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The 24 Most Incredible Places In The World To Look Down. 40 Most Impressive Libraries Around The World. Libraries collect the vast stores of human knowledge and imagination. 1.

40 Most Impressive Libraries Around The World

Admont Abbey Library, Austria. 9 Surreal Places You Need To Visit Before You Die. “Unbelievable”, “bizarre”, “surreal”, “dreamlike”, “out of this world”… These are just a few words you can’t help using to describe the places featured here.

9 Surreal Places You Need To Visit Before You Die

A lot of this scenery resembles something out of a surrealist painting. Some of this awesome imagery looks like scenes from sci-fi films. How to Make My Beard Stop Itching (with Pictures) Underwater graveyard full of WWII planes is otherworldly. For 70 years, World War II planes have been resting in peace at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Underwater graveyard full of WWII planes is otherworldly

Although divers have enjoyed exploring the underwater graveyard since the 1960s, Brandi Mueller's photos allow us to admire these treasures without a wetsuit. "I find diving [to see] the airplanes really exciting," Mueller, a scuba diving instructor and boat captain, told Mashable. "It's a strange thing to see airplanes underwater. Shipwrecks you expect, but not airplanes. " The planes didn't actually crash at this particular location near the Marshall Islands, though. The site includes Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers, F4U Corsairs, TBF/TBM Avengers, Helldivers, B-25 Mitchells, Curtiss C-46 Commandos and F4F Wildcats, which sit in the sand about 130 feet below the surface.

Report: Illinois college chiefs living in 'fantasy world of lavish perks' Illinois community college and university presidents are enjoying a "fantasy world of lavish perks" — including housing allowances, cars, club memberships and generous bonuses — as part of sometimes secret deals that show disregard for taxpayers, according to a new report from state legislators.

Report: Illinois college chiefs living in 'fantasy world of lavish perks'

The perks include a $32,000 housing allowance for the president of Harper College, a $450,000 retention bonus for a former University of Illinois at Chicago chancellor and $30,000 toward two retirement plans in addition to state pension contributions for the Elgin Community College president. Lawmakers want to rein in those benefits amid a state budget crisis and public outcry over tuition costs. A Senate panel that investigated the issue plans to recommend several reforms, including state-run audits of community colleges and restriction of severance pay to one year's salary, according to a copy of the report obtained by the Tribune. Mini Zen Glass Terrarium. 3 Ways to Open a Wine Bottle Without a Corkscrew. How to Tie a Variety of Different Tie Knots Ranging From Simple to Complex.

Why Do Radio Signals Travel Farther at Night Than in the Day? "Second Cousins," "Once Removed", and More Explained in Chart Form. Completely Surreal Photos Of America's Abandoned Malls. World Religion Culture and People. Sala Keoku is a park featuring giant fantastic concrete sculptures inspired by Buddhism and Hinduism.

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Top 20 military phrases used by military families. Sgt.

Top 20 military phrases used by military families

Nathan Phelps embraces his wife, Kalan, and one-year-old daughter Peyton for the first time in nine months upon returning from a deployment to Afghanistan. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Richard Sherba, 8th Military Police Brigade Public Affairs, 8th Theater Sustainment Command) You just can’t help yourself. After several years of hanging out with service members, you begin taking on certain sayings and catchphrases that are used in the military and integrating them into your own lingo. Ever find yourself using a few of these when talking to friends? 69 Awesome Brain Hacks That Give You Mind-Blowing Powers. Remember when Neo got to choose between the red pill and the blue pill?

69 Awesome Brain Hacks That Give You Mind-Blowing Powers

The blue pill would have put him back to sleep in the fake world of cubicles and steaks in the Matrix, where the red pill would wake him up to the real world and its industrial womb factory. You probably just chalked that scene up to another case of Hollywood turning a complicated situation into a simplistic metaphor, but what you probably didn't realize is that you're living out your own little Matrix scenario every time you go to the pharmacy. The 38 Most Haunting Abandoned Places On Earth Just Might Give You Chills…

The Ryugyong Hotel is a true display of North Korea’s madness.

The 38 Most Haunting Abandoned Places On Earth Just Might Give You Chills…

Work started on this 105 story hotel only a few years before a massive famine plagued the country. Abandoned for 16 years, work once again began in 2008, when it was coated in $150 million worth of glass. Foreign guests have reported that although the structure now looks complete on the outside, a lot of the interior is still abandoned and incomplete. dailymail.co.uk.

Recalls.gov. The Best Things You Can Do at Costco Without a Membership. The 33 Most Beautiful Abandoned Places In The World. 18 Popular Sites Like Lifehack (Updated: Jun 4th, 2014) NATO phonetic alphabet. The NATO phonetic alphabet, more accurately known as the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet and also called the ICAO phonetic or ICAO spelling alphabet, as well as the ITU phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used spelling alphabet.

NATO phonetic alphabet

Although often called "phonetic alphabets", spelling alphabets are unassociated with such phonetic transcription systems as the International Phonetic Alphabet; instead, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) alphabet so assigned code words acrophonically to the letters of the English alphabet that critical combinations of letters and numbers can be pronounced and understood despite language barriers or transmission static.

International adoption[edit] NATO[edit] History[edit] The ICAO developed this system in the 1950s in order to account for discrepancies that might arise in communications as a result of multiple alphabet naming systems coexisting in different places and organizations.[4] Code words[edit] Letters[edit] Digits[edit] I'm a Telemarketer. Here's How to Get Rid of Me. Scientists Discovered the Egyptian Secret to Moving Huge Pyramid Stones. Put This Infographic in Your Wallet to Know What to Do When Bad Things Happen.