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Lightning over Colorado
Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? Join the crowd. Oddly, nobody knows exactly how lightning is produced. What is known is that charges slowly separate in some clouds causing rapid electrical discharges (lightning), but how electrical charges get separated in clouds remains a topic of much research. Lightning usually takes a jagged course, rapidly heating a thin column of air to about three times the surface temperature of the Sun. The resulting shock wave starts supersonically and decays into the loud sound known as thunder.
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Canadian soldiers playing hockey during a break in action in the Korean War in 1952
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Tungurahua Volcano
The Tungurahua volcano spews fumes and lava in Huambalo, Ecuador, Feb. 27, 2016.
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Kicking Horse River
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The Rock Restaurant, Zanzibar
The Rock restaurant just off shore in Zanzibar. As the sun set, I was taking photos of The Rock before going out there to have dinner. As the light levels dropped, the light came on in the restaurant and I knew I had my shot.
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Stay Positive
Building anything or getting anywhere isn’t always going to be easy. Keep moving. Stay positive.
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Victoria falls, Zambia/Zimbabwe
The largest waterfall in the world.
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Gibbous Moon beyond Swedish Mountain
This is a gibbous Moon. More Earthlings are familiar with a full moon, when the entire face of Luna is lit by the Sun, and a crescent moon, when only a sliver of the Moon's face is lit. When more than half of the Moon is illuminated, though, but still short of full illumination, the phase is called gibbous. Rarely seen in television and movies, gibbous moons are quite common in the actual night sky.
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This ring is also the world's smallest chess set
The tiny board, made from fossil ivory and ebony, flips up on wincy hinges to reveal 32 minuscule chess pieces. The ring itself is sterling silver, and there's only one of them, made by Arduosity, who notes "I can tell you it is impossible, near impossible to set up."
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Seagull
I shot this a bit over a week ago during a trip to Rhode Island; I didn't realize that this picture came out quite so well until I came back home.
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Nemophila Flowers
People walk on a hill covered with nemophila flowers in full bloom at Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
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Waterfall from behind wilderness
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Surfing at Aleutian Islands
The Aleutian Islands are a chain of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones belonging to both the United States and Russia. Photo by Chris Burkard, and more great shots are at the source included.
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Nice haul
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U.S. Embassy in Cuba
A vintage car with U.S. flags drives by the U.S. embassy in Havana. The United States and Cuba formally resumed diplomatic relations, as the Cuban flag was raised at the U.S. State Department in a historic gesture toward ending decades of hostility between the Cold War foes.
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I can't stop playing with my new screwdriver set
A worthwhile Amazon purchase
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Health insurance in the USA
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Your Chances of Dying Early (infographic)
The National Center for Health Statistics reports the average life expectancy in the United States is 77.9 years. According to the CDC, the leading causes of death in the United States are (in descending order) heath disease, cancer, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases, accidents, Alzheimer's disease and diabetes. There are so many ways to die early. What follows is a list of activities, from the ordinary to the extraordinary, and your chances of dying from them.
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Sea of Purple
A visitor holds an umbrella in a lavender field in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning province
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Dampened Spirit