TOP 10 DANGEROUS ROAD IN THE WORLD

 TOP 10 DANGEROUS ROAD IN THE WORLD

10. Sichuan-Tibet Highway, China

The Sichuan-Tibet Highway, a high-elevation road between Chengdu and Tibet where landslides and rock avalanches are common, is undoubtedly part of the problem. It is a road with a record of over 7,500 deaths for every 100,000 drivers has reason to be feared. Due to rock slides, avalanches, and poor weather drivers should certainly use caution.

9. The Stelvio Pass, Italy

The Stelvio Pass located in Italy, at 9045 feet is the highest paved mountain pass in the Eastern Alps, and the second highest in the Alps, slightly below the Col de l’Iseran 9088 feet. Some roads look a lot more dangerous than they really are. With more hairpins than Helena Bonham Carter, the Stelvio Pass looks like a child’s scribble over the hills. The road climbs almost two kilometers and, with just a low concrete barrier between you and the steep mountain drop, it’s best not to look down. A bit too much speed on one of the road’s 60 180-degree corners could spell disaster.

8. Los Caracoles Pass, Chile

This road passes through mountain Andreas between Chile and Argentina.The road has many steep slopes and sharp turns without fences security. The road is snow-covered almost all the year. Snow together with the complex natural landscape requires extreme patience and driving skill to drive in emergency situations. However, this road is maintained in working condition, which significantly reduces the number of accidents on it. Trucks and even double-decker tourist buses travel daily on this road.

7. Skippers Canyon Road, New Zealand

The Skippers Canyon Road, located in New Zealand, is unbelievably scary as it’s made from a very narrow cut in the middle of a sheer cliff face. This winding road actually requires a special permit to drive. If you do manage to get permission though, be ready for a slippery challenge and good luck if you run into someone coming from the other direction.

6. The Zoji Pass, India

Zoji La is a high mountain pass in India, located on the Indian National Highway 1D between Srinagar and Leh. The pass provides a vital link between Ladakh and Kashmir. It runs at an elevation of approximately 3,528 metres, and is the second highest pass after Fotu La. It is often closed during winter. But it’s a lifeline that keeps the people of Ladakh in touch with the rest of the world.

5. Guoliang Tunnel Road, China

The Guoliang Tunnel is carved along the side of and through a mountain in China. It may be hard to see in the photo, this road was hollowed out of the side of a mountain by several villagers from the town of Guoliang. Before the construction of this mountain pass the village was cut of from the rest of civilization by the surrounding cliffs. Although it doesn’t see much traffic, due to its construction it is inherently fairly dangerous.

4. Karakoram Highway, Pakistan

Named the “Friendship Highway” by the governments who built it. The Karakoram Highway is the highest paved international road in the world. It connects China and Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an elevation of 4,693 metres. It’s prone to landslides and floods and to make matters worse, the road is unpaved in Pakistan. But it is still a tourist attraction, passing through some spectacular gorges along the old Silk Road.

3. James Dalton Highway, Alaska

The Dalton Highway is a 667 km road in Alaska. It begins at the Elliott Highway, north of Fairbanks, and ends at Deadhorse near the Arctic Ocean and the Prudhoe Bay oil fields. Although appearing serene at first glance, is filled with potholes, small flying rocks carried by fast winds, and worst of all it runs through the middle of nowhere.

2. Jalalabad–Kabul Road, Afghanistan

Many roads have been dubbed “most dangerous,” but the 65-kilometer stretch of highway from Jalalabad to Kabul has more claim than most, snaking through Taliban territory. But it’s not the threat of insurgency that makes Highway so dangerous. It’s a combination of the narrow, winding lanes that climb up to 600 meters through the Kabul gorge and the reckless Afghan drivers trying to overtake the heavily-burdened haulage trucks.

