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Monday, April 6th, 2009I have never seen anything like this before, and I can’t believe it hasn’t had a ton of coverage on the Discovery Channel.
This video is of the 1993 Pantai Remis landslide in Malaysia. This mind blowing landslide is what happens when you have a huge open pit tin mining operation to close to the ocean. [...]
The Grizzly Bear Chair
Friday, March 6th, 2009Here is a bizarre Presidential gift that most Americans don’t know about. The Grizzly Bear Chair was created by the great bear hunter Seth Kinman, who claimed to have killed over 800 grizzly bears in his lifetime. On September 8, 1865 Seth presented this chair to President Andrew Johnson. One of the great features of [...]
Graf Zeppelin’s Rendezvous
Monday, February 23rd, 2009This has to be my favorite Great Pyramid pictures. It is part of the Library of Congress’s collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-130867. It was from a 1931 Stereoscope called “The Graf Zeppelin’s rendezvous with the eternal desert and the more than 4,000 year old pyramids of Gizeh, Egypt.
The Graf Zeppelin was a German passenger carrying airship [...]
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