I don’t know anything about most of them but they seem very curious.

For example, I have found a lithography of the first machine that was able of recording sounds visually, called phonautograph. The problem of the machine was that it is not able of playing back recorded sounds. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html?_r=1.

I have post the phonautograph in first place. If you know something about these items please share it in comments, thank you.

All her creatures are hand sculpted, so there are no two alike and they are all available for purchase. Profile

First ones appeared in 9th or 10th century in eastern Persia and they were spread to Europe through Spain. These windmills were used to grind corn or draw up water, and quite different from the later European versions. They have played an important role on our history but probably we know about them because of Don Quixote scene attacking windmills that he believes to be ferocious giants. This gave international fame to La Mancha and its windmills, and is the origin of the phrase “tilting at windmills”, to describe an act of futility.

You could listen Don Quixote in Spanish (external link). Audiolibro en MP3 de Don Quijote en español

The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre on Bennelong Point in Sydney, Australia. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, who in 2003 received the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honour. The citation stated

There is no doubt that the Sydney Opera House is his masterpiece. It is one of the great iconic buildings of the 20th century, an image of great beauty that has become known throughout the world – a symbol for not only a city, but a whole country and continent.

The Opera House was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007. It is one of the world’s most distinctive 20th century buildings, and one of the most famous performing arts centres in the world.

[Wikipedia]

Opera is also a browser and at The Big Foto is reaching Internet Explorer share this month. Firefox is the king.

There is a flying Guiness record 27.6 seconds by Ken Blackburn and you can alsolearn about paper planes here and here.

I think it could be a good idea in this crisis time to rediscover new cheap ways of entertaiment and paper planes competitions can be funny (time flying, distance, design, races between 2 points,…), you can see an example in this set.

Many people visit this blog from social media sites (meneame, wykop, stumbleupon, …) so if someone want to organise any paper planes competition in any city of the world please send me photos, I will gladly publish them.

Have fun!

NASA is returning to the moon to build a sustainable long term human presence. The Constellation Program is building the Ares rockets and Orion crew capsule.

You can enjoy this music theme , Tranquility base, while the last mega animated gif loads.

Orient Express routes

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In this post we will remember the exotism of the old line and we are going to see what the orient express looks like nowadays, mainly with examples of the Venice Simplon Orient-Express. Play the video, the Orient Express is arriving…