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Imja Tse, better known as Island Peak, is a mountain in the Himalayas of eastern Nepal. The peak was named Island Peak in 1951 by Eric Shipton's party since it appears as an island in a sea of ice when viewed from Dingboche. The peak was later renamed in 1983 to Imja Tse but Island Peak rema...

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4700 ft high Glass Sky Walk in Tianmen Mountain. Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China. ( Opened to Public since October 1, 2011 ) Chinas newest tourist spot is a glass-bottomed walkway around the cliff face of the Tianmen Mountain, 7ft above sea level,at Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province. Brave touris...

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NASA astronomers announced in June 2012 they are certain that our galaxy is on an unavoidable collision course with the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest spiral galaxy to us. Dont worry though, it wont be happening for another 3.5 billion years or so. Whats interesting is that the collision will dras...

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Bruges (Brugge) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country. The historic city centre is a prominent World Heritage Site of UNESCO. It is oval-shaped and about 430 hectares in size. The area of ...

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Chani, also transliterated Chania, Hania, and Xania, older form Chanea and Venetian Canea, Ottoman Turkish Hanya) is the second largest city of Crete and the capital of the Chania regional unit. It lies along the north coast of the island, about 70 km (43 mi) west of Rethymno and 145 km (90 mi) wes...

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Elafonisi (Greek "deer island") is an island located close to the southwestern corner of the mediterranean island of Crete, of which it is administratively a part, in the regional unit of Chania. When the weather is fine it is possible to walk to the island through the shallow water. The island i...

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Derweze (Turkmen language The Gate, also known as Darvaza) is a Turkmenistan village of about 350 inhabitants, located in the middle of the Karakum desert, about 260 km north from Ashgabat. Darvaza inhabitants are mostly Turkmen of the Teke tribe, preserving a half-nomadic lifestyle. The Derw...

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St George's Chapel is the place of worship at Windsor Castle in England, United Kingdom. It is both a royal peculiar and the chapel of the Order of the Garter. The chapel is governed by the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The chapel is located in the Lower Ward of the castle, which is one of the princi...

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Windsor Castle is a medieval castle and royal residence in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, notable for its long association with the British royal family and its architecture. The original castle was built after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I it...

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A satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon. History's first artificial satellite, the Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. Since ...

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The Guinness Book of Records includes a category for "most pounds of bees worn on the body," which is currently held by American animal trainer Mark Biancaniello. Biancaniello successfully wore 350,000 bees, weighing just over 87 pounds, during a 1998 broadcast of the Guinness World Records Primeti...

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Miskin Manor is a Victorian manor house built in 1864 in a Tudor style, situated in the village of Miskin in Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales. The estate was owned by the Williams family including Rhys Rhys-Williams for many years who were descended from the Welsh bard David Williams. Today the mano...

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Ryan McGinnis is a storm chaser and photographer who lives in Nebraska he has no formal training in photography. He's been fascinated with storms all his life and now lives his childhood dreams of storm chasing. On average he drives around 600 miles per chase. Each year he chases various sto...

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The Earth is full or a rich history of civilization. Some ancient cities such as Babylon have disappeared for all time. However, as reported on the Huffington Post there are still many lost cities which you can still visit today. Click the link above to visit the full original article. Petr...

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Copernicus is a prominent lunar impact crater named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. It is estimated to be about 800 million years old. Copernicus is visible using binoculars, and is located slightly northwest of the center of the Moon's Earth-facing hemisphere. South of the crater is th...

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Juno is a NASA New Frontiers mission to the planet Jupiter. On August 5th 2011, it was launched on board an Atlas V rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre. The mission is projected to cost $1.1 billion over its life. The spacecraft is to be placed in a polar orbit to study the planet's composition,...

