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Navy divers recover US bombs from Great Barrier Reef

A joint Australian-US Navy dive team recovered bombs dropped by American forces on the Great Barrier Reef during a training exercise in a delicate deep-sea operation, officials said Sunday.<p>The divers attached balloons to pull the two unarmed GBU-12 laser guided bombs to the surface in a two day …

Doctors pulled out rotten teeth instead of helping brain injury man

A man died from a brain haemorrhage after hospital bosses refused to reassign staff brought in to operate on rotten teeth – delaying his treatment by four days.<p>Despite calls from consultant neurosurgeon Dr Roger Hunter for doctors to be diverted from their scheduled weekend list to help treat …

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Military Puts Rape Accusers on Trial

5 Most Popular Pins on Pinterest This Week: Bold Kitchen Cabinets, A Chic Striped Bed, and More

Bold kitchen cabinets, a chic striped bed, & more.<p>What's popular on Pinterest right now? This week it's kitchen cabinets with a bright color, a small space trick, and a bed with a bold stripe. For more design inspiration, follow House Beautiful's Pinterest boards.

Modern Storage Solutions For Spices – 10 Rack Design Ideas

Maybe it doesn’t seem like an imperative thing to have in your kitchen, but a spice rack can be a very useful addition. It’s a great way of keeping …

Visualizations by Triple D Visuals

The following is a collection of visualizations created by Triple D Visuals.<p>They envision sophisticated residences with elegant juxtapositions of …

Remodelista - Sourcebook for the Considered Home

Founded in 1995, Slant Studio’s projects range in scale from houses to live/work conversions to residential and commercial interiors. We work in a …

Incredible Charcoal Drawings Textured with Scalpel Blades and Sandpaper

Scottish artist Douglas McDougall creates fantastically photorealistic drawings using charcoal as his primary medium but then he textures each work using scalpel blades, sharply cut erasers and coarse sandpaper. The detail to each piece is mind-blowing, especially when it comes to facial hair and …

Creative ‘Hyperlapse Postcard’ Takes You on a Tour of the Country of Georgia

Although it shares a name with a certain state about 90-miles east of where I live, the country of Georgia couldn’t be more different in every other …

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Welcome to the third installment of #ArtThursday! Today we make our way to National Harbor in Prince George's County, Maryland, home of "The Awakening." This dramatic sculpture, created in 1980 by J. Seward Johnson, Jr., is made of five separate pieces to give the impression of a giant struggling to free himself from the earth. The tallest piece of the aluminum sculpture is the arm, which extends 17 feet (5.2 meters) into the air. To see more photos of "The Awakening," tap the blue location link above. Photo by @heyterri.

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5 Cars That Defined the Woodie—and the 5 Worst Woodies Ever Made

Once the mark of quality craftsmanship, wood paneling on cars became a phony vinyl travesty in the 70s and 80s. We remember the glory days of the woodie—and the ignominious era of faux wood.<p>In the earliest days of the automobile, creating steel stampings for bodies was more expensive than making …

Four-Wheeled Future: Volkswagen Builds the World’s Most Fuel-Efficient Car, but You Can’t Buy It

The VW XL1 is a paragon of petroleate parsimony, wringing from a gallon of gas a travel distance of 261 miles. Just to put that in perspective, that means that this two-seat, limited-production, diesel/electric-hybrid automobile can go <i>three times</i> as far on four quarts of compressed dinosaur juice …