Incredible and weird facts and stories around the globe

There are a lot of sites offering stories or news about incredible or weird stuff. Many sites are loaded with pictures or videos or those events. This post is about 'The Human Marvels' a site about human marvels and as usual there are more links to relevant sites.

http://thehumanmarvels.com/ offers very interesting and a different kind of stuff. It provides strange and weird facts about humans from around the globe.

After browsing few posts you can get an idea 'what kind of marvelous stories or facts you can expect at the site. Few posts titles are:

CHANG – The Chinese Giant

SUSI -The Elephant Girl

SANDWINA -Woman of Steel

DOMINIQUE CASTAGNA – The Mummy

Site is owned by ;J. Tithonus Pednaud' who says: 'It is a curious collection of human marvels. These portent and exceptionally unique human beings stand as uplifting testaments to human spirit and serve as inspiring examples of human tenacity.

'This site is dedicated to highlighting the remarkable lives of those born exceedingly different. Human marvels who overcame seemingly horrific, socially crippling deformities and adverse situations to stand as uplifting testaments to human spirit and serve as inspiring examples of human tenacity.

The work of J. Tithonus Pednaud has been featured in various media including CBC Radio, Rue Morgue Magazine, Bizarre Magazine, G4TV and many others. He also occasionally lectures on human genetic variety and monstrous origins.

More sites and links of interest:

* 'The daily weird' offers popular collection of strange and weird photos collected from around the web.

* 'Strange USA' is a site about Haunted buildings, places, Urban legends, cemeteries, weird places, cool places, ghost towns, and etc. Home page of the site offers a USA map for easy navigation to the places around U.S.A.

* 'Cabinet of wonders' is a blog, a place where things of interest are set out, in possibly bizarre, possibly fetishistic presentation, for perusal by the discerning, who understand that presentation, and scientific interest, are all a form of magic.

* 'Freaks Monstrous'

* ''Show History'

Interesting facts about the day and year you were born

Our day of birth, month, year or time is not only important to get a birth certificate which is an important document to prove your age. Your horoscope is also judged by your birth date, and knowing your horoscope shows some personality trends which help you define what kind of characteristics you may have etc.
This article is about having fun while searching for information or related facts about the day or year you were born.

'Day of Birth' offers interesting facts about the day and year you were born. It is quite easy to use the site, as you need to enter your birth date at provided box and next page tells you the day of the week that you were born on.

Site tells you other fun things such as: your star sign, how old you are, what season you were born in, how long until your next birthday, and how many days/hours/seconds you have been alive (assuming 12:00 midnight so the last two are approximations only). All times and dates are calculated to 12AM on your date of birth, with times based on GMT Standard Time.

The site also provides links to other websites, so you can find more information such as famous people or events that share your birthday.

Related and useful sites:

* '0800-Horoscope' offers free horoscopes and astrology information and you can get your free birth chart by entering your birth date for free.

* 'Birth time.info'  is another site  with information about horoscope, birth chart, etc.

Art and creativity with fruits and vegetables

Fruits and vegetables are an essential part of our food and supply of some important nutriest and minerals for our bodies. Fruits and vegetables are also used to decorate food dishes. It has become a traditional feature of most of the restaurants, fast food shops and hotels around the world. Even at family gatherings, personal parties the decoration with fruits and vegetable is much appreciated and praised.

The art of carving foods is an Eastern custom that has been adopted by creative food preparers around the world. In Thailand and Japan food carving is considered part of the presentation of the meal. The stunning designs that can be created makes the food the center of attention when you serve your guests.

Some of the more elaborate carvings can take hours to get just right, but practice makes it go faster and soon you'll find yourself designing your own patterns for watermelons, radishes, and any fruit or vegetable that can hold it's form when carved.

Watermelons, turnips, pineapples and many other fruits and vegetables can be carved and combined into either elegantly simple or very elaborate center pieces or accents for your picnic table or indoor party decorations

Source: Creativity with Vegetable & Fruit

More useful links and resources:

*'Art with fruits' at 'crooked brains'

* 'Amazing fruit and vegetable art'

* Incredible Fruit And Vegetable Art

* There is a long tradition of fruit carving in Thailand, especially in the preparation of food for the Royal Family.

- More at: The Art of Thai Fruit Carving

* http://www.artchef.com/ explains that "The art of fruit and vegetable carving has its roots in the age of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (AD 618-906) and Sung Dynasty (AD 960-1279). This exquisite craft has been slowly developed and refined over the years in China. These beautiful garnishes and fruit carvings were not only created for the Kaiser's feudal banquets but they were also popular among average people, who enjoyed beautiful artistic food presentations."

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi) (1527 – July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books. He painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject.

Big and amazing models with lego

'Lego' is a popular toy kit which is available in attractive colors and recommeded by educators as one of the toys which help develop gross and fine motor skills among kids. It is also a creativity development toy because there are countlesss opportunities to create your own models with lego bricks.


Most of the kidergarten or play standard school  keep lego type educational toys at their activity or play areas. Parents are also encouraged to provide these educational toys for their young children.

'Lego'  playing is not limited to kids because there are people creating big and amazing models with these kits.

More picture at: 'A collection of Lego sculptures'

Discover the most amazing stuff on the web

Our earth is round and due to the amazing progress in tech field it is easier for us to discover the places at earth than the past. But still there are many amazing facts which are to be discovered yet. World wide web provides us opportunity to search or browse through information with a click of mouse and same way discovering the amazing, strange, weird or hard to believe facts is easier. It is fun and good time pass when you surf or browse through these sites.

'Most Amazing' offers amazing, strange and bizarre news, posts and pictures collected from the world wide web. You can expect the amazing posts on variety of subjects like:

* Art
* Extreme
* General
* machines and technology
* Nature
* Sports

You would surprise to see the
Few post titles are:
- Amazingly Detailed Origami Art
- Most Amazing Movie Ever
- World’s Tiniest Snowman
- Amazing Sand Art Video
- The Amazing Killer Fungi


Related posts and sites:

* 'Interesting Facts Around the World'

* Few sites with interesting and amazing stuff

* Strange, funny facts and pictures around the net Part-1

* Strange, funny facts and pictures around the net Part-2

* Discover weird facts and articles at 'Dark Roasted Blend'

* Weird and strange news around the net

Discover eccentric, bizarre and wonderful places at 'Atlas Obscura'

As world the shrinking with the use of internet, one can discover the places around the world with just one click of mouse. There are still many places around the globe which are still to be discovered. Many wonders around the world are yet to be seen.

Atlas Obscura, a compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloging all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travel guidebooks and are ignored by the average tourist. If you're looking for miniature cities, glass flowers, books bound in human skin, gigantic flaming holes in the ground, phallological museums, bone churches, balancing pagodas, or homes built entirely out of paper, the Atlas Obscura is where you'll find them.

The Atlas Obscura is not just about collecting oddities. In an age where everything seems to have been explored and there is nothing new to be found, the Atlas Obscura celebrates a different way of traveling, and a different lens through which to view the world.

They say:

'The Atlas Obscura depends on our community of far-flung explorers to find and report back about the world's wonders and curiosities. If you have been to, know of, or have heard about a place that belongs in the Atlas Obscura, we want you to tell us about it. Anyone and everyone is welcome and encouraged to nominate places for inclusion, and to edit content already in the Atlas'