China

World’s Largest… Erection.

I’m sorry to report that I don’t mean any old structure either… nope, this is honestly claimed by the Chinese to be The World’s Largest Phallus. At least I think this is it – as you can see the satellite…

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Friday, 20th July 2007

Elusive Submarines

While on holiday we missed the news of a new Chinese nuclear submarine being spotted on Google Earth. Not much is known about the new class of Ballistic Missile Submarine, which is called the Jin-class or Type 094, but the…

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Tuesday, 17th July 2007

Plane Shaped Pools

It seems that more than one person has had the idea of theming their swimming pool around aeroplanes… Here’s a small private plane-shaped pool in Miami. This is the Flying W Airport in New Jersey, where they have a cool…

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Thursday, 26th April 2007

Landlocked

This aircraft carrier in China is going to have a hard time achieving much while locked in a small lake some 30 miles from the sea. That’s because it’s a ¾ scale model of the U.S. Nimitz Class Aircraft carrier,…

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Monday, 20th November 2006

Shekou Sea World

Back in 1962 France launched a ship named Ancerville, which was purchased by the People’s Republic of China in 1973 and renamed Minghua. 10 years later the ship was permanently berthed at Shekou, Shenzhen, where she was refurbished and rebranded…

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Thursday, 12th October 2006

Shaolin Reservoir

Many believe that Shaolin Kung-Fu originated at the world-famous Shaolin Monastery but it is a little known fact that the nearby Shaolin Reservoir, is the true Kung-Fu mecca. OK, I made that up – the monastery is in a low…

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Monday, 2nd October 2006
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