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Monday, March 9th, 2009
Some people are privileged to live in truly impressive for its beauty and tranquility that surrounds them, as the inhabitants of this island in Norway.
Husøy, also known as Island House, is really small, its 1000 meters long and 500 meters wide, and is connected to the big island of Senja by a pier 300 meters long and a small road.
It has been inhabited since 1950 and currently has about 200 residents, mostly fishermen. It is said that if you live in Husøy, should the daily dealings with His people. The houses are so close to ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
The Alexandrina Library is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. It was built in commemoration of the ancient Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, in an attempt to revive something of the brilliance that this earlier center of study and erudition represented.
In 1987 came out an ambitious cultural project: to build a new library, the Alexandrina Library, this happened 1600 years after the disappearance of these large collections of knowledge. To carry out such a project joined the efforts of various European countries, economic, and ...
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
While in the Southern Hemisphere continues to increase in the heat this summer, the winter in Japan is rather crude. Just in the city of Shimukappu at hokkaido this is called Alpha Resort-Hotel Tomamu, which possibly was inspired by the Ice Hotel in Kiruna, Sweden.
In this Hotel, the dining room, bedroom and bathroom are made entirely of ice. Even the dinner was also served on a plate of ice.
If you have 80,000 yen (around $ 900) may spend a night you and your companion, but hurry, the hotel will be open only until February 15, ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
The Hotel Sax Chicago now has a room designed for the most geeks. In collaboration with Microsoft has created room "The Microsoft Experience", full of colored lights, self, a number of Xbox 360 with Rock Band, several Zune, HP computers with Windows Vista ... Every consumer products for daily life of Microsoft in the same room.
If I remember correctly, Microsoft has already created stays like this several times, for example, at the headquarters of Madrid are "a meeting room of the future" for quite some time where you can see progress from Microsoft, as well ...
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