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Best 12 & Simple Ways to Be and look More Attractive

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Best 12 & Simple Ways to Be and look More Attractive

We want one thing common: being more attractive. But the purpose for being attractive varies. What’s yours? Well, you needn’t share! To strike your attractive physique, maintain these tips and you will be surprised seeing how magically they work!

#1 Keep Smile

Keep Smile

Keep a smile on your face. When you smile, you look more friendly and approachable. People feel comfort to deal with you. No matter what your are feeling inside, smile!


#2 Maintain Facial Hair

Maintain Facial Hair

It is important to take care of facial hair. Men should shave regularly. If you want to maintain long beard, you should keep that neat and trim. Women should shape eyebrows properly.

#3 Keep Hair Tip-top

Keep Hair Tip-top

Your hair is just like your crown! So take care of it. A nice look is the first step to attract someone. Get regular haircuts as it is important for your hair to be healthy. Keep your hair clean and tidy. It is really important for attractive appearance.

#4 Wear Fit Clothes

Wear Fit Clothes

Your dress is really important. People like one who is dressed properly. So, take care of what you are wearing. Buy the clothes that fit you properly. Oversized or too tight clothes make you look odd.

#5 Maintain Proper Eye Contact

Maintain Proper Eye Contact

Proper eye contact is important when you are talking to someone. If you maintain eye contact properly, people will feel important and be happy. Some people feel shy to maintain eye contact. That’s not a big problem. Start with your close ones. Maintain proper eye contact while talking to them. Then, try it with strangers.

#6 Walk Confidently

Walk Confidently

Be confident while walking. Do you know how to walk with confidence? Keeping your body relaxed and holding eyes and head up help you look confident. Making you look confident is a great part of being attractive.

#7 Smell Nice

Smell Nice

No one likes one who smells bad. All your efforts to make yourself attractive can end in smoke if you smell bad. So be careful about this fact. Take shower every day and use deodorant regularly. Brush your teeth properly. You may use medication to get rid of bad breath.

#8 Be Relaxed

Be Relaxed

Are you seared all the time thinking what others are thinking of you? If yes, you should fight to kick away this habit. Be confident and open yourself to others. Communicate with them and be easy. Nervousness isn’t liked. So, be confident and relaxed while dealing with people.

#9 Laugh and Make Laugh

Laugh and Make Laugh

There’s a saying, “laughter is a good medicine”. When you laugh, people around you feel comfortable and are more likely to be happy with you. Laughter can make you look attractive. Most importantly, if you can make people laugh you make them happy. And you are treated with the same emotions.

#10 Body Language

Body Language

Your body language is important. If you look busy in your body language, people are likely to avoid you. They will think that you don’t want to be disturbed. But if you are easy and relaxed, people will feel comfortable to approach you.

#11 Ask Questions

Ask Questions

Don’t try to speak about you all the time. While gossiping with someone ask questions. But don’t ask anything inappropriate. When you ask questions, people think that you are interested to know about them and they feel important.

#12 Wear Bright Color

Wear Bright Color

Wear colorful clothes. Be careful to avoid some colors which can be inappropriate because of the tone of your skin or the ambience of the place to go. Usually, bright colors attract people. You also look more confident.

Best 13 Stunning Biker Trails In India Everyone Must Explore

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Best 13 Stunning Biker Trails In India Everyone Must Explore

Travelling around India is in itself a very rich experience, thick with the cultures of different people and seeped in different kinds of conditions. Exploring the country's various mysteries and sights with just a powerhouse of a bike under you is a test beyond par however. It's described as being an almost spiritual experience, where you feel like you are one with everything around you. Be it under the millions of stars in Kutch or swathed in snowy Himachal, check out the best places to bike your way through India.

1. Coorg to Munnar, Karnataka to Kerala

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This route was crowned the ultimate riding wonder in 2011 with good reason. This rural region offers some of the country’s most stunning landscapes as tea plantations go hand in hand with twisting green roads, forests and hills.

2. East Coast Road, Chennai to Pondicherry

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This stretch linking Chennai to Pondicherry is renowned for it's sights and views. Clear roads with sparkling beaches on both sides and undulating roads make this a dream ride to take. Start in the morning and let the marvels of the south beach give your senses a treat.

3. Rann of Kutch, Gujarat

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They don't test the landspeed records on salt flats for nothing! The huge stretch of nothingness that is Rann of Kutch is perfect for biking along, pushing your chopper to the limits of it's speed capacity while soaking in the surreal sight of a million stars and a massive moon.

4. Pamban Bridge, Rameswaram to Pamban Island


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Ride across this bridge that connects Rameswaram of Pamban Island to Tamil Nadu. Reach Dhanushkodi, which has it's own charm, while whizzing past some truly stunning sights. A biker's paradise.

5. Manali to Rohtang Pass, Himachal Pradesh

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Walls of snow are just one of the many spectacular sights to behold on this journey. It might be tough and the air might be thin, but the experience will be life changing.

6. Zanskar Trail, Leh

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Riding at this high an altitude is more than just a test of skill, it's a test of endurance. Get past the hard bit though, and you'll notice the looming mountains stunning terrain around you and get lost in their charms.

7. Rajasthan Desert Trail, Udaipur to Jaipur

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Biking through this route which passes Udaipur, Barmer and other spots is another one of those surreal experiences. The stars in the night and the fantasy like sandunes are sure to elicit more than a little emotion in you and bring out your poetic side.

8. Old Silk Route, Kalimpong to Siliguri

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Biking down this track is not very common occurrence, but for the select few who do it, they come back changed. This route is steeped in history and is also beautiful beyond words. With a constantly evolving landscape, this road is a total wonder, with the Zuluk loops adding a twist of danger.

9. Valparai Forest Trail, Tamil Nadu to Kerala

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This route connecting Pollachi in Tamil Nadu to Chalakudy in Kerala is a verdant paradise that any environment loving biker will dig. There's cloud forests, rain forests and the usual lush marvels that South India affords it's visitors.

10. NH17 Udupi Trail, Mumbai to Trivandrum

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This journey will fulfill all your sensory needs, whether it's for pristine beaches or magical forests. Start at Mumbai and go till Mangalore or be a an adventurer and take the longer route till Trivandrum, either way it's a guaranteed treat.

11. Western Arunachal Trail, Bhalukpong to Tawang

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The roads here might be slightly dangerous, but that just adds to the excietement. Feel the adrenaline pump as you ride from Bhalupkong to Tawang, checking out forests and hills and probably dodging a few landslides. Hit up Dambuk if you don't mind a little detour.

12. Manali to Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh

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Reach the highest village in the world over a course of ten days. Imbibe a sense of culture very different from your own and don't forget to talk to the locals, especially in the temples and monasteries, most of which are amazingly beautiful.

13. Guwahati To East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya

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This one is a must do. Meghalaya has way too many attractions to name, but suffice to say that massive waterfalls, stunning ravines and root bridges will be part of your journey. The roads remain decently empty the further you get from Shillong, and the meadows and streams will show you why they call it the Scotland of India.

World Best Airports of the future- You Can Count on them

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World Best Airports of the future- You Can Count on them

Technology is changing fast and these modern airports are ready to give visitors a taste of what the future will be like.

1. Changi Airport, Singapore

Airports of the future

Regularly voted best airport in the world, Changi Airport in Singapore is already impressive but when their T4 terminal opens in 2017 it will have Biometric scanning, self-service check-ins, digital boarding via mobile among many other modern features. Get ready for virtual concierges and lots more futuristic stuff.


2. Dubai International Airport, UAE

Airports of the future

Dubai airport is home to the second largest building in the world by floor space and the biggest airport terminal in the world. It is filled with palm trees, mirrored spaces and even yoga pavilions - definitely worth checking it out.

3. Los Angeles International Airport, USA

Airports of the future

LAX has teamed up with Moment Factory to turn the place into a sensorial and soothing experience. They have seven giant LED screens built at strategic locations around the terminal with inspirational displays. But the central feature is the four-sided, 72-feet Time Tower, a haptic illusion wrapped around one of the terminals main lifts. This trompe l’oeil feature tells the story of Los Angeles through old Hollywood films and mesmerising images.

4. London Heathrow Airport, England

Airports of the future

Heathrow is currently testing iQueue, a Bluetooth-based product that will help understand passenger behaviour and reduce bottlenecks at the airport.

5. Incheon international Airport, South Korea

Airports of the future

Incheon Airport has a golf course, a spa, private sleeping rooms, an ice rink, a casino, indoor gardens and even a Museum of Korean Culture. Departure will soon operate a biometric immigration system that uses facial recognition and boarding passes will be scrapped in favour of machine-readable passports.

6. Kuwait International Airport, Kuwait

Airports of the future

Due to open in 2016, the new Kuwait International Airport will be a world leader in Energy and Environmental design (LEED) with a gold certified passenger terminal. For the passengers, they will have cooling internal waterfalls and landscaped oasis-style gardens to enjoy in transit.

7. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands

Airports of the future

A beautiful building that is far beyond being just an airport. The terminals feature Dutch masterpieces borrowed from the Rijksmuseum, making your time in the airport a very cultural one.

8. New Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport, India

Airports of the future

A shopaholics dream… India’s New Delhi Airport takes duty-free shopping to a new level. Here you can make quick, luxury purchases using QR code on your smartphones.

9. San Francisco International Airport, USA

Airports of the future

With a state-of-the-art yoga centre that will surely help anyone relax and enjoy the experience of travelling (or hanging about the departure lounge) this is one airport on the cutting edge of what people want.

10. San Diego International Airport, USA

Airports of the future

Currently in works is an enhanced lounge, designed to reflect the local terrain with interactive projections. Lamps also react to each traveller and display flight information as they recline in departure lounge seating.

