COLDPLAY @ GLASTONBURY MAIN STAGE 2011   Photograph by MATT CARDY / GETTY IMAGES   Fricken Lasers fill the sky above the audience as Coldplay performs on the main Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival, on June 25, 2011.   via The Atlantic’s In Focus with Alan Taylor – Glastonbury 2011       [...]

Photograph by TERRY GOSS   The Great White Shark is one of nature’s greatest and most feared predators. Though not the ‘ferocious man-eater’ they are depicted to be in the blockbuster film Jaws, the great white shark is an intimidating creature with awesome power and speed. Enjoy the 20 incredible photographs below along with some [...]

  CAMEL CARAVAN AT AN OASIS   Photograph by GEORGE STEINMETZ / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC   Knee-deep wading is bliss for camels in Chad’s Archeï, a canyon whose trapped waters hold a zoological surprise. Fertilized by beasts’ droppings, algae are eaten by fish that are preyed upon by an isolated group of crocodiles.   National Geographic [...]

    ST-HILAIRE TRAIN DISASTER – JUNE 29, 1864     The St-Hilaire train disaster was a railroad disaster that occurred on June 29, 1864 near the present day town of Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. A Grand Trunk train carrying between 354 and 475 passengers, many of them German and Polish immigrants, were travelling from Quebec City [...]

  KA-BOOM!   Photograph by PHAN J. ALAN ELLIOTT (US NAVY)   The USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside of her nine 16″/50 and six 5″/38 guns during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico (21°N 65°W). Note concussion effects on the water surface, and 16-inch gun barrels in varying degrees of recoil. [...]