Domino's unveils something strange. Introducing Blu-ray pizza discs. According to David Ponce, "it looks like a regular label when you pop it in the DVD player, but as it spins and heats up the label changes and is replaced with the image of a pizza, while simultaneously releasing the smell of a fresh pie, right out of the oven."
Also printed on the new label is the following: "Did you enjoy the movie? The next one will be even better with a hot and delicious Domino's Pizza."
Thanks to satellite imagery and Google Earth, internet users can now see just how much our world has changed in just 28-years, starting with Dubai (above). That's right, Google has released these incredible images made from data collected by the Landsat satellite from 1982 until 2012.
Each frame of the time-lapse map is constructed from a year of Landsat satellite data, constituting an annual 1.7-terapixel snapshot of the Earth at 30-meter resolution. The Landsat program, managed by the USGS, has been acquiring images of the Earth's surface since 1972. Landsat provides critical scientific information about our changing planet.
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Like area 51 many more places that are no-go zones for the
public. What will be found behind those secret doors and fences?
Secretive Russian town of Mezhgorye
There is a town in Russia, called Mezhgorye, which is barred
to anyone, except for those believed to work at the highly secretive Mount
Yamantaw site, thought by many to be either a ultra-secret research facility,
or be nuclear. Founded in 1979. The town is at the foot of the mountain, the
highest in the Urals, at 5,381ft, where US satellites have recorded excavation
projects, on a huge scale, though repeated enquiries about the nature of
operations, at this maddeningly closely watched community, have been met by
bland responses, such as it being a mine of some kind, or a repository for
Russian treasures, and even as somewhere for government, in case of disaster,
but nobody knows.
The mysterious Moscow metro2
Moscow, capital city of Russia, supposedly has a secondary,
secret underground metro system, known as Metro-2, running parallel to the
public Metro. Built, it is thought, during Stalin’s time, KGB codename for the
project being D-6. The existence of this phantom system has never been
confirmed, nor denied, by the FSB -Federal Security Service of the Russian
Federation, or indeed the Moscow Metro administration themselves. Rumored to be
much longer, in length, than the public Metro. and to consist of four lines,
running between 50 and 200m below ground It connects the Kremlin with the FSB
headquarters, Vnukovo-2 government airport, plus underground town Ramenki, as
well as other, undisclosed locations.
The super secret Area 51 Groom Lake facility
Area 51, a phrase well known around the world, is a military
base, Groom Lake, in the southern portion of Nevada, USA, 83 miles from Las
Vegas. Found along the southern shore of Groom Lake, the large, secretive,
military airfield appears to be involved in the development, and testing of
experimental aircraft, as well as advanced weapons systems research. So closely
guarded is this place, and so well monitored, that it has been the subject of
conspiracy theory for decades. Even the U.S. government only reluctantly admits
to the existence of this place, and the fact that deadly force can, and has
been used against people trying to get into the Area 51 zone, really does make
you wonder.
The ultra secretive Room 39 of North Korea
North Korea, that most oppressive of states, is infamous for
Room 39, sometimes called Bureau 39, one of the most secretive of their
organizations, dedicated to seeking methods of obtaining foreign currency for
North Korea’s leader. Established in the late 1970s and described, by some in
the west, as the lynchpin of the dynastic Kim family dealings. Room 39 is such
a secretive institution that none are sure exactly what goes on there, though
it is widely believed that ten to twenty bank accounts, in Switzerland and
China, are used in illegalities such as counterfeiting, money laundering, drug
smuggling and illicit weapon sales. The organization has, reportedly, 120
foreign trade companies that it operates, under the direct control of the
ruling family, who obviously deny any illegal activities. Room 39 is believed
to be l inside a ruling Workers’ Party building in Pyongyang, the capital city
of North Korea, but nobody knows for sure.
The Inaccessible Ise Grand Shrine of Japan
Japan has an amazing series of over 100 shrines, known as
the Ise Grand Shrine, the most sacred shrine in the country. Dedicated to
Amaterasu, the Sun goddess, this wondrous place has existed since 4BC, and it
is thought that the main shrine contains the single, most important item in Japanese
imperial history, the Naik? . This is the mirror, from Japanese mythology,
which graced the hands of the first emperors of Japan. Demolished, purely to
enable rebuilding, every 20 years, honoring Shinto ideas of death and rebirth,
the shrine is barred to anyone but the priest or priestess, who has to a member
of the Japanese imperial family Everyone else is kept away by very alert
guards.
