of these villagers, scientists directly looking monkeys that were previously only found in China and Vietnam. Some locals even showed evidence of a skull and bones.

The monkey is about 55 cm long with a tail length of 78 cm, pink-faced, black-haired and mustachioed white.

The locals call these monkeys as 'Myuk Na Tok Te' or 'Mey Nwoah', both meaning 'monkey with  nose upwards'.The monkeys live in separate areas with other species, bordered with two rivers.
The discovery of these animals immediately received status as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Karen O’Leary Maps from Paper Cutting

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Karen O’Leary is famous artist  creating hand cut paper maps of popular cities.
Careful elimination of unnecessary parts results in a beautiful artwork with the sharp contrast between the solid and void.

SINGAPORE


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VANCOUVER


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SYDNEY


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ATLANTA


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MANHATTAN


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SAN FRANSISCO


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LONDON


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NEW ORLEANS


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SEATTLE


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MADRID


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