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Solar Tower for the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio de Janeiro
The challenge was to design a vertical structure on the island of Cotonduba that in addition to serving as an observation tower would become a symbol of welcome to newcomers in Rio either by sea or by air once it has been host city of 2016 Olympic Games. Designed by RAFA firm headquartered in Zurich, [...]
It’s the World’s Largest Golf Course – and You’ll Definitely Need a Driver
Image by Michael … via Flickr Australia’s Nullarbor Links is the largest course in the world, crossing two time zones and encompassing some of the flattest, driest terrain on the planet. It spans two states, stretching 848 miles from Ceduna in the south to the old gold mining town of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The [...]
When I’m hungry and want 2000 of something I eat rice. But this served me a belly full of laughs.
Image via Wikipedia NEW YORK – A Japanese eating champion who sat out this year’s Coney Island Fourth of July hot dog contest apparently couldn’t resist the temptation to hotdog afterward — and got arrested. Six-time champion Takeru Kobayashi was sitting in a jail cell Sunday after the annual Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating [...]
Not even hipsters can ruin skee-ball for me. Especially when it’s skee-ball and beer.
Image by Benimoto via Flickr ANYONE wondering which retro childhood pastime is poised for the kind of revival that roller derby and coed kickball enjoyed in recent years might look no further than Full Circle, a recently opened bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, devoted to Skee-Ball, the classic arcade game that involves rolling a wooden ball [...]
Oh when the blues, the whites and the greens go marchin in…
Image by mikkelz via Flickr Today I found out the origin of the word “soccer”. For all you out there who love to complain when Americans, and certain others, call “Football”, “Soccer”, you should know that it was the British that invented the word and it was also one of the first names of what [...]