Here is a great story for you. In Fall of 1939 Life magazine has published a very popular English folding game "The Biggest Swine Of All". Can you guess, what picture would be there after the folding?
Some people behave strange when they found themselves in an unforeseen situation. This is one of those cases. 27-years-old captain of St Austell football team, Lee Whetter, gone mad after receiving the red card during a local football derby. He climbed through the crowd and attacked a fan of opposing team (Newquay). The fan's friends tried to pull him off and a mass brawl broke out involving up to 20 supporters, including a woman with a baby.
Guiyu is the largest electronic waste (e-waste) site on Earth, according to Wikipedia. Since late 1980s a lot of e-waste from overseas has been imported to China and dismantled at Guiyu. The state-run newspaper the Peoples Daily said in 2006 that Guiyus more than 5,500 e-waste business employed over 30,000 people. According to the local goverment Web site, city businesses process 1,5 million tons of e-waste a year, pulling in $75 million in revenue. As much as 80 percent of it comes from overseas. It's as much as 10 times cheaper to export the waste to developing countries for the United States, as safety rules skyrocket domestic disposal costs, says the U.S. Enviromental Protection Agency. Americans scrap 400 million electronic products per year, and generated 2.6 million tons of e-waste in 2005.
Mark Jenkins is one of the best and most famous street art artists. You could see his installations a lot of times. But this post is different. Now you can see the whole process of creation of the sculptures. I have never seen this process before. Take a look.
Have you ever heard about Australian Dingo Fence? I haven't. But it is one of longest fences in the world. And the longest dog fence anywhere. It is almost 3500 miles (5614 km) long. And it was built to keep wild dogs away from humans. Are those dogs really so dangerous, that people had to built those fences? Actually, there was another famous fence in Australia - Rabbit-proof fence. You can read about it in Wikipedia.