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” யார் மூட்டை தூக்கி …” ?
(முன்பு நாம் எல்லோரும் ஒரு விதத்தில் மூட்டை தூக்கிகளாக இருந்ததால்தான் இந்த வியாதிகள் வந்திருக்கின்றன. நாம் செய்கிற ஒவ்வொரு தப்புக் காரியமுமாகச் சேர்ந்து மூட்டையாகி விடுகிறது. இந்தப் பிறப்புக்கு முன்னால் இன்னொரு பிறப்பில் தப்புக் கள் செதோம். அதனால்தான் இப்போது இந்த உடம்பு என்கிற மூட்டை வந்திருக்கிறது. இதில் பழைய தப்புகளின் வாசனையும் இருக்கிறது. அதனால்தான் ஆசை, கோபம் எல்லாம் நமக்கு இருக்கின்றன.
அது போவதற்காகத்தான் குழந்தையாக இருக்கும்போது பள்ளிக் கூடத்துக்குப் போகிறோம். அறியாமை என்கிற வியாதி, படிப்பு என்கிற மருந் தினால் போகிறது. )
கல்கியில் வந்த அருள் வாக்கு.
உங்கள் வீடு ஒரு குடும்பம். இதற்கு அப்பாவும் அம்மாவும் தலைவர்கள். உங்கள் குடும்பத்துக்கு நடுவில் பள்ளிக்கூடம் என்கிற ஒரு குடும்பம் இருக்கிறது. உங்களுடன் படிக்கிறவர்களெல்லாம் உங்கள் குடும்பத்தில் உடன் வாழ்கிற சகோதரர்கள் மாதிரி. இந்தப் பள்ளிக் குடும்பத்தின் தலைவர் உபாத்தியாயர் ‘வாத்தியார்’ என்கிற ஆசிரியர். அவரையும் ஓர் அப்பா அம்மாவாக நீங்கள் மதித்து வணங்க வேண்டும்.
பள்ளிக் காலத்தில் உங்கள் கடமை படிப்பது ஒன்றுதான். உங்களுடைய கவனம் முழுவதும் படிப்பதிலேயே இருக்க வேண்டும். மற்ற விஷயங்களிலெல்லாம் நீங்கள் ஈடுபட இது சமயம் அல்ல. வேறு எத்தனையோ நல்ல விஷயங்கள் இருந்தாலும்கூட அவற்றையும் நீங்கள் படிப்பு முடிந்த பின்தான் கவனித்து ஈடுபடலாம். ‘இப்போதே எனக்கு அவற்றில் ஈடுபடச் சிறிது சக்தியும், புத்தியும் இருக்கிறதே; எனவே உலகத்துக்கு நல்லது செய்கிற அந்தச் சமாசாரங்களில் இப்போதே பிரவேசிப்பேன்’ என்று போகக்கூடாது.
சின்ன வயசில் உங்கள் உள்ளத்துக்குப் போதிய சக்தி ஏற்படுகிற முன்பே, படிப்பு தவிர மற்ற விஷயங்களை மேற்கொண்டால், உள்ளத்துக்கு வியாதிதான் உண்டாகும்.
ஏற்கெனவே நம் உள்ளத்தில் ஆசை, கோபம் முதலிய பல வியாதிகள் இருக்கின்றன. முன்பு நாம் எல்லோரும் ஒரு விதத்தில் மூட்டை தூக்கிகளாக இருந்ததால்தான் இந்த வியாதிகள் வந்திருக்கின்றன. நாம் செகிற ஒவ்வொரு தப்புக் காரியமுமாகச் சேர்ந்து மூட்டையாகி விடுகிறது. இந்தப் பிறப்புக்கு முன்னால் இன்னொரு பிறப்பில் தப்புக் கள் செதோம். அதனால்தான் இப்போது இந்த உடம்பு என்கிற மூட்டை வந்திருக்கிறது. இதில் பழைய தப்புகளின் வாசனையும் இருக்கிறது. அதனால்தான் ஆசை, கோபம் எல்லாம் நமக்கு இருக்கின்றன. அது போவதற்காகத்தான் குழந்தையாக இருக்கும்போது பள்ளிக் கூடத்துக்குப் போகிறோம். அறியாமை என்கிற வியாதி, படிப்பு என்கிற மருந் தினால் போகிறது. அதோடு நம் கெட்ட குணங்களும் போக வேண்டும்.
