China’s molton metal fireworks (Times of Malta)
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China’s Hebei Province celebrates the traditional Lantern Festival with splashed molten metal. The Chinese Lantern Festival in Hebei Province features the hurling of burning hot molten iron, an ancient and highly dangerous tradition started by blacksmiths too poor to afford fireworks.
Twisted metal, cars in trees: US tornado kills 8 (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A gigantic tornado killed at least eight people as it tore across the Midwestern state of Oklahoma, flattening homes and tossing cars into the air, officials said Wednesday.
Build your own igloo (CNN Money)
I’m lying in a hole in the darkness, ice-cold and soaking wet. There’s barely room for me to turn from my right side to my left, but with a grunt I manage to twist onto one shoulder and angle the blade of a small metal shovel against the wall of snow a few inches from my head. As I chip at it, icy spray hits me in the face.
