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A schooner is a type sailing vessel characterized by the use fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts. Schooners were first used by the Dutch in the 16th or 17th century, and further developed in North America from the early 18th century. Etymology According to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, the first vessel called a schooner was built by builder Andrew Robinson and launched in 1713 from Gloucester, Massachusetts...

In a Mozambican village Madamba locals are catching and selling rats on the side a road. A stick with 6-7 fried rats costs about 30 cents. Every rat-catcher can earn up to 3 dollars a day which are a lot money in this African country. Rat-catching is the occupation catching rats as a form pest control. While no longer a pression in developed countries, there are still rat-catchers in India and other developing countries...

The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) is a railway tunnel beneath the Alps in Switzerland. With a length 57 km (35.4 mi) and a total 151.84 km (94.3 mi) tunnels, shafts and passages, it is the world's longest rail tunnel, surpassing the undersea Seikan Tunnel in Japan. The project consists two single track tunnels. It's part the AlpTransit project, also known as the New Railway Link through the Alps (NRLA), which also includes the Lötschberg Base Tunnel between the cantons Bern and Valais...

James Mollison was born in Kenya in 1973 and grew up in England. After studying Art and Design at Oxford Brookes, and later film and photography at Newport School Art and Design, he moved to Italy to work at Benetton’s creative lab, Fabrica...

Sleep box is a contraption that allows people on the move to sleep in places where they might not have an option a bed. The space in some versions includes bed, linen, ventilation system, alarm clock, LCD TV, WiFi, space for a laptop and rechargeable phone. Under the bed and floor there is a cupboard for luggage. Such sleepboxes could be placed in the airports. They have everything a passenger needs if he has to spend a night at an airport...

A POTD is an acronym for "Photo of the Day", "Picture of the Day", "Post of the Day" or "Poll of the Day". It is a term most commonly used by online digital photography communities as an honor to outstanding photos that are selected daily from among that community's membership. They can either be tagged as POTD or displayed in a special page on that site...