What is the largest and busiest airport in the world?

 The largest airport in the world is one. The busiest airport in the world is another. Just because an airport is large or the largest doesn't necessarily mean it's the busiest.

That said, the largest airport in the world is Beijing's Daxing Airport, a brand new one that will open this year. Before the construction of this enormous airport, the record was held by Erdogan's new Istanbul airport. The latter was built in a record time of just five years!

Beijing Daxing Airport. As you can see, it has a very attractive and modern design. But the choice to build it this way was also obviously for improved passenger flow. From the central point of the structure, all piers can be reached in the same time.

This is Istanbul Airport, whose control tower was designed by Pininfarina (below).

The number one airport in terms of passenger numbers is currently Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta Airport, the capital of Georgia, which I'm reporting below.

What are the most incredible animals in the world?

 Here are, in my opinion, the most incredible animals:

1- The lamprey

There are freshwater and saltwater lampreys.2- The pacu

This is a species of piranha found mainly in North and South America, with teeth that resemble those of a human. This fish uses its teeth to crack open fruit, especially nuts. Numerous attacks on the testicles have been reported; they mistake them for nuts. So, stay away from this fish, let's move on to the next one!

3- The Panda Ant

It looks like a plush toy! Except it's not an ant, but a wasp. Only the females don't have wings.

4- Umbonia Spinosa

Nothing special, except that it's gorgeous, and it has a pom-pom hat design.

5- Scotoplanes

A mix between a sea cucumber and chewing gum…but I think it suits him rather well.

6- Multicolored mantis shrimp

This shrimp is magnificent, and has exceptional eyesight.

7- Bathynomus

This thing can grow up to 50cm…nothing more to say, our nightmare.

What is the most aggressive tree in the world?

The dynamite tree.

He's an extremely aggressive guy, but more on that in a moment.

In South and Central America, where it grows, it is also called the devil's tree or monkey's gun . Botanists call it Hura crepitans.

When you see it, you can guess its character, because its trunk is full of thorns.

And the sap inside has always been used as arrow poison. It's extremely poisonous, but it's also said to cause hallucinations.

But when its pods are ripe, it is very dangerous to get close, because they are poisonous and the tree literally shoots them around.

The capsules look like little pumpkins.

At the right moment, they can suddenly explode. This then makes a loud bang.

The small, hard seeds are launched at 250 km/h. This can be very painful, but it can also seriously injure people and animals.

And now the fruits of the tree: they are also poisonous and if you eat them you get diarrhea, vomiting and violent stomach cramps.

The tree sap is corrosive and not only attacks the skin, but can cause blindness if it comes into contact with the eyes.

And the tree thorns?

They are about a centimeter long and prevent various predators from climbing the trunk.

They also protect the trunk from the scorching sun because they are close to each other.

All in all, this tree is very interesting, but also to be "enjoyed" with great caution.

Which is the biggest Shiva temple in the world?

 I will tell that the biggest Shiva temple in this world is Chidambaram Natarajar Temple(40 acres).But as it is already mentioned I will go for the second largest one in Tamil Nadu,THAYAGARAGAR TEMPLE,TN.(33 acres).

It is in this place that the great chola king punished his own son for his son had killed a calf by running a chariot over it.Hearing this ,the Chola king gave the justice to the mother cow that his own son will be run under the chariot for killing the calf .

Thyagaragar Temple is Shaivite temple dedicated to the deity Shiva, located in the town of Thiruvarur in Tamil Nadu, India. Shiva is worshiped as Moolanathar, and is represented by the lingam. The temple complex covers 33 acres, and is one of the largest in India. It houses four gateway towers known as gopurams. The tallest is the eastern tower, with four stories and a height of 30 metres (98 ft).

The temple has six daily rituals at various times from 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., and twelve yearly festivals on its calendar. The temple has the largest chariot in Tamil Nadu and the annual festival is celebrated during the month of April.

The present masonry structure was built during the Chola dynasty in the 9th century, while later expansions are attributed to Vijayanagar rulers .

Nobody knows since when the Shiva Lingam came into existence in this temple as its of a SUYAMBU(self manifested) lingam

It takes one full day to see this temple completely as it as many sculptures

This temple houses 365 lingams depicting the total days in a year and hence some states like Tamil Nadu and Kerala follows Solar calendar (365 days)instead of Lunar calender.