The terrifying Mount Weather Emergency operations center
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Mount Weather is not somewhere that that the US public ever
really want to go to. This is the genuine article, as in the disaster films,
where some highly classified area has been prepared, to accept the lucky few
destined to survive. Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center truly is the
real thing, set up in the 1950s, during the cold war, it still operates today,
as a “last hope” area, though naturally highly classified. Federal Emergency
Management Agency staff, FEMA., are in charge of it, and already, when required
much of US telecommunications traffic can be routed through it, so that
emergency services operate well.
The incredibly intrusive RAF Menwith Hill
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The global ECHELON spy network, much employed by US and
British governments, is the reason why Royal Air Force station Menwith Hill
exists. Containing extensive satellite tracking ground systems, this
communications intercept, and missile warning site, has been called the largest
electronic monitoring station on earth. Ground station for satellites, of the
US National Reconnaissance Office, serving the US National Security Agency, the
station is famous for having antennae contained in highly distinctive white
radomes. Believed by some to be part of the ECHELON system, reportedly created
for the purpose of monitoring military and diplomatic communications, from
Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc allies, during the Cold War, and these days i
believed to search also for terrorist plots, drug dealing information, as well
as political and diplomatic intelligence. Also believed to be involved
filtering all telephone and radio communications in the western world, though
not proven, this is an incredibly secretive and well guarded place that the
public can never get into.
In the search for more unusual, out-of this-world travelling
experiences, travelers are being lured to the ends of the earth to find the
most eccentric, wacky and exciting activities, sights and venues. So if you’re
fond of a tipple or two, you might want to try one of these bars. Their
locations and gimmicks are sometimes enough to pique your interest, but add
alcohol to the mix and you’re in for quite a fun time. Here are 13 of the
world’s most strange, exciting and different watering holes that will leave you
thirsty for more.
Clinic – Singapore
Many people don’t like visiting hospitals so this bar might
be a little questionable in taste for some. Clinic is a hospital themed bar
located within the shopping and entertainment district, Clarke Quay.
It’s not surprising that the architect of the bar was wacky
artist Damien Hirst, famous for such works as the cow in formaldehyde. The pill
shaped rooms are all interlinked and are designed to give a drug ‘trip’ effect.
Guests can drink from test tubes and IV bags, sit in wheelchairs instead of
sitting on bar stools, lie on hospital beds with white curtains, and boogie on
the capsule-shaped dance floor in the nightclub, Morphine. The restaurant is
designed like an operating room where guests can dine sitting in gold
wheelchairs and eating from kidney shaped steel trays. Yum, I just hope the
food doesn’t taste like hospital food…
Absolut Icebar –
Sweden
The very first bar to be made entirely of ice can be found
in the small town of Jukkasjarvi in Sweden. Although novelty ice bars seem to
be popping up everywhere these days, even in the baking hot Niger desert, the
Absolut Icebar, within the Ice Hotel, is the original ice bar. Guests don
thermal capes and huddle together in freezing cold conditions surrounded by
carefully-crafted ice sculptures. The Absolut vodka cocktails are served in ice
glasses, just make sure you don’t get your lips stuck to them!
The ice is sourced from the Torne River in the village of
Jukkasjarvi and the frosty bar is only open during the winter from December to
April.
Red Sea Star
Underwater Restaurant, Bar and Observatory – Israel
The world’s first underwater bar, the Red Sea Star, is
submerged six meters below the Red Sea in Eilat. Each table has Plexiglass
windows – two either side and one above – so that diners can admire the fish,
coral, and other sea life from their dinner table. The décor is even
marine-inspired with jellyfish stools, urchin cushions, and anemone lighting
fixtures. Before the Red Sea Star was built in 1998, the area on which it
stands was a damaged seabed, but four years before it opened the Red Sea Star
team started growing a coral nursery surrounding the reef to save and preserve
what used to be an active and colourful coral reef.
Bojangles – Australia
In the town of Alice Springs in the red centre of Australia,
backpackers and travellers on their way to visit Uluru will almost certainly
end up at this curious bar. Walk through the closely guarded saloon doors and
you’ll be amazed at what you see – boots hanging from the ceilings, snakes in
tanks, and a coffin with a suit of armour inside which says ‘How Much To Touch
Ned’s Nuts?’ Pull out some peanuts and throw the shells on the floor, because
at Bo’s anything goes.
