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Where is it? Belchite, Spain What’s the story? Again, this is a ghost village with a disturbing war-torn past. In the province of Zaragoza in Spain, it was the site of fierce fighting in the summer of 1937 between General Franco’s troops and the Spanish Republican Army. A new village was built a . . . → Read More: The abandoned towns of the world  Leave a comment  strange/offbeat  65 saloons, abandoned, abandoned town, alluvial gold, atagonia, Chernobyl in Ukraine, Chile, deserted mines, ghost town, ghost village, Greco-Turkish, mining museum on site, population exchange agreement, preserved as a museum, prospectors showing, school house, Second World War, Spain, Spanish Republican Army, Turkish government, village, war-torn past, world, Zaragoza They usually hit the headlines for swallowing cars, houses and occasionally whole streets. But this particular sinkhole in Oman is so stunning it has been turned into a tourist attraction. The beautiful limestone hollow, in Bimmah, boasts the kind of clear waters normally only seen on holiday postcards. While similar holes engulf residential streets . . . → Read More: Cavernous limestone bowl is so beautiful it’s become a tourist attraction New pictures have emerged showing candid and relaxed behind-the-scenes footage taken during the filming of the sequel to Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Back. Considered by fans and critics alike to be the best film in the series, the second movie in George Lucas’ Star Wars trilogy was released in 1980, and went . . . → Read More: Intimate pictures of cast and crew during filming of second Star Wars movie Leave a comment strange/offbeat arch-villain, behind-the-scenes footage, best film, Carrie Fisher, Darth Vader, Elstree Studios, evil dark lord, filming, filming of the sequel, filming process, Florida., George Lucas, Han Solo, Harrison Ford, highest grossing films of all-time, Hollywood, Irvin Kershner, J.W Rinzler, Lucasfilm, Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill, moviemakers, New pictures, Orlando, photographs, Princess Leia, snowy landscape, star wars, Star Wars Celebration VI, Star Wars fans, Tauntaun creature, The Empire Strikes Back, Tunisia A four-year-old girl has miraculously survived after falling out of a moving car right before the wheels of another one. The incident took place at a busy crossroads in Wenzhou city in China’s southeastern Zhejiang province. A traffic camera video shows the little girl slipping out of the front door of the . . . → Read More: Video: Toddler survives fall onto busy road from moving car Wall covered in calculations relating to Mayan calendar Line-up of men in black uniforms Astrological calculations not fully understood Dates seem to stretch 7,000 years into FUTURE Contradicts ‘doomsday’ predictions about 2012 First paintings found on walls in Mayan dwellings Huge city in Guatemala finally reveals its secrets A vast city built by . . . → Read More: The Mayan mysteries: New excavation reveals secrets of their calendar – including black-clad figures and symbols never seen before Leave a comment strange/offbeat 365-day solar calendar, 7000 years into the future, ancient, ancient Mayan, Archaeologists, Astronomical records, astronomy driven by religion, Big Bang Theory, Boston University, calendrical cycles, Colgate University, computations and calculations, doomsday warnings, Excavating, first Maya art, Guatemala's Peten region, Mayan, Mayan astronomy, Mayan Calendar, Mayan Calendar may be wrong, Mayan civilisation, Mayan ruins, Mayan sites, modern day Guatemala, National Geographic, overseeing the moon, Scientists, Sylvanus Morley, unique paintings, William Saturno, yield its secrets An army Captain who led a doomed reconnaissance patrol at the start of the 2003 Iraq War claims his unit was ‘abandoned and betrayed’ by military chiefs after the mission went disastrously wrong. David Blakeley, 33, has broken almost a decade of silence to reveal how his nine-man patrol became surrounded by hundreds of . . . → Read More: ‘Betrayed and abandoned behind enemy lines’: Special forces captain breaks silence over disastrous mission in iraq war Leave a comment strange/offbeat abandoned and betrayed, army Captain, Behind Enemy Lines, David Blakeley, disastrous mission, his unit, hostile troops, Independent newspaper, Iraq War, Iraqi troops, lightly-armoured Land Rovers, military chiefs, paratroopers., Pathfinder, Qalat Sikar, reconnaissance patrol, Republican Guard, riddled with bullet holes, start of the 2003, they were trapped The founder of Russian communism Vladamir Lenin died after being poisoned by his political successor Joseph Stalin, according to a sensational new theory. Russian historian Lev Lurie, believes that while Lenin was already in poor health having suffered several strokes, Stalin may have finished him off after a bitter feud. Lenin, who had . . . → Read More: Was Lenin poisoned by Stalin? Leave a comment strange/offbeat 1921, ambitious nature, bitter feud, Harry Vinters, Joseph Stalin, left him paralyzed, Lenin's death, Leon Trotsky, Lev Lurie, Philip Mackowiak, political successor, Russian communism, Russian historian, School of Medicine, sensational new theory, Soviet leaders, Stalin, UCLA neurologist, University of Maryland, Vladamir Lenin A sprawling military bunker containing a treasure trove of vehicles and weaponry spanning more than two world wars has been discovered at a secret location deep within a French forest. Like a giant time capsule, the huge installation, carved out of solid rock, is said to contain wartime relics from a German 77mm Model-1896 . . . → Read More: Inside France’s secret World War I bunker: Explorers find wartime weapons stowed away in underground quarry The rear of the Royal Navy’s new £3 billion aircraft carrier dwarfed everything around her as she took to the seas today. A 300ft barge battled 30 knot winds as it carried two sections of HMS Queen Elizabeth’s 1,820 tonne stern out of Portsmouth Naval Base in Hampshire. They will now make a four . . . → Read More: Stern of Royal Navy’s new £3billion aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth leaves Portsmouth on its way to Scotland One comment strange/offbeat, Technology/Science BAE Systems, Caroline Dinenage, Claudia Roberts, commissioned in 2016, decommissioned, dockyard, HMS Ark Royal, HMS Prince of Wales, HMS Queen Elizabeth, hulls and flight, North Sea, Portsmouth, Round Tower in Old Portsmouth, Royal Navy, Scotland, ship’s maker, warship A maverick Australian mining billionaire, Clive Palmer, plans to build the Titanic II and sail it from England to New York by the end of 2016. Australian mining billionaire, Clive Palme The replica of the ill-fated ship will be built at a Chinese shipyard and will sail on its maiden voyage accompanied by . . . → Read More: Australian billionaire to build Titanic II It was the world’s first stealth boat, a top secret experimental vessel built for the US Navy in the 1980s at a cost of $190million. Now the Sea Shadow, which was the inspiration for the villain’s boat in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, could be yours for a fraction of that . . . → Read More: The £115million US navy stealth vessel that could be yours for just £60,000 (but you won’t be allowed to sail off on any undercover missions as its being sold for scrap) The 253 mph car drew a crowd after being spotted outside a Parisian hotel during its first sighting in Europe It must require nerves of steel to drive a £1.6million one-off porcelain supercar through Paris’ notoriously congested streets, let alone parallel park it. The super-wealthy owner of this astonishing Veyron L’Or Blanc – . . . → Read More: Brave owner parks his unique £1.6m Bugatti Veyron supercar made of PORCELAIN in Paris street
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