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The Friday Shirk Report – Volume 119
Welcome to the Friday Shirk Report where you will find the 20 funniest images, 10 most interesting articles, and 5 most viral videos from the previous week of sifting. Enjoy! *For those that prefer the links open in a new tab/window, try holding the CTRL key whilst clicking a link with your mouse Stay…
Picture of the Day: Flooded Ruins of Villa Epecuen
FLOODED RUINS OF VILLA EPECUEN IN ARGENTINA Photography by JUAN MABROMATA/AFP/Getty Images Back in the 1920s, a tourist village was established along the shore of Lago Epecuen, a salt lake some 600 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The resort town, named Villa Epucuen, soon had a railroad station, and it…
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Greenland
Northern Lights: Nuuk, Greenland – Photograph by Rune Chritianse After posting yesterday’s ‘Picture of the Day‘ of the Elephant Foot Glacier, I realized I knew very little about the gigantic island/country/landmass thingy way up in the Arctic between North America and Europe. How many people live there? What language do they speak? How…
Picture of the Day: Elephant Foot Glacier in Greenland
ELEPHANT FOOT GLACIER IN GREENLAND Photograph via The Guardian A truly mesmerizing photograph of the Elephant Foot Glacier in Greenland. I was unable to find the original source, but a TinEye search led me to numerous blogs citing the original image being seen on The Guardian. All I know about the glacier…
This Day In History – July 20th
WORLD’S FIRST INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE – JULY 20, 1807 The Pyréolophore (from Ancient Greek pyr, meaning “fire”, eolo, meaning “wind”, and phore, meaning “produce”) was probably the world’s first internal combustion engine. It was invented in the early 19th century in Chalon-sur-Saône, France, by the Niépce brothers: Nicéphore Niépce (who went…
Picture of the Day: Manhattanhenge
MANHATTANHENGE Photograph by Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images Manhattanhenge – sometimes referred to as the Manhattan Solstice – is a semiannual occurrence in which the setting sun aligns with the east–west streets of the main street grid in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The term is derived from Stonehenge, at…
