Friday, May 31, 2013

Some of water villages around the world

The village includes a Muslim faculty that is attended by each males and females within the mornings. Despite the recent rise in business, life in KO Panyi remains based round the fishing business as tourists solely visit in important numbers throughout the time of year. The village includes a floating association football field. Impressed by the 1986 FIFA tournament, youngsters engineered the pitch from recent scraps of wood and fishing rafts.

Halong Bay Floating Village, Vietnam
A village of concerning 600 inhabitants engineered on the water is often found in Halong Bay. It’s a as if by magic calm place, associate break loose the hustle of Vietnam streets. The village could be a true water world, rising and falling with the tides, protected amidst sedimentary rock towers.

Locals live primarily from the ocean. Most of the rock islands within the space square measure too poor to be cultivated. Halong Bay is incredibly made in fish and ocean food. During this image you'll see some floating homes. Locals sleep in these homes and each morning they're going fishing. They sell their catches to larger boats that bring the cannon fodder to markets within the continent.

Giethoorn, Netherland
Giethoorn could be a village within the Dutch province of Overijssel. This village is termed the city of Netherlands for concerning seven.5 km (4.5 mi) of canals run through the insufficient village. it absolutely was supported around 1230 once fugitives coming back from the Mediterranian regions settled there.

All traffic has got to re-evaluate the water, and it's exhausted questionable "punters", they're 'whisper-boats' for their driven by an electrical motor, in order that they much don't disturb the peace and quiet during this scenic very little village. Many homes are engineered on islands and that they will solely be reached by the picket bridges. Some fifty very little picket bridges span the canals, that square measure only one meter (3 ft) deep. Giethoorn has 2620 inhabitants.



Uros Floating Village, Peru
The Uros square measure a pre-Incan people that survive xlii self-fashioned floating islands in Lake Titicaca, Peru. These islands square measure hand-made from a native species of reed (totora) that abounds within the shallows of the lake. Uros folks build temporary homes that float atop the water surface. The tide washes over their homes now and then, thus new layers of reed got to be set each two weeks for higher resistance.



The larger and most visited islands seem to several travellers as floating souvenirs, and to some extent these so square measure tourist-traps, their inhabitants having reach living off business. However, most of the smaller islands stay isolated from guests and still observe a standard method of life that has old-technique fishing, bird-trapping, and counting on totora for housing and transportation.

Wuzhen, China
Wuzhen is one in every of China’s ancient water cities, wherever waterways thread their method through the flag streets and alleys. Covering a district of seventy one.19 sq. kilometers (27.49 sq mi), Wuzhen includes a total population is sixty,000 of that twelve,000 square measure permanent residents.


Wuzhen displays its two-thousand-year history in its ancient stone bridges floating on delicate water, its stone pathways between the patterned walls and its delicate wood carvings. Also, setting it with the exception of different cities, it offers a novel expertise through its profound cultural background


Kampong Ayer, Brunei
Kampong Ayer is a district of Negara Brunei Darussalam's capital town Bandar Seri Begawan that's settled once the Brunei Bay. 39,000 folks sleep in the Water Village. This represents roughly tenth of the nation's total population. All of the Water Village buildings square measure made on stilts higher than the Negara Brunei Darussalam watercourse.


Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin house of prayer at the hours of darkness (the house of prayer is constructed in a synthetic lake on the banks of the Negara Brunei Darussalam watercourse at campong Ayer)
Built on stilts and joined by bridges the water village is additionally served by water taxis and has its own colleges, hospitals, restaurants, shops, mosques and gasoline station. From a distance, though several of the dwellings look neglected and run-down, they really have all the fashionable amenities as well as air-con, television, net access, plumbing, and electricity. Folks have lived during this village for over 1300 years and a few of them keep potted plants and chickens


Zhouzhuang, China
Zhouzhuang, one in every of the foremost illustrious water townships in China, is settled solely thirty kilometers southeast of Suzhou town. It’s a enthralling place. This village options crisscrossing water lanes, ancient bridges and buildings engineered on and over the rivers. In a district of a sq. kick, sixty p.c of the Zhouzhuang's structures were engineered throughout the dynasty and Qing dynasty Dynasties.

It is noted for its profound cultural background, the well preserved ancient residential homes, the elegant watery views and therefore the sturdy native colored traditions and customs. Zhouzhuang has been referred to as the "Venice of the East".


