Category: HISTORY

March 30, 2016 at 1:12 pm

The Skinniest House in the World (10 Photos)

The Skinniest House in the World (10 Photos)

Designed by Jakub Szczesny, Keret House in Warsaw, Poland measures 152 cm (60 in) at its widest point

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March 23, 2016 at 5:17 pm

Exploring Shanghai in an Old School Sidecar (32 Photos)

Exploring Shanghai in an Old School Sidecar (32 Photos)

Definitely beats any city tour in a car or bus

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March 21, 2016 at 3:07 pm

Picture of the Day: Just the Base of an Oil Platform Being Towed Out to Sea

Picture of the Day: Just the Base of an Oil Platform Being Towed Out to Sea

Nicknamed ‘Bullwinkle’, the steel base alone is 1,352 ft tall and is regarded as one of the greatest engineering feats of the 20th century

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March 18, 2016 at 2:54 pm

Picture of the Day: The Ceiling Fresco at Seitenstetten Abbey, Austria

Picture of the Day: The Ceiling Fresco at Seitenstetten Abbey, Austria

It was painted in 1735 by artist Paul Troger

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March 7, 2016 at 5:13 pm

Picture of the Day: An 1,800 Year Old Roman Road in Africa

Picture of the Day: An 1,800 Year Old Roman Road in Africa

A remarkably well-preserved 1800-year-old Roman road in Timgad, which was a Roman colonial town in the Aurès Mountains of modern-day Algeria

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February 25, 2016 at 9:32 am

Picture of the Day: Neuschwanstein Castle circa 1900, 10 Years After It Was Built

Picture of the Day: Neuschwanstein Castle circa 1900, 10 Years After It Was Built

A photochrom print of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany; taken as few as ten years after the completion of the castle

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February 22, 2016 at 8:29 am

Inside an Olive Oil Soap Factory in Syria

Inside an Olive Oil Soap Factory in Syria

Widely considered the first soap ever made, Aleppo olive oil soap uses only three ingredients

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February 17, 2016 at 5:11 pm

How Einstein Went from ‘Lazy Dog’ to Nobel Prize Winning Scientist

How Einstein Went from 'Lazy Dog' to Nobel Prize Winning Scientist

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination” – Albert Einstein

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February 16, 2016 at 4:52 pm

These 360 TB Discs Will Last for 13.8 Billion Years

These 360 TB Discs Will Last for 13.8 Billion Years

Coined as the ‘Superman memory crystal’, data is recorded via self-assembled nanostructures created in fused quartz

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January 27, 2016 at 6:48 pm

Picture of the Day: Ta Prohm Temple, Cambodia

Picture of the Day: Ta Prohm Temple, Cambodia

Ta Prohm is the modern name of the temple at Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, built in the late 12th and early 13th centuries

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