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They have long been famed for their love of lavish banquets and rich recipes.
British royalty dined on human flesh (but don't worry it was 300 years ago) | Mail Online
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9/11 Memorial Lights Trap Thousands of Birds | Wired Science | Wired.com
On the evening of the ninth anniversary of 9/11, the twin columns of light projected as a memorial over the World Trade Center site became a source of mystery. Illuminated in the beams were thousands of small white objects, sparkling and spiraling, unlike anything seen on other nights. Some viewers wondered if they were scraps of paper or plastic caught in updrafts from the spotlights’ heat.With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.
Russia in color, a century ago - The Big Picture - Boston.com
The fallen: Only one passer-by seems to notice these victims of the siege lying dead in the street
AU-DELÀ DE L'HORREUR: Ils mangeaient des chats, la sciure de bois, colle à papier peint ... même leurs propres bébés. Agonie de Léningrad comme les nazis essayé de l'affamer jusqu'à la soumission: Leningrad: tragédie d'une ville assiégée 1941-1944 PAR ANN