Although it wasn't to 1:1 scale, this train cake was huge. 15 cooks made it on site at Heathrow Airport in London to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the opening of the Heathrow Express, a rail link between London's main airport and train station:
The huge cake – measuring a 1.5m x 2m – consisted of 15 ingredients including 80 large sheets Madeira sponge.
These were sandwiched together using 60kg of traditional buttercream icing, 3kg of royal icing and more than 200kgof smooth fondant icing.
The exterior was held together using a litre of confectioners glue and decorated using half a dozen litres of airbrush paint and 5 litres of liquid chocolate.
The giant cake took the team more than 30 hours to build and install on the platform at London’s Paddington station.
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On Malta, the Ggantija temples claim to be the oldest "free-standing building in the world". Subtle difference?
The dating of both buildings is pretty imprecise, so I'm unclear if experts can definitively say which is older.
According to the following source, Tomb Seven is considered the earliest-known North American necropolis:
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9020631/Alfonso-Caso-y-Andrade
Actually, I vaguely remember another necropolis near Monte Alban, in Mitla - albeit that's a couple of years back and it could have been somewhere else (definitely around Oaxaca, though).
Or, also in Mexico, in Veracruz, Quiahuiztlán.
The mummies from Guanajuato are also interesting, albeit they're now "on exhibit" and, as such, not really part of a burial space, respectively a tomb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douaumont_ossuary
http://www.verdun-douaumont.com/en/index.html
or the U.S. Arizona Memorial, where rest over 1100 victims of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.S._Arizona_Memorial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capela_dos_Ossos
Yes, in fact there was a plan to develop a mirror image of the Taj Mahal in black marble, however, this was canceled when his sons began to fight over the Kingdom and eventually one son succeeded in taking over and jailed his father in the Red Fort. This and his subsequent death after a few years meant that the Black Taj Mahal would never be built in time. Hence, why he has such an awkward sized and shaped grave next to his wife because of his untimely death.
Thank you
hey - many thanks for answering my question!
Can you imagine? A black marble twin would have put even the original to shame.
BTW - here's a Photoshopped version of the Taj in an ad I made for a construction company:
http://adville.com/NottTM.html
This does not dispute the age of Newgrange, but it means that the structure we see today, is not identical with the original structure.
http://www.pbase.com/bauer/sapanta
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9407EEDD1230F93AA1575AC0A9649C8B63
http://www.romaniatourism.com/pressclips.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C4%B1tkabir
Sweet Mumra in a half! The horror if the Taj Mahal should ever look like that! ;)
gabi
http://www.geocities.com/sagada_igorot/sagada/hanging_coffins.html
I remember our guide saying that the ancient religion practiced in the area was opposed to the dead being in the dark so coffins were located at the mouths of caves or dangled over the sides of cliffs.
I would have added Colma, California - the necropolis of San Francisco.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colma,_California
http://www.stockton.edu/~gilmorew/consorti/tombpatr.jpg
thx
yugan
http://goeurope.about.com/od/portugal/ig/Chapel-of-bones-pictures/Capela-dos-Ossos-Picture.htm
sipan
www.ALISLAM.org.
Last but not least the TOMB OF MUHAMMAD PEACE AND BLESSINGS BE UPON HIM THE PROPHET OF THE ONE GOD bringing the religion of peace ISLAM http://www.flickr.com/photos/shia/118403525/
SNOWWHITE & THE 7 DWARVES = JESUS & 7 HILLS OF ROME
SLEEPING BEAUTY, ETC, ETC ----> RESUCITATION
www.TOMBofJESUS.com
One of the best-preserved neolithic tombs in Northern Europe, unique and with added Vikings!
Here is one you missed out on - the Capela dos Ossos (Chapel of Bones) in Évora, Portugal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capela_dos_Ossos
http://public.fotki.com/otk/2004/portugal-spring-2004/evora/capela_dos_ossos_in/evorabonesanim-1.html
Is any body can stretch their imagination beyond pyramids and Roman Empire. Enormous civilization in the geographical Centrum of the Europe and not even one word??? If so than you guys know half history.
Thank you.
Wolfe Tone's deathmask is on display, as well as the mummified of several other formerly prominent Dublin families.
Finally, it's worth noting that Bram Stoker's family is buried here, and it is likely that his concept for Dracula found its genesis in the tomb of St. Nician's.
When Russian Orthodox missionaries first came to the area, they allowed the native tradition to continue. For church members, an orthodox cross is added to the spirit house.
http://www.swulinski.com/travels/AlaskaNatives.html
St. Peters Basilica - Vatican City
I've seen it with my own eyes. Peter is buried under the altar... like "THE" Peter... from The Bible...
or at least that's what they say
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://k53.pbase.com/o6/90/140690/1/85622200.f5WplgT7.Bosnia2007_PICT6300.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.pbase.com/alangrant/image/85622200&usg=___Soh2mO1J56ZQac_WprNcxkjKOw=&h=533&w=800&sz=156&hl=en&start=8&sig2=aO1lUI26mgvTONsoJ9AB2Q&um=1&tbnid=kGlS8lUYY_T1dM:&tbnh=95&tbnw=143&ei=rZ9QSfqGNc76-Qa4grzVDw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dradimlja%2Bstolac%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN
rised right hand. On the plaque send in 70ties out of Solar system, under suggestion of famous Carl Sagan, there is no Egyptian pyramids, no skyscrapers, no White House, no NASA itself, but only naked women and man with rised right hand.
That plaque is intended to be red by aliens if they found it ever. Hand on Bosnian tombs is a message sent to us. But, do we know what it really means, because old Bosnian was the last European survived heretics keeping some old religous secrets.
Best regards,
Adi Porobic
Sarajevo,
Bosnia
The Mausoleul din Parcul Carol, bucharest.
http://www.suterinn.ro/pics/divertisment.jpg
http://www.suterinn.ro/client/images/1170335233.jpg
http://www.romanianpropertyonline.com/images/Bucuresti/Buc%20Carol%20I%201.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=763vmCrRBDg
this is a "fail".
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http://fickdiehure.com
I was impressed by the tomb of Napoleon.
http://www.invalides.org/pages/anglais/dome_a.html
really believe me