1. North Yungas Road, Bolivia

Also known as the “Road of Death” in the Yungas region of Bolivia. It is legendary for its extreme danger and the Inter-American Development Bank christened it as the “world’s most dangerous road”. One estimate is that 200 to 300 travellers are killed yearly along the road. The road includes cross markings on many of the spots where vehicles have fallen. It is a regular occurrence for buses and trucks to go tumbling to the valley below, especially when they try passing each other

Top 10 Transparent Animals

This world is full of creatures of all kinds of colours and patterns, and such conspicuous colours make their beauty inescapable to us. But, some of them are different. They choose to hide in plain sight. Are they too shy, or do they just want to be stealthy? Let’s know a little more about the different types of ghostly, glassy, transparent animals that are lurking around us.

1. Jellyfish, Salp, Sea Angel, Sea Cucumber, Syphonophora and all things jelly-like

Transparent Animals; Jellyfish, Salp, Sea Angel..

Probably the most common of the transparent animals are the different kinds of jellyfish, a Cnidarian marine animal. The salp, sea cucumber, sea angel, Syphonophora, etc., all animals with a gelatinous body, may appear as a jellyfish in the eyes of a ley man. But, they are all different. Salps are groups of free-floating transparent tunicates, while transparent sea cucumbers are echinoderms. Siphonophores like Portuguese Man-O’-War are hydrozoan, and sea angels are small swimming sea slugs. But, there is one thing common among all of them: their glassy skin.

2. Glass Frog

This arboreal amphibian has an almost transparent abdominal skin, which puts on display many of its internal organs such as the heart, gastrointestinal tract and liver. The dorsal skin is less transparent, but, it still has a glassy appearance with a greenish tinge. The inside, too, is almost visible.

3. Barton Spring Salamander

This rare species of salamanders lives in the fresh water of the Barton Springs in Texas and has no lungs. The almost translucent skin, which gives it a rather albino appearance, allows the internal organs, and sometimes, even the previous day’s food in the stomach, to be viewed from outside.

4. Chaetognatha

These carnivores live in the Polar region and feed on planktons. The predatory animals are mostly transparent or translucent. Their bodies are distinctly divided into a head, tail and trunk. It is dart-like in shape and is covered in cuticles.

5. Glass Shrimp, Cave Crayfish, Transparent Amphipods

Transparent Animals; Cave Crayfish, Glass Shrimp ..

There are several small crustaceans such as the transparent amphipods or Phronima from North Atlantis, the glass shrimp from Texas and cave crayfish from Arkansas, that adapt to transparency as a survival strategy. These amphipods are deep sea creatures, while the shrimps live in fresh water, and the crayfish live in caves. These amphipods completely transparent, and some of them can be quite vicious, such as the Pram Bug that devours its prey, the salp, from the inside, and hollows its way out. These crayfish and shrimps, both endangered species, are both pigment-less and white, and almost transparent, and are often not visible against the water background or in darkness, especially the shrimps.

6. Glass Squid and Glass Octopus

The glass squid and the glass octopus are two octopods that people are hardly aware of. They lurk around the deep waters like ghosts. The glass octopus is quite unusual, with little knowledge about the creature except the fact that it has keen eyesight. The glass squid can hide easily from its predators as it appears almost transparent and has the ability to puff up into a ball. Some of the glass squids are bioluminescent.

7. Glass-winged Butterfly

These beautiful butterflies often go unnoticed by the common, careless eyes, had it not been the opaque outline and veins. Such is the transparency of their wings that the Spanish call them ‘Espejtos’, which literally means little mirrors. They display many strange behaviours such as migration over long distances, or competition among males to entice females.

8. Tortoise and Leaf-mining Beetle

There are many different kinds of turtle and leaf-mining beetles all with different names. The carapace has a pattern, and the edges are all transparent, giving the beetle a fancy look. So, though it is not entirely transparent, but it is one of the most beautiful ones with a clear shell and vivid patterns. The markings are all different in case of the different kinds or turtle and leaf-mining beetles.

