Arrowhead High School in Wisconsin recently unveiled a $662,000 renovation to the boys and girls basketball locker rooms.
It’s been said that a town with money is a little like a mule with a spinning wheel: No one knows how he got it, and danged if he knows how to use it.
But when Arrowhead High School in Hartland, Wisc., came into a $275,000 donation, the school knew exactly what it wanted to build.
Located in Nelson Lakes National Park, Blue Lake?also known as Rotomairewhenua?holds the title of the world’s clearest lake. Scientific tests carried out in 2011 by New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) showed Blue Lake to be the clearest natural body of fresh water known to man. According to the NIWA research results, visibility in the lake is up to 80 metres (262 ft) – meaning the water is considered almost as “optically clear” as distilled water.
All images courtesy of Klaus Thymann of Project Pressure and supported by the Department of Conservation, NIWA and Tourism New Zealand
The park is a popular hiking and…
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“What color is this dress?”
It’s the question that divided the Internet on Thursday — after a woman posted a photo of the dress on Tumblr earlier this week — and for such a black-and-white issue, there’s a surprising amount of gray.
To be clear, the dress is blue, with black stripes. But it didn’t always look that way to me. In fact, when I first saw an image of the dress on Thursday night, it seemed obviously white-and-gold.
Almost three decades ago, a teenager, after noticing the deaths of a large number of reptiles due to a lack of a tree cover, started planting Bamboo in an area that had been washed away by floods. Today, that same land hosts 1,360 acres of Jungle called Molai Forest, named after Jadav “Molai” Payeng, the man who made this possible single handedly!
The company rented out its final title on Saturday after announcing that it is closing its roughly 300 remaining stores by early 2014.
Blockbuster, which announced last week that it is closing its remaining 300 or so stores, has rented its final movie, and it’s a fitting title: This Is the End.
The Seth Rogen apocalyptic movie was rented Saturday at a store in Hawaii, according to a tweet sent out by the company.
Knox Grammar School in Wahroonga, Sydney
An elite boys’ school in Sydney paid tribute to a teacher dubbed a “notorious molester” with an inscription on its memorial gates that read “he touched us all”.
Knox Grammar School in Wahroonga, Sydney, paid tribute to its former art teacher Bruce Barrett with the inappropriate memorial despite his convictions for sexually assaulting students during his time at the school.
Former Knox Grammar School student Scott Ashton told an Australia’s royal commission he was deeply confused by the memorial at the school, which is subject of an investigation into its response to sexual abuse allegations.
1. The Dutch East India Company in 1637
Value then: 78 million Dutch Guilders // Adjusted to 2012 dollars: $7.4 trillion
HOW IT GOT SO BIG: Founded in 1602, the world’s first publicly traded company on the world’s first stock exchange started off as a spice trader. Its competitive edge: The largest fleet shipping goods between Europe and Asia. In the 17th century, it grew tremendously thanks to rampant speculation on the value of tulip bulbs. The so-called tulipmania craze foreshadowed the Internet dot.com bubble, and, like its modern equivalent, it eventually burst. But not before making the company the most valuable in world history.
Yesterday, the National Police’s Public Relations Division issued an appeal to the public on their Facebook page:
Please help us stop the sale of children’s clothes depicting pandas having sex.
Thailand’s tourism office has announced plans to give etiquette manuals to incoming Chinese tourists who are expected to visit the country later this week.
As much as 90,000 tourists from mainland China are expected to visit Thailand this week, according to the Tourist Authority of Thailand. In preparation for their arrival, leaflets containing information on how to behave properly in public have been printed and are ready to be distributed to Thailand’s Chinese visitors.
The manual, written in Mandarin, contains general instructions on how to responsibly tour the country, which includes guides on respecting local cultures, abiding with local traffic laws, and observing proper tourist etiquette. It also contains advisories against touching museum paintings and using public properties as lavatories.
Americans hate terrorists and love our kids, right? So you might be shocked to know that preschoolers with guns have taken more lives so far this year than the single U.S. terrorist attack, which claimed four lives in Boston.
This is admittedly tongue-in-cheek, but one has to wonder if the NSA’s PRISM program would have saved more lives had it been monitoring toddlers – or gun owners – rather than suspected terrorists.
11 Deaths in Five Months Where Shooter Was 3 to 6 Years Old
Brain Cage 