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Chinese Man Digs Canal To Provide Water To His Village

Megi7 — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 14:03:53 +0000

A resident of the mountainous province of Guizhou in the southwest of China dug a massive channel that’s 9400 meters long down the slop of a mountain so his village could have water. He started the project in his 50s and over 300 assistants helped over the course of several years.

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The Brutal Conditions In The Northernmost Village Of Russia

Megi7 — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:57:24 +0000

Dixon is the northernmost village of Russia and it is considered by most to be the “edge of the world.”

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On The Ground In An African Village Brick Quarry

Megi7 — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:56:59 +0000

Karaba is a small African village in the south-west of Burkina Faso and many workers spend their days cutting bricks out of hard stone. They only use picks and shovels and the quarry has been a source of bricks for over 30 years now.

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Man Finds A Tiny Village In The Woods

Megi7 — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 02:00:49 +0000

One man went walking with his dog in the woods when he stumbled upon something very amusing. He found a tiny little village out in the woods and it’s random but adorable.

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Thousands Of Spiders Invade A Village Overnight

Megi7 — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:59:22 +0000

Thousands of spiders randomly created massive cobwebs overnight on a sheep farm in Trawden, East Lancashire. The cobwebs stretch for more than 100 metres down a country lane. Thousands of baby spiders occupy the area and the locals have been traveling to the cobweb wall to catch a glimpse.

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Chinese Villagers Finally Get A Steel Ladder To Make Climbing Safer

Megi7 — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:16:44 +0000

In Zhaojue County in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, at the top of a 2,624-foot-tall peak in west China there is a village. The village is home to many people, but when the kids have to go to school they must travel across treacherous grounds and climb unsecured vine ladders. After years of making the dangerous journey the villagers are finally getting a ladder to make their travels more safe.

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This Park In Japan Is Home To Hundreds Of Statues

Megi7 — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:24:50 +0000

A Japanese photographer recently found a forbidden forest while wandering in Toyama Prefecture. The photographer Ken Ohki, better known as Yukison, found a park with hundreds of humanoid looking sculptures. Many sculptures were created by the park’s owner Matsuo Furukawa and the idea was to use the sculptures to attract visitors. That obviously didn’t work out and now there are over 800 sculptures decaying in the woods.

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Rio’s Olympic Village Doesn’t Appear To Be Ready To Receive Athletes

Megi7 — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 23:55:43 +0000

Rio’s Olympic village looks nice on the outside, but the inside is a whole different story. Athletes have been complaining about electricity, gas and plumbing problems and only 12 of the 31 buildings have passed inspection. With only two weeks to go before the games start things aren’t looking good for the Rio Olympics.

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This Yemen Village Looks It’s Right Out Of Lord Of The Rings

Megi7 — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:12:28 +0000

This Yemen village sits 150 meters above a valley. It’s known as Haid Al-Jazil, but many travelers are convinced that the village looks like something that belongs in the “Lord of the Rings” films.

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This Floating Village In Hungary Is A Little Slice Of Paradise

Megi7 — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 07:39:02 +0000

In Hungary there is a floating village that’s a popular travel spot all year round. Besides the power plant in the background, it looks truly beautiful. The village sits on stilts and the lake never freezes because the power plant pumps warm water into it.

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Abandoned Chinese Fishing Village Being Swallowed By Nature

Megi7 — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 22:44:31 +0000

Shengsi, an archipelago of almost 400 islands at the mouth of China’s Yangtze river, holds a secret shrouded in time – an abandoned fishing village being reclaimed by nature. These photos by Tang Yuhong, a creative photographer based in Nanning, take us into this lost village on Goqui island.

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You Can Play With Foxes All Day At This Sanctuary In Japan

Megi7 — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 22:41:59 +0000

If you’re in the Miyagi Prefecture of Japan and want to frolic with free-roaming foxes, you might want to take a trip to Zao Fox Village. This sanctuary will make you feel like you’re in a fairy tale kingdom of foxes, which happens to include a variety of silver, platinum, and red foxes.

The 6 different breeds of foxes present at this sanctuary are free-roaming and move about as they please.

Like in western culture, foxes are seen as clever little creatures in Japan.

In Japan, foxes are associated with Inari Okami—the religious deity of fertility, rice, and prosperity that takes the form of a fox.

They are also represented as cunning shape-shifters in Japanese folklore.

The fox village has continued to have visitors, since it first opened in 1990.

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Creepy Abandoned Houses

Megi7 — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 23:56:07 +0000

There’s nothing creepier than an abandoned house with a bunch of weeds growing over it

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It Looks Like A Fairly Normal Garden At First. But What It’s Made Of Tore At My Heart…

Megi7 — Wed, 28 May 2014 23:13:08 +0000

Residents of a Palestinian village have planted flowers in hundreds of spent Israeli tear gas grenades to honor those killed during their weekly protests against Israel’s West Bank separation barrier.

The only thing worse about war in today’s world is that it never seems to end. Even if armed conflict comes to a close, the after effects, even the instruments of war, seem to linger and change the lives of everyone involved. This is only more true in places where the conflict never ends, as bodies continue to pile up and families are destroyed.
To help remind the world of this basic fact after one of their own was killed in the wake of peaceful protests, citizens in a small Palestinian village sprung into action in hopes of spreading the word of peace, and an end to the conflict.

The resident’s believe that unusual garden can show others that life can spring from death.

And in fact was started to celebrate the life of a Palestinian protest leader who was killed in 2009 when a tear gas grenade struck him in the chest during a demonstration.

Since then the garden has become a symbol of Palestinian protests against Israeli policies in the West Bank.

And was even part of an Oscar nominated documentary in 2013, called “Five Broken Cameras.”

Hopefully drawing further attention to the humanitarian effect of this conflict will help bring it to an end.

The conflict in the Middle East is incredibly complicated, with both sides holding grudges that go back far into time. While there is no easy solution to their problems, perhaps these images, and the message they depict, can help remind those leaders involved that above all else, war is terrible for everyone, and people can settle their differences without resorting to violence.

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Welcome to Copehill Down

Megi7 — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 23:19:46 +0000

Copehill Down in the English county of Wiltshire may look like a normal English village but it’s different.

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Giethoorn, a Village Without Roads

Megi7 — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 23:58:08 +0000

Giethoorn is a village in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It’s called “Venice of the Netherlands.”

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Building a Treehouse Village in Costa Rica

Megi7 — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:04:58 +0000

Erica and Matt Hogan from Colorado bought a piece of land in Costa Rica. They decided not to cut down the trees, but instead to build an amazing treehouse village.

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Swarms of Mosquitoes Over a Village in Belarus

Megi7 — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:13:59 +0000

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Romanian Village Under Snow

Megi7 — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:48:48 +0000

This is what 15 feet (4.6 m) of snow look like.

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Real Life Minecraft Village

Megi7 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:39:17 +0000

3D print of a Minecraft village.

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