This is the Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation located inside Mount Pony in Culpeper, Virginia. From 1969 to 1988, the campus was a high-security storage facility operated by the Federal Reserve Board. The facility was decommissioned in 1992 and was transformed into the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. Today it stores 6.3 million pieces of the library's movie, television, and sound collection.
Sometimes our world is a cruel and a sad place, but it takes only one small act of kindness to restore our faith in humanity, inspire us and show us that there is always a chance to make things better.
This guy decided to recreate several scenes form famous movies by visiting their exact locations. Here is how it turned out.
"Terminator 2: Judgment Day" was released in 1991 and became an immediate hit. Let's see how the iconic movie locations have changed in the last 25 years.
Here is the report of The Economist Intelligence Unit about the 9 most expensive cities to live in the world. Such factors as food costs, fuel costs, and salaries were taken into account.
They've come a long way...
QS has published its annual ranking of universities. The universities around the world has been ranked since 2013 evaluating their academic reputation, employer reputation, student-to-faculty ratio, and international reputation. QS used a points system with 100 being the highest score. Overall, 400 universities were ranked throughout the world. Here are the top 30.
Let’s commemorate these men and women who built this country with their own hands.
There are tunnels all along the 2,000-mile frontier between the US and Mexico that were dug by drug traffickers. They are also used for illegal immigration. Journalist Ioan Grillo said “The Mexico-US border is like a block of cheese with holes in it, with tunnels across it.”
Prora is a beach resort on the island of Rügen, Germany, known especially for its colossal Nazi-planned tourist structures. The enormous building complex was built between 1936 and 1939 as a Strength Through Joy project. The eight buildings were identical, and although they were planned as a holiday resort, they were never used for this purpose. The complex has a formal heritage listing as a particularly striking example of Third Reich architecture.
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