Sounds like a quirky bar already, but wait – it gets better.
If you go to the bathroom you might get a little surprise, for when you come to
wash your hands, each tap turns on the water in a different sink!
DM Bar – Estonia
If you’re a huge fan and you just can’t get enough of
Depeche Mode, this bar in the capital city of Estonia, Tallinn, is entirely
devoted to the band.
It doesn’t seem the most obvious choice of band to dedicate
a bar to, but the synth-poppers from Basildon in the UK are extremely popular
anywhere east of Berlin. The bar’s walls are filled with Depeche Mode
memorabilia and guess what’s on the playlist for the night? You guessed it,
Depeche Mode songs. Members of the band Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher have
actually partied the night away in the bar which is sure to be one of the
strangest hat tips to the band.
Hobbit House –
Philippines
Hobbit House in the Philippines is based on the J.R.R.
Tolkien trilogy, “Lord of The Rings,” and all the staff in the bar are friendly
and charming dwarfs. The dark, smoke-filled bar offers around 100 different
kinds of beer and is a great live music venue. Opened 35 years ago, The Hobbit
House has been around in Manila so long, it is a famous institution. The
Iowa-born owner, Jim Turner, is an ex-Peace Corps volunteer who has rescued
these dwarfs from the slums and streets of Manila and given them an honest
place to work. He has given them new cultural identities and they are no longer
shunned or avoided; they are respectable business people.
The bartenders are merry characters and entertainers who are
up for a laugh and will happily pose with tourists for photos. The Hobbit House
features possibly the world’s smallest Elvis impersonator, hobbit jugglers,
comics, dancers, flame-eaters, and singers.
Baobab Bar – South
Africa
Drinking a beer inside a tree? You wouldn’t think anyone
would even fit, but you will inside this 6,000 year old Baobab tree. The hollow
72-foot high tree offers a cool interior to step into from the heat outside and
now has a bar, dart board and benches. It was created in a Baobab tree in
Sunland Farm in Limpopo to keep the thirsty locals happy and now thousands of
tourists travel from miles around to have a pint in this interesting
establishment.
The trunk has a 155-foot circumference and is wide enough to
fit 40 people inside it. It even has its own cellar with natural ventilation to
keep the beer cool! The pub is owned by the van Heerdens, who decided to open a
pub when they discovered a natural hollow in the tree in the 1980s. While
clearing out the hollow centre of the tree trunk, the van Heerdens found
historical evidence of Bushmen who may have once lived in the tree.
Das Klo Bar – Germany
One of the most bizarre drinking experiences ever, Klo Bar
in Berlin is reputed to attract more tourists than Charlottenburg Castle and
the Museum Island. Klo 1 and 2 no longer exist, but Klo 3, which started life
on Christmas Day 1971, still does. Part flea market, part zoo, and part theme
park, Das Klo (German for “the toilet”) is meant to evoke the inside of a
toilet, but it ends up giving visitors the feel of stepping onto an Indiana
Jones movie set. Prepare to be shocked – expect red wine in blood transfusion
packs, electric shocks from tables, rotating bar stools, a hammer that comes
down unexpectedly, and a bird spider, boa constrictor and iguana. It’s an
attack on the senses – upon entering Klo you’ll be sprinkled by water, spooked
by skeletons and a gust of air might blow ladies’ skirts up. Lightning flashes
across the rooms and there is a false ceiling of paper mâché rocks that fall in
a giant avalanche every 10 minutes. A kilted figure in the ladies loo is
booby-trapped so that whenever a lady lifts the kilt to see if he is going
commando, a siren goes off in the bar.
Seating is a choice of coffins or toilet seats, the beer is
served in new urine specimen bottles, and the food is sausages with sauerkraut
fetchingly presented in huge enamel potties. Supposedly most of the owner’s
ideas came to him sitting on the loo.
Skeleton Bar –
Switzerland
This odd museum-bar was designed by Swiss man Hans Rudi
Giger who worked as a designer on the Oscar-winning Alien movies. Giger designed
the title character, the human-eating Alien monster, and won an Oscar for best
special effects in 1980.
The bar in Gruyere, Switzerland, will remind you of the
alien – or perhaps sitting inside a monster’s stomach, with its spinal cord like
skeleton decoration. The creepy, horror movie-inspired bar is decorated with
skeleton bones throughout, from the walls and chairs to the flower vases.
