On October 12, 1915, British nurse Edith Cavell was killed by a German firing squad for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape German-occupied Belgium. Wikimedia CommonsEdith Cavell was working as a nurse in Belgium when World War I started.
On the morning of October 12, 1915, German soldiers marched a small group of prisoners to Tir National, a former Belgian Army rifle range. The German military chaplain, Pfarrer Le Soeur, took the hand of the only woman among them — a British nurse named Edith Cavell. Read More...
"I had no idea what they might be...it went on for two miles. I walked for another half hour and they were scattered everywhere."Kate Montana/iNaturalist Creative CommonsA fat innkeeper worm found in Bodega Bay, California.
Whether it’s mystifying sea creatures or disturbing amounts of pollutants, astounding objects wash up on beaches around the world time and time again. In the case of California’s Drakes Beach, the latest surprise was thousands upon thousands of what have been described as “pulsing penis fish” — and they indeed look as advertised. Read More...
From the camera obscura to the first Kodak, photography has come a long way in the past few centuries — but when were cameras invented exactly?Wikimedia CommonsAn illustration depicting the daguerreotype process, one of the earliest forms of photography.
Today, cameras aren’t just commonplace; they’re nearly impossible to avoid. Nearly every person on the street carries in their pocket a smartphone with a camera capable of capturing incredibly high-resolution images in the blink of an eye. Read More...
