5 most luxurious in the World Racing Circuit

You include a biker heavyweight? Are you also handyman streets aka backpacker? Well, if so, of course, must have the courage and certainly a thick wallet or a pilgrimage to be visited in the ten best motor racing circuit in the world. Full story, stories, and history, ten racing circuit are spread across the continent of Europe, Asia, until at the southern tip of Africa. So, grab your traveling bag, backpack, air ticket and also your passport to explore places "sacred" to the lovers of motor racing world.

1. Laguna Seca

Laguna Seca

Outside the U.S. mainland, this circuit can be referred to as the famous circuit in North America. Host the contest race racing like MotoGP, WSB, and AMA racing. Laguna Seca is dominated by legendary liukan, Corkscrew corner, an instance of a downward spiral that makes it difficult every TV camera. Andretti hairpin segment lap at Laguna Seca a unique obstacle for the racers. Circuit along the 2238 mile, 11 turns itself berlatarkan lush green forest park, near, California.

2. Brands Hatch

Located 20 miles from London, Brands Hatch became one of the favorite circuit in the UK. Circuit along 2.3, ninth curve when it hosted the legendary WSB races in the 1990s, where 100,000 people poured watch races on this circuit.



3. TT Course

The Isle of Man is a unique island located between Britain and Ireland, have their own parliament, legal and tax systems. After the financial crisis the world, the island is mostly inhabited by bankers and motorcycle racers - well, now only the drivers are still living. TT racing circuit Course first opened in 1907, and the race is still performed to this day but with a closed road route. It's not all rural valley street segment, a bumpy road and a beautiful texture, make this island as a paradise for even the craziest biker who wants to be free encyclopedia speeding police. Modern circuit along the 37.5 mile TT Course, plus 200 corner ready to devoured by anyone.

4. Phillip Island

Island with racing circuit is located in the coastal hills at Phillip Island, giving an aura of its own for the drivers of the world. Along the 2.7 miles with 12 corners, including the legendary bend down a tense, Lukey Heights. Watching the warriors fighting one another GP bike in position is the best racing moments and unforgettable.

5. Donington

Donington Park is one of the most popular circuits in the UK. Being in the middle of England, near Leicester, the circuit along the 2.5-mile, 12 corner has two sharp bends of the famous, Redgate and Craner Curves. Contours of the race circuit a little steep, making every MotoGP race to be so called. And for the diehards motor racing in Britain, Donington heart bak British sport.

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VW Beetle with the body of Wood Oak

Celinac, Bosnia - Automotive Enthusiasts sometimes modify his car in a strange way. But not infrequently the result even be unique.

One of them Momir Bojic who changed his 1974 Volkswagen Beetle into a wooden car. Man from Sarajevo, Bosnia was not using iron raw material to wrap the old car, melaikan using Oak wood.

As reported República, Monday (05/30/2011) Bojic disarm the original body of the Frog into the wood in just over a month only.

Remarkably Bojic not help anyone, he diligently to modify his car at his home, located in Celinac.

He also managed to build a wooden car with kedetilan and precision level is quite perfect. Starting from the body, bumpers, wipers, mirrors, light bulb up to home plate numbers of vehicles.

Is not that great. With a relatively short time that he was able to do remodeling VW Bettle 1974 to the timber body. He claimed VW Bettle berbodi wood can still be run as well as other frog that uses the body of the metal plate.

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Helmets World's First Fold

Sydney - A unique helmets that can be folded created by an Australian. This helmet is called the world's first folding helmet. Where did the idea of ​​making this folding helmet come from? After his helmet stolen in Indonesia.

The creator, Jessica Dunn graduated from design school in Australia and gave the name of an innovative helmet design with the name of Proteus.

The process of creation of this helmet as quotes from autoevolution, Monday (05/30/2011) Jessica got when he was in Indonesia. At that time, Jessica was faced with the fact that he had lost his helmet. From there came the idea of ​​making a helmet.

