At Kings Cross St Pancras station, on the platform for the Eurostar trains to Paris and Brussels you can see this clock.
Now this is a clock!
At Kings Cross St Pancras station, on the platform for the Eurostar trains to Paris and Brussels you can see this clock.
Now this is a clock!
No-one is going past this guard as he stands silently outside Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth’s residence in central London, UK.
All London taxis are black. In fact they carry the nickname ‘Black Cab‘.
Well, some of them are not black any more. The one pictured above has been decorated with the Union Jack.
Here is another photo, with the London Eye in the background.
This is a ship which has just started to flip into a vertical position.
And this is how it ends, in a completely vertical plane.
This ship, known as FLIP, is an ocean research ship, but it is not new, in fact it is now 50 years old.
This is not a CG. This is a real picture of a car in Brazil that was going a little too fast, and ended up smashing through the wall of someone’s house. No-one was badly hurt.
Like the Olympics, the World Cup and the American Presidential election a leap year comes around every four years, when an extra day (leap day) is added to our calendar, February 29th.
Or does it?
Leap Years are needed to keep our calendar in alignment with the Earth’s revolutions around the sun.
It takes the Earth approximately 365.242199 days (a tropical year) to circle once around the Sun.
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However, the Gregorian calendar has only 365 days in a year, so if we didn’t add a day on February 29 nearly every 4 years, we would lose almost six hours off our calendar every year. After only 100 years, our calendar would be off by approximately 24 days!
In the Gregorian calendar 3 criteria must be met to be a leap year:
This means that 2000 and 2400 are leap years, while 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300 and 2500 are NOT leap years.
The year 2000 was somewhat special as it was the first instance when the third criterion was used in most parts of the world since the transition from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar.
If you want to see what Japanese university students really think and feel about life, the universe and everything then watch this: http://youtu.be/WPW4Lawq6d4
The world’s smallest violin, guess it produces some very high notes.
This is Mirny in Siberia, Russia. It is home to a huge crater, a man-made crater, which is used to mine diamonds. Trucks make the journey up and down the mine using the spiral road which has been cut into the rock.
They look like toy cars don’t they?
But they are not. They’re real. This is the effect of a cyclone which hit Tully, Queensland yesterday.
Yes, it is real. A real painting. The artist is just finishing off the final few brushstrokes of his painting, while some spectators are watching his work.
The place is Trafalgar Square in the centre of London.