Daily News Russia » Daily entertainment news from Russia.: 2012-10-14

Hidden Persons Optical Illusion

It is really amazing how such amazing works of art get unnoticed, and somehow manage to bypass my approval queue. Just when you get to think there are no more major league illusions left to feature, another wave of magnificent works gets re-submitted by our loyal fans – I thank you for that! Btw, many of you asked how illusion submission works in the first place? I thought the footer (email) link “Submit Illusion” was obvious enough, but your input suggests I should bring more attention to it… Let me see if I can come with some sort of submission form in the following days…

Regarding the painting, it’s another creation by famous Octavio Ocampo. Observe it closely. How long does it take before you notice additional persons present? Don’t stop before you found all four of them! Perhaps there more, let’s see how many of them have you identified?

Making Bread In a Tandoor | Daily News in Russia

“Churek” or pita is one of the main products in Azerbaijan. It is also known as lavash or Caucasian bread. In Azerbaijan it is made near numerous small shops and it is always tasty and healthy. Outside Baku, the capital of the country, it is baked right along the roads.

The main attribute for the baking process is a tandoor, it is a clay dome with an open top, often cemented from outside for strength.

The dough is rather simple, it is made from water, wheat flour, salt, yeast.

When the dough grows enough it is used for making portion cakes.

This is a tandoor.

All this stands right at the road.

First of all the tandoor is to be heated well.

They use ordinary wooden chips.

Then it is moistured from inside in order cakes do not stick.

Right before the baking they moisten the tandoor walls with salt water.

The cakes are covered with a mixture of water, starch and sesame seed.

The dough sticks to the wall of the tandoor.

Then the tandoor is covered.

The final stage is to clean the bread from the excessive “tan”.

This hot, fresh and tasty bread is perfect for any table!

She is Perfect!

When Two Epochs Are Connected | Daily News in Russia

So much time has passed since WWII but some people still remember how hard it was to survive on those days. Two periods have been connected on these pictures of Odessa, Ukraine: the city in the war time and in 2012.

People welcome Soviet troops in the Rishelievskaya street after the city’s liberation from Nazi occupation.

Red Army enters the city.

Soviet soldiers and kids are near the Opera House.

Soviet cavalry enters the liberated Odessa.

Soldiers-liberators are on the Potemkin Stairs.

Residents of the liberated city are reading a summary of the Soviet Information Bureau.

It is a ruined music school.

These are the Barricades at Rishelievskaya Street from 1941.

It’s the Romanian bunker in front of the modern Chinese consulate.

Hoisting the Soviet flag on the building of the New Bazar.

It’s the gun salute at the monument of Vorontsov.

Ordinary citizens of Odessa helped to find the places for making such photos. Do you like the result?

The City Abandoned At the Worlds End | Daily News in Russia

Three days by car to Oslo, three hours by plane to Svalbard, Norway, five hours by an Arctic ship with a romantic name “Polar Girl” and you find yourself in the northernmost abandoned city: you are in Pyramiden.

Today nobody lives here. Not a single citizen. The last people left the city more than fifteen years ago. It’s only 1000 km from here to the north Pole. It makes the city inaccessible for looters. So Pyramiden looks almost untouched and it is inhabited by white bears only.
The city was a Soviet enclave in the west, they built only houses of good quality according to Soviet standards.