The Most Expensive Pen in the World

The most expensive Pen in the world is produced by a very elitist and highly regarded pen maker named Aurora. This little and highly specialized Italian company makes once every year a fountain pen named the Aurora Diamante. The pen is worth roughly US $1.3 million. There are numerous reasons why this pen is so precious. The most obvious are the 30 carats of De beers diamonds that cover most of its visible surface. Approximately two thousand class 4 C diamonds are used in this process; it is a fragile and meticulous task that requires an inspiring level of talent. The two hectogram barrel of the most expensive pen in the world is made out of solid platinum and the nib out of 18 carat gold. The nib can be customized on request to display the coat of arms of the client, the signature of the owner or even a portrait. This is comprehensible as the most expensive pen in the world is a highly delicate item and any owner would desire to leave his or her mark on it.

A huge Willow Nest in Melbourne with Tall Ceilings and Celestial Windows

Everyone is well-known with Patrick Dougherty's enormous nests made of willow saplings; however his latest "Ballroom" installation at Federation Square in Melbourne might well be his most determined yet. Willows saplings are considered weeds in Australia, where their thick canopy, invasive root system and extreme leaf fall is disparaging to local water systems but the plants offer a great medium for the American artist's larger-than-life public art installations. For the Ballroom installation commissioned by the Federation Square Creative Program to encourage public art at the 3.2 hectare mixed-use space near Melbourne’s busiest railway station, Dougherty turned to the nearby St. Paul’s Cathedral for inspiration. Apart from metal scaffolding that keeps the willow structure erect, the artist uses few tools to prunes and bends the malleable branches to his visionary will. It took almost three weeks and 10 tons of willows to realize Ballroom, which features magical arched ceilings and celestial windows that permit just a smidgen of daylight to penetrate the interior. This distinct piece on show until early 2013 assists the Australian government manages the arboreal pest in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and awe-inspiring.

Bulgarian Artist Christo to Build Giant Pyramid of 410,000 Oil Barrels for Abu Dhabi

Bulgarian environmental artist Christo has draped a mysterious array of landscapes and objects in a distinguishing orange hue since the 1960s but few of his installations have been as conceptually perplexing as his latest planned installation. The Mastaba is to be an enduring flat-topped pyramid of oil barrels located in the desert about 100 miles from Abu Dhabi. While oil-rich nations vie for the dubious accolade of having the “world’s tallest building,” Christo’s carving comprised of 410,000 oil barrels is set to make Abu Dhabi home to the world’s largest lasting sculpture. 

Daring Stunt

A skydiver pulled off an amazing stunt when he climbed out from the cockpit of a glider and crawled along the wing - then somersaulted under the fuselage of the second glider while the first rider turned upside down and flew overhead so that the sky diver could reach up and form a human link between the two planes. The spectacular stunt was carried out by Salzburg skydiver Paul Steiner 2,100 metres in the air with both gliders travelling at 100 miles an hour above the mountains in Styria, Austria.

Chinese Couple Married for 88 Years

Every body wish to live long life with best of health and happiness, there are minor percentage of couples who find such kind of life. Amazing China: Wu Conghan, 101, and wife Wu Sognshi, 103, married for 88 years, jumped at the chance to have new wedding photos. This is called eternal love and very hard to find in these days, so may they complete 100 years of matrimonial alliance together.  Because love is all matters faithful and forever.  We wish them very happy married life, true loves never end, because age doesn’t matter in true.

The World's First Commercial Vertical Farm Grow Food in their Own Back Yard

The world’s first commercial vertical farm! Built by Sky Greens Farms, the rising steel structure will help the city grow more food locally, plummeting dependence on imported produce. The vertical farm is able to produce one ton of fresh vegetables every other day, which are sold in local supermarkets and will provide a fresh new source of sustainable produce for local residents. Singapore presently only 7 percent of its vegetables locally, driving a need to buy from other countries. But highly thanks to the new vertical farm, now local citizens can eat locally produced vegetables available exclusively at the FairPrice Finest supermarket.

