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Your Summer Guide to Spotting Rare, Wild Blimps
A U.S. Navy blimp cruises over the Atlantic in 1943. (Photo: Library of Congress/LC-USE6- D-008260)Once upon a time, not even a century ago, the American sky was filled with airships. The Navy sent...
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These Unique Wails Piercing Indian Streets are a Genius Form of Advertising
A feriwala in Tamil Nadu. (Photo: Brandvenkatr/CC BY-SA 3.0)A strange sound pierces most residential streets in Indian cities: a recurring cry that sounds almost like an attempt to imitate a bird call....
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Found: A Rare, Backwards Tornado That Spun the Wrong Way
Normal tornadoes, just two of them. (Photo: NOAA)In Oklahoma, one of eight tornados that touched down this week was rotating the wrong direction.*12-mile anticyclonic #tornado track*; radar shows circ...
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For Sale: A Housebroken Pet Bison
Could you care for an indoor bison? (Photo: Jack Dykinga/Public Domain)Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the pets. As reported on WFAA8, a woman in Argyle, Texas has put up her pet bison for sale...
View ArticleWatch a Dog Gang Shut Down a Tokyo Airport
Four canine trespassers managed to sneak into Tokyo's Haneda Airport yesterday, giving themselves the run of the place and making life ruff for pilots, TheAsahi Shimbun reports.The pack, which started...
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The Magic of Quidditch Could be Real if Only We Lived in Space
A beater approaches a chaser with the quaffle during a quidditch match in Vancouver, British Columbia. (Photo: Anton Bielousov/CC BY-SA 3.0)On fields across the world there are people running around...
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Risiera di San Sabba in Trieste, Italy
Once just a local rice mill or risiera, in September 1943, the Risiera di San Sabba took a dark turn. The complex became a Nazi concentration camp, used for the detention and killing of political...
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How England's First Feline Show Countered Victorian Snobbery About Cats
An 1892 painting by Carl Kahler, entitled My Wife's Lovers. (Image: Public Domain)In the 1860s, the cats of England were suffering from a major image problem. Having experienced the highs of Ancient...
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Astronaut Reveals Gash in Space Station Window Caused by Debris
(Photo: ESA)The Cupola on the International Space Station provides, as the European Space Agency puts it, the best room with a view anywhere. Built as an observatory, the seven-windowed module was...
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Quentin Compson Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts
Anderson Memorial Bridge sits on the site of the first bridge to cross the Charles River, and carries a road that runs from Boston's Allston neighborhood directly into Harvard Square. In the midst of...
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The Volcano Show at Red Rock Cinema in Reykjavik, Iceland
Villi Knudson may be the Steve Zissou of Icelandic volcanoes.Hidden on the back quarters of a house on one of Reykjavik's many hills sits a bright red oversized garage known as the Red Rock Cinema....
View ArticleWatch This Amazing Infrared Footage of a Volcanic Eruption in Costa Rica
The Turrialba Volcano, around 30 miles east of Costa Rica's capital San Jose, has been increasingly active in recent years, spewing ash on occasion, as well as minor eruptions in recent years. But on...
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Deutsches Currywurst Museum in Berlin, Germany
Not far from Checkpoint Charlie, the iconic Cold War-era crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin, there's a museum dedicated to a street food called “currywurst” - a peculiar, and singularly...
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The Violent Ice Cream Wars of 1980s Scotland
An ice-cream van in Scotland. (Photo: Andy Mitchell/CC BY-SA 2.0)In Glasgow, Scotland, during the 1970s and '80s, people in public housing might have heard the music-box-like song of Greensleeves...
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Kensington Roof Gardens in London, England
A mere 100 feet from Kensington’s High Street stands a little-known urban oasis with trees, streams, ponds, fragrant flowers, and secluded corners offering visitors a tranquil refuge. However, you...
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Ponderosa Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada
A fully-functional saloon in Virgina City, Nevada contains an 1860's bank vault and underground mine. The beloved watering hole has been offering tours of the mine shaft since the 1900s.Virginia City,...
View ArticleFor Sale: An Entire Town in Australia
A whole Queensland town for sale for $750,000 https://t.co/w75gnQsiOXpic.twitter.com/5EfbIQfOCS— Domain (@Domaincomau) May 16, 2016 The Australian town of Allies Creek is up for sale for less than some...
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The Woodcarver Drawing Secret Faces on Trees at This Canadian Park
Visitors to Cottonwood Island Nature Park in Prince George, British Columbia can walk green trails, gaze out at the intersection of the Nechako and Fraser rivers, and look for peace among the...
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United Nations Delegates Lounge in New York, New York
This is, without a doubt, the world's worst bar to get sloppy drunk with a coworker.Along the East River sits an impeccably designed, football-field-sized room that, depending on the date and time of...
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Acorn Woodpeckers Hoard Thousands of Acorns in a Single Tree
The granary doesn't maintain itself. (Photo: Jean-Edouard Rozey/Shutterstock.com)Once a team of acorn woodpeckers has had their way with a tree, the tree is left nearly unrecognizable, and covered in...
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