Spain’s greatest painter was also one of the supreme artists of all time. A master of technique, highly individual in style, Diego Velasquez may have had a greater influence on European art than any other painter. His paintings include landscapes, mythological and religious subjects, and scenes from common life, called genre pictures. Biography: Gender: Male Born: 6. Jun 1599 Birthplace: Seville, Spain Died: 6-Aug-1660 Location of death: Madrid,... 

Everyone of us love to decorate our desktop screen with beautiful and creatively designed wallpapers. The latest trend is using photo manipulated pictures as the wallpapers. Photo manipulation is an art where ordinary photos are transformed into something alluring, unexpected and totally out of the box. credit: WJA1302  Read More →

Strecno Castle is situated 7km from Zilina on a 103m high rock above the River Vah. The first written mention about Strecno Castle comes from 1384. It is considered to exist in the 13th century and it protected the ford throught the Vah river. The castle was a residence of Frantisek Vesseleny and his wife Zofia Bosniak, also called Saint Woman from Strecno. The castle has been in ruins for three centuries, but it still belongs among the best known... 

Vanessa Sigiane da Mata Ferreira was born on February 10, 1976 in Alto Garças, a small town in Mato Grosso located 399 km from state capital Cuiabá. As her names suggests in Portuguese “da Mata” means “from the forest” is a force of nature. Vanessa da Mata manages to have over 250 songs written, even before releasing her first album, Vanessa had already composed for popular and well stabilished Brazilian artists, such as Maria Bethânia... 

Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, and is located near Boulder City, Nevada. Originally called Boulder Dam, this engineering marvel was re-named for Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States. In 1935, Hoover Dam was the largest in the world and although long since surpassed it is still an amazing structure and a marvel of engineering – a huge, curving wall of plain concrete 660 feet thick at the base and 726 feet high set between the... 

Adriana Lima is a Brazilian supermodel who is best known for her modeling work with Victoria’s Secret as one of the elite Victoria’s Secret Angels and Maybelline. She is one of today’s top-five earning supermodels. Lima was very public about her desire to remain a virgin until marriage. In 2009, Adriana Lima married Marko Jaric, a Serbian basketball player with whom she has two daughters. This presumably ended her reign as World’s... 

The Great Barrier Reef is the world\’s largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres (1,600 mi). It is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia. The world’s largest coral reef is the only living entity that is detectable from outer space. New research shows it is also in steep decline, with half of the reef vanishing in the past 27... 

The Festival of the Winds is an annual international kite festival held in September in Bondi Park, Beach and Pavillion. Festival is a great place to see colourful cartoon characters, giant animals and flowers, fighter kites, box kites, delta kites and more make the skies come alive over Sydney’s most famous beach. A kite is a flying device that remains tethered to an anchor point that may be static or moving. The necessary lift that makes the...