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This summer in Berlin, the 8th edition of the international sand sculpture festival. Traditional sand sculptures are sandcastles. However, at sand festivals one may see virtually any kinds of sculptures you would expect to see in stone, bronze or wood.

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Spinning Cat Optical Illusion

Spinning Girl optical illusion was the one responsible for skyrocketing our traffic back in the old days. Then we have received Spinning Man version. Unfortunately that one didn’t gain as much attention, I hoped it would. Let’s see if spinning some cats helps. User called Pech Misfortune (oh, the irony) created this animated gif using ImageReady in addition with 3D Studio Max. The illusions is simple – all you have to do is see the cat rotate in both directions. At first you may think it’s impossible, but after some practice you’ll soon be able to switch the direction with each round. I’m also interested to hear your comments about the original direction you saw the cat spin at? When I first saw this, it appeared to move clockwise. Now each time I see it – it’s just the opposite (concentrate on it’s tale to switch).

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Amazing Photo Portraits of Famous People by Yousuf Karsh

Yousuf or Josuf (his given Armenian name was Hovsep) Karsh was born in Mardin, a city in the eastern Ottoman Empire (present Turkey). He grew up during the Armenian Genocide where he wrote, "I saw relatives massacred; my sister died of starvation as we were driven from village to village." At the age of 14, he fled with his family to Syria to escape persecution. Two years later, his parents sent Yousuf to live with his uncle George Nakash, a photographer in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Karsh briefly attended school there and assisted in his uncle’s studio. Nakash saw great potential in his nephew and in 1928 arranged for Karsh to apprentice with portrait photographer John Garo in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His brother, Malak Karsh, was also a photographer famous for the image of logs floating down the river on the Canadian one dollar bill.)

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Deaths So Mysterious They May Be Paranormal

Death is a very powerful thing, so powerful that it has been linked to the supernatural since the beginning of human civilization. This supernatural aurora that surrounds death usually takes the form of conjecture about what happens after we pass, but sometimes people die in such strange ways that the event of death itself borders on the paranormal.

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Paris Artificial Beaches

If you feel like hitting the beach in France you don’t need to head for the coast. All you need to do is drop by to Paris. For the ninth year running, the city has built the artificial “Paris Beach” along the Seine with tons of recycled sand. Palm trees, beach umbrellas, and sprinklers are all available for the Parisian looking to relax.

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Fire Starters:Pyrokinesis

Fire is a very powerful element. It is considered to be the basis for modern life, pushing cave men into light (literally and metaphorically) so that they could march toward the future. In fact, Greek mythology holds that fire is a gift from the gods, stolen by Prometheus and given to man without Zeus’s approval.

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Creepy Dolls Island

Creepy Dolls Island Posted in Bizarre And Odd, Featured Articles on 07 28th, 2010 | no responses Located in the heart of the Xochimico’s canals, Doll’s Island has a history totally unique. Sometime in the 1950’s Julián Santana Barrera begun collecting dolls found in the trash. He lived in this tiny island in Xochimilco and according to his family, these dolls kept the bad spirits away. The family also says that a young girl drowned at the island and he brought the dolls to keep her spirit happy. The island was for many years forgotten, but then in the 1990’s a program to clean up the canals gave again way for the Mexican style gondolas (trajineras) to pass by the island. Julian drowned at the island on April 17th, 2001. His family keeps the place by visitor’s donations; the place has no electricity, no running water or any other kind of utilities. Cellular phones do get a signal, as Xochimilco is inside the limits of Mexico City’s Federal District.

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