It’s Hard To Believe This Was Once A Mall

What started as an attempt to get rid of Pesky Mosquitoes has now become one of the World’s Most Bizarre Koi Ponds to date. Abandoned after someone set the Building on fire in 1999, the New World Mall in Bangkok, Thailand is now home to hundreds of Exotic Koi and Catfish.

Bangkok’s New World Mall was built in the 1980s. Over the years, the Building faced Various Disasters. The Mall was forced to close in the 1990s because the Top 7 Floors were never approved in the Original Construction Permit. 

An Arsonist set the Building on fire in 1999. A person was killed by falling debris during demolition years later. After the building’s Top Floors were removed, The Mall was left abandoned without a Roof, inviting Rainwater to fill up the Bottom Floor.

Enter the Mosquitos. As Water filled the Abandoned Mall - now just 4 Stories Tall - Mosquitos began multiplying like crazy. Once the growing Swarms of Mosquitos started bothering Vendors and Residents in the Area, Locals decided that it was time to fix the problem. That’s when they started adding Koi Fish to the Flooded Building.

Koi are a type of Common Carp that are often kept in Outdoor Ponds and Water Gardens for Ornamental purposes. Distinguished by their Colors, Patterns and Scales, Koi come in a variety of colors such as blue, yellow, black and red. 

Since these Fish are able to adapt and survive in many Environments, they have multiplied in the Abandoned Building, despite the Dreary Environment.

Before becoming A Global Sensation, Locals fed and watched The Mall’s Koi Pond, marking the entrance with a Green Tarp. 

Now that pictures of The Abandoned Koi Pond have gone viral. Tourists have begun showing up at The Mall, hoping to Sneak a Peak of the Bizarre Setting. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has since declared the building off-limits for Safety Reasons.

5 Ways to Add Some Modern Touches to Your Home

After spending more time at Home than ever over the course of the past year, everything that’s both Fantastic and not so great in your House is more apparent.

For instance, while you love your Home Office Set-Up and are pleased with the way you created an Online Classroom Setting for the Kids, you also realize much of your Interior needs a Major Upgrade.

Fortunately, this is Not An Impossible Task by Any Means. In fact, Modernizing your Home can be fun and may also be done as your time and budget allow. As for how to go about doing it, consider the following tips -

 

1. Add a Few Pops of Color

Modern Style involves using bright and Fun Colors but in a very conservative way. This means not painting the entire Family Room Acid Green or the Kitchen a Buttery Yellow, but instead adding Cheery Colors to a couple of Accent Walls that will help highlight each space.

 

2. Use Photography as Art

A Modern Home won’t typically have Renaissance Oil Paintings or Bright and Garish Prints on the Walls. If this sounds all-too-familiar, consider switching out your current Artwork for some Photography Art. You can find Photography Art to fit your Modern Tastes from Online Art Retailers like Minted. 

 

3. Create an Open Feel

In a Perfect World, you would hire a Contractor to knock down Some Walls to create An Open Concept in your House. If your budget won’t allow for this right now, no worries at all. Instead, you can make your Floor Plan Look more open in other ways. For example, Group your Furniture so that the Room appears More Spacious and allows for an easier Transition between other Parts of the House. Additionally, leave plenty of Open Space in the Hallways and if possible, avoid using Bulky Furniture that can take over a Room.

 

4. Remove Clutter

One thing All Modern Homes have in common is A Lack of Clutter. In order to pare down the belongings you have on Display, Donate any Items that, as Marie Kondo would say, do not spark Joy. Then consider storing the majority of what’s leftover. In general, Knickknacks and other Dust Collectors will make Rooms look Busy and Cramped. To achieve a more Modern and Minimalist Style, focus on Open Designs, like a Sleek Coffee Table that’s Free of Piles of Magazines as well as a Bookcase with a few Framed Photos and Books instead of a bunch of Busy Tchotchkes.

