Interesting World Facts

Today, Bank is the vein of economy. Million of people depend on a banking system, banking products and the number is rising every year. We can track history of the first bank since 500 years ago. Here we are going to locate the bank. This is 5 oldest banks in the world. The first one is the youngest.
5. Bank of New York/ Bank of New York Mellon
Instituted: 1784 (227 years operation)

Bank of New York is the former name of bank of New York Melon. A well-known lawyer Alexander Hamilton founded the bank in 1784. The bank is older than New York Stock Exchange and it was the first company that was listed on NYSE in 1792. Bank of New York changed its name in 2007 after Mellon Financial Corporation acquired the bank.

4. Bank of Scotland/ Halifax Bank of Scotland
Instituted: Edinburgh, Scotland in 1695 (316 years operation)

In Scotland, the bank was the first bank that printed and distributed paper money and coin. The founder was Scotland Parliament and it was founded to support business in Scotland in the last decade of 17th century. In 2001, Halifax bank overtook the bank and changed its name.
3. C. Hoare & Co
Instituted: London, England, in 1672 (339 years operation)

Sir Richard Hoare was the founding father of the bank and the management has been descended from one generation to next generation of Richard himself. During World War II, the main building of C.Hoare was destroyed and became the cruel witness of Nazi air attack.

4. Berenberg Bank
Instituted: Hamburg, Germany, in 1590 (421 years operation)
Hans and Paul Berenberg who worked as textile importers and exporters founded Barenberg Bank in 1590. Their bank received saving and distributed loans. Along the economy growth of Hamburg, the bank got bigger and expanded. It is known as the 2nd oldest bank in Europe after Banca Monte dei Paschi.

5. Banca Monte dei Paschi
Instituted: Siena, Italia, in 1472 (539 years)
The longest and oldest bank in the world

Banca Monte dei Paschi is known as the longest operational and oldest bank on earth. At first, it gave loan and financing to farmers and farm owners and small business owners around Siena. Monte dei Pasch is referred to land because the bank took the farmland certificate as the grant to get the loan.

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Here we are going to surf 7 amazing churches that are no longer works as a place to call god or a site for priest to enlighten the restless living souls. They are victims of human’s will and they are the survivals of human’s ego to build large dams and water reservoirs.
7. Potosi, Venezuela

The Church was part of 1,200 acres potosi region in Venezuela that was abandoned after president Carlon andres decided to build La Honda Dam for the good of larger numbers of people in 1985. The churc reemerged for unexpected El Nino in 2010 that caused an abnormal drought.

6. St. Nicholas Church, Macedonia

Macedonian built the church in 1850. For 153 years, the church served spiritual need of Macedonian until they agreed to accept the building of artificial lakes around the area. It rises from the wet graves every summer since years 2000.
5. Church of the Holy Rosary-hassan, India

The phantasmagoric church of the holy rosary is located in Karnataka , India. It was built around 1860s and served Christians until 1960s. Local government decided to drown the church include the village to expand the room of Hemavathy reservoirs. The church is only seen every monsoons.
4. Church of Old Petrolandia, Brazil

Petrolandia is a small town in Brazil on the edge of Sao Francisco River. Once the river owns a new giant dam, the church has become one of the victims. From distance, it looks like a giant fish from Jurassic time maws its mouth to eat.
3. Church of Krokhino, Russia

The ruin of Chruch of Krokhino looks new because Sheksna River and Onega Lake constantly bath the church. According to Sharon, a photographer, Krokhino was built around 15th century as a Christian center of Vologda Oblast villagers. In 1980s, Soviet government constructed a giant hydroelectric plant near the church. After the dam construction completed, that was the time when the church retired from its service.
2. Church of Lake Reschen, Italy

Chrurch of Lake reschen was a spiritual center of Graun Villagers since 14th century. In 1950, an electrical company wanted to build a dam here and they need to own a vast artificial lakes that will drown Graun village include 163 homes and 1 church on it..The artificial river finally completed. It is 72 feet deep and it wets 1,290 acres of land that used to be farmlands
1. Kalyazin Bell Tower, Russia

Kalyazin Bell Tower was an instrument of St. Nicholas Church. It was built around the last decade of 1700s. In 1939, after Russia revolution, Stalin wanted to build a reservoir in the volga river and the project had to drown almost anything around volga river. View decades after the church resurrect from the watery grave; the amazing church attracts many tourists. Local government facilitated the drowned object with boats dock and other facilities.