Ganvie, Benin
Ganvie, conjointly called the city of Africa, could be a lake village in African country, lying in Lake Nokoué, close to city. With a population of around twenty thousand people, it's in all probability the most important lake village in Africa and in and of itself is incredibly popular tourists.
The village of Ganvie was established within the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries by the Tofinu folks, once Dahomeyan warriors raided their country for captives to sell to the eu slave traders. Originally supported farming, the village's main industries apart from business square measure currently fishing and fish farming.



Kay Lar Ywa, Myanmar
Kay Lar Ywa is water village situated on Inle lake. Residents of this village square measure Intha folks, those square measure members of a Tibet-Burman group. They support themselves through the tending of vegetable farms on floating gardens. Also, the Intha square measure proverbial for his or her leg-rowing techniques.
 A floating tomato garden on Inle Lake

The lake weed of Inle is collected by the Intha folks to form floating gardens, that square measure anchored to the bottom with bamboo poles. These floating gardens, referred to as kyun-hmaw,which square measure settled from strips of water plant and dirt, dredged from the bottom, that breaks down into an expensive humus; it take fifty years to supply a layer one m thick. The floating allotments square measure anchored to rock bottom with bamboo poles. Land is additionally saved during this method, and elements of the lake are reduced to a maze of canals around these plots. Most of the manufacture big on the lake gardens is vegetables - primarily tomatoes and beans.


Tongli, China
Tongli, alternately Tong-Li, could be a city in Wujiang County, on the outskirts of Suzhou. It’s proverbial for a system of canals. Tongli is  associate hour far from Suzhou town. The place retains several of the options of associate ancient Chinese city.


 Tongli enjoys fame across China for its stunning canals, historic bridges and rich court yard homes. Tongli has forty nine stone bridges and plenty of gardens, temples. Due to the landscape, the majority of the buildings square measure made on the city district. The water conjointly creates reflections of the town's arched roofs, lofty gables and stone bridges whereas inexperienced willows conjointly line the banks will.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

This Is Attitude




IF AN EGG IS BROKEN BY AN OUTSIDE FORCE..A LIFE ENDS.
IF AN EGG BREAKS FROM WITHIN...... .LIFE BEGINS.

GREAT THINGS ALWAYS BEGIN FROM WITHIN . 


IT'S BETTER TO LOSE YOUR EGO TO THE ONE YOU LOVE.
THAN TO LOSE THE ONE YOU LOVE ....... BECAUSE OF EGO 

 WHY WE HAVE SO MANY TEMPLES,   IF GOD IS EVERYWHERE ?

A  WISE MAN SAID :
AIR IS EVERYWHERE,
BUT WE STILL NEED A FAN  TO FEEL IT. 

WHEN YOU TRUST SOMEONE TRUST HIM COMPLETELY WITHOUT
ANY DOUBT....... AT THE END YOU WOULD GET ONE OF THE TWO :

EITHER A LESSON FOR YOUR LIFE OR A VERY GOOD PERSON



LIFE IS NOT ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO ACT TRUE TO YOUR   FACE ........

IT'S ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO REMAIN TRUE BEHIND   YOUR BACK



 SOLDIER : SIR WE ARE SURROUNDED FROM ALL SIDES BY ENEMIES ,

MAJOR : EXCELLENT ! WE CAN ATTACK IN ANY DIRECTION. 

THE WORST IN LIFE IS "ATTACHMENT " IT HURTS WHEN YOU LOSE IT. THE BEST THING IN LIFE IS " LONELINESS "  
BECAUSE IT TEACHES YOU EVERYTHING AND, WHEN YOU LOSE IT, YOU GET EVERYTHING. 
"You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away."
-Arlene Blum 



“I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.”
Chinese proverb 

“The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.”
Ben Herbste


 

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

PARLIAMENTS AROUND THE WORLD

 



The US Congress meets in Washington at the Capitol building, which features a vast dome and elaborate triangular pediments perched on top of grand columns inspired by the classical architecture of Greek and Roman temples. Construction of the building began in 1793, and it was first occupied in 1800. Since then, numerous additions have been made by a succession of architects, including the replacement of the original dome with the current cast-iron structure.

Classical themes also inspired the design of this portico on the Palais Bourbon, which has been the seat of the French National Assembly or lower legislative chamber of the French government since 1798. The portico was added to the palace in 1806 to honour Napoleon, but the emperor was reportedly unimpressed. "He regretted he was no longer an artillery officer who could target his canons against this ridiculous screen," future minister for fine arts Antonin Proust said in 1891.

South Africa's Parliament, which was completed in 1884, displays similar neoclassical design principles alongside bold terracotta-coloured brickwork. It also takes the principle of separation of powers unusually literally: based in Cape Town, it is over 900 miles (1,450km) away from the government departments it scrutinises, which are based in Pretoria.

