Culture

Bye bye coffins and cremation… become an after-life compost of death! (pics + vid)

Two Italian designers, Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel, have put forth a green alternative to cemeteries, funerals and burials – even cremation. The Capsula Mundi concept uses an egg-shaped burial pod of biodegradable starch plastic as the coffin where the body is placed in a fetal position.

World honors the memory of Holocaust victims

January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the date the United Nations chose to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust during World War II.

The anniversary, which is marked each year since 2005, falls on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland by the Russian army in 1945.

A theatrical play performed in Ancient Greek (vid)

A bilingual theatrical performance of Antigone, Sophocles was presented in Ancient Greek and in Greek sign language by Ecclesiastical Lyceum of the Rizarios School and the Junior and Senior High School of Agia Paraskevi for Speech-and-Hearing Impaired Students, under the auspices of the Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO.

The world’s most exclusive nightclub… only the chosen few can fit in! (pics)

Berlin’s trendy Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district is home to the world’s smallest disco – ‘Teledisko’. The coin-operated venue created by German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom is a repurposed phone booth and can only accomodate two people at a time. Only you and your chosen friends can enter the yellow parted place.

An unexpected place to celebrate the Chinese New Year: Greece!

Back in the Nineties, Chinese entrepreneurs first began to establish themselves in Greece, creating settlements in both Athens and Thessaloniki. More and more shops with traditional Chinese lanterns began to appear. Not long after that, the Chinese community began to host its first New Year’s lion dances to celebrate New Year festivities.

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