HISTORY’S GREATEST MUSTACHE Photograph by MATTHEW BRADY Photograph by MATTHEW BRADY & LEVIN CORBIN HANDY Hogan. Selleck. Chaplin. All magnificent mustaches. All pale in comparison to Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881), history’s greatest mustache. If the pictures above haven’t already made that abundantly clear, then the…
SUNSET ON MARS Photograph by NASA/JPL/Texas A&M/Cornell On May 19th, 2005, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view of the Sun sinking below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This Panoramic Camera (Pancam) mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover’s 489th Martian day, or sol.…
INCREDIBLE HUAXI VILLAGE SKYSCRAPER IN CHINA Photograph via Reuters/Carlos Barria The newly inaugurated skyscraper tower of Huaxi village is seen in Huaxi village, Jiangsu province, on October 7, 2011. Huaxi, also known as China’s richest village, celebrated its 50th anniversary with the inauguration of a massive 328-meter (1,076 feet) high skyscraper that…
UNCOVERING HISTORY Photograph via Reddit Moai are monolithic human figures carved from rock on the Polynesian island of Easter Island between the years 1250 and 1500. Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the…
PARIS AT NIGHT Photograph by JOHN NIRAVONG Fantastic shot of the beautiful city of Paris at night by my friend John Niravong. The photograph was taken from the 56th floor observation deck of the Maine-Montparnasse Tower, a popular destination for visitors seeking unrivaled views of the majestic city below. Tour Maine-Montparnasse (Maine-Montparnasse…
THE GIANT WELL IN NATWARGHAD, INDIA Photograph by AMIT DAVE/REUTERS People gather to get water from a huge well in the village of Natwarghad in the western Indian state of Gujarat on June 1, 2003. (Reuters/Amit Dave) Gujarat is a state in western India with a population in excess of 60 million.…
EPIC HOBBIT REUNION Photograph by SARAH DUNN for EMPIRE MAGAZINE It’s hard to imagine the Lord of the Rings trilogy was filmed (in its entirety) over a decade ago! The $285 million epic took eight years to complete, culminating with the release of The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001. The films…
BANKSY STRIKES OCCUPY LONDON PROTESTS Photograph by JASON REEVE PHOTOGRAPHY You know times are tough when rich Uncle Pennybags from the iconic boardgame Monopoly is begging for change! This photograph was taken by Jason Reeve on October 24, 2011 at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. It’s interesting to see the word ‘Tox’…
BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY Photographs by Zheng Duo/Color China Photo/AP Images A worker installs the Chengdu city model at the Chengdu Planning Hall in Chengdu in southwest China’s Sichuan province on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. Following the four state-level new development areas, including Shanghai Pudong, Tianjin Binhai, Chongqing Liangjiang and Shanxi Xixian…
GLOW IN THE DARK FUNGUS Photographs by YLEM Panellus stipticus, commonly known as the bitter oyster, the astringent panus, the luminescent panellus, or the stiptic fungus, is a species of fungus in the Mycenaceae family, and the type species of the genus Panellus. A common and widely distributed species, it is…
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