Israel Army Girls - December 12, 2008

Another set of astonish pictures of Israeli Girls with rifles, brave women who serve in IDF.

Israel Army Girls

Source: plasmastik.livejournal.com

Hilarious Cat and Dog Pictures - December 5, 2008

Hilarious Cat and Dog Pictures

Hilarious Cat

Top 10 Ugliest Buildings in the World - November 15, 2008

The great thing about travel may be seeing the world through a different lens, but that doesn’t mean the view is always pretty. With this in mind, the travel experts at VirtualTourist.com have come up with a list of “The World’s Top 10 Ugliest Buildings and Monument.” General manager, Giampiero Ambrosi talks about the selections: “Some of these picks have all the charm of a bag of nails while others are just jaw-dropping in their complexity. Love them or hate them, the list is certainly entertaining.”

1) Boston City Hall; Boston, Massachusetts

Ugliest Buildings in the World

While it was hip for it’s time, this concrete structure now gets routinely criticized for its dreary façade and incongruity with the rest of the city’s more genteel architecture. Luckily, it’s very close to more aesthetically pleasing attractions.

2) Montparnasse Tower; Paris, France (more…)

Man’s Arm Trapped In Train Toilet - October 29, 2008

A passenger on a French train had to be rescued by firemen after having his arm sucked down the on-board toilet.

The 26-year-old victim was trapped when he tried to fish out his mobile phone, which had fallen into the toilet bowl, and fell foul of the suction system.

The high-speed TGV train had to stop for two hours while firemen cut through the train’s pipework.

TGV Train

The man was carried away by emergency services, with the toilet still attached to his arm.

“He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off,” said Benoit Gigou, a witness to the man’s plight.

Toilet in TGV Train

The incident happened on Sunday evening, aboard a train travelling in western France between La Rochelle and Paris.

Giant Pit In Russia - October 21, 2008

Disaster: October 19, 2006 from the potassium mine shaft number 1 Uralkalij (Berezniki town, Perm region), after the collapse, there was a fast increase of water inflow into the face registered. The influx from the aquifer increased, which was extremely dangerous - if saturated with water, solid formation of salt could turn into a pulp, that within a large system of cavities formed in the extraction of salt water, would begin to dissolve rocks with possible effects on surface.

In this situation there was nothing to do, and Oct. 28, 2006 the mine was closed. The process of dissolution of potassium salt in the mine got stronger, and after 9 months, on July 28, 2007, a minor pit had appeared.

Giant Pit In Russia

The pit was growing very fast, and by the summer of 2008 reached a diameter of 1150 feet and a depth of about 330 feet. Then, the process has slowed down.

Giant Pit In Russia

Giant Pit In Russia

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Not only the territory of the mine was hit by the pit, but also the railway Chusovskaya-Solikamsk (old track is clearly visible on the photo). Passenger trains were canceled as early as 2006, for freight trains there was built temporary bypassing (see the bottom of the picture). Now, suburban and long-distance passenger trains depart from the station Berezniki-Sortirovochnaya located south to the city, where passengers are brought to by bus.

Noteworthy that this incident was not the first. In 1986, at mine number 3 a similar case occurred - strong water inflow into the face after the collapse of the rocks. Then there a pit of similar size appeared, just more elongated. But it happened outside the city, and now residents of Berezniki are going to rest to the lake formed.