n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate…
Keane and Duff celebrate French exit from World Cup.
9 Kings.
Left to right: King Haakon VII of Norway, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, King Manuel of Portugal, Kaiser Wilhelm II of the German Empire, King George I of The Hellenes (Greece) and King Albert I of the Belgians (Belgium). Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King-Emperor George V of the Great Britain and King Frederick VIII of Denmark.
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The 30 Doradus Nebula is 170,000 light-years from Earth. What at first was thought to be only one cluster in the core of the massive star-forming region 30 Doradus has been found to be a composite of two clusters that differ in age by about one million years.
The entire 30 Doradus complex has been an active star-forming region for 25 million years, and it is currently unknown how much longer this region can continue creating new stars. Smaller systems that merge into larger ones could help to explain the origin of some of the largest known star clusters. The Hubble observations, made with the Wide Field Camera 3, were taken Oct. 20-27, 2009. The blue color is light from the hottest, most massive stars; the green from the glow of oxygen; and the red from fluorescing hydrogen.
The first photos taken from space were taken on October 24, 1946 on the sub-orbital U.S.-launched V-2 rocket (flight #13) at White sands Missile Range. Photos were taken every second and a half. The highest altitude (65 miles, 105 km) was 5 times higher than any picture taken before.
Harry-Dudley goodbye scene.
Execution by cannon, Shiraz, Iran, late 19th century.
Vought F4U Corsairs escorting Gumman TBF Avengers and SB2C Helldivers over USS Missouri and USS Detroit during the Japanese surrender ceremonies (September 2, 1945).
US Marines run past a wrecked Sherman Firefly, Lebanon 1983
Every Harry Potter chapter art.
Left to Right: James Reimer, Claude Giroux, Brian Elliot, Marc Staal, Patrick Kane, Evander Kane, Jack Johnson, David Backes, Alex Ovechkin, Luke Schenn, Henrik Lundqvist, Eric Staal, Jonathan Toews, Brayden Schenn, Jordan Staal, Steven Stamkos.
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