Torres del Paine in Patagonia

Photo by Max Rive.
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Tahquamenon Falls August 2011

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The only good nation is imagination.

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Health insurance in the USA

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by Baneartworks.

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The Lost World

Shipwreck on a clear night off the coast of Finland. By Mikko Lagerstedt.
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A Smoke Angel from Airplane Flares

The cloud resulted from a series of flares released by an air force jet over the Atlantic Ocean in May. The jet that released the flares, a C-17 Globemaster III, is seen on the right. The flares release smoke and the resulting pattern is sometimes known as a smoke angel. The circular eyes of the above smoke angel are caused by air spiraling off the plane's wings and are known as wingtip vortices.
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