Floyd’s Pelican Bar –
Jamaica
Floyds has to be the coolest bar in the Caribbean. Looking
out from the shore at the dot on the horizon, your first reaction might be “is
that really a bar?”
Perched on stilts on a sandbar, Floyds is made completely of
driftwood and palm leaves. Bring a sharp object and you can carve your name in
the floor. It looks like it might fall over, but it’s surprisingly sturdy. Floyds
sits about a mile off the south coast of Jamaica in Parottee Bay and local
fisherman will take you out there. There’s nothing like a cold beer in the
middle of the ocean, doing a bit of snorkelling and enjoying a fresh lobster
meal prepared by Floyd himself. You might spot some pelicans and a few sting
rays too.
Alux Restaurant &
Lounge – Mexico
Alux, in Playa Del Carmen, is one of only two restaurants in
the world inside a cavern. The whole Yucatan peninsula in Mexico is riddled
with an interconnected system of caverns and subterranean rivers and after
years of planning and restoration, Alux restaurant and lounge was opened for the
public to enjoy this natural environment with a drink in hand.
The Flintstones-like cavern has numerous chambers where you
can lounge, drink, dine, and dance amongst the stalagmites and stalactites,
which are lit up in shades of violet, blue and pink. Small, magical beings
called ‘Aluxes’ are said to occupy these caverns, so look out for one as you
dance the night away! It’s a drinking spot you mustn’t miss if you’re staying
in Playa Del Carmen.
William Thornton
Floating Bar and Restaurant – British Virgin Islands
The William Thornton is a steel 100-foot schooner with a
restaurant and bar on board, moored at The Bight off Norman Island. The Willy
T, as it is affectionately known, began life in the 80s as a wooden Baltic
vessel. But after the boat sprung a leak and sank at its anchorage, the owners,
Annie and Mick Gardner, replaced it with the larger steel boat everyone knows
today.
The William Thornton who the floating bar is named after was
born in the British Virgin Islands and is the man behind the design of the
United States Capitol building.
The Rock Bar – Bali
Perched 14 meters above the Indian Ocean, this open-top bar
is literally served straight up on the rocks. It’s a perfect place to sit and
watch the sunset, sip cocktails and admire the view of the perfect Bali waves
splashing against the rocks below. What makes it even more novel is the outdoor
elevator which takes you down the cliff to the bar. Beware though, it only
holds four so you might end up taking the stairs!
Live musicians play on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays so
you can sit back and enjoy some tunes with a view. Located within the Ayana
Resort & Spa in Jimbaran Bay, The Rock Bar will certainly leave a lasting
impression and is Bali’s most chic sunset and after-dark destination.
1. Star Registry
Who owns the stars?nobody, right? Therefore, you can put stars under your name and get certification for it! This, of course, comes with a price. International Star Registry (IRS),the original star registry that has been naming stars for people since 1979, allows you to do just that. Celebrities, dignitaries, and individuals all over the world have used its services to buy a star for friends and family.
2.Friend rental service.
We all grew up being someone's friend, but we never got paid for it. Well, today is an entirely different era. You can now get paid for being a friend. All you have to do is create your profile in RentAFriend.com, set your hourly rate, and wait for somebody who is interested in hanging out with you. It's a win-win situation right there. Rent A Friend allows you to create a free friendship profile, where you can charge up to $50 an hour to be rented for social events and activities such as weddings, sporting events, concerts, movies, operas, hiking, biking and dining.
3.Providing personal paparazzi.
Celebrities aren't the only ones that can have paparazzi all around them. Now, you can hire your personal paparazzi for a day! This is how Celeb4aday.com makes bucks—by giving you the ultimate celebrity experience. It can be for birthdays, gag gifts, parties, bachelor & bachelorette parties, or ANY other event that requires The Star Treatment. Celeb4aday.com believes that the everyday person deserves the attention as much, if not more, than the real celebrities.
4.Face advertising
By selling their faces as advertisement space in buymyface.com, Ed Moyes and Ross Harper were able to pay off their student debt, which was £50,000, and finish college. Harper and Moyse paint ads on their faces and then photographed or filmed themselves doing funny things. Advertisers can pay for them to do several stunts, such as skydiving or plunging into cold water. All this is put up on the website, along with the sname of the day's advertiser. When the duo started off, their first ad went for exactly £1. The young entrepreneurs say that they made £3,500 in their first ten days of business. However, they've managed to sell their faces every single day.
