Harry Potter Cast Through the Years

The cast of the Harry Potter films, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson (Harry, Ron and Hermione), have all grown up before our eyes from earlier movies. They have changed a lot since the first film in 2001 and have gradually morphed into mature young adults throughout the series.

Funny Pictures - Mix Events 1

Take a break and enjoy some pictures below.

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Funny Flip

Don't do this at home.

It just that they tried to be funny and....  they succeed.

Funny Flip

Colorful Praying Mantis and Insects Pictures

Biochemist and photographer Igor Siwanowicz has spent the last seven years carefully acquiring, breeding and capturing bizarre and visually stunning images of his alien subjects.

Taken in a home studio in Munich, Germany, Mr Siwanowicz studies the habits and physiology of these compelling creatures, which gives him the edge when it comes to producing thought-provoking imagery.

Here are some pictures of praying mantis and other insects captured in extreme close-up.

two lovely praying mantis

Lion vs Pangolin - Lion try to break the Pangolin Defense

When a lion gets hungry, they become desperate in looking and eating any animals they will meet.

But this lion certainly bit off more than it could chew when it pounced on a pangolin.

British wildlife guide Mark Sheridan-Johnson captured on film this inquisitive big cat which spent a long time trying to devour the odd looking creature in the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania.

The rare, armour plated pangolin had the perfect defence tactic, roll up into a ball and stay there, whatever happens.

Lion tried to use her claws to get the pangolin shell off.

Body Painting - The Invisible Man 2

The Invisible Man is back!
 

Chinese artist Liu Bolin has become world renowned for his camouflage art. Liu uses a team of two assistants to paint the camouflage onto him to make him invisible, and each photograph can take up to ten hours to set up. In some cases, Liu has his assistants paint his body and then he remains extremely still until an unsuspecting passer-by happens to walk past.

He has toured his work across the globe for the past five years, and is looking forward to a new exhibition at the Eli Klein Fine Art Gallery in New York in 2011

If you didn't see the part 1, check it out. Below are another pictures of his amazing camouflage artworks. ENJOY!

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Liu Bolin poses in one of the seats at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan

National Geographic Great Migrations Pictures - Animals

Here are some pictures taken from National Geographic's Great Migrations edition.

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penguins

Albino Animals Pictures

Here some pictures of different albino animals

Albino Turtle

Beautiful River Pictures

Here are some awesome pictures of rivers.

Amazing Chalk Arts - Chalk God in China

Here are some pictures of chalk drawings done by Mr. Hou. Because of these amazing artworks, the Chinese people gave him the nick name "Chalk God".

Funny Pictures: High-Tech and Improvise Technologies

Here are some funny pictures about high-tech and improvise technologies.. lols

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High-tech coffin

Antilia - The One Billion Dollar Home of Mukesh Ambani

This is the extravagant £630 million or $1 billion home built by a billionaire Indian tycoon to house his family-of-four in Mumbai.

With 27 storeys, Antilia will be home to Mukesh Ambani and features a health club with a gym and dance studio, a ballroom, at least one swimming pool and a 50-seater cinema.

Towering above the Mumbai skyline, the 37,000sq ft property is 570ft high and also boasts three helipads on its roof, space for 160 vehicles on its lower floors and nine lifts.

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Antilia, built by tycoon Mukesh Ambani for his family of four, towers 27-storeys over Mumbai, India

Amazing Living Statues: Paintings, Creativity, and Guts

Do you have the guts and determination to pose in how many minutes or maybe hours just to show anybody with your arts? See below pictures of people who paints and disguises themselves as statues.

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How Snakes Make Love

Its very rare to see snakes make love. 

Below are the sequence in pictures on how they do it. 

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England Greatest Landscapes: Paronama pictures by Mark Denton

Here are some picture of England's greatest landscapes. Using a panoramic film camera in the magic hours of sunrise and sunset, Mark Denton has captured England’s greatest landscapes for his new book England: The Panoramas.

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Dawn of aquarius: Salcombe, from Snapes Point in Devon, glitters in the morning light while small craft lie at anchor in an estuary that perfectly reflects the deep blue sky

Wonders of India - Places to visit in India

1. Khajuraho

Lakshmana temple at Khajuraho, India

Lakshmana temple at Khajuraho, a panchayatana temple in Khajuraho, India. Khajuraho has the largest group of medieval (between 950 C.E and 1050 C.E) temples of Hindu and Jain religion. There is perfect fusion of architecture and sculpture at this temple complex, famous for their erotic sculpture. The temples are a UNESCO world Heritage Site. At the Temple of Kandariya, there is a profusion of decorated sculptures considered as one of the greatest masterpieces of Indian art. Built by Chandela dynasty, the temples exhibit stunningly explicit sexual sculptures which were created by the artist's imagination of lovemaking positions prevalent at that time, or based on the rules outlined in the Kamasutra. Many of the sculptors have claimed artistic ownership on many sculptures. Built of sandstone in varying shades of buff, pink or pale yellow, most of the temples belong to the Shiva, Vaishnava or Jaina religious Sects, which are difficult to differentiate from one another. 

