39 Fascinating Photos from Our Amazing World
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“Bobby Fischer, considered by many to be the greatest chess player who ever lived, playing 50 opponents simultaneously in 1964. In this particular simultaneous exhibition, he won 47 of the matches, drew 2 and lost 1.”
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“Persian rug map. Persian rugs are classified on the basis of region. Each region in Iran has its own style.”
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“When a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Seattle in 2001, shop owner Jason Ward discovered that the quake had produced this pattern in a sand-tracing pendulum.”
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“A 2500-year-old Australian Antarctic Beech tree within an ancient rainforest, Southeastern Australia.”
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“Mexico’s largest recorded weed plantation was hidden in plain sight under a black tarp in the desert (300 acres).”
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“An agricultural engineer used this bear's night raids as a test to determine which type of honey was the best. In multiple, double-blind trials, "Big boy" always preferred the rare, expensive anzer honey; followed closely by chestnut, flower, and pine-wood honey.”
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“Due to lockdowns last year, the Himalayas were visible from nearly 200 km away in Saharanpur, India for the first time in 30 years.”
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“There is a Banyan tree in Pakistan that has been chained and officially arrested since 1898. This happened when James Squid, a British officer thought the tree was moving towards him after drinking alcohol.”
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“Huge ammonite fossil discovered near Fernie, British Columbia in 1947. These creatures lived back when all of BC was part of the ocean (200 million yrs ago)”
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“Unfinished 7th century rock cut indian hindu temple. The structure was carved out top to bottom from a giant rock. Similar to the Kailasha temple which was built around a century later.”
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“Abandoned miners' cottages in a slate quarry in Snowdonia, North Wales. The quarry closed in 1969 due to industry decline.”
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“I travelled 300 kilometres away from my heavily light polluted city to capture this image of The Andromeda Galaxy.”
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