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Lightning over a farm field. Weather electricity thunderstorm light energy tree
Can Lightning Strike the Same Place Twice?
The last big concert of Jimi Hendrix before he died in London was in Germany on the isle of Fehmarn 6th of September 1970. The festival was called Love-and-Peace-Festival.
Is 27 an Especially Deadly Age for Musicians?
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pg 159Explosions rock American base at Pearl Harbor following surprise Japanese attack, December 7, 1941.To Japan, an eventual attack on the United States, specifically on the island outpost of Hawaii, was aninevitable beginning of military action agains
Pearl Harbor in Context
The three children, Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia, who saw the vision of Fatima in Portugal. Our lady of Fatima, saint, Christianity.
Our Lady of Fátima
"On the threshold of office--what have we to expect of him?" chromolithograph by Joseph Keppler, September 1881. Print shows the members of the assassinated James A. Garfield's cabinet looking at the new president, Chester Arthur. Chester A. Arthur.
The Surprisingly Disorderly History of the US Presidential Succession Order
Men's Giant Slalom Italy's Alberto Tomba on the way to retaining his gold medal at Val d'Isere France 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics
The Origin of the Winter Olympics
Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games Rings.
What Do the Olympic Rings and Flame Represent?
Olympic Torch Tower of the Los Angeles Coliseum on the day of the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics. 28 July 1984
Olympics: Boon or Curse?
Marathon running in the light of evening
Olympics: The Genetics of Success
January 21, 2017. Protesters holding signs in crowd at the Women's March in Washington DC. feminism
Feminism: From Ancient Rome to the Women’s March
Image of jewish holiday Hanukkah with drawing menorah candles (traditional Candelabra), donuts and dreidels (spinning top) over chalkboard background. Chanukah.
Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights
ribeye steak, beef, cow, meat
A Brief History of Food-Libel Laws
Scottish fold, cat, feline
Dwarfism in Cats: It’s Only Cute ‘til Someone Gets Hurt
Great White Shark
The 1916 Shark Attacks That Gave Sharks a Bad Rap
poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).
World Poetry Day
A scary old jack-o-lantern on black. Halloween pumpkin, trick or treat. Halloween holiday
Happy Halloween
Image of Antenna galaxy
The Fermi Paradox: Where Are All the Aliens?
Frankenstein, Boris Karloff (1931). Directed by James Whale
The Real Science Behind Frankenstein
Amelia Earhart sitting in the cockpit of an Electra airplane.
The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Coloured powders are flung onto revellers during Huranga at the Dauji temple near the northern Indian city of Mathura, March 28, 2013.
Holi: Festival of Colors
Albert Einstein smoking pipe
The Bizarre Posthumous Journey of Einstein's Brain
Abandoned school in Pripyat in the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant
Nuclear Exclusion Zones
Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe by Frederick T. Stuart, c. about 1845
The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Banksy Snorting Copper stenciled graffiti on Curtain Road, in Shoreditch, London taken circa 2005, before it was later vandalised and covered over.
Art Restoration: Beyond Canvas
Cathedrale St.Jean in Lyon, France has a 14th-century astronomical clock that shows religious feast days till the year 2019; Perpetual Calendar
Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar
Paleogeography and paleoceanography of Early Triassic time. The present-day coastlines and tectonic boundaries of the configured continents are shown at the lower right. Continents, continental drift, plate tectonics, Pangea, Laurussia, Gondwana.
Spotting a Supercontinent: How Pangea Was Discovered
"Pirate Week" Spotlight.
Pirate Week
Photo of open treasure chest with shinny gold, Island, pirate
The Eternal Legacy of Treasure Island
Pirate Barbarossa also known as redbeard
From Pirate to Admiral: The Tale of Barbarossa
Model Pirate Ship with fog and water
Black Pirates and the Tale of Black Caesar
Julius Caesar in full Gaius Julius Caesar (100? BCE-44 BCE) statue in Rimini, Italy. Roman general and statesman and dictator
The Time Julius Caesar Was Captured by Pirates
Gilles de Rais (1404-1440). Breton baron, marshal of France. Fought in guards of Joan of Arc. Accused of being serial killer of children.
Gilles de Rais: History’s First Serial Killer?
Florence, Italy Statue of David by Michelangelo
How a Rejected Block of Marble Became the World’s Most Famous Statue
Stained glass window showing ten Christian saints. St Peters Church, Cound, Shropshire, England.
Too Good to Rot? Saints with Incorrupt Bodies
close up of a football, gridiron
Are You Ready for Some Fantasy Football?
Oswald The Lucky Rabbit, 1935.
Walt Disney’s First Cartoon Critter
Albert Einstein in Washington, D.C. c. 1921-1923. Physicist
The Solar Eclipse That Made Albert Einstein a Science Celebrity
game and gambling, gaming machines, chess playing Turk, design by Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734 - 1804), built by Christoph Mechel, mechanical turk
The Mechanical Turk: AI Marvel or Parlor Trick?
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