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Totally strange local traditions
John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars, and host of Mental Floss takes us through some 27 unbelievable local traditions. Are you ready? He begins with Cooper’s Hill cheese rolling, describing how the cheese wheel can hit speeds on 70 mph, and then moves on to really weird stuff. How weird? We’ve got […]
Beautiful time-lapse video from El Teide
El Teide is Spain’s highest mountain and home to the Teide Observatories – which many people consider to be one of the very best observatories on Earth. Norwegian photographer Terje Sorgjerd suffered an exhausting trip, hardly any sleep and a heavyweight of equipment in order to put this time-lapse video together. In Pure Spirit What […]
Catalonia’s Castells – Human Towers
A castell is a human tower. The tradition of building human towers started in the 19th century in Valls, near Tarragona and thenspread through Spain. The word “castell”, as you might have guessed, is the Catalan word for castle.
The rain god Chaac and the 10 most important archaeology discoveries of 2008
The Archaeological Institute of America has published their top 10 list of the most important archaeological discoveries of 2008 via the Archaeology Magazine. Here’s the list; Sacred Maya Blue – Chichén Itzá, Mexico Wari Masked Mummy – Lima, Peru Kuttamuwa’s Soul – Zincirli, Turkey American Genes – North America Oldest Oil Paintings – Bamiyan, Afghanistan […]
