How to learn Korean. » Viso114. Coin-Covered Wishing Trees in Portmeirion, Britain. Sticking hundreds of small denomination coins into tree trunks is apparently a popular way of getting rid of illnesses.
At least that’s what the staff at a holiday attraction in Gwynedd discovered after investigating the story behind several coin-covered tree trunks in the vicinity of Italianate village Portmeirion. The first tree was cut down four years ago, in order to widen the path to the picturesque settlement founded in 1925, and within only a few months it was covered with 2p coins. Now there are seven such tree trunks in the area, so estate manager Meurig Jones started an investigation to uncover the origins of this unusual habit. Photo credits She managed to track down coin-covered trees back to the 1700s, when they were apparently used as wishing trees. Photo credits Photo credits Photo credits Photo credits.
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Top 5 hiking areas in Japan. Hiking Japan is one of the hiking world’s best-kept secrets.
You can go hut-to-hut in the Japan Alps, traverse the 'Big Snow Mountain’ of Hokkaidō, climb volcanoes in Kyūshū, or saunter the hills around Kyoto. Wherever you go, you probably won’t be alone: the Japanese are very keen hikers. 1. Daisetsuzan National Park (Hokkaidō) Image by shirokazan. YouTube to MP3 Converter - SnipMP3. Code Hero teaches programming through gaming. A new teaching tool for programming has taken it right down to the wire, fulfilling its Kickstarter pledge total just days before it was set to expire.
Code Hero is essentially both a game and a programming tutor, in which players use the 'Code Gun' to shoot Javascript via the Unity 3D engine. Primer Labs, the team behind the initiative, hopes the combinations of gaming and learning will inspire kids and adults alike to try their hand at coding. The team's Kickstarter total was stuck around the $60,000 mark yesterday -- however, it received a significant boost of $50,000 over the last 24 hours, and has now reached its goal.
Gamasutra spoke with Alex Peake, CEO at Primer Labs, about what he hopes to accomplish with the scheme. You say that Code Hero features a series of different games that encourage players to code. Code Hero is a game that teaches you how to make games from inside the games themselves. Which programming languages does the game teach? Fantastic Contraption - Cool Math Games.
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I won’t lie to you. Turning the famous Thai duo into sushi rolls does absolutely nothing in improving the taste; it only makes it more fun and interesting. Truth: Thai coconut sticky rice and mango, when done right, is heavenly even if it’s served on a plastic ashtray. Thai coconut sticky rice and mango, when done horribly, will be appalling even if it’s served in a Lladró bowl. To succeed at sweet coconut sticky rice with mango, you need to start with the right ingredients: Heaven Is a Waterslide. Photo by Annie M.V.
Nguyen Suoi Tien, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is the first and only Buddhist amusement park in the world. Gaming News: Student arrested for making a map of his school. A Chinese student was removed from Clements High School in Fort Bend, Texas after parents complained he had re-created the school grounds in a game and uploaded the map for his friends to play.
The boy was placed in the district’s alternate education school and later arrested, as the police considered him a “t erroristic threat”. Codecademy Labs. Employers and Brands Use Gaming to Gauge Engagement.
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