Meteor Crater Arizona

Meteor Crater is one of the youngest and best-preserved impact craters on Earth. The crater formed roughly 50,000 years ago when a 30-meter-wide, iron-rich meteor weighing 100,000 tons struck the Arizona desert at an estimated 20 kilometers per second.

High Resolution Image. The resulting explosion exceeded the combined force of today's nuclear arsenals and created a 1.1-kilometer-wide, 200-meter-deep crater.

Meteor Crater is a simple crater since it has no central peak or rim terraces. The crater formed in layered Paleozoic age sedimentary rocks, some of which are exposed in the nearby Grand Canyon. These rocks have been uplifted and in some cases overturned at the crater's raised rim. Debris sliding and subsequent erosion have partially filled the bottom of the crater with minor amounts of rim material and sediment.

The heavily cratered history of the Moon indicates that Earth also experienced many impact events early in its history. The processes of erosion and plate tectonics have combined to erase nearly all Earth's craters. To date, only about 150 impact craters have been identified on Earth, and most of those are severely eroded or buried by later rock units. The origin of this classic, simple meteorite impact crater was long the subject of controversy.

The discovery of fragments of the Canyon Diablo meteorite, including fragments within the breccia deposits that partially fill the structure, and a range of shock metamorphic features in the target sandstone proved its impact origin. Target rocks include Paleozoic carbonates and sandstones; these rocks were overturned just outside the rim during ejection. The hummocky deposits just beyond the rim are remnants of the ejecta blanket. This aerial view shows the dramatic expression of the crater in the arid landscape. The crater is named for Daniel Moreau Barringer, a mining entrepeneur who championed an impact origin for the crater early in the 20th.

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October The book of Days

Title The book of days: a miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, including anecdote, biography, & history, curiosities of literature and oddities of human life and character, Volume 2. written by the Scottish author Robert Chambers (10 July 1802 – 17 March 1871) and first published in 1832.

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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character, Robert Chambers, Editor: Robert Chambers (1802-1871)
Publisher: W. & R. Chambers, 1832.

Then came October full of merry glee;
For yet his noule was totty of the must,
Which he was treading in the wine-fat's see,
And of the joyous oyle, whose gentle gust
Made him so frolic and so full of Lust:
Upon a dreadful Scorpion he did ride,
The same which by Diana's doom unjust
Slew great Orion; and coke by his side
He had his ploughing-share and coulter ready tyde.
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Michel de Nostredame (Nostradamus)

Description - The Portrait of Michel de Nostredame (Nostradamus), painted by his son César de Nostredame (1553-1630) about 1614 A.D. Now possessed by the Bibliothèque Méjanes, Aix-en-Provence, France. Michel de Notredame or Michel de Nostredame (14 December 1503 – 1 July 1566) French physician, astrologer, occultist and author of almanacs, most famous for his book Les Propheties.

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Time Warner Center Columbus Circle New York City

Time Warner Center was developed by The Related Companies in New York City at Columbus Circle, by David Childs of Skidmore. Designed by Owings & Merrill, it consists of two 750 ft towers. Construction began in November 2000, following the demolition of the New York Coliseum. and was topped out on February 27, 2003. It is the property with the highest-listed market value in New York City, $1.1 billion in 2006. Image License: I, (sookietex) the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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Seinfeld Reality Tour The Soup Nazi

Seinfeld Reality Tour The Soup Nazi, "The Soup Nazi" is the title of the 116th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, which was the 6th episode of the 7th season. It first aired on November 2, 1995. The character was inspired by Al Yeganeh, a New York City soup vendor who ran Soup Kitchen International in midtown Manhattan at 259A West 55th Street, near 8th Avenue. The store in now closed as we can see in these photos. Image License: I, (sookietex) the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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Storm Clouds Twitter Background Wallpaper

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Seal of the Knights Templar

A Seal of the Knights Templar, with their image of two knights on a single horse, a symbol of their early poverty. The text is in Greek and Latin, Sigillum Militum Χρisti: followed by a cross, "the Seal of the Soldiers of Christ". Original author unknown, but it was made during Middle Age.