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People build prison to jail other people who had committed crime/crimes and many of us believe other violence we give to them would return them to be a good person. In the past or may be still is in the present, people had built hell-like Penitentiaries completed with all torches and inhuman treatments and some are still standing arrogantly till today. In the following list, we present you top 5 scariest abandoned prisons in United states. Most of them have become tourist attractions or shooting scenes and most tourists who visited the abandoned penitentiaries are curious to capture supernatural beings in the prison. If you are fans of supernatural activities, you can visit the prison yourself one day. Surely, you are welcomed to bring your night-vision camera.

Moundsville West Virginia Penitentiary

Moundsville West Virginia Penitentiary was jailing convicts since 1876. The prison unlocked all the doors in 1995 and since that time, the penitentiary is same as a mere monumental institution. For 129 years, the prison had sentenced serious or wrongful outlaws by hangings, electrified, or beaten to death. In the past, the penitentiary housed hundred angry peoples and once they died, their voices still left on the alley, the attic, the footsteps, the toilets, and the cells.

Ohio State Reformatory or Mansfield Reformatory

Ohio State Reformatory was active since 1896 and at first; the reformatory only housed 150 wrongdoers. Until the prison shut down in December 31, 1990, the prison had imprisoned more than 155,000 male convicts and some should rest their soul forever behind the cold wall of the prison after tortured, beaten, and electrified or stabbed by other convicts. Some tourists had witnessed strange voices, whispers, screams or strange shadow, scents, even surprising apparitions.

Frontier Prison from Rawlings, Wyoming

 

Frontier Prison from Rawlings or also called the Old Pen started operational in the early 1900’s and it has been inactive since the first quarter of 1980’s. Today, Frontier prison is a tourist destinations and a site of paranormal activities hunters. Some had detected intense fear once they stepped into the main room of the prison and it was not rare that some of them shortened their schedule because they could not hold emotional burden they had in the prison.

The Eastern State Penitentiary

 

 

In the last 40 years, The Eastern State Penitentiary has been a haunted site and known tourist attraction in Philadelphia. The prison had rehabilitated, tortured and death sentences inmates since 1829 and inside the facility; the prison chaplain forbade them to read, communicate, neither sings even talk with other convicts or the guards would not give them any drink or food. In 1971, the prison closed for a new prison forever and now it only a place to house tourists who want to enjoy the thrill of meeting with the restless souls.

Alcatraz Prison, San Francisco.

Alcatraz, the Rock or the Devil’s Island had operated and spread terrors for 29 years. During its operation, the guards disciplined their inmates with chains, kicks, knives, electric shocks event guns. Escape from the remote prison was nearly impossible and public hardly heard or saw what truly happen behind the wall of the prison. Today, Alcatraz Prison is a mere tourist attractions or films set. For any of you who skeptic about supernatural beings or ghosts, you can visit one of the scariest prison in the world next weekend.

 

 

 

 

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Painters know how to pick a good canvas to express their imagination and not all of them prefer to sit in front of a blank canvas for long hours to express what lay inside their head. In this post, we are going to discuss that painter and his name is Jim Denevan, a painter who currently made the largest snow drawing in the world.

Jim denevan himself is an impermanence painter and his canvas is a beach, dry land, and snowy dry lakes. Unlike other painters, Jim Denevan’s masterpiece could not last more than a week. Usually, once Jim completed his artwork, waves, wind, or rain would erase his long-hours work completely.

 

In the last view years, Jim Denevan had made giant overwhelming impermanence paintings in Oregon beaches, California beaches, and Spanish Bank beach of Vancouver and His team never forgot to document his drawings that only last for view hours or days.

With his artwork, Jim already set a record as a painter who drew the largest sand and snow drawing in the world. His last snow drawing in a Frozen Lake in Baikal-Siberia was the one that is larger than any impermanence drawing he made during his career. The size of his painting on the Siberia’s frozen lake was 9 square miles and it was larger than Jim’s sand drawing in Nevada’s dry lake that was only 3 miles across.

 

Jim Denevan Sand Drawing Nevada

 

 

To draw the 3 miles wide sand drawing Jim should walk 100 miles to pattern the face of the dry lake with his vehicle and tools.