 

5. Update Your Flooring

As your budget allows, consider removing any Old Carpeting and replacing it with Plank Tiles or Pre-Finished Flooring. These options are both ideal for A Modern Home and, if used throughout Several Rooms, can also help create the feel of an open concept. As a bonus, these choices are far easier to keep Clean. Plus, if Allergies are a problem in your Household, you won’t have to deal with Pollen and Pet Dander getting caught in the Carpet Fibers.

 

Enjoy Your More Modern Abode

Transforming your Home into something More Modern doesn’t have to be a Costly or Stressful Process. By adding a few Accent Walls here and there and Hanging Photographs on the Walls as well as spending a Weekend clearing out any Clutter and saving up for New Flooring, your Home will get The Modern Upgrade You Desire.

Fascinating Discoveries of 9 Mummy

 1. 700-Year-Old Mummy

These incredible pictures show a 700-Year-Old Mummy in excellent condition, which road workers discovered by chance in Eastern China. The corpse of the high-ranking woman is believed to be from the Ming Dynasty, The Ruling Power in China between 1368 and 1644. It was stumbled upon by a Construction Team that was looking to expand a street.

The Mummy, which was found in the City of Taizhou in the Jiangsu Province along with 2 other Wooden Tombs, offers a fascinating insight into life as it was back then. Discovered 2 meters below the road surface, the woman's features - from her head to her shoes - have retained their original condition and have hardly deteriorated.

When the discovery was made by the Road Workers in 2011, Chinese Archaeologists from the nearby Museum of Taizhou were called in to excavate the area. They were surprised by the remarkably good condition of the woman's skin, hair, eyelashes and face. It was as though she had only recently died.

2. Sacrificed Inca Children

The maiden, the boy and the girl of lightning were 3 Inca children entombed on a bleak and frigid Mountaintop 500 years ago as a Religious Sacrifice. Unearthed in 1999 from the 22,000-foot summit of Mount Llullaillaco, a volcano near the Chilean Border, their frozen bodies were among The Best Preserved Mummies ever found, with internal organs intact, blood still present in the heart and lungs and skin and facial features mostly unscathed. No special effort had been made to preserve them. The cold and the dry, thin air did all the work. They froze to death as they slept and 500 years later they still looked like sleeping children, not Mummies.

The children were sacrificed as part of a Religious Ritual known as Capacocha. They walked hundreds of miles to and from ceremonies in Cuzco and were then taken to the summit of Llullaillaco (Yoo-Yeye-YAH-Co), given Chicha (Maize Beer), and once they were asleep, placed in Underground Niches where they froze to death. Only beautiful, healthy, physically perfect children were sacrificed and it was an honor to be chosen. According to Incan Beliefs, the children did not die, but joined their Ancestors and watched over their Villages from the Mountaintops like Angels.

3. 2,400-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy with a Brain Removal Tool

In 2012, a brain-removal tool used by Ancient Egyptian Embalmers was discovered lodged in the skull of A Female Mummy that dates back around 2,400 years.

Removal of the brain was an Egyptian Mummification procedure that became popular around 3,500 years ago and remained in use during later periods. Identifying the ancient tools which embalmers used for brain removal is difficult and researchers note that this is only the second time that such a tool has been reported within a Mummy's Skull.

Located between the left parietal bone and the back of the skull, which had been filled with resin, the object was discovered in 2008 through a series of CT Scans. Researchers then inserted an endoscope (a thin tube often used for noninvasive medical procedures) into the Mummy to get a closer look and ultimately detach it from the resin.

4. Rosalia Lombardo

Rosalia Lombardo (1918 – 1920) was an Italian Child who died of influenza. Rosalia's father, General Lombardo, was sorely grieved about her death, so he approached Alfredo Salafia, a noted Embalmer, to preserve her. Her body was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo in Sicily.

Thanks to Salafia's embalming techniques, the body was well-preserved. X-rays of the body show that all the organs are remarkably intact. Rosalia Lombardo's body is kept in a small chapel at the end of the Catacomb's Tour and is encased in a glass covered coffin located on a marble pedestal.



