By Jonathan Bean http://ift.tt/1MFqT3C
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photos from dubai’s 828 meter tall burj khalifa (save the first and last photos, which show the building) by (click pic) daniel cheong, karim nafatni, bjoern lauen and dave alexander. duabai only experiences this in september and march, when seasonal changes in temperature creates an abundance of early morning fog. (see also: fog over new york, london and chicago)
Valley of Colour by Sam_C_Moore on Flickr.
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The rotating updraft base of a supercell thunderstorm is pictured against the setting sun in Climax, Kansas, US.
Credit: Stephen Locke/Barcroft Media, found at The Guardian.
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This photograph, snapped by an astronaut aboard the ISS on December 12, 2013, shows a white flash of lightning amidst the yellow city lights of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Photo credit: NASA. Found at The Atlantic, InFocus.
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A long exposure shows lightning in the sky with reflection in the water on the floor of a building under construction during an evening thunderstorm on May 19, 2014 in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.
Photo credit: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images, found at The Atlantic, InFocus.
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Mangiabarche. Lighthouse Mangiabarche (eater of boats) A very wild coast off Calasetta, Sardinia, Italy.
Photo by Enrico Puddu.
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Exploring Dublin’s Long Room
To view more photos and videos from Dublin’s Trinity College Library, explore the Long Room location page.
Measuring 65 meters (213 feet) in length and housing more than 200,000 of Ireland’s oldest books, the Long Room at Trinity College Library in Dublin stands as a historical and cultural masterpiece.
The library is the largest in Ireland and dates back to the establishment of the university college in 1592. It holds more than 6 million printed works spanning 400 years.
The Long Room was originally built with a flat ceiling, but it was expanded to accommodate upper shelves and a gallery in the 1850s after the library was given legal deposit status in 1801, meaning it receives free copies of all material published in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
In addition to the numerous written works housed within the library, the Long Room also boasts marble busts of great philosophers, writers and artists as well as Ireland’s oldest harp.
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My brother and I had a brief outing into an area we had not explored in years and years. We used to sneak off down here when we were kids. Funny how reality offers a different interpretation than our memory serves us.
