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Friday, July 23, 2010
Unusual Wedding Dresses | beautiful Wedding Dresses
All these wedding dresses are very unusual and original. I think a wedding in such a dress will be an unforgettable one.
The biggest star ever discovered
A huge star in a neighboring galaxy could be the biggest and Largest star ever discovered.
Scientists say it is hundreds of times more massive than the sun and is twice as big as any other star previously discovered.
Astronomers discovered the star by using the European Space Observatory's Telescope, which is located in Chile's Atacama Desert.
The star has a mass of about 265 times that of the sun and is just over a million years old.
Scientists have predicted surface temperatures can surpass 40,000 degrees Celsius. That's seven times hotter and several million times brighter than the sun.
Dr. Richard Parker, Scientist Shefield University, said, "It's incredibly significant. Until recently people assumed that there was a fundamental upper limit to how massive a star could be and that upper limit was 150 times the mass of our own sun, which in itself is quite large."
The star is part of a cluster of massive stars in the Tarantula Nebula, which is a sprawling cloud of gas and dust in a galaxy, about 165,000 light-years away from the Milky Way.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Boryeong Mud Festival
The Boryeong Mud Festival is an annual festival which takes place during the summer in Boryeong, South Korea. The first Mud Festival was staged in 1998 and, by 2007, the festival attracted 2.2 million visitors to Boryeong.
The mud is dug up near Boryeong, trucked to the Daecheon beach area, and dumped at a 'Mud Experience Land'. The mud is considered rich in minerals and used to manufacture cosmetics.
Some of the final weekend participants are foreign tourists, and especially American Soldiers, but most of the participants during the week are Koreans, attracted by clever marketing by the town. The town fathers and mothers discovered that the mud is more lucrative as a tourist attraction than using the muddy fields for agriculture. The economy generated from the festival supports the many hotels and restaurants along the waterway and several blocks inland. There is also a great deal to see and do in the vicinity and a free tourist bus takes visitors to local sites, including an impressive coal mine and a famous Buddhist shrine.
In 2009 Boryeong Mud Festival took place from July 11–19. Boryeong Mud Festival 2010 the festival will take place from July 17–25.
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