BURJ KHALIFA: The Highest Building In The World since 2010

DEVELOPMENT:

Burj Khalifa

Construction began on 6 January 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. The building officially opened on 4 January 2010. The tower's architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill of Chicago, with Adrian Smith as chief architect, and Bill Baker as chief structural engineer. The primary contractor was Samsung C&T of South Korea. The tower's construction was done by the construction division of Al Ghurair Investment group.

CONCEPT;
Burj Khalifa was designed to be the centerpiece of a large-scale, mixed-use development that would include 30,000 homes, nine hotels , 3 hectares of parkland, at least 19 residential towers, the Dubai Mall, and the 12-hectare man-made Burj Khalifa Lake.

Burj Khalifa hotel interior

FEATURES;
1. The Dubai Fountain

Burj Khalifa model made of chocolate

Outside, WET Enterprises designed a fountain system at a cost of US$217 million. Illuminated by 6,600 lights and 50 coloured projectors, it is 275 m long and shoots water 150 m into the air, accompanied by a range of classical to contemporary world musics.

2. Observation deck
An outdoor observation deck, named At the Top, opened on 5 January 2010 on the 124th floor. At 452 m  it was the highest observation deck in the world and the highest outdoor observation deck in the world when it opened. Burj Khalifa opened the 148th floor SKY level at 555 m. The 124th floor observation deck also features the Tellscope electronic telescope, which allows visitors to view the surrounding landscape in real-time, and to view previously saved images such as those taken at different times of day or under different weather conditions.

BURJ KHALIFA PARK;
Burj Khalifa is surrounded by an 11 ha park designed by landscape architects SWA Group. The design of the park is also inspired by the core design concepts of Burj Khalifa which is based on the symmetries of the desert flower, Hymenocallis. The park has six water features, gardens, palm lined walkways, and flowering trees. At the centre of the park and the base of Burj Khalifa is the water room, which is a series of pools and water jet fountains. In addition the railing, benches and signs incorporate images of Burj Khalifa and the Hymenocallis flower.
The plants and the shrubbery will be watered by the buildings's condensation collection system that uses water from the cooling system. The system will provide 68,000,000 L annually. WET Enterprises, who also developed the Dubai Fountain, developed the park's six water features.

The popularity of Burj Khalifa is widespred acroos the world, so some movies used it as a shooting location. there is also a replica of the Burj Khalifa, made entirely from 4,200 kg of high quality Belgian chocolate was displayed on 30 November 2014 at the Dubai International Airport. The 13.5-metre (44.2 ft) tall structure is a Guinness record feat by master chocolatier Andrew Farrugia and is a part of the 43rd UAE National Day Celebration. The 3D model was made also.

The history of chocolate

Cocoa beans(main material in chocolate making)

-Chocolates, a sweet food that could be sweet or bitter. One of the sweetest food, 100% appropriate as a desert because it could be also served in a cold, hot or normally way. But, it have a looomg history to become one of the most popular food.

-Chocolates was 1st belongs to the natives that live at Mexico. By the 15th century, the Aztecs gained control of a large part of Mesoamerica and adopted cacao into their culture. The Aztecs were not able to grow cacao themselves, as their home in the Mexican highlands was unsuitable for it, so chocolate was a luxury imported into the empire. Those who lived in areas ruled by the Aztecs were required to offer cacao seeds in payment of the tax they deemed "tribute". Cocoa beans were often used as currency.

Other types of chocolate

When Christopher Columbus came to America (also known as "the new worlds") on 1492,the Europeans follow him in search for rare and useful items such as gold, herbs & food material and many more. The items that was founded at America was imported to Europe, Chocolates were one of the them.

-Chocolate has become one of the most popular food types and flavors in the world, and a vast number of foodstuffs involving chocolate have been created. Cocoa is the main raw material in Chocolate making, that's why most chocolate maker company use cocoa to make their sweet or pure chocolate.  Pure, unsweetened chocolate contains primarily cocoa solids and cocoa butter in varying proportions. Much of the chocolate consumed today is in the form of sweet chocolate, combining chocolate with sugar.

Simple type of chocolate bar

-The word "chocolate" entered the English language from Spanish. The word "chocolatl" does not occur in central Mexican colonial sources, making this an unlikely derivation.

Chocolate cake

-Same as many other foods, people make many kinds of chocolate dishes. Such as: Chocolate ice cream, Hot chocolate, chocolate pudding, chocolate jam & many more dishes. However, most sweet chocolate dishes were mixed with dark chocolate to make more varieties. Dark chocolates and sweetened chocolate were the most common variety of chocolate.

The creation of sandwich

Common example of sanwich

-Sandwich, one of the most international food. But have you ever wondered how it was created?

Peanut butter and jelly sandwich

Ham and cheese sandwich

-The ancient sandwich making was 1st started from the ancient Jewish sage Hillel the Elder is said to have wrapped meat from the Paschal lamb and bitter herbs between two pieces of old-fashioned soft matzah during Passover in the manner of a modern sandwich wrap made with flatbread. Flat breads of only slightly varying kinds have long been used to scoop or wrap small amounts of food en route from platter to mouth throughout Western Asia and northern Africa. From Morocco to Ethiopia to India, bread is baked in flat rounds, contrasting with the European loaf tradition.

-Initially perceived as food that men shared while gaming and drinking at night, the sandwich slowly began appearing in polite society as a late-night meal among the aristocracy. The sandwich's popularity in Spain and England increased dramatically during the 19th century, when the rise of industrial society and the working classes made fast, portable, and inexpensive meals essential.