The Reichstag, home to Germany's Parliament, boasts a glass dome designed by British architect Norman Foster and added amid significant restoration after the country's reunification. The original building opened in 1894, but was severely damaged by a 1933 fire blamed by Hitler on communist rabble-rousers, a threat that - real or otherwise - helped him to strengthen his grip on power.

Canada's parliamentary buildings, like the UK Houses of Parliament, drew inspiration from the gothic architectural tradition. The main buildings were constructed between 1859 and 1866, and the tower, which bears a striking resemblance to the clocktower in Westminster housing Big Ben, was added in 1927. Inside the building there are other echoes of Westminster: Canadian MPs also face their political adversaries across a House of Commons decked out with green leather seats.

But the neogothic and neoclassical motifs espoused by many western legislatures were eschewed when the Diet National Parliament Building was constructed between January 1920 and November 1936 in Tokyo.

Russia's lower house, the State Duma, has met in an imposingly brutalistic building since 1994, after the previous year's constitutional crisis left the White House, the home of Russia's predecessor legislature, badly damaged by troops loyal to President Yeltsin.

The designers of Australia's Parliament drew inspiration from the shape of boomerangs as they planned an extensive renovation of the dilapidated home of Australian legislators, completed in 1988. Much of the building's office space is concealed underground to provide some respite from Canberra's summer sun.

In Brasilia, as in Canberra, architects and town planners were given the chance to realise radical design ideas. This building hosts Brazil's bicameral legislature.

India's Parliament House meanwhile emphasises continuity with its circular structure, overseen by a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, with features that are designed to evoke ancient Indian monuments. The building was opened in 1927 after a construction project lasting nearly six years. The transfer of power from the UK to its former colony took place on the 15 August 1947 in the Central Hall, a circular, domed building within Parliament House.

Monday, May 20, 2013

DID YOU KNOW



You are gonna say "I didn't know that!" at least 5 times.  Really neat stuff here:


1.Alaska



More than half of the coastline of the entire
United States is in Alaska.

2.Amazon

The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20%
of the world's oxygen supply.
The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean.  The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States.

Antarctica

Antarctica is the only land on our planet
that is not owned by any country.
Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica .
This ice also represents seventy percent
of all the fresh water in the world.  As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert;
The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches.
Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, ice.),
Antarctica is the driest place on the planet,
With an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.

Brazil



Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around. 


Canada


 Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning ' Big Village'.

Chicago

 Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest
Polish population in the world.


Detroit

 Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan,
carries the designation M-1.
So named because it was the first paved road anywhere.


Damascus, Syria


  Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC
making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.


Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world
located on two continents.


Los Angeles


 The full name of Los Angeles is:
El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de
Los Angeles de Porciuncula
-- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.


New York City

 The term 'The Big Apple' was coined
by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s
who used the slang expression 'apple' for any town or city.
Therefore, to play New York City
is to play the big time - The Big Apple.

There are more Irish in New York City
than in Dublin, Ireland;
more Italians in New York City
than in Rome, Italy;
And more Jews in New York City
than in Tel Aviv, Israel.


Ohio

 There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio . . .
every one is man-made.


Pitcairn Island

 The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn
in Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. Km.


Rome

 The first city to reach a population of 1 million people
was Rome, Italy (in 133 B.C.)
There is a city called Rome on every continent.


Siberia

 Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.


S.M.O.M.



 The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world
is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M).
It is located in the city of Rome, Italy,
and has an area of two tennis courts.
And, as of 2001, has a population of 80
-- 20 less people than the Vatican.
It is a sovereign entity under international law,
just as the Vatican is.


Sahara Desert

 In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, Algeria, that did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.
Technically, though, the driest place on Earth
is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island.
There has been no rainfall there for two million years.


Spain

 Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits'.



St. Paul, Minnesota

 St. Paul, Minnesota, was originally called Pig's Eye
after a man named Pierre 'Pig's Eye' Parrant
who set up the first business there.


Roads


 Chances that a road is unpaved:
in the U.S.A = 1%;
in Canada = 75%


Russia

 The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the
Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia.
It reached a depth of 12,261 meters
(about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles.)
It was drilled for scientific research
and gave up some unexpected discoveries,
one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen
- so massive that the mud coming from the hole
was boiling with it.


United States
 The Eisenhower interstate system requires
that one mile in every five must be straight.
These straight sections are usable as airstrips
in times of war or other emergencies.


Waterfalls

The water of Angel Falls (the world's highest) in Venezuela
drops 3,212 feet (979 meters.)
They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls.