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Travel with Ripley’s to learn more about strange places and customs. They eat what? They use that for what purpose? How in the world do you even wear that thing? Is that really her lip wrapped around that wood plank? Come with us to the farthest reaches of the world. Believe It or Not! you won’t even need to visit a TSA checkpoint!
Living Among the Dead?
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 · 1 Comment
A megacity where the living must share with the dead Manila North Cemetery is the largest Philippine National Cemetery, also lived here thousands of Philippine poor people. This public cemetery is not silence and ghastly, and every day it is a tremendous hubbub, formed the Philippines features graveyard slums. There ...
Pillow FIGHHTT!
China’s workforce has seen their share of stress from working such long hours. There’s no surprise that the country’s citizens are looking for a way to release that stress – most recently, by going to a loud and raucous pillow fight with hundreds of white collar workers and students. Last ...
Til Death Do Us Part, Now Cut Your Finger Off
The indigenous tribe of the Danis inhabit the fertile lands of the Baliem Valley in West Papua, New Guinea. As one of the most decorative and well-known tribes in West Papua, they’re also given credit for an unusual and gruesome ritual involving amputation. As a way of displaying their grief ...
The world’s deepest bedroom
Welcome to the Sala Silvermine Hotel You can sleep 508 feet underground in an underground suite in historic Sala Silvermine, one of the world’s best preserved mine settings. Here you will see dark winding galleries, vast caverns and magic lakes. Even to those not familiar with mining, the underground setting ...
Shin Kicking Championship?
Thursday, November 17, 2011 · 3 Comments
Thousands of fans gather to watch an annual shin-kicking championships which date back to the 17th Century. 16 competitors battled it out in the vicious contest in Gloucestershire where they grasp each others shoulders and quack at their rivals shins. The sport dates back to 1636 when it formed part ...
Anyone Hungry?
Monday, October 31, 2011 · 10 Comments
What is What When It Comes to Skulls?? Asmat. A word that long scared people. Asmat is a word that became a synonym for cannibals. Asmat is a tribe whose members in the time of war ate brains of their enemies mixed with sago worms from their halved skulls. A ...
Krampus … Incredibly, It’s Not Halloween!
Monday, October 10, 2011 · 13 Comments
Happy Krampus everyone!! Even though this is a Christmas tradition in Bavaria and other countries in Europe, I think you will agree with me that it feels a lot more like a Halloween nightmare fest! Krampus is a mythical creature recognized in alpine countries. According to legend, Krampus accompanies St. ...
Yukigassen!
Monday, October 10, 2011 · 1 Comment
Yukigassen is a snowball fighting-competition from Japan. Today there are annual tournaments in Sobetsu, Hokkaidō in Japan, Kemijärvi in Finland, Vardø in Norway, Mount Buller, Victoria in Australia, Luleå in Sweden, and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada. There are several other North American tournaments as well, including: The 2011 US Nationals ...
Crooked Forest
Monday, October 3, 2011 · 5 Comments
In a tiny corner of western Poland, in Gryfino (not far from Szczecin) a forest of about 400 pine trees grow with a 90 degree bend at the base of their trunks – all bent northward. Surrounded by a larger forest of straight growing pine trees this collection of curved ...
Man Transforms A Dumpster Into A Small Home
Friday, September 9, 2011 · 2 Comments
This man, Gregory Kloehn, wanted to make something out of nothing. In his own words: I made a nice little home out of … a garbage can. That is NOT a figure of speech, he means he actually made a livable fully equipped living space from one of those metal ...
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