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He started his criminal career early. When he was a teen he would roam the streets of Medellin, stealing cars, tombstones, sandblasting the names and selling them on to smugglers in Panama.

Although Pablo Escobar died 21 years ago, but his tumultuous story lives on.

Born December 1, 1949 in Rionegro, Colombia.

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug Lord and drug trafficker.

His cartel, at the height of his career, supplied an estimated 80% of the cocaine smuggled into the United States, turning over US $21.9 billion a year in personal income.

Often called "The King of Cocaine", he was the wealthiest criminal in history, with an estimated known net worth of US $30 billion by the early 1990s (equivalent to about $54 billion as of 2015), making him one of the richest men in the world at his prime.

After briefly studying at Universidad Autónoma Latino americana of Medellín, he left without a degree and began to engage in criminal activity that involved selling contraband cigarettes, along with fake lottery tickets, and participated in motor vehicle theft.

In the 1970s he began to work for various contraband smugglers, often kidnapping and holding people for ransom before beginning to distribute powder cocaine himself, as well as establishing the first smuggling routes into the United States, in 1975.

His infiltration to the drug market of the U.S. expanded exponentially due to the rising demand for cocaine and, by the 1980s, it was estimated that over 70 to 80tons of cocaine were being shipped from Colombia to the U.S. on a monthly basis.

His drug network was commonly known as the Medellín Cartel, which often competed with rival cartels domestically and abroad, resulting in high-rate massacres and the deaths of police officers, judges, locals and prominent politicians.

At the height of his career the notorious Colombian drug lord supplied around 80% of all the cocaine smuggled into the States.

His involvement in the drug trade brought him fame, power and riches with an estimated $30 billion fortune.




http://www.viralthread.com/18-interesting-facts-that-will-change-your-view-of-notorious-drug-lord-pablo-escobar/


Wikipedia Pablo Escobar.

Electronzeez:
I Think that is the work of those steal cable .they are creating a kind of equillibrum in the middle .you will notice the pillars at which the bridge is suspended on is.not sitting at exactly 90° .

Amazing engineering at its peak.

Funny thing, do you believe that each of those cables will be as thick as the attached picture?

It belongs to Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco.

But why is it not breaking at the middle despite the heavy vehicles that will be plying it, because i can't see any support here.

Location of the bridge.




SKY IS THE LIMIT: THE WORLD'S TOP 10 HIGHEST BRIDGES (IN FEET)

1. Beipanjiang Bridge Duge, China 1,854 feet (2016).

2. Jinshajiang Bridge, China, 1,680 feet (2021).

3. Sidu River Bridge, China, 1,627 feet (2009).

4. Puli Bridge, China, 1,591 feet (2015).

5. Yachi Bridge, China, 1,444 feet (2016).

6. Qingshuihe Bridge, China, 1,332 feet (2016).

7. Hegigio Gorge Pipeline Bridge, Papua New Guinea, 1,542 feet (2005).

8. Baluarte Bridge, Mexico, 1,280 feet (2013).

9. Balinghe Bridge, China, 1,214 feet (2009).

10. Beipanjiang Bridge Guanxing, China, 1,200 feet (2003).

The Beipanjiang Bridge took the Chinese bridge experts three years to build and was completed on Saturday.

Among the top ten, the other two bridges are in Papua New Guinea and Mexico, claimed the same website.

Don't look down: At 1,340 metres (4,396 feet) long, the four-lane structure is billed as the world's highest bridge in the world.

The completion of the ambitious project means that eight of the world's 10 highest completed bridges are now located in China almost all are situated in remote mountainous provinces, according to highestbridges.com.

The Beipanjiang Bridge, which reportedly cost 1.023 billion yuan (£120 million) to build, overtook the 560-metre-high (1,837 feet) Sidu River Bridge, also in China, to become the highest bridge in the world,

An enormous mountain overpass standing at a whopping 565 metres high on a gorge (1,854 feet) opened to traffic today in south-west China.





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-4073400/Now-s-HIGH-way-world-s-highest-bridge-standing-1-850-feet-gorge-opens-traffic.html

Hmmmmm........O ga o.

Haniel18:
The major reason y i watch foreign movies is to gain sumtin meaniful,the movie GOD OF EGYPT a little revelation was made abt Egypt.dat tower dat was built for d rebellious king took over 2000 lives of slaves,slaves were dying everyday and over 10000 slaves built it,nw to d great pyramid do u knw hw many people would have lost their lives,amount of materials used.and i believe dat during dat era dere was close relationship with gods.

Some said the Pyramid was built by professionals and not slaves. But i know hundreds or thousands of people must have died constructing this, accident most especially.

