10 Amazing Trucks

EX63-HDM 6×6 Truck

Looking from the outside, this vehicle looks like a garbage truck. You wouldn’t imagine how luxurious they are until you step a foot one it. This fancy truck is especially made by the German company Unicat.

Dekotora

The Dekotora, an abbreviation for “Decoration Truck”, is a kind of loudly decorated truck most commonly found in Japan and the Philippines. Dekotora commonly have neon or ultraviolet lights, extravagant paints, and shiny stainless or golden exterior parts. These decorations can be found on both the cab and the trailer, and not only on the exterior but also in the interior. Dekotora may be created by workers out of their work trucks for fun, or they may be designed by hobbyists for special events.

The Sauna Truck

Many Russians like sauna or “banya” as it’s being called in Russia. They don’t imagine their next weekend without a visit to such a place together with their friends. This big demand in Russia for saunas has gave a birth for such a strange device as “The Mobile Sauna”. A four wheel drive truck is a sauna equipped now. It can take you deep inside the Russian woods and you would have your sauna there. Sauna lovers say that there is nothing in the world like jumping right from the hot sauna into the cool waters of a forest lake in some place hundred miles away from civilization.

Iron Wolf Truck

This weird truck was spotted in Russia. Made by a group of Moscow bikers, the vehicle was called “Iron Wolf”. It looks like just stepped out the Mad Max movie and it can be met on roads of Russia every day, it’s not from some art gallery.

Decorative Pakistani Trucks

Even though truck art isn’t unique to Pakistan anymore, nowhere else in the world is the practice so pervasive. In a country where the per capita income is barely north of $2,000, it is surprising to see fleet owners (the trucks aren’t owner-operated) spend $3,000-$5,000 per truck for structural modifications that convert these gas-guzzling, smoke-spewing, road-dominating monstrosities into beautiful moving canvases covered in poetry, folk tales, and ‘…religious, sentimental and emotional worldviews of the individuals employed in the truck industry,’ making it one of the biggest forms of representational art in the country.

Liebherr T 282B: Largest on Earth

Liebherr, a heavy equipment manufacturer in Germany, are designers of the largest earth-hauling truck in the world, the T 282B. It weighs in at 203 tons empty, has a maximum operating weight of 592 tons, and can carry 365 tons. This beast of a truck will set you back around $3.5 million, but CD-player and air-con are optional.

Rotel: The Hotel Truck

This German creation, called the Rotel, or Das Rollende Hotel (the Rolling Hotel), is a mobile hotel in the form of a truck. I imagine that it would be like a mobile home; except that you’re sharing it was a lot more people.

Colani’s Concept Truck

These awesome trucks have been made on a Mercedes platform and are the sexiest trucks on the planet. A Swiss-German industrial designer named Luigi Colani has crafted them.

Big Rig Jig

Made of two 18-wheeler discarded tanker trucks, the Big Rig Jig was designed by artist Mike Ross. The work serves both as a sculpture and an architectural space: visitors may enter the lower truck, climb through the tankers, and emerge through a portal at the top. The rear axles of the upper tanker serve as a viewing platform, forty-two feet in the air.

Russian Police Monster Truck

Here’s a weird police amphibious truck that can practically go over anything, including water.

10 Of The World’s Tallest Women

Yao Defen ( 7ft 8in – 233 cm)

Yao Defen claims to be the tallest woman in the world, with 7′ 8″ (233 cm). She weighs 200 kg (440 lbs) and has size 26 (UK) / 78 (EU) feet. Her gigantism is due to a tumor in her pituitary gland.

Sandy Allen (7ft 7?in – 232 cm)

Sandy Allen appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records since 1976 –and until 2008, when she died– as the tallest woman in the world. She was 7′ 7? ” (232 cm) in height.

Malgorzata Dydek (7ft 2in – 218 cm)

Malgorzata (aka Margo) Dydek, a basketball player in the US, is 7′2″ (218 cm).

Zainab Bibi (7ft 2in – 218 cm)

Zainab Bibi, 7′ 2″ (218 cm) as well, was recently allowed to stay permanently in Britain because she claims her height has made her a target at home, Pakistan.

Uljana Semjonova (7ft – 213 cm)

Standing at 7′0″ (213 cm), latvian Uljana Semjonova was the leading women’s basketball player in the world in the 1970s and 1980s.

Gitika Srivastava (6ft 11in – 211 cm)

Gitika Srivastava, former basketball player from India, is 6′ 11″ (211 cm).

Malee Duangdee (6ft 10in – 208 cm)

Malee Duangdee is Thailand’s tallest woman, with 6′ 10″ (208cm).

Caroline Welz (6ft 9in – 206 cm)

Germany’s tallest girl, Caroline Welz is 20 years old and 6′ 9″ (206 cm) tall.

Rita Miniva Besa (6ft 8in -203 cm)

Rita Miniva Besa is 6′ 8″ (203 cm)

Heather Greene (6ft 5?in – 196 cm)

Heather Greene is “only” 6′ 5?” (196 cm) and lives in Las Vegas.

It’s Amazing: Flying Fish

Flying fish or the Exocoetidae are a marine fish family comprising about 50 species grouped in 7 to 9 genera. Flying fish are found in all of the major oceans, particularly in the warm subtropical and tropical waters of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. Their most striking feature is their pectoral fins, which are unusually large, and enable the fish to take short gliding flights through air, above the surface of the water, in order to escape from predators. Their glides are typically around 50m, but they can use updrafts at the leading edge of waves to cover distances of at least 400m.

Milk Bottle Art

What a Chainsaw Can Do… Breathtaking Wood Carvings sculptures

These Masterpieces are created by famous Wildlife Sculpture Artist Randall D.Boni… a very amazing creative man who creates wonderful sculptures from wood.
Randall manages to create very delicate sculptures using a chainsaw!

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The World’s Most Expensive Universities

United States
No. 1: George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
Current annual tuition and fees: $39,240

It’s the most expensive four-year university in the United States–and most likely the world. Located just blocks from the White House and State Department, GW does have a front-row view of the nation’s power centers; it’s also about $3,300 more per year than cross-town rival Georgetown University, the next priciest school in Washington. Read more

10 Beautiful Shipwreck Dives

1. SS Thistlegorm, Egypt

When a German bomb tore through her port side in 1941, the SS Thistlegorm sank to a watery grave in the Egyptian Red Sea—and into the annals of diving history. Discovered by nautical legend Jacques Cousteau in 1956, the Thistlegorm is a spectacular sunken museum of motorbikes, cargo trucks, tanks, artillery shells and other World War II relics. Read more

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