9. Fishes

Transparency being a clever defensive tactics, many a fish, too has adopted this game-plan. The Indian glassy fish is a still water fish with a transparent body that reveals its insides, and is the prey of large predators. Humans artificially tinge its dorsal part for their aquariums. In the Atlantic lurks the ghostly predator called the crocodile ice fish. Besides the transparent flesh, it has a transparent blood, too, owing to the lack of haemoglobin. It is the only vertebrate to have no haemoglobin in blood. A new species of transparent fish has been found in the Amazon. The Transparent Amazonian Fish is extremely small, and its body is transparent but beautifully tinged body, with a brightly blue stomach being visible vividly. A special fish in this category is the Barrel eye or Spook fish, which has a completely transparent domelike head. While the rest of the body is not transparent, it is this transparent head that helps it to look in all directions at once, with its eyes embedded inside the head. There are some man-made transparent animals too, like the Japanese transparent goldfish and Boston’s Zebra fish, both with transparency of skin and depigmentation of flesh, developed to study internal organs without dissection.

10. Transparent Snail

This newly discovered snail has a semi-transparent shell which is beautifully shaped like a dome. These snails, found in Croatia, are miniscule, and have limited ability to move. However, they are not completely immobile, and their dispersal takes place largely through passive transportation via water or larger mammals.

Special mention should be given to the animals who adopt transparency in their larval states, such as eels, squids, shrimps, flounders or blenny fish. The monarch butterfly, in its pupa stage, has a transparent covering. Some frogs, in their tadpole state, such as the Costa Rican tadpoles, are transparent. It is interesting how all the transparent animals try to hide themselves from the predators, and in the process, mostly end up baring even their internal organs.

The IMDb Top 10 Highest Ranked Movies of all time.

The IMDb Top 10 Highest Ranked Movies of all time.

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Rank:   1          Rating:   9.2                     Votes:     819,932
The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.
Budget: $25,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $727,327 (USA) (25 September 1994) (33 Screens)
Gross: $58,500,000 (Worldwide)

The Godfather (1972)

Rank: 2              Rating: 9.2                Votes: 602,703
The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy from a screenplay by Mario Puzo and Coppola.
Budget: $6,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $302,393 (USA) (19 March 1972) (6 Screens)
Gross: $245,066,411 (Worldwide) (11 May 1997)

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

Rank:            3 Rating: 9.0                 Votes: 384,027
The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American crime epic that Francis Ford Coppola produced, directed, and co-wrote with Mario Puzo, starring Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, and Robert De Niro.
Budget: $13,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $244,000 (USA)
Gross: $193,000,000 (Worldwide) (26 July 2012)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Rank: 4           Rating: 8.9                Votes: 641,750
Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who co-wrote its screenplay with Roger Avary.
Budget: $8,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $9,311,882 (USA) (14 October 1994)
Gross: $213,928,762 (Worldwide)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Rank: 5             Rating: 8.9                  Votes: 252,980
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 Italian epic Spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in the title roles.
Budget: $1,200,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $10,584 (Finland) (7 August 2003) (1 Screen)
Gross: $25,100,000 (USA) (5 August 2012)

12 Angry Men (1957)

Rank: 6               Rating: 8.9               Votes: 201,765
12 Angry Men is a 1957 American drama film adapted from a teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose.
Budget:  $350,000 (estimated)

Schindler’s List (1993)

Rank: 7              Rating: 8.9           Votes: 427,124
Schindler’s List is a 1993 film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.
Budget: $25,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $656,636 (USA) (17 December 1993) (25 Screens)
Gross: $321,306,305 (Worldwide) (30 June 2012)

The Dark Knight (2008)

Rank: 8          Rating: 8.8             Votes: 796,602
The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced, and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is the second part of Nolan’s Batman film series and a sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins.
Budget: $185,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $158,411,483 (USA) (20 July 2008) (4366 Screens)
Gross: $1,001,921,825 (Worldwide) (1 December 2010)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Rank: 9                Rating: 8.8                 Votes: 580,715
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 epic fantasy-drama film directed by Peter Jackson that is based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
Budget: $94,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $72,629,713 (USA) (19 December 2003) (3703 Screens)
Gross: $1,119,929,521 (Worldwide) (25 November 2011)