1 emarald Lingam

9 Gopurams,the Raja Gopuram being 98 feet in height

80 Vimanas

A 1000 pillared hall

12 Big Madhilgal(doors of wood)

13 Mantapas

15 holy wells

3 gardens

5 prakarams

100 Sannidhis for various Gods

86 Ganapathi Vigrahams(statues)

24 small inner temples

1 holy pond

and a big 90 feet height Chariot which is of 300 tons having 7 storeys.

There are 3 lingams of which one is emarald(installed by Lord Indra),one installed by Vishnu and one by the chola King.Daily poojas are offered to his idol referred to as Maragatha lingam(Lingam is made of EMARALD). His consort Parvathi is depicted as Kondi. The presiding deity is revered in the 7th century Tamil Saiva canonical work, the Tevaram, written by Tamil saint poets known as the nayanars and classified as Paadal Petra Sthalam having 365 songs dedicated to this temple.

OM MAHADEVAYA NAMAH.

What is the most incredible and unique building in the world?

 The 33 Thomas Street Building.

This building, with its typical Brutalist architectural style , is located in Manhattan and is the former headquarters of a telephone exchange dating back to the 1970s, owned by ATeT , a well-known American telephone company.

The skyscraper has no windows.
The explanation seems to be that the building housed very large equipment and machinery, capable of reaching extremely high temperatures, and therefore the lack of windows allowed the space to remain cool.

Furthermore, because of how it was built, it is described as one of the safest buildings in America, capable of withstanding post-explosion nuclear fallout and with enough gas, water, and electricity generation reserves to operate independently for several months.

Who are some of the IIT alumni who have really made a mark in the world?

RAJAT KUMAR GUPTA

IIT Delhi - B.Tech Mechanical Engineering, 15th AIR in IITJEE

MBA from Harvard Business School

• First foreign-born managing director of management consultancy firm McKinsey from 1994 to 2003
• Also a board member of corporations including Goldman Sachs, Procter & Gamble, American Airlines
• He is also an adviser to Non-profit Organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
• He is the co-founder of the Indian School Of Business, American India Foundation, New Silk Route and Scandent Solutions.
• Left the Job at ITC limited after B.Tech from IIT,Delhi. He says that he saw an airplane for the first time when he flew to ITC to inform them that he would be attending Harvard Business School.
• He married his 2-year college junior, Anita Mattoo, who was doing B.Tech in Electrical Engineering at IIT, Delhi. They met during college plays and debates and later fell in love. Quite A Score.
• His primary residence in 2011 was a two-acre estate in West-port, Connecticut, that formerly belonged to JC Penney and his family, which was valued at $13 million as per town records of October 2011 .
• Gupta's net worth in 2008 was estimated at $113 million USD.

Now that’s what is called Success.

What are some rare photos of world history?

 

• The ‘white’ slave children of New Orleans in rare photographs, 1863

On January 30, 1864, Harper’s Weekly started to publish portraits of children captioned “Emancipated Slaves—White and Colored,” as part of a publicity campaign to raise funds for schools for recently emancipated slaves in New Orleans.

The children featured in these photographs drew attention to the fact that slavery was not solely a matter of color. If a child’s mother was a slave, then he or she was a slave as well.

The images included children with predominantly European features photographed alongside dark-skinned adult slaves with typically African features. It was intended to shock the viewing audiences with a reminder that slaves shared their humanity, and evidence that slaves did not belong in the category of the “Other”.

• An unknown and young Madonna in Michael McDonnell’s photoshoots, 1978-1979

• The only known picture of President Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe together, 1962

This black and white image, taken by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, is the only known photograph of JFK and Monroe together. Monroe is still wearing the infamously tight-fighting, sheer rhinestone-studded dress she wore when singing earlier at Madison Square Garden.

President Kennedy, whose head is tilted slightly is looking down while listening to Marilyn. His brother, Robert Kennedy, is standing next to the pair looking on. Singer Harry Belafonte is in the background and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who served as an advisor in the Kennedy White House, is standing off to the side smiling.

• The Black Monday of 1987 in historical photographs, 1987

The Stock Market crash of 1929 wasn’t the only market crash in the 20th century though. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 22.6% on “Black Monday” in the Stock Market Crash of 1987, the greatest single day loss in history.

