Aircraft carrier landings pose danger: A crewman on the USS Enterprise scrambles to help the pilot of a burning F6F Hellcat, which crashed on the flight deck during operations off Makin Island. Flying on and off the heaving carrier decks was hazardous under the best of circumstances. One miscalculation could send the plane hurtling into the crash barrier at the end of the deck, or over the side. The process was also dangerous for the deck crews, known as "deck apes," who were exposed to everything from crash landings and spinning props to loose bombs. As one seaman remarked, "every landing was a potential casualty."

Beheadings performed behind Japanese lines in New Guinea: Naval civil service officer Chikao Yasuno prepares to decapitate Sergeant Leonard George Siffleet, an Australian Army radioman caught operating behind Japanese lines in New Guinea. Siffleet and two comrades were beheaded on October 24, 1943, at Aitape after natives betrayed them to the Japanese. American troops found this film on the body of a dead Japanese man during the invasion of Hollandia in 1944. The photo received wide publicity, reinforcing the perception that the Japanese were savages who gave no mercy and deserved none. Chikao was sentenced to hang after the war, but his sentence was later commuted to 10 years in prison.

Nairobi, Kenya, March 17, 2009--Four thousand weapons are burned by Kenyan police.

The weapons, confiscated over a two-year period, were used in criminal activities, the Associated Press reported.

frilled shark spotted by a fisher on January 21, 2007 near Japan

Vybuch podmořské sopky u pobřeží souostroví Tonga.



http://zpravy.idnes.cz/pacifik-chrlil-popel-a-dym-pod-hladinou-vybuchla-sopka-podivejte-se-1fj-/zahranicni.asp?c=A090319_112648_zahranicni_zra

nova galerie: http://alef.rajce.idnes.cz/souvislosti/

Sony World Photography Awards 2009: amateur winners




Tony has been addicted to heroin for 25 years. He contracted AIDS as a result of his addiction and his health is rapidly declining. Here he eats cream pie that I bought in an attempt to get him to eat




This Lesser Adjutant executes a perfect landing on a disused wooden pile. Because of its size, not all landings are perfect


a cela galerie

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/5006330/Sony-World-Photography-Awards-2009-amateur-winners.html

Sony World Photography Awards 2009: professional finalists


jeden za vsechny..




a cela galerie

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/5005988/Sony-World-Photography-Awards-2009-professional-finalists.html

Info: http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel

ALI_EN:

shanghai metro system v roce 2020
http://www.allroadsleadtochina.com/index.php/2009/02/24/shanghai-metro-map-2020-coool/

2020_shanghai_metro.jpg (737783 B)

Moscow, Russia. A winter shot from an airplane.

Záplavy v Moskvě 1908

http://englishrussia.com/?p=904

Twendy-One demonstrates its ability to hold delicate objects by manipulating a drinking straw between its fingers at the Department of Mechanical Engineering laboratory in Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. The sophisticated robot has been developed by the university's team, led by Dr. Shigeki Sugano, in hope of supporting people in aging societies. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)