Africa: a mysterious continent where tropical rainforests, vast savannahs and hot deserts meet, and thousands of different animal species live in a diverse nature. As of this year, there are as many as 335 national parks in Africa, making their concentration on the black continent higher than anywhere else on Earth. We present to you 10 of them - the most beautiful, the most interesting and the most worthy of your visit.
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Buckwheat is in constant search of everything beautiful. That's probably why she has always loved art, culture, fashion, music, literature and people. Although it sounds cliché, the diversity of the world and everyday moments is truly a constant source of inspiration for her. She loves traveling and the feeling when she manages to describe the beauty of life in words and put it on paper.
Photographer Patrick Hall from South Carolina came up with an idea that some of us might consider a bit cruel: he put people in front of his lens who were shocked by their friends with an electric stun gun that has 300,000 volts. A series of portraits and time-lapses, "The Taser Photoshoot," was created that reveals thousands of different facial reactions of people who have been electrocuted.
Fridays - every woman's blessing and curse. Beautiful shoes that visually lengthen our legs and add some confidence and inches are the weakness of most of us. But why is it so tiring to wear them?! We present you 6 tricks on how to wear heels without pain, because you know what our grandmothers used to say: you have to be patient for beauty.
A woman who cuts her hair will change her life, said the already famous short-haired fashion icon Coco Chanel. The coming autumn is the ideal time for changes, so for those of you who are braver, who are on a mission to change your life or simply want a different look, we have prepared a selection of 20 of the most beautiful women's hairstyles, which should serve as inspiration before you go to hairdresser.
Lupita Nyong'o is not only the winner of the Oscar for the best supporting actress and the most beautiful woman of the year according to People magazine. She is also a fashion icon, whose sophistication, caught in the photographic lens, fascinates us so much that we can't even be envious.
The second half of the last century was the golden age of space discovery, when people watched the first steps of man on the moon with enthusiasm in front of their television screens. The most beautiful photos taken by the first explorers during their visits to the limitless depths of dark space today have a wonderful vintage feel and resemble polaroids, which, despite the infinity of space, seem intimate, which makes them downright magical.
Good news for everyone who has ever played an instrument, still plays it, or even plays music professionally: today, thanks to the research done by many scientists, we can say without hesitation that musicians are more intelligent than people who do not play music . The reasons why this is so are extremely interesting, but the fact is that real fireworks happen in the brain of musicians when they play an instrument.
The thought that at the end of life's journey we all have the same station, we like to push away in our everyday lives. But some famous people have also died with style and humor, as evidenced by our selection of their meaningful last words. You can decide for yourself whether they are true or just the fruit of legends.
He buys books everywhere, but nowhere. This is the situation with me and probably with many others. Books that otherwise create the impression of an artistic or intellectual mess when strewn about look much better stacked on shelves - but only if the shelves are also something special. Check out the coolest designer bookshelves for your apartment.
Amazing facts about movies like Terminators, Harry Potter, Hitchcock's Psycho, Gibson's Passion of the Christ and the cult Star Wars that you never even dreamed about.
A must-read for all bookworms, admirers of the beauty of language, mathematics, statistics and other lovers of numbers: a genius infographic that shows bestselling books in numbers. So that the next time you know which book by your favorite author is the shortest, which is the longest, how many phrases were used by Shakespeare first in the world, how many kisses happen in Jane Austen's novels and which Harry Potter was Rowling's most eloquent.
A room with a 360-degree view of the New York skyline, one with a hanging bed or an indoor pool, built on the bottom of the Indian Ocean or in an old church steeple. 21 rooms that most of us can only dream about - or make us yellow with envy when we look at them.