Funny Pictures - Animals

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Funny Pictures - Test Exams

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Very good Peter!

Amazing Pictures of Supermoon

It's been 20 years the moon was so close to the earth. 

Saturday March 19, 2011 it was 220,625 miles away, making it seem brighter and yellower and creating the eye-catching 'super moon' effect.

It was the first time since January 19, 1992, that the moon has been so close to the Earth. At its furthest, it can be 250,000 miles away.

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An aircraft flies past the moon over Somerset on Saturday night as it is at its closest point to the earth for almost two decades. It appears the moon is being sliced in half.

Caught in Camera: Lightning Bolt Strikes the Statue of Liberty

 This is the amazing moment a lightning bolt was captured as it struck the iconic Statue of Liberty.

The impressive image was caught by New York photographer Jay Fine who spent the night braving the storm in Battery Park City, Manhattan, in a bid to get the perfect picture.

Mr Fine spent nearly two hours poised with his camera and took more than 80 other shots before striking lucky with this particular bolt of lightning at 8.45pm on September 22.

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Bolt from the blue: Jay Fine captured this incredible image as lightning strikes the Statue of Liberty in New York harbour

Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011 - The Aftermath

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Some 3,000 people have now been confirmed dead since last week's earthquake and subsequent tsunami but officials believe the death toll could rise into the tens of thousands, with a further 2,000 bodies washing up on the shores of north-east Japan yesterday.

With millions of people without electricity, thousands missing and warnings of an imminent second earthquake, the task for Japanese authorities is too daunting to imagine.

Survivors are also struggling to find food and water as supplies run low. There have been major power outages since the double disaster, many planned to reserve resources.

Bodies wrapped in blue tarpaulins were laid on military stretchers and lined up for collection while panic-buying has begun in Japan amid fears of a second quake and growing concern about nuclear leaks.

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A ship is seen perched on top of a house in the tsunami devastated remains of Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture

Amazing Living Room Decorations and Designs

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House made of Glass Bottle

The glass bottle house built by Olga Queen, from  Novoshakhtinsk, Russia is a fine addition to our hefty collection of glass bottle architecture, which already includes various bottle houses and a unique bottle temple.

In an effort to build herself a house out of cheap and environment-friendly materials, Olga Queen spent six months collecting glass bottles, around her home town of Novoshakhtinsk. She managed to gather around 5,000 of them, which proved enough to build her very own little dream house. Using some wood for the framework and concrete to fix the bottles in place, she manged to finish construction and is now ready to move in.

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Major Earthquakes throughout History

Statistics from The Geological Society of London.

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1906: USA (California, San Francisco). Richter scale: 7.8, Deaths: 3,000, Cost ($m): 524

Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011 Pictures

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Pacific Ocean offshore earthquake was a 8.9 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011 and and followed by another three on the same day in excess of 6.0 magnitude.

The earthquake triggered tsunami warnings and evacuations along Japan's Pacific coast and in at least 20 countries, including the entire Pacific coast of North America and South America. The earthquake created extremely destructive tsunami waves of up to 10 meters (33 ft) that struck Japan minutes after the quake, with smaller waves after several hours in many other countries. In Japan, the waves are reported to have travelled up to 10 km (6 mi) inland.

Amazing Optical illustions 1

Take a very close look at this image. What do you see?

Looks like something on his mind....

Mix Pictures from National Geographic

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Fluorescent Corals in West Papau

Fat Photoshop for Famous People

Lindsey Lohan

Beautiful Modern Interior Doors

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Twinkle Dwivedi - The Girl Who Cries Blood

Twinkle Dwivedi (born 1996) is a girl from Lucknow India, who gained world attention for allegedly presenting a rare condition that causes her to spontaneously bleed from her eyes and other parts of her body without presenting any visible wounds. Several times a day, she bleeds through the pores on her skin, eyes, nose, hairline, neck and the soles of her feet. 

Amazing Cardboard Paper Artworks

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World Strangest Buildings

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The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)

Baby Sculptures in Clay by Camille Allen

Camille Allen is a baby sculptress using clays. She used to sculpt large life size dolls in polymer clay but discovered her talents when she formed the bit of clay from leftovers of the larger dolls into a miniature baby, and after she finished it, she was fascinated and felt of protectiveness. She fall in love with it.

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Body Painting - The Invisible Man 1

Liu Bolin is the invisible man. He paints himself and used no trick photography, no Photoshop, he just paints himself.

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this is the most amazing scene... take me some time to spot him..

