Friday 31 October 2014

Architecture & Design Staircases

A black Brazilian Mother (Nature can be so tricky)

A black mother has baffled scientists after giving birth to three albino children.

Parents Rosemere Fernandes de Andrade and her partner Joao are dark-skinned Afro-Brazilians, yet three of their five children are albinos.

Audi Breaks Ski Jump Record Again For New TV Advert

Published 12 March 2005 Melanie Carter

A spectacular 1980s television commercial showing a gravity-defying Audi quattro saloon climbing 47 metres of treacherously steep, snow-covered ski jump has just been remade using a new A6 saloon to mark the 25th Anniversary of quattro.

Fourteen years after rally ace Harald Demuth drove up Finland’s Pitkävuori ski jump in a red Audi 100 CS quattro, setting a new record in the process, Audi engineer Uwe Bleck has just followed suit in the 335PS V8-powered A6 4.2 quattro. Like its predecessor, the A6 highlighted the exceptional traction advantages of the quattro system by reaching a height of 47 metres on a gradient of around 80 per cent or 37.5 degrees, and parking on the slope.

For complete authenticity in the 2005 advertisement, the original timber-framed Pitkävuori ski jump, 300 miles north of Helsinki, was used again, despite the fact that it was closed in 1994 and needed extensive repairs before filming could commence.

In first gear, at 4,200rpm and travelling at about 37mph, the A6 stormed up the 80 per cent gradient with incredible ease, arriving at the 47-metre-high starting gate normally reserved for skiers only nine seconds after take-off. Uwe Bleck repeated this process a total of eleven times for the advertisement, and said later: “I could have gone faster, even at the steepest point.”

Green Tramways in Europe

Beautiful Green Tramways in Europe

The beautiful green trackways have become increasingly popular in Europe and can be seen in pretty much every major European cities from Barcelona to Frankfurt, Milan, St-Etienne and Strasbourg.Tram tracks on many European cities are lined with grass, a practice that Green tracks have become increasingly popular in Europe.Take a look of photographs.

Akhmad Kadyrov - Mosque in Grozny Chechnya

Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque in Grozny – Chechnya

Akhmata Kadyrova) is located in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. It is one of the largest mosques in Russia and is officially known as the “The Heart of Chechnya” (Russian: ?????? ?????, Serdtse Chechni). The mosque is named after Akhmad Kadyrov who commissioned its construction from the mayor of Konya. The mosque design with a set of 62-metre (203 ft)-tall minarets is based on the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
On October 16, 2008, the mosque was officially opened in a ceremony in which Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov spoke and was with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. In this mosque, ten thousand Muslims can pray at a time and its minarets reach 62 metres (203 ft) high.

Ocean cave

باہاماس کے زیرِسمندر خوبصورت غار

نساوٴ…این جی ٹی…باہاماس اپنے دلفریب جزیروں کے ساتھ ساتھ بلیو ہولز نامی غاروں کی وجہ سے بھی دنیا بھر میں شہرت رکھتا ہے۔ سطحِ سمندر سے663فٹ گہرے یہ غار ایک منفرد دنیا کا حسین منظر پیش کر تے ہیں جہاں انواع و اقسام کی چٹانیں اور آبی حیات موجود ہے۔ یہ غار اس قدر گہرے اور پُراسرار ہیں کہ ان میں صرف تربیت یافتہ ماہر غوطہ خور ہی جاسکتے ہیں۔

Many cave-divers tell of awe-inspiring locations to explore the hidden depths but surely this one in the Bahamas must be one of the best.

When divers float through the hollowed-out limestone rock at the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park, free from the constraints of gravity, natural light pours in through gaps created by the eroding rock bathing the azure blue water in sunlight and moonlight.

The cave ceiling in some places is low, just above the diver’s head and in other areas it opens up to a staggering 20ft making it an exhilarating place to explore the wildlife and pristine beauty