About The Most Unusual Hobbies in the World
What is a hobby? Passion? Work? Holiday? Or all together? Hobby is what a person likes to do in his spare time. Many people spend a lot of time and money for their hobby, but for someone a hobby is like a profession. The human imagination is truly boundless: how many interesting, beautiful and useful occupations the man has invented! And among the hobbies of people there are some unusual ones. Here are the examples of the most unusual hobbies in the world.
Stars also like to collect. For example, Tom Hanks collects antique typewriters. He has more than 100 pieces. Arnold Schwarzenegger collects ATVs. Sir EltonJohn collects glasses, vinyl records, jewelry. Sean Connery has passion to collects kilts, Scottish men's skirts.
Nowadays, there are a lot of unusual hobbies. Some of them make you freeze the blood in the veins, others just astonish and impress you. But one thing that unites all hobbies is the love of people to their passions! Choose for yourself any hobbies you like!
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The Most Unusual Hobbies in the World .
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One of the most beautiful and unusual hobbies is Carving. It is an artistic cutting of vegetables, fruits, and other materials. The main instrument of the master, engaged in carving, is a Thai knife. Applying this and other kinds of knives, the artist creates extraordinary and beautiful figures. In 1998 Peter Cook, an Australian cultivated a tree, resembling a chair....
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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....
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Perhaps swimming with sharks can be referred to the most unusual and dangerous hobby. Wolfgang Linder since early childhood has been interested in this kind of sea inhabitants....
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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 ...
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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....
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Becky Marts, American citizen, is collecting insignificant things – labels that are being sticked to bananas. The collection of Becky included for more than 7 thousand pieces. By the way, the banana label collectors even organize their own conferences and symposia....
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The hobby of Devereaux Dunlap Cannon Jr. (a lawyer from Portland, Tennessee, USA) is considered to be an unusual one. Cannon has the passion to the studying of flags and his collection includes more than 200 flags of countries around the world. For such hobby Devereaux Cannonearned has got the nickname “The flagman”....
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Another U.S. citizen Melerni Breen collects toy elephant, which are in the amount of 5000! The collection of Melerni, which is the largest in the world, contains the toys that were produced in early of XX century....
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Wang Guohua (Vietnamese) amazes everyone with his awesome hobby; he collects cigarette packings, and absolutely unopened, with cigarettes. Wang's collection consists of more than 30 thousand pieces, which serve him as "wallpaper", decorating the walls of the apartment....
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Tom Holmes, the citizen of Great Britain owns a collection of ties, and it has more than 10 thousand pieces that were released in different parts of the world. Tom has been collecting the neckties for 70 years! By the way, Honore de Balzac was also a collector of neckties....
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