The Boeing E-6 Mercury is an American military aircraft. It operates as an airborne command post and communications center, relaying instructions from the National Command Authority. Its role in relaying to the fleet ballistic missile submarines gives one of its missions the acronym TACAMO ("Take Charge and Move Out").
The Boeing E-6 Mercury is an American military aircraft. It operates as an airborne command post and communications center, relaying instructions from the National Command Authority. Its role in relaying to the fleet ballistic missile submarines gives one of its missions the acronym TACAMO ("Take Charge and Move Out").
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.
Knebworth House is a country house near Stevenage in Hertfordshire, England. The home of the Lytton family, it was originally a red-brick Tudor manor house but was transformed in 1843 into the present Gothic structure. Knebworth House and Park have hosted Rock concerts since 1974 including Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Beach Boys and Queen (Their final show with Freddie M...
An overlay of Jupiter's moon Callisto:
Callisto [kah-LISS-toe] is the second largest moon of Jupiter, the third largest in the solar system, and is about the same size as Mercury. It orbits just beyond Jupiter's main radiation belt. Callisto is the most heavily cratered satellite in the solar system. Its crust is very ancient and dates back 4 billion years, just shortly after the solar s...
Located 400 meters in height on the northwest hillside of Reisberg, the Wasenbourg castle is one of the most beautiful and romantic ruins of North Vosges.
Although its origins are fairly obscure, the historians attribute generally its construction, by 1273, to Conrad III de Lichtenberg then bishop of the city of Strasbourg.
Clemenceau (R98), often affectionately called "le Clém'", was the 8th aircraft carrier of the French Navy. From the 1960s to the 1990s, she was the backbone of the French Navy, along with her sister-ship, the Foch. During her career, she sailed more than a million nautical miles in 3125 days at sea, on all the seas of the world. She was the second French warship to be named after Georges Clemen...
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