Just like the Great wall.

progress69:
Dynamites used to blast rocks can't blow up a Bridge? I tire for some people ooooo. Let it be placed at the right pivots spots and see that part of the bridge go down

A terrorist that wants to blow up a structure like this will bring the bomb activate and detonate within 10mins or he will be spotted.

Now, its true that Dynamites are used to blast rocks or concretes, but do you consider the time the detonators will spend in placing, connecting, and wiring the bombs or dynamites?

Now on busy bridge like this, terrorists will have to go under the bridge with the dynamite, placing the bombs, connecting and wiring them to almost 4 - 5 pillars before detonating them.

To do this, they will spend hours and how is that possible without being spotted?

There is this channel where they air how they demolish buildings with explosives, they spend days setting the dynamites and dynamites brought in truck not in sedan.

They did one in Lagos years back.

cc: ajbf, brendaniel

[quote author=sammyj post=52348876]Why not especially a weak bridge for that mat

Weak, but not a wooden bride bro.

Thank God o, but can dynamites do that?

To blow up a bridge like that, you need a payload/nuke.

Not something you will put in a trunk of a sedan.

musicwriter:
Of course, it was built by Africans. You can be rest assured of this, because they drew themselves and told stories on the walls inside the pyramid. Everything else they built couldn't stand the test of time. In fact, many were stolen and is spread in museums in Europe and America.

The invented mathematics, geometry, physics, chemistry. These has not been replicated.

The pyramid was built by humans of course, but whoever built it were thinking a lot of stuff.

I believe that Pyramid holds a lot. We've only revealed the tip of the Iceberg.

Admin401:
someones foreign reserve they used to build an airport.
it's not fair ohh

About 10 people's loot in some countries.

Goldenheart:


Take 2.

Action!!!!

Love this.

agog:
i am speechless, this in a ship?
To say this is breathtaking is an understatement!!

Lol....Its so real bro, 7 neighborhood/streets on board.

Happy Birthday.

daveP:
Sure. Great Job!!

Thanks.

daveP:
Chei.


This is cruel. very cruel

but it was also a weapon of elimination by the women themselves.....

The world has been so cruel for a long time sir.

tk4rd:
Sometimes, I wish the engineers that designed these pyramids, or even the workers are still alive in Egypt. I have a lot to learn from them.

Same here, wish there were CCTVs in the sky then that we can play back now to see how they built these structures.

Ishilove:
Africa ought to have some engineering feats...

We have Pyramids in Egypt na.

claremont:
Good thread here.

A 7 day cruise on a vessel like this averages £1600 per person according to the ship owners, 2 people would make it £3200. The price is for board only, it doesn't include food, drinks, tours e.t.c. So, you might end up spending £5000 in total. The cost is a bit high for the middle-class worker really, which is why most people prefer to go by air for their holidays. Those of us who can't afford it can only admire it from a distance.

You're right bro, its quite expensive.


But when we talk about fun, you get more cruising the ocean.

If you can spare some data, you can go to youtube and search Caribbean island tour/Vlog on cruise ship.

You gonna love it.

An airplane or aeroplane(informallyplane) is a powered, fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine or propeller.

Airplanes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and wing configurations.

The broad spectrum of uses for airplanes includes recreation, transportation of goods and people, military, and research.

Commercial aviation is a massive industry involving the flying of tens of thousands of passengers daily on airliners.

Most airplanes are flown by a pilot on board the aircraft, but some are designed to be remotely or computer-controlled.

The Wright brothers invented and flew the first airplane in 1903, recognized as "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight".

They built on the works of George Cayley dating from 1799, when he set forth the concept of the modern airplane (and later built and flew models and successful passenger-carrying gliders).

gensteejay:
Another fascinating thread from Explorers. Indeed, this geezer's threads are the very best on this forum.

Kudos, Explorers!

Thanks bro.

Fidelismaria:
pls tell me atleast one african country is part of dis ongoin feat

The ISS is operated by an international collaboration consisting of USA, Russia, Canada, Japan and the European Space Agency(Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom).

patrickmuf:
Explorers you're doing a great job...

Thanks bro.

Twizzy30:
Explorers. I also hrd of a hotel somewhere in asia which has pool in every floor. Have u seen it bfor?

Not only Asia, just like indoor pools.

Temitoppe:
this San Francisco why is it being choose to depicts devasted place in Hollywood movies??

talk of Robot(will smith), pixels, San andreas, dawn of planet of apes etc.

Landmark, if you've seen 2012 and likes. To convince people that something is going on in a particular place in the world, you need the landmarks.

Not only in movies, most of us, when we have the opportunity to travel out of the country and we want to take shots of we are or where we've been to, we go for landmarks for our backgrounds.

So that when others see the pictures, they already know where we took the shots without asking questions.

Newyork, Statue of Liberty.

Washington DC, the Capitol or White House.

Brazil, Christ the Redeemer.

London, Clock Tower or London Bridge.