Wādī al-Salām (The Valley of Peace) is the largest Islamic cemetery and one of the largest cemeteries in the world. It covers an area of six square kilometers and holding an estimated 5 million bodies. Millions of Muslims over the centuries have been brought here for burial from all parts of the world of Islam.
The smell of crude oil
Strange produce:Crude
A limited edition, 50ml parfum, holding one of America's fastest growing luxuries: 100% crude oil. Exquisitely packaged and branded, it is a dramatic reflection of the beauty industry, consumerism, politics... and, of course, the very life-blood of the American Dream. Whether ironic or realistic is yet to be revealed
Price: US$289.00
Rubberboy:The Worlds Most Flexible Man
The most flexible in the world, 5 world record holding, sport event performing, international television star was once just a boy in Mississippi, USA.
After being discovered by his dad for his natural flexibility, Daniel started training at the age of 4 years old using whatever he could find in films, TV and books (E.g. Jay Leno, ESPN's Sports Center, Oprah Winfrey, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Cirque du Soleil and much more) Starting out charging classmates to watch his tricks, he ran away with a circus and continued to train alone and under legendary trainers such as Chinese Master Lu Yi.
http://therubberboy.com/
How Scrooge Are You?
Christmas comes but once a year, is that too often for you? Are you more jeer than cheer this Christmas? Take this test and find out how much Scrooge you have in you this holiday season!
test yourself and enjoy
USB Exercising Mouse
The Faster you type the faster he pedals. Your daily word count is recorded, so you'd better work hard.
World Aids Day 2007
MEMORABLE :NAKED AIDS ACTIVISTS PROTEST IN NEW YORK
A group of AIDS activists stage a naked protest outside of New York's Madison Square Garden August 26, 2004. The protesters blocked 8th Avenue in midtown Manhattan outside the Garden, site of the Republican National Convention. Law enforcement authorities expect thousands of protesters to descend on the city before the start of the convention on August 30, 2004.
HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe
Adult HIV Prevalance
A group of AIDS activists stage a naked protest outside of New York's Madison Square Garden August 26, 2004. The protesters blocked 8th Avenue in midtown Manhattan outside the Garden, site of the Republican National Convention. Law enforcement authorities expect thousands of protesters to descend on the city before the start of the convention on August 30, 2004.
HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe
Adult HIV Prevalance
Cowards die Many times Before Their Death
The soldiers hide behind one car
Twenty soldiers take cover behind one car as they wait to end an attempted coup in the Philippines. Shortly afterwards they stormed a five-star hotel in the Manila, Philippines that had been seized by rebel army officers.
The renegades took over the building in capital Manilla after walking out of their trial for a failed 2003 coup. They then demanded that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo resign. But her security forces smashed their way in and rearrested the rebels.
Twenty soldiers take cover behind one car as they wait to end an attempted coup in the Philippines. Shortly afterwards they stormed a five-star hotel in the Manila, Philippines that had been seized by rebel army officers.
The renegades took over the building in capital Manilla after walking out of their trial for a failed 2003 coup. They then demanded that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo resign. But her security forces smashed their way in and rearrested the rebels.
300 Minute Egg
Leave an egg in an oven at 220°F for 300 minutes (5 hours) and . you get what looks like a brown, hard boiled egg.. Is it tasty?
The long baking gives the egg white a nutty flavor
Eat and Enjoy
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Spectacular leaps
Mobula Ray pictures reveal spectacular leaps
It looks like a futuristic space ship skimming over the ocean's surface. Or maybe a triangular shaped prototype aircraft launched from the depths.
In fact it is a Mobula Ray, a smaller cousin of the Manta Ray, which puts on a spectacular leaping display.
Enjoy more photos
It looks like a futuristic space ship skimming over the ocean's surface. Or maybe a triangular shaped prototype aircraft launched from the depths.
In fact it is a Mobula Ray, a smaller cousin of the Manta Ray, which puts on a spectacular leaping display.
Enjoy more photos
The Last Iceberg
The Last Iceberg is one piece of a larger project entitled "Melting Away" which documents the polar regions of our planet, their environments, life forms, history of human exploration and the communities that work and live there.
Nick Cave once sang, "All things move toward their end." Icebergs give the impression of doing just that, in their individual way much as humans do; they have been created of unique conditions and shaped by their environments to live a brief life in a manner solely their own. Some go the distance traveling for many years slowly being eroded by time and the elements; others get snagged on the rocks and are whittled away by persistent currents. Still others dramatically collapse in fits of passion and fury.
The Last Iceberg chronicles just a handful of the many thousands of icebergs that are currently headed to their end. I approach the images of icebergs as portraits of individuals, much like family photos of my ancestors. I seek a moment in their life in which they convey their unique personality, some connection to our own experience and a glimpse of their soul which endures.
These images were made in both the Arctic regions of Svalbard, Greenland, and Antarctica.
Nick Cave once sang, "All things move toward their end." Icebergs give the impression of doing just that, in their individual way much as humans do; they have been created of unique conditions and shaped by their environments to live a brief life in a manner solely their own. Some go the distance traveling for many years slowly being eroded by time and the elements; others get snagged on the rocks and are whittled away by persistent currents. Still others dramatically collapse in fits of passion and fury.
The Last Iceberg chronicles just a handful of the many thousands of icebergs that are currently headed to their end. I approach the images of icebergs as portraits of individuals, much like family photos of my ancestors. I seek a moment in their life in which they convey their unique personality, some connection to our own experience and a glimpse of their soul which endures.
These images were made in both the Arctic regions of Svalbard, Greenland, and Antarctica.
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