World's Most Tortuous Race Ever

Blood, sweat, tears, and a mankini ... a competitor runs through a field during the Tough Guy event in Perton, central England. Check out the huge list of shocking images during this Tough Guy Competition by scrolling down ...

The semi-annual endurance race puts competitors through an extreem obstacle course including fire and water after a cross country run, as hundreds of competitors struggle during the challenge.

The phenomena has now evolved into cult status to a world wide audience, organisors say.

Shocked and surprised ... a competitor surfaces in a water obstacle.

Thousands run the biannual assault course and are challenged by 21 different obstacles including, fire, tunnels and swamps.

Ouch! ... a man grimaces as he makes his way through a fiery obstacle .

Mud mask ... a competitor reacts to being bathed in mud.

Slippery landing ... an exhausted "tough guy" falls in the mud .

Quick step ... running through a burning field has to hurt .

Hide and seek ... smoke billows through the air, masking a competitor in a green mankini.

Slow motion ... the look of pain on this man's face is clear .

Coming to get you ... the infamous green mankini man makes it through the burning field.

Hat attack ... a competitor surfaces in a water obstacle to find his hat torn.

Laying low ... a "tough guy" crawls underneath barbed wire .

Yet another obstacle ... crawling across ropes is enough to test any man's arm strength .

Save me ... a woman helps a challenger from a pit of murky water .

Now that's a mud bath ... people pull competitors from a muddy pond .

Water water everywhere ... a man emerges from the murky water.

Helping hand ... a bathing cap won't do much good keeping this man mud-free ..

Climbing high ... competitors take to the ropes ..

Turning up the heat ... a man takes on a fiery field ..

Now that's tough ... running through fire is easy for this guy .

Here I come ... out of the water and headed for the finish line .

Fastest Time To Boil Water Through Body !!

Conducting Electricity - Fastest Time To Boil Water Through Body

With electricity passing through his body, Slavisa Pajkic 'Biba' (Serbia) was able to heat a 15 ml (0.5 fl oz) cup of water from 25 °C to 97 °C (77 °F to 206 °F) in a time of 1 min 37 sec on the set of Guinness Record.

Take a looks at this guy who made this miracle so easily that this worth nothing to him .... Bravo !!!! Three cheers for Him !!
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World's Most Mysterious Coral Castle

This morning I shoved a nine-ton block of coral out of my way with just the slightest push of my pinky.

As much as I'd like to think my recent visit to the Fountain of Youth had some wonderful superhero-style effect, the credit actually has to go to eccentric genius Edward Leedskalnin, builder of the mysterious Coral Castle.

Entrance In Coral Castle.

9 -Ton Gate Over Coral Castle.

The massive coral slab door at the entrance to the castle is so perfectly engineered that it can be swung open with just a light, one-finger push.

Aerial View of Coral Castle.

The entire castle complex, which looks like a combination fortress and ancient temple, was constructed of huge coral blocks, many of which exceed five tons. Leedskalnin built the castle and everything in it by himself over 26 years -- using tools he made from scavenged junkyard parts.

The Rocker In Coral Castle.

Leedskalnin was no burly giant of a man. He stood 5 feet tall and weighed around 100 pounds, according to Coral Castle guide Ray Ramirez, who has spent the past two decades trying to figure out just how Leedskalnin managed to pull off this engineering feat.

Amazing Moon Fountain In Coral Castle.

There are many rumors but no concrete details on how Leedskalnin managed to build his bizarre and beautiful masterpiece. He worked only after the sun had gone down, refusing to allow anyone to ever see how he shaped, moved and placed the enormous blocks.

Artistic Heart Table In Coral Castle.

Visitors to the castle are left to decide for themselves what motivated Leedskalnin. But it's easy to see that the items he created as a tribute to his "lost love" -- the beds, the heart-shaped table and the rocking chairs -- are far less carefully and lovingly crafted than the castle's shrines, occult and planetary symbols, and astronomical observatory.

Ac-Generator In This Mysterious Coral Castle.

Extreme Polaris Telescope Outside Coral Castle.

Pride of place in the castle complex is given to a wonderful 30-ton lensless "telescope" that soars 25 feet above the castle walls. The telescope is perfectly aligned to the North Star, and on the first day of winter, sunlight pours directly through the scope's aperture, according to Ramirez.

Huge Pressure Cooker In Coral Castle.

Nice Tool Room Inside Coral Castle.

Leedskalnin also crafted a sundial that tells the time within two minutes of accuracy. This solar clock stands directly across from a water pool carved from a huge slab of coral, with coral crescent moons on each side of the basin. The crescents represent the waxing and waning lunar cycles; the circular pool represents the full moon.