11. Frankfurt Airport, Germany

Airports of the future

Frankfurt Airport is one of the very first in Europe to use shopping walls so that travellers can buy whatever they wish using QR codes on their smartphones.

World Cup 2015: The Bold And The Beautiful Images from Cricket World Cup 2015

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World Cup 2015: The Bold And The Beautiful Images from Cricket World Cup 2015

Incredible offbeat images from the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. They get all crazy when it comes to showing off their national pride. Check out these guys...




Pakistani cricket fans react as they watch the live broadcast of the Cricket World Cup match between Pakistan and Indian in Lahore on February 15, 2015. Pakistan and India clash at the Adelaide Oval February 15 in a World Cup blockbuster being followed by an estimated global audience of 1.5 billion people as the Cricket World Cup gets underway in Australia. AFP PHOTO / Arif ALI




Indian Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan poses in front of fans with the national flag after India won the 2015 Cricket World Cup's cricket match against Pakistan, on the streets of Mumbai on February 15, 2015. Jubilant fans spilled out onto India's streets and let off firecrackers after the national team defeated bitter rivals Pakistan in their opening World Cup match in Adelaide on Sunday. AFP PHOTO/STR



Zings bails are tested during the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup match between India and Pakistan at Adelaide Oval on February 15, 2015 in Adelaide, Australia. (Photo by Michael Dodge-IDI/IDI via Getty Images)



A fan of Ireland's cricket team plays with a child during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 opening event at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Victoria February 12, 2015. REUTERS/Hamish Blair



A pitch invader runs onto the field during the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup match between Sri Lanka and New Zealand at Hagley Oval on February 14, 2015 in Christchurch, New Zealand. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)



TOPSHOTS A streaker is tackled by security during the Pool A 2015 Cricket World Cup match between Sri Lanka and New Zealand at Hagley Oval in Christchurch on February 14, 2015. AFP PHOTO / MARTY MELVILLE



A pitch invader runs onto the field during the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup match between England and Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground on February 14, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)



A pitch invader is tackled by security after running onto the field during the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup match between England and Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground on February 14, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)



A pitch invader is tackled by security after running onto the field during the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup match between England and Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground on February 14, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)



A cricket fan is pictured after having his hair trimmed into the shape of a Cricket World Cup trophy at a saloon during a promotional event in Mumbai February 12, 2015. The Cricket World Cup is jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand and takes place from February 14. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade



Indian fans cheer on their team during India's match against Pakistan in their 2015 Cricket World Cup match in Adelaide on February 15, 2015. AFP PHOTO / William WEST



A hairdresser attaches a replica of the Cricket World Cup trophy, which consists of silicone hair, on the head of cricket fan at a saloon during a promotional event in Mumbai February 12, 2015. The Cricket World Cup is jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand and takes place from February 14. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade



The World Cup coin is seen during the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup match between England and Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground on February 14, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Michael Dodge-IDI/IDI via Getty Images)



Chris Gayle of West Indies stretches prior to the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup match between the West Indies and Ireland at Saxton Field on February 16, 2015 in Nelson, New Zealand. (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images)



Virat Kohli of India celebrates his century during the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup match between India and Pakistan at Adelaide Oval on February 15, 2015 in Adelaide, Australia. (Photo by Michael Dodge-IDI/IDI via Getty Images)



Pakistan's Sohail Khan attempts to pop a balloon with the spikes of his shoe after it landed onto the field from the crowd during their Cricket World Cup match against India in Adelaide, February 15, 2015. REUTERS/David Gray



TOPSHOTS South Africa's Hashim Amla plays football during training at Seddon Park, Hamilton on February 14, 2015 ahead of their first Pool B 2015 Cricket World Cup match between South Africa and Zimbabwe on February 15. AFP PHOTO / Michael Bradley



Australian fans show their support during the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup match between England and Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground on February 14, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Michael Dodge-IDI/IDI via Getty Images)



An old fashion scoring implement is seen within the Adelaide scoreboard that is still used today during the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup match between India and Pakistan at Adelaide Oval on February 15, 2015 in Adelaide, Australia. (Photo by Michael Dodge-IDI/IDI via Getty Images)



A members of the grounds crew prepares the stumps prior to the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup match between the West Indies and Ireland at Saxton Field on February 16, 2015 in Nelson, New Zealand. (Photo by Joel Ford-IDI/IDI via Getty Images)



A member of the grounds crew prepares the stumps prior to the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup match between the West Indies and Ireland at Saxton Field on February 16, 2015 in Nelson, New Zealand. (Photo by Joel Ford-IDI/IDI via Getty Images)



Morkel of South Africa during the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup match between South Africa and Zimbabwe at Seddon Park on February 15, 2015 in Hamilton, New Zealand. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)



A cricket fan takes a picture of his ticket during the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup match between England and Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground on February 14, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Michael Dodge-IDI/IDI via Getty Images)

The Submarine Hotel: Lovers Paradise Deep in Water - Lovers Submarine

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The Submarine Hotel: Lovers Paradise Deep in Water - Lovers Submarine

How deep is your love? The Lovers Deep submarine offers the chance for an adventurous, rich — and not claustrophobic — couple to spend an evening below sea level. The sky-high price of $140,000 per person for one night doesn't include airfare.

1. We think it only appropriate to show you the master bedroom of the Lovers Deep first. Where the magic happens, if you're able to avoid being overwhelmed by the feeling that the fish are watching. Or that an Animal Planet submersible might 'happen' by.

Lovers Deep submarine


2. The Lovers Deep submarine offers the chance for an adventurous, rich — and not claustrophobic — couple to spend an evening below sea level. The sky-high price of $140,000 per person for one night doesn't include airfare.

Submarine hotel Lovers Deep only $140,000 a night

3. The swanky submarine is an over-the-top — or shall we say below-the-deep — luxury experience billed as the "Mile Low Club" that offers members the luxury services of a chef, a butler, and a captain who cater to the two guests.

Submarine hotel Lovers Deep only $140,000 a night

4. Although the staff promises to stay out of the way, it is a cozy experience — the vessel is only about 40 feet long.

Submarine hotel Lovers Deep only $140,000 a night

5. Good news for moguls who like subs (looking at you, James Cameron): Since this property was just added, Lovers Deep hasn't received any bookings yet — so now's the chance.

Submarine hotel Lovers Deep only $140,000 a night

6. The hefty price tag includes romantic gestures aplenty. The package includes rose-petal scattering, Barry White on the soundtrack, and a dinner that serves up oysters, caviar, and chocolate fondant.

Submarine hotel Lovers Deep only $140,000 a night

7. As underwater vacations go, you can't beat the view. Guests can choose where to dock, "whether that be a stunning coral reef off the coast of St. Lucia or a sunken battleship in the Red Sea," the press release notes.

Submarine hotel Lovers Deep only $140,000 a night

Emirates A380 Business Class Seats - Quick Look at Business Class Seats in Renowned Emirates

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Emirates A380 Business Class Seats - Quick Look at Business Class Seats in Renowned Emirates














Top 10 World's Best New Skyscrapers

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Top 10 World's Best New Skyscrapers

An international panel of experts has assessed more than 300 skyscrapers to determine the best new buildings making their marks on cities' skylines. Here are the top 10 which have scored Emporis Skyscraper Awards.

10. Nanfung Commercial, Hospitality and Exhibition Complex, Guangzhou, China

The world's best new skyscrapers

Both buildings in this complex offer exhibition space on their lower floors. One of the buildings is topped by offices, the other by a 5-star hotel containing, among other facilities, the city’s largest ballroom with an area of nearly 5000 square metres. The fact that both complex buildings are separated 160 metres from each other by another building had to be kept in mind during the design. The buildings’ sliding floor plates serve as a unique design feature linking both buildings over the distance.


9. AZ Tower, Brno, Czech Republic

The world's best new skyscrapers

Architects were going for a ‘deconstructed’ look with this new residential and commercial building. Thirty-metre-deep power piles cool the building in summer and heat it in winter with the help of a heat pump. It's the only building in the Czech Republic using this energy-efficient way of regulating the temperature. The Emporis Skyscraper Award has been given since 2000. The jury is formed of architecture experts from all over the world, who judge nominated buildings according to aesthetic and functional design criteria.

8. Ardmore Residence, Singapore

The world's best new skyscrapers

“From far away, Ardmore Residence appears to adopt divergent contours when viewed from different perspectives. Moving closely around the building, the various openings in the concrete panels of the facade affect a sense of organic mutation and transition,” Emporis says.

7. Mercury City, Moscow, Russia

The world's best new skyscrapers

Architect Frank Williams claims this is the first environmentally friendly building in Moscow. It is designed to use less water and electricity by collecting melting water and providing 75 percent workspace with daylight. 10 percent of the construction material came from a 300 kilometer radius of the construction site. The tallest building in Europe, it features two high-speed elevators travelling at a maximum speed of 7 metres per second.

6. Flame Towers, Baku, Azerbaijan

The world's best new skyscrapers

These towers are completely covered with LED screens displaying the movement of fire and creating the effect of giant torches. The design was inspired by Azerbaijan’s history as a land of fire due to its rich deposits of natural gas.

5. One Central Park (East Tower), Sydney, Australia

The world's best new skyscrapers

Thanks to the vertical gardens on each floor, the building gives residents the impression of living in a tree house. At night, the tower serves as a canvas for Yann Kersalé’s LED art installation.

4. Cayan Tower, Dubai, UAE

The world's best new skyscrapers

This building's twisted shape reduces wind forces on the tower. Each floor is rotated by 1.2 degrees to achieve the full 90-degree spiral, creating the shape of a helix. Used mainly as residential property, it is the world's tallest tower featuring a 90-degree twist.

3. Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort, Huzhou, China

The world's best new skyscrapers

Also known as the Moon Hotel, this ambitious building is designed to resemble the bright moon rising above Tai Lake. The unique ring shape allows all rooms to have balconies and views, and daylight from all directions. It cost a whopping US$1.5 billion to build.

2. DC Tower 1, Vienna, Austria

The world's best new skyscrapers

The facade on this 60-storey building is mostly made of glass, which means daylight can easily be used to replace artificial light. The building runs on green electricity and offers water-saving showers and bathrooms.

1. The Shard, London, England

The world's best new skyscrapers

At 306 metres high, The Shard has certainly made its mark on the London skyline. The tower's design features angled glass facade panels which create changing reflected light patterns, but watch out if you’re a guest in the hotel – the angled glass can act as a mirror at night, giving guests a view of their neighbours!

Boeing 747 Luxury Home: Inside The Boeing 747 Which Billionaire Spent £400m Converting Into Luxury Home

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Boeing 747 Luxury Home: Inside The Boeing 747 Which Billionaire Spent £400m Converting Into Luxury Home

Incredible images show the inside of an enormous jumbo jet converted into a luxury home for a mystery billionaire

The master suite on board the incredible jumbo jet (Caters)

From an on-board master bedroom to a 14-seater dining room, this is what it looks like inside an enormous jumbo jet that has been turned into a luxury home for an unnamed billionaire.

The custom-built Boeing 747-8 is understood to have cost its mystery owner around £400m to fit all of the detailed specifications.

The jet, which took three years to renovate, comes complete with bedrooms, lounges and even an onboard restaurant.

Normally, a jet this size would carry up to 450 passengers, but this version was built for a single owner and his lucky guests.


Dining space for 14 people (Caters)
Dining space for 14 people (Caters)

The ‘aeroloft’ on the top deck of the plane provides additional sleeping space with eight full beds for passengers to get some sleep on flights.

A conference room for meeting sin the sky (Caters)
A conference room for meeting sin the sky (Caters)

The company that built the incredible jet, Greenpoint could not disclose the name of the buyer.
Jon Buccola, Greenpoint owner, said: ‘This delivery represents an outstanding past 12 months for Greenpoint.






'Our entire team is extremely proud of this amazing accomplishment.’

The luxury plans of the converted 747-8. (Greenpoint Technologies)

Biggest House in USA: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida

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Biggest House in USA: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida

The Florida mansion that starred in the 2012 documentary "The Queen of Versailles," expected to be the nation's largest single-family home when it's complete, is back from the brink. Click here for more about it -- including a new video interview inside with the queen herself, owner Jackie Siegel -- on Yahoo Homes. Or see through our slides for the plans and progress.

According to Magnolia Pictures, "original plans for the mansion included six pools, a bowling alley, a wine cellar with fireplace, an indoor roller-skating rink, a baseball field, a discotheque, and a bomb shelter."


Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida
(Photo by Lauren Greenfield, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)


The mansion is on Lake Butler in Windermere, Florida, outside Orlando.

Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida 

Exterior and grounds. 

Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida 

Aerial plans.

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Front view.

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Jackie Siegel in front of the couple's existing house, a 26,000-square-foot home about a two-minute drive away from her Versailles-in-progress.

Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida
(Photo by Lauren Greenfield, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)

In the 2012 documentary "The Queen of Versailles," she said they were building the new mansion because because her family was "bursting out at the seams" in their existing house, shown, and because "my husband deserves it." She's shown here with some of her eight children in the existing house.

Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida
(Photo by Lauren Greenfield, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)

Rendering of front elevation.

Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida

The porte cochere.


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A rendering of the same view.

Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida

Architectural rendering of the porte cochere

Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida

The front doors are made with what New York magazine describes as "possibly the world's last batch of Brazilian mahogany." Jackie Siegel told the reporter: "They had to stop exporting it because they were cutting down the rain forest, or whatever."


Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida

The Siegels' visit to the real-life Palace of Versailles years ago (where she's pictured) inspired them to dream up their Florida mansion -- but the actual design of the house is based on the top three floors of the Paris Las Vegas hotel, David says in the documentary.

Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida

Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida
(Photo by Thomas Hawk, Flickr)

Jackie Siegel at the actual Versailles. The one in France.

Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida

A rendering of the grand hall and reality, at least as of a few years ago. See the interview that Jackie Siegel just taped with "The Insider" for a glimpse of the house as it looks now.

Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida
(Photo by Lauren Greenfield, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)

A better look at the rendering of the grand hall. "We could make speeches from there," David Siegel told Bloomberg, pointing out a balcony.













Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida

David and Jackie Siegel pose for photos before the release of the 2012 documentary. He told Bloomberg: "My wife is kind of a frustrated wannabe movie star. You could call her an ax murderer, but if you spell her name right, she’ll be OK with it. I think it is a terrible portrayal of our family, but she was there signing autographs."

Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida

(Photo by Lauren Greenfield, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)

The grand hall is "120 feet long by 60 feet wide with a 45-foot ceiling and a big 6-foot-high stained-glass dome," David Siegel told Bloomberg.

Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida

An architectural rendering of the indoor "relaxation pool" (or "relaxion pool," as one architectural drawing has it), part of a 10,000-square-foot spa area.

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The rear exterior of the home.

Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida 

The pool deck is said to be half an acre. A waterfall will cascade from the edge; behind it will be a grotto pool with two hot tubs.

Photos: America's biggest house, 'Versailles' in Florida 

Most Expensive Cities: Top World's 10 Most Expensive Cities 2015

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Most Expensive Cities: Top World's 10 Most Expensive Cities 2015

The Knight Frank wealth report reveals the 10 most expensive cities in the world for luxury property 2015 - in reverse order.

10. Los Angeles, US. Where $1m buys 57sq m of property.

los angeles skyline
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9. Paris, France (a view of the Eiffel Tower). Where $1m buys 50sq m of property.

French authorities have been flummoxed by the string of sightings of drones in France in recent weeks
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8. Shanghai, China (a view of the Shanghai World Financial Center and the skyline of the Lujiazui financial district in Pudong.) Where $1m buys 48sq m of prime property.

A general view shows the Shanghai World Financial Center and the skyline of the Lujiazui Financial District in Pudong
Picture: Getty Images

7. Sydney, Australia (a view over Sydney Habour Bridge and the opera house). Where $1m buys 41sq m of residential real estate.

sydney opera skyline
Picture: Getty Images

6. Geneva, Switzerland - (Kempinski Private Residences in Vevey where the penthouse was designed by Candy & Candy). Where $1m buys 39sq m of luxury property.


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5. Singapore (a view of the city). Where $1m buys 39sq m of real estate.

Singapore
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4. New York, US. Where $1m buys 34sq m of property space.


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3. London, Great Britain (The Corinthia Residences at Whitehall Place. Luxury apartments start at £8.5m to £15.6m - financing is available). Where $1m buys 21sq m of prime property.


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2. Hong Kong (skyline at night). Where $1m buys 20sq m of real estate.

Hong Kong
Picture: Rex Features

1. Monaco, France. A view of the habour. Where $1m buys just 17sq m of luxury property floor space.


Picture: Rex Features

Worlds Top 10 Hottest & Coldest Places: The World's Hottest Places Where Life Becomes Hell

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Worlds Top 10 Hottest & Coldest Places: The World's Hottest & Coldest Places Where Life Becomes Hell

Death Valley, USA

Death Valley, USA

California's Death Valley holds the record for the highest reliably reported air temperature in the world, 56.7°C in July, 1913. In midsummer the desert region averages around 47°C and is the driest place in the US. Hardly the environment you would expect to find hiking trails, resorts, and a bewilderingly green golf course. Ringed by mountains, Death Valley plunges to 86m below sea level, which helps explain the heat.
It's less than three hours' drive from Las Vegas. Head there around Christmas to miss the crowds and make sure you have a rugged vehicle - getting stranded is not recommended.
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Al-Aziziyah, Libya

Al-Aziziyah, Libya

Drive 40km south of Tripoli and you'll arrive at Al-Aziziyah, where - on September 13, 1922 - the world experienced its hottest air temperature ever recorded: 57.8°C. That is, until the World Meteorological Organisation announced in 2012 that the recording was invalid for a number of reasons, one of which was that the record keeper on that day was not the usual employee but an inexperienced observer. This ruling handed the record heat to Death Valley, California, for its 56.7°C temperature.
Al-Aziziyah is less than an hour by car from the Mediterranean Sea, a handy tonic is the mercury ever again spikes towards such sweltering levels.
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Dallol, Ethiopia

Dallol, Ethiopia

At Dallol, in the Denakil Depression, Africa dips to a depth of 116m below sea level, and the temperature soars. Dallol has the world's highest average temperature for an inhabited place, calculated at 34.6°C. Head across the salt plain to the Dallol volcano, the lowest on earth, if that's not hot enough for you.
Cooling temperatures from November to March make a winter visit more viable.
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Dasht-e Lut, Iran

Dasht-e lut, Iran

In 2004 and 2005 this desert plateau recorded the year's highest surface temperature, cracking the 70°C barrier. Coupled with the heat, the Dasht-e Lut vies with Chile's Atacama Desert for the title of the world's driest spot, and across a large area of the central Lut not a single creature survives, even bacteria. The desert's east has great visitor potential, with classic wind-sculpted dunes rising to heights of 500m.
Yazd (Iran's driest city) borders the deserts of Dasht-e Lut and Dasht-e Kavir. To really head into the desert you'll need to team up with local nomads.
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Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok, Thailand

