Bodiam Castle – East Sussex England | Photographer Unknown A moat is a deep, broad ditch, typically filled with water, that surrounds a castle, building or town. Historically, it provided a preliminary line of defence. In some places moats evolved into more extensive water defences, including natural or artificial lakes, dams and sluices. In…
THREE INSANE MUSHROOM CLOUDS Photograph via PIERRE J. This is the third picture of a series of the Licorne thermonuclear test in French Polynesia. This is a scan of a (digitally restored) hardcopy of a picture taken by the French army Photograph by AP Photo A massive column of water…
FESTIVAL OF LANTERNS IN CHIANG MAI, THAILAND Photograph by SANCHAI LOONGROONG Yee Peng is the annual lantern festival held to celebrate the full moon in the northern capital of Chiang Mai on the day preceding Loy Krathong by one day in November. The word “Yee Peng” is the northern Thai term referring…
COMIC BY ALEX CULANG & RAYNATO CASTRO @ BUTTERSAFE.COM
BANKSY’S REAL NAME IS… Photograph by Living_404 Interesting snippet on his supposed ‘identity’ seen here in his Wikipedia entry via Reddit
THE INCREDIBLE ISLAND OF BRECQHOU Photograph by DIEGOURDIALES Brecqhou (or Brechou) is one of the Channel Islands and part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey. It is located just west of Sark and has a surface area of approximately 200 acres (0.81 km2). Sark claims it as a tenement, and the Ministry of…
FIRST AND ONLY BRITISH PRIME MINISTER ASSASSINATED – MAY 11, 1812 The House of Commons at Westminister circa 1806. This chamber was destroyed by fire in 1834 Spencer Perceval (1 November 1762 – 11 May 1812) was a British statesman and Prime Minister. He is the only British Prime Minister to…
TWO LEVELS OF AWESOME Photograph by JAN EGIL KRISTIANSEN Photographer’s Description: The lake is about 30m above sea level, the camera at 140m and the cliff facing it at 100m. But I ‘see’ the lake at about 100m. As described above, the angle and location this photograph was taken from really enhances…
Did you pick up on that? It was subtle but it was there. Poor Jason’s email got hacked, and as a consequence, he probably sent an email to celebrity hottie Olivia Munn by accident, the horror! This is what comedian and writer for Parks and Recreation, Harris Wittels calls, ‘false humility’. It allows the…
PIGEON POINT LIGHTHOUSE, CALIFORNIA Photograph by TYLER WESTCOTT Photographer’s Description: Once per year, on the anniversary of the Pigeon Point Lighthouse, the original fresnel lens (which has since been replaced with an unimpressive aerobeacon) is illuminated with a 1 kilowatt light and its impressive original appearance is restored. This was taken in…
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