The world’s first vertical farm itself is made up of 120 aluminum towers that stretch thirty feet tall. It’s a stunning and giant greenhouses, the rows of plants produce about a half ton of vegetables per day. Only three kinds of veggies are grown there, but locals expect to get bigger the farm to include other varieties. The vertical farm is at present seeking investors to help build 300 additional towers, which would generate two tons of vegetables per day. Even though the $21 million dollar price tag is heavy, it could mean agricultural independence for the area.

The vertical farm vegetables have become a big hit with the locals too. However the produce costs 10 to 20% more than other vegetables at the supermarket, consumers seemed keen to buy the freshest food possible often buying out the market’s stock of vertical farm foods. This pioneering vertical farm could help change the way the world eats, giving dense cities an opportunity to grow food in their own back yard.

Most Amazing Facts of Human Body

1. ·         Women loose 70hairs in a day whereas men lose about 40 hairs in a day.
2. ·         Your blood has identical amount of salts in it as an ocean has.
3. ·         You are taller in the morning than you are at night.
4. ·         We are born with 300 bones but end up with 206 bones when we are adult.
5. ·         It is not possible to sneeze with open eyes.
6. ·         Largest muscle in your body is one on which you are sitting on.
7. ·         Typical person goes to bathroom six times a day.
8. ·         Bones are 4 times stronger than concrete.
9. ·         Children grow faster in springtime
10. ·         Tongue is the strongest muscle in human body.
11. ·         Hair is made of same substance as fingernails.
12. ·         Human skull is made up of 26 different bones.
13. ·         The average human body contains about 100 billion nerve cells.
14. ·         You are born without knee caps and they don’t appear until age of 2 to 6 years.
15. ·         Our entire body functions stop when we sneeze, even your heart beat.
16. ·         Heart circulates blood in your body about 1000 times each day.
17. ·         Eyelashes last about 150 days.
18. ·         There are 500 hairs in an eyebrow.
19. ·         Average life span of a taste bud is only 10 days.
20. ·         Eyes stay the same size throughout life but nose and ears never stop growing.
21. ·         Food takes 7 seconds to reach stomach from mouth.
22. ·         Children have more taste buds than adults.
23. ·         Sneeze blows air out of nose at the speed of 100 miles per hour.
24. ·         Smallest bone of body is in ears.
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The Finger Monkey

This is one of the smallest primates, and the smallest true monkey you will ever see, with its body length ranging from only 14 to 16 centimetres (Just 5.5 to 6.3 inch). The pygmy marmoset, also called as “dwarf monkey” (Cebuella pygmaea) is native to South America. Nicknames for this monkey often refer to its size, for example: mono de bolsillo (“pocket monkey”), leoncito (“little lion”), or “Finger Monkey” in the US. Are you thinking is it amazing monkey and haven’t seen yet?

Star Shaped Spillway, Armenia

A spillway is known in the UK as overflow channels, are structures that offer controlled release of flows from a dam or levee into an area downstream. Spillways release floods so that water does not overtop and destroy the dam; water does not regularly flow over a spillway unless there is a flood. Typically spillways are round; this particular star-shaped one is located at the Kechut Reservoir near Jermuk in Armenia. We have already done a standalone feature on the round shaped bell-mouth spillways, but I have never seen a star-shaped spillway until now.

The Incredible Honeybee’s Final Sting

The Incredible Honeybee’s Final Sting

If you have ever wondered why honeybees tend to die after stinging someone, this picture says it all. In an unbelievable capture by Kathy Keatley Garvey, a UC Davis Communications Specialist in the Department of Enomology, we are well see a bee stinging a person’s arm and then attempting to fly away as the stinger remains lodged in the victim. That trail of goo you see? It’s in reality the bee’s abdominal tissue. The incredible capture netted Garvey the first-place gold feature photo award in an Association for Communication Excellence competition. On the fortunate timing, Kathy Keatley Garvey said she was walking with a friend and a bee came close to him and started buzzing in a high-pitch. She said that’s normally a telltale sign that a bee’s about to sting, so she immediately readied her camera and snapped this image.