What are some amazing pictures?

 

• ''London Bridge is down'' is the code to signal Queen Elizabeth II's death. As a result, the Royal Family's website will be turned black and news reporters will also wear black on camera. Her 70-year-old son will then become King Charles III.

• Grenade cross-section.

• The RMS Queen Elizabeth pulling into New York with returning service men in 1945 after World War II was over. Most of these men went on to create families and brought their stories with them.

• Life before AutoCAD!

• Breguet - marie antoinette, the pocket watch took 43 years to make and it is worth over 30 million dollars.

• A Telephone Tower serving over 5000 lines, Stockholm, Sweden, 1890.

• In 1325, the city of Bologna went to war with the city of Modena because Modenese soldiers stole a bucket from the city well in Bologna. Modena won the war and took another bucket from Bologna's city well as a trophy. That bucket is still in Modena to this day.

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• The back seat of President John F. Kennedy's limousine after he had been shot in the head, November 22, 1963.

• In July 2012, Brazilian football player Ronaldinho lost a $750,000 deal with Coca-Cola because he took a sip from a Pepsi can during a press conference.

• Albert Einstein lectures on the Theory of Relativity, 1922.

• In 15th century Prague (present-day Czech Republic), frustrated citizens would take matters into their own hands by throwing politicians out of windows. Most that didn’t die from the fall would be killed by a mob waiting below.

• The crew of the Titanic, with Captain Edward J. Smith (far right), 1912.

• An abandoned boy sits in the rubble of his home where his father, mother, and brother lie buried after a German V-2 bomb hit them during World War II, London, England, January 1945.

• In 897 AD, after Pope Formosus died and was buried, the Catholic church exhumed his corpse, wore it in papal vestments and seated it on a throne to face trial. The verdict was that the deceased had been unworthy to be a pope and was buried again. Thirteen years later in 910 AD, Formosus' corpse was exhumed once more, tried, found guilty again, beheaded and then thrown into the River Tiber in Italy, unworthy of a human burial.

• Discovering the Mona Lisa after WW2.

• Lady Dais of the Han is China's eternal Mummy. Found over 2,000 yrs after her death, her skin was still soft, her arms & legs could flex at the joints. She was buried in a mystery liquid scientists can't replicate & remains the most well preserved ancient human ever discovered.

• American computer scientist, Larry Tesler spent three years to invent the cut/copy and paste from 1973 to 1976.

• ATM PINs were originally intended to have six digits, but have four because the inventor's wife said she could only remember that many.

• In 1880, Sunandha Kumariratana, the Queen of Thailand, drowned while her subjects watch because they were forbidden to touch her.

• Giant Anaconda Underwater Filming

Must admit, that last one was crazy

What are some of the most amazing sculptures in the world?

 

• A statue of Guan Yu created by Han Meilin in Jingzhou, China .

• A caring hand – a sculpture from Glarus, Switzerland.

• A statue of unity - Gujarat, India.

• "The Great Challenge" by Nicolas Lavalen . Bronze sculpture, French Riviera.

• The Kiss of Death , 1930 - Barcelona, ​​Spain.

• "The Thinker" is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin (housed in the Rodin Museum in Paris).

• " Pietà " by Italian artist Jago .

• This statue depicts Saint Bartholomew , an early Christian martyr who is said to have been flayed alive .

• " The Little Mermaid" is a bronze sculpture by Edvard Eriksen that depicts a mermaid transforming into a human.

• Luo Lirong is a contemporary artist famous for creating lifelike sculptures using clay and bronze .

What is the most amazing photo you've ever taken?

 Let's take a look at some of the amazing collections. But there are still more amazing things:

1. Angel of the sky.

2. Nature smiles; we sometimes observe it.

3. On the sea, under the sky.

4. Dogs have fashion too.

5. It's time for dinner.

6. The Road to Heaven.

7. There are fish in the sky.

8. Dad, let's go skydiving!

9. My superpower: Lightning.

10. Paper airplane.

What are some amazing facts about Earth's composition?

 If you could mine Earth's core, you would find enough trapped gold to coat the entire surface of the planet in a solid shell more than a foot and a half thick.

