Baby Yoda and the coach of the Vancouver Canucks Bruce Boudreau of the National Hockey League.
The Resemblance of These Two is Uncanny
Year: 2021
Man in Clown Mask Attempts to Steal Jet to Fly to Area 51 to See Aliens
McCarran International Airport above
A Las Vegas man is in considerable legal trouble following a wild incident wherein he breached an airport’s security perimeter by way of a limousine and then donned a clown mask while attempting to commandeer a jet for a trip to Area 51 to see aliens. The multilayered misadventure reportedly unfolded last Wednesday evening when Matthew Hancock allegedly drove a limo through two metal fences surrounding the city’s McCarran International Airport. After pulling up alongside a jet on the tarmac, authorities say the man stepped out of his vehicle, put on a clown mask, and informed workers at the aircraft that he intended to “blow this place up” with a bomb.
According to police, Hancock then inexplicably got back inside the limousine and began to drive away, while the understandably alarmed airport personnel fled the scene. Fortunately, there was no standoff nor any altercation when cops caught up with the vehicle as the man is said to have surrendered immediately. It was then that things took an even stranger turn when Hancock reportedly revealed to police his reasoning for the brazen event. After telling them that there was a bomb in his vehicle, the man explained that he wanted to steal a jet and then somehow use it to journey to Area 51 “to look at aliens.”
Cops subsequently searched Hancock’s limousine and found a crude-looking fake bomb made out of what appeared to be an oxygen tank, a fire extinguisher, and various metal objects all strung together with Christmas lights. As one might imagine, the man was promptly arrested and has been charged with multiple crimes including threatening an act of terrorism. In an appropriately bizarre coda to this entire tale, since being taken into custody it has been alleged that Hancock phoned a well-known Las Vegas attorney approximately eight times on the day of the incident. During the calls, he is said to have dubbed himself “the chosen one” and claimed that he had put some kind of bomb in the lawyer’s car.
The Space Aliens at Area 51 may be dead!
Historic Photographer of the Year Awards 2021 winners revealed
Steve Liddiard has been named overall winner of the Historic Photographer of the Year Awards 2021, for his photo of the Whiteford Point Lighthouse in the Gower Peninsula, Wales.
“The lighthouse was built in 1865 to a design by John Bowen, of Llanelli, to mark the shoals of Whiteford Point, replacing an earlier piled structure of 1854, of which nothing remains,” explains Mr Liddiard.
“It is the only wave-swept cast iron tower of this size in Britain.”
Entries to the competition were judged on originality, composition and technical proficiency alongside the story behind the submission and its historical impact.
“The awards demonstrate the huge dedication that entrants often go to when trying to capture that perfect shot, whether rising in the dead of night to capture the perfect sunrise or climbing, hiking and trekking their way to discover far-flung places from our past,” said broadcaster and historian Dan Snow, who was a competition judge.
The Historic England category was won by Sam Binding’s view of the famous Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol during a misty sunrise (below).
“I regularly take my dog for a walk at sunrise in Bristol,” said Mr Binding.
“The bridge acts as a gateway to the city, and mist adds a magic quality to an already stunning scene.”
The Where History Happened category went to Iain McCallum for his drone picture of the shipwrecks of the Wastdale H and Arkendale H, which tragically collided in the River Severn in October 1960 (below).
Here is a selection of shortlisted images from this year’s competition.
The Shambles, York, England, by David Oxtaby
Hereford Cathedral, England, by Jo Borzsony
Sunkenkirk, Lake District, England, by Matthew Turner
Remains of the Kingdom of Commagene, Mount Nemrut, Turkey, by Mehmet Masum Suer
Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany, by Michael Welch
Battersea Power Station, London, by Pete Edmunds
Corfe Castle, England, by Sam Binding
Bamburgh Castle, England, by Scott Antcliffe
Brewery Shaft, Nenthead Mines, England, by Tom McNally
The Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima, Japan, by Wayne Budge
1973 US Navy C-117D, in Iceland, by Yevhen Samuchenko
Hadrian’s Wall, England, by Kayleigh Blair
BBC
Photos from 2021
U.S. B-52 bomber flying over Paris
Flood chaos near Cisco, Texas
Tag-team tow action in Winnipeg
One World Trade Center
On top of One World Trade Center, 1,700 feet above the street
Gaza Strip beach vendors
Lake Louise, Alberta
Horse carriage in Winnipeg’s Exchange District
Victoria Falls, Africa
Historical fort in Winnipeg
Family pet brown bear in Russia
High-Tech Research Company Building in Winnipeg
Sin City Sunset
Winnipeg High-Tech Facility
Nutraceuticals?
The Loss of a U.S. Navy Blue Angel Flight Demonstration Squadron Pilot this year when his aircraft crashed in Tennessee
The Blue Angels, Air Force Thunderbirds and Canadian Snowbirds in formation
Belgium City Built a Beer Pipeline
n Bruges, your frat house dreams come true.
For many, the idea of receiving a free bottle of beer every day for the rest of their lives sounds like a dream and for a handful of ale drinkers in Belgium that fantasy has become a reality.
Brewer Xavier Vanneste could no longer stand the idea that hundreds of his trucks were damaging the medieval streets of his beloved Bruge and decided to hatch an audacious plan.
Mr Vanneste proposed to build a beer pipeline from his city brewery to a bottling plant outside of town two miles away.
The idea may have seemed mad, but after all, his beer is called the Madman of Bruges – or Brugse Zot in Dutch.
What at first seemed like an outrageous dream, began to seem possible when the brewer started talking to local beer enthusiasts.
‘Jokes were coming in fast, with people saying ‘we are willing to invest as long as we can have a tapping point on the pipeline,’ Vanneste said.
‘That gave us the idea to crowdfund the project.’
However, while some poked fun, others were happy to put their hands in their pockets.
‘You have to be a bit crazy – like the beer – to do such a project.
‘I just had the money for that, and I liked it. So I went crazy and gave the money to the brewery,’ said restaurant owner Philippe Le Loup, who poured $11,000 into the pipeline.
Thanks to Le Loup and others, Mr Vanneste is now staring at one end of the pipeline, which by autumn will start pumping some 1,060 gallons of beer an hour toward the bottling plant.
‘That is a lot of beer, more than you can drink in a lifetime,’ said the owner of De Halve Maan brewery, which in addition to Brugse Zot is also famous for its Straffe Hendrik brand.
Sending the pipeline along streets where customers could siphon off their favorite suds was too big a promise even for Vanneste, but he came up with the next best thing: IOUs with a lifelong drinking guarantee.
Pipeline route. Starts at Waggelwater!
Gigantic Elephant Spotted Roaming Through France
The Machines of the Isle of Nantes (Les Machines de l’île) is an artistic, touristic and cultural project based in Nantes, France.
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