When you think of urban landscapes a 19th-century windmill is probably not the first image that comes to mind. Yet in the English city of Nottingham, the century-old Green’s Mill is a prominent fixture of the city skyline. More interesting still, it once had a very unlikely owner.

Green’s Mill was built by a local baker named George Green in 1807. Upon his death, his son, also named George, inherited the mill reluctantly. While working for his father in his younger days, George described operating the mill as “tedious.”

It’s not surprising that operating a windmill didn’t appeal to George Green Jr, as by the time his father died in 1829, the younger Green had published an essay that would eventually establish him as one of the most important names in the field of mathematical physics. Entitled “An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism,” the essay would come to be known as his seminal work, better known as Green’s Theorem.

Lítla Dímun is the smallest of the Faroe Islands’ 18 main islands. But though it may be tiny, the islet still has the power to influence the atmosphere.

The first fortress to stand on this site in the Norman city of Falaise was built in the 10th century by a Viking chieftain whose descendants went on to become the Francisized Normans. According to a popular legend, it was a century later, in the year 1027, that a young girl named Herleva had a terrifying and prophetic nightmare from which she would awake screaming

Herleva had weeks before been seduced by Robert the Duke of Normandy and was pregnant with her first child. In her feverish dream, a gigantic tree burst from her stomach. Its gnarled roots sprouted from her corpse and spread across Normandy like the tentacles of one of the Kraken monsters of Norse myth. The tree’s trunk towered into the sky as its colossal branches reached across the channel, casting an ominous shadow over England like the claws of a ravenous beast preparing to pounce on the country.

Several months later Herleva would give birth to a son that she named William. The child would be called “William the bastard” for much of his youth, due to both the circumstances of his birth and his temperament. But despite these humble and stigmatized origins, William would one day conquer the Anglo Saxons and become the King of England. He founded a dynasty that lasted many centuries and transformed the political, economic, military, social, and linguistic history of Western Europe.

In the wake of the conquest of England, the Normans never truly forgot their origins in this region of France. In 1123, the son of William, King Henry I of England, returned to Normandy and began work to rebuild the castle where his father had been born. The fortress was strengthened in its defensive capabilities and towers and keeps were added, resulting in the impressive edifice that can be seen today.

But the descendants of the conqueror were a fiercely argumentative and bloodthirsty bunch. For centuries the royal relatives fought each other savagely over disputes and power on both sides of the channel. The castle was the setting of fighting, torture, intrigue, and murder; it was in Falaise that King John of England had his nephew Arthur the Duke of Brittany imprisoned and murdered for the twin crimes of plotting to overthrow him and besieging the castle of their own grandmother, Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Later in its history, the castle witnessed countless battles between the armies of France and England throughout the Hundred Years’ War, with a seemingly endless cycle of violence occurring here. It was the backdrop for a great many sieges during this period and both armies occupied the castle at different times of the war. Evidence of this can be seen in much of the graffiti carved into the buildings by bored French or English soldiers.

After the medieval age, when castles and knights were replaced with more technologically advanced forms of warfare, the chateau lost its significance and was abandoned. It remained in a derelict state for several centuries until it received recognition as a historical monument in the 1800s and underwent restoration. Fierce bombing during the Second World War later destroyed or damaged much of the structure, but most of the castle remains intact, and is now a museum open to visitors.

Авачинская бухта - несомненно, одно из чудес России. Это вторая по величине бухта в мире, по площади лишь немного уступающая бухте Гуанабара, по берегам которой находится Рио-де-Жанейро.

"Паллада" - учебный трёхмачтовый фрегат, принадлежащий Дальневосточному государственному техническому рыбохозяйственному университету (Владивосток). Парусник был построен в Польше на Гданьской судоверфи в 1989 году и назван в честь фрегата «Паллада» русского военного флота, который в 1852—1855 годах под командованием капитана И.С.Унковского совершил с дипломатической миссией вице-адмирала Е.В.Путятина плавание из Кронштадта через Атлантический, Индийский и Тихий океаны к берегам Японии. В этом рейсе участвовал писатель И.А.Гончаров. Трехмачтовое судно построено по прототипу парусных судов начала XX века. 26 парусов управляются исключительно вручную и являются основным движителем судна. Два двигателя служат для плавания в штормовых условиях, а также при входе и выходе из порта. "Паллада" - один из самых быстроходных парусников мира. В настоящее время фрегат используется как парусное учебное и как научно-исследовательское судно.

Вдали виден Вилючинск - закрытый город, где находится база атомных подводных лодок.

2 года жизни похоронил в этой бухте и окрестностях, что б ей пусто....

милитаризмъ и армейская депортация

в любом случае это не рио-де жанейро, как пишут в предисловии, это гораздо хуже

Я никогда не мог понять гордости за нацию. Как по мне, гордость должна относиться к чему-то, чего ты сам достиг, а не к тому, что вышло случайно. Быть ирландцем — это не умение, а сраная случайность. Ты же не скажешь «Я горжусь, что родился 16 мая» или «Я горжусь предрасположенностью к раку толстой кишки». Так какого х** ты гордишься тем, что ты американец, ирландец или прочая шваль?

Что самое замечательное в доме на побережье? Вы окружены мудаками только с трех сторон.

В Техасе, например, разрешена смертная казнь. Знаете, что мне в этом нравится? Меньше техасцев.

Планета в порядке, это людям п....

да, там полный набор. в любом случае это не рио-де жанейро, как пишут в предисловии, это гораздо хуже

действительность слегка не такая

по-видимому, Аляске повезло с продажей...

а вот где поистине армагедон и полный каюк всему я наблюдал из окна вагона, так это в нижегородском дзержинске. вот где концентрированный и качественный срач. я когда увидел это, да еще когда так долго едешь вдоль сифака химического и кромешного, не верил, что такое возможно в центре родины. кошмар. как там владимировичи выживают, непонятна)

Built in the 9th century as part of the medieval fortifications of Padua, the tower then known as Torlonga was used for centuries as a prison and torture hall. In the 14th century, it became part of the new castle of the ruling Carraresi family and was decorated with red and white paintings, which have sadly faded away with the centuries.

The castle was later abandoned and the tower was used as a warehouse for grain, straw, hay, and to store weapons and ammunition. The fate of the Torlonga changed when the government decided that Padua University needed an astronomical observatory, and that the Torlonga, the tallest structure in Padua, was the ideal place. In the 18th century, new observation towers were added above the structure, and the name was changed to La Specola.