The Paper Boat by Frank Bolter
The Paper Boat by Frank Bölter. The origami paper boat was part of the Drift 10 art exhibition in London. It was made of giant sheets using origami techniques and the boat itself measured 5.4m in length.
Hotel on Boeing 747 Airplane - Costa Rica
What can you do with an old Boeing 727? You can sent it to a junkyard or you can rebuild it, refurbish and turn it into a hotel, like the Costa Verde Hotel in Costa Rica.
The airplane in question, a 1965 model, spent decades flying as part of the South African Airways, and later Columbia’s Avianca Airlines, fleet. When it was time for the plane to be retired a group of investors bought it and flew it to San Jose. From there the plane was divided to five sections so that trucks could transport it 150 kilometers (90 miles) to it’s current location on the grounds of the Costa Verde Hotel.
The plane turned hotel, perched up on a tree offers an unusual sight for visitors. On the outside of the plane there are wooden decks above each wing with hand-carved teak furniture. From these perches visitors can spot toucans, monkeys, butterflies and sloths, to say nothing of the crash-bang sunsets over the ocean.
Inside, nearly the entire plane has been gutted and paneled with locally-sourced wood—if it weren’t for the curvature of the walls and the shapes of the windows you’d never know you were inside a plane. The entire plane is rented out as a suite that includes a kitchenette-dining foyer, a lounging area with flatscreen TV and two air-conditioned en-suite bedrooms.
Love Lock - Ponts des Arts bridge, Paris
The speciality of Ponts des Arts bridge is people used to hang locks on it with their name & their boyfriend/girlfriend/best-friend then throw the key into the river. So even though the friend/relationship may end, lock remains there. It stays there forever, as relevance to someone once a part of their life.
The origin of Tea Bags was an accident
The tea bag was accidentally invented by a tea importer named Thomas Sullivan in 1908. To minimize the cost of transporting tea samples to customers, Sullivan sent the tea in small silk bags instead of the more expensive tin cans. The recipients mistakenly believed they were meant to be dunked and soon Sullivan was inundated with orders for his Tea Bags.
This method of brewing tea soon became popular, and by the 1920s, tea bags were being mass produced in the United States. Silk was replaced with gauze, then later paper.
Landwasser Viaduct, Switzerland
You can understand why trains are held in such great affection by the Swiss. It's absolute heaven for trainspotters, who take particular pleasure in the superlative time-keeping of Swiss trains. No wrong type of snow or leaves on the line here, and never a preceding slow train to hold you up.
The Landwasser Viaduct is a single track six-arched curved limestone railway viaduct. It spans the Landwasser River between Schmitten and Filisur, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.
Landwasser Viaduct was opened in 1904. Astonishingly, it took just 14 months to construct. It stands 130ft high and 426ft long and comprises six arches of dark limestone. The single track runs in a line shaped like a quarter-circle with a 324ft radius before plunging into an opening in a huge rock face and entering a 700ft long tunnel.
The details of its construction are extraordinary. There was no large scaffolding in the traditional manner. A metal tower was built within three taller piers, each equipped with a bridge crane. The towers rose as construction proceeded upwards, until the arches could be built by putting up wooden scaffolding on them. The first and last arches are anchored by strong abutments to the rock face on either side of the gorge.
An Innocent Cute Story
A 5 years old kid kept telling his teacher about his baby sister which was going to be born because he was very much excited about it.
One day his mom made him feel the baby's movements by placing his palm & fingers on her stomach.
The kid didnt tell nothing from that day and he stopped telling his teacher about his baby sister.
One day when his teacher inquired about this baby sister, the boy's eyes were filled with tears and replied , "My mom ate her!!!"
Write your Hurts on Sand, Carve your Benefits on Stone
Two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand:
"TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE."
They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone:
"TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE."
The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?"
The other friend replied: "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.
"LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS ON THE SAND, AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS ON STONE".
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