Towering above a remote Pacific island, the volcano is some 8,000 miles from Britain — but nowhere is safe from the devastation it will unleash on the world.
For days, explosions like distant cannon fire have terrified locals and now it’s about to blow with a force 50,000 times greater than that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
As the molten rock finally punches through the surface, giant flames shoot up into the sky with a blast that can
They are in every American city and town – grandiose movie palaces, constructed during the heyday of the entertainment industry, that now stand abandoned, empty, decaying, or repurposed.
Photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre have long been fascinated with these early 20th-century relics. From 2005 they criss-crossed America to capture them on camera, eventually collating their shots into a fascinating new book titled Movie Theaters, published by Prestel.
The publisher says: ‘In hundreds of lushly coloured images, they have
Divers have revealed new treasures from a legendary 17th century shipwreck that have been hidden beneath the Bahamas’ shark-infested waters for 350 years.
The Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (Our Lady of Wonders) was a two-deck Spanish galleon ship that sank off the Little Bahama Bank in the northern Bahamas on January 4, 1656.
The majority of its treasure – an estimated 3.5 million pieces of eight – was salvaged between 1656 and the early 1990s, but recent efforts using
Im September 1972 flog eine kleine Gruppe russischer Schachgroßmeister mit einem Flugzeug nach Moskau und erwartete grimmig den Empfang, den sie dort erhalten würden. Zu der Gruppe gehörten Boris Spassky, der gerade den Weltmeistertitel an Bobby Fischer, den temperamentvollen amerikanischen Spieler, verloren hatte, und Nikolai Krogius, der Teil des Teams war, das Herrn Spassky beim Spiel in Reykjavik, Island, assistierte.
Der von vielen als „Spiel des Jahrhunderts“ bezeichnete Wettbewerb hatte vor dem Hintergrund des Kalten Krieges geopolitische Züge angenommen. Der
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Tony Romo ist vielleicht nicht mehr für NFL-Spiele geeignet, aber das hat ihn nicht daran gehindert, sonntags zu gewinnen.
Romo errang seinen dritten Karrieresieg bei der American Century Championship, einem beliebten Promi-Golfturnier, am zweiten Loch eines Sudden-Death-Playoffs auf dem Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Nevada. Das Vorherige Cowboys Der Quarterback und derzeitige CBS-Ansager erzielte im dreitägigen Stableford-Format eine 62 und verband ihn mit dem ehemaligen MLB-Pitcher Mark Mulder und Stars-Stürmer Joe Pavelski, aber Romo erzielte am letzten Playoff-Loch ein Birdie,
A gun-toting gang, Roosevelt giving a speech and women posing at the Grand Canyon in their finery.
These are all scenes of yesteryear America you’ll find in fascinating new book Real Photo Postcards: Pictures of a Changing Nation – out in May and published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
It’s revealed that ‘real photo postcards’ became ‘omnipresent’ in small towns and large cities across the United States around the turn of the 20th century thanks to leaps in
“I am not at all sure that I know what Americanism really is,” the art critic Elisabeth Luther Cary told readers of The New York Times in 1936, “but so the case stands: Americanism really is, and, in art, Winslow Homer is its great exemplar.” There was little disagreement. His very name seemed made for the job, half muscular Greek adventure, half fretful Yankee Calvinism (his parents were inspired by the Congregational pastor Hubbard Winslow). During his lifetime, he managed—not
The Vikings left Greenland in the early 15th century due to drought – not dropping temperatures as previously thought, a new study has found.
Researchers in Massachusetts have analysed sediment samples taken from a Greenland lake adjacent to a former Norse farm.
Results indicate there was no significant temperature changes during the settlement period more than a thousand years ago.
Instead, the region experienced a persistent drying trend, which peaked in the 16th century – just after the Vikings left
Shane Warne, who passed away in Thailand today aged 52 of a suspected heart attack, was one of the greatest and most iconic cricketers of all time.
The Australian leg spin bowler could turn a ball on a six pence and was the second highest wicket taker ever, often skittling the best players in the world with a flick of the wrist.
But the flamboyant cricketer’s illustrious career was matched by his lust for life off it – and his
