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Salar de Uyuni (or Salar de Tunupa) is the world’s largest salt flat at 10 582 square kilometers (4 086 sq mi). It is in the Daniel Campos Province in Potosí in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes and is at an elevation of 3 656 meters (11 995 ft) above sea level.
Joplin, MO in 2011 after an F5 swept through town. The big building in the lower left corner is a 5 story hospital that was rotated off its foundation and a complete loss. My dad and I drove through Joplin one year to the week after and it still looked like this. (click for enormous)
Bridge of Sighs, Venice, Italy
Beneath Venice's Ponte dei Sospiri (Bridge of Sighs) is a popular place to kiss your beloved as a gondolier guides you through the city's canals. But the sighs that the name refers to aren't from staring into your darling's eyes. The enclosed bridge, completed in 1600, connects the Prigioni Nuove (New Prison) to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace, and it is said that a prisoner's last look at beautiful Venice would be from that bridge.
Beneath Venice's Ponte dei Sospiri (Bridge of Sighs) is a popular place to kiss your beloved as a gondolier guides you through the city's canals. But the sighs that the name refers to aren't from staring into your darling's eyes. The enclosed bridge, completed in 1600, connects the Prigioni Nuove (New Prison) to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace, and it is said that a prisoner's last look at beautiful Venice would be from that bridge.
Lots of amazing pics on big things. Here are some pics I took of some smol but important guys. Wife and kid did a lot of gardening this year and we’ve had a lot of these visitors.
QUEEN OF THE NIGHT - EPIPHYLLUM OXYPETALUM
This member of the cacti normally blooms at night. (Though it can during the daytime too, but this one does not.)
These are photos my wife took this last Monday evening of hers.
This member of the cacti normally blooms at night. (Though it can during the daytime too, but this one does not.)
These are photos my wife took this last Monday evening of hers.
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Lassen Volcanic National Park, California
Haven't seen this perspective before. From wiki:
The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on 6 July 2013, at approximately 01:15 EDT,[1][2] when an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the explosion and fire of multiple tank cars. Forty-seven people were killed.[3] More than thirty buildings in Lac-Mégantic's town centre, roughly half of the downtown area, were destroyed,[2][4] and all but three of the thirty-nine remaining buildings had to be demolished due to petroleum contamination of the townsite.[5] Initial newspaper reports described a 1 km (0.6-mile) blast radius.[6]
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The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on 6 July 2013, at approximately 01:15 EDT,[1][2] when an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the explosion and fire of multiple tank cars. Forty-seven people were killed.[3] More than thirty buildings in Lac-Mégantic's town centre, roughly half of the downtown area, were destroyed,[2][4] and all but three of the thirty-nine remaining buildings had to be demolished due to petroleum contamination of the townsite.[5] Initial newspaper reports described a 1 km (0.6-mile) blast radius.[6]
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