Fight Club (1999)

Rank: 10                 Rating: 8.8                  Votes: 625,727
Fight Club is a 1999 American film based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. The film was directed by David Fincher and stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter.
Budget: $63,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $11,035,485 (USA) (17 October 1999) (1963 Screens)
Gross: $71,000,000 (Worldwide) (except USA)

Top 10 Incredibly Advanced Jet Fighters

10. Chengdu J-10

The J-10 from China makes part of the most advanced jet fighters in the world. Designed and produced by the China’s Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) for the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), the J-10 is a multirole combat aircraft capable of all-weather operation. The Pakistan Air Force is the only export contractor for the J-10 currently.

9. F-16 Fighting Falcon

Originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force, F-16 Fighting Falcon is at No. 9 in our list. Designed as an air superiority day fighter, this single-engine fighter evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. Since production was approved in 1976, more then 4,500 aircraft have been built and serve in the air forces of 25 other nations.

8. Mikoyan MiG-35

At No. 8, the Russian fighter MiG-35 – stands as the ultimate evolution of the MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter series. The MiG-35 has vastly improved avionics and weapon systems, especially the new AESA radar and the distinctive designed OLS, relieves the aircraft from relying on GCI (ground-controlled interception) systems and enables it to conduct independent multi-role missions. According to Russian military, the new MiG-35D multirole fighters as an equal to the U.S. F-35 jet fighters.

7. Dassault Rafale

The french Dassault Rafale comes at No. 7 among the world’s most advanced jet fighters. Designed and built by Dassault Aviation, Rafale is a twin-engine, canard delta-wing, multirole fighter aircraft. Almost entirely built by one country, Rafale is distinct from other European fighters of its era with a high level of legerity, capable of at the same time playing air domination, interdiction, intelligence activity, and mobile nuclear deterrent missions.

6. F-15 Eagle

One of the most successful modern and advanced jet fighters, with over 100 aerial combat victories. Designed by McDonnell Douglas, F-15 Eagle is a twin-engine, all-weather tactical fighter jet. The Eagle first flew in July 1972, and since that, it has been exported to many nations, notably Japan, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.

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5. Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet

Based on the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet is a combat-proven strike fighter with built-in versatility. The F/A-18E/F’s suite of integrated and networked systems provides enhanced interoperability, total force support for the combatant commander and for the troops on the ground. Both the F/A-18E (single seat) and F/A-18F (two-seat) models convert quickly from one mission type to the other with the flip of a switch to provide consistent air dominance.

4. Sukhoi Su-35

At 4th place among the most advanced jet fighters is the Russian made heavy class, long-range, multi-role one-seat fighter Su-35. The jet is designed by Sukhoi from the original air superiority fighter Su-27. It was originally designated Su-27M and later named Su-35. The aircraft is considered a close cousin of the Sukhoi Su-30MKI (a modernized Su-30 variant for India), because of the similar features and components it contains.

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3. Eurofighter Typhoon

Eurofighter Typhoon spot third among the 10 most advanced jet fighters in the world. Built on the strength of four European nations: United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and Italy, and their leading defense and aerospace companies. Eurofighter Typhoon is the world’s most advanced swing-role combat jet providing same time deploy-able Air-to-Air and Air-to-Surface capabilities.

2. F-22 Raptor

The F-22 is a multi-role air-superiority jet fighter with improved capability over current aircraft. This ultimate state of art weapon was primarily designed as an air superiority fighter, but the aircraft has some extra capabilities like Air-to-Surface, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence roles. F-22 Raptor is a stealth technology, single-seat, twin-engine fifth-generation supersonic super maneuverable fighter aircraft.

