Beyond the assessing as the most valuable technology company, Nasir smartphone or the success of the four consecutive generations of iPhone, if Apple had nothing with which to boast than iPad, it would have positioned in the forefront wherever , say the people at Fast Company. "But what is the most impressive of all is how the platform developed by Apple has created an ecosystem of creativity, from gaming to finance the production of chips....
The car business, one of the top 5 that comes from outside the technology industry, receives the 4th place in the top to create the Leaf model, the first fully electric car for the consumer market. With Leaf, Ghosn has shown detractors that are deprived of vision and put Nissan on the top race for "sustainable transportation "....
Andrew Mason is CEO improbability of the most unlikely business success of the last year. Groupon is one of the most amazing phenomena in retail since eBay....
The wedding took place at Westminster Abbey. The royalty gathered in front of the 700 years old Cathedral in order to be with the royal couple who will save the British Monarchy. The most impressive moments of the royal wedding were when Clarence House announced that Prince William and Kate Middleton will leave Westminster Abbey Cathedral in the same carriage as Prince Charles in 1981, when he married Diana Spencer. The Queen gave the royal couple the ...
Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries had over 400 guests at their wedding and the wedding pictures were purchased by the “People” magazine for $ 1.5 million. The bridal dress was created by the designer Vera Wang, Giuseppe Zanotti shoes were creative and the wedding rings were made by Lorraine Schwartz. The groom wore a white tuxedo, signed Ermenegildo Zegna. Kim Kardashian Wedding and Chris Humphreys was one of the main events of the autumn. Kardashian, who presented th...
Albert of Monaco and Charlene were married outdoors, in the Court of Honor of the Prince's Palace. The wedding cost over £ 55 million, and the Principality of Monaco was in a row ready for marriage. Charlene walked down the aisle in an Armani dress in ivory silk with a train of 20 meters, 40,000 Swarovski crystals, stones, shot 30,000 20,000 gold and other pearls. The tiny state of Monaco celebrated the wedding of the head of state Prince Albert II and the former South African ...
Boe Chiming, Malaysian illustrator draws the pictures on regular coffee cups. Boe's passion started one day, when hew was sitting in a cafe, he invented a new drawing for comics and due to the paper lack he drew a picture for a disposable coffee cup. The artist gave his works to his friends but some he left for himself. One day he decided to sell his masterpieces. Since then Chiming Boe has began selling his very nice painted glasses as gifts and souvenirs. This is an excellent example of how...
A resident of Norway, Kari Hansen is known for her unusual hobby: more than 20 years she has been collecting everything that was dumped on the shore by the waves. Thus, the most unusual and valuable of her discovery was a bronze ornament, a necklace, which according to the scientists, is about 2500 years....
Another interesting kind of hobby is an art form of trees or Pooktre - the ability to grow a tree of some form (not cutting pieces of wood). The first man of this art was Excel Erlandson, who collected the most unusual trees, which he had cultivated by himself. After all, he even created a Circus of trees in 1947....
The antimatter costs 62.5 trillion per gram. In the future it is theoretically possible to use antimatter as fuel for spaceships to other planets. The problem is that its production requires extremely expensive technology, and to create just 1 gram, the world would have to work a whole year (global GDP is 65 trillion dollars). In physics the ' anti-matter is a conglomeration of antiparticles corresponding to the particles that constitute the ordinary matter...
The price of diamonds is of 55 000 dollars per gram. The colorless stone can cost more than 11 thousand dollars per carat, but colored diamonds are worth more.
Why do we need diamonds?
The natural diamonds are most often used in the jewelry industry. Also, the extreme hardness of diamonds finds its application in ind...
It costs from about 2.5 to 20 thousand dollars per gram, or from 500 to 4 thousand per carat. Taaffeite is a jewel of purple color said to be a million times rarer than diamonds. Because of its extreme rarity it is used only as a gemstone. Taaffeite is a very rare mineral , a complex of oxide (hydroxide), magnesium, beryllium and aluminum, which is close to the spinel and difficult distinguishable from it. It occurs as isolated euhedral crystals. Of spi...
