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Hassanal Bolkiah (born 15 July 1946) is the 29th and current Sultan of Brunei and the Prime Minister of Brunei, Yang Di-Pertuan. He was one of the last absolute emperors of the world. The eldest son of Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin III and King Istri (Queen) Pengiran Anak Damit, he ascended the throne as Sultan of Brunei after the abduction of his father on 5 October 1967. The Sultan was ranked among the richest in the world. In 2008, Forbes estimated the Sultan's net worth at US $ 20 billion. After Queen Elizabeth II, the Sultan was the second tallest current emperor in the world. On 5 October 2017, the Sultan celebrated his golden jubilee to mark the 50th year of his reign on the throne. Early life and education. Sultan was born on July 15, 1946, in Istana Darussalam, Brunei Town (now known as Bandar Seri Begawan, now known as Pengiran Muda (Prince) Hasanal Bolkia. Rule. He became the Sultan of Brunei Darussalam on 5 October 1967 after his father retired. His coronation took place on...

Mohenjo-daro meaning "Mount of the Dead Men"  is an archaeological site in the province of Sindh, Pakistan.    Built around 2500 BCE, it was one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization,  and one of the world's earliest major cities  contemporaneous with the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Minoan Crete, Norte Chico.  Mohenjo-daro was abandoned in the 19th century BCE as the Indus Valley Civilization declined, and the site was not rediscovered until the 1920s. Significant excavation has since been conducted at the site of the city, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980. Location: Mohenjo-daro is located off the right (west) bank of the lower   Indus river in Larkana District, Sindh , Pakistan. It lies on a Pleistocene  ridge in the flood plain of the Indus, around 28 kilometres (17 mi) from the town of Larkana. Mohenjo-daro was built in the 26th century BCE .  ...

Glass Beach  is a beach adjacent to Mackerricher State Park  near Fort Bragg, California,  named from a time when it was abundant with sea glass  created from years of dumping garbage  into an area of coastline near the northern part of the town. In 1906, Fort Bragg residents established an official water dump site behind the Union Lumber Company  onto what is now known as "Site 1". Most water-fronted communities had water dump sites discarding glass , appliances, and even vehicles.   Locals referred to it as "The Dumps."  Fires were often lit using Molotov cocktails to reduce the size of the trash pile. When the original dump site filled up in 1943, the site was moved to what is now known as "Site 2", the active dump site from 1943 until 1949. When this beach became full in 1949, the dump was moved north to what is now known as "Glass Beach", which remained an active dump site until 1967. There are three Glass Beach sites in Fort Bragg where...

  Adam Rainer  (1899   – 4 March 1950) was the only person in recorded history  to have been both a dwarf  and a giant .  He is believed to have had acromegaly. Rainer was born in Graz, Austria-Hungary  (present day Austria ), in 1899.   In 1917, at age 18, he was measured at 122.55 cm (4 ft 0.25 in), then in 1918, at age 19, he was measured at 111.5 cm (3 ft 7.9 in). As a child of normal parents, Adam Rainer was described as very small, thin and weak up to his 21st birthday. In 1917 and 1918, therefore he was refused entry into the Austro-Hungarian Army  to take part in the First World War . A typical defining characteristic of dwarfism  is an adult height below 147 cm (4 ft 10 in). Then, likely as a result of a pituitary tumor, he had a dramatic growth spurt so that by 1932 at the age of 33, he had reached a height of 218 cm (7 ft 2 in).  Two doctors e...

Gregory Paul McLaren   (born 1971)   who goes by the name of   Lucky Diamond Rich , is a New Zealand performance artist, street performer and international arts festival performer, whose act includes sword swallowing and juggling on a unicycle. He is best known, however, for holding the Guinness World Record as "the world's most Tattooed person", a title formerly held by Englishman tom Leppard. Rich has tattoos covering his entire body, including the insides of his eyelids, mouth, ears and foreskin. He has held the certified record since 2006, being 100 percent tattooed. As a young boy, he read about and became interested in the most tattooed men and women. It did not go much further than just a thought until he got his first tattoo, which was of a small juggling club on his hip. He went on to tattoo every part of his body including every crevice and intimate area. He has tattooed some white over his black tattoos and added color. His tattoos...

  Casa do Penedo  (Portuguese  for  Stone House  or  House of the Rock ) is an architectural monument located between Celorico de Basto    and Fafe , in Northorn Portugal .   It received its name because it was built from four large boulders that serve as the foundation, walls and ceiling of the house History: Its construction began in 1972 and lasted about two years until its completion in 1974 The engineer who built the Casa do Penedo was from Guimaraes. The residence was initially used by the owners as a holiday destination. Today Casa de Penedo is a small museum of relics and photographs from the house's history. The building is located near a wind farm, although there is no electricity supply to the house itself. Due to its unusual design and integration into the surrounding nature, the building has become a growing tourist attraction.

Robert Pershing Wadlow born on February 22, 1918 in Alton, Illinois, United States  was known as the world's tallest man. He died on July 15, 1940 when he was only 22 years old.   Wadlow's height was 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m)  while his weight reached 439 lb (199 kg) at his death at age 22. His great size and his continued growth in adulthood were due to hypertrophy  of his pituitary   gland , which results in an abnormally high level of human growth  hormone (HGH). Even by the time of his death, there was no indication that his growth had ended. Robert with his father Wadlow was born in Alton , Illinois  , on February 22, 1918, to Harold Franklin and Addie May (Johnson) Wadlow, and was the oldest of five children. He was taller than his father by age 8, and in elementary school a special desk was made for him. By the time of his graduation from Alton High School in 1936,  he was 8 ft 4 in (254 cm). He...

Shridhar Chillal: Shridhar Chillal  (born January 29, 1937) is an Indian  man from the city of Puna, who held the world record  for the longest fingernails  ever reached on a single hand , with a combined length of 1000.6 centimeters (358.1 inches). Chillal's longest single nail is his thumbnail, measuring 197.8 centimeters (77.87 inches). He stopped cutting his nails in 1952. Shridar embarked on his nail-growing journey in 1952 after an incident with one of his teachers.  One of his friends had accidentally broken the teacher’s long nail, resulting in Shridar and his friend receiving a beating from the teacher.  When they asked why he was so angry, the teacher replied; "unless you grow long nails, you will never understand the kind of care required not to break them".  After that, Shridar and his friend started growing their own nails as a challenge.That challenge set in motion for Shridar a 66-year long obsession with growing the nails on his le...