Even after you see it, it is still hard to believe!
Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long. Now this is engineering!

This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany, as part of the unification project. It is located in the city of Magdeburg, near Berlin. The photo was taken on the day of inauguration.

It only needs to be designed to withstand the weight of the water! Why? A ship always displaces an amount of water that weights the same as ship, regardless of how heavily a ship may be loaded.

Schwebebahn, which translates to floating railway but in English it is generally called the hanging railway or the suspension railway. The official German name is Einschienige Hangebahn System Eugen Langen.

Wupppertal is located in the hills of "Bergisches Land". It's easy to reach, both by car and by train, from Cologne, Düsseldorf and the Ruhr-region. It is roughly a thirty minute train ride from all three places. The Hanging Railway stops at the main railway station, Hauptbahnhof in German.

There's something that makes Wuppertal unique in this world: It has a suspension railway!
The "Wuppertaler Schwebebahn" has been connecting the different centers of Wuppertal for more than 100 years now. If you ever get the chance to go on a suspension train here take it. It's fun and very extra ordinary

All in all, the Hanging Railway is more of a unique experience rather than an exciting railway journey. Well worth trying if you are in the neighborhood. Although Wuppertal has some other attractions, most tourists go to Wuppertal just for the Schwebebahn.

The practical Japanese way of meal..

Birds too mourn when their loved ones die

Like humans and other animals, birds play, dance, love and do things just for the pleasure of it. Birds, like humans, like company, move in flocks, preen each other, play together and share nest duties.
Similarly, they grieve just like we do. The evidence is largely anecdotal, from ornithologists and bird watchers. I am willing to believe it because a creature that sings and laughs and fights and cheats on its mate can also feel sadness.
After a car killed a coucal's (a member of the cuckoo family) mate, he refused to leave her side or stop trying to revive her. One account on the Net is of a man who witnessed the sorrow of a magpie after its mate was killed on a roadway. The magpie swooped, time after time down to its dead mate shrieking and wailing .
In my last house, the sparrows decided to build nests in the bookshelf of the room I worked in. It meant that I had to get up every two minutes to let them in and out of the room wit their grasses as the doors facing the lawn were kept closed because of the airconditioner. They made the nest, laid their eggs and were all set to live happily ever after when a gecko ate the eggs while they were away. The parents were devastated and flew in angry circles with loud cries. Their grief was so immediate that I felt guilty and sad as well.
Birds that mate for life, like peregrine falcons , geese and pigeons will not take a second mate if their first is lost. There are many instances of birds showing signs of grief when a mate has been killed. The anguished bird is known to remain near the body of its dead mate and mope. Signs of grief include the loss of appetite and the plucking of feathers . Parrots bond for life and are miserable if their mate is out of sight. Birds mourn like people - some never get past the loss of a mate, others become normal in a few months.
Doves are monogamous. If a dove loses its mate it spends the rest of its days alone. This is particularly sad for the Mourning Dove ( which gets its name from its plaintive call) because in America alone, many million are shot annually for "sport".
"A greylag goose that has lost its partner shows all the symptoms of grief"," wrote Nobel prizewinning ethologist Konrad Lorenz. "The eyes sink deep into their sockets, and the individual has an overall drooping experience, literally letting the head hang."
Biologist Marcy Cottrell Houle studied two falcons as they worked to feed their five nest-lings. In her book "Wings for My Flight: The Peregrine Falcons of Chimney Rock" she narrates how one morning when, the female failed to appear, the male called out again and again and when the female did not return , the male uttered an unfamiliar sound "like the screeching moan of a wounded animal, the cry of a creature in suffering." After the cry, the male sat motionless all day long. The next day he went on a frenzy of hunting to try and save the nestlings.
People who keep caged birds ( may the gods bring them back as caged birds next time) have reported how their birds on the loss of a mate / companion lose their appetite and weight. One owner recounts how her grieving bird would eat only when the owner was at home and would scream when she left the room. Another owner writes how when one of her Conures died, the other one moaned herself to sleep for ages. She also kept saying "one," over and over. Before the other bird died she said "one, two" when the lady would ask how many birds she had. Captive birds whose companions have died become depressed, pine and die of broken hearts
A French newspaper published a series of photographs of a flock of birds that stopped on a highway in the Ukraine. A passing vehicle and hit one of the birds who could not move away from the road. Her mate lingered nearby offering solace and even brought food to her. One his return from a food gathering trip, he found her dead and tried to shake her awake, crying out. Each time a car passed, the bird flew up and then returned to the body. A photographer, concerned for the safety of the living bird, put down his camera, picked up the dead bird and removed it from the road. The grieving bird lingered in a nearby tree, "crying" and reluctant to move on.
A traveler recounts he spotted a gathering of swallows sitting on a gravel road. Getting close enough he saw that the swallows were sitting by bodies of dead swallows---probably young ones whose first flights had ended in disaster. On the overhead electrical lines were other swallow families all teaching their young ones to fly.
Anecdotes abound about people who have seen injured or dead birds on a road with their mates sitting by them. One person writes how he removed an injured bird from the road and put it under a bush. Its mate came along and just sat there for hours.

