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Croc Tail

Photograph by Mike Korostelev, National Geographic Your Shot

"I met this crocodile face-to-face underwater," writes Your Shot member Mike Korostelev. "There was only my underwater camera between it and me."

Having long dreamt of photographing a crocodile in its natural aquatic habitat, Korostelev traveled to Banco Chinchorro, Mexico, a biosphere reserve in the Caribbean Sea and a breeding ground for American crocodiles. "We lived in a fisherman's hut that stood right on the sea on stilts. During the day we searched for crocodiles, which swam out of mangroves to hunt fish. This one was quite friendly and showed its beauty all around."

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Two years ago, meat manufacturers were publicly flayed for using pink slime to beef up their products. And as disgusting as it is, our outrage might have been a little misdirected: Meat didn’t even make the cut when the Journal…

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Date: 15th century
Culture: South German
Medium: Copper alloy, silver, enamel
Dimensions: H. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm); W. 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm); D. 11/16 in. (1.7 cm)
Classification: Miscellaneous-Badges
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1904
Accession Number: 04.3.302

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Spiritual Roots

Photograph by Julian Bound, National Geographic Your Shot

On a tour of Wat Mahathat, a temple in Ayutthaya, Thailand, Your Shot member Julian Bound spotted a large stone Buddha head sitting encased in a tree. "Its roots are said to have grown around the sculpture during a time when the temple lay abandoned and overgrown," Bound writes. "Drawn to the uniqueness of the statue, I knelt down to take the shot as rich sunlight played across the Buddha's features, making sure to capture the ground before the tree to give depth and scale to the image."

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Offered without interpretation. Though in the process a thought I had once did return to be which I made into a Wondernode post (warning, this is a serious thought and contains no humor–proceed at your own risk). As always, comments on (well you guessed it) Facebook, are welcome.

“Are you the SAT because I’d do you for 3 hours and 45 minutes with a 10 minute break halfway through for snacks, and then I can stare at you for like 10 minutes and think ‘wow, I hope I don’t ruin this.’”

- Dude on OKC with the best pick up lines I have ever heard (via katamarang)

glamtr0n:

sam-and-dean-life:

lucifer-who:

ghdos:

I wish I had known about this when we had all that fucking snow this winter.

#do you wanna stab a snowman #it doesn’t have to be a snowman

it doesn’t have to be a snowman

OMG

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London-based creative team Bompas & Parr just staged a cookout on an artificial volcano, and our minds are officially blown. See what happens when 2,100°F molten liquid rock meets a a 10oz ribeye in the video below. The duo worked with professor Robert Wysock…

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What do whales eat?

Fish and ships.

psychophancy:

You meet a man on the Oregon Trail. He tells you his name is Terry. You laugh and tell him, “That’s a girl’s name!” Terry shoots you. You have died of dissin’ Terry.

I was walking up Wythe Ave in Williamsburg last week when something caught my eye…

Wait for it…

Getting closer…

Almost there…

And here it is: the fanciest mouse hole in New York City, featuring a Federal-style doorway complete with pilasters and a pediment!

Alas, a scan of the code in the doorknocker area reveals it not to be the entrance to the greatest mouse house ever, but instead, a street ad for performance artist Cynthia von Buhler’s Speakeasy Dollhouse project, an immersive theatrical show.

Apparently, these have been showing up around town for the past few years. I knocked, but no one was home.

-SCOUT

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pumpkin spice candles soon

pumpkin lattes soon

pumpkin everything

#ITS STILL JULY YOU ANIMALS

There are many brave warriors history remembers fondly—Achilles, William Wallace, my Aunt Betty who braved Black Friday in San Diego last year and got two iPads for the price of one—but now, there is finally a hero who trumps them all.

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Spotted

Photograph by Logan Watts, National Geographic Your Shot

A leopard gingerly crosses the branch of an acacia tree in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. We were almost back to camp when someone in our party spotted this solitary leopard from well over a hundred meters, writes Your Shot member Logan Watts. As we slowly approached, it seemed relaxed and began to move up a branch in profile. The dappled foliage and powerful limbs of the acacia paired with the spotted muscular pose of the cat seemed fitting for black and white.

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Here is a short list of some rather unknown but really special places on earth to add to your ‘must see’ list. The last few sites are absolutely magnificent.

Swarovski Crystal Worlds, Innsbruck, Austria

The Swarovski Crystal Worlds (Swarovski Kristallwelten) is a museum, located in Wattens (Austria). The museum was built in 1995 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Austria based crystal company Swarovski

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The Peacock Room In Castello du Sammezzano Regello, Tuscany

It’s hard to believe that this jaw-dropping room is located in an abandoned castle in Tuscany, Italy. Built in 1605 and once housed kings, Sammezzano Castle now sits atop a hill in a Tuscan oak tree grove. [Some More Amazing Castles]

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Giant’s Causeway, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

The Giant’s Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.

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Rock tombs in Myra, Lycia, Turkey

The city of Myra is well known for its amphitheatre (the largest in Lycia) and the plethora of rock-cut tombs carved in the cliff .

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Ristorante Grotta Palazzese, Polignano, Italy

Housed in the rock, overlooking the Adriatic Sea, Hotel Ristorante Grotta Palazzese Polignano a Mare is located in a stunning landscape of rocks and caves that have wowed visitors since the ancient times.

