Video documents the existence of a never-ending stairwell “Escherian Stairwell”

On April 2013, many people were amazed and puzzled by a video from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) purportedly documenting the existence of a “Escherian Stairwell” which “violates the laws of physics and basic logic by looping back into itself”.

I would like to know if the Escherian stairwell located in the RIT is actually a never ending stairwell. Is it possible for a staircase to violate the laws of physics and basic logic by looping back into itself, or just a camera trick.

On 30 April 2013 article published on RIT website, Michael Lacanilao created the video series. The video showing off the unusual stairway was supposedly the third installment of a “Can You Imagine” series about “interesting facts, stories and myths of RIT”

Around 30,000 people were at the festival on May 4. Apparently, the exhibit located in Artistic Alley in Gannet Hall room A171, will help festival goers search for the stairwell and give them a behind the scenes look at “Can You Imagine”.

Quite obviously no physics-defying “Escherian Stairwell” exists in the real world. The secret is that it is a film maker‘s illusion. The video was a bit of trickery created in conjunction with a (failed) Kickstarter campaign – (“The Stairwell Project – Building a Modern Myth”) intended to help fund the creation of articles, videos and other materials to establish a mythical backstory for the stairway in time for  Imagine RIT, the school’s annual Innovation & Creativity Festival.

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Everyone likes a good quote. Welcome to my collection of motivational quotes. Sometimes in life you might not feel good and need some quotes to motivate you and guide you in your life. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. Feel free to like and share these quotes with everyone you love.

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 Fibres of orange or grapefruit peels

We waste a tremendous amount of food , about 20 pounds per person per month. The Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research group based in Washington, D.C., calculates that we waste even more food during the holiday season, three times as much during festive season than at other times of the year. I have read that, the food wasted annually in the United States is enough to satisfy the hunger of approximately 1 billion malnourished people worldwide.

When eating certain food, there are certain parts which seemingly are useless and should be thrown away. In reality, their nutritional value could be higher than the food itself. Check if you have unknowingly wasted these.

When eating oranges or grapefruits, after removing the peel, do not remove all the fibres that cover the fruits. In fact, the fibres contained a vitamin which helps to maintain the elasticity and density of the artery wall, which in turn reduces the danger of bleeding especially in the fine arteries. Hypertension patients usually have problem of brain hemorrhage while diabetic patients have retina hemorrhage. For people with tendency to bleed, especially elderly people with tendency of artery hardening, eating fibres of oranges and grapefruit peels is particularly helpful.

Chili Pepper Leaves

Chili pepper leaves contains complete range of amino acid almost 4 times compared to chili peppers. It also contains more than double what chili peppers have of which are anti-cancerous substance. On top of that, chili pepper leaves are rich in calcium, beta carotene, various vitamins and other nutrients. Eating a suitable quantity of chili pepper leaves enhances secretion of digestive juices, improves appetite and are good for indigestion, gastric and stomach discomfort. Regular intake of chili pepper leaves also help in warming body, strengthen liver, improve eyesight, reduce weight and improve beauty. Chili pepper leaves is tasty and can either be cooked alone, frying with meat or making soup.

  Pork Bones

The nutritional value of bones are higher than that of the meat. Comparing the nutritional values of Pork bones and pork, the bones contain far more protein, iron, sodium and calories than meat. Bones contain 23% more protein than milk powder, 61% more than beef, three times as much as pork and more than double that of eggs. It has abundance of essential minerals that humans require, like vitamins A, B1 and B2 that are useful for slowing aging. The best part is, when boiled in soup, these nutrients become more readily absorbed by human body than plant-based food.

Fish Eyes

Fish eyes, especially mackerel family, contains rich quantity of  DHA and EPA which are very rare unsaturated fatty acid. The most beneficial property of these natural substances is their ability to stimulate human brain cells, improve memory and thinking power, and also very helpful in preventing memory decline, high cholesterol and hypertension diseases. The common notion suggested is that eating certain animal parts would strengthen similar body parts of ours, and this has been proven correct by clinical experiments where fish eyes are concerned: they can help to reduce the deterioration of eyesight.

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What questions do you often ask yourself? Asking the right questions is the answer to help you refresh and refocus your thinking. It is not the answers you get from others that will help you, but the questions you ask of yourself.

Very often we get caught up in the every day hum-drum or chaos of our daily lives, that we often forget to take the time to relax, to take a few moments to breathe and think about our lives and the impact we are having on the world. The excuse is, we are all too busy living, jostling for pole position in the rat race.

But by taking a few minutes to ask yourself the above thought-provoking questions, who knows? You might even end up viewing the world from an entirely different perspective.

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Everyone seems to know of at least one haunted house; as kids there was almost certainly one in our own neighborhood.  Old places generally accumulate their share of ghost tales . This list  are the places, through years of experiences and unnerving reputation, that are considered the most haunted places in the world.

Leap Castle, County Offaly, Ireland

Many people were imprisoned and executed in the castle, and it is supposedly haunted by several specter. The most terrifying of these beings is thought to have been summoned by Mildred Darby’s occult activities. “It”, the name given to the creature, is a small grey humanoid, about the size of a sheep, with a decaying face. The apparition is said to be accompanied by the stench of a decomposing corpse and the smell of sulfur. This particular spirit is called an Elemental. They are often malevolent, terrifying, and unpredictable. “It” appears to keep itself relatively hidden in comparison with the other spirits at Leap Castle. On occasion visitors will see the creature, and in few incidences be attacked.