Leedskalnin opened the castle to visitors after he completed it, charging a quarter for a tour if and when he was in the mood to socialize.

The Great Obelisk In Coral Castle.

"People around here called him the 'little guy,'" recalled Ramirez. "The only time he ever asked for help was when he hauled the whole castle 10 miles up the road from Florida City in 1936."

Ed Lifting Coral In Coral Castle.


"Ed is a marvel and a mystery to me," said Ramirez. "But piece by piece I am putting together his puzzle. Someday I will know all his secrets."

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Top 25 People Celebrated By Google

Since 2002, Google has honored 25 historical people with custom-made versions of the Google logo, displayed for one day on the Google homepage.

Judging by the people Google have selected so far, don’t expect any WWF wrestling stars to show up anytime soon. It’s an elite collection of highly influential scientists, artist and architects who have made their mark on human history and culture.

Here they are, all 25 of them, in reverse chronological order.

René Magritte : (1898 - 1967) Belgian surrealist artist, famous for his often witty and amusing images.

Marc Chagall : (1887 - 1985) Russian Jewish modernist artist. He was a pioneer of modernism and one of the most successful artists of the twentieth century.

Diego Velázquez : (1599 - 1660) Spanish painter and portrait artist, many of his famous paintings depicting scenes of historical and cultural significance, royalty and notable European figures of the time.

Walter Gropius : (1883 - 1969) German architect, founder of Bauhaus and a pioneer of modern architecture.

Alexander Graham Bell : (1847 - 1922) Scientist and inventor famous for, among other things, inventing the telephone.

Luciano Pavarotti : (1935 - 2007) Italian opera singer, part of “The Three Tenors” and one of the world’s most famous vocal artists.

Yuri Gagarin : (1934 - 1968) Soviet cosmonaut who was the first man in space and the first to orbit Earth.

Edvard Munch : (1863 - 1944) Norwegian symbolist painter, known for his expressionistic art. His painting The Scream is one of the most recognizable in all art (and indeed the one Google used as basis for the themed logo).

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : (1859 - 1930) British author mostly known for his novels about Sherlock Holmes, one of the most famous fictional characters of all time.

Percival Lowell : (1855 - 1916) American astronomer (among other things) famous for his study of Mars and founder of the Lowell Observatory, which after his death discovered Pluto.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : (1756 - 1791) Austrian musical prodigy and one of the most popular classical composers of all time.

Martin Luther King Jr. : (1929 - 1968) African American minister, probably most famous for his work against racial segregation and discrimination, which also earned him the Nobel Peace Prize.
Louis Braille : (1809 - 1852) The inventor of braille, a widely used reading and writing system for the blind and visually impaired (he was blind himself).

Frank Lloyd Wright : (1867 - 1959) American architect and interior designer. The American Institute of Architecture has named him “the greatest American architect of all time”.

Leonardo da Vinci : (1452 - 1519) Italian polymath, doing groundbreaking work as a scientist, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter and more. Often described the archetypal Renaissance man and one of the most widely talented people of all time.

Vincent van Gogh : (1853 - 1890) Dutch Post-Impressionist artist and a pioneer of Expressionism. And yes, he’s the one who cut off part of his own ear.

Ray Charles : (1930 - 2004) American pianist and soul singer. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him as number two on its list of the 100 greatest singers of all time.

Gaston Julia : (1893 - 1978) French mathematician who devised the formula for the Julia set, common for generating fractals.


Alfred Hitchcock : (1899 - 1980) British film director and producer, a pioneer of the suspense and psychological thriller genres. He is one of the best-known filmmakers of all time.

M. C. Escher : (1898 - 1972) Dutch graphic artist, famous for his mathematically inspired images of impossible constructions and geometric figures.

Albert Einstein : (1879 - 1955) German theoretical physicist, best known for his theory of relativity but contributed greatly to multiple fields within physics, for which he also received the Nobel Prize in Physics. He is regarded as one of the most influential people in human history.

Michelangelo : (1475 - 1564) Italian painter, sculptor, architect and engineer. Together with Leonardo da Vinci, he is often cited as the archetypal Renaissance man.

Pablo Picasso : 1881 - 1973) Andalusian-Spanish painter and sculptor. Famous for (among other things) founding the Cubist movement. He also has one of the longest full names we’ve ever seen.

Andy Warhol : (1928 - 1987) American artist and illustrator and a well-known figure in the Pop Art movement. In addition to his many works of art, he is also famous for being the originator of the concept of “15 minutes of fame”.

Piet Mondrian : (1872 - 1944) Dutch painter and an important contributor to the abstract De Stijl art movement.

Now, one wonders, who’s next in line to get his/her own Google logo? Any ideas? :)

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