Little Man protest; War and Peace. Location Viaduct Harbour, Auckland City

"When a thought of War comes, oppose it by a stronger thought of Peace."
Little Man protest; War and Peace. Location Viaduct Harbour, Auckland City

Little Man protest; War and Peace. Location New Market, Nuffield Street, Auckland City

"When a thought of War comes, oppose it by a stronger thought of Peace."
Little Man protest; War and Peace. Location New Market, Nuffield Street, Auckland City Little Man protest; War and Peace. Location Britomart, Corner of Queen Street and Customs Street, Auckland City














"When a thought of War comes, oppose it by a stronger thought of Peace."Little Man protest; War and Peace. Location Britomart, Corner of Queen Street and Customs Street, Auckland City

Little Man protest; War and Peace. Location Albert Park, Bowen Avenue, Auckland City.

"When a thought of War comes, oppose it by a stronger thought of Peace."Little Man protest; War and Peace. Location Albert Park, Bowen Avenue, Auckland City

Little Man protest; War and Peace. Location , Corner of Victoria street and Lorne street, Auckland City.

"When a thought of War comes, oppose it by a stronger thought of Peace."
Little Man protest; War and Peace. Location , Corner of Victoria street and Lorne street, Auckland City.

Little Man protest; War and Peace. Location Albert Park, Princess street, Auckland City.

"When a thought of War comes, oppose it by a stronger thought of Peace."Little Man protest; War and Peace. Location Albert Park, Princess street, Auckland City.

Little Man protest; War and Peace. Location University of Auckland, Kate Edgar commons

"When a thought of War comes, oppose it by a stronger thought of Peace."

Little Man protest; War and Peace. Location University of Auckland, Kate Edgar commons.

World’s Oldest Shoe

For lovers of fashion, it's the ultimate vintage shoe.

Created more than 5,500 years ago at the dawn of civilisation this perfectly preserved brown leather lace-up is the oldest shoe in the world.

It was created from a piece of cow hide 1,000 years before the Great Pyramid of Giza and stitched together with leather thread.

The size 4 shoe - discovered buried in a cave in Armenia - is so well preserved that its lace is still intact.

Archaeologists say it probably belonged to a woman who deliberately buried it in the cave during a mysterious ritual. The cave also contained three pots, each containing a child's skull, along with containers of barley, wheat and apricot.

For Dr Ron Pinhasi, University College Cork, the shoe is a discovery of a lifetime.

'We thought initially that the shoe and other objects were about 600-700 years old because they were in such good condition,' said Dr Pinhasi.

'When we discovered that the shoe dated back to 3,500 BC and that it was the oldest leather shoe, we were very excited.'

The shoe was worn by an early farmer living in the mountains of Vayotz Dzor province of Armenia close to the border of modern-day Turkey and Iran.

The region was on the edge of the Fertile Crescent - the great sweep of land that gave birth to the first towns, cities and farms.

It was made from a single piece of leather, tanned using vegetable oil, and shaped to fit the wearer's foot. It contained grass, although archaeologists are unsure whether this was to keep out the cold, or maintain the shape of the shoe .

It was laced using a strip of leather threatened through slits. At some point in its life, one of the slits tore - forcing the wearer to make repairs by recutting another gash for the lace.

'It is not known whether the shoe belonged to a man or a woman,' said Dr Pinhasi, who reports the findings in the journal PLoS One.

However, the small size makes it most likely that it belonged to a woman, he added.

The cool and dry conditions in the cave helped preserve the shoe which appears to have been buried in the ground on its own. The floor was covered with a thick layer of sheep dung which helped conserve the shoe and other finds.

Three samples of the shoe were carefully radiocarbon-dated at laboratories at Oxford University and the University of California, Irvine.

The shoe was discovered by Armenian PhD student, Diana Zardaryan, of the Institute of Archaeology, Armenia, in a pit that also included a broken pot and sheep's horns.

