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I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS - DO YOU?

Totems by Alain Delorme

These pictures were taken by a French photographer, Alain Delorme in Shanghai throughout 2009 & 2010. He called the series, Totems.

These couriers - mostly migrant workers from other parts of China - not only need strong legs but also acrobatic skills to balance these massive loads on their tricycles & bicycles while on the move. A lot of you must be wondering where the centre of gravity is in each case.

World's Fastest Train

World's Fastest Train CRH380A - China China on Saturday December 11, 2010 launched the world's fastest train service covering a distance of 1,068 kms at the average speed of 350 kms an hour. The distance between Wuhan in central China and Guangzhou in the country's south was covered by the high-speed train in two hours forty five minutes. The train reached a maximum speed of 394.2 km per hour during trial runs that begun on December 9. Officially, on Dec. 26 the world's fastest train will be open for traffic on high-speed railway Wuhan-Guangzhou for the longest in the world and is a 'record' is also on the speed. Distance more than a thousand kilometers to be covered in three hours at an average speed of 340 kilometers per hour.

China's High-Speed train set new world record of 486.1 kms per hour

The train CRH380A hit a speed of 486.1 kms per hour to set a new world train operational speed record on world's longest high-speed rail line

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Awesome guitar from 7000 trees

70-year-old Argentine farmer from County-Gral Lavalle Pedro Martin Ureta (Pedro Martin Ureta) created a giant guitar of the trees in memory of his late wife, Gratsele. For this the farmer took 7,000 cypress and eucalyptus trees. Pedro Martin Ureta designed the giant guitar many years ago, immediately after his wife died in 1977, when she was only 25 years old.

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The biggest ice cream cake in the world

A well-known Canadian chain ice-cream «Dairy Queen» celebrated its 30 anniversary. In honor of this event in the central square downtown Yonge-Dundas Square was created by a huge frozen cake. Used for the creation of more than 9000 kg of ice, 91 kg of biscuit, about 136 kg of ice. Created a cake was brought in the Guinness Book of Records Ginnecsa. Afterwards everyone gathered at Yonge and Dundas Square could give it a try:)

Same Hill, Different Day by Paul Octavious

Chicago based photographer Paul Octavious documents the life of a single hill in Chicago through a series of photographs in a project entitled Same Hill, Different Day. For the past 3 years Paul has been visiting a beautiful mound of earth that he has come to call “the hill.” Ever since he found the hill in 2007, he’s photographed it hundreds, probably thousands of times. Yet every time, the hill looks different. From snow falls, kite festivals, outdoor movies, to even Ghana World Cup team practicing on the hill one foggy day – Paul has captured it all. I have never seen a hill presenting so many different looks.