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In 1899, a Swiss city built a railway powered by wastewater; wastewater makes one car heavy enough to pull the other uphill without using a motorOpened in 1899, Fribourg's funicular uniquely connects the upper and lower districts by harnessing the power of gravity and wastewater rath...- In 1891, engineers built a railway up a Colorado mountain too steep for normal trains; its toothed track still carries passengers to the 14,115-foot summitEngineers developed a unique cog railway for Pikes Peak's steep inclines. This innovative system allowed trains to climb slopes ordinary ra...
- No airport, no currency, just 40,000 residents: This tiny European country is richer than most nations. Travellers can explore its postcard-perfect streets in just a few hoursLiechtenstein offers a unique European travel experience away from crowded tourist spots. This tiny nation, nestled between Switzerland and...
- A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venueA wildlife photographer discovered an extensive collection of dinosaur footprints, estimated at 20,000, dating back 210 million years in It...
- Reviving tradition: Swiss paper cutting artist infuses new life into ancient artMarianne Dubuis, a 64-year-old Swiss designer, is revolutionizing the country's 200-year-old tradition of paper cutting by incorporating mo...
- Museum that houses world's most important Greek antiquities to undergo major renovationThe project, expected to last four years, will be led by the British architect Sir David Chipperfield.
- Swiss move to ban Nazi symbolsA cross-party group of regional lawmakers wants to change the canton's constitution to "prohibit the display or wearing of Nazi symbols, em...
- Watch: Neeraj Chopra performs the garba at a Vadodara event, delights the crowdNeeraj Chopra stood offered his prayers at the venue before the idol of the goddess and joined some of the people there in going through a ...
- Top cryptocurrency prices today: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, Shiba Inu fall up to 6%Bitcoin, the largest crypto by market value, fell 2.43 per cent in the last 24 hours to $38,607.36. It is down 2.3 per cent in the last sev...
- Monuments Men group aim to locate lost artworks taken by Nazis through card decks. Here's howThey have created card decks of paintings & sculptures they believe still exists.
- Why CAG is building a grand museum in ShimlaThe museum will be housed in Shimla at Chadwick House where the first batch of audit and account officers from independent India underwent ...
- Ask the travel expert: Should one carry foreign exchange cards or are currency notes enough?Avoid queues while visiting popular tourist attractions by booking tickets online.
- Pokhara: A city known for its tranquil lakes, snowy peaks and quaint villagesOne can also spot the glistening peak of 6,993-metre high Machhapuchhre or Fish Tail, which is one of the few virgin mountains that one is ...
- Defence & civil nuclear cooperation will dominate Francois Hollande's visit; cooperation on rail infrastructure likelyModi’s trip to Paris last April witnessed landmark MoU for technocommercial cooperation between Areva and Nuclear Power Corporation of Indi...
- The Deutsches Fußballmuseum is as much about the game as it is about Die MannschaftThe museum is massive, interactive and immersive, littered not just with artefacts and photos from key moments of footballing history, but ...
- Chandigarh's Capitol Complex makes it to UNESCO's World Heritage ListSikkim's national park and Nalanda University in Bihar are the other two sites included in the list.
- Starbucks’ Christmas campaign on Twitter hijacked by tax protestsA Starbucks Twitter campaign for Christmas, displayed on a big screen at the Natural History Museum in London, backfired after protesters h...
- Switzerland: Fond(ue) memoriesOne must-have gustatory experience when in Switzerland, is the "Vacherin Mont-d’ -Or cheese" a seasonal soft cheese made with cow's milk an...
- Le Brassus: Home to Culinary delights & exclusive watchesAt Le Brassus, Swiss cheese & a variety of epicurean delights are items to feast on.
- Asia's first museum of modern Art coming up in KolkataThe metropolis will soon have a new a museum of modern art projected as the first of its kind in Asia.
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