American beauty Christie Brinkley

American beauty Christie Brinkley looks phenomenal if you accept the fact that she is 60 years old. In fact, Christie Brinkley is the embodiment of eternal beauty, proving that women are not aging anymore. Even if she had botox, and some other enhancement done to her face, she wouldn’t have this youthful appearance without good genes given to her by nature. In addition to good genes Christie Brinkley lives a healthy lifestyle, she is a long time vegetarian and activist for animal rights and the environment. Christie Brinkley believes its time to change our reaction to the numbers as we age. Indeed, There are 30-year olds that are a lot older than many 60 year olds. “I don’t think we should judge our age by the number of wrinkles we have, or how many grey hairs ….but by our spirit”.
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Chinese Atlantis underwater Lion City Shi Cheng

Chinese Atlantis underwater Lion City Shi Cheng.

More than half a century ago, Chinese Lion City, also known as Shi Cheng was flooded. archaeologists, who have recently investigated Shi Cheng, called the rediscovered China’s Atlantis – Lion City. The mysterious ancient city Shi Cheng or “Lion City” was built in AD 208. And, in 1959, during the construction of hydroelectric power plant of Xin’an River Dam project, was flooded. The city at the foot of Wu Shi Mountain (“Five Lion” Mountain) went under the water, and around there appeared the most beautiful man-made lakes with 1078 islands. At present the submerged city Shi Cheng remains undisturbed at a depth of 26-40m.
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Princess Fawzia Fuad, Princess of Egypt, Queen of Iran (5 November 1921 – 2 July 2013). Photo of 1945

Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, or Her Sultanic Highness Princess Fawzia of Egypt (5 November 1921 – 2 July 2013) became Queen of Iran as the first wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Exotic beauty of Princess Fawzia was admired worldwide. In the eyes of the world, Fawzia was the epitome of glamour, her style a mixture of European fashion and oriental mystique. Her portrait appeared on the cover of Life magazine in 1942. Life magazine photographer Cecil Beaton called her “Asian Venus with perfect features and piercing, sad and mournful blue eyes”. Despite the fact that after the overthrow of the monarchy in Egypt, Fawzia was deprived of her royal titles and privileges, she was still treated as Princess, as – a sign of respect.
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A cub, future Bear Soldier Wojtek

Bear Soldier Wojtek
Every year, World War II, one of the most difficult trials that humanity faced in the twentieth century, becomes the thing of the past. It seems, we know almost everything about its battles, remember its heroes. At the Great War everything happened – joy and pain, happiness and tears. There were heavy losses and unexpected returns, unique military operations and unusual soldiers. One of them was Bear Soldier Wojtek, about whom this post is.
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Bride from Hordaland. Norwegian bridal crowns. Photo by Solveig Lund. Norsk Folkemuseum

Norwegian bridal crowns
Photos from the collection of Norsk Folkemuseum, Oslo, Norway, made ​​in the period 1870-1920s by the photographer Solveig Lund. They feature girls in wedding dresses and beautiful headwear resembling fairy crown. Many brides are holding the Bible. The bridal crown is a part of fabulous Bunad – folk bridal outfit. In modern time in Norway the Bunad tradition has become very popular. Both women and men use their folk costumes at religious festivals and other ceremonies – folk dances, weddings, National Day celebration May 17th.
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Samita Bajracharya wears makeup before attending a festival, at Kumari Ghar in Patan City. Nepal living goddess Kumari

Nepal living goddess Kumari
From the Sanskrit the word “Kaumarya” means virgin. The local Hindus and Buddhists consider this girl to be the embodiment of the goddess Taleju (the Nepalese name of the goddess Durga). In fact, the idea of bodily incarnation of Durga in Hinduism has lived for many centuries. In the treatise “Devi Mahatmyam”, written in the 4-5 centuries, the goddess Chandi (Durga subsistence) says that she is present in all female living beings in the universe. To this day, at festivals, Durga Puja and Navaratri believers of India choose a girl who is their living goddess, but only for one day – during the celebration. In Nepal, the Hindu idea of the incarnation of the goddess in the girl reached its highest development thanks to the influence of Buddhism.
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Picture of the ghost of Abraham Lincoln with Mary Lincoln. Spirit photographer William Mamler

In 1860, American spirit photographer William Mamler started the production of mysterious photographs in which on the background could be seen spirits. His lab did not know lack of customers. In 1869, he faced the trial for fraud, but judges failed to understand how the photo hoaxes were made. As a result, acquitted of fraud, Mumler’s career was ruined. Besides, Mamler was mentally ill with schizophrenia. And, before his death, he destroyed most of his working papers and photographs. Despite this, about 2 thousand pictures have survived in his laboratory. He died at the age of just 52, in 1884, and took the secrets of Photoshop of XIX century with him to the grave.
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Odessa based Barbie doll Alina Kovalevskaya

Barbie doll Alina Kovalevskaya
20 year-old Alina Kovalevskaya lives in Odessa, the Ukraine. Immediately after Lukyanova, Shpagina, Barbie virus infected new dolls from Odessa. Noteworthy, the number of Odessa Barbie dolls exceeded to more than seven! These barbie girls are just beginning to climb up to their puppet Olympic glory. However, because the girls do not differ, it’s hard to determine the winner. Meanwhile, Odessa Barbie doll Alina Kovalevskaya not only imitates 28-year-old Amatue in her manners, communication and style of clothing. Also, she even makes the photos in the same places where Odessa Barbie Lukyanova used to pose. According to Alina Kovalevskaya, she practices vegan life.
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The Titanic violin sold at auction for 2 million dollars

The Titanic violin sold at auction for 2 million dollars

Yesterday, the most important and probably the most valuable artifact relating to the Titanic – Wallace Hartley’s violin was sold at auction for about 2 million dollars to a British Titanic ‘connoisseur’. The violin was a gift from Hartley’s fiancee Maria Robinson, it had an inscription ‘For WALLACE on the occasion of our engagement from MARIA’. The instrument used by Wallace Hartley was thought by some to have been lost in the Atlantic in the 1912 disaster. But in 2006 the son of an amateur musician found it in an attic, complete with a silver plate showing its provenance. After seven years of testing, costing tens of thousands of pounds, the water-stained violin has now been proven to be the one played by Hartley. The rosewood violin is incredibly well-preserved despite its age and it being exposed to the sea.
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