A biologist was witness to a young boy shooting a female starling. A larger male starling, obviously her mate, landed next to the dead female and sounded a distress call, flapping its wings in challenge. It put itself at risk with its courage. The boy slowly approached. The male starling stood his ground, trying to protect his mate but when the boy was just a few feet away, the bird flew onto a nearby branch and continue to cry and flap its wings. When the boy picked up the bird and started walking away, the male flew a short distance behind till the boy entered a building.
Birds, like humans, don't just grieve for birds but for companions of other species as well. The owner of a ringnecked dove also had an old Pekingese who became irreversibly ill. Becky the bird sat next to the dog on the sofa. Finally when they had put the dog to sleep and came from the vet without him , Becky started looking for him on the sofa, then returned to her cage, then went back to his place, then to her cage. Eventually she stopped eating, became lethargic and sat in her cage rather than flying around the house as she did earlier.
Chickens are by nature very social animals who form special bonds to other birds or humans, and mourn them when they die.
Birds, animals,humans,insects,plants...all of us are the same. Why not live and help live ?

Yes, animals are more deluded because of their capacity of their physical body, but occasionally some of them might be able show us the love that we have forgotten on our ‘busy road'. Just like this story.

A dog was knocked down by a car and died on the middle of the road. Later, another dog is seen beside the corpse of the dog. He tried to wake his friend up using his leg.

"Hey! Wake up! Wake up!"

When his attempts to wake his friend failed, he tried to push his friend to the side of the road. But the weight of his friend was proven to heavy for him.

"Let's move to the safer side of the road. I will move you to the safer side."

Though the traffic is busy and dangerous, he just won't go away from his friend. Just stand beside his friend howling and crying, asking for help from us, humans!

"Anyone help, tell me what to do.. My friend can not move, is he dead? What should I do? I can't move him. Please help me!!!"

A lot of people saw this incident and feel very touched. How even a dog can show his loyalty and love to his friend.

Via: Lovebeats 

The wedding held after he's back from Iraq

This young lady was on Oprah and what a loving, forgiving young woman she is! An amazing story of what she has suffered and will have to bear the rest of her life. Please share this with your friends..

This is she and her father, year 1998.

This is she on vacation in Venezuela. Birthday party as a child. At a party with friends. The car in which Jacqueline traveled. She was hit by another car that was driven by a 17-year old male student on his way home after drinking a couple of hard packs with his friends. This was in December 1999.

After the accident Jacqueline has needed over 40 operations. Jacqueline was caught in the burning car and her body was heavily burned in the matter of maybe 45 seconds.

With her father, year 2000. Getting treatment.

Three months after accident.

Without a left eyelid Jacquie need eye drops to keep her vision.

Not everyone who gets hit with a car dies. This picture was taken 4 years after the accident and the doctors are still working on Jacqueline, whose body was covered with 60% severe burnings.

Please share this to as many people as you can to make them aware of the consequences of drinking and driving.

Photos of two birds are said to have been taken in the Republic of Ukraine where the bird is trying to save his mate. Millions of people cry after watching this picture in America and Europe. It is said that the photographer sold these picture for a nominal price to the most famous news paper in France. And all the copies of that news paper were sold out on the day of publishing these pictures.

Here his mate is injured and the condition is appalling.

Here he brings her food and attend her with love and compassion.

Brings her food but shocked with her death and try to move her..

He is aware that his sweetheart is dead and will not come to him again, he cries with adoring love.

Stand beside her and scream saddened of her death..

Finally aware that she would not return to him and she has departed, stands besider her body, sad and sorrow..