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Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel (MMMBT) is the 4.6 mile-long (7.4 km) Hampton Roads tunnel crossing for Interstate 664. It is a four-lane bridge-tunnel comprised of bridges, trestles, man-made islands and tunnels under a portion of the Hampton Roads harbor where the James, Nansemond and Elizabeth Rivers come together in South Hampton Roads, in the south-eastern portion of Virginia in the United …

What do you think is inside this building? It’s Seagaia Ocean Dome in Japan When the roof is closed, you still get blue sky and puffy white clouds The Seagaia Ocean Dome, was one of the world’s largest Polynesia-themed indoor waterpark, located in Miyazaki, Japan. The Ocean Dome, which was a part of the Sheraton Seagaia Resort, measured 300 metres …

Bill Gates is known as the richest man in the world, earned capital to their own mind. However, success overtook him at once. At school, he had serious problems with grammar, citizenship and other subjects, which he considered banal. For bad behaviour in elementary school, Gates was sent to a psychiatrist. In his memoirs, he explained this computer mania. All his …

Iguazu Falls are waterfalls of the Iguazu River located on the border of the Brazilian state of Parana and the Argentine province of Misiones. The falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguazu. Taller and far wider than Niagara Falls, twice as wide with 275 cascades spread in a horsehoe shape over nearly two miles of the Iguazu …

Sir CV Raman, (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the light that is deflected changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman …

The dome shaped Ark hotel project was designed by Russian architectural firm Remistudio with the assistance of the International Union of Architects program Architecture for Disasters Relief. Addressing growing concern over climate change and the rising level of the world’s oceans, Remistudio has designed a massive hotel concept that can endure extreme floods. The arch-shaped building, dubbed the Ark, has …

William Joseph Mosconi (June 27, 1913 – September 17, 1993), generally known as Willie Mosconi, was an American professional pool (pocket billiards) player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Willie’s father Joseph Mosconi owned a pool hall that the family lived above. Joseph Mosconi was strongly opposed to Willie playing pocket billiards, preferring he become a Vaudeville performer. He tried to keep his …

The Udachnaya pipe (literally lucky pipe) is the largest diamond deposit in the Daldyn-Alakit kimberlite field in Sakha Republic, Russia and one of the largest in the world. It is an open-pit mine located just outside the Arctic circle and it is more than 600 meters (1980 feet) deep. It is the third deepest open-pit mine in the world (after …

World Famous Jesus Quotes “Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.” Napoleon (French General, Politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821) “A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a …

Michael Kearney became known as the worlds youngest college graduate at the age of 10. In 2008, Kearney earned $1,000,000 on the television game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Michael Kevin Kearney (born January 18, 1984, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA) is a former child prodigy known for setting several world records and teaching college at the age of …