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'Lt "Lucky" Edwin Wright, just over 19 yrs. old, just returned from his 39th mission- over Munster. He got hit by flak but continued on his mission dropped his bombs, did a spot of strafing and returned. When he got back he found a hole 8ins. in diameter through his 11ins. diameter prop blade, caused by a direct hit from an ‘ack ack’ shell. If the shell had deviated an inch and a half either side, his blade would have severed and he would have been brought down. This is the 6th time that Wright has been hit by Flak and is now known as “Lucky Wright”. He has 5 and a half months of combat to his credit and 39 missions.’

Edwin Wright flew a total of 88 missions in P-47 Thunderbolts over Europe during WWII. He left the Army in 1946 and was again called up for the Korean Conflict in 1950. He retired from the US Air Force as a Major. Edwin Wright passed away in 1959, from lung cancer, age 34.

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US Army special forces operators with ground panoramic night vision optics.

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This church has been under construction for 138 years - The Basílica de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain was begun in 1882 with expected completion in 2026.

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A US Marine gives a cigarette to a Japanese soldier buried in the sand at the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.

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Garden City in Denmark

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Most people think the Mars Rovers are about the size of a coffee table... in fact they are much bigger..

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This is a Rotary Snowplow Train - used in Alaska for cleaning Train Tracks after heavy snow, built in 1899

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SS guard moments before he’s beaten to death with a shovel by Jewish prisoners after the liberation of Dachau.

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A Himalayan Griffon vulture showing off its fake eyes to intimidate predators.

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During WW2, a Great Dane named Juliana was awarded the Blue Cross Medal in 1941 after she extinguished an incendiary bomb by peeing on it.

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Wernher von Braun with the F-1 engines of the Saturn V rocket that took man to the moon.

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The Bourbon Tunnels, Naples Italy. Built in the 1800s as an escape route from the palace then used as a shelter during WW2. After the war impounded vehicles were stored there and then, apparently, forgotten.

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Stinking Corpse Flower that hasn't yet bloomed.

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A train car carrying corn had a leak...

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A body farm is a research facility where decomposition can be studied in a variety of settings. The initial one was conceived by anthropologist William M. Bass in 1971 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, where Bass was interested in studying the decomposition of a human corpse from the time of death to the time of decay. The aim was to gain a better understanding of the decomposition process, permitting the development of techniques for extracting information such as the timing and circumstances of death from human remains. Body farm research is of particular interest in forensic anthropology and related disciplines, and has applications in the fields of law enforcement and forensic science. By placing the bodies outside to face the elements, researchers are able to get a better understanding of the decomposition process.