by wildcherry on Monday, February 8th, 2010 | Attraction, Places to Visit, Travel | No Comments

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The world’s tallest skyscraper has unexpectedly closed to the public a month after its lavish opening, disappointing tourists headed for the observation deck and casting doubt over plans to welcome its first permanent occupants in the coming weeks.

Electrical problems are at least partly to blame for the closure of the Burj Khalifa’s viewing platform – the only part of the half-mile high tower open yet. But a lack of information from the spire’s owner left it unclear whether the rest of the largely empty building – including dozens of elevators meant to whisk visitors to the tower’s more than 160 floors – was affected by the shutdown.

The indefinite closure, which began Sunday, comes as Dubai struggles to revive its international image as a cutting-edge Arab metropolis amid nagging questions about its financial health.

The Persian Gulf city-state had hoped the 2,717-foot (828-meter) Burj Khalifa would be a major tourist draw. Dubai has promoted itself by wowing visitors with over-the-top attractions such as the Burj, which juts like a silvery needle out of the desert and can be seen from miles around.

In recent weeks, thousands of tourists have lined up for the chance to buy tickets for viewing times often days in advance that cost more than $27 apiece. Now many of those would-be visitors, such as Wayne Boyes, a tourist from near Manchester, England, must get back in line for refunds.

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by wildcherry on Saturday, January 9th, 2010 | News, Weird | No Comments

See how Nasr Al Niyadi and Omar Al Hegelan have set a world record for the highest base jump ever by leaping from the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which stands at 2,716ft tall.

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by justinmark on Monday, May 25th, 2009 | Dining, Knowledge, Travel | No Comments

Baskin Robbins is chain of ice cream parlour around the world. It has lots of verity with different age groups support. Baskin Robbins has products about ice cream, shakes, crepes, beverages, sandaes and cakes, It has lots of verities with every category based food products. But how the Baskin Robbins did come into eyes of people and became of taste of tongue.

Baskin Robbins is founded by two men with hard work and for their dreams come to true. This is combination of two competitors of each other in same business type that comes into one unity in 1953. There were two men, both were brother-in-law named Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins, they both have their venture related to Ice cream with respectively name Burt’s Ice Cream shop and Irv’s Snowbird Ice Cream. Snowbird Ice cream served ice cream with 21 flavors and after merging, they came to market with 31 flavors.

Baskin Robbins is known for its slogan “31 flavors” and this idea came with came from the Carson-Roberts advertising agency, in 1953. It claims to be world’s largest ice cream franchise with more than 5800 locations. It sells ice cream among the 30 countries like India, Pakistan, UAE, UK, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Bahrain, South Korea, Panama, Taiwan and Malaysia.

In Corporate, with first franchise was executed of Ice Cream in May 20 in 1948 for the store at 1130 South Adams in Glendale which was one of six opened stores in 1948. Next succeed year, they opened their production facility. They decided to sell their stores to managers, and then first franchised food business. In 1953, they hired to Carson-Roberts Advertising and with 31 flavors based store was opened in 804 North Glendale Ave. in Glendale, California. In November of 1962, the company was succeed to Baskin Robbins Inc. with past name of Huntington Ice Cream Company. This company also became first to introduce ice cream cakes.

In 1972, The company became to public with selling of 17% share by the United Brands Company which hired to Baskin Robbins Inc after the death of Burt Baskin. 1793, the J Lycon acquired to United Brands and merged with Allied Breweries company and became to Allied-Lycon in 1978. Allied-Lycon is merged with Pedro Domecq S.A. in 1994 and became Allied Domeq.

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