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Design by JOHN SHUTTLEWORTH YACHT DESIGNS The Adastra is the result of more than five years of design and planning. The stunning 42.5 meter (139.4 ft) trimaran is currently being built in China for Hong Kong Clients, Anto and Elaine Marden. Designed and engineered by the world-renowned John Shuttleworth Yacht Designs, the Adastra is…
1ST REPUBLICAN PARTY CONVENTION HELD – JULY 6, 1854 First notable appearance of Republican Elepahnt | Illustration by Thomas Nast, Harper’s Magazine 7 Nov. 1874 The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists…
Lake Front in Chicago – Matt Wilhelm | Photograph by FAT TONY My friend Fat Tony recently sent me this fantastic collection of flatland BMX photographs he took. As the online editor of the world’s leading BMX web site, ridebmx.com, Fat Tony is no stranger to the BMX community. Check out these 21 photographs…
KRAKATOA ERUPTION FROM AFAR Photograph by MARCO FULLE Photographer’s Description: A volcano on Krakatoa is still erupting. Perhaps most famous for the powerfully explosive eruption in 1883 that killed tens of thousands of people, ash from a violent eruption might also have temporarily altered Earth’s climate as long as 1500 years ago.…
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…
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.…
Photograph by The McMonigle Group Smack dab between Newport and Laguna beach lies the oceanfront lots of Cameo shores, in the ultra-exclusive Corona Del Mar in Orange County, California. Originally listed at a cool $76 million in 2006, the fantastical Portabello Estate (which means ‘beautiful door’ in Italian) was eventually sold in 2010 for…
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