Molokini Crater Located approximately 2.5 miles off of Maui’s south shore, Molokini Crater is an underwater volcano islet. Listed as a Marine Life Conservation District Seabird Sanctuary, this partially submerged, crescent shaped volcanic crater is like no other snorkeling location in the world. It’s also one of the very few volcano islet’s in the world! Your discount…
Hero Images/Hero Images/Getty Images Are you interested in holding team building events in your workplace? You don’t have to spend a lot of money nor do they need to be ostentatious or complicated. You just need to create structured opportunities for employees to mingle. You can offer a team building lunch, a team building meeting, or a team building trip just to…
Nice pics. To quel some of these “touchy” internauts, just rename your post to “50 important landmarks of the world” There are others, but these are cool to see in one place. Do another one ” Another 50 important…..” with suggestions from the gallery. FYI The inuksuk may have been used for navigation, as a point of reference, a marker for travel routes, fishing places…
Human civilizations have been building monuments for thousands of years in order to honour their culture, their religion and gods, to remember historic moments and to honour their loved ones. Here are 18 of the most incredible monuments ever built. Abandoned Soviet Monuments These are abandoned monuments that are scattered across the former Soviet Union. Before it…
India’s first fashion store, Ensemble, at Lion Gate in Mumbai, has just been relaunched. A part of the Great Western Building, a heritage monument across the Naval Dockyard, the building that housed the Bombay high court and then the Great Western Hotel, Ensemble, has, since its 1987 launch, always been more than a store. The idea of designer Tarun Tahiliani, his…
The megalithic passage tomb at Newgrange in Ireland covers over an acre and was constructed around 3200 B.C. Buried for centuries, the mound was rediscovered in 1699 and was restored starting in 1962. The tomb is extensively decorated with spiral and lozenge shapes. At the winter solstice, the rising sun shines down a long passage and lights up a cross-shaped chamber…
Build on a good board. A good building board is common thin steel sheet that can be obtained from a metal dealer in your area. I recently visited a recycling center looking for tempered aluminum plate and found steel boards at really low prices. The prices were much less than I paid for my board. I wish I had known (the aluminum was much less expensive than through…
Great American Tower at Queen City Square is a state-of-the-art 41-story office tower located in the heart of downtown Cincinnati s business district. Surrounded primarily by Cincinnati landmarks, its location virtually assures unobstructed views far into the future. Few, if any, downtown buildings provide such spectacular views in all directions – even from lower…
For McCor, the project that changed his life began with a simple need to explore what made London, the place he still calls home, so special. I got into photography as kind of an excuse to go out with my camera and see the city,he explains. But as soon as I started taking photos I realized I was taking the same photos that everyone else takes in London. To stand…
WONDER OF THE WORLD Khufu, son of Snefru and second ruler of the 4th dynasty (time line) moved the royal necropolis to Giza, north of modern-day Cairo. According to ancient Greek historian Herodotus, Khufu (aka Cheops) enslaved his people to build his pyramid. But archaeologists have since disproved his account (see Who Built the Pyramids? ). On the Giza Plateau…
