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| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Sep 17, 2015 |
| | Icon of the Skies: A Look Back at the Early Days of the Boeing 747 - Cond? Nast Traveler | | A two-story airplane may have seemed like science fiction before the Boeing 747 rolled out in the late 1960s. Since then, the "Queen of the Skies" has grown to be a passenger pleaser, an instantly recognizable silhouette on tarmacs around the world, and a marvel of modern engineering. Here are some of our favorite images from the history of the jumbo jet. | |  |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Aug 29, 2015 |
| | The Yunnan China Rice Terraces | | A UNESCO World Heritage site, the rice terraces are considered one of the must-see places in the world. | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Aug 10, 2015 |
| | Eerily Beautiful Abandoned Places | | From a ship graveyard in Mauritania to a picturesque 16th century Italian village, you will be mesmerized abandoned places around the world. | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Aug 07, 2015 |
| | After the atomic blast | | Reuters shows the before and after on the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Jul 17, 2015 |
| | International Space station (ISS) - See the planet. Open the world. | Urthecast and NASA bring you live, high definition video from the ISS.
Perched 250 miles (400 km) above Earth’s surface are four high-definition cameras that capture video of our planet from four unique angles. You'll see storms swirl over the oceans, watch the sun rise and set 16 times a day, and experience the blue marble as it rolls beneath the ISS. | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Jul 01, 2015 |
| | The World's Most Spoken Languages And Where They Are Spoken | IFLScience | | This beautifully illustrated infographic (above), designed by South China Morning Post’s graphics director Alberto Lucas Lopéz, shows the most spoken known languages in the world and where they’re spoken by the 6.3 billion people included in the study. Based on records collated from the database Ethnologue, the infographic illustrates the wide-ranging facts and figures of the world’s living languages catalogued since 1951. | | |
| |  | | Patricia Pomerleau | Jun 27, 2015 |
| | Livingstone Online | The words of explorer David Livingstone. | Scottish explorer David Livingstone now has an online archive. “The site, Livingstone Online, http://www.livingstoneonline.org, is the digital home for the documents chronicling the life and work of Livingstone, a missionary, physician and abolitionist best known for his travels in Africa in the mid-19th century…. More than 7,500 original images of Livingstone’s writings can be found on the site and the archive is expected to expand to more than 12,000 images by 2016. The archive also includes drawings and illustrations depicting Livingstone’s work and findings.”
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