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 | QSO 0957+561 was the first object ever to be identified as a gravitational lens in space. It’s a single quasar, located some 8 billion light-years from Earth. But it looks like two quasars, due to the presence of an gigantic mass located in space between Earth and the quasar. The intervening mass – a distant galaxy – bends light from the quasar, so that we see two quasar images instead of one.<... |  | 01/10/2009 | 143 | 
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 | Multi Coloured Lens Flares in Carnoustie Golf Course Car Park in Scotland |  | 01/31/2008 | 410 |
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 | 224 aircraft - 184 Lancasters, 30 Stirlings, 10 Mosquitos - of Nos 3 and 8 Groups attacked railway yards at Lens and Valenciennes. The raids took place in clear visibility and both targets were accurately bombed. 6 Lancasters were lost from the Lens raid and 5 Lancasters from Valenciennes. | | 02/11/2007 | 249 |
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 | Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll (having a coastline of 19.3 kilometers) in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu (2,300 statute miles or 3,700 km west) to Guam (1,510 miles or 2,430 km east).
On December 8, 1941 the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor (Wake being on the opposite side of the International Date Line), 16 Japane... | | 10/07/2005 | 389 |
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 | See http://www.flare.net/users/e9ee52a/S.S.%20America1.htm for information about the ship. |  | 07/21/2005 | 9,020 |
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 | Leaves an interesting wake. | | 09/05/2005 | 171 |
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 | A bug caught in the lens of the photo plates. | | 05/01/2006 | 1,921 |
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 | This boat is travelling really fast. Has a big wake (bigger than the boat itself). |  | 05/28/2006 | 203 |
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 | This is a file full of locations to spot and take pictures of airplanes at Seattle Tacoma International Airport in Seattle, Washington. The file is compleate with information on what lens you need, police reports, and light hours for each location. | | 03/07/2007 | 277 |
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 | In december 4th. 1971 during a concert by Frank Zappa a fire occured. Zappa shouted "FIRE" but the audience thaught it was a part of the gig. Someone had lit the ceiling with a flare-gun. The casino burned down.
At the concert were also the band Deep Purple who had in mind to make their 1972 released LP "Machine Head" at the casino. But they had to go to a clo... | | 05/04/2007 | 470 |
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 | The lighthouse "Skagen Fyr" is 46 meters tall and was built in 1858.
The rotating lens weighs a little more than 2,000 Kg is resting on mercury, the light source is a 400 Watt sodium light bulb. It can be seen 20 nautical miles away. | | 10/24/2006 | 257 |
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 | The deadliest accident at Toronto Pearson International Airport took place on July 5, 1970, when Air Canada Flight 621, a Douglas DC-8 registered CF-TIW, was flying on a Montreal-Toronto-Los Angeles route.
Captain Peter Hamilton and First Officer Donald Rowland[1] had flown on various flights together before, and had an ongoing discussion on when to arm the spoilers. They both ag... | | 07/20/2009 | 146 |
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