"I was driving a motorcycle every day when I visited Indonesia for the exchange student. But I have to buy a helmet from the roadside because the helmet was stolen property. Finally I had to bring a helmet it every day for 5 months and I want a helmet that can be put in the bag back, "he said.

Mechanism of folding helmet

And as a result, artificial Proteus Jessica is also nominated for the Australian Design Award from the James Dyson (Australian millionaire). The winner will be announced on July 22, 2011 in Melbourne. Wow stolen thief, uh yes actually be a source of inspiration.

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Husband gave life to save wife from tornado He was my hero

As a tornado tore his Joplin, Mo., home apart, Don Lansaw did what came naturally: He threw himself on top of his wife Bethany to protect her. And in doing so, he gave his life for her.

Lansaw's is just one of several tales of heroism, heartbreak, and amazing escapes that have emerged from the spate of violent weather events that swept the center of the country this week. As many as 125 people are thought to have been killed by the Joplin tornado alone.

"The house was ripping apart, it all happened so fast," Bethany Lansaw told NBC News. "All the pillows were flying off of us, the only thing I managed to do was keep one in front of my face."

You can watch the report on Don Lansaw's heroic sacrifice in this video

Once the wind died down, Bethany recounted, she looked over to see that her husband was turning blue. He died before she could find an ambulance to get him to the hospital.

Don, 31, was a former high-school football star, and owned a machine shop. Bethany, 25, worked at a local university. The couple had been married six years and planned to start a family.

"You know, people kept saying he wouldn't have wanted it any other way, but if I could have taken twice as much damage just to have him alive, I would have," Bethany said.

"He did what he could to protect his family," she added. "He's my hero."

Also in Joplin, Will Norton was driving home from his graduation ceremony with his dad when the tornado struck. Norton, 18, looked to have a bright future: A YouTube channel he created called "Wildabeast," in which he posted comedy routines, had almost 1.5 million hits:
As the Hummer H3 started to flip, Norton's seat-belt snapped, and he went flying through the roof of the vehicle, as his dad tried in vain to catch him. Afterward, the only trace of him was his cellphone and graduation cap.

Meanwhile, in Oklahoma's Canadian County, Hank Hamil cried at a news conference after his 3-year old son Ryan was found dead, floating in a lake. Hamil's other son, 15-month old Cole, was also killed by Tuesday night's violent storm.

"I lost both of my boys," Hamil said through tears. "Ryan was my little buddy. Cole was too. I loved them both." You can watch the report on the Hamil's tragic loss here

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Sarah Palin goes behind enemy lines

The bus tour that stands to return her to the 2012 spotlight is taking her to the part of the country that’s the least friendly to her — the northeastern U.S.

It’s a part of the country she’s mostly avoided since 2008, conspicuously not setting foot in early presidential state New Hampshire at all during her two book tours and her 2010 tea party campaign swings. Now, however, with her luster dimmed and her national relevance in question, she has chosen to venture into the belly of the beast.

“There’s no doubt in my mind the northeast is the least favorable area of the country to Sarah Palin,” said Terry Madonna, a longtime Pennsylvania pollster and analyst who directs the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Franklin & Marshall College. “But she has to show she can broaden her appeal. She can’t just go to where she’s already won voters.”

Nevertheless, it’s clear Palin is picking her spots carefully.

Though the tour begins Sunday in Washington, D.C. — home to the political establishment with which Palin has a well-documented relationship of mutual loathing — it’s at a motorcycle rally, the annual Rolling Thunder bikerfest that streams over the Memorial Bridge en route to the Vietnam Memorial.

In Maryland, where the candidate Palin endorsed in the 2010 GOP gubernatorial primary got less than a quarter of the vote, she’s going to the Civil War battle site of Antietam, in the rural western arm of the state — far from the coastal population centers of Annapolis and Baltimore.

