The name “buck” came from a time (circa 1890-1920) where people would trade deer skins as a type of money in america. Male deer are called bucks and so the term “buck” became synonymous with money. through the years, dollars and bucks or buck skins were used interchangeably.
Gisborne Airport- An active Railway track on an active Runway!
Gisborne Airport is a regional airport situated on the outskirts of Gisborne, New Zeland and it is one of the few airports in the world that has a railway line on the active runway
The square-shaped fruits are grown in boxes, which force the watermelon’s shape. But unfortunately, don’t ever try to eat these as they are inedible. Why? The watermelons are harvested before they are ripe.
Have you ever read sensational tabloid headlines such as these?
“Abraham Lincoln was a woman!”
“Teen’s Hair Changes Color… With her Mood”
“Man’s head explodes in barber’s chair”
“Severed leg hops back to hospital”
Well, these are examples of yellow journalism in tabloid headlines.
So, what is yellow journalism?
It is a type of journalism that produces stories without adequate or accurate information. Scandal-mongering and exaggeration are some of the techniques used here. Like everything else, yellow journalism has a history too!
In the late 19th century, yellow journalism had nothing to do with sensationalism. It was named after a popular cartoon strip that was published in Joseph Pulitzer’s newspaper, New York World.
The cartoons, drawn by Richard F. Outcault, were about life in the New York City slum called ‘Hogan’s Alley’. Like Calvin and Snoopy, it was the ‘Yellow Kid’ who was the most well-known character from the comic strip then.
Ultimately, New York World gained popularity. William Hearst was another major publisher belonging to that period. After the rise in sales of New York World, Hearst wanted to hire Outcault away from Pulitzer. This battle over the ‘Yellow Kid’ gave rise to the term yellow journalism.
What happened then?
Cuba had long been a Spanish colony and the revolutionary movement intensified during the 1980s. The two publishers, Hearst and Pulitzer began devoting their attention to the Cuban struggle for independence. Sometimes, they accentuated the harshness of the Spanish rule! In 1898, an American battleship sunk in Havana Harbor.
The naval vessel had been sent there to diffuse the tension between the States and Spain. On the night of February 15, an explosion tore through the ship’s hull and it went down.
Although initial reports by the colonial government had suggested that explosion had occurred on board, Hearst and Pulitzer published rumors of plots to sink the ship! And that is how they triggered the Spanish-American war!
The dramatic style of yellow journalism contributed to creating public support for the Spanish-American war, a war that ultimately expanded the reach of the USA.
What started as a comic strip, ended as a war? That is the power of yellow journalism.
When i was young i was convinced that they were just computer generated pictures for glossy aviation magazines. That went well, that is before i stumbled upon aviation photography. Man, it blew me when i found out these are for real. But here’s How .
Obviously, another aircraft with a camera does the shooting, which is usually referred to as the camera platform. That plane could be a retrofitted Cessna 172 or an aircraft a bit more sophisticated like an F-16 fighter jet.
To shoot outside and not through one of its windows, they purposely built and installed camera pods that are mounted to the belly, nose, or wings of the aircraft. These have cameras on a gimbal and gyroscopic system, with the gimbal allowing the camera to rotate unhindered, following its subject like a hawk. This is one of Wolfe Air’s secret weapons that allow those marvelous shots to be captured, even while moving in excess of 300mph at 10,000 feet elevation.
You may know that a pyramid has 4 faces ( excluding the base). You would expect the same when you look at the great pyramid of Giza. But, as a matter of fact, the great pyramid has 8 faces.
Ikonos satellite image of the Great Pyramid.
In his book The Egyptian Pyramids: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference, J.P. Lepre wrote:
One very unusual feature of the Great Pyramid is a concavity of the core that makes the monument an eight-sided figure, rather than four-sided like every other Egyptian pyramid. That is to say, that its four sides are hollowed in or indented along their central lines, from base to peak. This concavity divides each of the apparent four sides in half, creating a very special and unusual eight-sided pyramid; and it is executed to such an extraordinary degree of precision as to enter the realm of the uncanny. For, viewed from any ground position or distance, this concavity is quite invisible to the naked eye. The hollowing-in can be noticed only from the air, and only at certain times of the day. This explains why virtually every available photograph of the Great Pyramid does not show the hollowing-in phenomenon, and why the concavity was never discovered until the age of aviation. It was discovered quite by accident in 1940, when a British Air Force pilot, P. Groves, was flying over the pyramid. He happened to notice the concavity and captured it in the now-famous photograph. [p. 65]
Ancient Aliens documentary.
This strange feature was not first observed in 1940. It was illustrated in La Description de l'Egypte in the late 1700’s (Volume V, pl. 8). Flinders Petrie noticed a hollowing in the core masonry in the center of each face and wrote that he “continually observed that the courses of the core had dips of as much as ½° to 1°” (The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, 1883, p. 421). Though it is apparently more easily observed from the air, the concavity is measurable and is visible from the ground under favorable lighting conditions.
A history channel T.V. grab showing the eight sides.
Unlike popular belief that there exists an infinite number of shapes that snowflakes can occur in, there are only 35! Albeit no snowflake is the same from an atomic standpoint, these are the 35 shapes of snowflakes which have been documented thus far to occur in nature.
The name “buck” came from a time (circa 1890-1920) where people would trade deer skins as a type of money in america. Male deer are called bucks and so the term “buck” became synonymous with money. through the years, dollars and bucks or buck skins were used interchangeably.
Gisborne Airport- An active Railway track on an active Runway!
Gisborne Airport is a regional airport situated on the outskirts of Gisborne, New Zeland and it is one of the few airports in the world that has a railway line on the active runway
The place’s more characteristic features are its natural arches and caves, which can be seen only in low tide. During high tide, the beach appears quite small, but is still suitable to go for a swim. High tide is an interesting time to visit the place and wander over the top of the cliffs, from West to East, heading to the Esteiro Beach. During low tide you can appreciate the size of its magnificent cliffs and the picturesque sea caves, which go from small cracks on the rock to big caves whose roofs collapse due to the erosion of the waves.
