Posts Tagged curiosity
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Floating walkway on River Thames for London 2012
Everyone knows by now that London will host 2012 Olympic games. Many articles have been written, many news offered, and yet it seems that surprises are not over! Yesterday, the city's mayor dropped “the bomb”: London will have a floating walkw
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The road where it is illegal to fasten you seatbelts and drive below 50 km/h
Yes, that's right: there is a road where it is illegal to fasten you seatbelts and drive below 50 km/h! Sounds peculiar? It is indeed a curiosity, but there is a good reason for these measures. One may go under 25km/h or above 50 due to the fact that
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The smallest city in the Netherlands: Madurodam
Madurodam is a miniature city in The Hague, Netherlands. The Dutch brag about it as being the smallest city in the Netherlands, which offers you a tour of the most important places around the country. The amusement park was open in 1952 as a war me
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Top 50 weirdest buildings from around the world
To look like others, or to look different? This is a dilemma and designers and architects often imagine different (and sometimes strange) buildings. Some construction developers actually choose to put those ideas into reality. Is the usual environ
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Strange law in England: a pregnant woman can pee in a Policeman’s helmet
I watch “Top Gear” - the show about cars but a show beyond cars I’d say. In an episode I recently saw Clarkson mentioned a puzzling law: a pregnant woman can legally upon request pee in a Policeman's helmet. Now, I was not pregnant but I kn
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Mountain – fossilized snails
In this year’s vacation we went in the Apuseni mountains. One day we went visiting the memorial house of Avram Iancu, an important leader in Romania’s history. We will soon present this memorial house here. On the road to this museum we passed
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Strada Sforii – The Rope Street – Brasov, Romania a curiosity and an interesting story
If you are wondering whether a street can have an interesting story, let me tell you that yes, a street can have an amazing and lost in time history. Brasov is one of the larger and more famous cities of Romania. Many events are hosted in this cit
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Jungferngasse – the street so short it has neither door nor number
Austria is a beautiful country, famous for its castles and the shopping seasons, and it's visited annually by many people. Vienna, its capital, is also an amazing city, full of interesting sights to see. Today I'd like to share something special w
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