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The lake Natron in Northern Tanzania has been welcoming a lot of attention ever since the photographer Nick Brandt happened to grab hold of a few images of dead birds and such creatures off the coast. Of course there is nothing fascinating about the pictures of dead creatures, but what makes you gasp in a deep breath would be the way they were found on the shoreline – they were petrified. Image courtesy: Nick Brandt( taken from ) Image courtesy: Nick Brandt( taken from ) The ultimate deception comes into play when any bird or an animal comes across this mysterious  and deathly pool of water, they get confused by the hyper reflective surface, hit onto it right about just to be turned out to an insensible hard matter. Is this starting to look like another ‘Bermuda Triangle’? Though the word petrified might be a misnomer, Nick Brandt recollects that the birds he found on its coasts were literally calcified and looked like a stone carved figure of a bird per...

Mount Everest is the most popular and most recognized mountain in the world. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas with its highest point reaching 8848 meters above sea level. Mount Everest has been a climbing challenge that many climbers have dreamed of completing, reaching the top being the ultimate prize. You always hear of those who do reach the peak but no so much of those who tried and failed.  Image courtesy: Edmund Hillary (source : www.news.nationalgeographic.com ) Image courtesy: Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (source:  www.images.nationalgeographic.com ) The first successful ascent took place on May 29th, 1953 by two men names Tenzing Norgay, Edmund Hillary. Since then many have attempted the climb and have not come down. One man that still remains near the top is David Sharp. David attempted the climb in 2005. He got very close to the top then decided to step into a cave to rest. The cave is known as Green Boots Cave. ...

W ell initially this might look to you like any normal girl being treated by a doctor,the girl in the photo is not any normal living girl but the mummy of a 15 year old child who has been dead for about 500 years.  She was found in 1999 near Llullaillaco's 6739 meter summit . An Argentine-Peruvian expedition found the perfectly preserved body and she was nicknamed " La doncella " which means “ The maiden ” . According to the Inca she was chosen to go and live with the gods. But in reality she was a sacrifice to the Inca Gods and had been brutally killed in the name of religion.  Scientists say that her organs are intact and its as if she had died just a few weeks ago. From testing the samples of her hair they could determine the type of diet she was on before her death. This lead to the discovery that the Incan fattened their children before killing them. Months or even years before the sacrifice pilgrimage these children were given diets which were th...

1 – The Writing of the Bible The Bible was written over a 1600 year period by approximately 40 men. The time of the writing was from 1500 BC to AD 100. 2 – The Divisions of the Bible While the Bible is 1 book, it contain 66 smaller books. The books of the Old Testament were written before the birth of Jesus Christ and the New Testament covers the life of Christ and beyond. 3 – Chapters and Verses Each of the books, except 5, are divided into chapters and verses . The 5 which aren’t divided by chapters are Obadiah, Philemon, 2 John, 3 John, and Jude. These are short books which only have verse divisions. Chapters were introduced to the Bible in 1238 by Cardinal Hugo de S. Caro. Verse divisions were not added until 1551 by Robertus Stephanus. 4 – The Longest and Shortest of the Bible The longest chapter if the Bible is Psalm 119 with 176 verses. The shortest chapter is Psalm 117 with only 2 verses. Incidentally, the middle chapter of the Bible is Psalm 118. ...

In the original script, Neytiri's name was Zuleika, and Jake Sully's name was Josh Sully. A casting call was posted on the website of Mali Finn Casting in early December 2005 for the female lead. The casting call was erroneously reported to be for James Cameron's Battle Angel (2011). However, Battle Angel will be the second of the back-to-back Cameron projects with a likely 2013 release. Michael Biehn was considered for the role of Miles Quaritch . He met with James Cameron three times and saw some of the 3D footage, but in the end it simply came down to the fact that Cameron didn't want people thinking it was Aliens (1986) all over again, as Sigourney Weaver had already been cast. Sigourney Weaver plays a James Cameron persona for her character in this film. Sigourney stated in an interview, "I teased him because to me I'm playing Jim Cameron in the movie as this kind of brilliant, approach-driven, idealistic perfectionist. But that s...

Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Phailin ( Thai : ไพลิน meaning "sapphire") was a tropical cyclone that affected Thailand , Myanmar , Nepal and the Indian states of Andaman and Nicobar Islands , Odisha , Andhra Pradesh , Jharkhand and West Bengal .      The system was first noted as a tropical depression on October 4, 2013 within the Gulf of Thailand , to the west of Pnom Penh in Cambodia . Over the next few days, it moved westwards within an area of low to moderate vertical wind shear, before as it passed over the Malay Peninsula, it moved out of the Western Pacific Basin on October 6. It emerged into the Andaman Sea during the next day and moved west-northwest into an improving environment for further development before the system was named Phailin on October 9, after it had developed into a cyclonic storm and passed over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands into the Bay of Bengal .      During the next day Phailin intensified...

1. The brain is more active at night than during the day. Scientists don't know yet why this is. 2. The higher your IQ, the more you dream. 3. Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body. 4. The nail on the middle finger grows faster than the other fingernails. 5. Fingernails grow nearly four times faster than toe nails. 6. The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average. 7. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve zinc. It doesn't destroy the stomach because because the stomach walls constantly renews itself. 8. Women's hearts beat faster than men's. 9. Women blink twice as many times as men do. 10. Women are born better smellers than men and remain better smellers over life. 11. Men burn fat faster than women by a rate of about 50 calories a day. 12. Men get hiccups more often than women. 13. A man has approximately 6.8 litres of blood in...