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GRAND CANYON

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The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is one of the seven wonders of the World. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,000 feet or 1,800 metres).  For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by  Native Americans  who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The  Pueblo people  considered the Grand Canyon  a holy site and made pilgrimages to it.  The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was  García López de Cárdenas  from Spain, who arrived in 1540.

AURORA BOREALIS

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An aurora is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere (thermosphere). The charged particles originate in the magnetosphere and solar wind and, on Earth, are directed by the Earth's magnetic field into the atmosphere. The auroras are also known as the Northern Lights. They are naturally occurring lights that create intriguing and spectacular displays in the sky. The aurora lights frequently appear as diffused glow lighting up the horizon. The most amazing sight is when the northern lights appears as waves across the sky; it is almost as if the lights are dancing.

ROAD THAT PASSES THROUGH BUILDING

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There is a 16 story Gate Tower Building which is office building in Fukushima-ku, Osaka, Japan. And the special thing about this building is that a highway passes through the 5th-7th floors of this building. The highway is part of the Hanshin Expressway, a network (239.3 km) of expressways surrounding Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto, Japan. This building is nicknamed "beehive" referring to its appearance as a "bustling place". The elevator doesn't stop on floor 5th-7th, floor 4 being followed by floor 8. These floors consist of elevators, stairways, machinery and other things. The highway passes through the building as a bridge, held up by supports next to the building and have no contact with the building itself. The building has a double core construction, with a circular section and special care is taken by providing surrounded structure to the highway which makes the building free from noise and vibrations. The property rights' holders refused to ...