Showing posts with label Biggest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biggest. Show all posts
Friday, June 10, 2011
Calamity of nature can happen anywhere anytime. Volcanic eruption is another dangerous form of natural calamity or disaster. It can be really destructive specially if not informed in time. Here we have made a list of top 10 most dangerous volcanic eruptions ever.
1. Thera, Greece(1600 B.C)
Thera was hit by one of the most powerful earthquakes in the human history. The power of the earthquake was equal to almost 30 hydrogenbombs. Minoan civilization suffered a great loss due to this earthquake; somehistorians also believe that this earthquake was the major cause for the decline of Minoan civilization.
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1. Thera, Greece(1600 B.C)
Thera was hit by one of the most powerful earthquakes in the human history. The power of the earthquake was equal to almost 30 hydrogenbombs. Minoan civilization suffered a great loss due to this earthquake; somehistorians also believe that this earthquake was the major cause for the decline of Minoan civilization.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Located in Crossville, Tennessee, this treehouse took Horace Burgess 14 years to build it around an 80-foot-tall white oak tree, with a diameter of 12 feet. Six other strong trees that act like natural pillars support the 97-feet-tall wooden edifice. Burgess started working on this huge treehouse after he had a vision back in 1993. The treehouse has 10 floors, averaging 9 to 11 feet in height with an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 square feet. This 56-year-old landscape architect used about 258,000 nails in this structure and $12,000 to construct it.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Ever since 1961, the German town of Langenbruck has hosted the Big Nose World Championship, a competition where “nosy” people from around the world compete for the title of world’s biggest nose.
The history of this wacky contest dates back 40 years, when a group of hops growers and the town minister sat down at the Lagenbruck pub and started making fun of each other’s big noses. “We could actually create a big nose club and you with your nose, could make the board” one of them said, while another replied “If I should be on the board then you would have to be nose king!” It was all in the spirit of fun, but Max Reichart and Wilhelm Höfler actually began thinking about establishing an “Association of Big Noses”, and a few weeks later they had actually done.
Everyone could join, as long as their nose was at least 60-mm-long or 40-mm-wide, and it numbered 40 members in the first hour since sits official inauguration. The Big Nose Club currently has 330 registered members and uses a modern nose gauge to measure the nose size of contestants during the Big Nose World Championship, held every five years. The judges measure the length and width of the noses, and contestants are allowed to frown or make faces in order to enlarge their noses, but they aren’t allowed to use any illegal substances.
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