இதற்குப் படிப்பு மட்டும் போதாது. பணிவு வேண்டும். பணிந்து கிடந்தால் கெட்ட குணங்கள் ஓடிப் போகும். தா, தந்தை, ஆசிரியர், தெவம் ஆகியவர்களிடம் பக்தியோடு, படிப்பில் கவனம் செலுத்தி வந்தால் அறிவும் வரும், குணமும் வளரும்.
Read more: http://periva.proboards.com/thread/10842/#ixzz3vxxbQliu
source……www.periva.proboards.com
Natarajan
22 Times in 2015 That Indians made India Proud……….
“…And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful,” wrote Ruskin Bond.
As we approach the end of 2015, it is quite natural to look back and search for the kind of beauty he was talking about – the beauty amidst chaos that helped us throughout the year and also gave hope for the next one. No matter the dark times and the harsh memories, everybody seeks that hope to wake up with each day. And on several occasions this year, India helped us believe in that hope, and in happiness, humanity and pride.
Many times this year, different people and incidents made Indians proud of being a part of this country. Here are the 22 best ones:
1. When a Cab Driver Created a Rooftop Garden on His Taxi:
Mr. Dhananjay Chakraborty, a taxi driver in Kolkata, has a garden on the roof of his cab, and many potted plants in the trunk. He calls his car the green chariot, and it is a great way of promoting the message of green living while driving around the city.
2. When This 11-Year-Old Became the World’s First Visually Impaired News Anchor:
T Sriramanujam, a visually impaired student of Class 5, fulfilled his childhood dream of becoming a TV news anchor. He read his first live news bulletin for 22 minutes with the help of Braille.
3. When Farmers in Rural Maharashtra decided to Become Tech-Savvy and Created a Brilliant WhatsApp Group:
On a WhatsApp group named ‘Baliraja’, over 400 farmers from various villages in Maharashtra are seeking and sharing agriculture advice, connecting with experts in various fields and learning new practices. The group simply rocks!
4. When an Inspiring Ragpicker Spoke at an International Conference
Photo: YouTube
Suman More, a 50-year-old waste picker from Pune, runs a 9,000 member organization named Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat, and has been giving a new identity to ragpickers. This year, she spoke before more than 2,000 experts from across the world at a conference organized by the International Labour Organisation in Geneva.
5. And When This Guy Quit His Job to Fight for Our Right to Drive Without Borders:
Waseem Memon and his group of over 25,000 people are fighting for our right to use our cars all across the country, challenging the existing laws regarding registration. He started the Drive Without Borders campaign to protest against the injustice meted out by road transport officials of various states while checking non-state vehicles.
6. When a Sarpanch in Haryana brought girls into the spotlight with his ‘Selfie with Daughter’ Contest:
Parents across India proudly took pictures with their daughters and sent them to Sunil Jaglan, the sarpanch of Bibipur village in Haryana, who started a WhatsApp contest named ‘Selfie with Daughter’. He received more than 500 entries in just a few days.
7. When this Muslim girl won the Bhagwad Gita Championship and Donated the Prize Money for the Education of Girls
Source: Facebook
Maryam Siddiqui won a Bhagwad Gita competition and was felicitated by many political figures across the country. She politely returned all the money received in the form of rewards, with a note that the money should be utilised for a scheme or something related to providing better education for girls.
8. And Many Beautiful Stories of Communal Harmony Kept our Hopes Alive:
The Muslim man who performed the last rights of his Hindu friend, the Hindus who opened up a Ganesha pandalfor Muslims to celebrate Eid, and the Hindu man who wrote Prophet Muhammad’s biography in Marwari – all helped break the shackles of narrow religious confines.
9. Then Came This Man Who Filled 1100 Potholes with His Pension Money:
Gangadhara Tilak Katnam, a 67-year-old retired Railway employee, quit his job to single-handedly fill up potholes in Hyderabad. He used his pension money to fill over 1,125 potholes in two and half years.
10. And This 13-Year-Old Went to an Orphanage for a Special Purpose:
Nikhiya Shamsher started a project named Bags, Books and Blessings. She collected around 2,500 books, about 150 bags, water bottles, a lot of stationery, and more from the students in her school, and donated all of it to an orphanage in Bangalore. She stood out as an inspiration for many students of her age.