Amazingly, all his impermanence drawings are freehand. In other words, He used no measuring apparatus or devices. To locate the center of his drawing, he merely used a stick and his hard work start from that point.

For his drawing in Lake Baikal that is titled Chronicle of the anthropologist, Jim only required the help of eight crews. Although Warm Siberian tundra had melted Jim’s ephemeral drawing after view hours, it was good that his documentary filmmakers and photographers did their jobs well.

The following pictures are some of some of Jim’s documentation images on Lake Baikal. Enjoy it and I hope the pictures are big enough for you.

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Jim Denevan Snow Drawing in Lake Baikal

Thanks for reading the post of Largest Sand and Snow drawing in the world. Come back again later and you will find other interesting facts of the world.

 

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Humans instituted prisons to educate unlawful people and to make them taste the reward of practicing wrongful conducts. However, the correctional institution has no standard. UN welcomes a country to institute stereotypes prison cells and at the same time, no one forbid them to institute a prison that is more trendy, chic, elegant, and exclusive . In this post, we are going to surf five most luxurious prison cells in the world. First, we are going to visit Santa Ana Jail in California.

 

5. Santa Ana Jail, California.

 

 

 

Santa Ana jail is clean, environmentally friendly, and designed for low-level law breakers who afford to pay US$75-US$127 a day. The prison is never over populated and every room has a spacious room to rethink his/her wrongdoing accompanied by Laptops, iPods, comfortable bed, TV, magazine and nice food.

4.Otago Corrections Facility, South Otago

In Otago Correction facility, the prison chaplain rehabilitates his VIP prisoners with cozy cells warmed by under floor heater systems, flat screen TVs, one gymnasium, one library and various other indoor recreational facilities. The prison cell adopts five stars hotel service system, the law institution only serve 335 VIP prisoner max, and the building rises with US$218 million funding. It lies if they do not want to get return from their prisoners.

 

 

3. Halden Prison, Norway

Halden Prison serves bad, worse, and the worst convicts in Norway but they are kind enough not to put all those prisoners inside muddy prison cells. While rehabilitates their 252 inmates, the prison indulges those criminals with jogging trails, sound systems, TVs, mini refrigerators, spacious cells, modern library, sofas, coffee bars even a separate 2-bedroom house to host the convicts families on certain occasions.

 

 

2. Austrian Five Star Prison

In Leoben city of Austia we can find Leoben Justice centre that is known as one the gorgeous prison in the world. The complex covers courts, rooms for the judges and the prison cells itself. To luxuriate their inmates, Leoben Justice Centre management complete every prisoner cell with a TV and outside the cells, they baby their convicts with classy comforts. Being guilty never looked so shamed in here.

1. Al Capone’s Cell, Philadelphia

Before met his destiny behind the Hell’s door, Al Capone tasted what was called a little fraction of Paradise in his cell for about 8 years. In his captivity at Eastern State Penitentiary, Al Capone enjoyed special menus and treatment from the prison guards since 1929. I guess all those prison guards knew the deadly consequences of making the villain mad.

Al Capone’s Cell closes the post of 5 most luxurious prison in the world and If you want to add something in this post, I welcome you to use the comment box below.

 

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Jade is a semiprecious gem contains Jadeite or nephrites and located or unearthed the gem is not an easy job. Jade is very popular in China and it has inspired a Chinese master Jade Wu Jinde to create the grandest and largest Jade Sculpture in the history.

This picture below is a miniature of Confucian temple in Qufu Shandong. Wu jinde name the artwork same as the name of the original temple. The size of the small temple is 1/10th from the temple’s original scale and he took 10 tons of green glazed jade plus 5 kg of 24-karats gold leaf to materialize his masterpiece.

