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A British artist Jill Draper, 62, using just a needle and thread to recreate scenes from photographs in embroidered tapestries. And all this with astonishing accuracy. She sells them on her website for £500-£1500 ($760 - $2280). Embroidery is the art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as metal strips, pearls, beads, quills, and sequins...

Those gasometers were built in Vienna, Austria in 1896. Now they have been renovated and are used as environmentally friendly living spaces. A gas holder (commonly known as a gasometer, sometimes also gas bell, though that term applies to the gas holding envelope alone) is a large container where natural gas or town gas is stored near atmospheric pressure at ambient temperatures...

The Apatani, or Tanii, are a tribal group of about 26,000 (approximately) in Ziro valley in the Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh India. However more Apatanis live outside this valley, making the total population to approximately 26,000 all over the state. Their language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family. There are no known written records of the history of the Apatani tribe, but throughout their history the Apatani have had a democratic system of running the society...

Haw Par Villa (Chinese: 虎豹別墅) is a Chinese mythological theme park in Singapore, located along Pasir Panjang Road. The park contains over 1,000 statues and 150 giant dioramas depicting scenes from Chinese folklore, legends, history and illustrations of various aspects of Confucianism. The attractions include statues of the Laughing Buddha and the Goddess of Mercy, as well as dioramas of scenes from Journey to the West...