5.Tutorial marketplace
Student of Fortune is an online tutorial marketplace for those who need or can offer help with homework. If you're an expert on a subject, then go write great tutorials to earn lots of money, even thousands of dollars... all for helping students learn! All you have to do is look through other user's questions and find one that you think you can answer. Then, write up a custom tutorial that teaches the student how to solve the problem and submit it. 20% of the material will be shown, and if they think it's a good tutorial, they'll pay you for it!
6.Butterfly supplier
Selling butterflies and making millions? It doesn't seem conceivable, but Jose Muniz has managed to pull it off. You can get your very own live butterfly from Jose, who started the business based on a bet. It all began when a friend bet him $100 that he could not sell butterflies for a living. Now, seven years later, the former business consultant and his wife, Karen, own Amazing Butterflies (amazingbutterflies.com), a live-butterfly distributor with offices in Tamarac, Fla. and San Jose, with a projected $1 million in revenue in 2006.
7.Virtual real estate.
Anshe Chung, or rather her real-life counterpart, Ailin Graef, has gained attention as the first person to reportedly become a real-world millionaire from her virtual-world business. How'd she do it? She bought, developed and sold virtual real estate. While much of her wealth is still tied up in Second Life's currency, Linden dollars, those can be sold for genuine U.S. dollars. Graef reportedly makes upward of $150,000 annually.
8.Selling Irish dirt.
Alan Jenkins, a Belfast entrepreneur, and Pat Burke, an agricultural scientist from Tipperary, have already shifted around $1m (£512,000) of Irish muck to the United States. Their company, called Official Irish Dirt, has also received online contacts from Irish people all over the world who are keen to get their hands on dirt from back home.
9.Geese police.
David Marcks discovered a lucrative business opportunity when he used his dog to solve a problem that he constantly faced while working at a golf course - the proliferation of geese. David started Geese Police in 1986 as the solution to driving away unwanted geese from town parks, corporate properties, golf courses, or even front lawns. Using trained border collies, they drive away the geese without harming them. Today, Geese Police has considerably grown and expanded, earning just under $2 million in 2000. David has also begun marketing his business to a highly selective group of individuals.
10.Socks subscription.
An entrepreneur from Switzerland named Samuel Liechti had a crazy idea to start a company that would distribute socks to subscribers several times throughout the year. For nine pairs, each “sockscriber” pays a minimum of $89 annually to keep the socks rolling in. Surprisingly enough, there is an immense amount of people who are too lazy to grab a pair of calf-high socks at the store and subscribe to this silly service.
Who owns the stars?nobody, right? Therefore, you can put stars under your name and get certification for it! This, of course, comes with a price. International Star Registry (IRS),the original star registry that has been naming stars for people since 1979, allows you to do just that. Celebrities, dignitaries, and individuals all over the world have used its services to buy a star for friends and family.
2.Friend rental service.
We all grew up being someone's friend, but we never got paid for it. Well, today is an entirely different era. You can now get paid for being a friend. All you have to do is create your profile in RentAFriend.com, set your hourly rate, and wait for somebody who is interested in hanging out with you. It's a win-win situation right there. Rent A Friend allows you to create a free friendship profile, where you can charge up to $50 an hour to be rented for social events and activities such as weddings, sporting events, concerts, movies, operas, hiking, biking and dining.
3.Providing personal paparazzi.
Celebrities aren't the only ones that can have paparazzi all around them. Now, you can hire your personal paparazzi for a day! This is how Celeb4aday.com makes bucks—by giving you the ultimate celebrity experience. It can be for birthdays, gag gifts, parties, bachelor & bachelorette parties, or ANY other event that requires The Star Treatment. Celeb4aday.com believes that the everyday person deserves the attention as much, if not more, than the real celebrities.
4.Face advertising
By selling their faces as advertisement space in buymyface.com, Ed Moyes and Ross Harper were able to pay off their student debt, which was £50,000, and finish college. Harper and Moyse paint ads on their faces and then photographed or filmed themselves doing funny things. Advertisers can pay for them to do several stunts, such as skydiving or plunging into cold water. All this is put up on the website, along with the sname of the day's advertiser. When the duo started off, their first ad went for exactly £1. The young entrepreneurs say that they made £3,500 in their first ten days of business. However, they've managed to sell their faces every single day.
