July 25, 2010
The striking photograph reproduced above shows a curious work of Nature near Thunder Mountain, Idaho, U.S.A. This gigantic monolith is eighty feet high, and about ten or twelve feet square at the base, tapering towards the top to about seven feet or less. The great rock poised on the top is estimated to weigh fully [...]
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June 19, 2010
News magazine 1895:
“The Tchankats are shepherds of Landes, in France, a race who passed their lives on stilts, crossing rivers and forests full of venomous snakes without danger. They have now almost died out, and Sylvain Dornon, whose portrait we give, is one of the last of the tribe. He made himself notorious by walking [...]
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