Geckos

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Siwalan Tegal village in Probolinggo, Indonesia's East Java

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Geckos are dried at this province. In several Asian countries, the demand for dried geckos as a medicine is recently high as it is believed to have cured some diseases. A dried gecko can fetch 2000 rupiah (RM0.70) and a home can produce 1600 dried geckos a day.

Picture taken on December 17, 2009.
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Ice Ball

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Beach on the Baltic island of Öland off Sweden’s southeastern coast
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The ice balls likely form when rolls of light snow are blown from the shore into water which is at or just below freezing, but fails to form uniform ice due to strong winds. The rolls of snow are then tossed about in the chilly waters, where wave action eventually shapes them into balls of ice. It is possible that rolls of snow near the shore remained soft due to warmth emanating up from the ground, which could have then been blown into the water by the strong winds.Once formed, the balls likely came back to shore and, rather than floating out to open water, remained there due to a change in sea conditions in the days before the ice balls were discovered.

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4th January 2010

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The Burj Dubai measures a lofty 628 metres-high. The Burj Dubai stands at 160 stories tall and is the tallest building in the world. Visitors can look out from the highest observation deck in the world on the 124th floor, visitors to experience a taste of the high life by ascending to the 124th floor in the longest lifts in the world which will take two minutes to travel 504 metres
The tower cost $1.5 billion

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Train Hotel

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Helsinki , Finland

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A near-empty passenger train has crashed into a hotel by Helsinki's main railway station, causing damage but no injuries. Te train ran into the Holiday Inn on 4th January 2009 morning after the brakes failed. Three staff members were on board but no passengers.

Best 2010 SHIT

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Good start for 2010

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