 

 

The Confucian temple is a handcraft and he picked the best 10 tons of green glazed jade from 100 tons available green glazed jade. He spent more than 45,000 hours of workloads and the last result is a magnificent confusion temple miniature stretching 6.3 meters long, standing 3.54 meter high and spanning 5.7 meters wide
Wu jinde composed the door and the windows of the Confucius temple with hollowed out symbols and figures mainly dragon. He decorated the main hall and the hanging board with dragon figures made of 24-karat of gold leaf. Wu Jinde inlaid other dragon’s figures on the 10 pillars, 18 octagonal pillars, the roof of the veranda, and the bottom of Temple that is made of rosewood. Totally, Wu jinde has handcrafted nearly 2000 flying dragons figures to beauty the Confucius temple and mainly all of those made of 24-karat gold leaf. Beside world’s largest jade sculpture, this masterpiece must be one of the priciest masterwork in the world

 

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Spiders are part of ecosystem chain and their existence is important to balance the number of insect and the quantity of food resources. Some spiders are born to be big and some are born to be venomous. From all poisonous spiders’ species around the world, we can find five of them on the following post. This is 5 deadliest Spiders in the world

5. The Red Back Spiders

The home of Red Back Spider is in Australia and the female usually carries red and orange stripes mark on their back. Red Back Spider equips their fang with neurotoxic venom and it can drive muscle weakness, vomit, nausea or sweating once injected into our tissue. The minimum effect of the venom is temporal paralysis and the max is death.

 

4. The Funnel-Web Spiders

We can mark the male of funnel-web spider from the bright black and brown exoskeleton. When the Funnel-web Spider stand upright with their back legs and show up their tinny fang, you better away from it. Once the fangs penetrate your flesh, the neurotoxic venom will soon react and make you sweating, tears, and seizure.

3. The Brazilian Wandering Spiders

The Brazilian Wandering Spiders wander around the forests in South America. The spider is aggressive and uneasy. The venom they stock behind their fang contain serotonin compound and it can cause extreme pain to the victim. The venom can cause death same as the aftereffect of drug overdose

2. The Brown Recluse Spiders

A Brown Recluse Spider crawls with their violin-shaped back. The bite of the spider is not too painful but it can cause severe damage. Once the venom injected, it will cause small bump then rotting until finally paralysis

1. The Black Widow Spiders

A Black Widow Spider homes around North America and it weaponize their2 fangs with powerful neurotoxic venom. Although their bite is pain-free, the aftereffect is very severe. It will cause abdominal and back pain, dysfunctional respiratory, cramped muscle, anxiety, hypertension and worst, death. It is not wrong that most of us believe that black widow spider is the deadliest spider in the world.

 

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This is the biggest piranha has ever been caught by an angler. Their size and teeth make them confident to attack an adult crocodile or a fisher and bite their meat or flesh as supper. Currently, a 52 years old British angler and ITV’s River Monsters show host, Jeremy wade, reeled and took a beast-looking piranha off the Congo River during his fishing expedition in Africa.

The piranha is a family of goliath tigerfish and the predator is 100 pounds in weight and stretches 5 feet long. A goliath tigerfish is known as one of the most frightening freshwater species ever. It is far bigger, deadlier, and stronger than any piranha in the world. The piranha swims with 32 razor-sharp teeth in its mouth and that what makes the fish rarely reeled or caught by other anglers.

For Jeremy wade, the piranha gave him a chance to release one of the best and craziest TV report in the history of ITV’s River Monsters. Wade is lucky enough not to lose his hands when he had to hold the giant “goliath tigerfish” with his bare hand during the photo sessions. This is my first time experience posting the goliath tigerfish and I am sure the title Biggest and Fiercest Piranha ever caught will be perfect to attract your attention.

 

 

 

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For these 5 billionaires below, huge saving number on their saving account are not tickets to buy expensive yachts, expensive apartments, or latest Bugatti product or Maybach. They honor modest live, public services, charity programs and their old houses and cars. Here are 5 famous modest billionaires in the world. They give good sample for us and they know how not to be victim of expensive toys makers such as Stuart Hughes.

 

1. Warren Buffet

 

Warren Buffet’s fortune is estimated worth US$ 47 billion dollar. It is coming from his company Berkshire Hathaway, subsidiaries, and book selling. Instead of living on an Expensive mansion, Buffet is still living inside his modest house in Omaha, Nebraska, with his family which he had bought 50 years ago for US31.500. His favorite menu is a burger, potatoes fried and a cool cherry coke. To fuel his brain with ideas of billion dollars worth of fortune, he does not need a suite class room, million dollar ride or million dollar vacation inside million dollar yacht

2. Carlos Slim

 

In the last view years, Carlos Slim has outranked Bill gates as World’s richest person. However, different from Bill, Carlos Slim lives in a simpler life. He doesn’t need to hire servants to clean his expensive apartments, he does not need to hire pilots to drive his jet, and he does not need to hire special engineers to maintain his yacht. Similar as Buffet, he lives inside a modest house that he bought 40 years ago

3. Ingvar Kamprad

 

Ingvar Kamprad is the founder of famous Sweden brand IKEA. His company not only helps people to save money on furnitures, appliances and accessorries but he also encourages his employees not to drive expensive cars of stays on an expensive hotels. To go abroad, he rides a business class plan and to reach his office he rides a bus or a Volvo 2400GL he bough 15 years ago.