5. Strange Mummy Found by a 10-Year-Old

A German Boy discovered what appeared to be a bandaged Egyptian Mummy inside an old wooden chest in his grandmother's attic.

Experts were investigating whether the "Mummy" was a genuine, Ancient Egyptian Relic, a Replica or something entirely different. It was inside a sarcophagus complete with a death mask, a canopic jar – used by Ancient Egyptians to store removed organs – and other artifacts. The 10-year-old, Alexander, made the mystery discovery while searching around his grandmother's flat in Diepholz, Germany.

Alexander's Father, Lutz Wolfgang Kettler, a dentist, recalled that his own father had acquired a chest while travelling in North Africa in the 1950s and had it shipped back to Germany. The senior Mr. Kettler had apparently never spoken about the chest or its contents. "Mummy Unwrapping Parties" were popular among certain elements of German High Society in the 1950s, he said.

6. Egyptian Mummy "Dressed" in Roman Robes

"Dressed" in Roman Robes, a 2,000-Year-Old Coffin stares back from a rare Egyptian Grave in the Bahariya Oasis, about 225 miles (362 kilometers) southwest of Cairo. On April 12, 2010, Egyptian Officials announced that the unopened plaster sarcophagus, believed to contain a Mummy, is among the Ancient Treasures uncovered at a newfound cemetery.

The site contains at least 14 Tombs from the era when Ancient Rome controlled Egypt from 30 B.C. to A.D. 395. Jewelry, funerary masks and pottery were also found, though the sand-covered Tombs have been damaged by humidity and seeping groundwater. Measuring just 3.2 feet (97 centimeters) long and carved with the Finery of An Influential Woman, the sarcophagus remains something of a Mystery.

"When I saw it for the Ist time, I thought it was a dwarf. ... ," said Mahmoud Affifi, director of Cairo and Giza Antiquities for Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. "May be she was a small girl, but [even] now we don't know," he said.

7. 2,000-Year-Old European Found in China

An amazing discovery of 2,000 Year Old Mummies in the Tarim Basin of Western China occurred in the early 90s. However, more amazing than the discovery itself was the astonishing fact that the Mummies were blond-haired and long-nosed. In 1993, college professor Victor Mayer collected DNA from the Mummies and his tests verified that the bodies were all of European Genetic Stock. Ancient Chinese texts from as early as the Ist millennium BC do mention groups of far-east dwelling Caucasian People referred to as the Bai, Yeuzhi and Tocharians. None, though, fully reveal how or why these people ended up there.

8. Plomo Mummy

The Plomo Mummy or La Momia del Cerro El Plomo in Spanish, is the well preserved remains of an Incan Child found on Cerro El Plomo in 1954. It was the Ist Frozen Mummy discovery from an Incan high-altitude human sacrifice. The Mummy is curated by the National Museum of Natural History in Santiago, Chile, while a replica of the Mummy is on public display.

9. More Incan Children's Mummies

Archaeologists believe that many Incan Mummies, including those of children, were human sacrifices to The Mountain God Apus.

Titanoboa - Predatory King of The Colombian Jungle

 This is What World's Largest Snake Looked Like

 

Snakes are always bad news, but if you lived between 50 and 60 million years ago, this guy would have completely ruined your day. The Titanoboa stretched about 42-50 feet in length and weighed over 2,500 pounds. Due to its immense size, you could probably see this guy coming, but considering he was basically 14 yards long, there wasn't a whole lot you could do about it.

After the fall of the Dinosaurs, this Creature took over as Predatory King of The Colombian Jungle.

This Life-Size Replica of the Titanoboa shows that the 

Prehistoric Reptile would have no problem swallowing a Human whole.

The digestion process for Anacondas can take several days to complete. Therefore, it's believed that the Titanoboa sometimes didn't fully digest meals until months after consumption, depending on the size of the prey.

It might look like something Harry Potter would fight at the end of a movie. But this thing was Very Very Real for Several Million Years. Human Beings thankfully missed out on its Reign...otherwise we may never have risen to the top of the food chain.

Museum of Cairo Egypt