Updated on MFS - Strange But True - Places 13 . Monywa (MLCTS: mum hrwa mrui.) is a city in Sagaing Division, Myanmar, located 136 km northwest of Mandalay on the eastern bank of the River Chindwin. The major tourist attraction in Monywa is Mohnyin Thambuddhei Paya, a Buddhist temple with a huge stupa resembling Indonesia's Borobudur. It dates from 1303, although it was reconstructed in 1939. It is said to contain over 500,000 images of Buddha.There is also a giant reclining and standing Buddha statue.With a lenght of ninety-metres it is the largest reclining Buddha in the world.This huge image has a hollow cave-like structure inside and you can walk from the head to the feet. You will then see inside 9,000 one foot high metal images of the Buddha and his disciples in various postures. There are also representations of some of the important events in the life of the Buddha. If you are interested in Buddha footprints you can study the 108 auspicious symbols which are depicted on the soles of this huge image. Read more about this place on MFS,with videoclip. http: / / www. themanyfacesofspaces . com/ MFS-StrangeButTrue-P laces13. html

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Updated on MFS - Strange But True - Creatures / Animals 12 . The Rattail Aka Grenadier Grenadiers or rattails (less commonly whiptails) are generally large, brown to black gadiform marine fish of the family Macrouridae. Found at great depths from the Arctic to Antarctic, members of this family are among the most abundant of the deep-sea fishes. http: / / www. themanyfacesofspaces . com/ MFS-StrangeButTrue-C reaturesAnimals12. html

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Updated on MFS - Strange But True - Things / Other 15 . The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (Polish: zbrodnia katyńska, 'Katyń crime'), was a mass murder of thousands of Polish prisoners of war (primarily military officers), intellectuals, policemen, and other public servants by Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps. Dated March 5, 1940, this official document was then approved (signed) by the entire Soviet Politburo including Joseph Stalin and Beria. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, the most commonly cited number being 21,768. The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin (Tver) and Kharkov prisons and elsewhere. About 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, the rest being Poles arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, saboteurs, landowners, factory owners, lawyers, priests, and officials." Since Poland's conscription system required every unexempted university graduate to become a reserve officer, the Soviets were able to round up much of the Polish intelligentsia, and the Jewish, Ukrainian, Georgian and Belarusian intelligentsia of Polish citizenship.Read more about it on MFS,with 5 videoclips. http: / / www. themanyfacesofspaces . com/ MFS-StrangeButTrue-T hingsOther15. html

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Updated on MFS - Strange But True - people 12 . Melvin Boothe longest fingernails in the world 2009. Melvin Feizel Boothe of Pontiac, Michigan was The official Guinness World Record ‘longest fingernails’holder in 2009 . His nails measured 9.85 m (32 ft 3.8 in).Read more about him on MFS. http: / / www. themanyfacesofspaces . com/ MFS-StrangeButTrue-P eople12. html

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