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I'd never have guessed about that rabbit on the moon.
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To the Japanese, the image is of a rabbit pounding sticky rice in a mortar to make rice cakes. The Chinese have a story about the rabbit trying to create the elixir of immortality. From India to Japan, there is a story about how a deity (Indra, Buddha, Lord of Heaven, etc.) disguised himself as an old beggar. He came upon a monkey, a fox, and a rabbit. He said he was starving and asked them for something to eat. The monkey and fox were able to find some tidbits for the old man to eat, but the rabbit could not find any. So he started a fire and cooked himself for the old man to eat. The old man returns to his original form and puts the rabbit in the moon for all eternity as a reward for his selflessness.
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A couple more interesting facts about Japan. Men shave their heads to apologize, and women cut their hair when they break up with their boyfriend.
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Sadly - the link to more interesting facts about Japan at the end of this article is a broken link.
Still, your website kicks butt :)
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its actually bad for you to eat or drink while walking weirdly enough. the japanese are right there.
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Try
this link instead. It was updated some time ago.
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Good place for a motorbike ride.
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I have been to the one in Taiwan. That is a really beautiful place. I remember there was some water falling from the mountain and into one of the tunnels. The views from the mountains were amazing, and there was this temple on top of a cliff. Like Mastercard would say "Priceless"
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Pretty awesome.
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The one in Vicenza, Italy is indeed only an hiking trail. No "small italian car"
never ever drove on that. The road for trucks carring supplies for the guesthouse runs on the other side of the mountains, on the former austrian side of the Alps...
A guy from Vicenza
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When I was 15 years old, I travelled on the Taroko Gorge road, on a flat-bed truck, on top of a load of cargo, at about 3:00 am on the night of a full moon. I was both enthralled and petrified. There also used to be some unbelievably scary hiking trails around there -- rickety suspension bridges over impossibly deep gorges, bamboo ladders, etc...
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Th eone from China is very beautiful.
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Thanks for making this available for people like me :) I would have never known...
I loved the road that the villagers carved out of the mountain - wow!
Makes me want to drop the drudgery I do for a living and get out there...
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Definitely seen the Vincenza one. It would be impossible to drive on.
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Well I'll you what, that was worth
a read and a look. Nice work.
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after seeing this road i think the one going to the Amalfi coast is not all that bad , still hair raising don't know if i want to repeat the experience.
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do you came to south america lately in peru o bolivia
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The bolivian one is getting more and more famous every year, it has now featured in more than 5 tv programes, from Canada, to US, Uk, to NZ ... we guide mountain bike rides down it regularly, and actually its not that dangerous, but it certainly is spectacular. For more information check us out on www.gravitybolivia.com, I've personally guided more than 500 bike trips down the road!
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A travel brochure for masochists.
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"10 most dangerous roads in the world":
All I have to say is, I've got 10 more things I have to do in life before I die!
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Very nice, i like it !
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Try the roads around Huaraz and in particular between Huaraz and Trujillo in nothern Peru. Anything from 3,000-4,500m up and carved through rocks. Awesome but terrifying.
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Add Israel to that. More specifically Jerusalem. More specifically going through the Arab neighborhoods. Talk about suicidal. No traffic laws, no respect for other road users, and the occasional rock throwing. But that doesn't keep me from getting my fix every morning.
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just take some small french roads, and it'll do just the same...
no kidding, it's very impressive
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In the United States i drove a scary mountain road in 1998. It lead up to a town called Little Detroit in Oregon.
The road was a single lane and you had to meet bigger vehicles at the turnoffs in order to pass by them. It wasn't as bad as most of these since it was mostly paved and was only 20-25 miles long. But the entire way was one side mountain, other side you plummet 400-500 feet with just enough room in the one lane for two compacts to squeeze by.
When we got to the top, my fellow travelers went their separate ways and I had to drive back down alone the next day. it was only at the end that i noticed i had been driving my econoline on a temp spare tire. Not very smart.
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thank's God I live in a country that having big - big - big highway roads..!!
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i agree with alessandro. the Pasubio road was built ( built? sorry for my terrible english) during the first world war. and I had problem to avoid rocks with my head. ciao
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The one in italy we use to call mount ozziano... I don't know if thats what its called. Theres no way cars could make it. Not even the little ones we called chinquechentos. I hiked all the way up to the "tourist shop" at the top, and was exausted as I was only 15 and just started smoking lol. Needless to say I was relieved to find the strait shot service road on the oposite side. Man it was fun throwing boulders down into the clouds and imagining people being crushed below LMAO!!
I still have a chunk of stalagtite I kicked off one of the floors up there.