Crowned as the planet's hottest city by the World Meteorological Organisation, Bangkok has an annual mean air temperature of 28°C. The months from March to May are the hottest, when the smog-saturated city experiences 35°C days and 90% humidity.
The city is only slightly cooler in December (around 31°C) but humidity remains high, making Bangkok rather uncomfortable all year round.
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Vostok station, Antarctica

Vostok, Antarctica

Located near the South Geomagnetic Pole, and at the lofty height of around 3,500m above sea level, the Russian research station at Vostok is perpetually cold, but never more so than on July 21, 1983, when it registered the coldest recorded air temperature on the planet: -89.2°C. The key geographical feature around Vostok is Lake Vostok. One of the world's largest lakes, it is buried beneath 4km of glacial ice.
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Eureka, Canada

Eureka, Canada

The Eureka research base on Canada's far-northern Ellesmere Island is often called the world's coldest inhabited place. It straddles the 80th parallel and was created as a weather station in 1947. The average annual air temperature is around -20°C. In winter that drops to around -40°C.
It is mildly warmer in the summer but even so, since records began the temperature has never exceeded 20.9°C, first reached on July 14, 2009.
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Oymyakon, Russia

Oymyakon, Russia

In the republic of Yakutia, around 350km south of the Arctic Circle, the village of Oymyakon slipped to the numbing frostiness of -68°C in 1933, the coldest recorded air temperature in the northern hemisphere. A plaque in the village commemorates the event, but expect a long day of rugged driving from Yakutsk (around 800km to the west) if you plan to pay homage to this mercury marvel.
Hitch a ride aboard one of the tankers that transport water to the town (the native water is all frozen).
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Denali, USA

Denali, USA

Denali, or Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America, has long been considered the coldest mountain on earth, with winter air temperatures plunging to around -40°C. To experience the 6,194m Alaskan peak you must be a mountaineer, but you can ponder it from slightly warmer locales with a visit to the Denali National Park.

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Perched on the Mongolian steppe, around 1,300m above sea level, Ulaanbaatar has often been described as the world's coldest capital city. In January, the air temperature rarely rises above -16°C. There are places to escape the chill, however: head to one of the city's impressive collection of museums (including the Camel Museum and the Museum of Political Persecution), or seek out the body heat of 150 monks at Gandantegchinlen Khiid - Mongolia's largest monastery.

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Worlds Top 14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing, Including Jack Ma And Larry Ellison

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Worlds Top 14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing, Including Jack Ma And Larry Ellison

Forbes released its annual Forbes 400 list on Monday, revealing the 400 wealthiest people in the US.
It's not just a list of privilege; it's a story of opportunity. Many of these mega successes started with limited means.

Just ask Jan Koum, the WhatsApp founder who once lived on food stamps. After selling his company to Facebook in February for $19 billion, he's now worth $7.7 billion, Forbes estimates.

Then there's Larry Ellison, who worked eight years of odd jobs before founding Oracle. He's one of the biggest dollar gainers since last year, making a $9 billion jump in net worth from 2013.

It's not only an American Dream. Several international entrepreneurs have had similarly meteoric rises. Talk to Alibaba founder Jack Ma, who started his career as an English teacher and is now worth over $20 billion after taking his company public.

These rags-to-riches stories remind us that through determination, grit, and a bit of luck anyone can overcome their circumstances and achieve extraordinary success.

1. Jan Koum, the CEO and cofounder of WhatsApp, once lived on food stamps before Facebook made him a billionaire.

14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing

Net worth: $7.7 billion (according to Forbes)’


Koum, 37, came to the US from Ukraine when he was 16 years old. His family, struggling to make ends meet, lived on food stamps that they picked up a couple blocks away from Koum's future WhatsApp offices in Mountain View, California.

In 2009, he and cofounder Brian Acton launched the real-time messaging app with an aim to connect people around the world. It essentially replaces text messaging.

WhatsApp, which now has over 600 million global users, agreed to a $19 billion buyout from Facebook earlier this year.

The deal made Koum a multibillionaire.

2. Jack Ma taught English before founding Alibaba in 1999.

14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing

Net worth: $20.2 billion

Born in Hangzhou, China, Ma grew up in poverty. He couldn't get a job at the local KFC. He failed the national college entrance exams — twice — before finally graduating and starting his career as an English teacher.

Then, in 1995, he had his first visit to the US. He saw the internet for the first time.

Recognizing that there was little in the way of Chinese content online, he started China Pages, a directory that was arguably the very first Chinese web startup. It promptly failed.

In 1999, he founded Alibaba. Today, the online retailer handles double the merchandise of Amazon. With September's IPO, Ma became China's richest person.

3. Elizabeth Holmes started her blood diagnostics company when she was 19. Now at 30, she's a billionaire.

14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing

Net worth: $4.5 billion

When Holmes was a 19-year-old sophomore at Stanford University back in 2003, she started Theranos, a blood diagnostics company that makes blood testing cheap.

The Palo Alto startup has 500 employees, a reported $400 million in funding, and a $9 billion evaluation.

Holmes has always been precocious — she taught herself Mandarin in her spare time when she was growing up in Houston. She was filing patents before getting to Stanford. And now she's worth billions.

4. Ingvar Kamprad was raised on a farm in Sweden before founding IKEA.

14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing

Net worth: $3.9 billion

When Kamprad was a 7-year-old boy growing up in rural 1920s Sweden, he sold matches to his neighbors.

He soon moved up to pencils, greeting cards, and Christmas ornaments. At 17, he founded a company called IKEA, short for Ingvar Kamprad from Elmtaryd, Agunnaryd, named for his hometown. At 21, he started selling furniture — and the IKEA empire had begun.

Today, the manufacturer has over 340 stores in 42 countries, $36 billion in annual sales, and the New Yorker has called the company the "invisible designer of domestic life."

Yet Kamprad remains frugal — the 88 year old refuses to fly anything other than economy class.

5. Starbucks' Howard Schultz grew up in a housing complex for the poor.

14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing

Net worth: $2.1 billion

In an interview with British tabloid Mirror, Schultz says: "Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families. And for some reason, I don’t know why or how, I wanted to climb over that fence and achieve something beyond what people were saying was possible. I may have a suit and tie on now but I know where I’m from and I know what it’s like."

Schultz ended up winning a football scholarship to the University of Northern Michigan and went to work for Xerox after graduation.

Shortly after, he took over a coffee shop called Starbucks, which at the time had only 60 shops. Schultz became the company's CEO in 1987 and grew the coffee chain to more than 16,000 outlets worldwide.

6. Born into poverty, Oprah Winfrey became the first African American TV correspondent in Nashville.

14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing

Net worth: $3 billion

Winfrey was born into a poor family in Mississippi, but this didn't stop her from winning a scholarship to Tennessee State University and becoming the first African American TV correspondent in the state at the age of 19.

In 1983, Winfrey moved to Chicago to work for an AM talk show, which would later be called "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

7. At one time, businessman Shahid Khan washed dishes for $1.20 an hour.

14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing

Net worth: $4.4 billion

He's now one of the richest people in the world, but when Khan came to the US from Pakistan, he worked as a dishwasher while attending the University of Illinois. Khan now owns Flex-N-Gate, one of the largest private companies in the US; the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars; and Premier League soccer club Fulham.

8. John Paul DeJoria, the man behind a hair-care empire and Patron Tequila, once lived in a foster home and his car.

14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing

Net worth: $3.2 billion

Before the age of 10, DeJoria, a first generation American, sold Christmas cards and newspapers to help support his family. He was eventually sent to live in a foster home and even spent some time in a gang before joining the military.

With a $700 dollar loan, DeJoria created John Paul Mitchell Systems and sold the shampoo door-to-door while living in his car. He later started Patron Tequila, and now invests in other industries.

9. Forever 21 cofounder Do Won Chang worked as a janitor, gas station attendant, and in a coffee shop when he first moved to America.

14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing

Net worth: $5.2 billion

The husband-and-wife team — Do Won Chang and Jin Sook — behind Forever 21 didn't always have it so easy. After moving to America from Korea in 1981, Do Won had to work three jobs at the same time to make ends meet. They opened their first clothing store in 1984.

Forever 21 is now an international, 480-store empire that rakes in around $3 billion in sales a year.

10. Leonardo Del Vecchio grew up in an orphanage and later worked in a factory where he lost part of his finger.

14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing

Net worth: $18.4 billion

Del Vecchio, who founded Luxottica in 1961, was one of five children who was eventually sent to an orphanage because his widow mother couldn't care for him. He would later work in a factory making molds of auto parts and eyeglass frames.

At the age of 23, Del Vecchio opened his own molding shop, which expanded to become the world's largest maker of sunglasses and prescription eyewear with brands like Ray-Ban and Oakley.

11. Ralph Lauren was once a clerk at Brooks Brothers dreaming of men's ties.

14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing

Net worth: $7.8 billion

Lauren graduated high school in the Bronx, N.Y., but later dropped out of college to join the Army. It was while working as a clerk at Brooks Brothers that Lauren questioned whether men were ready for wider and brighter designs in ties. The year he decided to make his dream a reality, 1967, Lauren sold $500,000 worth of ties. He started Polo the next year.

12. Legendary trader George Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary and arrived in London as an impoverished college student.

14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing

Net worth: $24 billion

In his early teens, Soros posed as the godson of an employee of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture in order to stay safe from the Nazi occupation of Hungary. In 1947, Soros escaped the country to live with his relatives in London. He put himself through the London School of Economics working as a waiter and railway porter.

After graduating, Soros worked at a souvenir shop before getting a job as a banker in New York City. In 1992, his famous bet against the British pound made him a billion dollars.

