Category Archives: Present

FACIAL JEWELRY: AMAZING EXTRAVAGANCE

The facial jewelry is causing a stir with accessories that are being carried very hard. In the best catwalks, famous designers have exhibited new and previous trends, in shows add-ons currently look; with principles avant-garde and unusual, abandoning minimalist notions in jewelry, venturing to the massive and extravagant; therefore, there has been an unusual fashion, […]

CONSTRUCTIONS MADE OR DECORATED WITH HUMANS BONES

There are sites that just by looking at them, surely will cause chills; as they are constructions made or decorated with human bones. Making a tour of those places, mostly religious sites, it will be attracted by a sublime ornamentation, illustrating a past where the skeletons of humans, were the inspiration, incorporating them into those […]

MAYAN NUMBERS, SYMBOLS AND MYSTERIES

The Mayan culture is extremely rich in symbols and meaning. Here are some points of reference to better grasp everything in depth and expand the knowledge of this unique people in the world… Digits and numbers 9 In the Maya world, the digit 9 is the number of the outbreak, of the birth. It is […]

AN ANTI-JAM BUS IN CHINA

The idea is great. To work around the thorny problem of traffic jam in China and elsewhere in the world, Chinese engineers came with a concept of an ingenious bus capable of rolling over the cars, like a tunnel that moves on rails. China’s Transit Elevated Bus Debuts at Beijing Intel High Tech Expo – CCTV+  This […]

STAKEHOLDERS APPEASED BY THE FIRST WORLD HUMANITARIAN SUMMIT

first global humanitarian summit finished this Tuesday, May 24 in Istanbul, on a halftone note for 6000 participants, in which the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon was present. Ban Ki-moon felt the absence of the representatives of the richest states. Besides Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, no other leader of the G7 […]

ANGELINA JOLIE SIGNED A LESSON “WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY”

The well-known actress, mother of a large family, a volunteer woman, is here now as a teacher. Angelina Jolie has been named visiting professor at the LSE, London School of Economics. A prestigious school in which 16 Nobel Prizes Winners and a lot of large multinational owners have passed by. A great school that rivals […]

“TAKE WHAT YOU NEED”, SOCIAL FRIDGES

Nothing hotter than these fridges blooming everywhere in the world, which theme is quite simple: fight against food waste. They are fridges in supermarkets, where everyone takes what they need and are refilled by associations, restaurant owners, traders or individuals. Social fridges, or solidarity fridges, were created in Berlin, Germany, at the end of 2011, […]

KO TACHAI, THE ISLAND VICTIM OF ITS SUCCESS

Access Forbidden. The measure has no misunderstanding. Ko Tachai, one of the Thai pearls, a small paradisiac island of white sand, turquoise waters and tropical forest, is since May 16th simply closed to the public, a decision that will be reconsidered from Oct. 15th, and then, for an indefinite period. This small piece of land, […]

LEGENDARY SALE OF COLORED DIAMONDS

A new sales record within the fine jewelry world has been beaten this week at auction by Maison Christie’s in Geneva, Switzerland. The famous and mythical  Oppenheimer Blue Diamond was sold for the first time last Wednesday, May 18. This brilliant and rare 14.62 carat blue diamond was estimated to be worth around 38.4 -45.5 […]

EMMA MORANO, THE OLDEST LIVING PERSON IN THE WORLD

4 eggs a day and no husband. These are her secrets to longevity. Italian Emma Morano is believed to be the last surviving person in the world born in the 19th century, on November 29, 1899. The centenarian celebrated her 116th birthday last November and was consecrated the oldest living person in the world, 4 ½ months […]