This is a comprehensive listing of the world’s seventeen independent smallest countries, from smallest to largest. They each contain less than 200 square miles in area. If we combined the land area of these 17 countries, we would have a country just a bit larger than the state Rhode Island. Even tiny Singapore is too [...]
The largest super-tanker built ever is named Knock Nevis. It is well known as Seawise Giant, Happy Giant or Jahre Viking, but with changing of ship-owners and its function are coming new names. Now the vessel is operating as a storage tank to the platforms in Qatar. That was dictated, because of its large measurements. [...]
The crime statistics of world’s five most dangerous cities are disheartening and shocking. With such high rates of homicide, robberies and violence these cities deservedly bear the names of ‘the places of chaos and death’ or ‘the murder capitals of the world’. Despite the scary data, some of them still remain wanted tourist destinations, though [...]
Mass tomato fight erupts in Spain Tens of thousands of revellers from around the world have pelted each other with tonnes of tomatoes in a mushy festival in the eastern Spanish town of Bunol. The one-hour bloodless battle, known as the Tomatina, left the town awash with tomato pulp. The town council brought in some [...]
The Death Road (Bolivia) The North Yungas Road , also known as The Death Road, is a 61 to 69 km road leading from La Paz to Coroico (Bolivia’s capital, to the Amazon region) in the Yungas region of Bolivia. It is legendary for its extreme danger: in 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank christened it [...]
Inside the Wizarding World of Harry Potter By Richard Corliss / Orlando Saturday, Aug. 07, 2010 This article originally appeared in the August 2, 2010 issue of TIME. One reason so many wizards wanted to get rid of Albus Dumbledore was that he was soft on Muggles. Now he’s gone too far: the headmaster [...]
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