The best way to comparison subjects, a measurement of their characteristics. What's more? What's more? What's longer? These questions asked the children from early childhood, when they get a choice. To date, 95% of the population uses the metric system of measurement, but it was not always so. In the past there were many different systems. Some of them are clearly identifiable, and some are outdated, as a rule, foreign, and sometimes just weird system (pardon the pun). Below is a list of the ten most strange units of measurement. And if you are interested in this list, you might want to read the article "The 10 Most Unusual examples of scientific scales."

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The picture outside water closet facilities in Switzerland. It is clear both outside and inside.

South Romania paralyzed the strongest snow storm. Trails filled up with snow, hundreds of people trapped in their cars.
By clearing snowdrifts drew the military.

As a result, the strongest in 50 years floods in Thailand was flooded car factory Honda.
1055 finished vehicles were under water.

December 27 ordered the company to destroy the victims of flood cars
thereby demonstrating to customers that damaged cars will be refurbished and sold.

Today in Moscow ceremony log the most important Christmas tree country. The spruce, which will install on the Kremlin's Cathedral Square, looking for all year. As a result, the choice to stop the tree from Volokolamsk.

Age ate more than one hundred years, and the height of 30 meters. According to the forest the tree in any case subject to the control room, so damage to the environment will not be applied. All data are entered in a special tree database.

Salad "Olivier" - popular in the former Soviet Union salad, which is considered a holiday and the traditional New Year. The name was in honor of its creator, chef Lucien Olivier, who held in Moscow in the early 60s of the XIX century Parisian restaurant kitchen "Hermitage." Abroad is known as the "Russian salad"

 Graffiti on the walls of Athens
Athens artists express their protest against the harsh economic measures
which has recently fallen upon Greece.
They paint a grim graffiti on the walls of the capital, is dominated by the figures black and gray colors
which represent the current state of the country.

Halloween is almost come, and this means that once again it's time to show you what an urban legend, which frightened you when you were children, would have to scare you now, for the reason that they are often completely truthful. After all, sometimes it happens that the terrible stories told at night sitting, actually once happened to my sister's cousin's brother that guy. For example ....

 The history of the miraculous rescue
Two babies in the mother koala found in a bag, who died after her car knocked down.
The driver was not taken aback and did not go any further, and took the wounded animal and took him to the veterinarian.
Doctors saved and brought up two young koalas.

Homemade Chinese iPad 
If you are looking to give someone close to iPad or iPad 2 for the new year, but you do not have enough money - do not worry! We want to tell the remarkable stories of a Chinese student Wei Sinlun, who did not have enough money to buy his girlfriend iPad as a gift for his birthday, he independently produced for her "own hands". The original device has turned out several times cheaper than the original cost and all students in USD 199.

Tornado House of Architects

The architects have made Ted Givens AIA project house "Tornado House". These homes are designed to survive during the worst storms. That is, they will not threaten the fate of the house of Dorothy from Kansas, and they do not take away the magical land of Oz. In the dangerous moment of a house just hide under the ground where perezhdet hurricane.

 This Saturday, March 19, the moon closer to Earth at 356,600 km, the same day will be a full moon, the media have already dubbed this action superluniem.

According to some media, the passage of the moon perigee point, as close to Earth, March 19, 2011 on the planet can cause earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic activity and other disasters....

The project "Children in jail," the photographer Lizzie Sedin worked since 1999.
During all this time she was allowed to take pictures of only 15 institutions of this type, although 60 applications were filed.
Pictures of Lizzie Sedin of the Russian colonies were shown to the organization Amnesty International,
who used them to lobby for prison reform....

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 At 37 miles west of Austin (Texas, USA) is located one of the most unusual and picturesque lakes in the world - Hamilton Pool (Hamilton Pool). The singularity of it is that it is both an underground lake and land, come to the surface from under the stone arch grotto. Complements the beauty of a waterfall flowing from the 15-meter-high...

                                                      8 Foods That Lower Blood Pressure
 Plant-based diets and diets high in fruits and vegetables are strongly associated with lower blood pressure -- so much so that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) officially recommends adopting healthy eating practices as one of the primary actions to take to prevent or lower high blood pressure and hypertension.Let`s have some great benefits from the foods to fight the blood pressure.....

+Plucking grey hair won't make more grow, "Don't cross your eyes or they'll stay that way," mothers tell their children, or "Carrots will help you see better." From childhood, we are exposed to adages and remedies from the past. Even into adulthood, the sayings stick, and some old wives tales seem to get more relevant with age. When that first gray hair makes an appearance, you may wonder if it really is true that plucking out that gray hair will just doom you to more.

Internet waight same as strawberry, The weight of the Internet is as meagre as 50 grams, which is equivalent to a strawberry, according to Vsause, a science show on YouTube.

 Sadly, the marriage relationship, even long-term, time-tested tend to bulge at the seams. Often it ends in divorce. Celebrities in the affairs of love and family are not far removed from ordinary people. They also differ. That's about it - our selection

Aspirin Colon Cancer, Two aspirin a day may cut the risk of colon cancer by more than half in people who are predisposed to these types of tumors, new research suggests.

 Church of the Holy Dzheykubsa Design in Utrecht
The former Church of St. Dzheykubsa in Utrecht (Netherlands) - municipal monument, which has a conservative facade, but it is unusual interior. Originally built in 1870, the church contains many historical treasures.
The current owners have hired her architectural firm ZECC, to convert the church into the house with great attention to the light, space and functionality. The interior design was developed by Thomas Hokesom (Thomas Haukes). The most interesting thing that the church was sold.