The Empire That Was Russia In the early 1900s, one Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii took photographs around the Russian empire. They would be interesting enough anyway but what makes them especially fascinating is that they were taken using a unique process which (after some digital re-assembly) yields colour photographs with an almost super-real quality. Well worth a look…
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21 May 2001
Am I Going Down? As the site itself put it, this was “a guide to your likelihood of personally experiencing full loss equivalency” – in other words, given your origin airport, destination and your airline this site will calculate how likely you are to die in a plane crash. Fun for the paranoid…
Update: That site is no longer live and can’t be accessed via the Internet Archive. Sorry to everyone who has been looking for it!
Thank you memepool.com for the link