Salami sanwich

-Sandwich means “bits of cold meat”. the modern day sandwich was made and  named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, an 18th-century English aristocrat. It is said that he ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread, and others began to order "the same as Sandwich!" so that he didn't need to ate a formal meal to interrupt his card game. Before being known as sandwiches, this food combination seems to simply have been known as "bread and meat" or "bread and cheese".

-Until today many sandwich kinds make by people to make the sandwiches more and more tastier and rich in taste. Some make sandwich by using chicken meat, olive beans, fried egg, fish meat, beef. However, sandwich are not only mix with meat or vegetable, some made it with jam and jellies and many more to enrich types of sandwich.

Recomended Movie: Night At The Museum Secret Of The Tomb

Larry

  In 1938, in Egypt a team of archaeologists are digging into a tomb to look for a valuable artifact. A young boy falls through a hole that leads his father and the others to what they came for - the tablet of Ahkmenrah. Several local men see the tablet and say that if the archaeologists remove it, then "the end will come".

  In the present day in New York City, Larry Daley is overseeing a nighttime event at the Museum of Natural History with Dr. McPhee in attendance. While Larry gathers the favorite exhibits, Ahkmenrah ask Larry to see the 'tablet' and told him that it started to corrode. Larry told him to just relax, however the effect of the corroding 'tablet' made the exhibits acting weird causing the exhibition to failed. Ahkmenrah told him that only his father know the secret about the 'tablet' so Larry, Nick, Ahkmenrah with the other companions traveled all the way to London to meet Ahkmenrah's father and save the museum exhibits. 

DR. Mcphee

Teddy Roosevelt

Merenkahre & Ahkmenrah

Jedediah & Octavius

10 Facts About America

Liberty bell

1. Because its so full of roads and highways, some with more than lanes, car chase scenes are usually shot in Los Angeles.



Declaration Of Independence


2. 90% of underground train scenes are shot in New York. Incidentally, the underground train network is called the 'subway' in New York, while Los Angeles and Washington call theirs metros.
3. In some parts of the USA, most people who live in condominiums and apartments are poor people, like singles and the newly married. However, in Manhattan, such residences are the realm of the rich & mighty.
4. Casinos have a lot of leeway in Las Vegas and Atlantic city, but elsewhere, they are heavily regulated.
5. The 4th of July, being the date of the Declaration of Independence, is one of that psychologically important to Americans. Movies based on themes of Independence and heroism is commonly shown on that date.

   

   Statue Of Liberty

6. Americans in the Midwest often use plywood and other light materials to build their houses, not cement or stone. This is because most of those houses are in tornado-prone places (in fact, one stretch of the Midwest called Tornado alley), and wooden/plywood houses are easier to rebuild. People often hide in Underground shelters at such times.
7. More breakfast cereal is made in Battle Creek, Michigan than in any other city worldwide.
8. The seven rays on the crown of the Statue of Liberty represent the seven continents. Each measures up to 9 feet in length and weighs as much as 150 pounds.
9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
10. The Liberty Bell was last rung on George Washington’s Birthday in 1846. It received its fatal crack a few hours later.

Penguins Of Madagascar

Kowalski baby(left)
Skipper baby(2nd left)
Private baby(2nd right)
Rico baby(right)

Story:

Private(left)
Kowalsk(2nd left)
Skipper(2nd right)
Rico(right)

Dave

Ever since the penguins was still child, they had been into any action. For example: when they save private from hungry leopard seals. Soon the penguins grow up and they did many actions, a decade later, directly after the events of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, the Penguins depart from the circus and celebrate Private's birthday by breaking into Fort Knox so that Private can buy Cheesy Dibbles. However they were kidnapped n the vending machine and flown to a submarine base in Venice. There they met Dave;a villainous octopus who disguises himself under the human alias of  Dr. Octavius Brine. When the penguins escape from base, they were rescue by North Wind and they must team up together to save the world.

Penguins: Skipper, Kowalski, Private & Rico

North Wind agents: a wolf named Classified, a demolitionist harp seal named Short Fuse , a muscular polar bear named Corporal, and an intelligent snowy owl named Eva, whom with Kowalski becomes smitten.

Octopus: Dave (human alias of  Dr. Octavius Brine)& his minions.

Eva(left)
Short Fuse(2nd left)
Classified(2nd right)
Coporal(right)

The Lego Story

1st Lego bricks

legoland Billund

Legoland Malaysia

It all started from a carpenter from Denmark named Ole Kirk Christiansen who made wooden toys. The shop mostly helped construct houses and furniture, and had a small staff of apprentices. The business was not profitable because of the Great Depression. Farmers in the area sometimes traded food in exchange for his toys; Ole Kirk continued producing practical furniture in addition to toys to stay in business. In the mid-1930s, the yo-yo toy fad gave him a brief period of increased activity until it suddenly collapsed. His son Godtfred began working for him, taking an active role in the company. at 1934, Ole made a toy company named Lego from a term of Denmark "Leg Godt' that means play well. At 1940's, Ole start to make toys using plastic, and made plastick blocks that could be put together. These findings then he patented on 28 January 1958.

Legoland Califonia

The Lego employees were often interrupted by all the visitors who wanted to see what you can build with Lego bricks. So one day someone suggested “why not build a park where build with Lego bricks?” Legoland was born! The Lego company soon began to work on their plan to build Legoland, on 1968 the 1st LegoLand was build and it was expanded to many countries.

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