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POPSSatellite Shot: Dubai Artificial Islands in Shape of "World" A breakwater surrounds the archipelago, and its role is obvious: outside the perimeter, especially to the northwest, the waters of the Gulf ripple with waves that would wear the artificial islands away. The bottom image shows the project on November 13, 2004, when dredging and building were just getting underway. Only one of the islands that make up “The World” appears to have achieved its full potential as a manmade tropical paradise. One of the islands in western Greenland has been landscaped, and it appears as a single green dot among its sand-covered neighbors.
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POPSAmazing Architecture of Dubai One never ceases to be amazed at the creativity of the human mind. Enjoy more photos of the beautiful and the unusual in buildings and in islands.
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POPSTimber Coastline Microcoasts is a series of man made islands designed by Spanish architect Vincente Gullart. Images via http://architechnophilia.blogspot.com/
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POPSThis Day In History: An Open Letter To Google Dear Google comrades Sergei and Larry! The Party looks kindly at your attempts to correct and improve history by unobtrusively modifying the Google logo on notable calendar dates. For years you have zealously informed the masses about progressive and useful events like Earth Day or Earth Hour, while purposefully ignoring Memorial Day (no logo change on this reactionary American holiday). Most recently, you enlightened the unwashed about the Spanish artist Velázquez on June 6 without mentioning the Allied Invasion of Normandy on D-Day, a celebration of which would indeed be offensive to National Socialists. ~ The time is ripe for us to reinforce your amateurish efforts with our brand of historical revisionism that stands on a firm scientific foundation of the Party doctrine. The next big holiday is Independence Day. Review the following list of Party-recommended events and logos for mandatory inclusion.
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POPS7 Wonders of Ultramodern Dubai By 2010 --the year Dubai's known oil reserves will most likely be tapped out--, prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum is expecting to attract 15 million tourists. Here's how.
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POPS'Other' Middle-East News while parts of that area are brewing volatile juices, in others, daring dreams are emerging. This is a peek into some of the projects currently under way in Dubai.
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POPSErrors in "An Inconvenient Truth" "All of the errors point in one direction – towards undue alarmism. Not one of the errors falls in the direction of underestimating the degree of concern in the scientific community. The likelihood that all 35 of the errors listed below could have fallen in one direction purely by inadvertence is less than 1 in 34 billion." Perhaps errors is too forgiving of a term...these are blatant lies. The source covers 35 "errors", with the 1st nine being those recently illustrated by a judge in Britain.
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POPSWorld's most amazing islands The name Alcatraz from the Title ' Island if the Albatross',given to it by discoverer Juan de Ayala, in 1775. Always wondered what that meant, but never looked. Was originally a lighthouse.
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POPSAtlantis Search Findings Before the end of the last Ice Age (12,000-years ago) the ocean levels were at least 300 feet below their current levels. A vast “island” was in the area in those remote times rather than chains of islands. Edgar Cayce referred to Bimini as one of the mountaintops of ancient Atlantis. While few would consider the island a mountain, 12,000-years ago it was one of the highest points on the vast land formation in the region. Bimini and Andros Island, lying about 100 miles to the east of Bimini, were a part of the same island in 10,000 B.C.—called "Poseidia" by Cayce. Cayce related that a Hall of Records containing the records of Atlantis was constructed somewhere in the region. The Hall of Records was in a temple which sunk in 10,000 B.C. and is, according to Cayce, covered by "the slime of ages." This record hall is identical to the one in Egypt under the Sphinx. Very interesting person. I've read several books about and by him.
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