13. Oracle's Larry Ellison dropped out of college after his adoptive mother died and held odd jobs for eight years.

14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing

Net worth: $48 billion

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to a single mother, Ellison was raised by his aunt and uncle in Chicago. After his aunt died, Ellison dropped out of college and moved to California to work odd jobs for the next eight years. He founded software development company Oracle in 1977, which is now one of the largest technology companies in the world.

Now he's stepped away from his CEO responsibility — but continues to lead a fabulous life.

14. Roman Abramovich was orphaned as a child. Now the Russian tycoon owns the Chelsea football club.

14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing

Net worth: $9.5 billion

Abramovich was born in 1966 in Saratov, Russia. His mother died when he was 18 months old. His father died when he was four.

Orphaned, he was taken in by his uncle in Moscow and his grandparents in the northern province of Komi.

He went to Russia's Industrial Institute for college and then started trading oil products in western Siberia.

The Guardian reports that his "big break" came in 1992 when he caught the favor of Boris Berezovsky, one of Russia's premier tycoons as the country moved into capitalism.

Berezovsky fled to the UK after fraud charges. Abramovich took the reins of his empire, accumulating "80% of Sibneft, Russia's fifth-largest oil company; 50% of Rusal, the Russian aluminium oil monopoly; and 26% of Aeroflot, Russia's national airline," the
Guardian reports. Then he got into private investments.

Today, Abramovich is one of Russia's richest people, and he has toys like the world's largest yacht, a Boeing 767, and the Chelsea Football Club.

Worlds Top 10 Biggest Employers - Employers that can make you rich in the world

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Worlds Top 10 Biggest Employers - Employers that can make you rich in the world

The world's largest employers are not private companies.

Last week, the World Economic Forum's (WEF's) Agenda blog highlighted the organizations that employ the most people in the world. The post noted that the top spot is often incorrectly attributed to Indian Railways, instead of the US Department of Defense, which employs more than 3 million people.

The good news for workers at the two largest private US employers — Wal-Mart and McDonald's — is that higher wages are here.

BI_Graphics_The Worlds Largest Employers Chart
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World's Best Thrilling Photos That Will Make Your Heart Rate Increase

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World's Best Thrilling Photos That Will Make Your Heart Rate Increase

Adrenaline junkies are everywhere. We all have that one friend who always wants you to try out different extreme sports with them and just never seems to have enough thrill in their lives. Well if it sounds like you might just be that person, you should try some of these activities... this is adrenaline junkiedom taken to a whole new and insane level.

1. White water kayaking in Chile


2. Cliff camping! - One must have right partner for this kind sports. See how cool the girl is! reading books as if in her apartment.



3. Cliff camping.



4. Ice climbing a waterfall - Spell bounding action. Going up the waterfall iced in cold.



5. Kjeregbolten boulder in Rogaland, Norway.



6. This bike trail along the Cliffs of Moher.



7. A very different view of Rio de Janeiro.



8. Alex Honnold, one of the world's most daring free-climbers, resting in the middle of a climb.



9. Base jumping: A sport invented by people who absolutely can't get enough death-defying danger in their lives.



10. Climbing around the Escalando Mountains.



11. Climbing in Cabo San Lucas.



12. Doing some yoga on Norway's Trolltunga.



13. Extreme kayaking at Victoria Falls.



14. This outrageous example of extreme skiing.



15. Extreme urban exploration.



16. Rappelling into the "Fantastic Pit" cave in Mexico.



17. Iranian ice climbing.



18. John Roberts, climbin' around South Africa.



19. Redwood tree climbing.



20. Swinging at La Casa Del Arbol.



21. Taking slack-lining to a whole new level...



22. This bridge in Sequim, Washington



23. This outrageous dive into oblivion



24. Trapeze paragliding



25. Traversing the Death Trail on Mt. Huashan in China



26. Every single thing that the Ukrainian daredevil "Mustang Wanted" does



27. Hanging out anywhere with Kirill Oreshkin, also known as "Russia's Spiderman"



28. More shenanigans from Mustang Wanted!

Mountain Goats - World's Amazing Rock Climbers

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Mountain Goats - World's Amazing Rock Climbers

1. how is this even possible!




2. i wonder what is there to eat right there.. I hope its really delicious



3. they look cute. But hey, I must say, these goats got some serious skills!!



4. These goats called TAHR GOATS.



5. Now they got together. With family. Buy Hey is it gravity or magnetic hill



6. This is a painting!



7. No Words to describe



8. How did this one turn out?



9. Small but oosssmmm



10. i had seen this type of goats climbing....while i m on tour to himalaya


World's Top 10 Best Airports - List of top Best 10 Airport in the World

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By James Marsh

World's Top 10 - Best Airports List of top Best 10 in the world...

Here is the list of the world's best airports, based on the 2013 World Airport Awards, announced in the month of April'2013 by leading airline reviewer Skytrax.

The awards, which include categories for best terminal, shopping, security, cleanliness, dining, and more, are determined by public opinion. More than 12 million people responded to this year's survey.


10. London Heathrow Airport (Yearly passengers: 70 million)



Why it's awesome: Despite London Mayor Boris Johnson's concern that Heathrow gives visitors "a terrible impression of the UK," the overcrowded airport made it into Skytrax's top ten.

The third busiest airport in the world in 2012, it took home the awards for Best Airport Shopping and Best Airport Terminal, for T5, which opened in 2008 after a $6.2 billion, 19-year design and construction process.

Heathrow's Skytrax review includes four or five out of five star rankings for ease of use, flight information, public transport, security staff efficiency, and more.

Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures are preliminary rankings for 2012 provided by Airports Council International.

9. Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) (Yearly passengers: 66.8 million)



Why it's awesome: Haneda moved up five places this year, partly thanks to how clean it is. With a third, international terminal that opened in 2010, Haneda can accommodate 90 million passengers annually.

More construction is already in the works: The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced plans to expand the new terminal with eight more gates, more parking, and a hotel, by March 2014.

The airport won the Skytrax awards for Best Airport Terminal Cleanliness and World's Best Domestic Airport, and took second place for Best Airport Immigration Service.

Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures are preliminary rankings for 2012 provided by Airports Council International.

8. Vancouver International Airport (Yearly passengers: 17.6 million)



Why it's awesome: The least busy airport in the Skytrax top ten, Vancouver International offers visitors a large collection of Pacific Northwest Coast Native art.

Skytrax named Vancouver International the Best Airport in North America for the fourth year in a row in 2013, a streak that justifies the $1.4 billion the airport spent on recent expansion.

Volunteers, known as Green Coat Ambassadors, work in the airport to help travelers get where they're going.

Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures provided by Vancouver International Airport.

7. Zurich Airport (Yearly passengers: 24.8 million)


Why it's awesome: The largest international airport in Switzerland, Zurich was significantly expanded in 2003, with a new terminal and an underground, automated train called the Skymetro to shuttle travelers around.

Located 7 miles north of the Zurich city center, this airport also won Best Airport Baggage Delivery in Europe.

The airport offers a porter service where travelers pay a fee to have their bag picked up from anywhere in the airport and delivered to their final destination.

Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures provided by Zurich Airport.

6. Munich Airport (Yearly passengers: 38.4 million)


Why it's awesome: Germany's second busiest airport features aesthetically pleasing terminals on the walk to the gate. Many of the walls and ceilings are made of glass, making the airport feel large and open.

The airport, a 45 minute train ride from the Munich city center, was also named the best in Central Europe, and the World's Best Airport for Dining.

Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures are preliminary rankings for 2012 provided by Airports Council International.

5. Beijing Capital International Airport (Yearly passengers: 81.9 million)


Why it's awesome: Already beyond its 78 million passenger annual capacity, Beijing Capital is the busiest airport in Asia and the second busiest in the world, trailing only Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson.

That's why the city is building another airport, which will be bigger than JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark combined.

Capital's tallest building, Terminal 3, came in fifth for Best Airport Terminal. It opened in 2008, in time for the Beijing Olympics.

Capital also took second place for Best Baggage Delivery.

Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures are preliminary rankings for 2012 provided by Airports Council International.

4. Hong Kong International Airport (Yearly passengers: 56.1 million)


Why it's awesome: Located less than five flying hours from half of the world's population, Hong Kong's airport is one of the busiest in the world.

It didn't win any awards, but it landed in the top five for dining, shopping, cleanliness, and leisure amenities.

In March 2012, the airport decided to add a third runway to increase its capacity.

Hong Kong International also offers a nine-hole golf course, a great place for travelers to spend long layovers.

Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures are preliminary rankings for 2012 provided by Airports Council International.

3. Amsterdam Schiphol (Yearly passengers: 51 million)


Why it's awesome: Schiphol opened in 1916 as a military airfield and has now transformed into one of the busiest airports in the world.

While travelers wait for their flight departures, they can enjoy a massage, play a game of poker at the casino, and catch up on some reading at the airport library.

According to Skytrax, Schiphol also has excellent dining and shopping options.

Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures are preliminary rankings for 2012 provided by Airports Council International.

2. Incheon International Airport (Yearly passengers: 39.2 million)


Why it's awesome: Incheon, the largest airport in South Korea, serves passengers on more than 70 airlines, and is one of only three airlines to receive a five-star overall rating from Skytrax.

Every year from 2005 to 2012, it was rated as the world's top airport by Airports Council International.

The young airport — it opened in March 2001 — is home to a museum of Korean culture, and has excellent rankings for cleanliness, external views, rest areas, internet access, and local food choices.

Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures are preliminary rankings for 2012 provided by Airports Council International.

1. Singapore Changi Airport (Yearly passengers: 51.2 million)


Why it's awesome: Changi is designed to alleviate the stress of travel, and offers passengers the chance to enjoy lots of greenery, an outdoor pool, and a butterfly garden.