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Feast of trumpets Rosh Hashanah Tashlich

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Feast of trumpets Date 1884 Dimensions: 47 × 64.5 cm (18.5 × 25.4 in) Current location: National Museum in Warsaw (NMW) by Ignacy Aleksander Gierymski (born 30 January 1850 in Warsaw, died between 6 and 8 March 1901 in Rome) (oil on canvas) Painting of Hasidic Jews performing tashlikh (ritual washing away of sins) on Rosh Hashanah, placed on the banks of the Vistula River in Warsaw.

Tashlich, During the afternoon of the first day occurs the practice of tashlikh, in which prayers are recited near natural flowing water, and one's sins are symbolically cast into the water. Many have the custom of throwing bread or pebbles into the water, to symbolize the "casting off" of sins. In some communities, if the first day of Rosh Hashanah occurs on Shabbat, tashlikh is postponed until the second day.

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Crop Circles

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Crop Circles in Kansas, Resembling a work of modern art, variegated green crop circles cover what was once shortgrass prairie in southwestern Kansas. The most common crops in this region—Finney County—are corn, wheat, and sorghum. Each of these crops was at a different point of development when the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) captured this image on June 24, 2001, accounting for the varying shades of green and yellow.

Healthy, growing crops are green. Corn would be growing into leafy stalks by late June. Sorghum, which resembles corn, grows more slowly and would be much smaller and therefore, possibly paler. Wheat is a brilliant gold as harvest occurs in June. Fields of brown have been recently harvested and plowed under or lie fallow for the year.

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Tennis Balls and Wind Tunnels

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NASA aerodynamics technology may well help create more competitive tennis matches between the world’s top players while stimulating student interest in science and engineering.

In recent years, improved racquet technology and faster surfaces have led to an emphasis on the serve and shorter rallies in professional tennis matches. To slow the game, the International Tennis Federation, London, England, recently approved the testing of a new ball, 6.5 percent larger in diameter, during exhibition play. They also reviewed data of Dr. Rabi Mehta and the wind tunnels at NASA Ames Research Center in the heart of California's Silicon Valley.

"The concern is that today’s top pros can serve a tennis ball at almost 150 miles per hour. On faster surfaces, such as Wimbledon, that ensures an increasing number of shorter rallies and tie-breaker sets," said Mehta, a world authority on the aerodynamics of sports balls. "A larger ball will slow things down; the trick is to figure out how much. That was the objective of experimental testing conducted in England and at Ames,"

Mehta began working with an engineering consulting firm, Cislunar Aerospace, Inc., Napa, CA, about two years ago. Together, they demonstrated tennis ball aerodynamics to students in order to pique their interest. Recently, Mehta explained the complex airflow around big and small tennis balls that he and his students have discovered to a Tennis Federation convention in Roehampton, England. In particular, he noted, wind tunnel tests have shown that ‘fuzz’ affects the flight of a tennis ball far more than previously believed.

"Cislunar got a NASA grant from the Learning Technologies Project to develop a web site for kids from kindergarten through grade eight (http://wings.ucdavis.edu/Tennis)," Mehta said. Cislunar CEO, Dr. Jani Macari Pallis, made an ‘Aeronautics Internet Textbook’ that includes a tennis section in the sports ball area, the most popular part of the web site, according to Mehta. "The first part of the student work was a flow visualization study of a tennis ball in a NASA-Ames 3-foot by 4-foot smoke tunnel two years ago. The data from those tests are on the web site. Mainly, we performed the study to show the kids the basic principles of fluid mechanics," Mehta added. Fluid mechanics is the study of fluid flow (gas or liquid), its properties, characteristics and behavior.

More recently, the investigators measured the drag on regular as well as new, larger tennis balls over a wide range of flow speeds in the NASA-Ames 15-inch by 15-inch wind tunnel. "With the help of data collected by two college summer students, I think, for the first time, I understand the full aerodynamics of a tennis ball in flight," Mehta said.

