Month September 2017

3 of 17 Strange Car Design (High Museum of Art)

Views: 0 1947 Norman Timbs Special Information No other automobile looks like the 1947 Norman Timbs Special, with its front-mounted cockpit and curves leading to a raindrop tail. Timbs, an Indy racing engineer, made the car with a Buick Straight…

2 of 17 Strange Car Design (High Museum of Art)

Views: 0 1942 Oeuf Electrique Information Paul Arzens (1903-1990) was a  French industrial designer of railway locomotives and motor cars. Arzens was born in Paris, at an address along the Boulevard des Batignolles  (fr) on the northern side of the city. As a young…

1 of 17 Strange Car Design (High Museum of Art)

Views: 0 1936 Stout Scarab Information The history of automotive design is littered with bold attempts to create vehicles so different in how they look and how they work that they render obsolete everything that?s come before. The most daring…

White Giraffe

Views: 0 Information A villager in Kenya was herding animals one day recently when he came upon a head-turning sight. A ghostly creature with a mighty long neck was grazing off in the distance. Upon closer inspection, the vision was…

The Blue Dragon

Views: 0 Information Glaucus atlanticus (common names include the sea swallow, blue angel, blue glaucus, blue dragon, blue sea slug and blue ocean slug) is a species of small, blue sea slug, a pelagic aeolid nudibranch, a shell-less gastropod mollusk…

Purple Carrot

Views: 0 Information The purple color of these carrots is actually due to anticyclonic pigments. The history of these carrots can be traced back to Rome and Central Asia, where they were grown as early as the 10th century. Purple…

White Peacock

Views: 0 Information These majestically beautiful creatures are a rare species of the peacock. White peacocks are not albinos; they have a genetic mutation that is known as Leucism, which causes the lack of pigments in the plumage. Pictures Videos…

White Humpback Whale

Views: 0 Information An albino humpback whale that travels up and down the east coast of Australia became famous in the local media on account of its extremely rare, all-white appearance. Migaloo is the only known all-white humpback whale and…