World War II photos

World War II photos taken in the former USSR during World War II on the occupied territories. These are photos from family archives posted online by grandchildren of those who took part in the war: the authors of most of them remain unknown. Some of the photos belong to the Soviet journalists: Dmitri Baltermants andVladimir Lupejko. The photographs are cruel and shocking, but they should teach us about life and how precious it is. We are all equals during our short life on this planet and all nations should embrace others and cease all conflicts. For the better future of our children, may the history never repeat itself.

Facts About Dreams

12 Coolest Facts About Dreams

Published on 4/11/2012 under Weird Science - by Gracie Murano -156,952 views 

Dreams have always intrigued us since time immemorial. It is also said there were specific dream interpreters in the courts of kings in early civilizations. However, in the 1800s the father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and subsequently, his successor Carl Jung, revolutionized the world of dreams. Since then a lot has been studied in this field but dreams astound us with varied meanings and interpretations every time we witness them.

Some of the most interesting facts about dreams in the trailing paragraphs are sure to take one by surprise.

 While dreaming we become temporarily paralyzed

Not many of us are aware that we become temporarily paralyzed in the dream state. This can be attributed to the fact that sometimes we may be so moved with certain dramatic dreams as to fall and hurt ourselves, thus, as a natural response the body goes into a temporary inactive state physically. 

 We can control our dreams

In what is known as a "Lucid dreaming" phase one can control their dreams. Thus, one can also manipulate their dreams and even the outcomes! Another interesting fact is that one dreams things one has witnessed some time before in their life. 

 Dreams can cause incorporation

How often have we dreamt we were hungry or thirsty or performing an act repeatedly in our sleep until we wake up and undertake the activity? Sometimes one could dream of drinking glasses of water only to wake up and be very thirsty! 

        

 Dreams speak in indirect language

Dreams never utilize symbols they actually stand for. A lot of research has already gone into the subject and books have been written on dream symbols and their interpretations. Dreams carry deep meanings that only the subconscious mind can understand.

Facts about AK-47

 

AK-47 is probably one of the most well-known Russian weaponry piece. They say it became so popular worldwide because of it’s high durability (it can go for years without any kind of cleaning or special maintenance) and extreme simplicity – it has only eight moving parts and can be stripped down in one minute.

In some countries of Africa it can be bought as cheap as $12 for one piece and no any license is needed, so even children armed with the guns. Maybe that’s why some of the countries of this continent have the AK-47 depiction on their coats of arms, like Mozambique on pictures above has it both on its flag and coats of arms.

Zimbabwe got it too.

Burkina Faso had it from 1984 till 1997.

And Eastern Timor got it live as an official symbol starting 2007.

Then the radical Mid Eastern groups are also well known for AK-47 affection. As we can see Hezbollah has it on its flag above.

And Osama is known (or was known) for having one or two AK-47s standing somewhere near him during his video appearances.

Those groups are not the only in the modern world who are fond of this epic assault rifle. For example architects of Russia were going to build a AK-47 shaped skyscraper in the home town of its inventor, Mr. Kalashnikov. And by the way, people say he didn’t get any profits upon inventing and introducing this gun just because in Soviet Union authors of such inventions didn’t get any royalties at all.

But while the Russians are just planning to built something like this, in Egypt they have already built a giant AK-47 monument on the coast of Sinai peninsula.

Sometimes the AK-47 mania gets really crazy and one can get a gold coated rifle:

This particular one was owned by Hussein, not Barak but Saddam.

Or in Afghanistan people put AK-47 on the hand made rugs.

And probably the most freakish AK-47 mod is Hello Kitty pink gun:

Also in Russia you can get a silver coin with it:

But then sometimes even countries that are far from participating of wars and enjoying peaceful living come up with something as strange as a dollar coin with AK-47 (New Zealand).

It goes in a neatly shaped box:

And this is Russian basketball star Alexandr Kirillenko known playing for Utah Jazz. No, he doesn’t own hello kitty AK-47, but he is known to be called “AK-47″ by his teammates.

Then AK-47 is something that is not forgotten by Music industry participants:

One can get AK-47 shaped guitar.

Or an MP3 player

And of course, the last but not the least is AK-47 vodka bottles:

Of course, made in Russia and can be a must for anyone travel there to take home as a symbolic cool gift from the Motherland.

Unique Tattoos Design: Ambigram

Unique Tattoos Design: Ambigram. Art of tattoo, a mark made ​​by inserting pigment into the skin. In technical terms, tattooing is micro pigment implantation, remains a popular thing in the world. Many designs are made, creative and very interesting. One of the popular designs in tattoos is the ambigram. The ambigrams are words or phrases written or drawn so as to allow at least two different readings. The second reading can be done after making some kind of transaction with the original drawing. In most cases, the second reading is taken after rotating the picture 180 degrees, this is called ambigrams of central symmetry, in others, the second reading will take place to see the reflection in a mirror, are the ambigrams of horizontal symmetry or vertical, and finally there ambigrams that have no symmetry, but even so, there is a second reading of it.

