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Tuesday, 7th September 2010 by Alex Steinberger
In grand Dubai-esque fashion, Ordos City in Chinese Inner Mongolia rises from the desert to proclaim the glory of mankind’s accomplishments. Its glittering high-rise buildings and grand government projects are skirted on all sides by smooth unblemished pavement and endless rows of modern street lamps. There’s only one problem…it’s practically uninhabited. Founded in 2001, Ordos City was rapidly developed on a swath of uninhabited desert along the Yellow River. Fuelled…
Tuesday, 31st August 2010 by James Turnbull
Recognising our literary passion, technical knowledge, and expertise in the online mapping field1, the web’s 57th most popular website, HubPages, have asked Alex and me to join their expert panel and judge entries to their latest…
Thursday, 2nd September 2010 by Matt Bucher
Fans of single-malt scotch whisky associate single malts from the Isle of Islay in Scotland with bold and peaty flavors. Not every whisky produced on the island is heavily peated, but that’s the signature flavour of the distilleries along the southern coast. The Isle of Islay is located on the…
Monday, 30th August 2010 by Ian Brown
Last week a top-secret Russian shortwave radio station, UVB-76, began broadcasting a coded message for only the fourth time in 28 years. Today we’re exploring another shortwave system within the radioactive zone surrounding Chernobyl, The Russian Woodpecker The Russian Woodpecker was an over-the-horizon (OTH) radar system used during the later…
Friday, 27th August 2010 by Ian Brown
As a moderately frequent flyer, I enjoy looking out for fire and emergency training locations at airports. It’s fascinating because, for anybody who is even vaguely nervous about flying, the sight of a twisted and charred fuselage is probably the last thing they want to see as their plane accelerates…
Wednesday, 25th August 2010 by Alex Turnbull
Regular readers may remember our post from 2009 about a Russian shortwave radio station, UVB-76, that has been emitting a short buzz tone on the AM frequency almost continuously since 1982. In the following 28 years the buzzing had only ever been interrupted on 3 occasions … until 2 days…
Wednesday, 18th August 2010 by Alex Turnbull
Last week newspaper websites across the world published a story about a young girl who appeared to be lying dead on the pavement of an English street, proving that the worldwide fascination with Google Street View continues unabated. Fortunately the girl, who must have been slightly taken aback when the…
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Sayano–Shushenskaya was – until a recent accident – the largest power plant in Russia, and the sixth largest hydroelectric plant…
Last week was our our third annual Island Week, and we had another fascinating week! This year even more of…
Rather than the usual fare of flowerbeds, ponds or garden gnomes, Lloyd “Tud” Krohn decorates his garden with handmade aircraft.…
Today marks the 71st anniversary of the universally acclaimed 1939 American musical movie ‘The Wizard of Oz’, which has been…
As a moderately frequent flyer, I enjoy looking out for fire and emergency training locations at airports. It’s fascinating because,…
Regular readers may remember our post from 2009 about a Russian shortwave radio station, UVB-76, that has been emitting a…
Fans of single-malt scotch whisky associate single malts from the Isle of Islay in Scotland with bold and peaty flavors.…
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