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Traffic Accident – Baghdad 33°19’37.28″N, 44°17’4.78″E Traffic Accident – Baghdad 33*20`18.93″N, 44*22`40.93″E Capsized Cruise Ship – Korea 35°9’20.89″N, 129°8’49.49″E Crane Collapse – Holland 52°1’44.67″N, 4°17’20.73″E Some of the sights you find in Google Earth are just plain mysterious.... 

Sandstorms

A dust storm or sandstorm is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions and arises when a gust front passes or when the wind force exceeds the threshold value where loose sand and dust are removed from the dry surface. Particles are transported by saltation and suspension, causing soil erosion from one place and deposition in another. The Sahara and drylands around the Arabian... 

Not Your Typical Household Cat Wild animal for a pet

The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a member of the Felidae family; the largest and the most powerful of the four “big cats” in the genus Panthera.[4] Native to much of eastern and southern Asia, the tiger is an apex predator and an obligate carnivore. Reaching up to 4 metres (13 ft) in total length and weighing up to 300 kilograms (660 pounds), the larger tiger subspecies are comparable in size to... 

Underwater Sculpture Park Museum

This is a museum Underwater where people can visit it anytime and no ticket`s to get in the museum.  Read More »

Frozen Tidal Wave

Ok, so it isn’t a WAVE that actually froze in motion…but it’s cool . Ice is the name given to any one of the 15 known crystalline solid phases of water. In non-scientific contexts, it usually describes ice Ih, which is known to be the most abundant of these phases. It can appear transparent or an opaque bluish-white colour, depending on the presence of impurities such as air. The addition of... 

The World’s Highest Escalator

The Umeda Sky Building is the seventh-tallest building in Osaka City, Japan, and one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks. It consists of two 40-story towers that connect at their two uppermost stories, with bridges and an escalator crossing the wide atrium-like space in the center. The escalater ride is an event in itself as it feels like you are floating up into the sky. This is a cheap way... 

Hurricane Ike from Space

A hurricane is a powerful, swirling storm that begins over a warm sea. Hurricanes form in waters near the equator, and then they move toward the poles. The winds of a hurricane swirl around a calm central zone called the eye surrounded by a band of tall, dark clouds called the eyewall. The eye is usually 10 to 40 miles (16 to 64 kilometers) in diameter and is free of rain and large clouds.... 

High Speed Photography

High Speed Photography is the science of taking pictures of very fast phenomena. In 1948, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) defined high-speed photography as any set of photographs captured by a camera capable of 128 frames per second or greater, and of at least three consecutive frames. High speed photography can be considered to be the opposite of time-lapse photography. In... 

Ice Sculptures

Ice sculpture is a form of sculpture that uses ice as the raw material. Sculptures from ice can be abstract or realistic and can be functional or purely decoration. Ice sculptures are generally associated with special or extravagant events because of their limited lifetime. The lifetime of a sculpture is determined primarily by the temperature of its environment and thus, a sculpture can last from... 
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