Unique Tattoos Design

Interesting Facts about Science – Science is all a conscious effort to investigate, discover, and increase human understanding of various aspects of reality in human nature. These aspects are limited so that the resulting formulas are uncertain. Science provides certainty by limiting the scope of his views, and the certainty of science obtained from limitations. And there are Interesting Facts about Science that need to know.

Interesting Facts about Science:

1. Spider web
Believe it or not the spider web is stronger than steel? That’s what happened. Instead the U.S. military had planned to make bulletproof jackets are made of spun spider webs. So the scene in the movie Spiderman 2, which stop the train using the spider web is not something impossible.

2. The Density of Ice
Did you know that the density of ice is lighter 89% than the density of water? As a result 11% of the iceberg above the water surface. This fact makes icebergs floating on the sea is very dangerous, especially for ships that are sailing. This was evident in the historical accident that befell the Titanic in 1912. Ship “that can not be drowned” was sunk after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantk sea.

3. Fireworks
The history of fireworks stems from the discovery of fireworks in the 9th century in China. The story at that time a cook accidentally mixed three ingredients of black powder (black powder) and KNO3 is salt peter (potassium nitrate), sulfur (sulfur) and wood charcoal (charcoal). Apparently these three materials are flammable gunpowder. If the third material is inserted into a piece of bamboo and bamboo wicks burned then there will be a loud explosion sound.

4. Ship Tangker
Did you know that ship is the world’s largest tangker tangker Jahre Viking ship with a width of 69 meters and 458 meters long, 77 meters longer than the Empire Street Building in New York. Capable of carrying crude oil by 14 million barrels that can be able to support a vehicle engine on this earth for 2 WEEKS! WOW!

5. Cactus
Do you know why the cactus can live with minimal environmental conditions of water? The word cactus comes from the Greek “KAKTOS” which means thorny plants. Actually had cactus leaves. But the leaves are turned into thorns, to reduce evaporation of water. Analogues such as this, if we kepedesan then we took the water is still hot then pour the water into a dish or bowl, then a few minutes the water was even colder aka become more widespread due to the cooling area. There are Interesting Facts about Science that very interesting to know

Interesting Facts about Albert Einstein

Interesting Facts about Albert Einstein - Einstein became famous throughout the world, an unusual achievement for a scientist. In his old age, his fame beyond the fame of all scientists in history, and in popular culture, Einstein has become a byword for intelligence or even genius. His face is one of the most known around the world.

He gave us the theory of physics which are phenomenal namely the theory of relativity or relativity. But do you know when Einstein was born he had a large head, until his mother thought Einstein defects.

Here are some Interesting Facts about Albert Einstein:

1.  When Einstein was born, he was a chubby baby and big-headed, (to the extent that his mother thought he was disabled).
2. Einstein when a child is hard to speak, (as a child he is hard to speak, when he speaks very lamabat or stammer, this continued until he was 9 years old).
3. Einstein’s inspiration by a compass (when Einstein was 5 years old bedridden due to illness his father showed him something that sparked his interest in science it is: Compass).
4. Einstein failed the exam to get into college. In 1895, at the age of 17 years, Albert Einstein entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnical School (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule or ETH). She passed her exams in mathematics and science lessons, but failed in other subjects (history, language, geography, etc.), once he went into trade school but eventually returned to ETH a year later.
5. Einstein had forbidden the child or illegitimate child!, (In the 80′s private letters revealed something new Einstein, which he has an illegitimate child of a fellow former student Mileva Maric).
6. Einstein had bad relationships in her first child, (after his divorce from his wife, the relationship with his son Hans Albert Einstein became like a stone, Hans reproached her father for having won the Nobel prize he did not care anymore to his wife, so that his ex-wife get financial difficulties).
7. Einstein married a young girl (after divorcing Mileva Einstein), he soon married his cousin Elsa Lowenthal. Actually, Einstein also considered marrying Elsa.
8. Einstein lovers of peace, but urged FDR to build the Atomic bomb (the result, two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
9. Einstein’s brain preserved in jars for 43 Years. Thats the Interesting Facts about Albert Einstein

Fastest Trains in the World

10 Fastest Trains in the World -The train is a means of transportation in the form of vehicles with a power of motion, either walking alone or coupled with other vehicles, which will or are moving on rails.. Its high speed allows them to compete with air transport for medium distances on the order of hundreds of kilometers. In all cases these vehicles and railways developed as a unit, as achieved speeds require specific techniques. The high speed train is one of the safest vehicles in the world and produces fewer fatalities, exceeding even the plane. And here are the list of top 10 Fastest Trains in the World that interesting to know.

10 Fastest Trains in the World:

10. HSL 1

The top speed attained by this one is around 186 mph and it is operating in Belgium since December 1997. It is powered by 25 kV 50 Hz Ohle railway electrification systems.

9. ETR-500

ETR stands for Elettero Treno Rapido and it operates in Italy since 1993. The max speed of this train is around 190 mph. it is powered by 3 kV DC, 25 kV 50 Hz AC and ETR-500 takes just 60 minutes to cover the distance from center of Bologna to Milan.

8. Eurostar

It is a UK based train and carries about 900 passengers daily. It links UK and France and moves inside long channel tunnels. The max speed which can be attained by this train is around 199 mph. it is powered by 25 kV 50 Hz.