A Swimmer Without Arms and Legs

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42-year-old Philippe Croizon is the first man without arms and legs who could cross the 22-mile-wide (35,4 km) English Channel (French: la Manche) that separates England and France. Phileppe lost his arms and legs after a horrific incident 16 years ago. He had received a powerful electrical discharge of current while trying to fix a television antenna. Two years ago he was watching the documentary about the swimmers who were crossing the channel, when he decided that he was able to do the same. He started practicing 30 hours a week. And he succeeded. Wearing a special swimsuit he started his race the British port of Folkestone at 7.00 am, he finished the race at 9.13 pm in the French city of Wissant. Truly Amazing!.

Amazing Mix Events

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Rachel Vincent is painted as a brick wall at the Airbrush Venturi Body Painting Expo at Parklands Showgrounds, Gold Coast, Australia

Quilling Artworks - The Art of Shaping Paper Strips into Decorative Designs

 Quilling or paper filigree is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs. The paper is wound around a quill to create a basic coil shape. The paper is glued at the tip and the coil shaped, these shaped coils are arranged to form flowers, leaves, and various ornamental patterns similar to ironwork.

 The art of quilling first became popular during the Renaissance, when nuns and monks would use it to roll gold-gilded paper and decorate religious objects, as an alternative to the expensive gold filigree. Later, during the 18th and 19th centuries, it became a favorite pass-time of English ladies who created wonderful decorations for their furniture and candles, through quilling.

The craft has become increasingly popular due to the low cost of the material. It is used to decorate wedding invitations, birth announcements, greeting cards, scrapbook pages, and boxes. 

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Biggest Sculpture Ever Made with Recycled Materials

Designed by the students of the Facultad de Arquitectura de Granada (Granda's Architectural College), the milk carton castle of Granada was built exclusively out of  tens of thousands of empty milk cartons, gathered by over 5,000 primary school children. The three schools that gathered the most number of milk cartons had the privilege to attend the unveiling ceremony and see the end result of their efforts.
The 29-meters-long, 14.07-meter wide and 7-meter-high milk carton castle was acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest sculpture ever made with recycled materials.

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The Amazing Life of the Harvest Mouse

These pictures give a rare insight into the secret lives of tiny harvest mice (Micromys minutus). Photographers Jean-Louis Klein and Marie-Luce Hubert spent one year photographing the adorable little creatures in a project that saw them released from captivity into the wild

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A harvest mouse seems to look directly into the camera while balancing on ears of wheat

Amazing Macro Photography for Insects

Leon Baas has developed his own style of brightly coloured macro photography over eight years. He has snapped ants, snails, water beetles, crickets and damselflies - all beautifully lit in his distinctive style.

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An ant tries to find its way to dry ground after the rain

Dubai Pictures

Charcoal and Chalk Street Arts by Robin Rhode

Unusual Photo Frames - Hang in the Corner

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Glamorous Infinity Pools

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Rangali Island - Maldives

Amazing Street Drawings

Julian Beever is an English chalk artist who has been creating chalk drawings on pavement surfaces since the mid-1990s. He uses a projection technique called anamorphosis to create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle. It is often possible to position a person within the image as if they were interacting with the scene. (Wikipedia)

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Baby Plays with Snakes

It's not everyday that you get to see a six-months-old girl playing with full frown pythons, but for Sidhi Siddharth Sinune this kind of snakes are everyday toys.
Because he cant afford to buy his young daughter any toys, Sidhi's farmer father, who tries to make ends meet as a snake catcher, admits he brings the dangerous reptiles home and lets her play with them. So while he and his wife are working in the fields, Sidhi spends her days in the lovely company of a creature that could kill her by constriction, or by swallowing her whole.
Sidhi's father says she develops an unusual bond with the snakes, and that the reptiles love to play with her just as much as she loves playing with them. They let her squeeze them and even bithe on their tails with her gums .
While I completely understand how costly childrens toys can be, couldn't this man carve or make something for his young daughter, instead of leaving her with a deadly python? 

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13-Year-Old Boy Make Friends with the Buffalos

To most South-Africans they are known as the Black Death, but to 13-year-old Luke Michaelides, two wild African Buffalos have become his best friends.
The African Buffalo is one of the big five African species credited with killing over 200 people every year, in South Africa alone. Some specimens grow up to 6 feet tall and 11 feet long, and can weigh up to 1,350 kg. They can easily rip apart a full grown man, let alone a 13-year-old, but that hasn't stop Luke from becoming friends with "Hop-a-long" and her offspring "Skip-a-long".

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Why People Stare at Cleavage or Boobs

Unusual Mountain Hut

At a height of 4,003 meters on a rocky ridge of the Matterhorn, Switzerland’s iconic, triangular peak, is the Solvay hut, managed by the Swiss Alpine Club. It has room for only ten daredevils who will have to venture uphill through the must inhospitable terrain. The steep, icy paths and frozen breath and sweat will improve your appetite considerably

Solvay Hut