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7 Centuries old Stone Houses in Iran

admin1 — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:05:09 +0000

This is pretty impressive. These are houses in Iran that were allegedly built 700 years ago. I don’t know much about it but it looks like the houses were carved into stone, unless they molded them out of some cement like material 700 years ago. I would still not want to visit Iran, but these houses are pretty impressive.

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Frozen Monkeys

admin1 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:28:08 +0000

The poor monkeys who live in a Japanese zoo, trying to keep warm pressed against each other.

San Francisco quake of 1906 Now In Color

admin1 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:34:29 +0000

When you think of photos from the early 1900′s, you probably don’t picture them in color. They’re probably more akin to Leave it to Beaver. But, in fact, color photography has been around since the late 1800′s.

One early adopter of color photography was Frederick Eugene Ives. Ives was best known at the time for inventing halftone printing. He also invented the Photochromoscope system. It was his first color process–one that was too expensive and complex–and therefore a commercial failure.

But Ives’ work on the Photochromoscope did, however, lead to hundreds of color photos between the 1890s and 1910s. The pictures shown here were taken in October, six months after the great earthquake. Most of the photos taken were from the Majestic Hotel, roof but these images are at street level.

Incredible Car explosion

admin1 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:21:30 +0000

Result of leaking acetylene bottle stored in plumbers van. Accidently caught fire by activating a remote control door lock device. It’s amazing that no one was injured.

Extreme Balancing

admin1 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:39:56 +0000

Extreme Balancing

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