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Posted by admin in Travel and Places on 02 5th, 2010 | No Comments
Ephesus The ancient city in Anatolia
Ephesus was an ancient Greek city on the west coast of Anatolia, near present-day Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League during the Classical Greek era. In the Roman period, it was for many years the second largest city of the Roman Empire; ranking behind...
Posted by admin in Photography on 02 4th, 2010 | 2 Comments
Brilliance of the seas
MS Brilliance of the Seas is a cruise ship belonging to the Royal Caribbean’s Radiance class. It cruises the Mediterranean from April to January, and is based in Dubai sailing to ports around the Middle East and India from January to April, doing two repositioning cruises each year which take it...
Posted by admin in Photography on 01 20th, 2010 | No Comments
Cold And Abandoned Siberia
The climate of Siberia varies dramatically. On the north coast, north of the Arctic Circle, there is a very short (about one-month-long) summer.
Almost all the population lives in the south, along the Trans-Siberian Railway. The climate here is subarctic (Koppen Dfc or Dwc), with the annual average...
Posted by admin in Travel and Places on 01 11th, 2010 | 2 Comments
Trip to Suzhou in China
Suzhou is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Lake Taihu in the province of Jiangsu, China. The city is renowned for its beautiful stone bridges, pagodas, and meticulously designed gardens which have contributed to its status as a great tourist attraction. Since the...
Posted by admin in Travel and Places on 01 9th, 2010 | 2 Comments
Dubai Fountain Show
The Dubai Fountain is a large display of water jets gushing out of a puddle at the foot of the Burj Dubai (a tall building in Dubai) next to the Dubai Mall. Emaar, the developer of the Burj Dubai and the Downtown Burj Dubai area, announced the fountain in June 2008, with the astonishing development cost...
Posted by admin in Photography on 01 8th, 2010 | No Comments
View From the top of the Ostankino television tower
Ostankino Tower is a free-standing television and radio tower in Moscow, Russia. Standing 540 metres (1772 ft) tall, Ostankino was designed by Nikolai Nikitin. It is a member of the World Federation of Great Towers, currently the tallest in Europe and 4th tallest in the world. The tower was the first...
Posted by admin in Travel and Places on 01 4th, 2010 | 1 Comment
Weird Carpeted Town in Tenerife
The photo above was taken in 2007 and shows a portion of what was to become the world’s largest sand painting, situated in the Town Hall square of La Orotava in Tenerife. When completed, the enormous creation covered an area of 9?250.7 ft² and remained in place for the duration of the town’s Corpus...
Posted by admin in Photography on 01 1st, 2010 | 1 Comment
Europe Sometimes and Now
A beautiful collection of images of Europe in ancient times and today
Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history in the Old World until the Early Middle Ages in Europe.
The span of recorded history altogether is roughly 5,000 years, with Cuneiform script...
Posted by admin in Travel and Places on 12 30th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Combo Meals From The First Class
All combo meals have a surprising balance between various nutrients that the body needs like carbohydrates, proteins, etc. Some of them also have salads which give your body food containing all colors. If you have a choice, order fresh fruits for dessert instead of ice cream or other calorie rich desserts....
The Tallest Skyscraper In The World – Burj Dubai
Towering high above the Dubai skyline, Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest man-made construction, edges closer to completion
Burj Dubai is a supertall skyscraper under construction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 818 m (2,684 ft). Construction...