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The oldest known selfie. (1839) Robert Cornelius took this photo outside the store his family owned. It became famous for being the first self portrait or as its commonly now known, a "selfie." People posing next to the Statue of Liberty as it's unpacked. (1886) This funny portrait of a woman was taken while she was mid-sneeze. (1900) A "knocker-up" waking up clients - the early 20th century version of alarm clocks. Nine kings gather to mourn the death of King Edward VII (1910). This may very well be the most kings ever photographed at once. Represented are Norway, Bulgaria, Portugal, the German Empire, Greece, Belgium, Spain, Great Britain, and Denmark. Before automatic pinsetters were invented, "pin boys" worked to manually line them up. (1914). Sarcastic photo taken by anti-prohibitionists to mock their opponents in 1919. A police officer on a Harley and an old fashioned mobile holding cell. (1921) An early example of "horsemanning", the 1920's version of "planking". Two winners of a 1922 Beauty Pageant, when beauty standards were much different. An beach official measures bathing suits to ensure they aren't too short (1920s) Suits were not allowed to end more than 6 inches above the knee. A couple enjoys an old fashioned zipline on a weekend afternoon. (1923) This bizarre helmet supposedly helped focus by rendering the wearer deaf, piping them full of oxygen, and limiting their vision to a tiny slit. (1925) A mildly terrifying 1920s full faced swimming mask designed to protect women from the sun. Hitler rehearsing his speeches in front of a mirror (1925). The LA Public Library’s bookmobile program for the sick. (1928) A zookeeper gives penguins a delightful shower from a watering can. (1930) The One Wheel Motorcycle, capable of reaching a top speed of 93 mph. (1931) How makers of the famous London Double-Decker buses proved they weren't a tipping hazard. (1933) Baby cages for 1930s apartment families who wanted their children to get enough sunlight. The iconic photo of a concerned pea-picker and mother of seven children during the Dust Bowl (1936) These glasses were specifically made for reading in bed The 1930's version of a GPS: This auto scrolling map was supposed to help people with directions in real time. Model T "Elevator Garage" in Chicago. (1936) Salvador Dalí and Coco Chanel sharing a smoke. (1938) "Face Cones": a fashionable way to protect oneself during snowstorms (1939). A bicycle that fits a family of four, including a sewing machine. (1939). Babies wearing the gas mask hood system during a 1940 London bombing drill. WWII soldiers get their last kiss before deployment. A tiny puppy sleeping comfortably between Russian soldiers. (1945) An Austrian boy couldn't be more excited about his first pair of new shoes in years. (1946) A baby bear drinks a bowl of honey in a cafe. (1950) A man dresses up his dog in a suit, then puts a cat in his lap. (1950s) An ice-cold whisky dispenser, sometimes found in offices. (1950s) The winner of the 1950 "Miss Atomic Bomb" pageant. The winner of the 1950 "Miss Atomic Bomb" pageant. The Afghanistan government was shifting towards democracy in the 1950s and 60s before the Taliban took over. Women could work, become educated, dress casually and use many of the modern day services that men could. A young Paul McCartney takes a mirror selfie. (1959) [Colorized] Young women hosting a 1950s house party. Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial. (1959) Fritz the bulldog, a TV celebrity, is groomed by a barber. (1961) The Cat-Mew Machine. (1963) This Japanese machine meows times per minute to scare away rats and mice. The eyes light up too. A young woman takes her pet lobster out for a walk. Young boy attending Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech, 28th Aug 1963. The "TV Glasses" that never quite caught on. (1963) "The Kiss of Life". This iconic photo shows a utility worker receiving mouth-to-mouth after being electrocuted. He survived. (1967). A young Osama Bin Laden with his family in Sweden during the 1970s. He is second from the right in a green shirt. Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham playing volleyball in 1971. A cat poses for a cigarette card, found in Army Club Cigarettes. (1932)

