All posts with 'Culture' tag
New Technologies, Old Habits
For a hundred years by now apt and frugal people were using old newspapers to wrap the books and protect them while reading outside on a plain air or during a trip.
The times are changing. And technologies, they are changing too. But the human habits, those are remaining. If you are not sure about weather […]
Read More..>>Moscow Metro Subway
Moscow Metro – one of the world’s biggest and most heavy used metropolitan transportation system. Every single day from seven to ten million people are descending to the underground to get to work, home or any other place within the twelve million city. That makes the Moscow Metro the city itself, with the streets – […]
Read More..>>Chinese Planet Of The Apes
These pictures are not the other silly photoshop. These are the actual pictures from the actual filming area in China. The movie is known as A Journey To The West and it looks like Planet Of The Apes meet House of Flying Daggers. More pics inside.
Read More..>>Pagan Baseball Bat
Baseball bats are illegal in Russia, as they are considered to be a ‘cold weapon’. So the Russian craftsmen are carving Slavic pagan gods on the bats to keep the police eyes away. It makes bat not the bat but the religious symbol. Of course, you can’t play baseball with such bat, but nobody […]
Read More..>>Most WTF Harry Potter tattoos
The fans of JK Rowling’s story about magician boy (duh, am I learn it right?) are young (mostly) and crazy. What a greate combination for a good source of WTF.
These are simply ridiculous but the further the better:
Read More..>>Gaza Strip Zebras
Gaza Strip - a small region of Israel, suffering from a terrorists’ dictatorship - have its own zoo. And this zoo is probably the poorest one in the whole world. A couple of years ago all zebras there died of hunger, so the zoo keeper bought two donkeys and painted them in black and white. […]
Read More..>>Ukrainian Women-warriors
French photojournalist Guillaume Herbaut met some amazons in the Ukrainian city of Lviv.
Read More..>>French and Russian Bullets Collided in Flight
Ukrainian treasure hunter have found a wonderful piece of history. Two bullets (one fired by a French soldier and one by a Russian, back in the 19th century) collided in flight and tinkered one into another. The chance of such collision is one of the billions. It’s easy to imagine how fierce the fight was. […]
Read More..>>Bike Helmets in Nigeria
This January Nigerian authorities have enforced bikers and their passengers to wear helmets while riding a motorbike. Since the low standards of living and the terrible traffic jams in Nigerian capital Lagos making motorcycles the most popular vehicle, the new regulations have affected really a lot of people. And a lion’s share of them (oh, […]
Read More..>>Hummer On The Wagon Wheels
Matthew Harrison has his own vision of the popular luxury SUV Hummer H3. A pioneerish, wild-westish one.
Hummer H3 on the wooden wagon wheels, just like of all that wild west stagecoaches, is exhibited outside the Royal Academy of Arts in London. If you are planning to visit UK’s capital before October 20, 2008 go to […]
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