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Le Mont-Saint-Michel, France

Mont Saint-Michel is an island commune in Normandy, France

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Taormina, Sicily, Italy

Taormina is a a very popular tourist destination on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, in the Province of Messina, about midway between Messina and Catania.

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Phraya Nakhon cave, Pranburi, Thailand

One of Thailand’s most beautiful and certainly the most photographed one caves

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The Singing Ringing Tree, Lancashire, England

The Singing Ringing Tree is a wind powered sound sculpture resembling a tree set in the landscape of the Pennine hill range overlooking Burnley, in Lancashire, England.

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Mitchell Falls, Australia

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Bolwoningen, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

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Huacachina, Peruvian Desert

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Pamukkale, Turkey

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Pangong Tso Lake, India

Pangong Tso, Tibetan for “long, narrow, enchanted lake”, also referred to as Pangong Lake, is an endorheic lake in the Himalayas situated at a height of about 4,350 m. It is 134 km long and extends from India to Tibet.

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The Zhangye Danxia China

Zhangye Danxia Landform is geological park in the Gansu Province in China.

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The Craig Goch Dam in Wales.

The Craig Goch Dam, often called the Top dam, is a masonry dam in the Elan Valley of Wales.

The health-conscious community can be ready to welcome a new and highly desirable product into its arms: a “Paleo” bacon, designed and packaged by Reebok. News of this will be especially comforting to followers of the Paleo Diet, who eat only…

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Surf and Turf

Photograph by Joe Hsu

A surfer rides a wave as it crashes onto the shore at Palm Beach in New South Wales, Australia, giving the ocean an otherworldly appearance. Palm Beach, a northern suburb of Sydney, is home to two Surf Life Saving clubsone dating back to 1921.

This photo and caption were submitted to the 2014 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. Winners will be announced July 31.

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I’ll never forget the day I first spotted the 19th century West Village farmhouse that shouldn’t exist.

I was driving down Greenwich Street when I happened to glance over and notice a strange little building poking through the trees.

I pulled over and headed down Charles Street…

…and came upon what has to be the single most unusual house in all of Manhattan:

This is 121 Charles Street, a Manhattan farmhouse believed to date to the early 1800s. And, as reported in the news last week, there is now a very sad possibility it could soon be torn down and replaced by a modern development.

The farmhouse, known to some as Cobble Court, is actually a transplant to the Village, having been moved here from its original location at 71st and York Ave. Little is known about its past, though it is believed to have been a restaurant in the early 1900s, and later, the studio of Margaret Wise Brown, who you probably know for having written this book (among over a hundred others)…

By the 1960s, the farmhouse was being rented by a couple, the Bernhards, when the Archdiocese of New York purchased it and the surrounding properties, to be demolished for the creation of a nursing home. Though the archdiocese tried to pay the Bernhards to leave, the couple had fallen in love with the farmhouse and weren’t interested in the money. Finally, an agreement was reached: they would leave, but only if they could take the house with them.

Jack Manning / The NY Times

And so, on March 5th, 1967, the farmhouse was loaded onto a flatbed and brought to a vacant lot off of Greenwich Street, which the Bernhards had purchased for $30,000. As the truck pulled away, Mrs. Bernhard exclaimed “It’s saved! It’s saved!”

Jack Manning / The NY Times

To me, 121 Charles Street is one of the most charming residences in the city.

Everywhere you look, the house seems to delight in the merging of the most unlikely angles imaginable.

It’s almost as if, after being dropped into place, the house let out a sigh and slumped down into its final, very relaxed resting spot.

The Bernhards even transported the original cobblestones from the property…

…and put up an extra wide gate because Mrs. Bernhard didn’t want passersby to feel embarrassed for looking.

The house features a beautiful garden typically overflowing with flowers, along with two Concord grape trees, a sour cherry tree, two fig trees, a magnolia and a dogwood…

…and could this be the only front door doggy flap in Manhattan??

In 1988, the house was purchased by its current owners who, according to this 2008 NY Times profile, seemed to be as enchanted with the the property as the Bernhards. As detailed in the piece, they worked hard to restore it, with a small addition earning them an award from the Greenwich Village Historical Society. One of the owners even gushes about first falling in love with the property when driving past as a child, thinking whoever lived there to be “the luckiest man in New York.”

Then, something very unexpected appeared on the internet a week or two ago: a real estate listing for the property as a $20,000,000 development site:

There is not a single mention of the farmhouse in the entire listing. Instead, the property is described as a “4,868 square foot lot creating a large blank canvas for a developer or user to execute a wide variety of potential visions, from boutique condominiums, apartments or a one-of-a-kind townhouse” (as you can see above, the “blank canvas” line was later removed).

The backlash came quickly. The Daily News ran several stories, picked up by Daily Mail, Gothamist and WPIX.

Then, on July 18th, Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, wrote an intelligent and strongly worded letter condemning the possible destruction of the farmhouse, noting that “because this structure is located within a designated historic district, no changes can be made to it without a long public hearing process and ultimately the approval of the Landmarks Preservation Commission.”

Since then, it appears the listing has been taken down (you can still read the archived original here). Not sure what this means, if anything, but if you’ve never had the pleasure of peering through the gates at 121 Charles Street, I highly recommend you take a look (while it’s still there).

I’ll keep you posted on this one. Let’s hope this little farmhouse’s 200+ year string of good luck continues for another century or so…

-SCOUT