11. When an Engineer Transformed a Railway Station and Amazed Everyone:
Gaurang Damani, an electrical engineer, adopted the King’s Circle railway station in Mumbai and transformed it into a very beautiful and clean place in just four months. Find more about his work here.
12. And ISRO Went on Creating History:
13. When a 17-Year-Old Built a Bridge to Help Slum Kids Reach School:
When Eshan Balbale saw that students in Sathe Nagar had to walk through a 1.5 km long, filthy, sewage-filled stretch to reach school every day, he made a 4-feet-wide and 100-feet-long bamboo bridge for them in just eight days.
14. And Twitterati Helped This Man Who Lost His Source of Income:
65-year-old Kishan Kumar lost his typewriter when a police official kicked it in his attempt to evict footpath dwellers and vendors. When Indians on Twitter came to know about this incident, they simply made sure that he got his typewriter back.
15. When a Cop Jumped off a 20-Feet-High Bridge to Save a Man:
A 24-year-old policeman, Manoj Barahate, did not think of his own life before diving off a 20-feet high bridge to save the life of a man who had jumped into the water during Kumbh Mela. Had it not been for this quick-thinking brave cop, the man would have lost his life.
16. When Karnataka Government Honoured a Transgender:
Of the 60 people who were honoured with the prestigious Karnataka Rajyotsava Award this year, one is a transgender – Akkai Padmashali – who has been fighting for the rights and acceptance of her community for years. This was the first time that a transgender won this award.
17. And This Woman Showed the Way by Inviting Her Maid’s Family Home for Dinner on Diwali:
“It looks like this is the beginning of a beautiful new tradition in our family, which I hope we will only enhance as time goes on. It touched and opened my heart in many ways,” wrote her daughter.
18. When Indian Railways Showed That It Can Deliver – More than Once
All of these tweets were answered, and help reached the passengers in almost no time.
19. And Children Showed That They Can Change the World, Whenever They Want
20. When Bengaluru’s Chinnaswamy Stadium Became the World’s First Solar-Powered Cricket Venue
21. And When These Army Men Gave Their Lives So We Can Sleep Safely in our Homes
22. Finally, When Chennai Showed That All Our Differences Mean Nothing When We’re Fighting Back Disaster
We are all Indians at the end of the day. And we stand by each other.
Source…….www.the betterindia.com
Natarajan
Message for the Day….” Remember the name of God Every minute….”
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Look at the blossoms in the garden! When the gardener plucks the flowers, the buds exult that tomorrow is their turn to be gathered into the gardener’s hands, and their faces are full of joy when they unfold in that hope. Do they feel any sadness? Do their faces droop? Are they any the less bright? No. The moment they know that the next day is their turn, they make themselves ready with great gusto and excitement. In the same way, you must be ready on the path of spiritual practice! Enthusiastically remember the name of the Lord every minute, without worrying and feeling sad that your turn is tomorrow or because someone died today. For people who transformed themselves into spiritual aspirants, their mind (manas)is Mathura, the birthplace of Lord Krishna), their heart is Dwaraka (Lord Krishna’s playground), and their body is Kashi (holiest land of Lord Shiva). |
WHY DOES THE NEW YEAR BEGIN ON JANUARY FIRST IN MANY COUNTRIES…?
Because Julius Caesar said so.
Early Roman Calendar
Since long before Caesar’s time, date keeping was dicey. In fact, the 355-day Roman calendar that immediately preceded Caesar’s Julian, worked on a four year cycle where every other year, an additional month was inserted between February (Februarius), the last month of that calendar year, and March (Martius), the first month of the year; this was done in order to catch the calendar up with the Earth’s orbit of the Sun. That additional month, called the Mensis intercalaris, brought in the missing 22 or 23 days, and to even things up, took another five days from February in the years it was present.
Since the calendar had been designed to ensure the proper observance of religious dates, priests, calledpontifices, were responsible for declaring when theinterclaris month should begin and end. Since these priests were also involved with politics, they sometimes:
Misused their power by intercalating days or not intercalating them, merely in order to lengthen or shorten some magistrate’s year of office, or to increase the gains of some government contractor, or to inflict loss upon him.
By the time Caesar came around, the Roman calendar was in shambles, and in 46 BC, Julius Caesar commanded that it be changed.