5.Tutorial marketplace
Student of Fortune is an online tutorial marketplace for those who need or can offer help with homework. If you're an expert on a subject, then go write great tutorials to earn lots of money, even thousands of dollars... all for helping students learn! All you have to do is look through other user's questions and find one that you think you can answer. Then, write up a custom tutorial that teaches the student how to solve the problem and submit it. 20% of the material will be shown, and if they think it's a good tutorial, they'll pay you for it!
6.Butterfly supplier
Selling butterflies and making millions? It doesn't seem conceivable, but Jose Muniz has managed to pull it off. You can get your very own live butterfly from Jose, who started the business based on a bet. It all began when a friend bet him $100 that he could not sell butterflies for a living. Now, seven years later, the former business consultant and his wife, Karen, own Amazing Butterflies (amazingbutterflies.com), a live-butterfly distributor with offices in Tamarac, Fla. and San Jose, with a projected $1 million in revenue in 2006.
7.Virtual real estate.
Anshe Chung, or rather her real-life counterpart, Ailin Graef, has gained attention as the first person to reportedly become a real-world millionaire from her virtual-world business. How'd she do it? She bought, developed and sold virtual real estate. While much of her wealth is still tied up in Second Life's currency, Linden dollars, those can be sold for genuine U.S. dollars. Graef reportedly makes upward of $150,000 annually.
8.Selling Irish dirt.
Alan Jenkins, a Belfast entrepreneur, and Pat Burke, an agricultural scientist from Tipperary, have already shifted around $1m (£512,000) of Irish muck to the United States. Their company, called Official Irish Dirt, has also received online contacts from Irish people all over the world who are keen to get their hands on dirt from back home.
9.Geese police.
David Marcks discovered a lucrative business opportunity when he used his dog to solve a problem that he constantly faced while working at a golf course - the proliferation of geese. David started Geese Police in 1986 as the solution to driving away unwanted geese from town parks, corporate properties, golf courses, or even front lawns. Using trained border collies, they drive away the geese without harming them. Today, Geese Police has considerably grown and expanded, earning just under $2 million in 2000. David has also begun marketing his business to a highly selective group of individuals.
10.Socks subscription.
An entrepreneur from Switzerland named Samuel Liechti had a crazy idea to start a company that would distribute socks to subscribers several times throughout the year. For nine pairs, each “sockscriber” pays a minimum of $89 annually to keep the socks rolling in. Surprisingly enough, there is an immense amount of people who are too lazy to grab a pair of calf-high socks at the store and subscribe to this silly service.
1. The Hope Diamond
The Hope Diamond is not only one of the most famous gems in the world, but it is also one of the largest blue diamonds (4th largest). Its physical value might be estimated but it's historical importance is priceless. It is so old that no one knows exactly when it was discovered. However, it already had an owner in 1668, in the person of an Indian slave who claimed that the 112 carats stone (which he believed to be a sapphire) came from the eye of an idol. Jean Baptiste Tavernier, a traveler and a gem merchant bought it and sold it afterwards to King Louis XIV of France. Its price today is estimated at $250 million. The legend says that this diamond was cursed by the Hindu priests of the temple from where it was stolen.
2. The Golden Jubilee
The Golden Jubilee is holding the title of the world's largest faceted diamond in the world, measuring 545,67 carats. It was discovered in 1985, in the Premier mine of South Africa. At first, it was considered an ugly brown diamond. Gabriel Tolkowsky received the diamond, which was supposed to be used at testing some new tools and cutting methods. The result astonished everyone. It turned out that the Unnamed Brown was actually a very beautiful yellow-brown diamond. It remained unnamed until it was presented to the king of Thailand in 1997, for the 50th anniversary of his coronation (thus, its name).
3. The Cullinan I
One of the most famous diamonds in the world, Cullingam I was justly considered the largest diamond in the world up to the discovery of the Golden Jubilee. Also known as The star of Africa, the pear-shaped stone is the largest of the 9 diamonds cut from the largest rough diamond ever, the Cullinan diamond(3106,75 carats). Currently, it is the head of St. Edward's scepter, one of the British Crown Jewels but it can be removed and worn as a brooch.
