Hidden away in a few temples in Northern Japan are a few monks who chose to undergo the painful process of sokushinbutsu, self-mummification.
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Hidden away in a few temples in Northern Japan are a few monks who chose to undergo the painful process of sokushinbutsu, self-mummification.
Here is a list of 10 forests with unusual biodiversity that will definitely amuse you. Some have no wildlife, while some have weird shapes.
Mir Mine also called Mirny Mine is a former open pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia. At the time of its closing in 2004, the mine was 525 meters deep and 1,200 meters across making it the second largest excavated hole in the world, after Bingham Canyon Mine. The hole is so big that airspace above the mine is closed for helicopters because of incidents in which they were sucked in by the downward air flow.
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The sheer number of legends surrounding Tiki is quite astounding—possibly because so many island cultures pay tribute to Tiki Gods. The four major Hawaiian Tiki Gods are Ku the God of War, Lono the God of Fertility and Peace, Kane the God of Light and Life, and Kanaloa the God of the Sea. Ancient followers worshiped these Gods through prayer, chanting, surfing, lava sledding and even human sacrifice.
В китайском городе-крепости Коулун жило 50 тысяч человек, и не было никакой власти, кроме власти триад. Именно он лег в основу эстетики киберпанка
The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong looks like a beehive, with cramped quarters stacked haphazardly on top of one another. It grew up organically, clearly constructed without the input of a single architect. Before its demolition in 1993, the city buzzed with life. It harbored drug kingpins, prostitutes, and gangsters, along with fish ball makers, mailmen, and hawkers. But apart from these residents, only a few others had been privy to life in "the brothel of the East." Cameraman Hamdani Milas was one of them. He helped make a 1989 documentary about the city and spoke to the Wall Street Journal for this brilliant interactive feature tracing how a diplomatic glitch in the 1800s turned a former military fort into a "donut hole of Chinese sovereignty" in Hong Kong, then a British colony. Being tossed between the Chinese and the British forced the city into legal limbo. "It really was like a mad art director's vision of a dystopian future," he says. "It was all botched together and it was this kind of crazy, chaotic architecture."
The Walled City was bloated with crime, prostitution, and drug use, but there was a closeness to those that called it home. Together, the residents of the city resisted the Hong Kong government's efforts for decades as they tried to move everyone out. Having never been ceded to Britain in their 99-year lease of Hong Kong to the UK, the residents often felt that the Walled City was really China and that the Hong Kong government should leave them alone. The result of all this was one of the most iconic slums in history.
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There are certain natural occurrences in the world that leave us all scratching our heads. One such natural wonder is Kummakivi, a geological formation found in the dense forests of Finland. The mystifying sight is that of a giant rock performing an unbelievable balancing act on a seemingly smooth, curved mound. There is still no scientific explanation for how the rock, whose given name translates as “strange rock” in Finnish, has wound up in such a perplexing position, but doesn’t it look unusual? Some Finnish folklore explains the odd locations of these giant stones by saying that trolls (or giants) […]
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