The world's largest Quran has been unveiled in Kabul, the Afghan capital. Afghan calligrapher Mohammed Sabeer Khedri Hussani, age 52, and nine student apprentices created this enormous masterpiece. The spent five years working on theis, 18 hours a day, seven days a week.
The book weighs in at 1,102 pounds and contains 218 pages of cloth and paper, bound in a leather cover made from the skins of 21 goats.
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Saturday, May 26, 2012
World's Biggest Quran in Russia
The world’s biggest Quran was presented in Kazan, the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan. The Quran arrived from Italy where best jewel makers worked for a year. This is one of the world’s biggest Quran. The size of the Quran is – 1.5 m by 2 m, and 3 m by 2 m if unfolded. It weighs 800 kg. The 120-kg frame cover is tinseled with gold and silver and adorned with malachite, jasper and phianites. The 162 pages were embossed on gold leafs at the Moscow Mint.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
The Most Beautiful flowers - actually drops of paint
Still-life portraits of flowers created by photographing fast-moving droplets of paint as they fall through the air captured with a with a high-speed camera.
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| A flash to capture the right moment as the mixture falls through the air |
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| Variations of red, blue and yellow and green to create his incredible bouquets |
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
Hiroshima - Atomic Bomb (Little Boy) attack 2
About 140,000 people were killed or died within months when the American B-29 "Enola Gay" bombed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Three days later, about 80,000 people died after the United States attacked Nagasaki.
A luxurious house in Hiroshima, September 7, 1945. Only two pillars remained.
A movie theater in Hiroshima Sept. 8, 1945, a month after the atomic bomb was dropped by the U.S.
Sachio Tsuboto shows keloid scars, June 5, 1947, caused by healing burns from the atomic blast that decimated Hiroshima.
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Hiroshima - Atomic Bomb (Little Boy) attack on 1945
Hiroshima, a Japanese city, situated some 8M km. (500 mi.) from Tokyo, on which the first operational atomic bomb was dropped at 0815 on 6 August 1945. Nicknamed 'Little Boy’—a reference to Roosevelt—the bomb was 3 m. (9 ft. 9 in.) long, used uranium 235, had the power of 12.5 kilotons of TNT, and weighed 3,600 kg. (nearly 8,000 lb.)
"Little Boy" was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, of the United States Army Air Forces. It was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon.
About 140,000 people were killed or died within months when the American B-29 "Enola Gay" bombed Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.
"Little Boy" was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, of the United States Army Air Forces. It was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon.
About 140,000 people were killed or died within months when the American B-29 "Enola Gay" bombed Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.
A mushroom cloud billows about one hour after an atomic bomb was detonated above Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945
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