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North Chu ridge, Altai Mountains, Russia

on November 06, 2013

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North Chu ridge, Altai Mountains, Russia

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Magic Realism of Rob Gonsalves

To make illusions in images and pictures is one thing and perhaps the internet today is filled with these type of entertaining images. However painting such creative paintings with original ideas and creative thoughts is something that perhaps the master of it is the Canadian Rob Gonsalves . His paintings and illustrations are breathtakingly awesome and thoughtful. His style is considered magic realism. Interestingly his talent is not something new and he's been doing paintings and creative illustrations since his childhood. He does only a few paintings each year though he has about 70 amazing paintings such as the small collection that follows, until now. His Facebook Page

Beauty procedures in the 1930s-40s

What was it about inventors in the 20th century that made some of their inventions so weird? Take just about anything you can think of, and someone probably invented a really weird version of it at some point in the 20th century. There have been tons of weird inventions in the past, but they even managed to make something like beauty products look weird and terrifying. Today, women curl their hair by putting it up into plastic spools or using a curling iron. Back then, they wound their hair up into a mess of thick, heated wires. They also wore all manner of strange and terrifying masks in an attempt to perfect their skin. Today, women simply need some cream or, in the worst case, a face mask cream and some cucumbers. On the other hand, a few of these look awesome – who hasn’t had the sort of morning where they’d kill for a Hangover Heaven mask fresh out of the freezer? A chorus of large blow-driers attends to a customer in the 1920s A permanent hair procedure (presumably h

The man who got arrested in Sweden for splitting atom in his kitchen

Have you heard about doing chemistry experiments at home? Have you done any? Well , some experiments might not be legal to conduct at home and that's because the risk is not just threatening you but the entire neighbourhood. One of these experiments which are quiet illegal every where in the world involve doing anything related to nuclear energy and atoms. However unless you are in Iran and report your experiments to the government; as the case was reported by Ahmadinejad (The president) a few years ago! He claimed an Iranian teenage girl was doing some of these experiments at hom. and he continued: “ She tells us that she has invented nuclear energy at home… So, I called the head of the nuclear energy institute and told him… to support her if her claim was true. Now… She has a driver and a bodyguard. " On the contrary, this July (2013) a man in Sweden was arrested for doing so. He was arrested on charges of unauthorised possession of nuclear material after trying to sp

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