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Island Peak (Imja Tse)	Waves of Hawaii	Tianmen Mountain Skywalk, China	Most Expensive Catasrophes In History
Early Colour Photography From Russia	Our Night Sky In The Future	Olympic Flame Lighting Ceremony	Bruges
Chania	Elafonisi	Gate To Hell	St. George's Chapel
Windsor Castle	Satellites Orbiting Earth	Wearing Bees	Miskin Manor
Storm Chasing	Lost Cities Of The World That You Can Still Visit	The Moon's Copernicus Crater	Juno Spacecraft

Island Peak (Imja Tse)

April 22nd 2013 06:28

Island Peak viewed from Dingboche

Working through the initial ice section.

The peak was later renamed in 1983 to Imja Tse but Island Peak remains the popular choice. The peak is actually an extension of the ridge coming down off the south end of Lhotse Shar.

Ice wall leading to summit ridge.

Imja Tse summit was first climbed in 1956 by a Swiss team as a training exercise in preparation for Mount Everest and Lhotse.

View from the summit facing south.

Imja Tse is one of the most popular trekking peaks given its difficulty (alpine PD ) and accessibility especially when supported by a Nepalese climbing guide.

View from summit facing north towards Lhotse.

After reaching the top, you must climb back down again!

Video taken from the summit.

http://youtu.be/uHiVA1tBwuc

*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia page for Island Peak.

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Waves of Hawaii

February 20th 2013 03:15

Clark little stands in the water and waitsuntil the last sec to snap his camera shutter.
Then takes a beating when the wave collapses over him.-----

Waimea bay shore-break surfing pioneer, husband, and father of two, Clark Little has gained nationwide recognition for his photography on national television..

It all started in 2007 when Clark 's wife wanted a nice piece of art to decorate a wall.

Voluntarily, Clark grabbed a camera jumped in the water, and starting snapping away capturing the beauty and power of monstrous Hawaiian waves from the inside out.

"Clark's view" is a unique view of the ocean that most will only be able to experience safely on land while studying one of Clark's photos.

Now with a camera upgrade and an itch to get that better shot, Clark has taken this on full time and has moved his office from land, to the inside of a barrel.

Since the recent stir of Clark's work, his images have been run on the today show, ABC world news now, nature's best photography, Paris match (France), La Vie ( France ), Hana Hou (Hawaiian Airlines) magazine, surfer magazine, surfer's journal as well as multiple publishers and newspapers in the U.S. and overseas.

These incredible images of waves in the Hawaiian islands were taken by Clark Little,
The number one photographer of surf. He is dedicated to photographing the waves and has published a selection of his best.

Sun glints off wave. (Clark Little/SWNS)

Sand in Surf. (Clark Little/SWNS)

This shot captures sand from the ocean's floor being swept up by a monstrous wave and resembles a sandstorm.

Little calls it the sand monster.

There were clouds of sand ten feet high and I’m standing there. I'm holding on to my camera and my trigger as long as I can. Then I have to jump into the cloud of sand to try to get out of danger's way.

White Tumultous Water. (Clark Little/SWMS)

Red Mysterious Shot. (Clark Little/SWMS)

Beauty - Water Drops. (Clark Little/SWMS)

This shot is his favourite.

With a high shutter speed he caught the brilliant fanned effect of two waves intersecting each other and throwing out this beautiful fan of water.

"Faith is not about everything turning out ok; faith is about being ok no matter how things turn out."

"I would rather live my life as if there is a god, and die to find out there isn't, than to live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is."

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Tianmen Mountain Skywalk, China

December 12th 2012 02:45

4700 ft high Glass Sky Walk in Tianmen Mountain.
Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China.

( Opened to Public since October 1, 2011 )

China’s newest tourist spot is a glass-bottomed walkway around the cliff face of the Tianmen Mountain, 7ft above sea level,at Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province.

