1. Colosseum In Rome, Italy The Colosseum, or the Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo), is an ancient elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering. Occupying a …
1. Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea Built in 1394 under orders of King Taejo, the first king and founder of the Joseon Dynasty. The Gyeongbokgung houses the National Folk Museum of Korea and the National Museum of Korea. The palace is composed of several buildings including the Gangnyeongjeon (Gangnyeongjeon Hall), which was used as the king’s main sleeping and …
1. Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, United States The Metropolitan Museum of Art (colloquially The Met) is an art museum on the eastern edge of Central Park, along “Museum Mile” in New York City, United States. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works of art, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, often called …
1. Vyborg Castle in Vyborg, Russia – Europe Vyborg Castle was built by the Swedes in 1293 and is the largest building in the region. It was built as the easternmost outpost of the medieval Kingdom of Sweden. In 1710 Vyborg was under the control of the Russians, but went back to Finland in 1818. The Soviets annexed the area …
1. Monument to the Discoveries in Lisbon, Portugal The Monument to the Discoveries, Padro dos Descobrimentos, is quite a distinctive structure standing at a height of 52 m (170 ft), this concrete slab is shaped like the front of a ship. This represents ships which departed from the banks of the Tagus river during the Age of Discovery. The monument …
Incandescent light bulbs may be fading away, killed off slowly by fluorescent s and LED’s, but there’s one old-fashioned bulb that refuses to go out. In fact, it’s been going for more than a century. The world’s longest-burning light bulb has been shining since 1901, when it was first turned on in Liver more, Calif. (It’s gone out during a …
Aogashima is a small, tropical volcanic island in the Philippine Sea, under the administration of Tokyo in Japan despite being located some 358 kilometres away from the country’s capital. It is the southernmost and the most isolated inhabited island of the Izu archipelago. The island itself is a giant volcanic crater, and within that crater there’s another, smaller volcano. Aogashima …
The wreck of a rare American fighter plane which crashed during World War II remains hidden under the sand of a Gwynedd beach. The Lockheed P-38F Lightning was found near Harlech six years ago after being covered by sand for more than 65 years. Its pilot, USAF Lt Robert Elliott, walked away unscathed after the plane’s engines cut out during …
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program. NASA was started in 1958 as a part of the United States government. The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is a high-performance, unclassified national network built to support scientific research. NASA formed on July 29, 1958 (57 years ago), Headquarters …
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, this coming March 12, 2014, let us get to know the man behind the most powerful and used technique that saves our freaking life in school and work everyday, Larry Tesler; the guy who invented the ever useful Copy and Paste. Lawrence Gordon Tesler was born on April 24, …
Visitors to Sequoia and Kings Canyon can drive through Sequoia Park’s fallen “Tunnel Log” located along the Crescent Meadow Road in Giant Forest. The fallen Tunnel Log of Sequoia National Park came into being after an unnamed giant sequoia fell across the Crescent Meadow Road in late 1937 as a result of “natural causes.” The following summer, a tunnel was …
This photograph is the last known picture of RMS Titanic on the surface of the ocean. It was taken during her maiden voyage at Crosshaven, Ireland, just after the vessel departed Queenstown where it had stopped before heading westwards towards New York. Three days after this photo was taken 1,514 people would be dead and the Titanic would be on …