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State Farm Helping Charitable Causes
All over the United States and Canada, thousands of submissions has flown in to the State Farm Neighborhood Assist program, a youth-led philanthropic program dedicated to identifying and solving community problems. The focus
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Machu Picchu: Before And After Photos
Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres above sea level. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is 80 kilometres northwest of Cusco
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Soviet Large Hadron Collider
Everybody has heard about the Large Hadron Collider, which recently launched at CERN. But that’s about its Soviet analogue few people know. Accelerator itself, or rather what was left of him is in Protvino,
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Siberian Winter Swimming
Would you do this at – 36C? I would never do it, I simply couldn’t. But these people from a local club in Krasnoyarsk went swimming in the Yenisei River on December 12, while
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Brute Force Of Nature
Towering above the landscape that surrounds it, this huge boulder is a graphic display of the awesome force created by an erupting volcano. The 1,000-ton rock, which stands more than 50 feet high, tumbled
Read More »Artists Create World’s Largest Sand Sculpture
Measuring a total of 22.43 meters in height, this detailed sand sculpture, created at the Zhoushan Sand Sculpture Festival, in China, has been acknowledged as the world’s tallest sand sculpture. Officials from the Guinness
Read More »Flying giants: Incredibly rare display as manta rays leap 9ft out of water into the air
They could be mistaken for strange-looking birds but these creatures are actually manta rays, leaping a staggering nine feet in the air. The plucky animals, which measure just over three feet wide, demonstrate their
Read More »Can You See Me? | Animal Camouflage: Leaf Mimics
Nature is fascinating, and some of Nature’s best work—or evolution rather—is illustrated by a group of animals that have evolved adapted to mimic leaves. Leaf mimics employ a heightened form of camouflage to evade
Read More »Seven Of The World’s Weirdest Plants
Everyone should be familiar with the genus Dionea or “Venus Fly Trap” above, but the vegetative world is home to plenty stranger, and while perhaps not as adrenaline-pumping as Crustaceans or as gruesome as
Read More »Underground Sea
The Moravian Karst is a karst landscape and protected nature reserve to the north of Brno in the eastern part of the Czech Republic, located near the town of Blansko. This region is also
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