Update: Here are two more very interesting links for everyone.

Photos of Abandoned Buildings: Modern Day Ruins
The Poetry Of Forgotten Places

When starting on this post for some reason I was thinking that there are not many abandoned places in the world, at least the cities. I knew there are many villages, farms and just lonely houses all around the world but when thousands of people leave, leaving the whole city dead that’s a real tragedy. There are mainly two reasons why people suddenly or little by little leave the place where they used to live for years or even generations: that’s the danger and economic factors. The biggest number of abandoned villages and farms can be found in Unites States and the countries of the former USSR.

Visiting abandoned places is getting more and more popular these days and many tourist agencies offer special tours where people can meet the ghost cities and villages face to face. I have never been to any of these and frankly speaking I don’t want to. I thinks we should leave the ghosts in peace, especially in the places like Pripyat where the horrible tragedy took place.

Still hobbies differ and surfing online we can find photographer’s websites fully devoted to abandoned places like this one www.abandoned-places.com or Lost America photo stream.

The abandoned places can look charming or they can look frightening, we tried to present it all. The abandoned cities of the former USSR look almost like clones and they resemble the concentration camps from the times of the World War II.

In any case, that’s the history we should know about, so le’ts get started.

Gunkanjima, Japan

Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima (meaning “Battleship Island”) is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility.

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Any animal can be dangerous at some point so it’s hard to determine the only one factor that would help us to define which animals are the most dangerous. I can consider even my own cat dangerous but in no way it can be compared to some beast like a bear. Today we’ll be speaking about mammals and in the next posts we’ll also research the most dangerous animals of other types as well as insects and will make a summary of the most dangerous animals in the world.

Animals can get angry when protecting their kids or territory or they can be hungry, or they they can be simply aggressive by nature. The bigger the animal is, the more dangerous it is and this combination with aggression is the factor what we’ll consider one of the main in the post today. Of course, we’re also taking into account the fatality statistics that sometimes as we’ll see does not depend on the the size of the animal at all.

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I bet you have seen many toys that look very realistic, but what about real small creatures that look like the sweetest most beautiful and very professional toys? The post from today is pretty spontaneous. Making shopping earlier today I saw little and cute long-coated Chihuahua and for some reason it made me feel so happy and that little creature made my day. I hope the collection of photos in our post will make you smile as well, so enjoy! If you have some nice photos and would like to share we will gladly publish them.

Affenpinscher

The Affenpinscher is a terrier-like toy breed of dog. It’s an interesting fact that Affe means monkey in German and some say that this dog has a monkey-like expression. Weighing 7 to 9 pounds (3-4 kg) and not exceeding 11 inches (24-30 cm) in height the Affenpinscher has harsh rough coat which is shaggier over the head and shoulders forming a mane, with shorter coat over the back and hind quarters. The dogs are active, adventurous, curious, and stubborn, but they are also fun-loving and playful. The breed is confident, lively, affectionate towards family members and is also very protective of them. This loyal little dog enjoys being with its family.

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The longest woman’s beard.

The “bearded lady” Janice Daveri from Kentucky, USA had the longest beard ever sine 1884 and it was 36 cm long. Unfortunately we couldn’t find her photos but we have found an interesting blog: beardedwoman.wordpress.com Take a look you will understand what it is like being a woman with the beard.

The longest mustache

Hookah Ramdzhi Saina from India was sprouting whiskers from 1976.  In July 1993 they spread for as long ad 3.39 m. The length of the right whisker equaled 1.72 m and the left one was 1.67 m.

Photos from World Beard and Mustache Competition.

The earliest teeth

The world knows several cases when children were born with teeth. Shin Kini was born with 12 teeth in his mouth on April 10th 1990 in Berkshire, United Kingdom. They have been removed since he could bite his mother when breast feeding.

The oldest milk tooth

Gladys Turner who was born in 1920 in West Sussex, United Kingdom, preserved milk tooth, which was 75 years old in 1995. The photo below is not Gladys but it’s an amazing pic.

The largest waist

Waist of Walter Hudson from New York at his maximum weight of 545 kg came to 3.02 m.
Photo from exhibit at Ripley’s NYC.

The smallest waist

The smallest waist belongs to Ethel Grainger from Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. In 1939 her waist was 33 cm only.

And this is the photo of Cathie Jung with the 38 cm waist.

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