For those who prefer to stay inside, it also houses movie theaters, spas, showers, and a four-story slide.

Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures are preliminary rankings for 2012 provided by Airports Council International.

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Top 20 Scariest and Horror Movies of All Time - List is Here

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Looking for Top 20 Scariest and Horror Movies of All Time - List is Here for the best and top most 20 movies which were scary and horror.

THE SHINING (1980)

Directed by Stanley Kubrick

Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's novel about the Torrance family's headlong plunge into insanity during a secluded Colorado winter remains better known for its T-shirt quotables (''Heeeere's Johnny!''''All work and no play make Jack a dull boy'') than as a beautiful and pleasing horror film. It's a shame. With a haunting score, luscious, near-eternal Steadicam shots, and Jack Nicholson's grand pirouette into murderous madness at its heart, it's one of the most artful horror films in history.


THE EXORCIST (1973)

Directed by William Friedkin

A cat unexpectedly jumping from off camera is scary. But The Exorcist is so disturbing it will mess you up for months. Controversial and profane, The Exorcist remains the most viscerally harrowing movie ever made, not only because it dares to question the existence of God but because it has the cojones to put Satan in the body of a 12-year-old girl.

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)

Directed by Tobe Hooper

Truth is stranger than fiction...and it's a hell of a lot scarier, too. Based (like much ofPsycho) on the horrific ritual murders committed by Ed Gein, Chainsaw looks, feels, and smells so much like a grainy, low-budget documentary that it borders on snuff. Hooper says that when he settled on the film's title, ''I lost several friends. But I thought, they're putting so much energy into hating the title, maybe there's something there.'' Indeed there is; a copy of Chainsaw resides in the Museum of Modern Art.

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)

Directed by Jonathan Demme

As Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Anthony Hopkins is a waking nightmare of seductive depravity — the sick, twisted serial killer America hates to love. Even with Hannibal the Cannibal safely locked away in his maximum-security cell, Jodie Foster's FBI trainee Clarice Starling is as helpless as a lamb. ''Great villains are subversive — audiences go and see them because they feel uncomfortably attracted to them,'' says Scott Glenn, who plays Starling's seen-it-all FBI mentor in Silence. ''To this day I still have nightmares about it.''

JAWS (1975)

Directed by Steven Spielberg.
''Is it true that most people get attacked by sharks in about three feet of water?'' When this doom-drenched gem — the highest-grossing film on our list — hit theaters, it gave new meaning to the phrase red tide. Weeks over schedule and dizzyingly over budget,Jaws caused Spielberg more than his share of headaches — especially due to his temperamental star. No, not Richard Dreyfuss, but Bruce, the 24-foot-long malfunctioning animatronic great white named after Spielberg's lawyer. ''The fact that the shark didn't work was an artistic blessing in disguise,'' says Spielberg. ''It forced me to be Hitchcockian.''

THE RING (2002)

Directed by Gore Verbinski

Few supernatural films have proven to be as unwittingly grounded in reality as The Ring. Released back when SARS was a particularly crappy Scrabble attempt and ''bird flu'' something that Heckle gave to Jeckle, The Ring has aged into a rare kind of thriller, one with frights that not only hold up years later, but are heightened, thanks to subsequent real-life events. With its virus-like ''villain'' (a mysterious tape that's passed from one victim to the next) and the slow-build physical deterioration it causes (nosebleeds, hallucinations), Gore Verbinski's box office hit now seems culturally clairvoyant in our disease-distressed times.

HALLOWEEN (1978)

Directed by John Carpenter

The original Halloween is, was, and ever shall be the alpha and omega of bogeyman flicks. It also remains one of the most profitable indie films of all time — costing a mere $300,000 and pulling in more than $55 million. The influence of Psycho (''It's the granddaddy of all horror movies,'' says Carpenter) is everywhere — from the tiniest details (Donald Pleasence's Dr. Sam Loomis is named after Janet Leigh's boyfriend inPsycho) to the casting of Jamie Lee Curtis as Halloween's shrieking heroine and babysitter in peril. ''It didn't hurt that Janet Leigh was her mom,'' says Carpenter, ''because everyone's a fan of Psycho.'' And Halloween.

PSYCHO (1960)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
A charter member of the scary movie hall of fame. Many of its most renowned features are readily apparent: those startling cuts (more than 50 in the shower sequence alone), Anthony Perkins' neurotic mama's boy, Bernard Herrmann's shrieking-violins score. ButPsycho's sneakiest tricks manifest themselves more subtlely. Take Hitchcock's decision to use a handful of different stabbers in Janet Leigh's slice-and-dice sequence: ''He kept changing it so the audience wouldn't be able to get a fix on Mother,'' Leigh, who spent seven days in that shower, told EW in 1999. ''At one point it was Tony's stand-in, at one point it was a woman. Never Tony.'' Bottom line: It still works.

SEVEN (1995)

Directed by David Fincher
From the jittery, scratched celluloid of its opening credits onward, Seven oozes more apocalyptic doom and deranged creativity than any Brad Pitt movie has a right to. Before this film came out, gluttonygreedslothenvywrathpride, and lust were just intangible words uttered in Sunday school. From its bleak, rainy setting to an unshakably grim finale, Seven is so nihilistic and disturbing it's hard to fathom how it ever got greenlit. We mean that as a compliment.

ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968)

Directed by Roman Polanski
More conspiracy thriller than horror movie, Baby nurses a mother lode of phobias. As Rosemary (Mia Farrow) slowly intuits she's been raped by Satan, she wrestles a myriad of believable demons: uncaring doctors, intrusive neighbors (primarily Ruth Gordon, who copped an Oscar), and a monstrously self-centered husband (John Cassavetes). Farrow's alarming enactment of emaciated desperation got a spur from then-husband Frank Sinatra's off-screen behavior: She was devastated when he initiated a divorce in mid-production.

POLTERGEIST (1982)

Directed by Tobe Hooper
Based on a story by Steven Spielberg, Poltergeist was released just one week beforeE.T., and it seemed like the latter movie's evil twin. Both were tales of suburban California families whose lives are upended by otherworldly invaders, but while E.T.seemed a Christian parable of death and resurrection, Poltergeist had a more sinister take on the afterlife. That three of the franchise's stars suffered untimely deaths led to talk of an off-screen curse, which surviving cast members dismiss and refuse to discuss, but which makes the film that much creepier.

28 DAYS LATER (2003)

Directed by Danny Boyle

Boyle's post-apocalyptic thriller pushed the envelope in two major ways. The first was its introduction of ''fast zombies.'' In almost all previous incarnations, the undead lumbered like slow-walking trees, arms raised at 90-degree angles, moaning for brains. But in 28 Days Later, they moved like rabid, caffeinated jackals. It was new, bold, utterly terrifying. Boyle's second twist was having his zombies not be zombies, per se, but infected people. When Cillian Murphy awakens in an abandoned hospital, the plague that's turned London into a no-man's-land isn't something out of a horror film we've seen a million times before; it's something far scarier.

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)

Directed by Wes Craven
The screen debut of the character who gave striped sweaters a bad name, Nightmareintroduces a suburban monster who stalks teens while they sleep. Craven makes the most banal aspects of adolescence hellish, whether it's turning the sanctity of childhood bedrooms into murder zones or a phone into a demonic tongue. Freddy eventually turned into an all-too-jokey shadow of himself — but there's nothing funny about him in this first installment. Bonus: A young Johnny Depp gets eaten alive by a bed.

THE THING (1982)

Directed by John Carpenter

A loose remake of Howard Hawks' 1951 sci-fi Cold War allegory, Carpenter's Thing isn't concerned with messages; it's just a terrifying meditation on paranoia and subzero dread as a group of scientists at the South Pole (led by Kurt Russell) is infiltrated by an alien that assumes the bodies of its victims in very messy ways. And despite its many gross-out F/X, no moment in the movie is more unsettling than watching cuddly Quaker Oatmeal pitchman Wilford Brimley go insane. Carpenter is frankly surprised by the film's latter-day esteem. ''When The Thing was released,'' he says, ''it was one of the most hated movies of all time.'' Time to set the record straight.

THE EVIL DEAD (1982)

Directed by Sam Raimi

Before he was the webmaster of the Spider-Man franchise, Sam Raimi was a college dropout with $385,000 and a nightmare. Plotwise, The Evil Dead is just your basic ''kids at a remote cabin in the woods foolishly read forbidden book and unleash demons'' movie. But the result was a template for a generation of horror filmmakers, thanks to the wry Bruce Campbell (as ''Ash'' Williams, in the performance that made him a cult horror hero), those predatory trees, and Raimi's wickedly inventive direction. As he told EW, ''When we made Evil Dead, I wanted [viewers] to jump and scream and feel my wrath!'' We're still feeling it.

CARRIE (1976)

Directed by Brian De Palma
De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's first novel is set in the lurid, oversexed world of high school, where persecuted telekinetic Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) transcends catty rivals and a psychotically religious mother (Piper Laurie) to become prom queen — only to be doused in pig's blood, go on a murderous rampage, and kill just about everyone. ''I got tricked into doing [Carrie],'' says Laurie, who, like Spacek, won an Oscar nomination. ''It seemed so over-the-top, I thought it was going to be a satire. When De Palma stopped me in rehearsals, my heart just dropped. Whoops!'' Pioneering moment: the best final scare ever. Period.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)

Directed by George A. Romero

The horror movie whose zombie escapades inspired a thousand more, Dead was filmed in black and white for about $100,000, some of which was reportedly contributed by lead actor Russell Streiner. Although the film, about radiation-poisoned corpses on the hunt for fresh meat, was made on the cheap (any flub in the sound was covered with the chirping of crickets), the total gross has been estimated to be as high as $50 million. Because of legal problems with the original distributor, the filmmakers saw only a tiny fraction of the grosses, inspiring a remake in 1990. Stick with the original — the Blair Witch Project of its day.