Brave tourists looking to test their nerves have flocked to China to walk across this dazzling glass bridge suspended from a cliff face.
The oriental Sky Walk is situated 4,700ft above sea level on the side of the Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie, China.
In order to keep the glass path clean, tourists are asked to put on shoe covers before walking.

see through Skywalk china. Tianmen glass

The 200ft long bridge joins the west cliff at the Yunmeng Fairy Summit, the summit of Tianmen Mountain and Zhangjiajie.
The pathway, built earlier in the summer echoes the glass-bottomed walkway at the Grand Canyon in the U.S.
The 70ft bridge is 4,000ft above the natural wonder and allows tourists to look through 2.5in of crystal-clear glass to the Canyon floor below.
The Tianmen mountain, literally translated as Heavenly Gate Mountain is so called because of a huge natural cave that occurs halfway up to the summit.

The skywalk offers breathtaking views across the Hunan Province for those brave enough to attempt to cross the bridge.

Situated in the Hunan Province, its highest peak is around 5,000ft above sea level and it is home to a wealth of rare species of plants.
A four-mile-long cable car was constructed in the park, which is said to be the longest of the same type in the world.

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Most Expensive Catasrophes In History

October 20th 2012 10:35

Titanic - $150 Million

MetroLink Crash - $500 Million

B-2 Bomber Crash - $1.4 Billion

Challenger Explosion - $5.5 Billion

Chernobyl - $200 Billion

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Early Colour Photography From Russia

August 29th 2012 02:19

As reported on the Denver Post (link above to the original article), the photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people. His images were to be a photographic survey of the time. He travelled in a special train car transformed into a dark room to process his special process of creating color images, a technology that was in its infancy in the early 1900s.

Below are a few sample pictures.

Peasant girls, Russian Empire. Three young women offer berries to visitors to their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River, near the town of Kirillov; 1909

Man and camel loaded with packs; between 1905 and 1915

Three yurts, man seated in doorway of yurt in foreground; between 1905 and 1915

Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara, seated holding sword; between 1905 and 1915.

City of Cherdyn; 1910

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Our Night Sky In The Future

July 31st 2012 02:41

NASA astronomers announced in June 2012 they are certain that our galaxy is on an unavoidable collision course with the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest spiral galaxy to us. Don’t worry though, it won’t be happening for another 3.5 billion years or so. What’s interesting is that the collision will drastically change what our night sky looks like, and the astronomers released a series of photo illustrations showing what future astrophotographers will be shooting when they point their cameras at the heavens.

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Olympic Flame Lighting Ceremony

June 10th 2012 02:19

The flame that will burn during the London Games was lit at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics on Thursday, May 10th, 2012. Heralding the start of a torch relay that will culminate with the opening ceremony on July 27.
Actress Ino Menegaki, dressed as a high priestess, stood before the 2,600-year-old Temple of Hera, and after an invocation to Apollo, the ancient Greeks' Sun God, used a mirror to focus the sun's rays and light a torch

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Bruges

April 26th 2012 01:07

City Hall

Bruges (Brugge) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country.

Bell Tower (Belfry)

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Chania

February 29th 2012 01:31

Chaniá, also transliterated Chania, Hania, and Xania, older form Chanea and Venetian Canea, Ottoman Turkish Hanya) is the second largest city of Crete and the capital of the Chania regional unit. It lies along the north coast of the island, about 70 km (43 mi) west of Rethymno and 145 km (90 mi) west of Heraklion.

View over Chania from the lookout.

The official population of the municipal unit (the former municipality) is 55,838, while its metropolitan area has 91,985 inhabitants. This consists of the city of Chania along with 7 towns and villages: Mournies (pop. 6,390), Souda (pop. 5,330), Nerokouros (pop. 4,175), Daratsos (pop. 3,287), Perivolia (pop. 3,065), Galatas (pop. 2,131) and Vamvakopoulo (pop. 1,769

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Elafonisi

January 11th 2012 05:49

Elafonisi (Greek: "deer island") is an island located close to the southwestern corner of the mediterranean island of Crete, of which it is administratively a part, in the regional unit of Chania. When the weather is fine it is possible to walk to the island through the shallow water. The island is a protected nature reserve.