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Monday, August 3, 2009

10 Scariest Place in The World

1. Catacombs, Paris, Perancis.
The Paris Catacombs or Catacombes de Paris is the underground tombs in the famous Paris, France. Located near the station Denfert-Rochereau, Paris Metro. Renovated and opened in the city's network of underground tunnels and caverns in the late 18 th century, it became a tourist attraction on a small scale, from the early 19th century and has been open to the public on a regular basis from 1867. The official name for the catacombs is Ossuaire l'Municipal.

2. Haunted City New Orleans, Lousiana

City of New Orleans is haunted place which is considered by locals, visitors and the Paranormal investigators around the world as the most truly haunted and no.1 in the United States. With all the past and the spiritual activity taking place in the center of the plot very haunted eerie, dark, and in between two worlds - the view of most witnesses to all this comes from the unseen world.


3. Sedlec Ossuary, Republik Ceko

Sedlec's grave (Czech: kostnice Sedlec) is a small Roman Catholic church, which is located under the Cemetery Church of All Saints (Czech: Hrbitovní kostel Všech Svatých) in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. Graves containing around 40,000-70,000 human bones have been developed to form the artistic decorations and church furniture.

4. Underground Vaults, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Far below the streets of the busy modern Edinburgh lies a dark, forgotten corner of the city's history. Built in the mid-1980s, Edinburgh Vaults has been abandoned for almost two hundred year. Located under the South Bridge, the main road of the Edinburgh, the place is used as cellars, workshops and even as a residence by the business on a busy bridge.
Paranormal Investigations have been conducted by the vaults practically since the invention of until now. According to them, the location is not possible by the economic activities of the city things strange. Recently, the location is visited by the crew from the UK and give them a reputation as a place in the Edinburgh & the scariest member volunteer team that no one would return there.


5. Coliseum, Rome, Italy

Behind the beauty coliseum Rome store was something dark. A guide and visitors alike have reported the existence of some of the cold suddenly, the touch or push, to hear the words indistinguishable to whisper to their ears; security guard who reported the security around the coliseum to hear the sound of swords collide , sound, cry, & I quite strange is the most confusing sounds ghost roars of animals such as lions and elephants. ghost by people around already visible between the seats in the coliseum, Roman soldiers appear, line at the time of night is a common scene here.


6. Walachia, Transylvania, Land of Dracul, Romania.

This is the famous Dracula's home


7. Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Poland.

Auschwitz death camp was in operation from May 1940 until the liberation by Soviet troops in January 1945. This is estimated to 2,1-2,5 million people died in the gas chamber at the time, 2 million of them are Jewish and the rest are Poles, Gypsies and Soviet POWs. But these estimates are considered by historians to be very minimal, because the number of deaths at Auschwitz and Birkenau camps really never be known.
Anyone who has visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau including by visitors feel sad note clearly crying without reason, and many have to leave the tour groups without ever completing the tour. Visitors not only affected by the horrific memory place, but also the effect on the birds still refuse to sing at the top of the tree around the camp death.

8. Whitechapel/Spittalfields, East London End, London, England.

This is the place where "Jack The Ripper" killed may people. It's located in east London

9. Unit 731 Experimentation Camp, Harbin, Manchuria, China.

This place s used as the Auschwitz of Asia, in terms of brutality and horror, it certainly warrant this description. However, there remains a fundamental difference with the crimes perpetrated by Nazis against Jews: Although Germany has shown deep contrition and remorse, the leaders of countries that spawned the evil of Unit 731 are still struggling to come to grips with what happened. . . In the end at least 3,000 prisoners, mainly Chinese, were killed directly, with a further 250,000 Chinese left dead through biological warfare experiments.


10. Haunted Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.


Battle of the civil war occurred in 1863 in Gettysburg Pennsylvania small cities, this is the place where the victim lives in the war most mass around and see, hear & feel something strange in the vicinity of that place

Fastest Animals in the World

The cheetah is the world’s fastest land animal, going from 0 to 70 mph (113 km per hour) in just 3 seconds. Even a Porsche 997 can’t accelerate that fast. Nevertheless, the cheetah is the fastest only in terms of absolute speed but they can’t maintain that pace for long. Pronghorn Antelope, the second fastest land animal and many other antelope species can easily outrun a cheetah over a long distance. The cheetah must catch an antelope in the first minute or less of the chase; after that the cheetah has to slow down but the antelope does not (there is sayings that fear have long legs).



Fastest land animals

1) Cheetah 70 mph (113 km per hour)
2) Pronghorn Antelope 61mph (98 km per hour)
3) Wildebeest 50 mph (80 km per hour)
4) Lion 50 mph (80 km per hour)
5) Thomson’s Gazelle 50 mph (80 km per hour)



Fastest water animals

1) Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) 68 mph (109 km per hour)
2) Swordfish (Xiphias gladius) 60 mph (97 km per hour)
3) Marlin (Makaira) 50 mph (80 km per hour)
4) Wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri) (47.88 mph 75.6 km per hour)
5) Yellowfin Tuna (Thunnus albacares) leaping 46.35 mph (74. 6 km per hour)




Fastest air animals

Swifts can fly at 106 miles per hour (171 km per hour).

Peregrine falcons are averaging 25-34 mph (40-55 km/h) in traveling flight, reaching speeds up to 69 mph (112 km/h) in direct pursuit of prey, but can dive even faster - at impressive 242 mph (389 km/h) speed and easily catch the swift.

In other words, the short answer to the question “who is the fastest animal in the world?” is: peregrine falcons.




Sources:
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-fastest-animals-in-the-world.htm
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_fastest_water_animal
http://www.homeworkspot.com/ask/fastestanimals.htm
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_fastest_land_animal
http://www.forbes.com/2004/05/14/cx_mh_0514running.html
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Peregrine_Falcon_dtl.html