THE OMEN (1976)

Directed by Richard Donner

Someday, an enterprising film student will write a master's thesis on why the Nixon-Ford era spawned the cinematic unholy trinity of Rosemary's BabyThe Exorcist, and The Omen. Until then, let's just picture the last of those demon seeds, Damien (Harvey Stephens) — the tiny Antichrist with the 666 devil sign on his scalp — maniacally pedaling his tricycle and knocking Lee Remick over the second-floor railing to the menacing strains of ''Ave Satani.''''That boy was putty to direct...just a dream,'' says Donner, who adds, ''A lot of people were afraid to see The Omen because The Exorcistscared the s--- out of them so much.''

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981)

Directed by John Landis

Poor David Naughton. He seems to be starring in a madcap romantic comedy as an American backpacker who woos lovely British nurse Jenny Agutter. But then his zombie pal Griffin Dunne keeps reappearing, each time in a state of further decomposition, warning David that he must commit suicide before he becomes a werewolf at the next full moon. What a buzz kill. The movie's blend of comedy and horror isn't always successful, and its ending seems abrupt, but its scary parts are certainly scream-worthy. The werewolf attacks, shot from the predator's point of view, are chillers, but best is Naughton's excruciating, horrifyingly realistic transformation scene, maybe the best in any werewolf movie.

HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (1990)

Directed by John McNaughton

One of those horror movies where the low budget actually helps — lending a rough, documentary look to the proceedings — Henry follows the titular character and his hee-haw partner in homicide, Otis, on a spree that includes one nightmarish scene in which the two murder a helpless family, then sit back to watch a videotape of the crime. ''Once I was late for a screening and bumped into a lady running away from the movie,'' says Michael Rooker (Henry), ''and she ran smack into me and just screamed and screamed!''

Worlds 10 Most Expensive Dog Breeds - List is here!!

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Find who are the Worlds 10 Most Expensive Dog Breeds - List is here!!

Below you will find our countdown of the worlds most expensive dog breeds and also find out what the most expensive dog ever sold to date was…. This popular post has been fully updated for 2011.

The most popular dog breeds are not the worlds most expensive dog breeds, but the luxury dogs rate high in the top of the list. Popular dog breeds change from year to year and from country to country; and so do the most expensive dogs in the world.


What Makes a Dog Expensive?

There are a variety of factors which make dogs expensive. Purity of breed or their rarity can make dogs extremely expensive. When they are offspring from prize winning dogs the prices can skyrocket too, but the biggest factor is the C-factor. As soon as a dog is spotted or photographed in possession of a celebrity, the dog’s price will shoot beyond the moon. It has happened in the past, and it will happen in the future.

The most expensive dog ever sold

The most expensive dog ever sold was recently in March 2011, a red “Tibetan mastiff” called Big Splash, or “Hong Dong” in Chinese. This most expensive dog ever is already 11 months-old and already stands nearly three-feet-high at the shoulder and weighs more than 180lbs, says his breeder, Lu Liang. He was purchased by a chinese multi-millionaire coal baron.

‘Big Splash’ sold for an amazing 10 million Yuan which is about 1.5 million US Dollars and beats the earlier record set by another Tibetan Mastiff Tibetan mastiff” called Yangtze River Number Two which was sold to a chinese woman in 2009 for a whopping 4 million Yuan (About $609,000). But this still doesn’t make the Tibetan Mastiff generally the most expensive dog breed.

Top Ten of Expensive Dogs

Roaming along the internet, in a variety of countries here is a countdown of the top ten most expensive dog breeds our editors found.

10 – Akita: Ok so in at No.10 for the most expensive dog breeds is the Japanese Akita which can sell for between $1,500 – $4,500



9 – Bearded Collie: At No.9 in our list of the worlds most expensive dogs is bearded Collie which can be sold for between $1,000 and $5,000



8 – Pharaoh Hound: In at No.8 of the most expensive dog breed is the Pharaoh hound which can fetch between $2,500 – $6,500



7 – Tibetan Mastiff: At No.7 in our list is the Tibetan Mastiff which can usually go for around $2,200 – $7,000. Now although one of these was sold for a whopping $1.5 million it still doesn’t make it as generally the most expensive dog breed.




6– Rottweiler: The Rottweiler makes it to number 6 in our most expensive dogs list at between $2,000 – $8,000




5 – Chow Chow: At No.5 of our list is the Chow-Chow a chinese breed which can fetch between $3,000 – $8,500




4 – English Bulldog: The good Ole English Bulldog or ‘British Bulldog’ as it’s know in the UK is at no.4 of our most expensive dogs breeds at between $2,500 – $9,000.. And now wait for it, the top 3 most expensive dog breeds… drumroll please….!!!




3 – Samoyed: The Samoyed which originates from Siberia is our No.3 selection which can be bought for between $4,000 – $11,000



2 – Cavalier King Charles Spaniel: And 2nd in our ‘Top Dog’ list is the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel from England which can sell for a princely sum of between $1,000 – $14,000.



1 – German Shepherd (Alsatian):

In at No.1 as the most expensive dog breed in the world has to be the very versatile Alsation which can fetch anything between $3,000 – $24,000..



So there it is. An exciting list of dog breeds, and unfortunately some very popular dogs did not make it to the top ten.

What happened to the Golden Retriever, Komondor, Malteser Terrier, Bichon Frise, Norfolk Terrier, Staffordshire Terrier, Yorkshire Terrier and the Australian Shepherd? All popular dogs but they did not make it into the top ten of most expensive dogs 2011. Worlds Most Expensive Dog Breed

The winner is the German Shepherd, a trustworthy dog which has proven it’s capacity to be trained beyond the scope of many other dogs. The German Shepherd can be trained as a rescue dog, drug sniffer and as guidance dog for the visual impaired. Not a wonder that he/she claims the top of the list of the most expensive dogs in the world. A dog training institute in Germany sells their German Shepherds for a cool $24,000, they claim to train the best rescue dogs in the world.

World's 25 Dizziest Cable Car Rides, Ropeways, Cable-cars, Gondolas, ski-lifts, chair-lifts and ziplines

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World's Dizziest Cable Car Rides, Ropeways, Cable-cars, Gondolas, ski-lifts, chair-lifts and ziplines

Few activities beat the thrill of watching the world from above. Ropeways, cable-cars, gondolas, ski-lifts, chair-lifts and ziplines offer the perfect opportunity for tourists to enjoy the world, suspended in the air.

Enjoy this collection of images from around the world, updated every month. Make sure you bookmark it and come right back for another bird's eye-view.


1. ZHANGJIAJIE, CHINA: A cable car goes up to the peak of Tianmen Mountain at Zhangjiajie National Park in China's Central Hunan province.



2. CHONGQING, CHINA: A cable car runs through the Chongqing Yangtze River Ropeway in Chongqing Municipality, China. Chongqing Yangtze River Ropeway, built in 1987, is one of the important public transportation facilities linking areas along both banks of Yangtze River. Taking the cable car is also a good way to view the hilly and foggy city's scenery, according to local media.



3. LISBON, PORTUGAL: Cable Cars and the Parque dos Nacoes (Park of Nations),Vasco da Gama Bridge behind,eastern edge of the city of Lisbon in Portugal.



4. The cable car up to the Timber Trail Heights resort in the Shivalik Ranges is seen in Parwanoo, India.



5. DUBROVNIK, CROATIA: Aerial view from the Srd-Mountain and its cable car of the UNESCO World Heritage Site city of Dubrovnik on the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic Sea and the island of Lokrum in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The old town is surrounded by a 1.9 km-long city wall and called the Pearl of the Adriatic.



6. MERANO, ITALY: Cable car in the glacier skiing area Schnalstaler Gletscher in Merano, Italy. Val Senales is a glacier region that is famous for Oetzi the Iceman and for skiing all year long. The valley Val Senales is located next to Merano and Bolzano in Northern Italy, Province of Alto Adige.



7. TENERIFE, SPAIN: The cable car up to the top of Pico del Teide in the Teide National Park, home of the Pico del Teide and a volcanic landscape comprising calderas and lava rock formations in Tenerife, Spain. Tenerife is the biggest of the Canary Islands and year-round holiday destination due to its warm climate and volcanic landscape. The island is also home to Spain's highest mountain Pico del Teide.



8. A general view of the Emirates Air Line cable car in London, England.



9. CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, ITALY: Cable car, teleferic, up to the Lagazuoi in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Northern Italy. Rifugio Lagazuoi is built on a cliff of mount Lagazuoi in the Dolomite Alps at a height of 2750 metres above sea level.



10. CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA: A view from the top of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa. Table Mountain is officially one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature.



11. POIANA BRASOV, ROMANIA: A cable car brings skiers to the summit at the Poiana Brasov ski resort in the Bucegi mountains at Poiana Brasov, Romania.



12. A cable car travels along the mountain prior to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at the Mountain Cluster in Sochi, Russia.



13. Skiers are pictured on a chair lift with Matterhorn mountain at Sunnegga in the ski resort of Zermatt.



14. Gondolas travel through the snow covered woods along the Streif, the men's Alpine skiing downhill course at the Hahnenkamm mountain of the Austrian Alpine skiing resort of Kitzbuehel.



15. A cable car carrying passengers travels above the Yangtze River on a hazy day in Chongqing municipality, China.



16. Hanging bridge of Bilbao transports people and cars in a funicular subject to the cables of the hanging bridge of the creek of Bilbao, Spain.



