The Needles is a row of distinctive stacks of chalk that rise out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight, England, close to Alum Bay. A lighthouse has stood at the western end of the formation since 1859. The formation takes its name from a needle-shaped pillar called Lot's Wife that used to stand in its midst until it collapsed in a storm in 1764. The remaining rocks are all...
The WONDERBOOM is a remarkable sight where two trees, namely the Ghwarrie tree (Eudea undulate) and a Shepherd's Tree (Boscia oleolides, also called a Karoo witgat) grow side by side. What makes this "wonder tree" unique is the fact that the Shepherd's Tree has three stems coming up out of the ground. Two of the stems have joined together, forming an "eye of a needle" and ...
Iglica (Polish; means "the spire") is a needle-like monument in Wroclaw, Poland. It was built in 1948 and was 106 metre tall (now, after renovation, highest ten meters were removed, and it is 96 m).
This structure was constructed by Polish Communists for an exhibition to celebrate the occupation of former eastern provinces of Germany, so called "recovered lands&quo...
Ernst Werner von Siemens (December 13, 1816 – December 6, 1892) was a German inventor and industrialist. Werner Siemens was born in Lenthe, near Hanover, Germany; the fourth child (of fourteen) of a tenant farmer. He left school without finishing his education, but joined the army to undertake training in engineering. After starting a company (see below), one brother represented him in England ...
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