4. The Idol's Eye
The idol's eye is one of the most mysterious diamonds in the world. Its entire history is unknown; we have no idea where it came from, when it was discovered or who owned it. The only clue is its name, The Idol's Eye. It appeared in a note, at Christie's when it was described as a flawless large diamond. It was bought by an anonymous buyer and disappeared again for some years. Its owners changed several times afterwards and was bought in 1979 by Mr. Laurence Graff, who sold it again in 1983, to an anonymous buyer who is believed to own the diamond today.
5. The Spirit of de Grisogono
This is one of the famous diamonds in the world. It is also known as the largest cut black diamond, and it measures 312, 24carats. This beautiful diamond was named after the Swiss jeweler who cut it, using the old Mogul style. The result was the jewel you see in the picture and it is the work of an entire year. Currently, it is owned by a private client, who must be a very fortunate person.
6. Koh-I-Noor /Mountain of light
Apparently, this is one of the oldest diamonds known to man. According to the legend, this diamond is more than 2000 years old, from before the birth of Christ. However, a much more documented hypothesis is that it was discovered in the early 1300s. The earliest recorded mention of the diamond is in the memories of Babur (Baburnama), the first Mogul ruler of India. It then passed through many hands and its long, complex history cannot be told here. It suffices to say that the diamond arrived to England in the 19th century and entered the possession of Queen Victoria. Not satisfied with its cutting, which caused it to shine less than it should have, the queen had it recut, which meant a loss of weight of almost 43%. It was then set in the queen's crown,in frontal position. India did not give up one of its most precious gems easily. The Indian government continued to ask the return of the diamond, with no success.
7. The Orlov
The Orlov is one of the most intriguing diamonds in the world. It has a blurry past and it is said that it was stolen from an idol, where the stone stood as one of the eyes of the statue. However, many questions remain: First, if this is true, what happened to the other eye? Could it have been the above mentioned Koh-I-Noor? Another theory is that the Orlov diamond is actually the legendary stone called the Great Mogul, which was only described by Jean Baptiste Tavernier and it was lost forever centuries ago. Whatever the truth, The Orlov diamond is now in the possession of the Russian government and it is set in the Imperial scepter. It is estimated at 189 carats but its historical value cannot be priced.
8. The Florentine
The Florentine is an enigmatic diamond which is believed to have a light yellow color, with a green overtone and an estimated 137 carats. Its known history starts with the duke of Burgundy in the 15th century. Apparently, he died in battle while wearing the diamond. The stone was stolen from him by a peasant who sold it for a florin, because he thought it was mere glass. It then changed owners several times, for small amounts of money. In the 17th century, we find the Florentine in the possession of the Medici familly. When the last Medici died, the diamond arrived in Vienna, and became one of the Habsburg Crown Jewels. After the World War I, it was stolen and never found again, though a particular diamond was believed to be the lost one, because of its similarities with the Florentine.
9. The Heart of Eternity
The diamond which bears such a romantic name is measuring 27,64 carats . It was found in a mine in South Africa and it has a fancy vivid blue color, making it an extremely rare diamond. Apparently, the blue color is given by impurities of boron and most of the gems are not entirely blue. The stone was an impressive 777 carats when found and caused a rush among diggers, who started to dig like crazy, trying to find another one. However, experts estimate that such a discovery is not likely to occur in the next several hundred years.
10. The Moussaieff Red
This gem is of an amazing beauty and it is estimated at 5, 11 carats. It has a triangular brilliant cut (it features numerous facets, which offer it great brilliance). Its amazing color was established to be fancy red by the Gemological Institute of America. One of the most famous diamonds in the world, the Moussaieff Red was first discovered by a Brazilian digger in the Abaetezinho River in 1990 and it is believed to have had 13.9 carats.
Just how many ways can you open a beer? Let's just say that there's probably more ways than you can count, but just a handful of them have become popular on the internet. This compilation shows some of the most creative, and they include the use of such tools as a chainsaw.
Beer is one of the world's oldest prepared beverages, possibly dating back to the early Neolithic or 9500 BC, when cereal was first farmed, and is recorded in the written history of ancient Iraq and ancient Egypt. Archaeologists speculate that beer was instrumental in the formation of civilizations. The earliest known chemical evidence of barley beer dates to circa 3500-3100 BC from the site of Godin Tepe in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran.
Today we have a collection of 30 photos of houses which are completely different and unique. Hope you like these strange houses.












































