The former Prime Minister of the Ukraine was conducted in 2001 in Lukyanovka jail for 42 days. On October 11, 2011 the court sentenced her to seven years in prison for the abuse of authority by signing gas contracts with Russia in 2009....
The American glamorous model with her boyfriend, then Dennis Rodman got into a police station. The reason for the detention was a fight at the hotel....
She was an American model and actress. In 1989, the bosomed beauty famously drove a car under a solid degree of alchohol fact for which she was arrested....
Christianity is the largest world religion by number of followers. It appeared in Palestine as a result of the activity of Jesus Christ and his closest followers. The Christianity was spread very quickly, especially in the first five centuries of our era. The main part of Christians worships Jesus Christ as the second person of the Divine Trinity, God in three persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. The Old and the New Testaments are ...
Islam in Arabic means "submission". This is a monotheistic religion, one of the world religions (along with Christianity and Buddhism), and its followers are Muslims. Islam was originated in Arabia in VII. The founder of Islam is Mohammed. Islam was formed under the significant influence of Christianity and Judaism. As a result of the Arab conquests, Islam was spread to the Middle East, and later in some countries in the Far East, Southeast Asia...
Judaism is the oldest monotheistic religion that underlies the beliefs, lifestyles and culture of the Jews. Judaism began in the 2nd millennium BC among the pastoral and agricultural population of the eastern Mediterranean. This was the period when a new religious concept of God, creator and ruler of the universe was introduced, which stood in the center of the formation of Israel and its covenant with God (Jewish were chosen and considered to be God’s people). ...
The Millau Bridge is the highest road bridge in the world that towers almost 350 meters above the valley of the river Tarn in southern France. Its creators are the architect Norman Foster and the French engineer of bridges Michel Virlogeux. While driving through this architectural marvel, it seems like you are flying up. It took three years to build this bridge which is higher than the Eiffel Tower. Millau was opened in Decemb...
The Millennium Bridge in Gateshead is one of the most unique bridges of its kind in existence. The main architectural award went to Britain, a simple, elegant and unique building, which cost the renowned builders of innovative bridges, $ 44 million. The Millennium Bridge connects northern England with Newcastle. Its hydraulic filling makes it possible to tilt the bridge so that it floats by the court. In 2002 the bridge was awarded the Sterling.Opened to t...
This project would connect Asia, Africa and Europe to North and South America. The bridge construction will begin with the most easterly point of Asia, Cape Dezhnevand and will lead to the westernmost point of North America, Cape Prince of Wales, connecting the Arctic Ocean (Chukchi Sea) with the Pacific Ocean (Bering Sea). Though it is difficult to build such a project due to the severe Arctic climate. The strait separates the two continents. For the first...
Etna is an active volcano located on the east coast of Sicily , near the cities of Messina and Catania . It is the highest active volcano in Europe . Its height varies from Etna's eruption to eruption. So, now the volcano is 21.6 m lower than it was in 1865 . Etna is the highest mountain in Italy south of the Alps , it covers an area of 1250 square kilometers. Thus, Etna is the largest active volcano in Italy, surpassing its nea...
Merapi is the largest volcano in Indonesia, the current volcano , located on the island of Java near the city of Yogyakarta . It has a height of 2914 meters. Large eruptions occur on average every 7 years, small eruptions at about 2 times a year, and the volcano is smoking almost every day. In 1006 the eruption had destroyed the kingdom of the Indo-Javanese Mataram . One of the most devastating eru...
The Koryak volcano is a true beauty. Its growth surpasses all other volcanoes of this group, its height is of 3456 m. This is a typical volcano, with a very correct, one might say, classic shape of a cone.
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At the apex of the cone in the south-western part of it is a modern crater...
