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Dongyang: chinese wood carvings (28 PICs)
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Dongyang wood carvings combine the natural elements of precious wood with skilled engraving techniques to create amazing wood sculptures.
Riddles from the fragments (35 PICs)
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Unique characteristic of a human brain – to build a picture entirely, even from several fragments.
Try to guess what is shown in these pictures.
Riddle of the day: what is this? (12 PICs)
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I’ve never seen anything like this… And you?
The Jewel caterpillar (Acraga coa), a very unusual almost translucent looking caterpillar spotted in Mexico.
Meteora monasteries in Greece (5 PICs)
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The Meteora is one of the largest and most important complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Greece. And the ropeways are the only way to get to some of its buildings.
Accident from the past (31 PICs)
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Unusual for the present time images…
Accidents involving machinery, which no longer exists.
Incredible views of the night sky of the Earth (6 PICs)
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Let’s present that our planet is not in Solar system, and somewhere in other place of the Universe.
What then we will see in the night sky?
It would have looked like the night sky, if the Earth was near the Helix Nebula.
The best underwater shots 2012 (14 PICs)
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The annual contest, put on by the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, showcases the colorful creatures typically beneath reach and awards prizes in three categories: macro, fish or marine animal portrait, and wide angle.
At competition more than 700 works were presented, however these 14 photos were recognized the best by means of Internet vote.
Fan Favorite: Todd Aki Sea nettle Chrysaora quinquecirrh taken on an early morning shore dive off the Breakwater — Monterey, California, USA
Russian extreme (7 PICs)
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A 19-year-old photographer and two friends scaled the 300-meter-high pylons of two Vladivostok bridges being built for this fall’s APEC summit to take jaw-dropping pictures of the city.
But pictures published on the photographer’s social networking page from their trip up the first bridge on Tuesday tipped off law enforcement authorities, and the trio were detained upon their descent from the second bridge Wednesday.
Apparently unnoticed by anyone, 19-year-old Moscow resident Vitaly Raskalov led the trio in climbing the 240-meter-high pylons of Zolotoy Rog Bridge over Zolotoy Rog Bay in downtown Vladivostok on Tuesday.
"The weather isn’t very good. The temperature is 4-5 degrees," Raskalov wrote on his Vkontakte page above bird’s-eye photos of the gray port city. "Tomorrow at dawn the bridge over Russky Island. Height: 320 meters."
On Wednesday, he and his friends scaled Russky Island Bridge, which crosses the Eastern Bosphorus Strait to connect the mainland with Russky Island, site of the APEC summit that Russia will host in September.
"On the top," Raskalov tweeted from the peak of the bridge. "I climbed with a crane. There is no place higher to go."