Showing posts with label Images. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Images. Show all posts

Monday, July 13, 2026

What are some rare images that we have never seen before?

 This is a 393-year-old Greenland shark. The photo was taken in the Arctic Ocean. This creature has been roaming the icy waters of the North Pole since 1627.

It is the oldest vertebrate —that we know of — in the world.

Translator's note , in response to a question in the comments:

It was thought that the Greenland shark lived on average 200 years, but a study published in 2016 determined that a specimen measuring 5.02 meters was 392 years old, with a margin of error of 120 years.

The specimen found could therefore have been between 272 and 512 years old. This spectacular discovery makes this animal the oldest known vertebrate in the world.

A Greenland shark was also "tagged" off the coast of Greenland in 1936 and recaptured in 1952. Measurements taken at the time led to the conclusion that this species of shark grows half a centimeter to one centimeter per year.

The 2016 study, based on 28 specimens measuring between 81 and 502 cm in length, and using carbon-14 dating of crystals in their eyes to estimate their age, clarified their life cycle. The oldest of the animals tested, which was also the largest, was therefore born between 1504 and 1744…

The authors of the study also concluded that this species reaches sexual maturity at the age of 150 years!

Saturday, July 11, 2026

What images remind us of almost forgotten aspects of our past?

 1. Road washing machine in 1905.

2. For those who thought the use of face masks was something new, I regret to inform you that it's a technique from decades ago. Here we see actors Stanley Morner and Betty Furness rehearsing a masked love scene, 1937.

Just like the kissing rehearsals during the flu epidemic. The scene was rehearsed 20 times before the cameras were pointed at the actors. During the filming of the scene, of course, the masks were removed.

3. Fiat factory, on whose roof there was a track where cars were tested, Turin, Italy.

4. Measurement judges at the Tokyo Olympic Games, 196.

With their help, before the introduction of videocassettes, winners were identified in races and other team speed competitions.

5. Airline reservation service before computers, 1945.

6. Kites from the past. Inventor Alexander Graham Bell and his assistants fly a four-sided kite, 1908.

7. In 1902, people in Alaska weren't sculpting snowmen, but snow titans.

8. Removals, San Francisco, 1908.

9. How soldiers had to practice inside the trenches, exercising with their pet fox Rusty, 1943.

10. Good citizens are undoubtedly even more so. A policeman stops traffic so a cat can take its kittens, New York, 1925.

Friday, July 10, 2026

What are some of the most spectacular images that didn't need any editing?

 01 – Landscape perfectly divided by the tracks of a fence.

02 – My friend just did that.

03 – The golden rays of the sunset entered the cave at exactly the right angle to illuminate this section of ice.

04 – Water also looks like an elephant.

05 – My boy climbing an old, rotten tree stump looks like a giant on a mountain.

06 – A forestry worker photographed a fire burning inside a tree.

07 – It would be the road to heaven.

08 – These tire tracks look 3D.

09 – The tallest tram in the world.

10 – The lamppost in this image makes it look like two different photos.

Saturday, July 4, 2026

Which images are amazing?

 1. The ants emptied an almond to make their own almond flour:

2. A father fainted upon learning that his wife had just given birth to triplets. Ultrasounds didn't exist at the time, so he couldn't have known beforehand.

3. The 800-year-old underground church in the city of Lalibela, Ethiopia, carved from a single stone:

4. X-ray of a Kiwi bird with an egg inside:

5. A Rubik's Cube for the blind:

Saturday, June 27, 2026

What are some images of unlucky people?

 1 - This guy had the chance to speak with former President Obama.

2 - It can't be fixed...

3 - When your grandmother takes your picture.

4 - The two brothers won the lottery on the same day.

5 - He kisses a lot...

6 - Technically she's showing her underwear...

7 - Thank you, my daughter, for leaving the sweets in the sun.

8 - When the restaurant advises you to go on a diet.

9 - What...

10 - The bread seems to have aerated very well.

Thursday, June 25, 2026

What are some of the least well-known or rarest images you've ever seen?

 New Year's Eve, 1960.

In 1904, in Seoul, Korea, a young Korean man in casual clothes and his wife.

A soldier leans out of a train window to kiss his lover. 1950.

Marilyn Monroe's 1954 US passport.

Elvis Presley during the filming of "Love Me Tender" in 1956.

President Lyndon B. Johnson is yelling at pilots to shut down their engines so that President John F. Kennedy can deliver his speech. Photographed by Richard Pipes, Texas, 1960.

Christian Bale in his teens, 1980s.

In 1848, Leo Tolstoy was 20 years old.

Salvador Dalí. It took 28 attempts to capture this perfectly timed shot. 1948. Photographed by Philippe Halsman.

A photograph of Jerry Seinfeld taken on the first day of filming for "Seinfeld" in 1989.

Thursday, May 28, 2026

What surprising images show a different side of the world?

 1 - What does the sun look like when you take photos in the same place and time every week for a year?

2 - A turtle emerging from hibernation…

3 - An Egyptian passport of the legendary pharaoh, Ramses II.

In 1974, the legendary pharaoh Ramses II was given a valid Egyptian passport so that his 3,000-year-old mummy could be taken to Paris for necessary repairs.

4 - An electrician was left with stars in his eyes after experiencing a 14,000 volt shock through his body.

5 - Before and after photos of a man who walked around China for a year.

6 - The handprint of an 8-year-old child after playing outside.

7 - The life cycle of a leaf.

8 - This sunset above the clouds looks like lava in the sky...

9 - When a sheep is not sheared for 6 years…

10 - A 10MB hard drive from the 1960s.

11 - A seed travels a long way to get to your coffee cup.

12 - A visual representation of how many Earths could fit inside the sun