Wednesday , 19 June 2013

Category Archives: Interesting

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Kevin Briggs, the Man Who Saved Hundreds of Lives

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Kevin Briggs has saved hundreds of lives over the last 26 years. He is a California Highway Patrol Sergeant who patrols the Golden Gate Bridge and helps people who want to jump from there. In the first photo Kevin Berthia shakes the hand of Kevin Briggs, the officer who talked him down from throwing himself off San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge in 2005.

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Russian Terminator

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Russian soldier cheated death after being shot in the head by an AK-47 by Chechen militants. A friend of him removed the bullet using pliers, while the soldier stayed calm and composed throughout the procedure.

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Photo of the Day

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1987. Heart surgeon Dr. Zbigniew Religa keeps watch on a monitor tracking the vital signs of a heart-transplant patient. One of Religa’s colleagues who helped him perform two transplants in an all-night session rests in the corner. In 1987 James Stanfield’s photo of Zbigniew Religa was proclaimed a photo of the year in National Geographic.

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Staircase on a Swiss Skyscraper

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These stairs on a Swiss skyscraper are real but are not used by anyone. At a height of 10 storeys the stairs are attached to the concrete wall and have no railing or support. They were built for fun.

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Wall of Ice

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The 30 ft (9 m) high wall of ice was pushed out of a lake by a strong wind. It crashed into properties near the shoreline of Dauphin Lake in Canada, destroyed 12 homes and damaged 15.

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Photos of Alice Liddell

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Alice Liddell (1852 – 1934) inspired the children’s classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, whose protagonist Alice is said to be named after her.

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Oklahoma Time Capsule

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This time capsule was buried under the First Lutheran Church of Oklahoma City 100 years ago, in 1913. Now the time capsule is opened. All these items were inside it.

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