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Residents of the sleepy seaside town of Whitby
must have got the shock of their lives recently when a load of Goths descended on it for a convention. Must have
been standing room only in the local graveyards
OLYMPICSTADIUM OPENS FOR ACTION
Roof
Steel tubing frame with PVC fabric supported by cable net structure – to minimise wind on track – covers 68% of spectators
Upper tier
55,000 temporary seats. Steel-frame support for upper tier
Lower tier
25,000 permanent seats in concrete bowl, sunk into ground
Length 315m, width 256m, height 60m (incl. lighting towers)
Lighting towers
14 towers housing 532 floodlights
Top ring: 2,500 tonnes of steel tubing recycled from old gas pipes
Wrap
336 panels, each 25m high, 2.5m wide
Kiosks
for catering, merchandise
‘The name’s Rex. Tyrannosaurus Rex’
West stand Hospitality, 410-seat dining area, plus 700 rooms
Ground level Offices, changing rooms, parking
Four times less steel used
Nest” Stadium Sources: Institution of Civil Engineers, LOCOG © GRAPHIC NEWS
Five years and £500 million in the making... The showpiece of the London 2012 Olympics will be crammed to its 80,000 capacity for the opening ceremony on 27 July. But it will be downscaled to a 25,000-seat stadium when the Games finish
Industrial waste concrete
70m 36m
Beijing National Stadium
London Olympic Stadium
An American man has legally changed his name to Tyrannosaurus Rex. The 23-year-old, formally known as Tyler Gold, says his new prehistoric name is ‘cooler’ than his old one. His full name is now
Tyrannosaurus Rex Joseph Gold. He claimed it would help his career as an entrepreneur and denied it was a way to evade law enforcement or creditors who might be interested in his former incarnation.
People in New York City are especially prone to making ‘butt calls’ it seems. In other words, sitting on the mobile phone and accidentally
Is this a real
emergency or are you just an idiot?
Pianist Ricardo de Castro Monteiro plays the piano while suspended by hooks at the annual Virada Cultural event in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The event is a 24hr marathon of music, art, theatre and fancy dress
dialing 911, the US equivalent of 999. A new report says
accidental calls accounted for about 38% of all emergency calls in 2010, which works out to about 10,700 false alarms a day.
dumb&dumber
Jurassic name changes, wasting the time of emergency services and cold soup
Bungay scores
ODDS ENDS
Matched surnames A football match has taken place where every player has the surname Bungay, which is one of the UK’s rarest names. Players came from Britain, Australia and the US to play in the mixed-sex match. The mascot was a little
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girl called Carla Bungay and the medic on hand was Dr Elizabeth Bungay. The match came about after a chance conversation on Twitter between a member of the Bungay Town FC committee and another Bungay from a PR company.
Anyone home? A ‘ghost town’ is being built in the US. Costing about US$600m (£380m) to make, it will look just like any regular American town and have buildings, roads and residential houses. But no one will live there. The purpose of the
town in New Mexico is to test technologies such as renewable energy sources and security measures to fight terrorism.
‘Niet. Too cold!’
A Russian man who stormed out of his house following a row with his wife over his soup being cold got lost in a forest and almost starved to death. Yuri Ticuic had to survive on nuts and berries for several weeks before he was found. He is reported to have
said he will no longer complain about his wife’s cooking.
Got to go A Canadian woman has broken the record for the land speed record on a motorised toilet. Jolene Van Vugt got the
pimped convenience to hit 74km/h (46mph), 7km/h faster than the previous record. Jolene, a stuntwoman and top motocross rider, said she was ‘stoked’ to win the title. (No jokes about skid marks, please.)
74km/h!
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