Fabulous Photographs... it's quite a fascinating world
The end of Australia
This is what it looks like when a praying mantis takes on a bird.
This is called cross sea. A cross sea is a sea state with two wave systems traveling at oblique angles.
This is what an eight-ton Orca jumping 20 feet out of the water looks like.
This is what a bubble looks like mid-pop.
This is what Wiltshire, England looks like.
This is what the Seattle skyline looks like.
This is what a sunset looks like from above the clouds.
This is a volcano in Ethiopia that burns bright blue.
This is what lions look like in the rain.
This is what a tree farm looks like.
This is what a huge rhododendron tree looks like.
This is how massive Tokyo is.
This is what a rainstorm over the city of
Denver looks like.
This is a process called guttation. The plant is expelling water due to a positive root pressure.
This is what a Russian Red Fox looks like.
This is what the clovers that cover the floor of the California Redwood Forest look like.
This is what Jupiter looks like from the bottom.
This is what a castle on an island in Ireland looks like.
This is what Venice looks like from above.
This is what the Dark Hedges of Northern
Ireland look like.
This is what the pyramids look like from Cairo street.
This is what the border of the United States and Canada looks like.
This is what two hours??? worth of lightning
on one pic looks like.
This is what an Osirian Rose looks like.
This is what the turquoise ice formations on
Lake Baikal, Russia look like.
This is how Mt. Fuji cuts through the clouds.
This is what a snail drinking from a bubble looks like.
This is what Ice Canyon, Greenland looks like.
This is what sunset looks like from space.
This is what an illegally-taken picture from one of the Greta Giza Pyramids looks like.
This is what the Apollo Metalmark Butterfly looks like.
This is what the sun looks like when shot in Ultraviolet.
This is what an oasis in Libya looks like.
This is what blue butterflies in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil look like.
This is what an Icelandic ice cave lit up by a burning flare looks like.
This is what a Lenticular cloud over
Mount Fuji looks like.
This is what it looks like underneath a breaking wave.
This is how you tow an iceberg In Newfoundland, icebergs are harvested for their water.
This is what Paris looks like from the Eiffel Tower.
.An Ottoman supply train still lies where it was ambushed by Lawrence of Arabia on the
Hejaz railway during World War I.
I
Holy
Roman Emperor Maximillian I wore these armored gloves
from 1508 until his death in 1519. (Now we know where
Star Wars got some of their designs) 
The
Cau Vang, outside the city of Da Nang in Vietnam is
held up by two giant stone hands.
This
amazing 16th Century ring unfolds into an astronomical
sphere. 
This
500-year-old boxwood miniature from the 16th century
was created in the Netherlands 
This
small ornate ax was made in Germany during the late
1500s. 
Carbonized
bread from Pompeii that still has the baker's stamp on
it, 79 AD. 
18th
century carved door in Germany with incredible
workmanship 
A
futuristic-looking 1938 Dymaxion, designed by American
inventor Buckminster Fuller 
The
library inside of the Waldsassen Abbey in Bavaria
holds thousands of volumes bound in white pigskin. 
'Cow
shoes' used by moonshiners in the Prohibition days to
disguise their footprints, 1924 
Designed
and built in the late 1800's, this steamer trunk
coverts into a stand-up dresser so the traveler
doesn't have to unpack. 
The
1936 Stout Scarab is one of the first minivans. 
Marketed
as a toy for kids, U-238 Atomic Energy Labs came with
three different types of live uranium ore and a Geiger
counter.
Shoes
worn by Allied spies during World War II to steer the
adversaries in the opposite direction 
The
ornate Elephant Tower of the Carlsberg Brewery in
Kopenhagen, 1901. 
A
triple-decker bus roaming the streets of Berlin,
Germany. 
Extreme
tree pruning crew from the late 1800s. 
17
year-old Juliane Koepcke was sucked out of an airplane
in 1971 after it was struck by a bolt of lightning.
She fell 2 miles to the ground, strapped to her seat
and survived after she endured 10 days in the Amazon
Jungle. 
90-year-old
Grandma in the Czech Republic passes time by
artistically painting houses. 
Nicknamed
'Methuselah' this Californian bristlecone pine tree
was seeded in the year 2833 BC, which makes this tree
4,850 years old. 
Wonder
.. for sure... how the age of this tree is known?
Infants
sleeping in the open air after lunch at a maternity
hospital in Moscow, 1958 
Mildred
Burke, a pioneer of women's pro-wrestling who began
wrestling men at carnivals in 1935. She would go on to
wrestle over 200 men, losing to only 1. 
One
of the most iconic photographs ever taken/ Bob Hope,
John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, Dean Martin, and Frank
Sinatra (circa 1975) 
The
ornate Klementinum Library in Prague. 
