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A three-year-old giraffe Bea and an Ostrich Wilma from Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay are spending all the time together. The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) is an African even-toed ungulate mammal, the tallest of all land-living animal species, and the largest ruminant. The giraffe's scientific name, which is similar to its antiquated English name of camelopard, refers to its irregular patches of color on a light background, which bear a token resemblance to a leopard's spots...

The Romani, who are known collectively in the Romani language as Romane or Rromane (depending on the dialect concerned) and also as Romany, Romanies, Romanis, Roma or Roms, are an ethnic group living mostly in Europe, who trace their origins to the Indian Subcontinent. Romani are also widely known in the English-speaking world by the exonym Gypsies...

Very interesting and creative pictures made out of bills. A bill or invoice is a document requesting payment for an order previously supplied. Presentation of a bill is common practice on the part of restaurants, credit card companies, utilities, and other service providers. The bill for something is the total price of all services and goods received but not paid for, and is presented in the expectation of immediate payment by the due date...

D-Day is a term often used in military parlance to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. "D-Day" often represents a variable, designating the day upon which some significant event will occur or has occurred; see Military designation of days and hours for similar terms...

Model Lucy Clarkson and Victoria Eisermann protest against the use of real bearskins in The Queen's Guards' ceremonial caps wearing painted-on Queen's Guard uniforms and faux-fur caps. Lucy Clarkson (born July 6, 1982, Rotherham, South Yorkshire) is an English model. She is best known as being the fourth official Lara Croft model from the Tomb Raider series of video games, a role she took on in May 2000, at the age of 17, and held for two and a half years until 2002 when Jill de Jong took over...

The GoldVish "Le Million", the solid gold, diamond-studded "Piece Unique" is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as both "The world's most expensive cellular phone" and "The world's most exclusive cellular phone" at one million Euros(approx. US$1.3 million) per phone and a guaranteed limited production of three pieces...

The famous Redwood Log House was built by Len Moore after he spent a night in a burned down Redwood tree during a storm. This giant tree is 1,900 years old. The oldest trees are determined by growth rings, which can be seen if the tree is cut down, or in cores taken from the bark to the center of the tree. Accurate determination is only possible for trees that produce growth rings, generally those in seasonal climates...

Santa Marta is a residential area for poor people in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Two Dutch artists decided to give the buildings of Santa Marta a radical makeover. A favela (Brazilian Portuguese for slum) is the generally used term for a shanty town in Brazil. In the late 18th century, the first settlements were called bairros africanos (African neighborhoods), and they were the place where former slaves with no land ownership and no options for work lived...

The annual World Custard Pie Championship takes place in the village of Coxheath near Maidstone in Kent. Coxheath's World Custard Pie Throwing Championship began on June 24, 1967 and was created by now Mayor of Maidstone, Councilor Mike Fitzgerald. More than 80 teams threw Custard Pies at each other during its heyday dressed in Victorian Era style costumes or the latest fashion style at that time...

World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth. In a philosophical context it may refer to: (1) the whole of the physical Universe, or (2) an ontological world (world disclosure). In a theological context, world usually refers to the material or the profane sphere, as opposed to the celestial, spiritual, transcendent or sacred...