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Revellers battled against 40mph winds and driving rain to get to nightclubs in Birmingham city centre on September 21, 2025. The Met Office released a yellow weather warning for strong wind and heavy rain overnight across much of England and Wales. The partygoers used their coats and umbrellas to shelter from the barmy conditions. (Photo by British News and Media/Alamy Live News)

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22 Nov 2025 06:03:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Origami by Hoang Tien Quyet

Vietnamese artist Hoang Tien Quyet produces curved paper forms using a difficult technique known as wet-folding. This adds an element of sculpture to the work, making Hoàng’s origami animals truly remarkable. Too little water and the paper dries before the folding is done; too much water, and the paper will rip.

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28 May 2015 08:07:00,post received 0 comments

Funny Portrait Drawings of Winnie Truong

Winnie Truong was born in Toronto, where she still lives, and received her BFA in painting and drawing from Ontario College of Art and Design.

Using pencil, crayon, and chalk pastel on giant sheets of paper, Truong creates portraits with great detail. Her aim is to explore notions of beauty and discomfort and, inspired by science fiction, she portrays hair in all its ‘whiskery, wispy, curly, bristly’ brilliance.

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07 Jun 2015 10:44:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Rammehar Punia a Rubber Man

35-year old farmer Rammehar Punia has been named as ‘Rubber Man’. Thanks to his remarkable ability to make his shoulders meet in front of his chest. He has used his flex!bil!ty to smash the Guinness World record for the number of CD’s broken between the shoulders. He broke 60 CDs in just a minute.

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10 Aug 2015 10:45:00,post received 0 comments

Fact SpaceX Rocket Explosion Caused by a Two Feet Metallic Strut

SpaceX, the space transportation company built from scratch by visionary billionaire Elon Musk, has the grand goal of space travel evolution through the use of re-usable rockets. Its technology – which has proven its worth several times – can reduce the costs of space transportation to its fraction, making it a more affordable way of reaching orbit or traveling beyond.

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12 Aug 2015 08:47:00,post received 0 comments

Fact “Wildly Beautiful Tableaux”

Surburban Woman #10, Mountainville, New York, August 2006. (Photo by Steven Klein)

US Vogue’s top fashion editor works with photographers to inject style with sci-fi and fantasy. A new book, “Stoppers: Photographs from My Life at Vogue” by Phyllis Posnick and Vogue’s chief editor, Anna Wintour, highlights the results. Here: Surburban Woman #10, Mountainville, New York, August 2006. (Photo by Steven Klein)

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16 Dec 2016 10:48:00,post received 0 comments

Charming Double-Exposure Animal Portraits by Dániel Taylor

I wanted to create the smoke effects on animals I used on some few of my female subjects.
The hardest part was that while there were only faces, here there was the whole body that needed to be “smokeified”.

Dániel Taylor.

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10 Oct 2015 11:15:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Els Enfarinats: One of the World's Greatest Food Fights

A reveller takes part in the battle of “Enfarinats”, a flour fight in celebration of the Els Enfarinats festival on December 28, 2015 in Ibi, Spain. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

A reveller takes part in the battle of “Enfarinats”, a flour fight in celebration of the Els Enfarinats festival on December 28, 2015 in Ibi, Spain. Citizens of Ibi annually celebrate the festival with a battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

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30 Dec 2015 08:04:00,post received 0 comments