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Top 12 of 2012
Monday, December 31, 2012 · 2 Comments
Happy (almost) New Year! Let’s take a look back at 12 of the favorite posts from 2012! Starting with Last January and working our way to December, this year we had a number of amazing stories on our blog. Did your favorite make the list?
Door to Hell
Monday, October 29, 2012 · 8 Comments
Drill Baby Drill In 1971 a Soviet rig was drilling in Derweze, Turkmenistan when the geologists tapped into a cavern filled with natural gas. Before they could further drill, they needed to clear the cavern. The next logical step was to burn off the gas.
River House
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 · 4 Comments
Now that’s what i call riverfront property! The Drina River runs the border between Bosnia Harzegovina and Serbia. The Drina is the main kayaking and rafting attraction of the Balkans. When you go on a river trip, you expect to see beautiful pastoral countryside. What you don’t expect to see ...
Sandpainting
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 · 1 Comment
Beach Art Andres Amador is an amazing American artist who uses the earth as his canvas. His amazing sand paintings have graced beaches around the world.
Flying Chihuahua
Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore A 70mph gust of wind is nothing to sneeze at, particularly if you are 6lb pound pup. Little Tinker Bell joined her pet parents for a lovely Saturday morning of flea market shopping and was standing on a platform trailer when a 70mph wind ...
Rollerman!
Buggy Rollin Jean-Yves Blondeau is a rolling daredevil. He is the creator of the 32-wheel roller suit known as the Buggy Rollin. Blondeau rides his wheel suit down some of the most treacherous streets in the world. His most recent stunt took him down Tianmen Mountain, in Zhangjiajie, China— a steep ...
Fore!
Thursday, August 16, 2012 · 2 Comments
If your golf game is anything like mine, your ball magically finds its way into every water hazard. No matter how hard I try to avoid them, there seems to be a magnetic pull to the wet abyss. I usually walk to the water and see if I can fish ...
Boy’s soccer ball lost in tsunami and found in Alaska
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 · 2 Comments
A football swept away by last year’s tsunami and found on a remote Alaskan island is to be returned after its teenage Japanese owner was identified. Sixteen-year-old Misaki Murakami’s name was written on the ball that was swept out to sea in March 2011. He lives in the town of ...
Corpse Flower – The Largest Flower in the World
Thursday, April 5, 2012 · 2 Comments
Meet Amorphophallus Titanum This giant claims the title of the plant with the largest unbranched flower in the world. Believe It or Not! Its huge flowering structure (inflorescence) rises over 8.2 feet above the ground! The Largest and the Smelliest Due to its odor, which is similar to the smell ...
A New Way to Lose your Wedding Ring
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 · 17 Comments
After sixteen long years of searching in and out of their kitchen, Swedish couple Lena and Ola Paahlsson who had given up hope finally found their long lost diamond wedding ring in the most unlikely of places. Lena was working in her garden when she noticed a carrot that had ...
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