TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

Photo taken in Taber, Canada, last month by Pat Kavanagh.  Created by stitching several photos vertically.  Found in the Telegraph .

Two lists, actually.  One published in 1990 by the British-based Crime Writer's Association, and the other in 1995 by the Mystery Writer...

In 1900, Mr. Edwin Moore founded the Company with a capital of $112.60. He rented a room and devoted each afternoon and evening to makin...

Ormer Locklear is the first man credited with bringing wing walking to the forefront of American aviation and air shows...  While there a...

I didn't even have Art 101 in college, so I'm the first to admit that my knowledge base is minimal.  If someone had shown me this ...

I was in our front yard last week when the Google Street View car went by.  Apparently they are updating their database with higher resol...

For years I've been seeing these at rock and mineral shows; we finally bought a small one to display at home.  It wasn't until tod...

A biker named Zhang Bo rode into an open manhole and ended up in hospital. Bo, 28 - from Changchun, Jilin province, eastern China - hadn...

Excerpts from an article at the Oxford University Press blog: The U.S. Census first collected data on librarians in 1880, four years a...

The artist is Motoi Yamamato; the installation appears to have been in Cologne, Germany last year.  Another photo showing the entire 12-m...

Results of a recent Gallup poll of Americans.  Another interesting set of numbers from the same source: Some discussion re sampli...

A bird disease which can leave great tits riddled with lesions, stopping them feeding and leaving them vulnerable to predators, is spread...

Most of you will remember the tragedy that occurred in 2007 when an interstate highway bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapo...

To my eye this is an absolutely awesome image.  The photo was taken at Siberia's Lake Baikal, which in and of itself is unique and ama...

Several years ago when articles were being written about the urban decay in cities like Detroit , I remember wondering why those abandoned...