~Army Brat~
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Really amazing astinishing informations, without actually visiting these places u can relish the hair raising experiences of these roads
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There are some tunnels like in Italy here in Slovenia. World War 1 front n'stuff.
And also World War 2 resistance tunnels...
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Nice pictures! Cool site, too.
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I was going to say that #12 was from Star Wars until I saw the answer key. Guess I need to get out (of the galaxy) more
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I only can answer one picture, WTC!
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Nice pictures!
But the only one I can surely guess is wrong: the 14 is not Notre-dame in Paris, but the Orléans cathedral (on this I'm less sure). Notre-dame has not the cylindrical top as in your picture.
I hope I have helped you
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My friend thought this was real. Wow
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It is real. I do it all the time.
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Yeah, it's so hard to master too!
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I'm getting pretty good with a minivan.
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what, you've never seen anyone do it before?
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thats so awesome. I do it with a Smart Car Everynow and then.
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This is definitely fake; too bad though :) It would be impossible to turn the car 180° in the air wouldn't it?
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SPECTACULAR
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Weird. At first sight it seems like an over-sized catamaran. But it also looks military in nature, so I don't understand why they'd need to make it so wide and tall. The cabin, where the pilot sits, is actually pretty small, so the payload of this ship couldn't be too big. I wonder what the heck it's used for.
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This thing either looks seriously awesome, or like a joke.
I'm torn, but it IS interesting.
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The payload box is about the right size for the SEALs small submarine. The height of the catamaran is enough to cruise over a nuclear powered submarine then lower the payload down onto the deck.
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Very interesting, Mr. Bond.
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an extra pair of legs, airfoil in shape, and the dang thing could fly as well
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NEAT!! I want one!
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Perhaps it's really an arthropod parasite of the Krupps giant earth-moving machine.
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If I was out boating and that thing came out of the fog i would think we had been invaded by aliens. That has to be the wildest thing I have ever seen. What a lucky catch. Would love to learn more about the craft.
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Seems to me such a design would be used as small-high-density goods transport for the military. Such a design would allow easy attachment to submarines aand small ships, and, given that this is a prototype, a larger version would have the room to load even larger goods on even larger vessels.
Perhaps it is a sea-crane? Such an idea might be useful, for submarines can only easily reload their larger missiles at ports. Having the ability to do this out of sight of any ground-based surviellance would certainly be handy.
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Look at this cool trimaran, operating as car/passenger ferry between the canary islands. Build in aluminum and specially coated, rather fast and efficient. see http://www.austal.com/go/news-and-images/photo-galleries?DELID=6955E09C%2DA0CC%2D3C8C%2DD9FD2E4C71CE8F0E
http://www.ship-technology.com/projects/benchijigua/
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I think it's key is the flexible legs that react to waves so the craft can simply glide on top of the water rather than pushing its way through. No other crafts have that ability to adapt and so must move through and sometimes against the waves. In other words, this innovation can probably allow for added speed (due to reduce friction) and more mileage on a single tank of gas.
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"and his bow tie is really a camera..."
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Thank you so much for the info regarding this product. I'll share this to my friends
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It's a pitty your interesting article doesn't include Mikroma, a really nice piece of mechanic. See here, for example. The Mikroma II: http://www.subclub.org/shop/mikromii.htm
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Thank you - good tip there
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Great...now I've got another place to add to the thousands of places I want to visit.
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I do not need to go around the world to see amazing thing, just by read your blog, watching your picture, I can see all of them,
thank you for the picture..!
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Totally cool.
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like christmas lights...
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what's Japanese for "honey, did you leave the lights on?"
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My brain just wrote an entire screenplay around these pictures.
It doesn't have a happy ending.
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Where's the coinslot?
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Wow, with so many light, I think the truck need huge electryicity power backup!
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WOW! i dont know anything about cars but I LOVE THIS!
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Just saw these on g4, the guy said it took 10 years and 135,000 dollars to make the van on top.
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Hmmm. Futuristic leather helmet isn't flying helmet, but a Russian tankers headgear. The wedge shaped padding on top kept them from wounding their gourd on solid interior surfaces.
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I was going to post about how awesome the pics were but there were tons of them I had to scroll though. Very nice.
My uncle works with trucks and rigs....he knows anything and everything to do with them. He'll have such a laugh seeing these.
looks more like the drivers are in deep trouble...
You've put together one of the most fun, and interesting sites I've seen, not just this section, but the whole ball of wax! Thank you!
I'll be enjoying this for quite some time...
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The Picture that has a bus in a hole in the ground with a stone bridge behind ( Aqueduto ), is very real, is in Campolide , Lisbon, Portugal, my hometwon.
Great collection of pictures, very nice.
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