A Picture Says 1,000 Words - Page 106

A graduate student has created the first man-made biological leaf. It absorbs water and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen just like a plant. He did this by suspending chloroplasts in a mixture made out of silk protein. He believed it can be used for many things but the most striking one is the thought that it could be used for long distance space travel. Plants do not grow in space, but this synthetic material can be used to produce oxygen in a hostile environment.

British long range desert group and predecessor to the SAS in North Africa ww2. Shown in heavily armed, light landrovers affectionately called pink panthers.

Last photo of the Brazilian Royal Family in Brazil before the republican coup d'état and their exile in France. 1889.

Sailors on USS Franklin trying to flee from explosions after the aircraft carrier has been hit by Japanese bombs, March 1945.

Protesters pose with a police shield outside the parliament in Ouagadougou on October 30, 2014.

ISIS militants are caught in an air strike on Tilsehir hill on October 23, 2014.

Mexican federal police and Attorney General's officers take part in a security operation in the Ejido de Carrizalillo, Guerrero State, Mexico, on October 21, 2014. Mexico's government announced a $110,000 reward for information on the disappearance of 43 students in a case of alleged collusion between a drug gang and police.

Supporters of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) stand during a protest in support of the 43 disappeared Mexican rural college students, at a main road near San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, on October 22, 2014.

On June 07 2014 05:54 Agathon wrote:


My first look of this picture was "Oh, so cute". And few seconds later, I got it...fully

Young man had sign saying, "free hugs", at a Portland Ferguson rally. This cop took him up on the offer.

L. Ron Hubbard conducting a dianetics session in Los Angeles, 1950.

An incredibly rare, candid and original color photograph a B-17 bombardier heading toward Germany, 1940's.

Guy Lafleur kneels before the departed Jean Beliveau

Left to right: Russian bomb in Ukraine, Ukrainian bomb in Russia and Israeli bomb in Gaza.

Margaret Hamilton with her code, lead software engineer, Project Apollo (1969).

American battleships entering Sydney Heads, 20 August 1908.

People congregate to watch the first television in Gozo, Sister Island of Malta, 1958.

On December 12 2014 06:08 fruity. wrote:
One for my archive. The press, eesh.






Here's my contribution, no explanation needed I feel. Taken by Todd Robertson.

On December 12 2014 06:18 YourGoodFriend wrote:
Every time I see this image it makes me so sad that a parent would take a innocent child and put a symbol of hate on them