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There are many well-known, skilled magicians that you might not know about because even though they're well known, they haven't reached magician cult status. Most people know about the magician David Copperfield, but there are many more magicians equally skilled. So, take a moment to learn about other wizards of magic and expand your knowledge about magicians.

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Curtis Adams: A magician who appeared at the age of 16 in the Young Magicians Showcase featured on Fox Television. He was born on October 12, 1984 and was one of the youngest magicians to perform in Reno, Nevada casinos.

Criss Angel: The only three-time magician winner of the Merlin Award from the International Society of Magicians. Angel is a skilled magician who did stunts like lying on a bed of nails while a Hummer drove over him.

Ed Balducci: A street magician who died in 1988 at the age of 82. He is a magician known for his gimmick-free trick of visibly rising several inches from the ground with his back turned to his audience.

Derren Brown: A British magician who practiced traditional close-up magic in the 1990s. Brown's claim as a magician is his "mind-reading" act. Brown claims aliens abducted him.

Cardini: Richard "Cardini" Pitchford was a magician with almost 50 years of performing tricks and illusions. He's one of the world's most imitated magicians, but no one to date has ever been able to completely duplicate his tricks. He was a magician known for his sleight of hand. Items were forever appearing and disappearing from his hands. He died in 1973.

Tommy Cooper: A magician and comedian known who was a member of the Magic Circle until his death in 1984. He collapsed while doing a live magician act that became his last.

Paul Daniels: A currently retired British magician who in 1983 became the first magician to ever receive the prestigious Magician of the Year Award by the Hollywood Academy of Magical Arts.

S.W. Erndase: A magician and author whose real identity has never been figured out. Erndase is a magician who wrote a book in 1902 about card playing tricks.

Ching Ling Foo: The first Asian magician to achieve fame. He was a magician who did tricks like breathing fire and pulling a fifteen-foot pole from his mouth. He died in 1922.

Lennart Green: A magician known for his close-up card tricks. In 1991 this magician became the world champion of in close-up card magic.

Paul Harris: A magician known for pulling coins from mirrors. Many claim he is a magician with skills like a combination of Copperfield and Henning.

Scott Interrante: An American magician specializing in escape-artist tricks. He won awards from the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

Ricky Jay: A magician listed in the Guinness Book of Records as throwing a playing card 190 feet at 90 miles per hour.

Fred Kaps: A Dutch magician who died in 1980. He is a magician known for making a saltshaker create an endless supply of salt.

Juan Tamariz: A Spanish magician who in 1971 founded a school that has trained generations of Spanish magicians.

Dia Vernon: This Canadian magician was born in 1894 as David Frederick Wingfield Verner. This magician, who died in 1992, is known for fooling Houdini with one of his card tricks.

Paul Zenon: A British street magician who also performed in the bars and pubs in the U.K. This magician has written three books about magic, the most recent published in 2005.

Embarking on a tour to discover the world's major leaning towers would reveal that Italy's Leaning Tower of Pisa can no longer claim to being the most leaning tower on earth. Alongside buildings designed to seem like pieces of a chess board and false snow in a desert oasis, Abu Dhabi recently laid claim to the building with the most lean. The Capital Gate building in Abu Dhabi, has just been verified by the Guinness Book of Records, as being the furthest-leaning tower on the planet. The building leans at 18 degrees, which is approximately five times that of the Tower of Pisa. The Capital Gate deliberately erected to lean, unlike Tower of Pisa. The floor plates are staggered in such a way, to reach an 18 degree lean after the 12th floor.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa, the once foremost leaning tower, is a free standing bell tower. It commenced leaning soon after it was completed in 1173, due to a poorly established foundation and sagging substrata.

In order to demonstrate that their rate of descent was separate to their mass, Galileo is believed to have dropped two cannon balls of different masses from the tower. However, this story may be an imagination of Galileo's secretary.

Germany, Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Australia, Russian, China, United Kingdom, Malayasia, North America and the United States all can lay claim to ownership of a leaning tower.

