The Kremlin had invested $22bn in preparing for that 2012 event - far more than most countries spend to hold the Olympic Games - mainly to re-invigorate the sagging infrastructure of Vladivostok, a city of 600,000 seven time-zones ahead of Moscow, and to turn the city's once almost inaccessible Russky Island into a world-class conference venue.
The Golden Spiral is derived from the âgolden rectangleâ, which is a unique rectangle having the golden ratio. The mystical Golden Spiral and Golden Ratio are to be found throughout Nature. In fact, they are present everywhere in the universe. From the curve of the human ear, to the human bone structure, to the growth pattern of leaves and flowers, to the spirals of a nautilus seashell or to the spirals of galaxies.
The spiral is also found in structures as small as the double helix of DNA and as large as a galaxy. Because of this frequent natural occurrence, the spiral is the official symbol of the World Pantheist Movement.