4. Chuck Feeney

 

His motto is “live to work hard and is not to become rich”. He is an American-Ireland and the founder of Duty Free Shoppers. Instead of building expensive properties, Chuck Feeney prefers transferred some of his money to fund his charity program, Atlantic Philanthropies, and, a university where he studied, Cornell University. He is not prison his children inside golden cages with golden blings, he rides an economy class plane when he have to ride a plane, and he bought his shoes and clothes on retail stores

5. Frederik Meijer

Frederik Meijer is the founder of one of the biggest grocery stores in Midwest, the Meijer’s chain of grocery stores. His fortune is worth more than US$5 billion and half of them were collected in 2009 when most business owners hit by crisis. Following Buffer, Meijer lives on a modest life. He is not buying a new car until it broke, he lives on cheap motels when he traveling, and he spends most of his money for charity and social programs

From 5 Famous Modest Billionaires above, I hope we can take a lesson that having simple live is one of the best ways to reach a success and maintain it

 

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Today, China is not the same as China we knew 60 years ago. China has changed to become one of the most prosperous nations in the world without following any democratic system that US eagerly disseminates around the globe. In this post, I like to sum up view interesting Fact about China. I hope you like it

1. Today’s China was founded after the end of World War II. Nationalists and communists had united to cast Japan away from their land. View years after that, a civil war sparked and communist fell the nationalist existence and Mao Zedong, as the leader of the communist party, took full control over PRC (People’s Republic of China) since than or at October 1^st, 1949.

2 . China is still a nation with the biggest population in the world. The number of Chinese standing on the planet is over a 1, 3 billion so far. It is larger than the number of Indians and Americans

3. China is known as world’s industrious nation. The number of workforce is estimated over 800 million people and in 2009-2010 alone, those numbers of people had produced:

22,300,000,000,000 cigarettes

619, 2 million mobile phones from various brands

13, 2 million tons of Sugar

13, 8 million unit motors

59, 3 million fridges

67,6 million LCD TVs

4. Chinese made loads of goods and big percent of it is exported abroad. In 2009, China had exported US$ 28 billion valued of shoes, US$ 39, 6 billion valued of self phones and US$ 107, 1 valued of men, women, and children clothing. Some of the exported shoe, self phone and clothing are imitations.

5. United States is the 2^nd biggest country that welcomes Chinese goods. Every year, US pay $220,000,000,000 in exchange of all that goods

6. View interesting food facts in China:

More than 300,000,000 Chinese are farmers

China supplies 26% of world’s rice demand or estimated 193 million tons

In 2008, all people in China had eaten 130, 7 million tons of rice

Every year, around 300 million of turtles are taken from the habitat, killed, and served on a plate or bowl

7. View interesting facts of China’s military:

-The number of Active army is 3, 4 million personnel and reserve army is 1, 2 million personnel

-China’s Military budget is the 2^nd largest in the world after US

-China has 100-400 nuclear weapons and their ground forces are backed up with 7,500 battle tanks

-China has 2,024 aircrafts following Russia with 2,832 aircraft and US with 5,550 aircraft.

8. China is strictly punished corruptors, tax fraud, narcotics smugglers, arsonists, illegal fundraisers and counterfeiters. In 2008 alone, 72 percent of world’s executions took place in China. Most of them ended with bullet in their head

 

9. Chinese mafia or Triad sits on the 2^nd position of world’s largest number. Triad has more than 250,000 members while Russia has 100,000-500 thousand members. Following China, Yakuza from Japan sits on 3^rd position with 86,000 members and than Italian Mafia called Cosa Nostra at 4^th position with 4,000 members

 

These 9 China facts are gathered from different sources and if you like to add new fact, you can use the comment box below.

 

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