12442. Famous

Plais des nations
Famous for : venue in geneva for holding international conferences.

12443. Famous

Potala
Famous for : dalai lama's palace at lhasa (tibet).

12444. Famous

Sinai
Famous for : peninsula of egypt between the gulfs of suez and aquba, at the head of red sea.

12445. Famous

Seychelles
Famous for : island in indian ocean, got freedom on june 28, 1976.

12446. Famous

Sodom
Famous for : in israel, the lowest point on earth.

12447. Famous

Vatican
Famous for : official residence of the pope of rome.

12448. Famous

Versaillers (france)
Famous for : famous for the treaty of versailles which ended world war i in 1918.

12449. Famous

Vienna
Famous for : capital of austria. the venue of strategic arms limitation talks (salt) between russia and u.s.a.

12450. Famous

Walling wall
Famous for : part of the western wall of the temple court in jerusalem. part of the wall, probably dates from the time of solomon, is regarded by both jews and moslems as one of special sanctity.

12451. Famous

Wall street
Famous for : in manhattan, new york, famous for american's stock exchange market.

12452. Famous

White house
Famous for : the official residence of the president of u.s.a. in washington d.c.

12453. Famous

Zurich (switzerland)
Famous for : famous for the manufacture of cotton and silk and for its lenses.

12454. Famous

Auroville
Famous for : unesco sponsored world's first international town near pondichery in tamil nadu named after aurobindo ghose. it was inaugurated on february 28,1963.

12455. Famous

Abu simbal(usa)
Famous for : a monument executed by unsco in egypt, the famous temple at nybia(egypt) was facing submergence as result of the construction of aswan dam. unsco has reconstructed it and was inaugurated on 12th sept. 1968.

12456. Famous

Adam's bridge
Famous for : sand and rock bridge between sri lanka and india. legent has is that was constructed by lord rama when he was in invade lanka of ravana.

12457. Famous

Alice springs (australia)
Famous for : spring with medicinal properties.

12458. Famous

Big ben
Famous for : name given to the big clock of the british parliament building.

12459. Famous

Billing's gate
Famous for : london fish market. as a term, it means foul language.

12460. Famous

Dodoma
Famous for : this is going to be the new capital of tanzania in place of dar-es-salam.

12461. Famous

Eiffel tower
Famous for : 985 feet high tower in paris build by gustav effel in 1887-89 at a cost of 2,00,000.

12462. Famous

Elba
Famous for : an isolated island in the meduterranean sea, where napoleon was exiled in 1841.

12463. Famous

Ellora
Famous for : famous for rock-pruned kailash temple (aurangabad) in maharashtra. an exquisite piece of dravidian art. ellora cave temples, 34 in number, present a blend of caves representing buddhism and jainism constructed in 8th century a.d.

12464. Famous

Elysee palace
Famous for : official residence of the president of france. it was the venue of paris peace parleys on vietnam.

12465. Famous

Empire state building (u.s.a)
Famous for : world's one of the loftiest structures. it has 103 storeys and a height of 1200 feet.

12466. Famous

Escurial
Famous for : one of the longest palaces in spain.

12467. Food Facts

An average-sized person eats around 22,700 kilograms (50,000 pounds) of food over the course of their life.

12468. Food Facts

Bedouin wedding feasts sometimes include a roast camel, stuffed with a sheep, stuffed with chickens, stuffed with fish, stuffed with eggs.

12469. Food Facts

In the 1800s, it was common to mix ground bones into flour to make it go further.

12470. Food Facts

The British black pudding is a sausage made of congealed pigs' blood with lumps of fat embedded in it. It is often fried and eaten for breakfast.

12471. Food Facts

Soft ice-cream of the type sold in ice-cream vans is given its slithery smoothness by an extract of seaweed.

12472. Food Facts

Baby eels, called elvers, are eaten in parts of Europe, including east England. They are very thin, so lots are cooked, tangled together like spaghetti.

12473. Food Facts

Orangutan lips used to be a delicacy in Vietnam.

12474. Food Facts

In Mexico, the alcoholic drink tequila is often served with a worm in the glass – the worm should be swallowed whole with the drink.

12475. Food Facts

Romany people in Europe, and poor peasants, used to cook wild hedgehogs by rolling them in mud and baking them in the embers of a fire. When the mud dries, the spines can be peeled off with the mud.

12476. Food Facts

Cow's tongue is often sold with the salivary glands – the parts that make spit – ready for boiling. The tongue can weigh up to 2.3 kilograms (5 pounds).

12477. Food Facts

In Europe, some people make blood pudding from the blood of a pig or cow mixed with rice, milk and sugar and then baked.

12478. Food Facts

To make the expensive pate de foie gras, geese are forcibly fattened with grain so that their liver swells to many times its natural size.

12479. Food Facts

In England, lampreys – a fierce fish that looks like an eel – are traditionally cooked in a sauce flavoured with their own blood.

12480. Food Facts

In Central and South America, iguana meat is highly prized.

12481. Food Facts

The French cervela sausage is made with the brains of pigs.

12482. Food Facts

Roast dog is sold on the streets of Vietnam.The back half of the dog comes with the tail intact.

12483. Food Facts

Caviar is the eggs of the sturgeon fish. It is so valuable that an operation is sometimes used to remove the eggs without harming the fish, which then goes on to make more eggs. Previously, the fish was gutted while still alive so that the eggs could be as fresh as possible.

12484. Food Facts

Mealworms – golden-coloured larvae that eat grain – are farmed in the USA and sold live in pots of bran for cooking. The bran is for the meal-worm to eat while they are waiting, as otherwise they will eat each other.

12485. Food Facts

Sheep's eyeballs are eaten in some Arab countries of North Africa.

12486. Food Facts

Birds nest soup is a delicacy in China. It's made from the nests of a special variety of swift that builds its nest from dried strands of its own spit.The nest is soaked in water to soften it, then any sticks and feathers are removed before it is made into a gluey, sticky soup.

12487. Food Facts

In China, bear paws are roasted in clay – the fur comes off with the dried clay when they are done.

12488. Food Facts

In France, rats found in wine cellars were sometimes cooked in a sauce flavoured with red wine, over a fire of burning wine barrels.

12489. Food Facts

In the 1800s, naturalist Frank Buckland served meals such as mice on toast, roasted parrots and stewed sea slug. He tried to make soup from an elephant's trunk, but even after several days' cooking it was still too chewy.

12490. Food Facts

The Aztec dish tlacatalalli was a stew made from corn and human beings.

12491. Food Facts

Once, at a Roman banquet, a slave stabbed the stomach of a roast boar to release a flock of live thrushes.

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