Construction of the E-ELT monster telescope starts on Thursday (Today) with the blasting of a million tonnes of rock from a mountain top. Cerro Armazones in the Atacama Desert, which will be decapitated to make way for the European Extremely Large Telescope. Between 17:30 and 19:30 BST, the European Southern Observatory will blast the top off Cerro Armazones, a 3,000-metre-high mountain in the Chilean Andes. And the world can watch it happen live via the player embedded below. Almost a million tonnes of rock will be blown away in the detonation. This will lower the mountain top by 40 metres and provide a plateau on which to build the world’s largest telescope. The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is aptly named. It will be a single telescope with a primary mirror 39 metres across. This is almost four times as large as any other telescope yet constructed. It will collect light about 15 times faster than any other telescope, and will create images 16 times sharper than even the Hubble Space Telescope. The primary mirror itself will not be a single circular slab of glass and aluminium. Instead it will consist of 789 1.4-metre hexagonal mirror segments that will be fitted and held together like kitchen tiles. It will search for the as-yet unseen first galaxies to form in the universe, and be able to make direct observations of nearby planets around other stars. However you look at the E-ELT, it is a monster; a truly ambitious science project for the 21st century. I stood on the peak of Cerro Armazones last December. As I arrived, after an hour’s off-road driving through the Atacama desert and a final hair-raising rally up the side of the mountain itself, my phone suddenly sprang into life. Days’ worth of text messages came home to roost, having been stored somewhere in the cyber-ether, because for most of the trip I had been beyond reach of a phone signal. I’d been staying on the remote Cerro Paranal, a few mountain tops away, where ESO had built their previous record-holding telescope. The Very Large Telescope (VLT) consists of four eight-metre wide telescopes that began operating in 1998. This was preceded by a similar mountain-top blasting to create a flat surface on which to build. The Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) will have a primary mirror 39 metres across, almost four times as large as any other telescope yet constructed. It will create images 16 times sharper than even the Hubble Space Telescope. Photograph: ESO I could see the four silver buildings of the VLT shining in the distance, and I tried to imagine what the planned dome of the E-ELT will look like from Paranal. It will be an extraordinary sight. About the height of London’s Big Ben, it will be twice as high and four times as wide as each VLT dome. It will dominate the mountain top. It represents much more than just science. The UK contribution to the E-ELT is administered by the Science & Technology Facilities Council. In a press release, Professor Colin Cunningham, who leads the UK E-ELT Programme, said, “The E-ELT is one of the highest priorities for [the council] – not only will it be the world’s pre-eminent astronomical observatory for many years to come, it also presents a great opportunity for UK industry, requiring innovative technologies, from engineering to software and instrumentation, both in terms of building this state-of the-art facilities as well as in its ongoing operation.” So far, more than £9m in contracts have been secured for the UK. These include one awarded to Glyndwr University in North Wales, which is supplying prototypes for the hexagonal mirror segments. While it is certain that E-ELT will indeed be a major facility for the foreseeable future, there will come a time when a larger telescope is built. And that’s when I start to worry. What will they call that one? First there was the VLT – Very Large Telescope. Now we will have the ELT – Extremely Large Telescope. What next? The FLT perhaps?

Facebook Briefly 'Broken' for Users in Several Countries Facebook's website was inaccessible for many of its 1.3 billion users this morning. People trying to log on to the site were faced with a message saying: "Something went wrong. We're working to get it fixed as soon as we can." The shutdown drew attention across the web with many taking to Twitter to ask what all the fuss was about. Facebook apologised for the problem but did not say what caused it. "Earlier this morning, we experienced an issue that prevented people from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time. We resolved the issue, and we are now back to 100%. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused." It is not yet clear how many countries were affected. END NB: I, and "Techs in The Know", rarely use FkBook.....if at all. and we have recognised for a very long time that Facebook have many ongoing 'Tech Problems', that they never seem to completely resolve. IMHO, this is because they have grown too big, too fast and won't pay for the really good 'Tech Admins' available 'out there', that could really solve all their tech probs..... That is why they will not truthfully explain why they, or their server, goes down so often..... They have even in the past, blamed their downtimes on DDOS attacks... All about money... Simple as that....

Little Johnny & Little Susie One day, Little Susie got her monthly bleeding for the first time in her life. Not quite certain what was happening, and somewhat frightened, she decided to tell Little Johnny. Little Susie dropped her panties and showed Little Johnny what was happening.Little Johnny's eyes opened wide in amazement. "You know," he said, "I'm not a doctor, but it looks like someone just ripped your balls off!"

Finances Daily created this infographic of popular brand pictures that are used in adverts compared to the item in real life. The illustration will probably horrify you!

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Drinking in galway "As good as this bar is," said the Scotsman, "I still prefer the pubs back home. In Glasgow, there's a wee place called McTavish's. The landlord goes out of his way for the locals. When you buy four drinks, he'll buy the fifth drink." "Well, Angus," said the Englishman, "At my local in London , the Red Lion, the barman will buy you your third drink after you buy the first two." "Ahhh, dat's nothin'," said Paddy Sheehan, the Irishman. "Back home in me favorite pub in Galway, the moment you set foot in the place, they'll buy you a drink, then another, all the drinks you like, actually. Then, when you've had enough drinks, they'll take you upstairs and see dat you get laid, all on the house!" The Englishman and Scotsman were suspicious of the claims. "Did this actually happen to you?" "Not meself, personally, no," admitted the Irishman, "but it did happen to me sister quite a few times."

