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Due to be completed in 2010, the Hoover Dam Bypass bridge has slowly been taking shape. Here, with some amazing photographs is a record of this incredible bridge as it nears completion.
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On how a remarkable piece of engineering bridges the eight story gap between two waterways. The only rotating boat lift of this type in the world, the Falkirk Wheel must be seen to be believed.
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In 1899 Ernst Haecker began to publish Art Forms of Nature - a sublime marriage of art and science. Here is a collection of his wonderful lithographs.
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Forget about Machu Picchu. When you visit Peru, head off the major tourist trail up north. Pyramids, Mauoleums and surf boards!
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A whistle stop tour of some of the most spectacular radio telescopes in the world. On almost all of the continents these giants command the landscape as they survey the skies.
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The sight of a dam - some of the largest and most complex constructions that humanity has ever created - can be quite breath-taking.
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Taung Kalat, located in central Burma, thirty miles or so from the ancient city of Bagan towers above the earth like some sort of giant’s sand castle. Atop it there is a Buddhist monastery which rests upon a precipitous volcanic plug.
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Oh boy! To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Gundam, a sixty foot monument has just taken its place in Odaiba Park, Tokyo.
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How the photomontage art of John Heartfield, a contemporary and friend of Brecht, warned the world of the rise of Hitler and Nazism.
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Vintage bodybuilding ads - beat the bully and get the girl. Has advertising moved on much since?
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The biggest and highest salt flats in the world, Salar De Uyuni in Bolivia has to be seen to be believed. Your attention is first drawn to the mysterious mounds of sand that dot the landscape.
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Some birds just love hanging around - but it can be a shock to see them upside down!
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