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Burning Man is an annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in the United States. The event starts on the Monday before and ends on the day of the American Labor Day holiday. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening. The event is described by many participants as an experiment in community, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance. Burning Man is organized by Black Rock City, LLC...

Landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including the physical elements of landforms, water bodies such as rivers, lakes and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including land uses, buildings and structures, and transitory elements such as lighting and weather conditions...

The Ijen volcano complex is a group of stratovolcanoes, in East Java, Indonesia. It is inside a larger caldera Ijen, which is about 20 kilometers wide. The Gunung Merapi stratovolcano is the highest point of that complex. (not to be confused with Mount Merapi, Central Java aka Gunung Merapi) West of Gunung Merapi is the Ijen volcano, which has a one-kilometer-wide turquoise-colored acid crater lake...

Eight-year-old Indian boy Deepak Kumar Paswaan was born with body parts of his twin attached to the chest. The locals call him Octopus-boy and some people think that he is the devil in a human body. Fortunately for him, his parents and volunteers have collected enough money for the surgery and the parasitic twin was removed...

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack against the U.S. Forces stationed at Pearl Harbor , Hawaii. Almost 70 years later (in 2011 it will be the 70-year anniversary) was found an old Brownie camera with a film inside it. The film contains previously unseen photos of Pearl Harbor bombing. The photos were taken by a sailor who was on the USS Quapaw ATF-110...

Manhattanhenge (sometimes referred to as the Manhattan Solstice) is a semiannual occurrence in which the setting sun aligns with the east–west streets of the main street grid in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The term is derived from Stonehenge, at which the sun aligns with the stones on the solstices. It was coined in 2002 by Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History...