1. F-35 Lightning II

The F-35 Lightning II is at No. 1 to the word’s most advanced jet fighters. The aircraft is designed with the modren battle space in mind. It is the most flexible, technologically sophisticated, fifth-generation multirole fighter ever built. With advanced stealth capability, F-35 delivers innovative capabilities to meet security needs for nations across the world.

10 Most Famous Paintings in the world.

10 Most Famous Paintings in the world.

10. The Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus is a 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli. It depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore . The painting is held in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

9. Portrait of Madame Recamier

Portrait of Madame Récamier is an 1800 portrait of the Parisian socialite Juliette Récamier by Jacques Louis David showing her in the height of Neoclassical fashion, reclining on an Directoire style sofa in a simple empire line dress with almost bare arms, and short hair “à la Titus”. He began it in May 1800 but may have left it unfinished when he learned that François Gérard had been commissioned before him to paint a portrait of the same model (Gerard’s portrait was completed in 1802); on the other hand many David portraits have the same bare background. The pose of a reclining figure looking back over her shoulder was adopted in 1814 by Ingres for his Grande Odalisque. It is now in the Louvre.

8. Massacre of the Innocents

The Massacre of the Innocents is the subject of two paintings by Peter Paul Rubens depicting the episode of the biblical Massacre of the Innocents of Bethlehem, as related in the Gospel of Matthew.

7. Night Watch

Completed in 1642, at the peak of the Dutch Golden Age, The Night Watch is one of the most famous paintings by Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. It depicts a city guard moving out, led by Captain Frans Banning Cocq and his lieutenant, Willem van Ruytenburch. For much of its existence, the painting was coated with a dark varnish which gave the incorrect impression that it depicted a night scene, leading to the name Night Watch. This varnish was removed only in the 1940s. The painting is on display in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

6. Girl with a Pearl Earring

The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s masterworks and as the name implies, uses a pearl earring for a focal point. Today the painting is kept in the Mauritshuis gallery in The Hague. It is sometimes referred to as “the Mona Lisa of the North” or “the Dutch Mona Lisa”.

5. Guernica

Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, Basque Country, by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces, on 26 April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish Republican government commissioned Picasso to create a large mural for the Spanish display at the Paris International Exposition at the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris.

4. The Creation of Adam

The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, at the commission of Pope Julius II, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. The ceiling is that of the large Chapel built within the Vatican in Rome. Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis. Among the last to be completed was the Creation of Adam in which God the Father breathes life into Adam, the first man. The Creation of Adam is one of the famous paintings of all time and has been the subject of countless of references and parodies.

3. The Last Supper

The Last Supper is the final meal that, according to Christian belief, Jesus shared with His Apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion. The Last Supper is commemorated by Christians on Maundy Thursday. Moreover, The Last Supper provides the scriptural basis for the Eucharist, also known as “Holy Communion” or “The Lord’s Supper”.

2. The Arnolfini Marriage

The Arnolfini Portrait is an oil painting on oak panel dated 1434 by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. It is also known as The Arnolfini Wedding, The Arnolfini Marriage, The Arnolfini Double Portrait or the Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, among other titles. The painting is a small full-length double portrait, which is believed to represent the Italian merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, presumably in their home in the Flemish city of Bruges. It is considered one of the most original and complex paintings in Western art history. Both signed and dated by van Eyck in 1434, it is, with the Ghent Altarpiece by the same artist and his brother Hubert, the oldest very famous panel painting to have been executed in oils rather than in tempera. The painting was bought by the National Gallery in London in 1842.

1. Mona Lisa

The most famous painting of all time, the Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo da Vinci during the Renaissance in Florence. He began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 or 1504 and finished it shortly before he died in 1519. The painting is named for Lisa del Giocondo, a member of a wealthy family of Florence. In 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen by Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian patriot who believed the Mona Lisa should be returned to Italy. After having kept the painting in his apartment for two years, Peruggia was finally caught when he attempted to sell it to the directors of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Today, the Mona Lisa hangs again in the Louvre in Paris where 6 million people see the painting each year.