Fyra resejournalister träffas i Marrakech. En diskussion uppstår om vilka städer de gärna återvänder till, samt vilka de tycker det skrivs för mycket om. Resultatet är en lista över tio överskattade städer. SvD:s bereste Bobo Karlsson var med – och delar här med sig av åsikterna.
Reflections in the midst of extreme poverty and filth — a record of a trip in India
India is the dirtiest country I have ever been to. I have heard people say that Pakistan, which is to the west and Bangladesh, to the east, are worse, but that is probably beyond the limits of my imagination.
via Filthy India Photos, Chinese Netizen Reactions – chinaSMACK.
Phil Sumner from British Sea Power talks us through his favourite… castles.
“I love history and have been fascinated with castles from a young age. More recently outside of British Sea Power I have taken my son Louie to see some of the best castles in the UK.
Deeply saddened by the deaths of her daughter Annie in 1866, and her young husband in 1881, and seeking solace, Winchester consulted a medium on the advice of a psychic. According to popular history, the medium, who has become known colloquially as the “Boston Medium”, told Winchester that she believed there to be a curse upon the Winchester family because the guns they made had taken so many lives. The psychic told Winchester that “thousands of people have died because of it and their spirits are now seeking deep vengeance.”
via Winchester Mystery House – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Tiny houses have never truly gone out of style. From the very early days of home building, when the construction was done by hand and usually by the people who would be occupying the home, small homes have been built out of necessity. But today many people continue the trend for the sake of simplicity or the environment. Living in a minuscule home definitely encourages you to rid your life of all types of clutter and get back to what is really important. These truly tiny homes – some modern, some classic – exemplify the best of space-saving architecture.
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Sigrid from Norway emailed with a reader request that I thought I’d tackle today, because it’s an easy one. :) “I love library and rooms and walls full with bookshelves. I would be honoured if you could post some pictures of rooms and walls full with bookshelves.” I would give anything to have a library, a room filled with floor to ceiling bookcases to fill with my ever-growing collection of shelter mags and books. I love to see how people cope with their own book and mag collections. Here are some rooms where large collections are easily stored away.
The California Trail was a major overland immigrant trail of about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) across the western half of the North American continent from Missouri River towns to what is now the state of California. It was used primarily from 1841 to 1869. It followed the same corridor of trails, following different river valleys, as the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail till it turned off in Idaho, Wyoming or Utah to follow trails leading to the Humboldt River valley. [...]
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Coober Pedy is a town located in northern South Australia and is
known as the opal capital of the world, as nearly 95 percent of the
world’s opal supply comes from the local mines. This small town with a
population of around 3000 has a unique way of life – nearly half
of them live underground.
In 1963, an inhabitant of Derinkuyu (in the region of
Cappadocia, central Anatolia, Turkey), knocking down a wall of his
house cave, discovered amazed that behind it was a mysterious room that
he had never seen, and this led him room to another and another and
another to it … By chance he had discovered the underground city of
Derinkuyu, whose first level could be excavated by the Hittites around
1400 BC In 1963, inhabitants of an Derinkuyu (in the region of
Cappadocia, central Anatolia , Turkey), knocking down a wall of his
house cave, discovered amazed that it was behind a mysterious room that
he had never seen, and this led him room to another and another and
another to it … By chance he had discovered the underground city of
Derinkuyu, whose first level could be excavated by the Hittite around
1400 BC
A burial vault is a sturdy box designed to protect the coffin inside of
it. The body is placed within the coffin, which is then placed inside
the vault. Body, coffin, and vault are buried. A burial vault serves as
an outer enclosure for buried remains, the coffin serves as an inner
enclosure.
<<-A burial vault is prepared for shipment by an employee at Clark Grave Vault, Columbus, Ohio, 1938.
A burial vault is a sturdy box designed to protect the coffin inside of it. The body is placed within the coffin, which is then placed inside the vault. Body, coffin, and vault are buried. A burial vault serves as an outer enclosure for buried remains, the coffin serves as an inner enclosure.
Vaults are made of concrete, plastic or metal. Unlike a burial liner, which only covers the top and sides of the coffin, a vault completely encloses a coffin. Burial vaults are primarily used to keep the weight of the ground from crushing a buried coffin, and also to keep the ground above from sinking in. Manufacturers also state that their vaults can be sealed to keep water and other elements out. In many cases, cemeteries require either a vault or liner to keep the ground over grave sites from sinking in. This gives the ground a neat and even appearance, and helps reduce the chance of a person tripping on sunken ground.
Contrary to popular belief, regardless of whether or not the body is embalmed, a vault will not prevent decomposition of the body.
The use of burial liners is typical only in recent American history and is unheard of outside of the United States. The alternative to using a burial liner is to pile the earth up over the grave in order to allow for settling as is the practice in Europe and other parts of the world. For example, in the UK burial liners are never used because the inevitable subsidence of the earth over a grave is not viewed as a major problem: as the ground subsides over a number of years, earth is added to the depression to level it. Green cemeteries and some religions discourage the use of liners as they slow down the return of the body to the earth.
Despite the popularity of weed and hash, most governments in the world have deemed it harmful to the individual and society as a whole.
There are only 11 nations in the world where weed and hash have been decriminalized. A handful of countries impose mandatory prison sentences and other harsh punishments for the possession or sale of any form of weed and hash. Another handful look the other way when dealing with cannabis.
Some places that are easy on weed heads can be broken up by region:
Latin America
In Latin America, cannabis is tolerated and/or decriminalized in most countries, with the exception of Bolivia, Ecuador, Honduras and Guatemala. Marijuana grows well in Central and South America and is a large part of the economy. Read more…
