World’s largest cemetery (12 pictures)
Wadi us-Salaam means the Valley of Peace. It is an Islamic cemetery located in the city of Najaf, Iraq, and contains millions of bodies.
Wadi us-Salaam means the Valley of Peace. It is an Islamic cemetery located in the city of Najaf, Iraq, and contains millions of bodies.
The only one of its kind in the world, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego’s FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP) is a 355-foot-long manned spar buoy designed to serve as a stable platform for oceanographic research.
Resembling a long baseball bat, FLIP is classified as a “research platform” since it has no propulsion power. Rather, FLIP is towed to its operating area in the horizontal position and, through ballast changes, is “flipped” in about 30 minutes to the vertical position to become uniquely stable.
Summer has just ended. It is impossible to deny that forever. Fall is upon us.
Great and informative selection of infographical maps. They are way better than the ones they taught you at school!
Album covers from former Yugoslav republics designed by people who absolutely don’t care about the aesthetics.
This people clearly should have paid more attention in school.