Our planet’s composition is full of bizarre contradictions. What we experience on the surface is a tiny, highly unrepresentative fraction of what is actually beneath our feet.

During Earth's formation, heavy molten iron sank toward the center to create the core. As it sank, it dragged the vast majority of the planet's precious metals—like gold and platinum—down with it. The gold we mine today was actually delivered much later by asteroid impacts. The inner core itself is a solid sphere of iron and nickel with temperatures reaching around 5,400 °C (9,800 °F), making it roughly as hot as the surface of the Sun. It would normally be a boiling liquid, but the crushing pressure—about 3.6 million times standard atmospheric pressure—forces the atoms into a solid state.

Moving upward to the crust, the elements flip in an unexpected way. When people think of oxygen, they think of the atmosphere. But the air we breathe contains a relatively small fraction of Earth's oxygen. By weight, oxygen makes up about 46.6% of the Earth's crust. It is highly reactive and combines with elements like silicon, aluminum, and iron to form solid silicate minerals such as quartz and feldspar. Almost half of the rock beneath your feet is oxidized metal and silicon.

Even deeper beneath the crust, the mantle hides a subterranean "ocean" that dwarfs all surface water. Hundreds of miles down, there is no sloshing liquid ocean, but rather water trapped inside a rare blue mineral called ringwoodite. The extreme pressure and temperature of the mantle's transition zone force this mineral to act like a sponge, locking hydrogen and oxygen atoms within its crystal structure. Geologists estimate that if ringwoodite in the mantle contains just 1% water by weight, it holds up to three times more water than all the oceans on the surface of the Earth combined.

A 150-micrometer blue crystal of ringwoodite, a high-pressure mineral that traps water deep within Earth's mantle. Photo by Jasperox is licensed under CC BY 3.0.

What are some of the most amazing things animals have done?

 Caddisfly larvae

Caddisfly larvae create a protective shell by taking whatever is nearby and attaching it around themselves, using their own silk to bind the materials together. Some artists have taken advantage of the unique way the larvae create their armor and the fact that they use anything around them to make it.

The artists left gold flakes, turquoise, rubies, and other gems for the larva to use, creating what is now known as entomological jewelry.

What's the most amazing accomplishment in all of sports?

 I’m going to go with a slightly different answer.

In most sports, records are set. They hold for a few years, sometimes a couple decades, until they are surpassed—which is only natural.

Training, nutrition, technique, equipment—all these things begin to improve over time.

But it is perhaps a racehorse who has the most impressive accomplishment of all athletes.

Secretariat won the triple crown, winning the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes.

And not only that, he set the track record for each of these courses. Those records still stand to this day, more than 50 years later. When they did an autopsy on Secretariat after his passing at age 19—they discovered he had a genetic advantage: his heart was 2.5 times larger than that of a standard racehorse.

His genetics did not pass down to his offspring, so there has been little competition since.

His time at the Belmont Stakes in particular is the most impressive, completely blowing out the field, making Secretariat look more like Pegasus than a horse. It led to this famous photo of his jockey:

He was more than 30 body lengths ahead of second place during this race.

Look at the top 5 times at this event over the past 50+ years:

Nobody has even broken 2:26 yet. It really shows how massive his lead is on the rest of them.

With today’s nutrition, a better jockey, modern training—I suspect Secretariat would have been even more untouchable than he is currently.

It is simply rare that you hear of records standing for so long, especially in a sport that is as competitive as horse racing. I suspect Secretariat might be the best athlete we’ve ever seen—and many people don’t even realize it.

Are there any amazing photos?

 

1. Water ice on Mars

2. Apparently, owls have long, slender legs beneath their fur.

3. Cotton pickers at night are like a huge crowd at a concert.

4. Advertising Graphic Designer Urgently Needed

5. This is my favorite joke.

Hitler went to a fortune teller and asked, "When will I die?" The fortune teller declared, "You will die on a Jewish holiday." Hitler asked, "How do you know that?"

The fortune teller then replied, "For the day you die will be a Jewish holiday."

6. I want to take cool photos, even if it means taking risks.

7. Sunrise

8. The tranquil roads of Hawaii

9. How would it feel to be charged by a rhinoceros?

10. We will cover North America and Europe simultaneously.