(Photo: Ansgar Walk)The Smoking Hills are located near Cape Bathurst on the Arctic Coast of the Northwest Territories. When Royal Navy Captain Robert McClure explored the area in the 1850s, he thought that the smoke on t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/23/The-Smoking-Hills-of-Canada/(Photo: Connecticut National Guard Foundation)Pictured above are a few of the members of the First Company of the Governor's Foot Guard of the Connecticut State Militia. It is now a ceremonial unit. But when it was forme...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/02/Americas-Oldest-Military-Unit-in-Continuous-Operation-Dates-Back-to-1771/70 years ago today, the bloodiest, most destructiv... ...e bloodiest, most destructive war in all of human history ended.After the destruction of 2 cities from atom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/02/70-Years-Ago-Today-Japan-Surrenders-Ending-World-War-II/(Photo: Peter Corbett)There's a spit of land in Kent jutting out into the English Channel. It's so dry that the British government refers to it as the nation's only desert. This is Dungeness and it can be yours--for the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/10/For-Sale-The-Only-Desert-in-Britain/(Photo: Muratatis)Believe it or not, the object in this photo is a clock. It's called the Mengenlehreur and can be found in Berlin. The yellow light at the top blinks, showing the seconds. The top row shows the hours. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/08/The-11-Strangest-Public-Clocks-in-the-World/(Photo: Lt. Col. Presley M. Rixey)Siwash, a duck, was the mascot of the First Battalion of the Tenth Marine Regiment and later the entire Second Marine Division during World War II. He went ashore with the Marines at the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/05/Siwash-The-Duck-Who-Fought-with-the-Marines-during-World-War-II/(Photo: Chung Hu)Horsetail Falls in Yosemite National Park, California is unlike any other in the world. Due to its location, direction, and shape, at a particular moment each year, it will appear to glow. Sunlight hits...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/05/The-20-Strangest-Waterfalls-in-the-World/This is the Zaamurets, a land cruising battleship.... ...and finally the Japanese before disappearing into history
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/21/This-Armored-Train-Served-7-Armies-in-Battles-from-Ukraine-to-Manchuria/(Photo via Pairie View A&M University)Today, J... ...ollection. Web. 6 June 2015.---. Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State. New York: Oxford Universi... ...quo;Juneteenth: Independence Day.” American History . 49.2 (2014): 40. History Study Center. Web....
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/06/19/150-Years-Ago-Today-The-First-Juneteenth/(Photo: José David Leiva)Two streams in Tenorio Volcano National Park in Costa Rica merge to form the Rio Celeste. One of them has large quantities of sulfur and calcium carbonate, which gives the river a beautifu...
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