Oktoberfest 2012
[With the traditional tapping-ritual, the Oktoberfest has been opened on saturday, September 22, 2012. Despite the rather wet weather on saturday, the first weekend was te xpeted sucess: Approximately 850.000 guests from Munich, Bavaria, the rest of Germany and from all over the world came to visit the 179th Oktoberfest on the opening weekend. About one million liters of beer and about nine oxen have already been sold]. – Oktoberfest.de. (Photo by ◊CHЄЄKY◊MINX◊PHOTO◊DIARY◊)
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Simply Some Photos: Vintage Transport
At the 50th anniversary of the Hartford Automobile Club a 1914 Mercer with an economical wind screen, looking like a large magnifying glass, designed to offer minimum wind resistance. Brass is used instead of chrome for the [shiny] parts, circa 1955. (Photo by Three Lions)...
Pictures Of Recent Events [September 16 – Oktober 4 2012]
![Pictures Of Recent Events [September 16 – Oktober 4 2012]](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/app/2013/short/00009922_medium.jpg "Pictures Of Recent Events [September 16 – Oktober 4 2012]")
Masked women shout slogans during a demonstration marking the Latin American Day for Decriminalization of Therapeutic Abortion in Managua, Nicaragua, where abortions are illegal, on September 28, 2012. (Photo by Esteban Felix/Associated Press)...
Tokyo Game Show 2012
[The Tokyo Game Show kicked off at Makuhari Messe in Chiba on September 20, 2012 with 209 companies from all over the world exhibiting more than 1,000 games and devices. Organizers said social networking games are in the spotlight this year due to the popularity of smartphones and tablets. As always, the booth babes attracted a lot of media interest]. – Japan Today (Photo by @coganerd)
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Car Accidents [Oldies]
![Car Accidents [Oldies]](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/app/2013/short/00009100_medium.jpg "Car Accidents [Oldies]")
A group of policemen and passers-by survey the wreckage of a taxi in Stoke Newington, London. Its front wheel lies on the pavement next to a sign bearing the ironic instruction [All Cars Stop Here]. 14th February 1930. (Photo by Fox Photos). P.S. All pictures are presented in high resolution....
[Kater Murrs Galerie berühmter Katzen]. Artworks by Michael Mathias Prechtl
![[Kater Murrs Galerie berühmter Katzen]. Artworks by Michael Mathias Prechtl](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/app/2013/short/00009129_medium.jpg "[Kater Murrs Galerie berühmter Katzen]. Artworks by Michael Mathias Prechtl")
[Michael Mathias Prechtl (April 26, 1926, Amberg – March 19, 2003, Nuremberg) was a German artist, illustrator and cartoonist. He served as a soldier on the Eastern Front during World War II and spent 1945-49 as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union]. – Wikipedia
Photo: [Der Gestiefelte Kater (Puss in Boots)], 1997. Artwork by Michael Mathias Prechtl...
Around the Solar System
On August 31, 2012, a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, causing aurora to appear on the night of Monday, September 3. (Photo by NASA/GSFC/SDO via The Atlantic)...
![Rare [Hybrid] Total Solar Eclipse](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/short/00010c55_medium.jpg "Rare [Hybrid] Total Solar Eclipse")
