Model Making at Its Best
The P-51D Mustang model was built by Young C Park who surprisingly is a dentist by nature. Built exactly like the original plane, it is on a 1/16 scale. Like you can imagine, a lot of hours of work has gone into it. He has worked for 6000 hours in a span of three years [...]
Barack Obama Transportation
Air Force One is the official air traffic control call sign of any United States Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States. Since 1990, the presidential fleet has consisted of two specifically configured, highly customized Boeing 747-200B series aircraft – tail codes Special Air Mission (SAM) “28000″ and SAM “29000″ – with [...]
Leech Farm
An employee of the International Medical Leech Centre demonstrates with a leech on her face in the village of Udelnaya, some 30 km (18.6 miles) from Moscow, December 4, 2009. The leech farm makes a tidy profit shipping them to doctors worldwide. Like many discarded elements of traditional medicine, they have made a come-back as [...]
Disney Sketchbook Jigsaw Puzzles
Disney Sketchbook Puzzle reflects a series of drawings which were created for each character and each movie that would help the animator consistently maintain the integrity of each and every character. Snow White’s hair appears perfect even when sleeping is just one of many instructions for maintaining the elegance and beauty of this Disney Princess.
CIA Spy Tricks
For decades, rumors of top-secret “magic” manuals swirled within CIA circles. The long-lost guides were said to have been written by a prominent magician, but many officers dismissed them as myth, believing them too fantastical to be true. But in 2007, retired CIA officer Robert Wallace unearthed an extraordinary archived file and is now making [...]
World Oldest Music Instrument
The Divje Babe flute is a cave bear femur pierced by spaced holes that was found at the Divje Babe archeological park located near Cerkno in northwestern Slovenia. It has been suggested that it is the world’s oldest known musical instrument, but this is in dispute. The continuing dispute notwithstanding, the artifact remains on prominent [...]
