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Mill Ends Park

Mill Ends Park in Portland, Oregon, United States, is a small park created on Day St. Patrick, 1948, to become a colony of leprechauns and snail races locations. This structure is the smallest park in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records, which first gave the award in 1971. "Garden" is a circle along the two-foot (610 mm) with total area 452 in ² (0.2916 m²) in the traffic median which in 1948 became the site devoted to a lamppost. When the lamp fails to be implanted in the place and messing digging weeds, Dick Fagan, a writer for the Oregon Journal, planted flowers at the pole hole and named it according to the column in the paper, "Mill Ends".

The park is equipped with some unusual items over the years including a swimming pool for butterflies (complete with diving equipment) and the miniature Ferris wheel (plus a water faucet with regular size). So actually the highlights of this park is its size and completeness that is in the mini park, and coupled with a world record as the smallest garden, a garden is Jointed to give in appreciation.


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Sealand - Mini State

Sealand - Mini State. Apparently in this world there is a country that is very small for the size of a country or can also be called mini-state, the state is Sealand.
Principality of Sealand is an entity or a state that has not been recognized, which is located on HM Fort roughs, prior to World War II Maunsell is a sea port in the North Sea 10 km (six miles) off the coast of Suffolk, England (51 ° 53'40 "N , 1 ° 28'57 "E).

Since 1967, this facility has been occupied by a former English major Paddy Roy Bates; associates and family claim this place as a sovereign independent state.


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Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world with a maximum depth of 1642 meters (5369 ft), and the lake is also known as "blue eye of Siberia". Located in southern Siberia near the Russian-Mongolian border. Lake Baikal large lake with a large eco-systems in which more than 1,700 species of flora and fauna that live, two-thirds of them will only be found here, and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.
The lake is completely surrounded by rugged mountains and dense forest, this lake has an estimated age of 25-30 million years, making it one of the most ancient lakes in geological history.





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