#world's largest

[jadeseadragon]

King's College Chapel Vaults, Cambridge, U.K., the world's largest fan vaults, "built in phases by a succession of kings of England from 1446 to 1515."

[Wikipedia]

[zoomar]

World's Largest Roller Skates

The world's largest roller skates, a four- wheeled counterpart of the mythical Seven League Boots, were used in Venice, Calif., to advertise the National Roller Skate Derby. The skates are oversize models of real skates and could be used by anyone big enough to wear them. Five feet long, they furnished lots of sport for the kiddies.

[wgm-beautiful-world]

World's largest bird sculpture at Jatayu Adventure Earth Center, Chadayamangalam, Kollam District, Kerala, INDIA

[caseyhwilkinson]

Because the world needs more capybara

[faithandarisadventures]

World’s Largest Belt Buckle Uranus Fudge Factory St. Robert, Missouri May 13, 2022

[wrightandco]

the confetti for a not guilty verdict is actually the funniest fucking thing about ace attorney

it’s like they inherently know their system is fucked to the to the extent that they’ve got the celebration confetti at the ready when they don’t wrongfully incarcerate someone

edgeworth never lost a trial until he faced phoenix wright so the confetti goes off and he’s probably like what the fuck ppfthh pffth phhh that last bit is him spitting the confetti out of his mouth

[busylazy]

25 most populated islands in the world 😱 via Reddit's MapPorn

[candispice]

World's largest coconut!

[heritageposts]

seriously, what the fuck is this about?

they've just outright banned the tag for an indian state that's home to over 34 million people

[honourablejester]

A lot of the time when I reblog jewellery on here, it’s art nouveau jewellery, because I really like art nouveau. In general, and in jewellery in particular. And most of that is the aesthetic. I like the natural forms, I like the twisty curly bits, I like the use of materials, I like how a lot of art nouveau jewellery is using metals and stones and other materials to create a specific form, an insect or a plant or a goddess or even sometimes nature scenes. I like …

I feel like a lot of the time with jewellery, it feels like ‘I’m going to use this object to show off the size and value of my pretty rock’. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Some of those rocks are indeed gorgeous. But art nouveau feels more ‘I’m going to use these pretty rocks, and several other things, to create the impact of this object’? I just love the use of materials, glass and enamel and colour, as well as precious stones and metals, to create a form or a scene.

Like, you get a diamond ring, it’s a diamond ring. But you get something like a dragonfly brooch (Louis Acoc):

Or a lilypad hair comb (Rene Lalique):

Or a wisteria branch (Georges Fouquet):

And it’s a whole creation. A little wearable piece of art.

And I don’t want to sound too dismissive. I know the craftmanship and skill and artistry that goes into any kind of jewellery making. That diamond ring took skill I will never have. I just.

I like the emphasis on form more than material that you get with art nouveau. Like normally you hear ‘glass jewellery’, ‘enamel jewellery’, and it’s cheap, it’s frowned upon, but in art nouveau it’s what that glass or enamel was used to make that’s the important part:

(Rene Lalique)

(Eugene Feuillatre)

Anyway. In summary, I really, really, really like art nouveau jewellery?

[biglisbonnews]

Rubik’s Cube in Knoxville, Tennessee When the 1982 World’s Fair was held in Knoxville, this giant Rubik's Cube was displayed at the entrance to Hungary’s pavilion, to commemorate its invention by Hungarian architecture professor Erno Rubik in 1974. After the fair, the giant puzzle cube was given to Knoxville as a gift. The cube stands 10 feet tall and weighs 1,200 pounds, with each of the panels weighing about 300 pounds. The central section of the cube, containing the motor which turns it, weighs about 600 pounds. (Though the cube is motorized, the motor is not used at this time.) The Rubik’s Cubehas 43 quintillion different possible configurations and only one solution. It is the world’s biggest-selling puzzle game, having sold in excess of 350 million units around the world. The cube currently resides inside the Knoxville Convention Center. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/rubiks-cube

[17isrighthere]

BEJEWELED Taylor Swift (2022)

[michael-massa-micon]

World’s Largest Porch Swing - June 2022 One of the advantages of being retired is the ability to wander down side roads to see the world’s largest this or that. This is the World’s Largest Porch Swing. It is located in Roosevelt Park in Hebron, Nebraska. It is large enough to seat eighteen adults. The support structure was created from a frame normally used for irrigation systems. MWM

[clownbutlerdotcom]

We went to iowa 80 and i got a knife

[detectivehole]

i am the target demographic of tourist traps

[metal-gear-described]

I think little Sunny Emmerich being wired to the web from birth and also the most powerful hacker in the world while also being six years old is very funny. Like her morals re: online etiquette have to be a little messed up. I just imagine Otacon scolding her for misbehaving on club penguin like “just because someone said something mean to you does NOT mean you can send mean messages back!” and Snake’s like “aw cmon Hal she’s a five year old, how bad could it even be lol” and Otacon just points at the screen where Sunny has typed “40.741895,-73.989308” and Snake’s like 😟