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A vast museum dedicated to the history of cinema and the Academy Awards will be constructed in Los Angeles. The project of the museum will be created by the famous French architect Christian de Portzamparc, who has constructed skyscraper of the Moet Hennessy-Louis Vuitton holding in New York. The foundation of the construction which will be laid on the area of 3, 2 hectares, will be placed in the center of Hollywood not later than 2008. The end of construction the building is planned for 2012.The museum will be located to the north of legendary Hollywood inscription. The president of the Academy Awards Sid Genis has noted that it is very important for film-academy “to choose the responsible and serious sponsor of the project and to create impressive design”. Read the rest of this entry »

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A written off vessel of the USA armed forces was processed for further services by Virginia shipbuilding facilities, but in this case as an environment for marine inhabitants and amusement for divers of the Key West National Marine Nature Reserve, Florida state.

A six million project of reorganization of the General Hoyt S. Vandenberg 160 meters length into reef will be finished by spring 2008, when the ship would be descended to the depth of 43 meters 10 km to the south of Key West. Vandenberg ship written off in 1983, remained still for 24 years among the vessels of US Navy in Fort -Justice. Read the rest of this entry »

SINGAPORE: Southeast Asian countries on Thursday said they were on track to fully liberalize air travel in the region by December 2008, adding that an agreement to legalize it would be signed as soon as possible.

In a statement issued during their annual meeting, the region’s transport ministers said they “affirmed their commitment toward the timely implementation of the liberalization of air services.”

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Drastic increase in the number of sleep-walkers who walk in public places in their sleep almost naked urged the network of British hotels to start special staff trainings and teach the hotel personnel deal with the naked night-owls.

According to the British hotel network “Travelodge” which includes approximately 300 business-class hotels, the number of sleep-walkers has increased seven times during the last year. 95% of them walk in their sleep naked, fact which often confuses both hotel staff and guests. Read the rest of this entry »

The priests of Turin eparchy intend to organize a kind of Anti-Halloween on October 31st, as it is reported in La Stampa newspaper. The feast will be called “The Night of All Saints and the Mystery” (Notte dei Santi e dei Misteri). Adults and children disguised as angels will distribute white chocolate to the passers-by. The feast must become an answer to Halloween, which acquires greater and greater vogue and is criticized by the Church. The priests want to organize a joyous and bright, “angelic” feast instead of the night of the ghosts, horrors, terrifying costumes and intimidation of the passers-by.

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Now visitors of the British small town Bournemouth can stay at the “chocolate” hotel with the same name - Chocolate: each of thirteen rooms is designed according to one or other taste - from the bitter to the milky one. A set of exclusive chocolate in a mini-bar, and also a personal “little fountain”, filled with hot chocolate will be presented at the visitors’ service.

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Airbus A380 the largest in the world passenger airplane started its first commercial flight from Singapore to Sydney. The airbus can transport up to 850 passengers, and at first within the last decades it left behind Boeing 747 considered to be the major passenger airplane.

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About 50 policemen from the Los-Anheles city situated in the south of Chile will stick to a strict compulsory diet and train in the gym. Besides, their wives will attend a special training course of eutrophy and will respectively feed their spouses. Read the rest of this entry »

For many Japanese people a glass of cold beer after a warm bath has become a nice tradition. Having noted this, one businesslike Japanese company started to offer beer baths.

One of the resorts in the mountains one day drive from Tokyo offers spa-procedures in the bath made in the form of beer glass with warm liquid of amber yellow colour with aroma of hop and barley inside. Up to the 31st of December the company offer named “Hakone Kowakien Yunessun” also includes adding and spraying of the real beer in bath and on the visitors of the procedure thrice per day. Read the rest of this entry »

The journalists drew up a list of the most frequented cities of the world by the tourists.

Among American cities the best were San-Francisco, New-York and Charleston.

In Europe the “podium” is occupied by Italian cities like Florence, Rome and Venice. In reference Australia and New Zealand the bet cities were Sidney, Melbourne and Quinstone.

Among Asian countries the leadership palm was awarded to Bangkok and Hong Kong.