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The Santa Claus Village has a unique meeting place where hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world come to meet Santa Claus on every day of the year. You can enjoy reindeer sledging, snowmobile for children, sliding on snowracers, eating delicious smoked salmon and of course meet the Santa Claus himself. Rovaniemi is the place where the fairytale becomes true.
Santa Claus Office is the place to go in Christmas time. It`s located in Santa Claus Village in Rovanimei, Lapland, in Finland. There come thousands of visitors from all over the world to meet Santa Claus on every day of the year, and of course especially in Christmas where presents show up. Rovaniemi is the place where the Christmas fairytale becomes true.
Santa Claus himself receives visitors in his old timberbuilding deep in an underground cave. He sit by his working table and welcomes both children and adults. Here we made our secret wishes to Santa.
How could the driver control the two lead dogs who were desperate for love? In the front of all dogs these two made the situation a little bit confusing for a time, but the driver in the tour operator Huskypoint knew fortunately how to control them. And then the sledge started in full speed.
The Norwegian Regnskogfondet, reports that a group of the Mashco-Piro Indians in Peru has attacked an Indian village in the Amazon. One person is critically injured after getting an arrow in the stomach.
Scientists in China's Hubei Province have announced they are looking for additional members for its special team tasked with tracking down the creature. The Hubei Wild Man Research Association (HWMRA) is recruiting researchers internationally to join the group's search in the Shennongjia forest region, according to state-run news agency Xinhua.
Friday 6th August 2010 the Swedish adventurer Fredrik "Fripp" Ericsson (35) died when he fell from K2 in the Himalayas. Fredrik Ericsson is a professional skier and mountaineer from Sweden, popularly called Fripp. His body rests at about 7000 meters, and now his parents have requested that it will be remained in the mountains he loved.
Beatles is immortal. Who can forget them? The International Beatle Week Festival 25th - 31st August 2010 is organised by Cavern City Tours. This annual celebration of the music of The Beatles features more than 50 bands from all over the world performing at various venues in Liverpool.
All the rumours in the 1960s about that Paul McCartney had died, must be one of the greatest rock and roll conspiracies of all time! Since I heard the radio programme "Is Paul McCartney dead?" of Yoav Kutner in the late 70s, I have wondered about all the mysterious clues The Beatles plant in their music and inside their album covers. Why did the Beatles do that?
Going for an adventure in a city? Mexico city, Lima, Toronto, Bangkok, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, Berlin, Boston, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Vancouver, Cape town, Rome, Venice, Vienna or other cities? Based on Traveler magazine’s acclaimed Places of a Lifetime series, National Geographic’s Ultimate City Guides give you ideas and usefull information to plan your next journey to one of the world's great cities.
Google announced in a Press Release 1st July 2010 that they have signed a definitive agreement for acquire ITA Software, Inc. for $700 million in cash, subject to adjustments. ITA is a flight information software company, who has developed technology for organising flight information. It makes this information on Internet more available for users through new search tools.
"Fearless" is the title of the third track on Meddle by Pink Floyd from 1971. The composer Roger Waters` lyric is about madness. It`s said the lyric is not about the founder of Pink Floyd, Syd Barret, who became insane, but it`s believed it has some connection to him. Syd Barret, but why did Pink Floyd add a sound recording of Liverpool supporters singing the hymn "You'll Never Walk Alone" on this song? It makes it even more strange knowing that Roger Waters supports Arsenal. What`s the story behind the song?
From the late 1890s, it was built a number of forts in Norway along the Swedish border from Kongsvinger in the north to Svinesund in the south. This was part of efforts to break Norway from the union with Sweden. If the dramatic negotiations broke, Norway was well prepared for a Swedish invasion. Bjørnåsbatteriet, Torbjørnrød skanse, Bjørnåsen fort in Moss,also called Torbjørnrød skanse, was one of the forts used to protect Norway.
Blue colour is usual considered as cold, but the sunset on Monday 31 May 2010 in Moss was not cold at all. In the beautiful summer weather, I ran through the Moss forest, past Molbekktjernet and further down to the shoreline at Mossesundet, the Strait of Moss. In front of me it revealed an inferno in blue.
