Japanese classical gardens.
Author: For many years, traveling to Japan, I never cease to marvel at these manifestos values ​​of Japanese civilization - multiplied by the simplicity of perfection, harmony in an integrated environment. A few minutes in these oases of Zen relaxes tension and clears the brain. Products painstaking work of designers and gardeners, their creation and maintenance are very expensive. It is impossible to imagine a Japan without its gardens and perhaps they in conjunction with ancient temples are the main cultural and historical landmark of the country. Sayre-ene, Nijo Castle:-jo:, Kyoto:

It is only Soviet Union scientists were proud that Soviet microprocessors are the largest microprocessor in the world! Throughout the rest of the world scientific and technical progress gave rise to ameller and smaller devices. Today, we'll tell you about the smallest of devices in the world.

  Beachy Head - a cape on the southern coast of Britain. This is a chalk cliff in East Sussex near Eastbourne, on the great extent of his - almost perpendicular. Height is 162 m. The Beachy Head is known as one of the most popular places in the world for suicide This huge "lump" of limestone rose from the sea floor around 65-100 million years ago.Sea waves, has risen since the end of the Ice Age sea levels have destroyed the limestone coast. Source

 This tragic and unique snapshot photographer Hans did Vendch (Hans Wendt) September 25, 33 back in San Diego. It is called, was in the right place at the right time to capture the tragic fall forever Boeing-727 N533PS, owned airline PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines) out flight 182 Sacramento - San Diego (Kalifoniya) with a stop in Los Angeles. Because of the error manager and Boeing pilots, 727 th in reducing overtook private Cessna, where there were two pilots (instructor provides training for IFR) and struck it with his right wing. Two planes crashed in the vicinity of San Diego. Killing all 135 people aboard the 727-th. As well as two pilots Cessna and 7 people, including two children, on the ground. 22 houses were destroyed or damaged. 9 more were wounded man on earth.

The MS Nordlys ("Northern Light"), a Norwegian cruise ship, is dangerously close to tipping over on Sept. 16 after a fire broke out in the engine room the day before. A local police chief said the ship was tilting at an angle of 21.7 degrees -- over the critical limit of 20 degrees -- and that rescue teams were furiously trying to pump water out to restore balance.

 In the world of living people, which made ​​the eggs in this Mad Hatter. And it's - Gregory da Silva, African comedian who has found a way to attract public attention. Yes, and how not to zasmotretsya man whose head at 1000 eggs!

 Designer Thomas Brelreskift, apparently of the opinion that the compact aircraft in the future be able to afford many, and decided to fantasize about it. The result was a concept SeaSTOL VLJ - a compact vehicle. Acronym in the title translates as VLJ very light jet (very light jet), indicating that its main advantage - ease of design. SeaSTOL VLJ is designed for 5-8 passengers, including the pilot. The aircraft can sit on both land and water. How soon such aircraft will take place in our garages and parking places - hard to say, but, according to optimistic forecasts, it will take 10-15 years. [gallery] [/ center]
 

 Talk about an ostrich farm, which is located in South Africa. The author made ​​it to her and did a great report ...
 

 Modern life is rubbish - Incredible shadow art made from piles of garbage and different objects...

 Contest "Russian Landscape" is completely devoted to landscapes, shot in the expanses of Russia.

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A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate from one point in the night sky. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories. Most meteors are smaller than a grain of sand, so almost all of them disintegrate and never hit the Earth's surface.

 This guy knows a lot about milk. And it takes only the direct manufacturers. Shocking details in the continuation!

Seven of the new ideas the organization of modern office space. Thanks to modern technology, the desire to be closer to nature is quite feasible. In addition to hundreds of futuristic concept is the set of implemented projects, the most green part of which offer you. Treetop Office Office on a hillside in the city of Bellingham (Bellingham) in Washington State is an office of the hermit. Project author Peter Frazier made ​​room for work directly on the slope. The undoubted advantages of this location - beautiful views and fresh air, too, have drawbacks, but, apparently, the owners of small inconvenience is not particularly worried.

The fastest fish in the world is a fish-sailer. There are two types of fish: Istiophorus platypterus, who lives in the Indian Ocean, and Istiophorus albicans, which is found in central and western Pacific Ocean. That fish-Pacific sailfish can move in water with a speed of 100 km / hour.But what makes sailing the fastest beings in the water? Firstly - it is their fin. If the fish swims at high speed, the dorsal fin is hidden in the recess on the back, but at a sharp turn, he "pulled out" so that a sailboat can be a very sharp turn, chasing prey.Second, it helps their sailboats and a streamlined aerodynamic (or more appropriate here - akvadinamicheskoe) body covered with small grooves of zubchikoobraznyh outgrowths. These furrows retained water ivyhodit that is not the body of the sailboat, and "water film", clinging to him in contact with water, greatly reducing friction. Also, far from outstanding pointed jaw fish can achieve the effect of turbulence and the tail fin, narrow crescent-shaped and even oscillates with small amplitude, but does so with great speed. Source

Alert, Canada A small village situated on a peninsula of Nunavut, in Canada, just five hundred miles south of the North Pole. Year-round population of only five people. Surrounded by the Arctic Ocean, and with temperatures in the -40, Alert is the most isolated settlements in the world.

As you remember, 10 years ago September 11, 2001 at the American World Trade Center was attacked. 10 years have passed. Traditionally, we are publishing new photographs of these terrible events.

As you know, the president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev at the present time moves on country roads in an armored S600 Pullman Guard Mersedes , but, as stated by the Executive Secretary of the Russian president, Vladimir Kozhin, in a short time the head of state and senior officials of the country will ride only on domestic cars. Set to begin the end of this year, the assembly of new generation of limousines for the country's leadership, the Russian President Administration has set auto companies , "ZIL" .And while the design bureau automobile study terms of reference, the studio"Slava'saakyan" , showing initiative, unveiled its concept model the presidential limousine.New "chlenovoz" head of state was developed by designers studio, based on the style and traditions of the past zilovskih vip-models. Looks very impressive.

Tests of the first SUV. Fortunately, the inventive thought and then turned in the right direction, and the current off-road look very different:

In this collection you will find the grand landscapes and pictures of celebrities. Details - that's what photographers who have made these masterpieces, they know best. We offer you the best micrographs of the winners of the next photo contest "Small World".