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Talk Like a Pirate Day
Avast Ye! Today, it be Talk Like a Pirate Day an' we've got a barrel-load of piratey-themed sights fer ye landlubbers! Las Vegas' Treasure Island be havin' a daily pirate battle, 'ere the swashbucklers by defeated by th' booty-shaking o'…
Mystery Plane Outline
Here at the King Khaled Airport in Saudi Arabia, a little way away from the main terminal, there's a mysterious and unexplained outline of a plane marked out on the desert sand. The shape is similar in size and dimensions…
Tonight’s Dinner
For tonight's dinner we're following what might well be the world's largest recipe - as it's written in large type all over the surface of Google Earth. To start with, on the coast of Nova Scotia a vineyard uses the…
World’s Largest Portrait
Continuing the never-ending stream of "World's largest…" we present The World's Largest Portrait, which adorns the hills of Erzincan in Turkey. The massive 7.5 square km painting is of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president of Turkey until his death…
Mud Island (Island Week 2)
(It’s Island Week 2 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. For about a week.) On the mighty Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, is Mud Island, which is home to a steamboat museum, restaurants, an outdoor amphitheatre…
More Puerile Roof Art
Actually, you could barely call this childish scrawl on the roof of a French University "art" (stop sniggering). By my calculations (yes, I measured), at around 7.7 metres this is actually the smallest of the penises so far found on…
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