Archive : Places

Japan is really unique and full of offbeat people and inventions. Do you agree?

Rome’s St. Ignazio church (near the Pantheon) is a riot of Baroque illusions. As you walk into the church, admire the dome. Keeping your eyes on the dome, walk under and past it. It’s false. Why? It’s thought the original building project ran out of funding, so a skillful painter was...

Cemetery supposed to be a spooky and scary place. In Ireland, its not. The national cemetery is a money making place for the country. This what Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said. He described the 175-year-old Glasnevin cemetery on the north side of Dublin as the final resting place of those who...

1,313,973,713 people in China until July 2006. I believed today the number is bigger. Do you believe when i say its about half of the number cannot speak Mandarin? According to a recent survey by the education ministry, 53 percent of 500,000 people queried could “effectively communicate”...

They want to break the world record for the the world’s longest firecracker in a record-setting attempt expected to last two hours. The organizers lit up a 8.1-mile string of explosives in a southern Taiwanese county Sunday. TV footage of the Chinese New Year celebration in Tainan County, dubbed...