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January 23rd, 2013 - 114 views

Look at this Instagram (Nickelback Parody) – CollegeHumor Video.

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Picture of the Day: European Beech Trees of Mariemont, Belgium

November 14th, 2011 - 147 views

by JEAN-POL GRANDMONT

Stunning capture of Beech in Mariemont, . Mariemont, also Morlanwelz-Mariemont, now in the municipality of Morlanwelz, Hainaut, , is a former royal estate and hunting park created in the 16th century by Mary of Hungary, from whom it took its name. The royal residences formerly on the site have long since been destroyed.

The estate’s last private owner, Raoul Warocque (1870-1917), made it over to the Belgian state. Today it is a public park, containing among other amenities the Musee royal de Mariemont. [Source]

Fagus sylvatica, the European Beech or Common Beech, is a deciduous tree belonging to the beech family Fagaceae. The natural range extends from southern Sweden (with some isolated locations in southern Norway) to central Italy, west to France, southern , northern Portugal, and central Spain, and east to northwest Turkey, where it intergrades with the Oriental Beech (F. orientalis), which replaces it further east.

It is a large tree, capable of reaching heights of up to 49 m (160 ft) tall and 3 m (10 ft) trunk diameter, though more typically 25–35 m (80–115 ft) tall and up to 1.5 m (5 ft) trunk diameter. A 10-year-old sapling will stand about 4 m (13 ft) tall. It has a typical lifespan of 150 to 200 years, though sometimes up to 300 years. [Source]

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Double rainbow looms over London

November 2nd, 2011 - 122 views

A was photographed over the city of on October 26, 2011. via Hungeree.

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Picture of the Day: The First People Ever Photographed

October 26th, 2011 - 135 views

This is purportedly the first picture of a living person ever taken (1838). The image shows a busy street, but due to exposure time of more than ten minutes, the traffic was moving too much to appear. The exception is the man at the bottom left, who stood still getting his boots polished long enough to show. Look closely and you will also see another man sitting on a bench to the right reading a newspaper. Also in the upper left hand side you can also see another man standing under the awning of the 3rd building from the left.

What looks to be a woman standing under the street lantern at 10 o’clock from the man getting his shoes shined and another one in the big white building, 1st row 3rd window down. Notice the child in the top floor window of the white building in front. Note that the image is reversed (as were most Daguerreotypes) as is evidenced by the writing on a building in upper left.

The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process. The image is a direct positive made in the camera on a silver plated copper plate. The surface of a daguerreotype is like a mirror, with the image made directly on the silvered surface. [Source]

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No gold at the end of the rainbow

September 27th, 2011 - 283 views

A passenger in a vehicle traveling on the M25 in Surrey located in southeast took a snapshot of the end of the . The stream of light landed directly on the middle lane of the M25 and bathed the in a pool of yellow illumination. Unfortunately for the passenger, a pot of was nowhere to be found and all he got was a .

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