An 18-foot- tall underwater statue weighing 60-tonnes is a wondrous creation all on its own. But Jason deCaires Taylor had bigger plans for this sculpture than its already giant size. He titles his latest sculpture, Ocean Atlas, and it includes this massive girl beneath the ocean waters off the coast of Nassau in the Bahamas. On her shoulders she carries …
Mount Fuji As Seen From The Sea, Japan
As Japan’s highest mountain, the legendary Mount Fuji stands 12,388 feet (3,776 meters) tall. Travellers from around the world head to Hakone National Park to see the mount Fuji, and over 1 million of them hike all the way to the top each year for the 360-degree views of Lake Ashi, the Hakone mountains, and the Owakudani Valley. Whether you …
Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum of natural history that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Natural History Museum’s main frontage, however, is on Cromwell …
Dragon gate in Dublin
In Dublin, Ireland, stands an estate reminiscent of old folklore, complete with its own dragon! Of course, dragons are mythical creatures, so this home only has a dragon made of steel which acts as its gatekeeper. The property, known at Harlech House, was originally built in 1798 by a Welsh immigrant. (The estate is actually named after a town in …
The founder of FedEx saved his company from bankruptcy
FedEx, the world’s first overnight delivery company, delivers more than 1.2 billion packages every year in over 220 countries. Yet in its early days, founder Frederick Smith was so desperate, he had to rely on gambling in Vegas to fund his company. While majoring in economics at Yale University in 1962, Smith wrote a paper about the automation of society …
The Singing Tree
A 3-meter-tall, wind-powered musical sculpture made of galvanized steel pipes, it stands high above the English town of Burnley. The pipes swirl to form the shape of a tree bent and blown by the wind, and produce an eerie, melodious music as the constant wind on Crown Point drifts through them. The Singing Ringing Tree pipes are used for both …
Bugatti Chiron Interior
The Bugatti Chiron is a mid-engined, two-seated sports car, designed by Achim Anscheidt and developed by the Bugatti automotive group (which is owned by the Volkswagen Group) as the successor to the Bugatti Veyron. The Chiron was first shown at the Geneva Motor Show on March 1, 2016. The car is named in honor of the Monegasque driver Louis Chiron. …
Winter Mornings in Norway
Located over 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Troms¸, Norway, is home to extreme light variation between seasons. During the Polar Night, which lasts from November to January, the sun doesn’t rise at all. Then the days get progressively longer until the Midnight Sun period, from May to July, when it never sets. After the midnight sun, the days …
Great Wall of China ends
The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China to protect the Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the various nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe. Several walls were being built as …
Nikola Tesla predicted the internet
In 1900, he wrote an article for Century Magazine describing a world system of wireless communication ( Internet ) that could send telephone messages, news, music, and pictures to any part of the world. When Tesla returned from Colorado Springs to New York, he wrote a sensational article for Century Magazine. In this detailed, futuristic vision he described a means …
The Bridge Between Denmark and Sweden
The resund is an engineering marvel that connects the Danish capital of Copenhagen to the Swedish city of Malm. A cable-stayed bridge runs nearly 8 km (5 miles) to an artificial island where it transitions into a tunnel that runs another 4 km (2.5 miles). The award-winning double-track railway and motorway opened on July 1, 2000. The resund was designed …
10,000 Monks In Prayer For A Better World in Bangkok
Bangkok based photographer Luke Duggleby recently experienced that firsthand when his 2010 image of 40,000 Thai monks in prayer at the Dhammakaya Temple in Bangkok made the rounds on social media following the Nepal earthquake, captioned as 100,000 monks in prayer after the Nepal earthquake as a necessary gesture of power. Years ago, the image had gone viral in a …