Julian Calendar
The Julian calendar’s beginnings were as crazy as the old Roman calendar at its worst:
In order to wipe out the consequences of past neglect, it was necessary that the year 46 BC (called by Macrobius the annus confusionis) should extend to 445 days. The normal number of 355 days had already been increased by the addition of the ordinary 23 days, inserted after Feb. 23. As many as 67 days, divided into two menses intercalares . . . were now interposed between November and December. . . . This year thus consisted of 15 months.
After this “year of confusion,” the new calendar really started. Intercalation was abolished, and each year was increased to 365 days, with a leap year added every fourth year (quarto quoque anno) to February. The months of the calendar after Caesar’s shake-up followed the old Roman calendar closely and most are familiar to us even today: Ianuarius, Februarius, Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Iunius, Guintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November and December.
Along with these changes, Caesar set the New Year to January 1. Why? Since 153 BC, January 1 was the day new consuls in Rome took office and Romans had commonly used the name of the two consuls to identify a specific year in question. Thus, by officially making January 1 start the New Year, it simply lined up with the consular year.
As to why the consular year started on January 1 instead of the original Roman Calendar New Year’s day of March 1, this isn’t known. That said, there are references that seem to imply that January 1 may have begun marking the New Year as early as 189 BC, which precedes when the consular year started beginning on that day.
One proposed reason for this switch is that January is thought by most to have been named after the god of transitions and beginnings, Janus, during the reign of the second King of Rome, Numa Pompilius, who lived from 753-673 BC. Thus, it was naturally enough for the Romans to eventually decide to make the switch. However, whether this is the reason or not is very much up for debate.
Gregorian Calendar
Although the Julian Calendar was relatively accurate, its use of 365.25 days in a calendar year, as opposed to the precise 365.2425 days, over centuries, created a discrepancy in the calendar. In fact, by the time Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585) became the Bishop of Rome, the Julian calendar had lost 10 days.
It was this discrepancy that brought about the reformed calendar. Actually beginning 20 years before the calendar took effect with the Council of Trent in 1563, church leaders wanted to restore the spring equinox to the date it was when the First Council of Nicaea was convened in 325 (by 1563, the equinox was falling on March 11, rather than March 21).
As simple as making a Papal decree, Gregory issued the Inter gravissimas on February 24, 1582, and nearly eight months later, the last day of the Julian calendar, October 4, 1582, was followed by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, October 15, 1582. Voila!
Today, the Gregorian calendar is the unofficial calendar of the United States and the United Nations, as well as most countries in the world.
New Year’s Day
Since before even Caesar’s time, people celebrated the New Year. In ancient Babylon, this began after the spring equinox in March, and part of the celebration including subjecting the king to ritual humiliation. In fact, “if royal tears were shed, it was seen as a sign that Marduk [a god] was satisfied and had symbolically extended the king’s rule.”
After he was murdered by a small group of his “friends” (“Et tu, Brute?”), the Roman Senate made Caesar a god on January 1, 42 BC, a date which coincided with the time-honored practice of making offerings to Janus in the hope of having good fortune throughout the year.
Throughout the Middle Ages in Europe, January 1st’s New Year’s celebrations were discouraged, as they were seen by church leaders as a pagan practice. Instead, other days were often used as a substitute varying from nation to nation. This changed when the Gregorian calendar was instituted and, at least in the Catholic nations, January 1 once again became the official New Year, and it slowly spread from there with the Gregorian calendar.
Bonus Facts:
- As mentioned, many protestant nations ignored the Gregorian calendar for some time. England stuck to the Julian Calendar until 1751 before finally making the switch. Orthodox countries took even longer to accept the change in calendars. Russia, for one did not convert to the Gregorian calendar until after the Russian Revolution in 1917. The funny thing was, in 1908, the Russian Olympic team arrived 12 days late to the London Olympics because of it.
- Under the Gregorian calendar we do not have a leap year every four years, since to properly align the calendar with the Earth’s orbit, an additional day is required in only 97 out of 400 years. So, leap years are calculated as follows:
Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100, but these centurial years are leap years if they are exactly divisible by 400. For example, the years 1700, 1800 and 1900 are not leap years, but the year 2000 is.
source….www.today i foundout.com
Natarajan
Magic Bank Account…!!!
This is really worth reading. I hope you enjoy it.
