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Today begins a week of continued posts, where I have said more would follow or items were posted by instalments.
First batter up . . .
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BIG THINGS
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From the website Megalophobia featuring photographs submitted by the online community of big things, at
Recently Bored Panda featured a selection of those photographs at:
Here are some of the BP pics with BP captions and reader comments. Some of the big items, if not all, will astound you.
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1980 Eruption Of Mount St. Helens
Reader comments:
Last pic
Nah, he made it. I have looked this one up many times. The one who didn't was another man
That's the photographer's car and bike. He made his escape on the motorcycle, but only just.
I remember hearing this clearly when it happened -- and I lived in Vancouver CANADA, 532 km away. It sounded like a basketball hitting my bedroom window.
He lived. If he hadn’t woken up late he would be unalive as he was headed to Spirit Lake, which ended up being lifted from its bed & splashed on the surrounding mountains. - Just south of where I live.
Off topic but I never seen a motorbike being pulled like that before.
whoever took that picture better start running! the ash and dust is possibly going to reach them soon.
Bad news for those who saw it up close.
I lived in Spokane during this. Was so sad that the guy that lived there didn't listen and evacuate. And the photo journalist that lost his life but took those amazing photos and saved them. The night that fell when the ashes swept over us was surreal. We lived with those ashes for decades.
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Harpy Eagle, One Of The Biggest Eagles In The World
Seriously, why does he have manacles on his ankles? What's the reason for keeping this animal in captivity?
Birds of prey have been kept by humans for millennia. It's not really so much different from riding a horse, using a dog for hunting, even just house pets. The anklets are made of leather and are not painful or irritating. The birds are regularly allowed to fly freely and choose to return to their human handlers, so it's not really captivity as such.
Oh, I've also seen front photos of this bird. It majestic and eerie; looks like a guy in costume
Dude looks nervous
Can kill a man
It has HORNS??
Those legs...brrr
Those leather straps are called Jesses and are used by falconers to keep control of a bird while it is on the glove or in training, and allow a bird to be secured on a perch outside its aviary. Love his demeanor.
IT looks like something left over from the dinosaur age.....yikes !!
Supreme predator...those talons!!
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France Has The Best Villages
Wow! is that a Citroen CV2? Haven't seen one of those since French 'art' movies in the 60's.
No, that looks like a Dyane, the big brother of the 2CV. They are still around in Europe, I drive a 2CV .
This is the village of Najac. About 120KM NE of Toulouse. France.
Been there. It's really a beautiful sight. This here is the best angle. Some good restaurants and an amazing bakery in the village.
C'est magnifique!!! 💜💜💜
I love that shot! the houses with the castle in the background! just breathtaking!
Would you like to walk up and down that street on a daily basis??
And this castle is not this "Big". Just a standard medieval french castle !!
Lincoln in UK has a street similar ......its called Steep Street....
Looks great in this picture.... but...do you really want to walk up that hill with your baguette and camembert ...everyday.?
There is no way i would live in an area with roads like that!
That wee little car looks like a cartoon 🤣
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Forest In Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Just plain gorgeous.
Been there, absolutely awesome
California redwood forests have even bigger trees.
Incredible! Mother Nature never ceases to amaze me!
Been there, and even better, you can sometimes see snow monkeys in the forest.
They protect their forests. They want wood, they get us to cut down our trees to feed their mills.
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Tallest Statue In Africa
African Renaissance Monument, Dakar, Senegal – bronze.
Built by order of president Abdoulaye Wade, on a hill that is part of the "Deux Mamelles" (the boobs). Not kidding. It was meant to inspire an age of pan-African union, prosperity and emancipation, kickstarting a new engineering industry in Senegal. In reality, it was shoddily built by North Korean workforce, at twice the original budget -a steep 27 million Euros- curb-stomping the economy of the country that already was in a difficult economic crisis. It made a lot of people angry because of the nudity (smart choice in a predominantly muslim and conservative country), and because at the same time a plan to bring electricity and freshwater to the very same area was scrapped because of lack of funding. The funding was in great part diverted from UN foreign aid. To make everything more idiotic, president Wade shortly before being ousted signed a bill recognizing his own efforts in designing the monument, so he awarded himself to perpetual royalties -35%- from touristic revenues.
