What are some places that are hard to believe exist, until you visit them?

 I see most of the places have already been mentioned here before, but I would like to add on a few

The Hidden Beach, Mexico

Bridal Veil Falls, Telluride, Colorado

Bernese Alps, Switzerland

Amazing Petrified Sand Dunes, Arizona

What are the most unique pieces of art?

 I don't know if this is weirdest piece of artwork in human history; but I can legitimately claim that it's the weirdest I've ever encountered in my lifetime.

Here's the story.

It's morning of October 29, 1966. In a few days, I would be turning 10 years old.

One of the things I loved to do was draw and paint. So my ears perked up when the local TV news on every channel carried stories about a giant painting of a woman that had mysteriously appeared literally overnight above the southern entrance to the tunnel on Malibu Canyon Road.

Most of the news channels only showed the head and shoulders of the painting, which was 60 feet tall from the bottoms of her bare pink feet to the top of the brunette hair on her head. This was 1966, and nudity was very much a taboo on TV.

Most of the news stories presented the painting as an obscene act of vandalism, obviously created by some dirty-minded man or men. It was lewd. It was obscene. It wasn't art, it was vandalism!

And it needed to be covered.

Through the next few days, the news reported on attempts to sandblast or wash away the pink lady, efforts that failed because the artist(s)/vandal(s) had done an absolutely flawless job of cleaning the rock surface before applying the paint, and had used heavy-duty house paint.

So when efforts at removal failed, the people in charge of the removal effort announced they were going to paint over the pink lady with brown paint.

This proved to be too much for the person who created the pink lady to stand. The dirty-minded sex-crazed vandal came forward.

….And the shock in the news media was palpable when the perpetrator of this obscenity proved to be a woman, and a mother of small children to boot!

Lynne Seemayer was a 31-year-old paralegal with small children, who had plotted and planned the pink lady for months. Here are a couple of sites where you can learn more about her.

Pink Lady of Malibu Canyon: 50 years ago

Pink Lady (art) - Wikipedia

For me, the fascinating thing was to observe the way the news coverage of the pink lady changed once it became known the artist was a woman. All the prior coverage had treated the painting as something referenced from a male point-of-view: it was a naked woman, after all; that's the sort of thing men can paint, and do paint. But women? A woman painting a nude woman?

Even at just turned 10-years-old, it was apparent to me that there was a difference in the way the news media treated the story when they knew a woman was the creator. They were perplexed; they didn't know what to say or how to deal with her as the perpetrator of this painting.

That was the first time I can remember having it made crystal clear and apparent that men and women were regarded in different ways, with different expectations for the ways they were expected to behave.

And I felt that this was intrinsically unfair, in a way that I didn't yet have the words to describe. Why shouldn't/couldn't a woman paint the pink lady of Malibu Canyon? Why did everyone treat this as something that was wrong in a way that made the woman artist seem like someone weird and unnatural?

That, for me, was the weirdest thing about the pink lady.

But as I got older, and learned more about the history of women as artists and in the art establishment, I understood: the narrative of women was being told by men, controlled by men, and represented what they thought, judged and felt. And that was, and still is, the weirdest part.

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What are some unique Odia festivals?

 

These are the unique festivals from my state Odisha.

Have a look,

• Ratha Yatra: World Famous Ratha Yatra has originated from Odisha and it is the biggest festival Of Odisha. It is also celebrated in other Indian states and outside of India. But you can find a huge crowd here during this festival.

• Raja: Raja is famous festival of Odisha. Raja is primarily observed for three days and this is the famous festivals among Odia girls.

• Pana Sakranti or Maha Vishubasankaranti: (The new year of Odia’s): This is the day called as Odias new year and on this day Odias make a famous Pana that is called as Bela pana.

• Nuakhai; It is one of the famous festival of Western Odisha. It plays a pivotal role in the lives of farmers and the agricultural communities.

• Kumar Purnima: Odia unmarried girls worship to the Sun and Moon on this puja to get handsome Husband like Kartikeya. They keep fast on this whole day after finsihing the puja they take prasad as food.

