Hillandale, Stamford, Conn. The 20,000-square-foot residence has eight bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. It's so big that the property straddles the New York-Connecticut border. The grounds also include four guest and staff residences and two barns, all connected by five miles of private roads.
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
The Extravagant Designs of Luigi Colani (PICS)
Aerodynamic Planes, Trains and Automobiles all from a never-never land of the most far-reaching imagination of the modern designers. To describe these concepts simply as streamlined is a huge understatement. They are wild, exciting, totally unexpected forms - a tribute to a Golden Age of futurism.
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The World's Most Impressive Subways
Subways are as much a part of big-city living as high-rises and gridlock, and they get about as much love. For many people, subways are crowded, noisy places only marginally better than being stuck in traffic -- and most of them are.
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Gorgeous Images of the Sky, From 200+ Miles Above it [PICS]
The Space Shuttle Discovery successfully launched last week, becoming the 154th manned US space mission. One of the best features of the space program has always been astronaut photography, and I will take this opportunity to share some of the best photographs of Earth's skies, taken from above - way above
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10 Highest Waterfalls on Earth [pics
If you’re like me, as a kid, you probably enjoyed throwing heavy objects off super-high buildings, just to see how long it took and what they looked like when they smashed. As a responsible adult, I now get my pleasure in gazing at water falling from extremely high cliffs and splashing into the rocks. It’s quite spectacular. We wanted to find out .
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The 9 Largest Science Projects in The World
A great list of the 9 largest science projects in the world ... either running, under construction, or on the drawing board. Who else has never heard of the Space Elevator or the "Svalbard "Doomsday" Seed Vault?
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Why Oil Prices Skyrocketed - Gas To Get More Expensive?
With the cost of crude oil surging to record highs, a heated battle of blame is in full swing. Meanwhile, predictions that we've reached a peak in oil production or will very soon — dismissed only a few years ago as being alarmist and without merit — are receiving more serious consideration. How high will gas go now?
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Forbes: Why Firefox Matters
But don't be fooled. Firefox has become one of the most important pieces of software around today as consumers shift from using their PCs to run applications living on their hard drives to a communications device able to connect with applications living on distant servers. The new browser has plenty of these soon-to-be-ubiquitous features...
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And the fastest browser is...
Which is the world's fastest browser? According to Zimbra, Safari runs fastest, though it didn't beat out Firefox by much. Both Safari and Firefox were roughly twice as fast as Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7. Of course, Zimbra was testing for how these browsers perform with the Zimbra Web application. Your mileage may vary with other applications.
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