Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populous city, with over 2.7 million residents in a municipality of some 1,285.3 km2 (496.3 sq mi), while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 3.46 million. The metropolitan area of Rome is estimated by OECD to have a population of 3.7 million. It is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber river.

Rome's history as a city spans over two and a half thousand years, as one of the founding cities of Western Civilisation. It was the centre of the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe, North Africa and the Middle East for four hundred years from the 1st Century BC till the 4th Century AD. Rome has a significant place in Christianity and is the present day home of the Roman Catholic Church and the site of the Vatican City, an independent city-state run by the Catholic Church as an enclave of Rome.

As one of the few major European cities that escaped World War II relatively unscathed, central Rome remains essentially Renaissance and Baroque in character. Rome is the third-most-visited tourist destination in the European Union, and its historic centre is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. As a modern city it has been capital of the unified Italy since 1870, and grew mainly in two periods either side of Word War II.

Gorgeous shots! )))

Reed more to see a post with huge number of pics...

Hey, I'm a 20 year old girl from Russia. I'm at a college and kinda not in the mood to write such a bullshit. Ok, I like writing and I love all kind of history. Most of all art history. I like travelling and see new places. I'm a very relaxed and peaceful person :)

"Go Wodka Extreme" is marketed as the world's first drink in a tube. It's fruit flavored vodka, containing 10.5% alcohol by volume. They also have a more modest line of tubes with just 4% ABV.

Weird but nice art by Alex Andreev, Russian artist.
He personally calls his style “Hermetic” whatever it could mean it’s worth taking a look.

The snow rollers, some 2 feet high, were spotted near Craigmont, Idaho. A snow-covered icy field provided the perfect environment for a rare meteorological phenomenon known as snow rolls. The rolls are created during a snow storm by Mother Nature. The flurries fall on the icy field, making it impossible for the snow to stick. A small chunk of snow or debris is pushed along by the wind, and begins to build into a larger roll.

Cool :)

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Scary thing is... Mother looks more natural than daughter... Exept hair.

This advertisement rocks! Check it out!

I know, I know. The focus is a little off. You're hungry anyway, aren't you?

It comes out that medical treatments differ from country to country. For example such disease as chickenpox is treated green in Russia. What do we mean under green? It’s literary green - people cover themselves from top to toe with a green substance. Some like to pose for camera in such condition and find it normal. Here is just a few of such.

The biker has landed into... watch yourself.

All in all, she’s an honest, lovely lovely girl who just hasn’t met Mr/Miss Right yet...if you think you could be him then get in touch. But please don’t get in touch if your into taking girls for a ride, it’s not nice and it’s not clever and she’s worth so so so much more than that :)

An autostereogram is an optical illusion of depth usually observed by allowing the eyes to focus behind an image (diverge), but also sometimes in front of the image (converge). These two methods are also known as wall-eyed and cross-eyed, respectively. The slight differences in vertical repetitions of figures or random dots create the illusion of depth in the 2D image, just as the slight difference in perspective between one's eyes creates the perception of depth on 3D objects and scenes.

According to Magic Eye, a maker of autostereograms, "most people prefer the diverging method". However, with normal stereograms, this imposes a limit on the size of the image, since there is a limit to how much the eyes diverge; images created for the cross-eyed method can be larger. If a stereogram is viewed with the wrong method, the depth information is seen 'reversed'; points intended to be in the background appear in the foreground and vice versa.

Google Maps is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free (for non-commercial use), that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, bicycle, car, or public transport and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world. It also can help find the location of businesses.

So... Find of today...

You have to hand it to the Japanese, they know violence sells and they market it like no other country can.

But this has to be the dumbest sport in history, two fat guys pounding each other with neon-rods until they’re both soaked in blood? I have no idea what this sport is called or who came up with the idea, but apparently it’s very popular in the Land of the Rising Sun, despite it’s obvious stupidity. I’d rather watch some K1 or UFC any day, this is just like wrestling only with real blood.

I wonder if those lamps are mercury free…if they’re not, do the fat guys know they could die from mercury poisoning?

Do you remember your childhood? Sometimes it happened when you asked your mom to buy you a toy that you wanted so bad and she said "no", so all of a sudden all your dreams were broken. Well, look at those little Chinese children and say yourself that your childhood was not so bad ;))