Jesse Owens

Digital ID: cph 3a28453 Source: b&w film copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-27663 (b&w film copy neg.) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieve Unedited JPEG version (216 kilobytes) Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (18 megabytes) TITLE: Jesse Owens. CALL NUMBER: LOT 2731 [item] [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-27663 (b&w film copy neg.)

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NOTES: Reproduction of photograph in "Die Olympischen Spiele, 1936" p.27, 1936. "Jesse Owens at start of record breaking 200 meter race." This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

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Fashion Week Bryant Park New York City

Fashion Week Bryant Park New York City. Admission is by invitation only, to the fashion industry, fashion press and celebrities, The first New York Fashion Week Held in 1943 called Press Week, was the world's first organized fashion week. Press Week was a success, and fashion magazines like Vogue, which were until that time filled with French designs, increasingly featured American fashion. Yn 1993, the event was moved to its current site in Bryant Park. Image License: I, (sookietex) the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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Statue Of David Michelangelo

Public Domain Photo Image. Statue Of David Michelangelo, Artist: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564). Year: 1504. Type: Carrara Marble. Location: Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence. The completed sculpture was unveiled on 8 September, 1504. Title: Rome and the renaissance: the pontificate of Julius II. Author: Julian Klaczko. Translated by: John Dennie. Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. Original . from: Harvard University. Digitized: Jun 21, 2007. Length: 386 pages

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Seinfeld Reality Tour Monk's Cafe Tom's Restaurant

Seinfeld Reality Tour Monk's Cafe Tom's Restaurant, Monk's Café is the coffee shop from Seinfeld. Tom's Restaurant is on the north east corner of West 112th Street and Broadway, near Columbia University on Manhattan's Upper West Side and is often shown on the show as the exterior of Monk's. Monk's is the favorite hangout for Jerry and his friends, George Costanza, Elaine Benes and Cosmo Kramer. The coffee shop is almost always shot so that "Tom's" in the sign on the Broadway side is not visible. Tom's Restaurant was the locale of Suzanne Vega's 1987 song "Tom's Diner". Image License: I, (sookietex) the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law. If This image is subject to copyright in your jurisdiction, i (sookietex) the copyright holder have irrevocably released all rights to it, allowing it to be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified,

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Unexplained Phenomenon Flying Saucer

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Full Description: Looking like an alien space ship or a flying saucer the Microwave Lightcraft is an unconventional launch vehicle approach for delivering payload to orbit using power transmitted via microwaves. Microwaves re beamed from either a ground station or an orbiting solar power satellite to the lightcraft. The energy received breaks air molecules into a plasma and a magnetohydrodynamic fanjet provides the lifting force. Only a small amount of propellant is required for circulation, attitude control and deorbit.

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Seinfeld Reality Tour The Package Cooper Station Post Office

The US Post Office Cooper Station, is located at 93 4th Avenue, on the north east of east 11th street. The post office serves the 10003 zip code, the neighborhood of the East Village in New York City. The station is named in honor of Peter Cooper, the mid-19th century industrialist and philanthropist who founded the nearby Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

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Seinfeld: The Package. Episode 5. Season 8 1996 - 1997. First Aired: 10/17/1996: Kramer claims he can get a refund on Jerry's broken stereo, even though the warranty has expired.

Jerry refuses a package in the mail, his mailman complains to Uncle Leo, who offers to accept it. Jerry learns that the package contained his broken stereo that Kramer mailed in order to get the Postal Service to pay for the damages.

When he goes to file his claim, Jerry is interrogated by Newman, but admits to nothing, after confiscating one of George's photos that shows him hitting the stereo, Newman is sure that he's got Jerry who is summoned to the post office where he is charged with mail fraud.

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Devil Deelybob

Devil Deelybob with multiple reflections, in a car's rear window. Taken on Manhatten's upper westside, 74th street and West End avenue, August 28th 2009.

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