James Lucas

Why does Mary look younger than Jesus in Michelangelo's Pietà? The answer is one of the most beautiful in art history... Mary is holding the body of her 33 year old son, but she looks 20. Critics noticed it the moment the sculpture was unveiled in 1499. The mother of a man who [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

In 1863, on a remote Greek island, a worker digging in the ruins of a 2,000 year old sanctuary stopped and shouted to the French diplomat supervising the excavation: "Monsieur, we have found a woman." What he had found was not a woman. It was a giant marble torso. No head. No [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Un tramonto rosa in Vietnam. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

This is what New York City looked like in 1911 [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

This mechanical masterpiece was built in Bremen, Germany in the early 1930s [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Look at the size of St. Peter’s Basilica This was built before “architecture degrees” [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

This is what California looked like in 1969 [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Cherry blossoms season in Japan 🌸 [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

A hilarious April fools video made by the police [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Atomic veterans describe what nukes feel like “When the flash hit you, you could see the X-rays of your hand through your closed eyes.” “If I was looking at you now I would see all your bones, the blood vessels and everything.” [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Elvis Presley’s last filmed performance [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Sakura season in Japan [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Damn, this was animated in 1987 [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

This is real footage of Jewish refugees from European countries arriving in Palestine in 1945 [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Mount Kailash glowing in golden sunrise light [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Veins carved in marble Jago is an Italian sculptor who reinterprets the marble tradition with a contemporary approach [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Sunrise from a train in Japan [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Penguin leaps to safety as ice breaks [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

The horses of Iceland are the original Viking horses and one of the purest horse breeds in Europe. Laws passed as early as 982 AD prohibited the importation of foreign horses, ensuring no outside bloodlines entered Icelandic breeding stock. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

This has got to be the best bench in the world [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

The seven sisters waterfall in Norway [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

This is how the 1927 sci-fi classic Metropolis imagined life in the year 2026 [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Angel Falls in Venezuela The world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall [ 网页链接 ↗ ]