Why do all East Asian(Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese) Dramas always have a girl with an incurable disease who dies young?

Eco-Friendly Homes For Poor and Low Income Families?

I was watching Aljazeera English the other day and I saw this segment on a plastic bottle house in Yelwa, Nigeria that has been made from plastic bottles filled with dirt and string. The bottles were much stronger than regular bricks and cement. Also they are bullet proof and earthquake proof. Here are some pictures:

The bottle house is solar powered, fuel-efficient with a clean stove, it has urine flirtation fertilization systems and water purification tanks. Hopefully there would more of these house made and this idea can expand to different nations. Habitat for Humanity and other non-profits that involve building homes for the poor and homeless should adopt this technique.

I’m not a wealthy person and I lived in crappy places before. I always see poorer people in the US receive the worst housing that is insufficient, unsafe and harmful to their health. I really hope that there is some type of initiative or program that starts in America that mimics what the people in Yelwa, Nigeria are doing. 

One of Japan’s last sword makers. 

I strongly believe that the meek will inherit this Earth one day.

Fun Facts of the Day: Aladdin was actually Chinese and one of the earliest know fairy tales about Cinderella are can be found in Asia.

mafindor:

UHHH IDK i’m pretty sure this is wrong but ok..

Dang Russia!!!! Well I must actually be a Russian. My breasts are wayyy bigger than most women in the world. 

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These are simply divine. 

Iranian Mosque

Photograph by Alexandra Avakian

Intricate blue tiles adorn the walls of a large Iranian mosque and mirror a clear sky that beckons the faithful to the sunny courtyard. The mosque’s many arches are a prominent feature of Islamic architecture.

Setting Sun

Photograph by Michael Yamashita

A burning orange sun sets behind a fringe of pampas grass in Japan. Japan’s nickname, “The Land of the Rising Sun,” is derived from the Chinese ideograph meaning “place of the sun’s origin.”

Orange Coral

Photograph by Tim Laman

A tubastraea coral waves its wispy, orange tentacles near Sangeang Island, Indonesia. Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor, but they support one out of every four marine creatures.