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Located in Urzhum, Kirov Oblast, Russia Lake Shaitan and floating islands

Lake Shaitan and floating islands
One of the most unique and beautiful lakes in Russia – Lake Shaitan, located about 39 km from the city of Urzhum, Kirov Oblast. The lake has a karstic origin, depth up to 25 meters. The Lake Shaitan is fed by underground water. A unique phenomenon – drifting on the lake island, with growing bushes and small trees. The islands can support the weight of several people. Another unique feature of the Shaitan lake in the emissions of fountains and water columns. Columns are available in various heights (up to 10 m), the emissions are irregular. Locals say that the emissions are in the winter, leaving the rearing sticking up thick ice floes.
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Unique Medical spankings in Siberia

Medical spankings in Siberia
Siberian scientists have made a discovery in curing drink and drug addicts, workaholics, obsessed with sex – by using corporal punishment. Dr German Pilipenko and Professor Marina Chukhrova have treated more than a thousand patients, and are now getting foreigners trying this ‘method of limited exposure or pain’, often as a last resort. 22-year-old Natasha says ‘I am the proof that this controversial treatment works, and I recommend it to anyone suffering from an addiction or depression. It hurts like crazy – but it’s given me back my life. Without it I seriously believe I would now be dead’. Patients see that this treatment is working where everything else has failed.
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Nobding, Bhutan. Green dictatorship in Bhutan

Green dictatorship in Bhutan
Bhutan has become the first country in the world, that passed the legislation on organic agriculture. Also, 60% of country’s territory is under the national parks, and the foundation of life in the country is a “tradition.” Bhutan with the ecological dictatorship is quite possible the future of the Earth. Bhutan has become the first country, where the official metrics of society declared a “Gross National Happiness” (GNH). Gross domestic product (GDP) which inspires Western intellectuals and their supervisors. By the way, the GDP of Bhutan is about 2.5 thousand dollars per person per year, and on this indicator the country is one of the poorest in the world. But, according to the infamous GNH – Bhutan placed itself on the 8th place in the world, ahead of all the Western countries.
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Unique “fairy tale house” in a giant tree by Vietnamese expressionist architect. Crazy house by Hang Nga

Crazy house by Hang Nga
Born in 1940, Vietnamese expressionist architect Dang Viet Nga built a guesthouse, better known as “Crazy House”. Designed and constructed by her unique “fairy tale house” represents a giant tree. Also, each room is cave, full of sculptured design elements of animals, spider webs, vegetables, and mushrooms. Inspired by Antoni Gaudi, Salvador Dali, and Walt Disney, she succeeded in creativity without limits. Fortunately, she reached her goals – to build a house like no one else on the Earth. Dang Viet Nga – the daughter of General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party in her youth studied architecture and lived for 14 years in Moscow, Russia, then came back to Vietnam. Her name comes from “Viet” – the indigenous people of Viet Nam, “Nga” means Russia). One of world most bizarre buildings “Crazy house” was opened in 1990, and it immediately gained recognition, being featured in numerous guidebooks, newspapers and magazines.
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Rolling hills. Fine art landscape photographer Zack Schnepf. What a beautiful world!

What a beautiful world!
Here is the collection of colorful landscapes of different photographers. The image above – Rolling hills. Fine art landscape photographer Zack Schnepf is inspired with incredible variety of colors in nature. The award winning photographer’s images look like a paradise on Earth. He admits that visiting these wild areas is a form of meditations, where Zack Schnepf gets to completely relax and appreciate the incredible beauty of nature. Zack Schnepf is concerned with the current state of the environment and global warming. He hopes his art works will raise awareness about conserving these amazing wilderness areas. The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. (Joseph B. Wirthlin)
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The beautiful underwater Neon portraits of exotic marine life by Mark Laita

Neon portraits of exotic marine life

American Los Angeles based photographer Mark Laita makes beautiful images of marine life in an incredibly vibrant colors. After his project “Serpentine”, which focused on multi-colored snakes from around the world, Mark Laita has created this amazing collection of bright and colorful underwater creatures. This project is simply called – “The Sea” of surprisingly “photogenic” representatives of the different seas and oceans. His upcoming book, Serpentine was released in 2013. His work has been exhibited at galleries in the U.S. and Europe. Mark Laita’s clean, colorful graphic photography has earned him a reputation for award winning work for clients such as Adidas, BMW, Van Cleef and Arpels, and MINI.
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Eye Rays. Kaleidoscopic picture-illusion full of colors, based on the modern concept of Gestalt psychology. Optical illusions by Professor Akiyoshi

Optical illusions by Professor Akiyoshi
It’s hard to believe that all these colorful images in front of us are still images, but not animations. Kitaoka Akiyoshi is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan studying visual perception, visual illusion, optical illusion, trompe l’oeil, 3D, etc. Specializing in visual perception, Kitaoka Akiyoshi has created a kaleidoscopic picture-illusion full of colors, based on the modern concept of Gestalt psychology. Gestalt psychology is a theory of the Berlin School on mind and brain. And the operational principle of gestalt psychology is that the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies. The principle maintains that the human eye sees objects in their entirety before perceiving their individual parts, suggesting the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Kurt Koffka is the author of the original phrase (though mistranslated) “The whole is other than the sum of the parts”.
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Titi, Miss Israel beauty queen Yityish Aynaw

Miss Israel beauty queen Yityish Aynaw
Born in Chahawit, a small village in northern Ethiopia, Gondar Province in 1992, has become the most beautiful girl. Yityish Aynaw has gone on a remarkable life journey from a little girl playing barefoot in an Ethiopian village to an Israeli beauty queen who’s ready to shine on the world stage. The beautiful girl has become the first from the Ethiopian Israeli immigrant minority to be crowned Miss Israel and the first black Miss Israel winner. Her father died when she was two years old and her mother died eight years later. Heartbroken, she arrived in Israel with her brother to live with their Ethiopian Jewish grandparents.
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Truly unique Underwater mausoleum of cremated remains Neptune Memorial Reef. In fact, the world’s first underwater cemetery and memorial park

Underwater mausoleum of cremated remains Neptune Memorial Reef
Called also Atlantis Memorial Reef, it is 5 miles east of Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida. Meanwhile, Neptune Memorial Reef has begun to resemble Atlantis, with its bronze statues of lions, majestic columns and sculptures of shells and starfish. In addition, it is the largest artificial reef in the world, occupying 65,000 square meters on the ocean floor at a depth of 12 meters.
So, instead of waving the ashes of their loved ones over the ocean, now the Americans “finally give” it to the Neptune Memorial Reef. Here the ashes – mixed with cement, built for underwater use, and then added to the reef. Then, next to the structure, made of dust, placed a bronze or copper tiles, and friends of the deceased take photos of the installation process, for the memory. Initially, the project had to be a copy of the “Lost City of Atlantis”. However, they found a better goal to become the world’s first underwater cemetery and memorial park.
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