Pakistanis In Space
Kenny Irwin on Flickr has extreamely fascinating photostream. In his artworks the golden age of Pakistan space program depicted (it should start someday in a five hundred years from now). Pakistanis space truckers with Allah in their hearts meet the Star Wars…
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Fritz The Photographer Cat
Fritz is a young handsome cat from Germany. He live at the Katzenstrasse, 23 and pretty happy with his life. Last year his owner, Ramona Markstain, has bought him a brand new camera and now photography is his main hobby. He is posting his artworks at his own blog. Take a look at it here.
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Gasoline Prices Around The Globe
Gasoline prices in the major capital cities. Per gallon, in US dollars.
As you can see on the chart above, gasoline prices in the world are quite different. Londoners have the most expensive gas on the planet, what is quite explainable for the island with a high standards of living. Fortunately, their distances are shorter than ones in America or, exempli gratia, Brazil.
Also explainable that the lowest gasoline prices are in Caracas and Tehran, because Venezuela and Iran are among the major oil exporters. But what’s strange - the gas prices in Moscow and Lagos. Both Russia and Nigeria exports a lot of oil and have the pretty stable economy (at least, in comparison with Iraq, where the gas is half cheaper).
And how much is gasoline in your area?
Toilets Out Of Order?
Fortunately, this amuzing sign at some train station offers an alternative for such delicate situation.
By the way, peeing on the rails could be dangerous. The third rail in the subway or some ground lines is a high voltage conductor:
…sad story of one Joseph Patrick O’Malley, a man with two unfortunate habits: heavy drinking and wandering through subway tunnels.
One morning, O’Malley’s mangled body was found in a tunnel 50 yards from the nearest station. He had apparently been struck and killed by a train.
But an autopsy turned up another cause: “The burns on the head of the penis and on the thumb and forefinger were obviously electrical burns….The stream of urine had come into contact with the 600 volts of the third rail. The current had coursed up the stream to cause the burns on his body as the electricity entered it.
Molly The Hurricane Pony
Molly is a gray Appaloosa pony from Louisiana. She was abandoned by her owner escaping from the Hurricane Katrina and spent a couple of weeks on her own in the flooded wilderness not far from New Orleans. Then she was taken to the Pony Paradise farm where abandoned animals found their new home. But that wasn’t the end of the Molly’s story.
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Language Usage Statistics From Wikipedia
There are a lot of different statistics on world language usage published already. Some of them using pretty much data from the very official sources and some of them are just extrapolations. People like to know that their native language is used by millions other people on the Earth or vice versa - rare language speakers like to feel that their native language is rare.
You can count particular language audience in a thousands different ways. And one of them - take a look at some international internet project statistics. Let’s say, Wikipedia. Fortunately, the free encyclopedia offers the live statistics on the quantity of articles in its database written on every language.
Top 10 languages in the world according to Wikipedia are:
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Lenin, Mickey and Jesus
This is the sculpture named “The hero. The leader. The god” by Alexandre Kosolapov. Exhibited today in Moscow Guelman gallery. Photo by Rustem Adagamov.
Porsche Cayenne S for Moscow Fire Department
Russian Moscow Fire Department has received brand new Porsche Cayenne S which is not only painted like a fire brigade career but actually can act as one. It’s equipped with a winch, compressed air cylinders, several kits of fire dept. dress uniform and such. (Photos by Fichetto)
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Faces of Africa
You has a hundred people but the food enough only for ten of them. What should you do?
- Ask for food for 90 people.
- Ask for a gun and 90 cartridges.
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Zorse - Zebra and Horse Cross Breed
Yes it is real. The zebra and horse cross breed is very common in parts of Africa where zebras are more resistant to diseases and horses are not. By crossing zebras with horses it makes for a healthier hybrid. Such hybrids are commonly called zorse. Zebras crossed with ponies are commonly called zonies. Temperament of the hybrid cross is more like the horse than the zebra. Most resulting offspring of the zebra and horse matings are sterile with the occasional fertile animal resulting. This type of cross breeding of the horse with the zebra has been going on for at least 150 years now.