A little refreshing randomness from around the globe
Right hook to left jaw. Checkmate.
Proponents describe chessboxing as the ultimate fusion sport for the body and the mind. For up to eleven rounds, a chessboxing match alternates between three-minute rounds of uppercuts and jabs, and four-minute rounds of studious, deliberate protection of your king.
Chessboxing is not a game for amateurs. Participants are required to […]
The Wieliczka Salt Mine is known as ‘the underground cathedral of Poland.`This is because an entire city has been carved out of its very walls. Over the years, legions of anonymous workers carved bits of their workplace into everything they could think of, from saints to gnomes. Starting in the late 19th century, three miners […]
A former Russian gangster has built a log cabin half the size of Big Ben.
He says it was an accident. Nikolai Sutyagin began to build his dacha – the traditional Russian summer house – in 1992. He hoped to make it two stories, so his neighbors would know that he was the richest man in […]
Parkour cannot be stopped. That, in fact, is the entire point: parkour is the French martial art of escape, of surmounting every obstacle in your path in the case of an emergency. It is also known as l’art du déplacement, ‘the art of displacement.’
Get from Point A to Point B as quickly and as effortlessly […]