17. A skier relaxes on a chair lift as he climbs the mountain at the Sierra at Tahoe Ski Resort near Echo Summit, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. A overnight storm brought several inches of snow to the Sierra Nevada and rain to Northern California.



18. A man is seen on a chair lift during the Women's World Cup Downhill skiing race in Cortina D'Ampezzo January 18, 2014. The Saturday race was cancelled due to snow conditions.



19. A woman covers her face as she sits in a makeshift chair lift to cross a polluted stream on the outskirts of Islamabad October 23, 2013.



20. Skiers and tourists sit in a chair lift at the Mount Titlis skiing area (3,238 m/10,623 ft) near the Swiss mountain resort of Engelberg October 19, 2013.



21. People sit on a chair lift on a sunny autumn day at the Rettenbachferner glacier in Soelden October 19, 2013. 



22. A couple kisses on the chair lift at the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, California September 4, 2013.



23. A cable car moves over River Gauja valley near Turaida October 8, 2013. Turaida, Garden of Gods in ancient Liv language, is a traditional autumn tourist attraction with coloured leaves, medieval castle and Folk Song park with 26 stone sculptures. British newspaper "The Guardian" nominated Turaida as year 2013's number one autumn tourist destination in the world. Picture taken October 8, 2013.



24. Cable cars operate on newly inaugurated 'Makhdoom Sahib (RA) Rope-way', a unit of Jammu and Kashmir Cable Car Corporation at Makhdoom Sahib in Srinagar on Dec.23, 2013.



25. A view of the landscape from the cable car to Mount Titlis, the highest destination peak and ski resort in Switzerland.

World's Longest Bridges | 25 Longest Bridges In The World

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World's Longest Bridges | 25 Longest Bridges In The World

Saratov BridgeTrying to determine the longest bridge in the world is no easy task. In the past several years there have been numerous “measurement wars” fought over the length of Earth’s longest bridges. The primary reason for this is that it’s hard to define what exactly constitutes a bridge. Does it have to be over water? Are elevated road ways bridges? What if only part of the bridge is over water? Although these are legitimate questions if you are competing for a Guinness World Record, for our purposes we will not discriminate against any particular type of bridge. So with that said, these are the 25 longest bridges in the world.




World's Longest Bridges | 25 Longest Bridges In The World

25. Saratov Bridge

Saratov Bridge

Saratov Bridge: Saratov Bridge across the Volga River in Saratov, Russia was the longest bridge in the Soviet Union upon its inauguration in 1965. Its length is 2,803.7 meters and it connects Saratov on the right (west) bank of the Volga, with the city of Engels on the left (east) bank.

24. Jubilee Parkway

Jubilee Parkway

Jubilee Parkway: The Jubilee Parkway is a pair of parallel concrete viaduct bridges that carry Interstate 10 across Mobile Bay from the George Wallace Tunnel on Blakeley Island in Mobile, Alabama eastbound to Spanish Fort/Daphne, Alabama.

23. Confederation Bridge

Confederation Bridge

Confederation Bridge: The Confederation Bridge is a bridge spanning the Abegweit Passage of Northumberland Strait, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick, Canada. It has been referred to as the longest bridge in the world to span a body of ice during winter months.

22. New Ulyanovsk Bridge

New Ulyanovsk Bridge

New Ulyanovsk Bridge: The New Ulyanovsk Bridge is a truss bridge that crosses over the river Volga in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, connecting the city of Ulyanovsk with the east side of the Ulyanovsk Oblast. It is the second longest bridge in Russia, and one of the longest bridges in Europe with a length of 19.98 kilometres.

21. Bhumibol Bridge

Bhumibol Bridge

Bhumibol Bridge: Also known as the Industrial Ring Road Bridge, Bhumibol is part of the 13 km long Industrial Ring Road connecting southern Bangkok with Samut Prakan Province. The bridge crosses the Chao Phraya River twice, with two striking cable-stayed spans of lengths of 702 m and 582 m supported by two diamond-shaped pylons 173 m and 164 m high.

20. Rio–Niterói Bridge

Rio–Niterói Bridge

Rio–Niterói Bridge: President Costa e Silva Bridge, commonly known as the Rio-Niteroi Bridge, is a box girder bridge located at Guanabara Bay, in the State of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. It connects the cities of Rio de Janeiro and the municipality of Niterói. It is currently the longest prestressed concrete bridge in the southern hemisphere, and the sixth longest in the world.

19. Penang Bridge

Penang Bridge

Penang Bridge: Penang Bridge is a dual carriageway toll bridge connecting George Town on the island of Penang and Seberang Prai on the mainland of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula. The total length of the bridge is 13.5 km (8.4 mi), making it the longest bridge in Malaysia as and the fourth-longest in Southeast Asia.

18. Kama Bridge

Kama Bridge

Kama Bridge: The Kama Bridge, is a bridge on the highway R239 near Soroch’i Gory settlement in Tatarstan, Russia. It is a part of the longest bridge structure in Russia if measured by the total length of elevated roadway.

17. Vasco da Gama Bridge

Vasco da Gama Bridge

Vasco da Gama Bridge: The Vasco da Gama Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge flanked by viaducts and rangeviews that spans the Tagus River near Lisbon, capital of Portugal. It is the longest bridge in Europe (including viaducts), with a total length of 17.2 km (10.7 mi).

16. Aérotrain Test Track

Aérotrain Test Track

Aérotrain Test Track: Although it has fallen out of use the Aérotrain Test Track was where the French Aérotrain high speed rail was being tested in the 1970s and despite portions of the extensive track having been demolished it is still visible today.

15. Incheon Bridge

Incheon Bridge

Incheon Bridge: The Incheon Bridge (also called the Incheon Grand Bridge) is a newly-constructed reinforced concrete bridge in South Korea. At its opening in October 2009, it became the second connection between Yeongjong Island and the mainland of Incheon.

14. 6th October Bridge

6th October Bridge

6th October Bridge: The 6th October Bridge is an elevated highway in central Cairo, Egypt. The 20.5 kilometres (12.7 mi) bridge and causeway crosses the Nile River twice from the west bank suburbs, east through Gezira Island to Downtown Cairo, and on to connect the city to the Cairo International Airport to the east. Its name commemorates the date of ‘The Crossing’ which commenced the outbreak day of the October War in 1973.

13. Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel

Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel

Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel: The bridge-tunnel originally combined 12 miles (19 km) of trestle, two 1-mile (1.6 km) long tunnels, four artificial islands, two high-level bridges, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) of causeway, and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) of approach roads crossing Chesapeake Bay.

12. Jintang Bridge




Jintang Bridge: Jintang Bridge is a highway bridge with a cable-stayed bridge portion, built in Zhejiang, China on the Zhoushan Archipelago, the largest offshore island group in China.

11. Jiaozhou Bay Bridge



Jiaozhou Bay Bridge: Although the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is technically the longest bridge over water, parts of it are suspended over dry land which means that the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (#4) has been declared to be the longest bridge running over a continuous span of water.

10. Atchafalaya Basin Bridge

Atchafalaya Basin Bridge

Atchafalaya Basin Bridge: The Atchafalaya Basin Bridge is a pair of parallel bridges in the US state of Louisiana between Baton Rouge and Lafayette which carries Interstate 10 over the Atchafalaya Basin.

9. Shanghai Maglev Track

Shanghai Maglev Train

Shanghai Maglev Train: This 30 km long span of elevated track runs from Pudong International airport to the Shanghai city outskirts where passengers can transfer to the metro.

8. Donghai Bridge

Donghai Bridge

Donghai Bridge: Donghai Bridge is one of the longest cross-sea bridges in the world. It has a total length of 32.5 kilometres (20.2 mi) and connects mainland Shanghai and the offshore Yangshan deep-water port in China.

7. Runyang Bridge

Runyang Bridge

Runyang Bridge: The Runyang Bridge is a large bridge complex that crosses the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province, China, downstream of Nanjing. The complex consists of two major bridges that link Zhenjiang on the south bank of the river and Yangzhou on the north. The bridge is part of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway.

6. Hangzhou Bay Bridge

Hangzhou Bay Bridge

Hangzhou Bay Bridge At 35.673 km (22 mi) in length, Hangzhou Bay Bridge is one of the longest trans-oceanic bridges in the world.

5. Manchac Swamp Bridge

Manchac Swamp bridge

Manchac Swamp bridge: The Manchac Swamp Bridge is a twin concrete trestle bridge in the US state of Louisiana. It is located around Lake Pontchartrain, a lake well known for its incredibly long bridges, as you will see in a moment.

4. Lake Pontchartrain Causeway

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway: The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, or the Causeway, consists of two parallel bridges crossing Lake Pontchartrain in southern Louisiana, United States. The longer of the two bridges is 23.83 miles (38.35 km) long. It is the longest bridge in the world that runs continuously over water.

3. Bang Na Expressway

Bang Na Expressway

Bang Na Expressway: The Bang Na Expressway is a 55 km long six-lane elevated highway in Thailand. It is often considered to be one of the longest bridges in the world (until 2010 the longest) but it is excluded from some lists since it does not cross a body of water for most of its length. The largest body of water that it crosses is the Bang Pakong River.

2. Tianjin Grand Bridge

Tianjin Grand Bridge

Tianjin Grand Bridge: Tianjin Grand Bridge is a railway viaduct bridge that runs between Langfang and Qingxian, part of the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway. It is one of the longest bridges in the world with a total length of about 113,700 m (373,000 ft), or 113.7 kilometres (70.6 mi).

1. Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge

Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge

Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge: The Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge is the world’s longest bridge.[2] It is a 164.8 kilometres (102.4 mi) long viaduct on the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway where the geography is characterized by lowland rice paddies, canals, rivers and lakes.
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