By Yes Urdu on November 29, 2012
China, countrywide, frequent, House, neighborhood, private, Road
Bizarre / Shocking, Sci-Tech and Auto

In the eastern Chinese city of Wenling, a lone five-story row house with ragged edges stand in the middle of a motorway in staunch defiance. The house belongs to Luo Baogen, a duck farmer, and his wife who are the lone holdouts from a neighborhood that was demolished to make way for the main thoroughfare […]
By Yes Urdu on November 28, 2012
House, Jakub Szczesn, Polish, thinnest, World
Creativity and Art, Misc Fun

Polish architect Jakub Szczesny claims to have built the world’s narrowest house, just 122 centimetres across. The house is squeezed into an alleyway formed between a pre-World War II house and a modern apartment at Chlodna 22 Street and Zelazna 74 Street in the centre of Warsaw. The project is called the Keret house – […]
By Yes Urdu on November 28, 2012
discovery, Family, House, Korowai, Korowai Tribe, New Guinea, Tree
Bizarre / Shocking

Deep within the inaccessible jungle of the southeast Indonesian province of Papua, about 150 kilometres inland from the Arafura Sea, lives the Korowai tribe – a clan totally isolated from the rest of the world. They are hunter-gatherers living in a small society of traditional family ties who need to share all they have in […]