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In 2006, students in a dorm decided to prank their RA, who would be leaving for a three day weekend. They helped him take the suitcases to the car, and stuck a friend in the closet to unlock the door when he left. Then the fun started. Beginning with these moccasins. Then came his phone and textbooks. And the doorstop. Then his DESK! Even the pictures. Soon, half the room was covered in FOIL. And the second half finished. They did the walls, the ceiling, everything. It took 3 days and 2400 sq. ft. of tin foil. To the point that when the light shone in the room, you could have baked a cake!

Tracy Phillips is the daughter of Texas football icon Wade. Brittny Gastineau, daughter of former Jets pass-rusher Mark. The Great One’s daughter, Paulina Gretzky. Bianca Gascoigne, daughter of footballer Paul. Alex Schlereth, daughter of former NFLer Mark. And her sister Avery Schlereth, who prefers to lounge on the beach. Angela Rypien, following in the footsteps of her NFL QB dad Mark. Bianca La Russa, daughter of Tony, the former Cardinals manager. Cassie Trammell, who took the mantle from her mom, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. Jazz Wilkins, daughter of the NBA’s Gerald (and niece of Dominique). Kate Mara’s related to both the Maras who own the Giants, and the Rooneys who own the Steelers. Mallory Edens, daughter of Bucks owner Doug Flutie’s daughter Alexa also takes the field Sydney Esiason, Boomer’s daughter

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22 year old Omar ate mostly junk food and did no exercise, which left him overweight and out of shape. He switched to a diet of healthy foods and started exercising and in only 12 weeks lost an impressive 28.6 lbs (13 kg) and changed his body fat percentage from 24.5 % to 12.5 %. 2 week 3 week 4 week 5 week 6 week 7 week 8 week 9 week 10 week 11 week 12 week

How to create GIFs with sound using Lala Gif I came across this today and of course I just had to share it. Web based no software to install. You will find my gif link at the bottom so do enjoy. How to create GIFs with sound using Lala Gif Creating funny GIFs is quite common among Internet users but how about GIFs with sound? Is it possible for one to create an animated image with embedded audio? Well, with Lala Gif, it’s something that you can easily achieve in just a few clicks or so. So let’s find out how this web app works. WHAT IS IT AND WHAT DOES IT DO Main Functionality Lala Gif is a simple web application that you can use for free. Unlike other free GIF tools that you can find online, this web app does not directly generate a GIF. Instead, it allows you to create cool and funny GIFs with sound. Furthermore, the sound that you can attach to your animated image can be taken from YouTube so you don’t need to upload any audio or MP3 file. Just place the link to your GIF as well as the link to your YouTube video and that’s it. In just a few minutes, it will give you a direct link to your animated image with embedded audio. Pros Easy to use. No software or app download required. Fast – can easily generate a GIF with audio in just a matter of seconds. You can share the direct link to your GIF with audio via email or social media (ex. Reddit). Great for creating funny GIFs Cons The GIF with audio that you can create from Lala Gif can only be shared through link, you cannot embed the image or share its image URL independently – if you do this, only the animated GIF will be loaded on the page and not the sound. The app’s advanced settings for video start/end doesn’t work properly. Needs to offer more advanced options Discussion Lala Gif is a pretty simple and straightforward online tool that you can use to create GIFs (animated images) with sound. So if you want to create a GIF with audio, just go to the homepage of this web app and there, you’ll see a form where you’re supposed to place the link or URL to your GIF image as well as the link to the YouTube video that you want to use as GIF sound. With Lala Gif, you can’t upload the GIF directly from your computer so you’ll need to host it first on other image hosting sites like Photobucket or Imageshack. After which, you can also opt to use the tool’s advanced options so you can specify the video start and end time. You can also customize the color of your GIF’s background. Once everything is all set, just click the big green button with check mark. This will prompt the online tool to generate your GIF with sound. The processing time won’t take too long. You just need to wait for a few seconds and after that, you will be redirected to your GIF with audio page. Just click the play button and that’s it, you’re done. If you want to share your GIF with sound, just copy the link on your address bar and share it via email or social media. All in all, I can say that Lala Gif works quite okay but it’s not really that impressive. It’s good for sharing GIFs on sites such as Reddit or Facebook but you can’t really maximize its use since it won’t allow you to embed or share the image directly to your blog or site. If you do this, only the GIF will be retained and not the embedded audio. This is quite a bummer especially if you want to share the image directly on sites like Tumblr. Apart from this, I also noticed that the web tool’s advanced options do not work properly as it fails to recognize the values that I’ve entered for video start and end time. It could’ve been much better if this online tool could take some to polish or improve its features and options. CONCLUSION AND DOWNLOAD LINK If you’re simply looking for a tool that you can use to generate funny and cool GIFs with embedded audio, you can try using Lala Gif. However, it is not something that you can truly rely with especially if you want to create high-quality GIFs with embedded audio. It’s mostly just for fun. Anyways, here’s a good example Code: [Check Download Links] margin: 0px; padding: 6px; border: 1px inset; width: 640px; height: 34px; text-align: left; overflow: auto">http://lalagif.com/send-me-a-kiss-by-wire of a funny GIF that I made using this web app. So go ahead and check it out. HomePage: Code: [Check Download Links] margin: 0px; padding: 6px; border: 1px inset; width: 640px; height: 34px; text-align: left; overflow: auto">http://lalagif.com/ Price: Free Version reviewed: N/A Requires: Works on any browser (ex. Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, IE, etc.) on any desktop operating system (Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, Mac OS X, Linux, etc.) Now so you don't have to wait any longer lets jam. Code: [Check Download Links] margin: 0px; padding: 6px; border: 1px inset; width: 640px; height: 34px; text-align: left; overflow: auto">http://lalagif.com/laughing-puppy-jamming- As always, Thank You for your time and I hope you have a lot of fun with this one