In Pennsylvania, where America’s most famous hockey mom was booed in 2008 when she dropped the puck at a Philadelphia Flyers game, she’ll visit another small-town Civil War battlefield, Gettysburg. She’ll also make a return foray into Philadelphia — a stop at the Liberty Bell.

Palin is wrapping herself in American history, tapping into the hyper-patriotism that is her hallmark. Her destinations are historic islands, refuges amid the most urbanized and Democratic territory in the nation.

This is the way the itinerary is described on her political action committee’s website: “This Sunday, May 29th, Governor Palin and the SarahPAC team will begin a trip through our nation’s rich historical sites, starting from Washington, DC and going up through New England,” it states. “The ‘One Nation Tour’ is part of our new campaign to educate and energize Americans about our nation’s founding principles, in order to promote the Fundamental Restoration of America.”

Below that, there’s a donation button, and below that is a Google map of the U.S. — with no stops marked on it.

Palin’s plans, details of which are still hazy, will also take her to New Hampshire for the first time since she was on the GOP ticket with John McCain.

But after all her time away, Granite Staters aren’t feeling particularly warm about her.

A CNN/WMUR poll of New Hampshire Republican voters last week found Palin had the support of just 5 percent, good for fifth place and trailing non-candidate Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who has dipped his toe in the presidential waters of late

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Mysterious markings discovered at Great Pyramid of Giza

London, England (CNN) -- A robot explorer has revealed ancient markings inside a secret chamber at Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza.

The markings, which have lain unseen for 4,500 years, were filmed using a bendy camera small enough to fit through a hole in a stone door at the end of a narrow tunnel.

It is hoped they could shed light on why the tiny chamber and the tunnel -- one of several mysterious passages leading from the larger King's and Queen's chambers -- were originally built.

The markings take the form of hieroglyphic symbols in red paint as well as lines in the stone that may have been made by masons when the chamber was being built.

According to Peter Der Manuelian, Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology at Harvard University, similar lines have been found elsewhere in Giza. "Sometimes they identify the work gang (who built the room), sometimes they give a date and sometimes they give guidelines to mark cuttings or directional symbols about the beginning or end of a block," he said.

"The big question is the purpose of these tunnels," he added. "There are architectural explanations, symbolic explanations, religious explanations -- even ones relating to the alignment of the stars -- but the final word on them is yet to be written. The challenge is that no human can fit inside these channels so the only way to do this exploration is with robots."

Pictures of the markings have been published in the Annales du Service Des Antiquities de l'Egypte, the official publication of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, following an international mission led by the Minister for Antiquities.

The robot explorer that took the images is named Djedi, after the magician whom Pharaoh Khufu consulted when planning the layout of the Great Pyramid. It was designed and built by engineers at the University of Leeds, in collaboration with Scoutek UK and Dassault Systemes, France.
Although robots have previously sent back pictures from within the pyramid's tunnels, Djedi's creators say it is the first to be able to explore the walls and floors in detail, rather than just take pictures looking straight ahead, thanks to a "micro snake" camera.

The camera also scrutinized two copper pins embedded in the door to the chamber at the end of the tunnel. In a statement, Shaun Whitehead, of Scoutek UK, said: "People have been wondering about the purpose of these pins for over 20 years. It had been suggested that they were handles, keys or even parts of an electrical power plant, but our new pictures from behind the pins cast doubt on these theories.

"We now know that these pins end in small, beautifully made loops, indicating that they were more likely ornamental rather than electrical connections or structural features. Also, the back of the door is polished so it must have been important. It doesn't look like it was a rough piece of stone used to stop debris getting into the shaft."

The team's next task is to look at the chamber's far wall to check whether it is a solid block of stone or another door.

"We are keeping an open mind and will carry out whatever investigations are needed to work out what these shafts and doors are for," said Whitehead. "It is like a detective story, we are using the Djedi robot and its tools to piece the evidence together."

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