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Series of creative 3D-printed figurines by the studio producing film and graphic design based in Taipei, Bito. Beautiful and amazing Bitoy published a set of four models of the legendary Beatles.

See how people were building defenses to protect it from the enemy. Pics of Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg today) in 1941.

This is an astonishing discovery where thousands of years ago are already using a modern electro.

The Baghdad Battery is believed to be about 2000 years old (from the Parthian period, roughly 250 BCE to CE 250). The jar was found in Khujut Rabu just outside Baghdad and is composed of a clay jar with a stopper made of asphalt. Sticking through the asphalt is an iron rod surrounded by a copper cylinder. When filled with vinegar - orany other electrolytic solution - the jar produces about 1.1 volts.

There is no written record as to the exact function of the jar, but the best guess is that it was a type of battery. Scientists believe the batteries (if that is their correct function) were used to electroplate items such as putting a layer of one metal (gold) onto the surface of another (silver), a method still practiced in Iraq today.

British daily national newspaper, The Times, has published a series of beautiful ads that depict a collision of eras – the old fused with the new – in honour of the Queens Jubilee. A present-day photo of Queen Elizabeth II is juxtaposed with an older photo of Prince Philip and Winston Churchill; while the final photo depicts a younger queen passing a crowd of modern-day children. Credit for this brilliant concept goose out to advertising agency CHI&Partners of London, UK, under the direction of Jon Burley and Alexei Berwitz. Rob Swainson and Dave Turfitt are responsible for the magnificent photo retouching. OVerall, a job well done, and a series of positively worthy images.

The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture much more commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session. This cheaper and quicker method also provided the middle class with a means for memorializing loved ones who had passed on.