When their anthill floods, the fire ants will evacuate by forming a raft out of themselfs. The queen, eggs and larvae will sit on the top while the others paddle. Fire ants that are underwater will switch with the ones on the surface. No one is left behind
1930s Shanghai vs 2023 Shanghai
New find: A stretch of the Albanian shore of Lake Ohird once hosted a settlement of stilt houses some 8,000 years ago, archaeologists believe, making it the oldest lakeside village in Europe discovered to date. Radiocarbon dating from the site puts it at between 6000 and 5800 BC.
Tukaram Omble, a Mumbai police officer, during the 26/11 Terrorist attacks when he saw terrorist, he jumped towards him with nothing but a stick and held the barrel towards his chest while the terrorist unloaded the gun in order to prevent anyone else from getting shot.( More details in comments)
Waldorf Astoria, demolished to build the Empire State Building
The bottom of an oil rig before it was fixed to the sea bed, 1982
THE CIRCUS AGONALIS, NOW KNOWN AS PIAZZA NAVONA IN ROME The space currently occupied by one of Rome’s most beautiful squares, Piazza Navona, was originally a 275-meter-long stadium built by Emperor Domitian in 80 CE. roman calendar.
Creator of Cosmic Horror H.P. Lovecraft’s Plot Notes For His Only Novel “At the Mountains of Madness†circa 1931
Some stamps of the new “Life Magnified†serie from the USPS
1928 - Knife to Separate Them (Minneapolis Sunday Tribune) r/Minnesota_Archived
Butterfly eggs (Nymphalis antiopa)
