Choosing from 2,500 submissions, the 2021 Audubon Photography Awards recently announced the top photographs. This year included submissions from all 50 States and 10 Canadian provinces showcasing the best bird photography in North America. This year’s Grand Prize went to Carolina Fraser, an amateur photographer, for her amazing photo of a Greater Roadrunner. For her …
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The Minimalist Photography Awards are back for their third year and just announced their 2021 winners. This contest is open to amateur and professional photographers and received 37,000 submissions from 39 countries across 12 categories. With the goal of exposing talented photographers to the world, a panel of five judges decide the first, second, and …
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When people think of animated Disney movies, they tend to think of either the more modern films, the classics at the end of the twentieth century, or the early classics made when Walt Disney himself was still alive. However, many of the earlier films, and a few more recent ones, had their foundations in fairy …
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The 2020 Drone Photography awards specialize in photos that give you a different perspective of the world. These awards are given by the Siena Awards Festival for the best aerial drone photographs around the world. The winner this year was Australian photographer Jim Picôt, who took home the prize for a brilliant photo of a shark swimming through …
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The Empire State Building is a 1,454 feet tall 102-story skyscraper sitting between 33rd and 34th streets on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhatten. For almost four decades, from its completion in 1931 until the World Trade Center’s North Tower was completed in 1970, it was the tallest building in the world. At one point, the …
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Salt. Before refrigeration, when civilizations settled near rivers, and everyone praised the sun, humanity put great stock in the bane of those with high blood pressure. That is because using salt as a preservative provided the most reliable method of food preservation even into the nineteenth century when canning and iceboxes finally entered the scene. …
Vikings have captured imaginations for centuries. Irish monks trembled at their sight, Early Russians fought them for Baltic water rights, and Byzantine Emperors hired their descendants as bodyguards. While much has been written about them from various contemporary and more recent sources, the Vikings themselves left few initial records. As a result, most of what …
Amongst the many contenders for having inspired Bram Stoker when writing his seminal work, Dracula, few have been afforded as prime a position as has the Hungarian noblewoman, Elizabeth Bathory. In the early seventeenth century, Bathory was accused of having killed as many as 650 victims. She was convicted of her crimes, spending the remainder of …
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To ask, ‘Who was Grady Stiles?’ opens the door to an intensely fascinating but disturbing story. On his merits, Grady Stiles was a freak show performer, famous for his talents and work on stage. Still, after the limelight on him dissipated, his life would begin taking several hellish turns, ending ultimately in a vicious death. …
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Blanche Monnier, or the la Séquestrée de Poitiers (“The Confined Woman of Potiers”), was a French woman trapped in a tiny room for a quarter of a century by her socialite mother. Few stories scandalized French society in the early twentieth century as much as Blanche Monnier, and rightfully so. How could a mother do the unthinkable …
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