That said, no single stock market crash has ever had such devastating effects as 1929 as yet.

• The strange world of military research at Natick Soldier Systems Center, 1970-1990

The Natick Soldier Systems Center (NSSC) is responsible for the technology, research, development, engineering, fielding, and sustainment of U.S. military’s food, clothing, shelters, airdrop systems, and Soldier support items.

• Sketches used by the Soviet police to identify suspects based on ethnicity, 1960s

• The only two illegal photos taken inside the US Supreme Court in session, 1932-1937

• Pablo Escobar poses for a family photo outside of the White House, 1981

In this infamous photograph, we see the notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar standing in front of the White House in Washington, DC. The boy standing beside Escobar is his only son. He also took his family on a first-class trip to Disneyland at about the same time.

• The last picture of Adolf Hitler, 1945

This last known picture of Hitler was taken approximately two days prior to his death as he stands outside his Berlin bunker entrance surveying the devastating bomb damage.

• Using a traditional blade, 17-year-old Yamaguchi assassinates politician Asanuma in Tokyo, 1960

The photo was taken directly after Yamaguchi stabbed Asanuma and is seen here attempting a second stab though he is restrained before that happens.

• German soldier returns home only to find his family no longer there, 1946

• A Japanese boy standing at attention after having brought his dead younger brother to a cremation pyre, 1945

• Last public appearance of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, 1976

• American pilots resting with a Japanese skull, 1944

• The remains of the astronaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space, 1967

Mankind’s road to the stars had its unsung heroes. One of them was the Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. His spaceflight on Soyuz 1 made him the first Soviet cosmonaut to fly into outer space more than once, and he became the first human to die on a space mission—he was killed when the Soyuz 1 space capsule crashed after re-entry on April 24, 1967, due to a parachute failure.

• Niagara Falls without water, 1969

For six months in the summer and fall of 1969, Niagara’s American Falls were “de-watered”, as the Army Corps of Engineers conducted a geological survey of the falls’ rock face, concerned that it was becoming destabilized by erosion. These stark images reveal North America’s iconic – and most powerful – waterfall to be almost as dry as a desert.

Source: Rare Historical Photos

Wall Street Crash of 1929: Everything You Need To Know

What are some of the unsolved mysteries of the ancient world?

 I love reading about ancient mysteries. This is one I found particularly interesting, so I wanted to share it with you all.

In the vast, magnificent landscape of Baalbek, Lebanon, lies what many claim is the largest man-made monolith on Earth. This colossal stone is no ordinary rock; it measures approximately 64.3 feet (19.6 meters) long and weighs a staggering 3.3 million pounds (1,650 tons). This megalith has covered the land since Roman times, or even earlier. While some believe it was quarried from the ground more than 5,000 years ago, no one can pinpoint its exact age. Modern engineers are left in awe and awe at the ancient ingenuity required to create and manipulate such an astronomical slab.

But wait, there's more! This monolith is only one piece of the puzzle that makes up Baalbek's magnificence. Nearby stands the Temple of Jupiter, boasting a Roman-style superstructure. But the real surprise is its foundation, made of massive limestone blocks. This foundation is an astonishing collection of 27 gigantic stones, three of which weigh approximately 2 million pounds (1,000 tons) each, and are known as the infamous Trilithons. It is clear that those who built this ancient structure possessed a level of skill in quarrying, transporting, and arranging the stones that we still cannot fully comprehend.

The legends? They only ignite this historical mystery. Ancient Arabian texts link Baalbek to the legendary Babylonian king Nimrod, who, along with his giant friends, is said to have resurrected the land after the Great Flood. Other accounts suggest that Cain built Baalbek just 133 years after the creation of humankind, seeking the help of giants to defy God's vengeance. These stories suggest that even then, people recognized that this place was something extraordinary.

Certainly, fable figures like Cain and the giants may simply be the ancients' attempts to understand the immeasurable. But even centuries later, we are still amazed at how civilizations were able to carve and transport stone weighing 3.3 million pounds. Why did they pursue such magnificent designs? How did they achieve such astonishing precision?

A group of scholars and enthusiasts believe that a highly advanced ancient civilization once existed on this world, only to be wiped out by climate disasters. Consider sites like Nan Matl, the Great Pyramid, and Gunung Padang as remnants of that lost grandeur.