Jakarta Tower

Jakarta Tower is a new tower under construction in Indonesia, precisely in the capital Jakarta, at New Bandar Kemayoran area. The tower has a height of about 558 meters and is planned to be completed in 2012. And when the tower was completed later, the tower will be entered into the ranks of tallest buildings in the world. That would defeat the height of the towers of the world high, such as:

    * Canadian National Tower (553 meters), Toronto, Canada
    * Ostankino Tower (540 meters), Moscow, Russia
    * Oriental Pearl Tower (468 meters), Shanghai, China, and
    * Petronas Twin Towers (452 ​​meters), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Jakarta Tower will be built in an area of ​​306,810 square meters. The building itself will be an area of ​​40,550 square meters with a height of 558 meters. Has three legs that will rise to a height of 500 meters. Each cylindrical feet, 13.2 meters in diameter. Two of them contain each of the three lifts with a speed of 7 meters per second. The third leg of eight special elevators for visitors. In this building there are 10 units of elevators / lifts. To further stabilize it, stuck with the foundation of the tower 80 meters in diameter to depths of 58 meters below ground.

And the following facilities that will complement those of the Jakarta Tower:

    * The parking lot area of ​​144,000 square meters
    * House podium as high as 17 floors.
    * Lift to reach the top of the tower
    * Restaurant rotating
    * Big Mal
    * Cafe
    * Amusement park
    * Museum of the history of Indonesia
    * Hotel
    * Multi-purpose room / conference that can accommodate ten thousand visitors
    * Space-office space of 8000 square meters
    * Center exhibition
    * Center for education and training
    * Multimedia center with radio and television broadcast transmitters
    * Center for trade and business
    * Sports Center

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Amazon River

Amazon River is a river which is the world's second longest river after the Nile in Africa. River located in South America has the greatest total flow of any river, lbih of the Mississippi River, the Nile, and Yangtze combined. And this river has the largest peraliran system and considered "the strongest" when viewed from the amount of water flowing per second.

The amount of freshwater released into the Atlantic Ocean is enormous: 184,000 m³ per second (6.5 million ft ³) in the rainy season. Amazon's flow is one-fifth of the total fresh water entering the sea around the world. The water in the sea near the river has a low salt content up to hundreds of miles away.

Kono when talking about the Amazon River, the local folklore that evolved was made ​​of the former river flows in a giant snake named Sucuriju Gigante. Sucuriju Gigante was a giant anaconda is said to live in the amazon. Differences with ordinary anaconda that are 10 meters, said sucuriju can reach lengths of 40 meters!. With a diameter of 80 cm and weighing 5 tons, he can wound and destroy a truck with a single convolution. According to the amazon native tribe, sucuriju this is the creator of the Amazon river which is said when heavy rains created a mud Gigante dimana2 out the largest ever.

Not only that, but Amazon River said to be filled by terrible creatures, such as piranhas, Pirarucu / Arapaima, Catfish Amazon, an anaconda, Electric Eels, Candiru, Frog Toxic, Toxic Caterpillars, Tyrannobdella Rex, Crocodile.

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Hand of Harmony

Hand of Harmony is a statue of a very interesting and remarkable. The statue is located on the beach Homigot in North Korea. Created in 1999, and made of bronze and granite. This statue is a symbol of "the struggle and the spirit of all the Koreans to pursue a better life".

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