• Kartika Purnima/Rasa Purnima or Baliyatra: Bali Yatra starts on Kartika Purnima and in Cuttack Bali Yatra Field.It is the largest fair of Odisha and it normally continues for a week. You can find all your household chores here and also you can taste different types of delicious food here.

• Prathamastami: Prathmastami is being celebrated on the name of elder child of home. They wear new dresse on this day and a famous pitha you can find on this day in every Odia houses that is Enduri pitha or Haladi Pitha.

• Manabas Gurubara: Manbasa is the puja of Laxmi maa and it is being celebrated by Odia married women. And the main attraction of this puja are Jhoti chita.

• Sabitri Brata: Odia married women keep fast on this day and worship god for their husband’s long life.

• Khudurukuni: It is observed by Odia unmarried girls in Odisha. This festival has its own rituals. Goddess Mangala is worshiped in this puja and unmarried girls worship for their brother’s safety and happy life.

• Sitala Sasthi: It is the most famous festival in Sambalpur and it is the marriage ceremony of Lord shiv and Goddess Parvati.

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Which Bollywood movies have made it to the Guinness Book of World Records, and what unique achievements did they have?

 The World record held by Bollywood films include -

Yaadein (1964)- Guiness book of record for least number of characters in a film. The film only features one actor throughout its runtime. Only Sunil Dutt features in the film as he remembers his life. In the end we see shadow of a woman (played by Nargis) but there is no other character in the film.

Bahubali (2015) had the record of having the largest poster of size of 4793 metre square which was equal to 12 tennis stadiums. It broke the record previously held by a Turkish film.

Actor Prem Nazir of Malyalam Cinema has multiple world records to his name. He has acted in most number of films in a year (30 films in 1973 and 77), most number of films as a lead actor (720), most number of films with a single actress (130 films with Sheela).

During the promotions of the film Selfiee Akshay Kumar created a Guinness World record of clicking the most number of selfies in 3 minutes. He clicked 184 selfies which broke the earlier record of 168 selfies

Abhishek Bachchan made the World record of attending 13 promotional events in 12 hours while promoting his film Delhi 6 which broke the record of Will Smith with a huge margin.

The Odia film of 1984 Basanta Raga has the record of most songs in a film with 81 songs. The previous record also belonged to India with Indradabha having 76 songs.

Unique pictures you must see

 1. Politicians discussing global warming

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2. Shark rock

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3. An Italian beach

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4. Yunnan, China

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5. Flamingos gathered in the shape of a flamingo, Yucatan Peninsula

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6. The sea-like dunes of the Namib Desert

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7. Beehive

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8. Surfing

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9. The chosen one

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10. Breaking the sound barrier

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11. Moon rising above Madrid, Spain

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12. Red cardinal levitating

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13. Selfie with comet, 290,000,000 miles from Earth (courtesy of the Rosetta probe)

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14. A lighthouse before and after

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15. Long exposure of a plane taking off

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16. Lake Retba, Senegal

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17. The gas mask wearers

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18. How babies get x-rays

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19. Eerie Halloween costumes from the 1930s

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20. The Monoliths

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21. The Sun in ultraviolet

What are "Capsule Hotels", a unique and interesting invention of Japan? Why are they popular?

 Capsule Hotels first started in 1989 in the Japanese city of Osaka.

This hotel is for those who want to spend the night just to sleep in the hotel! Here you get a free space to spend a night at a low cost! The rooms are of the size of a bed, hence it is called a capsule!

This type of capsule hotel is also called pod.

Indian Railways has also launched a pod hotel at Mumbai Central Railway Station.

Now such a place has opened in Noida too!

These capsule hotels, visible from the sleeper coach of a bus, are very popular these days!

The reason for its popularity is that it is cheap, clean and modern! This place is very good for those who are fond of travelling!!

Facilities like fan, charging, small TV etc. are available in these capsules!

Pod hotels also have common washrooms, luggage rooms and common areas!!