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Whether you dance on ice like Christopher Dean or scramble around like Bambi, the capital's outdoor ice rinks are some of the most magical locations you'll see all season. With Christmas lights and trees set to the backdrop of London's stunning institutions, a trip to an ice rink is a must-do for the views alone. Here's a round-up of all the best London ice skating rinks to twirl around on this year. 

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It’s not unusual for youth nowadays to speak more than one language, but 32-year-old Muhamed Mešić is not your typical polyglot. He can communicate fluently in 56 different languages and claims to understand over 70 of them.

Ever since he was a little boy growing up in Tuzla, an industrial city in the former Yugoslavia (currently in Bosnia Herzegovina), Muhamed Mešić was fascinated by languages. His exceptional talent for quickly learning to communicate in different languages was discovered by chance, when he was just 5-years-old. He was on vacation with his family, in Greece, and recalls being able to listen to their local neighbor speaking Greek and figuring out what he was saying from the situation they were in.

“This was the first time I met people whose language I couldn’t recognize,” Muhamed remembers. “I could listen to our neighbors talking and then figure out the meaning from the situation. At the end of the vacation, I was able to help my father to communicate with a local mechanic who repaired our car. My parents were shocked.”

But that was only the beginning of his journey to mastering as many languages as he could. When he was nine, he picked up Swedish from the Swedish soldiers stationed in his town during the Bosnian Civil War, and after the conflict he went on a trip to Hungary and managed to learn Hungarian as well. “In my first trip after the war to Hungary, my Grandmother demanded from me not to learn Hungarian, she said I didn’t need it. When I came back, I was afraid to tell her the truth,” he told The Jewish Journal.

Muhamed recalls that one time, a friend asked him to learn Latvian so he could accompany him on a business trip, and he was able to become fluent in the Baltic language in just 2 weeks, with the help of YouTube, two books and 43 cartoons.

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Dar Al-Handasah

The Abraj Kudai, which is owned by Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Finance, will feature 12 towers, 10,000 rooms, and upwards of 70 restaurants. That's more dining options than many towns have.

Aside from becoming the largest hotel in the world by room count, Abraj Kudai would also house one of the world's largest domes atop its tallest tower. The hotel is planned to open in 2017, but national economic issues may delay the project to 2018. Either way, there's plenty of time to start saving for a stay in one of the hotel's five-star towers.

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For the first time in 37 years, snow fell across the Sahara Desert. The largest hot desert in the world, the Sahara covers an area almost equivalent to the size of the United States. And just in time for the holidays, a festive sprinkling of snow rained down upon its sands. The wild event took place in the small town of Ain Sefra, Algeria, known as the “The Gateway to the Desert.” For one day, it was a gateway to a winter wonderland.

Luckily, photographer Karim Bouchetata was there to capture this rare weather occurrence. A light white powder dusted over the orange sand, creating a magical scene. “Everyone was stunned to see snow falling in the desert. It is such a rare occurrence,” Bouchetata said.  “It looked amazing as the snow settled on the sand and made a great set of photos. The snow stayed for about a day and has now melted away.”

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