Showing posts with label Photographs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photographs. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

What are some photographs that depict little-known scenes or landscapes?

 In 1857, the Sphinx, whose entire form had been buried, was discovered.

A fascinating image of the Great Sphinx of Egypt before it was fully excavated. This image was taken around 1880.

This image was taken in 1887. Half of it is buried in the sand. Amazing, isn't it?

The photo shows the original entrance to the Great Pyramid.

The Eiffel Tower (Paris, France) (Gustave Eiffel, 1887–1889)

Statue of Liberty (Liberty Island, New York) (Frédéric Bartholdi, 1876–1886)

This torch-holding arm was displayed at the 1876 Centennial Exposition and in Madison Square Park in New York from 1876 to 1882.

Tower Bridge in London, England (designed by Sir Horace Jones and George D. Stephenson between 1886 and 1894)

The U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. (1861) (under construction)

Christ the Savior in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (designed by Heitor da Silva Costa, sculpted by Paul Landowski, 1926–1931)

In 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter unearthed the untouched and magnificent tomb of Tutankhamun.

The Italian Ministry of Culture announced the discovery of a stone urn containing gold coins at the site of the former Teatro Cressoni. The gold coins had not lost their luster.

Han Qiaoni, who hails from Yuxian County in northern Shanxi Province, China, had her feet bound from the age of two.

(Foot binding was a practice of stopping foot growth so that it would not grow larger than 3-4 centimeters. Feet that were 3 centimeters long were called "golden lotuses," and feet that were 4 centimeters long were called "silver lotuses.")

Close-up image of bound feet

A photograph of Princess Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, at the age of 18 in 1944, sitting at a desk and reading a book at Windsor Castle in Berkshire, England. (Colorized)

And here she is, a little older and even more beautiful.

Captain Edward John Smith of the Titanic

Nagasaki, as seen from Kawaminami Koyanagi Island, 13 miles away, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing.

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Translator's Postscript

The Japanese embassy to Europe (the second embassy to Europe), which traveled by land due to the construction of the Suez Canal, also apparently visited the Sphinx. April 1864

Monday, April 27, 2026

Some Of The Most Interesting Photographs

 1. A circus performer named Thomas Wedders was known for his nose measuring 20 cm (7.8 in)

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2. This is a Tatoo
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3. I love all the cute pictures of seals, but here's a little reminder that they are, in fact, predators.

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4. Lion cub playing with a gemsbok horn

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5. Mexican teacher Oliver Castro Jiménez is teaching physics with one piece

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6. The abandoned chicken church in Indonesia

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7. This is what a rocket leaving Earth looks like from space

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8. Only one photogrpah

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9. A salt crystal grown at home

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10. Young lion about to inflict a World of Pain

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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Some Of The Most Interesting Photographs

 1. Michel Lotito was a French man known for his ability to consume and digest non-edible objects. He ate 18 bicycles, 15 shopping carts, 7 TV sets, and 6 chandeliers. He even consumed an entire Cessna 150 airplane between 1978 and 1980, and he also ate a coffin. He died of natural causes in 2007.

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2. The skull of a Dunkleosteus, a 5-meter-long extinct fish with an armored skull and bladed jaws. It had an estimated bite force of 5,000 newtons, the highest of any fish in history.

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3. Spudnik-1, a potato in orbit aboard the International Space Station!
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4. Up close shots of a rare pink empusa mantis

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5. In 1980, a woman won the Boston Marathon in a near-record time of 2 hours and 32 minutes. Days later, officials discovered she hadn’t run most of the race and had used the subway in a previous marathon to qualify.

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6. This is a sunfish in a Japanese aquarium. It became lonely after visitors stopped during renovations and refused to eat and rubbed its body against the tank walls, showing stress, then started eating again within a day after staff placed human face cutouts near its tank.

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7. The space urinals that went around the Moon on Artemis II

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8. New York, 1982

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9. In India, a woman tricked police and civic teams into cleaning an open drain for 3 hours by falsely claiming someone had fallen into it.

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10. A person selling lanterns in Vietnam.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

The Most Interesting Photographs

 1. Confiscated pens containing cheat notes intricately carved by a Law student at the University of Malaga in Spain

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2. Wild bananas often contain large seeds, the bananas we eat have been specially bred over the years to be seedless.

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3. Street art in Ireland

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4. Sand Under a Microscope

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5. Satoru Takaba moved out of the apartment where his wife was murdered, and he paid rent for 26 years, waiting until DNA technology could catch the killer. Last year, it caught her.
Turns out, the killer was the man’s classmate at secondary school and had a crush on him. Before the murder, they had recently met at a school reunion.

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6. Street art in Solnechnogorsk

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7. Corvids commonly engage in an act known as “anting.” This is where they intentionally cover themselves in ants. The ants, sensing danger, release formic acid, which kills parasites & diseases. It does not harm the crow.

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8. Rare Golden Seal Baby Beside Dark One

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9. Space Needle in Seattle over clouds looks like the cloud city from Star Wars

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10. Largest land animal of today compared to the largest land animal of all time

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