Why aren't Shell gas stations shaped like shells? They really should be, and Shell thought so too, building eight of them in the 1930s, including one in Winston-Salem North Carolina. That Shell is the only one left of the bunch, but it's now a non-functional landmark.
Check out the shell-shaped Shell gas station and much more in this collection of informative and fascinating photos.
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The only shell-shaped Shell service station. Built in 1930 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, it’s the last one remaining out of eight built.
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The Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, Holland, 1888.
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The statue was created in 1997 by Viktor Hulik in Bratislava to commemorate a sanitation worker who was promised coffee by a girl. He waited for her every day, at the same time and place. Today, it serves as a reminder to respect the nature of his work and the sacrifices made to keep the city clean.
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Drones returning to their cases after a show.
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In 1908, a Victorian home in San Francisco, California, was moved using horse power.
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The world's first computer bug was literally a bug. In 1947, a moth was trapped in Mark II computer at Harvard university leading to the term "debugging".
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Extras on the set of Cleopatra (1963), produced by 20th Century Fox.
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A group of ducks reacting to the pouring rain.
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Scientists unveil a fly brain in stunning detail.
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The last image taken by the imaging cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft before diving in and being destroyed in the atmosphere of Saturn.
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“This truck has 6,437,376 kilometers, or 4,000,000 miles on its odometer.”
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Playa del Amor, commonly known as the Hidden Beach, is a feature of one of the Marieta Islands, located some 22 nautical miles west of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, at the mouth of Banderas Bay.
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Until 1942, this was the way children pledged allegiance to the flag in the United States
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At almost 2,000-years-old, the Roman aqueduct located in Zaghouan, Tunisia, stands as a remarkable example of ancient engineering. Spanning 82 miles, this aqueduct historically supplied water to Carthage.
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Different surfaces of our Solar System.
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Karasjok, an indigenous arctic village in the middle of nowhere Norway. It has its own government, dedicated for some of the Sami people of the north.
