Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Archive for April 9, 2014

The Marmon Herrington Rhino, ca.1950s

F04WjgP

 


Image

Men observe the giant statues of Easter Island in Polynesia, ca. December 1922

LMaEVu0


Dynasphere on the Weston Sands, ca. 1932

aFmDyjl (1)“As a lad I lived in Weston-super-Mare. One day in the 1930s I went to the beach and saw a man trying to drive a huge wheel across the sands. It wasn’t very successful and wobbled about… I have always wondered what it was or whether I imagined it.” ( Source: BBC)