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View of the ruins taken during the curfew hours [Cork City]


Company of troops landed at Passage West with cannon gun and Lancia car


Patrolling the streets of Cork, trying to locate snipers


Peace delegates arriving from London: from left to right, George Gavan Duffy, Robert Childers Barton, Erskine Childers, Desmond Fitzgerald, Arthur Griffith, Éamonn Duggan and Fionán Lynch


Fighting at Nelsons Pillar during the Civil war


Armoured car on a Dublin street


Seán Collins leaving the Pro-Cathedral for the burial of Michael Collins


Sean Collins at City Hall while his brother lies in state.

Irish National Volunteers drilling in Fairview Park


Republican prisoners and their admirers at Cork:
the prisoners are about to be marched to the County Gaol for internment


The car in which Lord French was ambushed:
sergeant pointing out bullet hole


Cathal Brugha leaving the Mansion House, Dublin after a peace meeting in 1922


Prisoners outside burning Custom House


Sean Collins at City Hall while his brother lies in state


Cortege leaving the Pro Cathedral for the burial of Michael Collins


Fighting at Nelsons Pillar

Arthur Griffith, Eamon Duggan, Erskine Childers and Gavan Duffy


Arthur Griffith departing for London from Dun Laoghaire for Treaty Conference

Extreme cold turns Lighthouse into art.

Rare weather event at the Grand Canyon creates incredible sights

The canyon filled up with freezing fog because of a ‘temperature inversion’.

THE GRAND CANYON always looks pretty spectacular but, over the weekend, it was even more breathtaking that usual.
In an extremely rare sequence of events, the area saw two temperature inversions in just three days – a weather phenomenon that fills the canyon with freezing fog and normally only happens every 10 years.
According to photographer Erin Whittaker, who posted photos to the Grand Canyon National Park’s Facebook page, freezing fog dominated yesterday and is reflected in great patterns on the Kaibab Limestone shown on the image above.
“By the end of the day the sun was able to burn it all away no doubt making many first time visitors very happy. What will tomorrow bring?” she asks.
Temperature inversion happens once or twice a year but the entire canyon only fills up about once a decade on a cloudless day.
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“These needle-less branches slowly succumbed to hours of freezing fog to grow these ribbon-like icy but temporary features,” continued Whittaker. “Once the sun finally burns off the fog so too goes this delicate scene.”
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The first photo published on Friday offered an explanation of what exactly was happening: “We are currently experiencing an after Thanksgiving treat. No, it’s not more pumpkin pie. It’s a once in a lifetime, outstanding, crazy, amazing, mind blowing inversion. Enjoy.”
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“Much better than Black Friday! Here’s what Mather Point looked like this morning with the rare inversion. Rangers wait for years to see it. Word spread like wildfire and most ran to the rim to photograph it. What a fantastic treat for all,” concluded Whittaker.

Turquoise Ice, Northern Lake Baikal, Russia

The knight and his steed: using its suction discs for a firm grip, a red-eyed tree frog clings to a hercules beetle.




Grey seals play underwater by the Farne islands off the Northumberland coast, near Seahouses, northern England.

Antelope Canyon



A guy went down there, look what he found:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... ached.html

It snowed in Egypt last week for the first time since 1901

The two minute's silence on Armistice Day, London, 1919


The fall of the Berlin wall


A Sami family in Norway, 1896


Stonehenge being 'repaired'


Grand Canyon 1914



WW II-era Sherman Tanks strewn across the sea floor off the coast of Donegal

This dog is standing on thousands of frozen fish!

It is assumed that the fish were frightened into shallow waters by whales and the water froze solid before the fish could escape. The local temperature was about -8 C (17 F). Though other fish have been chased into the bay by predators before, this is the first known occurrence of getting trapped in the ice.

As the ice thaws, the fish will probably be scavenged by birds.

More info: http://bit.ly/1dRA913

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The Ryugyong Hotel is a true display of North Korea's madness. Work started on this 105 story hotel only a few years before a massive famine plagued the country. Abandoned for 16 years, work once again began in 2008, when it was coated in $150 million worth of glass. Foreign guests have reported that although the structure now looks complete on the outside, a lot of the interior is still abandoned and incomplete
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Fog Rolling, Newfoundland

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The Baatara Gorge Waterfall, Lebanon

A chivalrous frog shielding his friend from the rain!



The SS Thistlegorm was a British armed Merchant Navy ship built in 1940 by Joseph Thompson & Son in Sunderland, England. She was sunk on 6 October 1941 near Ras Muhammad in the Red Sea and is now a well known diving site.

Justin Credible wrote:The SS Thistlegorm was a British armed Merchant Navy ship built in 1940 by Joseph Thompson & Son in Sunderland, England. She was sunk on 6 October 1941

Surprised it lasted so long, considering it was built by those shift less bastards.

your slacking gaz.

Highway 178 in Death Valley



The north korean motorways



the Great wall of china meets the sea


Cliff-side Cathederal in Pasto, Las Lajas, Colombia