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)...
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)...
[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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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....
[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...
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)...