In perhaps the ultimate display of painstaking patience, Buddhist monks in Thailand built up an entire temple out of used beer bottles. Holy men in Sisaket province collected a million green Heineken and brown Chang beer bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple. Even the washrooms and the crematorium are built of bottles.
Posted by Kiran | Under Photo of the Day, Sites and Travel, Spirituality and Religion, Weirdness
The Italian air force acrobatic team, “Frecce Tricolori” (Tri-colour Arrows), leave trails of green, white and red smoke, the colours of the national flag, during a flypast over Rome November 9, 2008. The team was performing in observance of the 90th anniversary of the end of World War One. The First World War ended at 11 a.m on November 11, 1918 with an armistice signed in a railway carriage at Compiegne, France, which brought to a close a conflict in which more than 10 million people died.
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