Hope
you enjoyed these history photos......
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Well, that wasn't supposed to happen.
At 106, War Hero Captain Pete Goutiere
Is Still Flying High
Aviator Flew 680 Missions Over the “Hump”
During World War II
Krasnoyarsk, Late Nineteenth Century
Penicillin became a sustainable treatment when it was discovered in mold on a cantaloupe:
"The story of Fleming's accidental discovery of penicillin has been told many times, but hardly any two versions are quite the same. The first thorough account of the discovery was not published until 1944, a decade and a half after the events it describes, by which time details were already blurring, but as best as can be said, the story seems to be this: In 1928, while Alexander Fleming was away on a holiday from his job as a medical researcher at St. Mary's Hospital in London, some spores of mold from the genus Penicillium drifted into his lab and landed on a petri dish that he had left unattended. Thanks to a sequence of chance events -- that Fleming hadn't cleaned up his petri dishes before departing on holiday, that the weather was unusually cool that summer (an thus good for spores), that Fleming remained away long enough for the slow-growing mold to act -- he returned to find that the bacterial growth in the petri dish had been conspicuously inhibited.
"It is often written that the type of fungus that landed on his dish was a rare one, making the discovery practically miraculous, but this appears to have been a journalistic invention. The mold was in fact Penicillium notatum (now called Penicillium chrysogenum), which is very common in London, so it was hardly momentous that a few spores should drift into his lab and settle on his agar. It has also become commonplace that Fleming failed to exploit his discovery and that years passed before others finally converted his findings into a useful medicine. That is, at the very least, an ungenerous interpretation. First, Fleming deserves credit for perceiving the significance of the mold; a less alert scientist might simply have tossed the whole lot out. Moreover, he dutifully reported his discovery, and even noted the antibiotic implications of it, in a respected journal. He also made some effort to turn the discovery into a usable medicine, but it was a technically tricky proposition -- as others would later discover -- and he had more pressing research interests to pursue, so he didn't stick with it. It is often overlooked that Fleming was a distinguished and busy scientist already. He had in 1923 discovered lysozyme, an antimicrobial enzyme found in saliva, mucus, and tears as part of the body's first line of defense against invading pathogens, and was still preoccupied with exploring its properties. He was hardly foolish or slapdash, as sometimes implied.
"In the early 1930s, researchers in Germany produced a group of antibacterial drugs known as sulfonamides, but they didn't always work well and often had serious side effects. At Oxford, a team of biochemists led by the Australian-born Howard Florey began searching for a more effective alternative and in the process rediscovered Fleming's penicillin paper. ... [The principal investigator at Oxford, Ernst] Chain was gifted in many fields and considered a career as a concert pianist before settling on science. But he was also a difficult man. He had a volatile temperament and slightly paranoid instincts... [H]e ... found to his astonishment that penicillin not only killed pathogens in mice but had no side effects. It appeared to be the perfect drug: one that could devastate its target without wreaking collateral damage. The problem, as Fleming had seen, was that it was very hard to produce penicillin in clinically useful quantities. Under Florey's command, Oxford gave over a significant amount of resources and research space to growing mold and patiently extracting from it tiny amounts of penicillin.
"By early 1941, they had just enough to trial the drug on a policeman named Albert Alexander, who was a tragically ideal demonstration of how vulnerable humans were to infections before antibiotics. While pruning roses in his garden, Alexander had scratched his face on a thorn. The scratch had grown infected and spread. Alexander had lost an eye and now was delirious and close to death. The effect of penicillin was miraculous. Within two days, he was sitting up and looking almost back to normal. But supplies quickly ran short. In desperation the scientists filtered and reinjected all they could from Alexander's urine, but after four days the supplies were exhausted. Poor Alexander relapsed and died.
"With Britain preoccupied by World War II and the united States not yet in it, the quest to produce bulk penicillin moved to a U.S. government research facility in Peoria, Illinois. Scientists and other interested parties all over the Allied world were secretly asked to send in soil and mold samples. Hundreds responded, but nothing they sent proved promising. Then, two years after testing had begun, a lab assistant in Peoria named Mary Hunt brought in a cantaloupe from a local grocery store. It had a 'pretty golden mold' growing on it, she recalled later. That mold proved to be two hundred times more potent than anything previously tested. The name and location of the store where Mary Hunt shopped are now forgotten, and the historic cantaloupe itself was not preserved: after the mold was scraped off, it was cut into pieces and eaten by the staff. But the mold lived on. Every bit of penicillin made since that day is descended from that single random cantaloupe."
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| author: Bill Bryson | |||
| title: The Body | |||
| publisher: Doubleday |