An interesting perspective – One never might have really looked at it this way –
THE MAGIC BANK ACCOUNT
Imagine that you had won the following *PRIZE* in a contest: Each morning your bank would deposit $86,400 in your private account for your use. However, this prize has rules:
The set of rules:
1. Everything that you didn’t spend during each day would be taken away from you.
2. You may not simply transfer money into some other account.
3. You may only spend it.
4. Each morning upon awakening, the bank opens your account with another $86,400 for that day.
5. The bank can end the game without warning; at any time it can say,“Game Over!”. It can close the account and you will not receive a new one.
What would you personally do?
You would buy anything and everything you wanted right? Not only for yourself, but for all the people you love and care for. Even for people you don’t know, because you couldn’t possibly spend it all on yourself, right?
You would try to spend every penny, and use it all, because you knew it would be replenished in the morning, right?
ACTUALLY, This GAME is REAL …
Shocked ??? YES!
Each of us is already a winner of this *PRIZE*. We just can’t seem to see it.
The PRIZE is *TIME*
1. Each morning we awake to receive 86,400 seconds
as a gift of life.
2. And when we go to sleep at night, any remaining time is Not credited to us.
3. What we haven’t used up that day is forever lost.
4. Yesterday is forever gone.
5. Each morning the account is refilled, but the bank can dissolve your account at any time WITHOUT WARNING…
SO, what will YOU do with your 86,400 seconds?
Those seconds are worth so much more than the same amount in dollars. Think about it and remember to enjoy every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than you think.
So take care of yourself, be happy, love deeply and enjoy life!
Here’s wishing you a wonderful and beautiful day. Start “spending”….
“DON’T COMPLAIN ABOUT GROWING OLD…!”
SOME PEOPLE DON’T GET THE PRIVILEGE.!
Source….Input from a friend of mine
natarajan
” Jaw-dropping images of Earth from space in 2015″
Astronauts on board the International Space Station beamed back some spectacular views of Earth this year.
The Earth Observations team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center selected the 15 best photographs, which we’ve republished here.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station took this image of Adele Island, off Australia’s north coast, on June 11, 2015. The tiny island is only 2.9 kilometres (2 miles) long.
This image shows landscapes of the arid Sahara and the dark green marshes of Lake Chad, which stand out in the foreground.
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is seen on the left in a photo taken in February.
The peaks of Colombia’s Santa Marta are so high that trees cannot grow. The highest peak has a permanent snow cap and is the only place where snow can be seen from the tropical beaches of the Caribbean coast.
Southern Scandinavia is illuminated under a full moon in this image, which also features a green aurora to the north and the Baltic Sea, seen as a black patch in the lower right of the photo.
The Paraná River, South America’s second-largest, pours brown muddy water into a wide estuary known as the River Plate.
The snow-covered Himalaya range is seen near the China–India border.
Laguna Colorada, a lake in the Bolivian Andes Mountains, lies at 4,300 metres (14,100 feet) above sea level. Algae in the water is responsible for the lake’s deep red-brown color.
Fish farms are seen on the coast of China’s northeast province of Liaoning.
This September image shows the winding border between Pakistan and India, one of the few places on Earth where an international boundary can be seen at night.
Brightly-coloured salt ponds are seen on the coast of Tunisia’s port city, Sfax.
Red-brown coastal lagoons are seen on this stretch of Western Australia’s coastline, in a photo taken on June 11.
This photo, taken on June 15, shows the northern tip of Massachusetts’ Cape Cod.
The Mekong River, Southeast Asia’s largest river, flows on the border between Thailand and Laos. Heavy monsoon rainfall at the end of July created a red-brown channel of floodwater.
A red sprite — a major electrical discharge thought to occur during large thunderstorms — is captured above the white light of an active thunderstorm high over Missouri or Illinois.
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Message for the Day….” The Lord showers grace on those endowed with righteousness, irrespective of race, wealth and gender.”
These are the two chief enemies of every spiritual aspirant: Conceit (that you know everything) and Doubt (Is it or is it not). Simply decide to be firmly fixed in your reality. If that is pure, everything is pure. If that is true, everything is true. If you wear blue eyeglasses, you see only blue, even though Nature is resplendent with many colours. So too, if the world appears to you as full of differences, that is due only to the fault in you. If all appears as one love, that too is only your love. The feelings within you, is the cause in both situations. The question that may arise next is whether the Lord has faults, for He too identifies faults. The Lord only searches for goodness in a devotee, not faults and sins. Your assessment of the Lord is dependent on your feelings. The Lord showers grace on those endowed with righteousness, irrespective of race, wealth and gender.
