Total Eclipse Of The Sun, July 1860, Illustrated By Astronomer Warren De La Rue.

MARY GORDON ‘SPACESHIP HOUSE’, 1972 La Selva Beach, California Image © Angelina Rennell

A small hot spring hides in the woods, only the steam revealing it

Gömbkilátó observation deck in Budapest, 1963, before it was moved to its current site in Balatonboglár in 1967. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

“I would like to humanize the space age by giving a perspective from a non-astronaut, because I think the students will look at that and say, ‘This is an ordinary person. This ordinary person is contributing to history.’”

—Christa McAuliffe (September 2, 1948–January 28, 1986)

‘Marshmallow’ Sofa. Designed in 1956 by Irving Harper of George Nelson Associates in New York; manufactured from 1956 to ca. 1965 (and 1999 onwards) by Herman Miller Furniture Company in Zeeland, Michigan. Philadelphia Museum of Art accession number: 1996-30-1.

"This sofa's eighteen cushions are attached to an exposed frame in a radical rethinking of the traditional upholstered sofa. The cushions can be detached for easy cleaning or 'interchanged to equalize wear.'"

(Source: philamuseum.org)

Danakil Depression in Dallol, Ethiopia

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