A single mom and her family on benefits learned they were getting a new council house so they threw a giant party, which left the house in a complete state. The 69 year old landlord, Sean Feeney, spent $8500 fixing the house before the family moved in and now faces having to spend another $3400 to fix it up after the state it was left in.

Damian Mander has taken a stand against Rhino poachers in Zimbabwe. See how he is making a difference. Baby Rhino in Zimbabwe - IAPF Damien Mander - Anti-poaching crusader Met Damien in Colombia while backpacking South America. Shortly after we met he went to Africa and was saddened by the poaching situation. He then returned to Australia sold his house and used his life savings to use his special ops and military experience to train an army to fight poachers in Zimbabwe. Fighting poaching with military tactics Mander advocates for the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also called drones, to protect endangered wildlife. Their drones feature thermal and night-vision technology for use in military-style anti-poaching operations to prevent poachers from killing animals. Saving what few rhinos are left in Africa. Donating equipment and training to a foundation in one of the highest poaching areas Rhinos in the wild Using camouflage to catch poachers in the act Across much of Africa anti-poaching tactics have remained largely unchanged for decades. Small groups of undertrained and poorly equipped rangers are sent out for days on end to conduct patrols in remote and dangerous locations. Modern-day poachers have evolved and routinely utilise military tactics and equipment to kill high-target species, such as elephants, rhinos and gorillas. In the cross-fire, rangers are also killed. Seeing this shortfall, the IAPF set out in 2009 to fill the gap. At one of the International Anti-Poaching Foundation’s operations in Zimbabwe, not one rhino has been poached since we started managing security operations here in 2010. The nearest rhino population, 100kms to the east, has been decimated, from 76 black rhino down to only a remaining few in recent years. Our rangers track the critically endangered black rhino for up to 20kms a day. Substitute feeding is put into some locations in order to attract and account for those that have not been followed the entire time. Get involved

Awkward Moments and the Poor People Experiencing Them The people involved in this hand catastrophe: This baseball player that forgot how to baseball: This graduate: This man and his itchy knee: This CHOPPIN’ coach: The guy who will forever be that guy who fell down in the background on live TV: The perpetrators of the slipperiest hug ever: The guy caught in the worst place at the WORST time: This receiver of this pat on the head: This person who will never wear another pair of heels in her life: This girl who will never dance again: This second-place winner: The poor souls involved in this devastating handshake: Taylor Swift when she learned about fire: Anyone who had Spider-Man show up at the worst possible time: Ryan Seacrest trying to high-five a blind guy: Anyone and everyone with a difficult coat: Anyone that’s had this terrifying thing happen to them on the subway: Anyone fighting the brave battle against gum right now: This raver: The coach who will never chest bump again: Or this guy who will never chest bump again: This guy: The loneliest teletubby: This lady who had a little accident:

This clever home renovation takes two different rooms and makes them into one very smart combination of guest room meets home office.