Category: Wan’s Wisdom

 

 

 

 

 

RARE HISTORICAL PHOTOS photos and descriptions that tell us what it was like to be there and, perhaps, surprise us with something we didn’t know and haven’t seen. A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897.     Albert Einstein looking fabulous.   Here’s his report card!     Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880.     A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941   Roy O. and Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios.   Che Guevara.   The Microsoft staff in 1978. BILL GATES front left.   The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct.   A different angle taken of “Tank Man,” the man who stood against a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square.  He is standing in the street between the tree trunk and the fleeing man. You can see the tanks approaching from the right.   Winston Churchill out for a swim.   The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940.     Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. The boy is his son.     Google begins.     Nagasaki , 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.     A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868.     The Great 1906 San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of .     A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.     The original Ronald McDonald — played by Willard Scott!     Hitler in Paris .   Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001 await orders.     British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa , January 18, 1943.   Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961.     The first McDonalds.     Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.     California lumberjacks work on Redwoods.           Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914, an event that helped spark World War I.     The 1912 World Series.       Bill and Hillary Clinton playing volleyball in 1975.     Elvis in the Army.     The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.     Child laborers in 1880.     New York ‘s Times Square in 1911.     Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro , Brazil .     Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907.     Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909.     The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali.     The construction of Disneyland .     Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship.     Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He’s second from the right.     Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884.

He came up with the idea of the train last year after visiting the Belgian Chocolate Festival in Bruge: “I had this idea for a while, and I said what do you think if we do this realisation of a long chocolate train, you know, because a train you can make it as long as you like.

Actually it was going to be much smaller than it was, but I kept on adding another wagon, and another wagon, and it’s the size it is today.”

There are two parts to the train. The first seven wagons are modelled after the new Belgian trains, and the rest of the train is modelled after the old train wagons, including a wagon with a bar and restaurant on board.

Three days before the event, Farrugia transported the chocolate train by truck in 25 wooden boxes from Malta to Belgium.

Farrugia said the train incurred considerable damage during the drive and several of the train’s walls had completely collapsed. Luckily, with hard work and little sleep, the chocolate artist was able to fix all the damages before presenting the train to the public on Monday.

After measuring the length of the train and confirming no material other than chocolate was used, officials from the Guinness Book of World Records added a new category to the collection of world records and declared the train to be the longest chocolate structure in the world.