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Typhoon Muifa (international designation: 1109, JTWC designation: 11W, PAGASA Name: Kabayan) was a large, strong and persistent typhoon that effected multiple countries in the pacific, killing 22 and causing widespread damage worth US$480 million. It was the ninth named storm, the fifth Severe Tropical Storm, the third Typhoon and the second Super Typhoon of the 2011 Pacific typhoon season. The low pressure area that became the typhoon originally formed on July 23...

A backpack (also called rucksack, knapsack, packsack, pack) is, in its simplest form, a cloth sack carried on one's back and secured with two straps that go over the shoulders, but there can be exceptions. Lightweight types of backpacks are sometimes worn on only one shoulder strap. Backpacks are often preferred to handbags for carrying heavy loads or carrying any sort of equipment, because of the limited capacity to carry heavy weights for long periods of time in the hands...

The face is a central sense organ complex, for those animals that have one, normally on the ventral surface of the head, and can, depending on the definition in the human case, include the hair, forehead, eyebrow, eyelashes, eyes, nose, ears, cheeks, mouth, lips, philtrum, temple, teeth, skin, and chin. The face has uses of expression, appearance, and identity amongst others. It also has different senses like olfaction, taste, hearing, and vision...

Many Bangladeshi people can't afford a train ticket and have to travel on the train roofs risking their lives. Freighthopping or train hopping is the act of surreptitiously hitching a ride on a railroad freight car. In the United States, this became a common means of transportation following the American Civil War as the railroads began pushing westward, especially among migrant workers who became known as "hobos"...

A new project launched this year celebrates the ability of kids to come up with amazing ideas. Using kid art as inspiration, re-imagines those drawings to bring them a little bit closer to reality. The project is the brainchild of Garrett Miller (@heyitsgarrett), a Washington, D.C. software engineer. Miller is not a professional artist by trade, although he is one by training...