This is a real photograph, not a painting as it might have seemed at the first glance.
Chinese explorer Zheng He's ship in comparison with Columbus’s ship. Zheng He was born in 1371, and Columbus was born 80 years later.
The Emirates Airbus 380 being hit by lightning. Fortunately, the Emirates service from Dubai landed safely minutes later, with not even a scratch and its 500 passengers and crew unscathed.
Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space in 1961.
A hot air balloon moves through the sky as the sun shines in the eastern German city of Dresden
That’s the true distance from the Earth to the Moon, which seems so deceptively close. The scale is saved.
Cubans participate in the May Day parade on May 1, 2011, at Revolution Square in Havana.
A bull jumps over Spanish matador Miguel Angel Perera when he falls during a bullfight in The Maestranza bullring in Seville.
Barack Obama and his national security team watch the military operations during which Osama Bin Laden died.
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant three days after the explosion in April, 1986. In front of the chimney is the destroyed 4th reactor.
A bungee jumper dressed in a rabbit costume dives to celebrate Good Friday in Kuta, Bali.
This is how the rain looks like when you’re up there.
The sand veil over Beijing. It’s been the third time that sandstorms shrouded the capital of China.
This tree, called Stratosphere Giant, was the world's tallest tree until it was trumped 9 years ago. With its 369 feet high (112 meters), it was about twice the size of the Statue of Liberty (without the foundation). The people who found this tree ever revealed its true location but it was situated somewhere in Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
Cave on the Yucatán Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico.
What would a sunrise on another planet look like?
Apprentice lineman J.D. Thompson is breathing life into the mouth of another apprentice lineman, R.G
Goal celebration by Wayne Rooney from Manchester United.
Severe weather moves in over the vehicle assembly building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida March 31, 2011.
Residual water ice on the floor of Vastitas Borealis Crater on Mars.
The Catacombs of Paris are a famous underground ossuary in Paris, France.
The underground cemetery is popular tourist attraction. This chamber is called "beach."
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