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Meet ‘Super Mary’, a pop culture version of her former self, part of a series by French artist, Soasig Chamaillard, who restores and transforms damaged statues, either donated or discovered in garage sales. Even the most indifferent of us to religion can recognise we’re looking at some pretty provocative work here. The gallery exhibit last year [...]
I recently learned that Walt Disney decided to put the trash cans in Disneyland’s Magic Kingdom no more than 30 steps apart after observing guests in other parks and averaging out how many steps a person would take before dropping trash on the ground. ¹ The video you are about to watch is about an island, [...]
Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone. Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives [...]
This is the incredible sight of a dust storm and rain clouds forming over Indian ocean, captured by a tug boat worker, Brett Martin on January 9th. The cyclone was approaching Onslow on the Western Australian coast. “We were steaming along in the boat just before sunset and the storm was casually building in the [...]
Image via here Before they are put to rest, airplanes undergo funeral-esque rituals known as ‘pickling’. Their engines are removed, the windows covered and the fluids drained. But of course these giants are too big to bury. In the parched deserts, where a dry climate is an old machine’s best ally, aircrafts young and [...]
Doppelgängers are just fascinating, celebrity or not. And there’s always that question: how is it possible? How can two people who are not genetically related look nearly like twins? But I suppose the question we should really be asking ourselves is: on a planet of seven billion people, how can some of us not lookalike? [...]
For those of you learning to drive, it might sting a little to know that dogs have beaten you to it… Three rescue dogs in New Zealand, Porter, a ten-month old beardie cross, Monty, an 18-month-old schnauzer cross, and Ginny, a one-year-old beardie whippet, have learned to drive … (stick). In under eight weeks, the homeless [...]
Just a photograph of your average Nazi rally in Hitler Germany. Or is it? At the launch of a German army vessel in 1936, attended by Adolf Hitler himself, the crowd was doing their best impression of brainwashed Nazi enthusiasts and saluting Der Fuhrer. But at a closer look, the photograph shows one man who [...]
So think of the biggest and baddest predators in the animal kingdom, the most powerful carnivores in the food chain, and those are the guys you’ll be getting up close and personal with at the Lujan petting zoo in Argentina. Just outside Buenos Aires, a controversial zoo allows visitors past the iron bars that normally [...]
This is Villa Epecuen, an old tourist town south of Buenos Aires that spent a quarter of a century underwater. Established in the 1920s on the banks of a salt lake, the town was home to over 5,000 residents and a holiday destination to thousands more vacationers from the Argentinian capital. In 1985, a dam [...]
I spent my Saturday afternoon, avoiding the Parisian summer crowds and tiptoeing along the train
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For many years, these bizarre buildings on the isolated southern tip of Marco Island in Cape
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For the last thirteen years, he’s been busy digging up a lost underwater civilization the
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I finally watched Life of Pi last night and was pleasantly surprised to learn that the hero of the
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When I was a kid, I was cast as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz for my school musical. I was a very
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So I went sniffing around the LIFE Archives again and this time found some rather unusual
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It was an ambitious, otherwordly idea, dreamt up by American military physician, Dr. Bond, deemed
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Some cities have a litter problem, some suffer from high crime rates and others might have a lack
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This breathtaking pool of glistening turquoise water under creamy ecclesiastical stone vaulting is
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A room with uninterrupted sea views? Admittedly, it might need a bit of work but this underwater
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When was the last time you felt like complaining to your landlord? It seems there’s always
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