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A paddy field is a flooded parcel of arable land used for growing rice and other semiaquatic crops. Paddy fields are a typical feature of rice farming in east, south and southeast Asia. Paddies can be built into steep hillsides as terraces and adjacent to depressed or steeply sloped features such as rivers or marshes. They can require a great deal of labor and materials to create, and need large quantities of water for irrigation...

The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctic region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean (which overlies the North Pole) and parts of Canada, Greenland (a territory of Denmark), Russia, the United States (Alaska), Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland. The word Arctic comes from the Greek αρκτικός (arktikos), "near the Bear, arctic, northern" and that from the word άρκτος (arktos), which means bear...

AZLK (АЗЛК - Автомобильный завод имени Ленинского Комсомола in Russian) is a Russian automobile factory (Moscow), the maker of the Moskvitch brand. Founded in 1929 as KIM, or Communist Youth International, the plant became MZMA (Moscow Small Car Factory) in 1939, before finally changing its name to the more familiar Avtomobilny Zavod imeni Leninskogo Komsomola (AZLK)- literally "Lenin Communist Youth League Automobile Factory" in 1969...

Qeswachaka Bridge at the southern province of Canas in Cuzco in Peru. Impressive scenery, unique possibility to be inmersed in local Peruvian culture. The Q'eswachaka bridge is located across the Apurimac River Canyon, at about 13.000 feet, in Canas province (Apurimac in Quechua means "the God who talks"). This imponent bridge spans 36.6m (120 feet), and is rebuilt every one or two years as communal effort by all the local indians of the region...