Construction of Las Vegas in the early 59

Howard photographer Kelly surprised at UN Flight over the Nevada desert, Las Vegas Beginning his version. Are photographed famous buildings, including hotels Care Stardust, Flamingo, Sands, Tropicana, Thunderbird, Riviera, Dunes, New Frontier Showboat, and in another picture you can see Bonanza Airport.

Some photos from Warsaw captured in 1947 after the war

In 1947, Henry N. Cobb, a student of architecture in the U.S., started a study of Europe devastated by World War II. Cobb has developed a special passion for Warsaw, the city almost completely destroyed by the Nazis and wanted to contribute to its reconstruction but did not get because of the outbreak of the Cold War.

Following the uprising in Warsaw in 1944, started the resistance movement during the Nazi occupation of Poland, Hitler decided to ignore the terms of the surrender of Poland and ordered the city to be razed to the ground and the collections of museums and libraries to content be transported to Germany to be burned

Warsaw were blown special troops known as Verbrennungs-und Vernichtungskommando (Detachments burning and destruction). The Polish capital was 85% destroyed.

In 2011, the firm of architects Henry N. Cobb owned was chosen to collaborate on the design of buildings in Warsaw. The Cobb visited the Polish capital after more than 60 years and brought with him the photos he made in 1947 and no one knew the only color photographs Warsaw in ruins.

Photos taken 150 years ago the American West

Having documented the American Civil War (1861-1865), photographer Timothy H. O'Sullivan started a journey to the west, and came back with some priceless pictures, probably the first photos of the legendary "Wild West" American.

O'Sullivan's Journey to the West is part of a series of expeditions funded by the U.S. government, which took place from 1867 to 1869. These expeditions took part scientists, soldiers, artists and photographers who had the common task to discover ways in which they could be used with natural resources. O'Sullivan's contribution was to photograph the enormity of this land.

În imaginile sale apar nativi americani, dar și colonizatori de-abia ajunși acolo, dar care deja își lăsau amprenta asupra regiunii. Dar mai mult decât orice, O’Sullivan a reușit să imortalizeze în fotografiile sale frumusețea vestului american de la mijlocul secolului XIX. Let us remember the collection of books written by Karl May ...

Iceland is known as the 'Land of Fire and Ice'

The monstrous ice sculptures that rise from the ground perfectly reflect the heated red color shining from the sunset behind.

When snow and blizzard takes over ..

A snowstorm pushed into New England on Tuesday, with the potential to snarl the evening commute, after causing widespread school and government closures in the nation's capital and elsewhere along the Eastern seaboard. With snow totals measured in inches instead of feet, the storm was more nuisance than menace, but it was timed to hit morning and afternoon commutes in the densely populated Northeast.