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The Beauty of Golf

Your Neighbors — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:09:16 +0000

Golf stands alone as a sport unlike any other. This slideshow gets to the heart of why golfers are so passionate about the sport.

Elusive moments captured forever!

Your Neighbors — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:25:19 +0000

Sometimes the camera snaps at exactly the right moment to capture images that are almost unbelievable! This slideshow is proof!

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Russia in winter. Don’t forget your mittens!

Your Neighbors — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:40:49 +0000

Heavy snows can be a major ordeal, but wait until you see what they have to deal with in Russia! You have to see these pictures to believe it!

Builders gone bad

Your Neighbors — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:21:05 +0000

You’ll get a kick out of these ridiculous-but-hilarious construction snafus.

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Flowers with personality

Your Neighbors — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:19:27 +0000

They look like beautiful flowers, but look closely – they’re actually people!

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Every picture tells a story

Your Neighbors — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:26:39 +0000

These images of the past tell more than can be put to words. Every one speaks volumes. Look at each one and let it tell you its story.

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There are a lot of pictures so it can take some time to download.

Looking back on 9/11

Your Neighbors — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:28:28 +0000

The 156 pictures in this slide show clear away the fog of political correctness that has blurred the realities of that fateful day.

Made of steel from the World Trade Center, the USS New York

Your Neighbors — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:10:39 +0000

With a bow built using 24 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center, the USS New York was delivered to the U.S. Navy on 21 August 2009. Its motto is “Strength through sacrifice. Never forget.” Notice its twin towers.

It is designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It has a crew of 360 and can carry up to 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by MV-22B Osprey aircraft, Landing Craft Air Cushions, and Expeditionary Fighting Vehicles (EFV).

Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite, Louisiana. “Those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence,”  recalled Navy Captain Kevin Wensing who was there. “It was a spiritual moment for everybody there.”

Video of the first ocean trials:

“Strength through sacrifice. Never forget.”

Stuff you can only get at Wal-Mart in China

Your Neighbors — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:23:53 +0000

You thought Wal-Mart had it all? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!

Opening soon: the amazing Hoover Dam Bypass

Your Neighbors — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:48:03 +0000

900 feet above the mighty Colorado River, the $240 million bridge at the Hoover Dam slowly takes shape. These pictures tell it all. The bridge will carry a new section of US Route 93 past the bottleneck of the old road which can be seen twisting and winding around and across the dam itself. The bridge is expected to open in November 2010. Once the bypass is completed, the existing roadway across Hoover Dam will be closed to through traffic.

When complete, it will provide a new link between the states of Nevada and Arizona. An estimated 17,000 cars and trucks will cross it every day.

In an incredible feat of engineering, the road will be supported on the two massive concrete arches that jut out of the rock face.

The arches measure more than 1,000 feet across. The arches are made up of 53 individual sections each 24 feet long which were cast on-site and lifted into place using an improvised high-wire crane strung between temporary steel pylons.

While under construction, the structure looked like a traditional suspension bridge. But once the arches were complete, the suspending cables on each side were removed. Extra vertical columns have been installed on top of the arches to carry the road.

During planning and construction the bridge has been known as the Hoover Dam bypass, although the proposed name is the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, after a former governor of Nevada and a football player from Arizona who left his professional sports career and enlisted in the United States Army shortly after the 9-11 attacks and was killed in Afghanistan.

Hoover Dam was started in 1931 and used enough concrete to build a road from New York to San Francisco. The stretch of water it created, Lake Mead, is 110 miles long and took six years to fill. The original road was opened at the same time as the famous dam in 1936.

Be sure to notice the white band of rock around Lake Mead. It marks the waterline prior to the current drought and development in the Las Vegas area. It is over 100 feet above the current water level.