` tOmatina festival in spain `

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` wOrld's top 10 lOngest single span bridges `

Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge, Japan – 1,991 m

Xihoumen Bridge, China – 1,650 m

Great Belt Bridge, Denmark – 1,624 m

Runyang Bridge, China – 1,490 m

Humber Bridge, England – 1,410 m

Jiangyin Suspension Bridge, China – 1,385 m

Tsing Ma Bridge, China – 1,377 m

Verrazano Narrows Bridge, USA – 1,298 m

Golden Gate Bridge, USA – 1,280 m

Yangluo Bridge, China – 1,280 m

` the mOses miracle `

Jindo Island, in South Korea, is host to one of the world’s most amazing natural phenomena called the Moses Miracle. It happenes two times in a year, at the beginning of May and in the middle of June, the waters between Jindo and Modo islands split and create a causeway 2.8 km (1.7 miles) long and 40 meters (131 feet) wide. The path lasts for roughly an hour and allows people from both places to meet halfway and celebrate.

A festival is dedicated to this natural wonder and people from all around the world attend every year. However the Moses Miracle was largely unknown until 1975, when a French ambassador visited South Korea and wrote about in a French Newspaper

` wOrld bOdypainting festival 2010 `

Since 1998 Europe’s most colourful event has taken place every year in Seeboden, Austria. The “World Bodypainting Festival” sponsored by Kryolan is the biggest art event in the bodypainting theme and thousands of visitors admire the wonderful work of the participants. Aritsts from 40 nations worldwide come to this unique event and put body art into the mountain and lake scenery.

` three gOrges :: wOrld's largest dam in china `

The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest hydropower project and most notorious dam. The massive project sets records for number of people displaced (more than 1.2 million), number of cities and towns flooded (13 cities, 140 towns, 1,350 villages), and length of reservoir (more than 600 kilometers).

Flooding in central China feels the strength of the world's largest dam - Three Gorges. It is reported that it now to the limit - resets 70,000 cubic meters of water per second. This is a record. However, the water level every hour only grows. The consequences, according to the engineers, can be disastrous, especially considering that the flooding in the area have already left homeless tens of thousands of people and caused material damage to millions of yuan. Evacuate had about a million people.