Passing Strangeness

One of the rules of thumb for architectural megalomania is that you want to be a success before developing your ideas.

A picture of the now-lost painting Vinland the Year 1127 (or possibly 1117, sources differ) by Albinus Hasselgren, the original being painted c. 1908.

A section of Tokaido narabini Saigoku dochu ezu (1687) by Komaki Mino, showing a near-contemporary illustration of part of the coast along Sagami Bay where the puzzling tsunami of 1700 came ashore.

Photo from a contemporary newspaper account of the cylinder-slash-impromptu-coffin discovered on a Blitz rubble site in 1945.

The fourth test launch of the Magdeburg Rocket, which was actually the most successful of the early tests despite only traveling 300 meters–horizontally.

There have been three nuclear power plant meltdowns that have captured worldwide attention and left the general public with the opinion that nuclear power is too dangerous to rely upon.

Karl-Gösta Bartoll searching for a crashed Ghost Rocket on Lake Kölmjärv, 1946.

The Isles of Scilly as seen from the air.

The intrepid E.

The Ingá Stone, a possibly pre-Columbian set of petroglyphs found in Paraíba State, Brazil.