Top 100 Photos of the Year 2012 *Please note the photographs themselves were not necessarily taken in 2012, they just happened to be featured as a POTD this year. The pictures are also listed in reverse chronological order. There is no ranking amongst the photos Enjoy! Photograph by Robert Elves on Flickr Photograph by Stephen Wilkes | Prints available Photograph by George Steinmetz Photograph by Andrew Choy Photograph by Jakub Polomski on 500px Photograph via The Natioanl Archives and Records Administration Photograph by Caleb Charland COPYRIGHT© 2012 RMS TITANIC, INC; Produced by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Photograph by Jason Pope Photograph by Dan Fisher Photograph by Scott Robertson Photograph by Berenice Abbott Photograph by NASA/GSFC/SDO Photograph by Liammm on Reddit Photograph by haqbar on Reddit Photograph by Marcus Peabody Photograph by The Lost Gardens of Heligan Photograph by sleepychinchilla on Flickr Photograph by Scott Hutcheson (SMHutch Photography on Flickr) Photograph by Mario Neumann (scuba.hamburg on Flickr)
A List of Books | 623 of the Best Books Ever Written Today's Dose of Cuteness - a Collection of Cats in Windows and Doors A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt By Franck Vervial Last week I came clean on my obsession with bicycles. My other two favourite things to photograph are doors and windows. I have two crazy cats that make me laugh every day. A student in one of my photography classes showed me this book and I had to get a copy for myself! So this week I went in search of cat images. By Raffaele Camardella By Kazutaka Sawa By helmuthess By Kat… – quadruple whammy! By Cornelia Kopp By Jerzy Durczak By John Ryan By jamesjustin By Louise LeGresley By marc cornelis By Serena By Grant MacDonald By Barbara By Rasmus Andersson By Parée By Francesco By Paco CT By Ref54 By Christos Tsoumplekas By jerry dohnal By Jorge Sáez By ++ lichtempfindlich By *m22 By Jens Schott Knudsen By Bowen Chin By ClaireDrouet By Eric Parker By Matthew C. By Ben+Sam
6 Real People With Mind-Blowing Mutant Superpowers If the insane, explosive popularity if superhero movies is any indication, we are fascinated by people who are insanely better than us at any given thing. Probably because, in real life, we're all such a bunch of incompetent boobs that we've been enslaved by blue paint, flashing lights and crying French babies. But it turns out, superpowers are real. And not just the secret ones that everyone has, or even the ones everyone thinks they have -- this Cracked Classic is about a group of people that, in a sane world, would already have multi-colored leather jumpsuits, delightfully mismatched personality traits and a skyscraper shaped like whatever they decide to call themselves. We've all dreamed of having superpowers at some point (today), but the majority of us have to accept the sobering reality that preternatural abilities simply aren't possible. For instance ... #6. As with most superpower discoveries, Xiangang found his by acting like a braying jackass. So What's Going on Here? #5. #4.
What the devil is it doing there? Mystery of enormous pentagram in Kazakhstan visible with Google earth The five-pointed star symbol measures some 366 metres in diameterIt is situated on the southern shore of Kazakhstan's Upper Tobol Reservoir One theorist believes it could be the remains of a Russian military base By Daniel Miller Published: 19:15 GMT, 2 August 2013 | Updated: 19:24 GMT, 2 August 2013 This enormous pentagram etched into the ground next to a lake in an isolated corner of Kazakhstan, has had conspiracy theorists all of a flutter after it appeared on Google Earth. The five-pointed star symbol which measures some 366 metres in diameter, is situated on the southern shore of the Upper Tobol Reservoir in the north of the country. Pentagrams are commonly associated with devil-worship, but are also used in the Bahai religion and Chinese Taoism as well as neopaganists and followers of the Greek mathematician Pythagoras. Work of the devil? Location: The strange symbol is situated 12 miles west of the town of Lisakovsk 'The shape has something to do with how their tracking radars work.
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The 32 Greatest Unscripted Movie Scenes Much to the dismay of screenwriters, movies scripts aren’t always set in stone. They are often like living objects constantly evolving during the filming process. Some films, like Jaws and Annie Hall, don’t even have a finished script when the cameras start to roll. Actors and actresses are regularly ad libbing, improvising or going off-script while reciting their lines. Sometimes the directors hate it – other times they love it. Occasionally the improved lines become immortalized as some of the most memorable in cinema history. Check out these 32 great unscripted scenes – you may be surprised at how many of your favorite lines were off-the-cuff. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Director – Steven Spielberg While chasing Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) after she’s been kidnapped, archaeologist and adventurer Dr. The original script called for a long sword fight but a day earlier Ford got a severe case of food poisoning and didn’t have the energy to film the scene as written. Zoolander (2001)
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