Researcher Dr Gregory Areshian, of the University of California, Los Angeles, said: 'We couldn't believe the discovery. The crusts had sealed the artefacts and archaeological deposits and artefacts remained fresh dried, just like they were put in a can.'

The previous oldest known footwear were sandals made from plants found in a cave in Missouri. They were made and worn a few hundred years after the Armenian shoe.

The design is similar to the 'pampooties' worn on the Aran Islands in the West of Ireland up to the 1950s.

'We do not know yet what the shoe or other objects were doing in the cave or what the purpose of the cave was,' said Dr Pinhasi.

'We know that there are children's graves at the back of the cave but so little is known about this period that we cannot say with any certainty why all these different objects were found together.'

Armenia's climate 5,500 years ago was similar to today's - hot in the summer, snowy in winter. The owner of the shoe would have worn wool and leather clothes, and relied on the shoes for protection as she walked around the rocky terrain.

The shoe may have been made locally, or traded with the more sophisticated towns and villages in the heart of Mesopotamia, Dr Pinhasi added.









Source :- Daily Mail

BMW Made Out Of Stone

A BMW Z4 made out of stone, just hangin' out, just chillin' Our fellow M-Coupist and world traveller Eric Brum was walking along Beijing's art district when, from far away, he spotted a BMW Z4 Coupe sporting what he thought was an unusual wrap.What a weird idea, wrapping a car to make it look like the concrete buildings around it, sort of an automotive Liu Bolin he must have thought.

As he got closer however, Eric found the truth even stranger: the BMW was entirely made out of stone and mortar, complete with interior and windows!

Of course. Naturally. Why wouldn't it be? You know what's really weird, though? It has a full interior. More pics below.

What do you call this stuff? Is that real brick-and-mortar work, or is it just cement made to look like something else? Why was it built? What's with the windows? SO MANY QUESTIONS.

Life, your mysteries amaze me. Quick, Beijing — I need a stone Porsche 917K and a DAF made out of PVC pipe. Go!









Source :- Axis Of Oversteer

Beer Production and Consumption Around the World

Beer is the World's Third-Most Consumed Beverage, Losing Only to Water and tea in Terms of popularity and with Nearly With 148 Billion Litre produced, The People Consumed All Of this Beer Are as Diverse as the Beers They Brew. The Graphic Below Illustrates The Differences of Comsumption and Production by Country

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Vuzzle Chair

The Vuzzle Chair by Christopher Daniel consists of 59 small cushions. You can shape the chair by detaching cushions from the complete cube. Each cushion has magnets under the surface which hold the whole structure together.

Blue Alligator

The large gator looks a stunning shade of blue as the bright morning sky reflects off her wet back.

She appeared to change from her usual dark brown to black, grey and blue over the space of just a few minutes as the sun rose over the lake at 7am.

But unlike a chameleon, the change of colour was not a conscious decision. It was purely down to the sky reflecting off her shiny scales.

Biology professor Louis Guillette, 55, took the picture on a lake next to his home in Gainesville, Florida, United States.

He said: "It was a cold and clear spring morning. I went out to watch the sun come up on the small lake, which was covered in mist.

"As the mist cleared there was a 2.3 metre American alligator about five metres in the water in front of me. It was watching and waiting for the sun to come up as well.

"We sat quietly and let the sun come up together.

"As it did, the water changed colour from the reflected leaves on the trees around the lake.

"The wet alligator also changed colours as she reflected the colour of the sky - in this case the bright blue of the early morning sun." He added: "This animal is a resident female. We share the same lake and that morning we shared the sunrise.

"I took a number of photos as she changed colours from her usual dark brown to black, blue, grey and then brown.

"I'm not sure why cartoons normally portray alligators as green because they never are - unless they are covered in weeds.

"The lake water changed colours as well and all this took place over about five or six minutes.

"I love this photo because the water on her back makes the scales look almost like molten metal."

Source:- Metro