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A Man’s Home is His Castle
The old saying goes, ‘A man’s home is his castle’ but when Jim Bishop started building a meager stone cottage in the Colorado mountains in 1969 he had no idea how true this would turn out to be. Using stone from the adjacent national park (with a permit, of course), his attempts at building a stone cottage soon had passers-by commenting on its likeness to a castle.
Continue reading...The Amazing Fate of the Solar Armor Inventor
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Image by Waytoocrowded In 1874, one man; an inventor of considerable genius, was reported to have completely reversed the effect of the sun. In the scorching heat of the mid-summer Nevada desert, he was found frozen stiff by Indians – his beard covered in frost and an icicle [...]
Continue reading...The Subterranean Iron Snow of Mercury
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Image from edhiker Mercury, which has the most unusual magnetic field that you can imagine, has been baffling astronomers ever since they first took note of it. Something is odd about the small, terribly hot planet, and that something gives it a magnetic field, the only terrestrial planet [...]
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Friday, January 23, 2009
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