World’s Strangest

22-year-old Julia Popova was mugged on her way home from work in Moscow. She struggled with the purse-snatcher and was so shocked by the experience that she didn’t realize he’d left a 6-inch knife sticking in her neck at the top of her back! Her horrified parents rushed her to hospital where surgeons managed to remove [...]

Girls Night Clubbing in MoscowA Moscow Nightclubs (or night club or club) is a drinking, dancing ,entertainment and gorgeous girls strip clubs is one of the most popular sex destinations in Europe. Moscow is the capital of the world’s biggest country, situated in the centre of the European part of Russia. Is one of the [...]

“QUANTUM SHOT” #609Link – by A. Abrams If you’re not having fun doing politics, then you chose the wrong kind of business Politicians are often convinced that they need to take themselves seriously 100% of the time. However, such glum attitude often leads to sore miscalculations and bizarre ambitions like the Doomsday Machine (see Dr. Strangelove). The [...]

LinkScroll down for today’s pictures & links. Shadow Play Ingenious and very tasteful Christmas advert for the Solaria Plaza in Fukuoka City, Japan. url Today’s pictures & links: Tsunami of Fog (image credit: Agus Sutanto) Another somewhat chilling image of storm clouds, often called “the cloud roll”: (original unknown) ———— Crazy About You (original unknown) ———— Dramatic Sculptures The frightened one: (image credit: Anjelicek, seen in Vienna, Austria) The love-sick pair: (image [...]

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Reinstalled in Moscow Worker and Kolkhoz Woman (Russian: Рабо́чий и колхо́зница Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa) is a 24.5 meter (78 feet) high sculpture made from stainless steel by Vera Mukhina for the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris, and subsequently moved to Moscow. The sculpture is an example of the socialist realistic style, as [...]

The Soviet Union decided the best way to show up the West was to build the biggest version of any given object. The following are just seven of the largest examples. 1. A Palace for the People In 1931, Joseph Stalin ordered that the largest Orthodox Christian cathedral in the world— 335 feet high, the product of [...]

#123 – Week of November 15, 2009 The Stone Forest… this is something else – [awesome pics]Very entertaining infographic about coffee – [cool info]“Oasis Of The Seas”, the biggest ship, is completed, video and pics – [wow]Half Car, Half Bike, is Really Bizarre – [wow auto]Living Room Decorated Inside a PC – [crazy PC mod]Divers Wrestling [...]

“QUANTUM SHOT” #597Link – Article by Chris Mitchell of Travel Happy, and A. Abrams McDonald’s Around The World: Marvels Never Cease, Especially in Asia If you think McDonald’s sells the same burgers and fries everywhere in the world, think again – here in Asia they’ve had to make some concessions to local tastes and come up with [...]

Chiune Sugihara was born on January 1st, 1900 and lived to make his mark on the twentieth century. Thousands of people owe their lives in part to his willingness to buck authority. For his efforts, he was imprisoned by the Soviets and fired from his job by the Japanese Foreign Ministry. That’s not the way Japanese [...]

“QUANTUM SHOT” #597Link – Article by Chris Mitchell of Travel Happy, and A. Abrams McDonalds Around The World: Marvels Never Cease, Especially in Asia If you think McDonalds sells the same burgers and fries everywhere in the world, think again – here in Asia they’ve had to make some concessions to local tastes and come up with [...]