Rainy Russian Street Photography Looks Like Oil Paintings….!!!
St. Petersburg-based Russian photographer Eduard Gordeev captures delicate cityscape scenes by taking photos in the rain. Flowing rain drops blur the colors and diffuse light, resulting in photos that have a strong resemblance to Impressionist oil paintings.
Though the series mostly features Russia’s St. Petersburg and its widely recognized landmarks, some captivating shots from Lisbon can be found there as well. Nothing gloomy about the rain here, just pure Russian romance!
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Unusual Airport Runways Around the World….!!!
1. Gisborne
Airport, New Zealand
This North Island airport is one of the few in the
World that has a railway line running through its runway. Both the railway
And the airport are active, so let’s hope they are precise about their
Scheduling.
2. Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport, Saba Island
Blink and you might miss it. With only 400m in length, this Caribbean island has the shortest commercial
air strip on the planet. Obviously, this tiny runway is only suitable for small aircraft.
3. Courchevel Altiport, France
This airfield high in the French Alps is a convenient yet treacherous drop-off point for wealthy skiers
at the chi-chi Courchevel slopes. In fact, there are ski runs no far from the 1,762 ft (537 m) mountaintop
runway. Frequent fog, snow, ice and low clouds make it even more extreme. You’ll want to make sure your
small plane or helicopter pilot is well trained.
4. Don Mueang Airport, Thailand
There aren’t many airports in the world that have an 18 hole golf course right amongst the runways. Fore!
5. Tenzing-Hillary Airport, Nepal
If you’re planning on trekking to Mount Everest, chances are you’ll arrive via this small Nepalese airport
in Lukla. It has a short runway with a 9,334 feet (2900 meter) drop off the edge. Not for the faint of heart.
6. Agatti Aerodrome, Lakshadweep, India
This 4000 feet long island runway doesn’t leave much margin for error. A few more inches, and passengers
are going to be swimming sooner than they bargained for.
7. Barra International Airport, Scotland
Barra International Airport, on a remote northern island in Scotland, has the only beach runway for scheduled
flights in the world. At high tide, some of the runways are underwater..
8. Gibraltar International Airport
These are red lights you don’t want to run..
9. Gustaf III Airport, Saint-Barthélemy
This runway is so tiny, only planes with a maximum of 20 people can land here. That helps keep St. Barts
an exclusive upscale Caribbean haven for the rich and famous.
10. Kansai International Airport, Japan
With land at a premium in Japan, they decided to build this major airport on an artificial island offshore in
Osaka Bay. If its ocean setting doesn’t give you chills, its also regularly subjected to earthquakes, typhoons
and storm surges. Oh, and the island is also sinking. This airport’s construction and constant reinforcement
makes it the most expensive civil works project in modern history.
11. Madeira Airport, Portugal
The previous airport on this Portuguese archipelago was notoriously challenging due to its short runway
surrounded by high mountains and the ocean. So, they extended it with an impressive – yet frightening –
platform supported by 180 columns off the edge of the land.
12. Narsarsuaq Airport, Greenland
This runway is short and sweet whether you’re coming or going. It is considered one of the world’s most
challenging approaches.. Pilots have to fly up a fjord known for its turbulence and wind gusts.
13. Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport
A pair of grave makers are embedded into Runway 10 at this airport, in remembrance to the Dotson Family who
used to own the land. One of the graves dates back to 1857. The law states that next of kin need to authorize
the moving of family graves, and when they couldn’t be located, the airport engineers let them be.
14. Wellington Airport, New Zealand
This airport in New Zealand’s capital city has a short runway, so only smaller aircraft can land there.
It’s known for turbulent landings due to the channeling effect of the Cook Strait creating gusty winds.
15. Princess Juliana International Airport, Sint Maarten
This beachside airport on the Dutch side of Saint Martin is right across the street from Maho Beach. It is
known for its extremely low-altitude flyover landing approach, and tourists flock here to experience the rush
of the planes overhead. Definitely one of the craziest airport runways you got to see to believe.
16. Ice Camp Barneo, North Pole
This snowy strip not far from the North Pole is open for just 4 weeks per year. Built on a drifting ice
base, it’s a fully functional runway suitable for cargo planes like the Antonov AN-74. Perhaps Santa
Claus uses it too.
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