A late medieval steeple, the leaning tower of Suurhusen, in Suurhusen, Germany, East Frisia, formerly owned the world record for being the foremost leaning tower in the world. According to local historian, Tjabbo van Lessen, the church was erected on marshy lands, where old oak tree trunks were sustained by the underground water. As the land became drained, in the 19th century, the wood deteriorated, causing the tower to lean over.

Built by a Chinese builder, Leong Choon Cheong, as a clock and water tower, as well as a beacon for shipping, in 1885, the Leaning Tower of Teluk Intan, began to lean four years later, because of an underwater stream.

Russia's Leaning Tower of Nevyansk, was erected in the 18th century. Some claim the tower was deliberately designed at an incline, while others say the cause was moving substrata.

Tradition reports that the tower weeps, as water constantly seeps down the southeast wall. On top of the tower is the first ever designed lightning rod, erected 35 years before Benjamin Franklin.

It is also the earliest known building to use reinforced concrete, 130 years prior to the first recorded use by a Parisian gardener in 1860.

The tower also boasts metal parts that show no indication of deterioration. Scientists agree that the iron composition is 99.6%.

Although used everywhere today, it remains a mystery how 18th century builders came to use such high-grade material.

Have you ever thought about a plant that can consume its prey? How about a flower that is 9 feet tall? Scientists have made some of the most amazing discoveries in the plant species which have some of the weirdest characteristics.

I recently come across some staggering information and images, on the world's rarest flowers. I thought it would be a great idea to share with you guys. Most of us thought that flowers capable of being 9 feet tall only existed in childhood fairytales. However they are real but are endangered due to environmental changes.

Tacca Chantrieri

The black bat flower is very beautiful and amazing. It is so very dark purple in color, so called black. Its bloom is over 12″ in diameter and it has got many "whiskers" which can grow to a length of 2 feet.

Rafflesia Arnoldii

Rafflesia Arnoldii is a member of the genus Rafflesia. It is noted for producing the largest individual flower on earth, and a strong odor of decaying flesh - the latter point earning it the nickname of "corpse flower". According to the Guinness Book of Records, the largest flower in the world came from the Rafflesia Arnoldii, which measured three feet in diameter, was 3/4 inch thick and weighed fifteen pounds.

Amorphophallus titanum

Titan Arum is one of the largest flowers in the world. It is also called the Corpse flower like Rafflesia, because of the foul smell it emits. It is seen in Sumatra and has the world's biggest inflorescence. Its flower head will come about 4-9 feet tall.

Drosera Capensis

This flower is also known as Cape Sundew. It is a carnivorous species feeding on insects. It has got strap like leaves which grow to about 3.5 cm long and 0.5 cm wide. These straps are covered with brightly coloured tentacles used to catch prey. Its flower is 5-petalled and pink in color.

The Ghost Orchid

The Orchid does not have leaves. So it uses chlorophyll in its roots to prepare food. The flower has a ghostly white color hence the name Ghost orchid. The flower reaches upto 25 cm in diameter and has got a clean soapy smell.

Nepenthes Tenax

From the species of tropical flesh-eating pitcher plant, the nepenthes tenax has been spotted in the Northern Queensland, Australia. The Nepenthes Tenax can grow a maximum height of 100 cm with vines exceeding to 25 cm high. Nepenthes Tenax is regarded as exceptional specie of pitcher flower since others can only grow at a maximum height of 15 cm.

Green Jade Flower

It is a rare and beautiful flower. It is distinct with its blue-green petals and navy-purple center. Green jade flower looks something like a fuschia plant on an acid trip.

The Legendary Flower

The Kadupul Flower begins blooming just before midnight and dies within a matter of hours. Because of its extremely short lifespan, even in its native Sri Lanka, the flower is rarely seen. The Kadupal Flower has been mythologized throughout history, and is referred to as the legendary flower of the Celestial Nagas. However, because of its ludicrously short lifespan the flower's monetary value is pretty much nil.

Prague, the capital of Czech Republic as well as its largest city is one of Europe's most beautiful cities. Its historic city center was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992 and for over 1,000 years this riverside city has been the cultural and economic capital of the Czech Republic. Many of the most popular sights and attractions are located in downtown Prague.

