Saturday, December 27, 2008
12 Most Amazing Lost Cities in the World
The breathtaking city of Petra was a vibrant trading hub that vanished from most maps in the seventh century A.D. It lay beneath a thousand years of dust and debris when, in 1812, a Swiss scholar disguised as a Bedouin trader identified the ruins as the ancient Nabataean capital.Spread throughout a series of remote desert canyons in southern Jordan, Petra arose more than 2,000 years ago at the
Monday, December 22, 2008
Pictures of Antarctica, the Coldest Beautiful Place
Antarctica is on average the coldest, driest and windiest place on Earth. 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice, which is on average 1,6 kilometers (1 mi) in thickness. As there is little precipitation, the interior of the continent is technically the largest desert in the world, but a frozen desert. As for the temperature, scientists recorded the world’s lowest temperature: -89 °C (-129 °F).Though
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
Amazing Two Headed Animals...It's Real
In China's Hunan province a gecko has been found with a head on each of its body. The little fellow was found wandering to and fro, back and forth, going here and there, trying to make up his minds in an antique shop. He's slow, but can go both directions.In Japan, not wanting to be outdone by China, a two headed turtle was found in Moriyama. The little boy who found him named the amphibian '
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