The genesis of the artwork is interesting. Wade claims he came up with the design alone, so he is due the royalties. But, it came out that a different artist made the first sketches, and the final design was made by a Romanian artist, that was contracted for a maquette and then ghosted. When he saw the finished artwork, he complained not much for the stolen idea, but because the execution by North Koreans was so bad to be caricatural, with oriental eyes and wrong proportions (this photo is flattering, look for other angles to see how bad it is).
Otto:
Another photograph:
even though I don't have megalaphobia, this really scares me for some reason. That is just massive.
How…masculine!
Very USSR
"Which country want you to invade, son?" "THAT ONE!"
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How Did They Build This 85-Meter-Deep Underground City 2,500 Years Ago?
Slowly, deliberately, and with an amazing knowledge of air flow and ventilation.
If you can move one kilo, you can move one tonne. If you can move a tonne, you can move a mountain. It just takes time and people.
So called 'primitive' people's were a lot cleverer than science gives them credit for.
What? Where do you get that idea? It’s people who eschew science that think ancient peoples
Where is it? Some information would be helpful.
It's near Derinkuyu in Nevşehir Province, Turkey.
Anyone else start singing - 🎶 They built this city, built this city on rock and roooo-oll!🎶?
🎶"We built this city!"🎶
The Dwarves of middle earth probably had a hand in this!
here are actually two questions here. Number 1, how was it built? Number 2, why was it built?
I wonder what they used for light?
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Hallgrímskirkja Church In Iceland
I went up there! The city is beautiful from up high!
Not on that day.
A rare sight, a church with no stained glass windows
looks like a evil villians lair in a Lord of the rings movie or something
Next time look at Asgard in a Marvel movie and see where they got the idea for the design from. I have been there. Looks lovely in the summer
An absolutely beautiful building!
It's also poorly designed/engineered - lots of cracking on the inside on the large, blank expanses of wall
Another monument to money and not faith.
I'd love to see this, but not on an awful day as in this photo.
Oh, no, that's the best, you walk up the hill and it slowly materializes out of the mist!
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A Lighthouse In Iceland
Thrídrangaviti
"And if my pizza isn't here in 30 minutes, it's free?"
Or actually get there at all 😂
The lighthouse seems to have barest minimum accomodation for one person. Perhaps it's possible to catch adequate fresh water during part of the year, but probably not. It takes a very special person to want to live there.
How do they get to it?! How did they build it?!?!
In 1938 and 1939 by hiring "experienced mountaineers to scale the sea stack. The expert climbers were local Westman Islanders who had long supplemented their diet by gathering seabird eggs from cliffs" "tools did not allow them to bite into the rock near the top, and there were no handholds, so using the same technique developed for gathering seabird eggs, they made a three-person "human stack" - one man on his knees, a second on top of him, and a third one climbing on the second one - for the final pitch." The boss said "I cannot even tell you how I was feeling whilst witnessing this incredibly dangerous procedure" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thridrangaviti_Lighthouse#Construction
I wonder how long it's going to take for the sea to destroy that pillar?
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Tokyo Flood Tunnels
At least they're prepared!¡🤯
The walls of Moria"
Uh...don't understand. I've seen this before. Is this where the water goes? If so, why are people wandering around down there?
Those are basically massive drain pipes in case of heavy rain storms and I think this was more a "take a look for a day" kinda thing
That's where they keep Godzilla
and the Balrog!
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Some photographs without reader comments . . .
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If Saturn Were As Close To Earth As The Moon, This Is How It Would Look Like
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Biggest Ship Elevator In The World, The Three Gorges Dam Shiplift
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The Size Of An Eagle's Claws
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Bagger 293, Once Held The Record For The World's Largest Land Vehicle
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This Door (I’m 5’11” For Reference)
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Fanjingshan Temples In Tongren, China
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Los Angeles Sky Cowboys Of Ironworkers Local 433
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