A very interesting place to see is Wenceslas Square in Prague's New Town, founded in 1348 by King Charles IV. It is part of Prague's historical city center. This culturally rich sight is a popular setting for celebrations, festivals and demonstrations. One of the most dramatic protests in history was held here in 1969, when 20 year old college student Jan Palach committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest against the invasion of the Soviet Union into Czechoslovakia. A memorial to Palach lies in front of the National Museum at the top of Wenceslas Square.

One of the most visited and photographed places in Prague is the "Dancing House" (originally named 'Fred and Ginger' as it favors two dancers), which has also been dubbed "drunk house" by locals. It is a fairly new arrival to the downtown Prague, building was complete in 1996. Although the shape and appearance caused quite a stir, in 2005 the Czech National Bank issued a gold coin with a picture of the house stamped on it. The coin was the final one in a series of coins minted called "10 Centuries of Architecture".

And of course, no trip to Prague would be complete without visiting the Castle! According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Prague Castle is the largest ancient castle in the world. From the museums and galleries to the towers and cathedrals, the buildings of the castle demonstrate almost every style of architecture introduced in the last 1000 years. It is truly one of the most beautiful sights in all of Europe.

If you have never been, now may be a great time to consider a trip to Prague. This breathtaking and magnificent city will astound you throughout your whole vacation.

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In a week or two, the most anticipated docking of the world's first plastic boat is to happen in Sydney, Australia. This is after a plastic bottle composed catamaran has left San Francisco, California for an unknown time of voyage to the country down under. This was not a voyage similar to that made by Jessica Watson when she circumnavigate from Australia and back only to get the attention of Guinness World Records and had her name penned to its most coveted awards. This voyage that commenced March 20, 2010 sailed with a cause - of bringing awareness to the world about how plastic bottles and its similar products can affect the environment.

The Conception and Birth

The UNEP report titled 'Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Deep Waters and High Seas' was what moved David de Rothschild while on his workwear uniform to conceptualize the Plastiki. The UNEP report pointed out an alarming announcement that the world's ocean is in the brink of destruction due to presence of pollution specifically the plastic wastes. In Plastiki's website, aside from a monitor of the current position of the catamaran, they also put an adjacent counter that shows the number of plastic bottles being used and disposed in US alone and the numbers were pegged into 6 digits now. After, Rothschild finalized his idea he invited a pool of experts who he can consult on issues of engineering and sailing.

The name Plastiki was inspired by the 1947 raft experimental expedition known as the Kon-Tiki. While Plastiki's expedition is for a cause, the Kon-Tiki was set to sail to prove that Polynesian settlement by South American explorers is probable. The Kon-Tiki was made out of balsa husks and used the trade winds to sail from Peru.

The Catamaran : Plastiki

What made the Plastiki so unique from other voyages and man-and-sea feat is first its objective and its good cause. Another distinct characteristic of the Plastiki that sets itself out among others is the design and the materials that have been used in the production of the vessel. In the initial design of concept architect Michael Pawlyn, the Plastiki is just a very simple boat with two rafts on its side and can be powered and pulled by a kite sail. Because the kite sail is big and heavy, the designers settled on making a full functioning yacht with "trimmable" sails - thus the final design of the catamaran.

The Plastiki is made up of 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles, some yards of wood, and reclaimed used PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) or also known as polyester. The 12,500 used plastic bottles where carefully and tightly secured in the two hulls of the catamaran. The plastic bottles are the main buoyancy device that makes the Plastiki float. The sail, cabin cover, cabin reinforcements are made of recycled polyester resins. Remember that polyesters are found in our clothes and workwear uniforms. Polyesters are synthetically produced textiles that similar to plastic will take time to decay naturally. To reinforce the connections in the hull and in the cabin the designers made use of strong steel. The vessel is also equipped with GPS and homing devices, complete kitchen accessories, solar panels and batteries, a vertical garden, and a Human Dynamo bike.

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