Norilsk: Very North & Very Dirty
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Norilsk is the most northerly city in the world with a population over 100,000. It’s also the second largest city in the Arctic Circle, after Murmansk. On the muckier side of the coin...
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1st Deaths
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Today I bring you a macabre list of people who were the first to die in specific ways. Depressing? Yes. But hopefully we’ll unearth some interesting nuggets amongst these blackened sheets of morbidity. 1st...
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CycloCable: Awesome Norwegian Bike Lift
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I’ve never felt more jealous of the residents of any city in the world than I do right now. The first and only bicycle lift in the world was built in Trondheim, Norway in 1993....
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Gustave Doré: A Master Of Darkness
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Whilst writing my travelers guide to hell I used a lot of images created by Gustave Doré, they’re so incredibly bleak and beautiful that I had a look at some of his other...
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Dante’s 9 Circles Of Hell: A Visitors Guide
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With the world’s economy sinking into a pit of despair, a lot of people are having to change their holiday plans. Australia, the Maldives, Gwent, they’re all way off budget. So, I thought...
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Here’s A Load Of Monster Tattoos
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Like them, loathe them or feel ambivalent towards them, tattoos are the new black. They’re everywhere, so you’ll have to deal with it I’m afraid. I thought I’d compile a short list of...
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The Least Helpful Phonetic Alphabet Know To Man
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If you’ve ever had a job where you’ve had to convey information over the telephone then you’ve probably been forced to learn the phonetic alphabet, you know like Oscar, Charlie and all that...
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Kalavantin Durg: World’s Most Dangerous Fortress
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Kalavantin Durg, otherwise known as Prabalgad Fort is located between Matheran and Panvel in the Indian state of Maharashtra at an elevation of 2,300 feet. Probably due to its dramatic size and menacing shadow, the local Adivasi...
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Thorny Dragon: Incredible Looking & Supremely Talented
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The thorny dragon (Moloch horridus), also known as the mountain devil and moloch, has to be one of the strangest things that lives and breathes on our earth. It’s the last surviiving member...
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VIDEO: 1000 People Eat 1000 Ghost Chillis
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HANDY HINT: If you’re going to try and break a record, try and make it a painless one; maybe something like the world record for taking the longest nap, or stroking the most...
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