Giant Vegetables at Harrogate Autumn Flower Show
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2012
The Harrogate Autumn Flower Show, one of Britain’s most prestigious gardening shows, took place last weekend – September 14 to 16. The show ...
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New Entries to The Guinness World Records 2013
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 13, 2012
Guinness World Records has launched the latest edition of its best-selling book documenting global achievement, including new entries for th...
Capsized Cruise Ship ‘Costa Concordia’ Becomes Tourist Attraction
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2012
Seven months after it capsized off the coast of Italy claiming the lives of 32 passengers, the wreck of the Costa Concordia has become a tou...
Boryeong Mud Festival 2012, South Korea
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2012
The Boryeong Mud Festival is an annual festival which takes place during the summer in Boryeong, a town around 200 km south of Seoul, South ...
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest 2012
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 10, 2012
Joey Chestnut won his sixth straight Fourth of July hot dog-eating contest at Coney Island, downing 68 hot dogs and buns on Wednesday, beati...
Tobacco Sniffing at World Snuff Championship
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 10, 2012
About 300 competitors consisting of both men and women tried to shove as much as stuff as possible up their noses to win the 18th World Snuf...
Thousands Perform Yoga at Times Square in New York
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 26, 2012
Every year on the Solstice, Times Square in New York hosts a massive yoga demonstration that fills the street and stretches for at least thr...
Giant Storm Cloud Over Beijing
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2012
A strange cloud appeared last week in the skies over Beijing. Glowing like a huge "mushroom", similar to what is left after a nucl...
Kiev Fire Festival 2012
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2012
For the sixth year in a row, the Kiev International Fire Festival was held in the capital city of Kiev, Ukraine, on 25th-26th of May 2012. T...
Huge Swarms of Mosquitoes Invade Russian Village of Mikoltsy
Kaushik Patowary
May 17, 2012
No, these are not Starling Murmuration . They are mosquitoes, millions of them that descended upon the Russian village of Mikoltsy near Myad...
Fighting Protesters With Colored Water
Kaushik Patowary
May 16, 2012
You must have seen photos of protesters being doused with colored-water cannons by the police. Using water canon is understood as it’s an ea...
International Pillow Fight Day 2012
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 8, 2012
Streets in 115 cities across 39 countries lay littered with feathery debris after the coordinated fifth annual International Pillow Fight Da...
Perito Moreno Glacier Collapse
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 5, 2012
The blue ice of Perito Moreno Glacier in the southern Andes Mountains, near Santa Cruz, Argentina, drives thousands of tourists every year. ...
Edible Dresses Made From Chocolate at Salon du Chocolat in Switzerland
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 30, 2012
The opening of the first Salon du Chocolat in Switzerland is taking place in Zurich from March 30 through April 1. The Salon du Chocolat t...
Crufts Dog Show 2012
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 13, 2012
Crufts is one of the largest dog events in the UK and in the world. This year, during this annual four-day competition, nearly 22,000 dogs ...
Madame Tussauds' Museum Adds Anne Frank’s Wax Statue
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 12, 2012
Madame Tussauds in Berlin has opened a new exhibit featuring a wax figure of Anne Frank, based on the last photographs taken of the famous d...
Finally! Flying Cars to Debut at New York International Auto Show
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 8, 2012
For more than a century, science fiction writers have been tormenting us with visions of flying machines that could be driven on roads as we...
Germany Goes Crazy at Rose Monday
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2012
Hundreds of thousands of carnival revellers took to the streets of Cologne, Düsseldorf and Mainz on Monday for the traditional Rose Monday p...
World's Tiniest Chameleon Found In Madagascar
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 16, 2012
Researchers have recently discovered four new species of tiny chameleons in the remote rainforests in northern Madagascar. The chameleons ar...
Olympics for Rabbit: The Grand National in Harrogate
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 2, 2012
An unusual sporting spectacle took place in Harrogate, Yorkshire, last weekend. More than 3000 rabbits as well as guinea pigs, hamsters, mic...
