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Sidewalk Chalk Artist

Photographing the sidewalk chalk art is a tricky business. You have to position the camera to be from the exact position for it to look good like this does. Similar to the other sidwalk chalk drawings, you must understand that for the perspective illusion to work, the drawing in real life is much more stretched out that you would think it is. In this example, it looks like the woman in the center with the stroller should techincally only be a few feet farther back from the the edge of the basin wall than say, the police officer. But due to using a wide-angle or fisheye lense, the perspective on the people is also slightly distorted to enhance the effect.

This is one of thoese pictures that you can stare at for quite awhile, and it sure seems like many of those people could just take a step forward and dip their feet into the water. Quite an impressive chalk display! (Scroll down the page for a second sidwalk chalk picture.)

Next, here is a different fountain sidewalk chalk. Not quite as impressive as the one above, but still pretty incredible nonetheless! Is that a minotaur in that picutre? Check out the hooves on him! Oh well, I guess it just goes to show that just about every living creature - no matter how horrible - can be calmed and satisfied by a nice thirst-quenching cup of water.

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Evolution of people

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As the evolution of people

Mummies - the dream of eternal life

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In the German city of Mannheim has recently opened the largest exhibition of mummies from the romantic name: "Mummies - the dream of eternal life." More than 70 unique specimens from around the world gathered in the museum Reiss-Engelhorn, to gladden the inhabitants of the city with his presence

This young guy came from the Atacama Desert in Chile

Women mummy - from South America

This mummy little Orlovitasa Johannes (Johannes Orlovitas) from Hungary

And this - the mummified child from Peru, pre-Columbian era - one of the most brutal pieces, given the greater prevalence of human sacrifice in Peru

This mummified head came from New Zealand

Of course, no exhibition of mummies would be complete without the mummies of Egypt - This head more than 2 000 years

But eternity is not only worthy people - as, for example, that the mummified ferret

Or monkey

Or a hyena from Jordan - her mummification occurred naturally, without human intervention

Odim of the hits of the exhibition will be opened, without a doubt, the body was found in a peat bog in northern Germany. Until recently, this mummy was known as "Girl Vindebi, while scholars on the DNA samples have not shown that it's a boy
His mummified body was found in 1952, workers engaged in the development of peat near the village Vindebi in Schleswig-Holstein. With spore-pollen analysis revealed that the teenager died in the Iron Age to the age of 14. In 2002, with the help of radiocarbon analysis of the time of his death were more accurately dated - between 41 and 118 years of our era. X-rays showed the presence of defects on the lower leg bones, indicating that the depletion and, consequently, growth disturbances.

Nevertheless, some scientists believe that the teenager from Vindebi was killed. This assumption says half-shaved head, blindfolded and fingers, folded in the fig - a gesture with sexual connotations ... In this photo can be seen as the restorer of Gerard Shtavinoga prepares 1 800-year-old body Vindebi for shipment to the exhibition in Mannheim

Unique and Strange

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The longest fingernails on both hands.
Nelvin Feyzel Booz (Nelvin Feizel Boothe) from the city of Pontiac, Mich., not clipped his nails 25 years, bringing the total length of his 10 nails was 931 cm.

The biggest hamburger, which you can buy.
The biggest hamburger weighing 35.6 kg. was included in the menu Grill Bob's BBQ & Grill on the beach of Pattaya in Thailand.

The smallest and largest of the living horses.
the smallest of the living horses were Tambelina (Thumbelina) - a miniature mare, whose height at the withers is 44.5 cm Its owners - Kay and Paul Gesling (Kay and Paul Goessling), live on a farm in Goose Creek St. Louis, Missouri. Growth Radar (Radar) - Belgian draft horse, was measured without horseshoes, and amounted to 202 see Radar owned company Priefert Manufacturing Inc. from the town of Mount Pleasant, Texas. The Two horses brought together for a photo in the book of Guinness.

The biggest pick-up.
Height truck Bigfoot 5 is 4.7 m, height tires - 3 m, weight - 17,236 kg. This is one of 17 pickup trucks of this type created by Bob Chandler (Bob Chandler) from St. Louis, Missouri. It was built in the summer of 1986 He is now permanently berthed in St. Louis and occasionally demonstrated on the local festivities.

The longest stream of milk, was released from the eye.
Ilker Yilmaz (Ilker Yilmaz) from Turkey issued a stream of milk from the eye to see 279,5 Record was recorded on Sept. 1, 2004 in Hotel Armada Hotel Istanbul, Turkey.