St. James  Theater, Wellington, New Zealand

Catacombs of Paris

The Catacombs of Paris are a maze of tunnels and crypts underneath the city streets where Parisians placed the bones of their dead for almost 30 years. Prior to the creation of the Catacombs in the mid-1700s, residents buried their dead in cemeteries, but as the city grew, they quickly ran out of space. The decision was made to use an underground section of quarries in Paris, and the bones from Paris’ city cemeteries were moved underground between 1786 and 1788. The process was conducted with reverence and discretion – the quarry space was blessed before any bones were moved there, bones were always moved in a quiet parade of carts accompanied by priests, and these movements always took place at night. The quarries continued to be used as the collection point for the bones from Paris’ cemeteries through 1814 and now contain the bodies of roughly 6-7 million Parisians.

The underground cemetery became a tourist attraction on a small scale from the early 19th century, and has been open to the public on a regular basis from 1874. Following an incident of vandalism, they were closed to the public in September 2009 and reopened 19 December of the same year. Parisians today often refer to the entire tunnel network as “the catacombs”.

Bhangarh, India

People in India know all about ghosts. Locals give the Bhangarh fort, and the area around it, a wide berth, due to some popular spooky stories associated with the fort and town. Authorities have told visitors not to enter the ruined city after dusk. It is said that a wicked sorcerer cursed the city after being spurned by a princess. The 17th-century city was soon destroyed by an advancing army, leaving only its temples intact, and has been uninhabited ever since. Visitors say that birds and wildlife fall silent as the spirit of the sorcerer approaches at night, and nobody has ever tried to spend the night there. Just too spooky to take that chance.

Whether or not you give credence to the idea of ghosts, it is difficult to deny that places like this have a certain ‘feel’ to them which makes you want to get out as soon as possible. Overactive imagination, or subconscious warning? You be the judge.

The Tower of London

The Tower of London, one of the most famous and well-preserved historical buildings in the world, may also be one of the most haunted. This is due, no doubt, to the scores of executions, murders and tortures that have taken place within its walls over the last 1,000 years. Dozens upon dozens of ghost sightings have been reported in and around the Tower. One of the wives of Henry VIII, beheaded in the Tower in 1536. Her ghost has been seen on many occasions, sometimes carrying her head, on Tower Green and in the Tower Chapel Royal.

Other ghosts include those of Henry VI, Thomas Becket and Sir Walter Raleigh. One of the most gruesome ghost stories describes the death of the Countess of Salisbury. According to one account, “the Countess was sentenced to death in 1541 following her alleged involvement in criminal activities — although it is now widely believed that she was probably innocent. After being sent struggling to the scaffold, she ran from the block and was pursued until she was hacked to death by the axe man.” Her execution ceremony has been seen re-enacted by spirits on Tower Green.

Aokigahara Suicide Forest – Base of Mt. Fuji, Japan

The dense Aokigahara forest was a popular suicide destination even before Wataru Tsurumi’s 1993 bestseller ‘The Complete Manual of Suicide’ listed it as an ideal place to die. Suicides here were so prevalent that in the 1970s annual sweeps were instituted by the government to remove the bodies — most of which were found in various stages of decay, hanging from trees in homemade nooses. With approximately 70-100 bodies recovered here each year, it is shockingly likely that the sounds of wailing heard through the trees might be from actual living people committing suicide, but many believe the forest is cursed by the tortured souls of those who died here.

Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland

Castle dungeons, especially ones with a 900-year history, are expected to have seen some rough times. The Castle is reputed to be one of the most haunted spots in Scotland. And Edinburgh itself has been called the most haunted city in all of Europe. The dungeons at Edinburgh Castle held a wide variety of kooky personalities, including Lady Janet Douglas, an accused witch who was later burned at the stake, along with around 300 other women over the castle’s history, and Duke Alexander Stewart of Albany, who escaped by killing his guards and burning their bodies.On various occasions, visitors to the castle have reported a phantom piper, a headless drummer, the spirits of French prisoners from the Seven Years War, – and even the ghost of a dog wandering in the grounds’ dog cemetery.

Stanley Hotel, Colorado

Many of us remember the superb horror film The Shining, based on the novel by Stephen King. The book was inspired by a stay at the Stanley in Estes Park, Colorado. Assigned Room 217, King reportedly heard ghost children playing in the hallway. Many have experienced paranormal activity here, but these real-life ghosts seem harmless. Many spirits are said to haunt the place, while guests and employees claim to have heard faint music coming from the ballroom and seen the piano keys moving. Often, the sound of children playing in the halls of the Stanley can be heard, even when no children are present.

Chillingham Castle, England

Chillingham Castle in Northumberland is a hotbed of activity and has always gained a reputation for being very haunted. Many believe Chillingham Castle to be the most haunted location in the Great Britain. What also adds up to the appeal is the castles medieval architecture, the sheer beauty of this historical masterpiece and the more sinister side of the authentic torture chamber, complete with stretching rack and Iron Maiden. Not only the did the Castle provide shelter for the English soldiers, it was also used to imprison Scottish rebels. One priest called it, an embodiment of evil. This Castle is of course a perfect location for overnight ghost hunting and weekend events.

The Castle will be Open from Good Friday 29 March 2013 until 1 November 2013. Closed every Saturday Except Easter Saturday.

Loftus Hall, Wexford, Ireland

 The current Loftus Hall is reopened to the general public for the first time in almost twenty years on Friday the thirteenth of July, 2012.

The ‘House of Death’, Manhattan

The ‘House of Death’ is located at 14 West 10^th Street, in Manhattan, New York. This simple brownstone is often considered the Most haunted place in Manhattan, as a variety of spirits have appeared in the building’s stairwells, apparently including that of a former inhabitant — Mark Twain!

If you ever get a chance to stay in any of these places overnight, my advice would be — don’t.

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