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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Abandoned Lighthouse On Great Isaac Cay In Bahamas

Great Isaac Cay is a small Bahamian island located about 20 miles NNE of the Bimini Islands. It is accessible only by boat. And it is so small that it's not visible on google map or google earth. The most prominent feature of the island is its lighthouse, which was erected in 1859.
In the late 19th century local lore tells of a ship wreck on the island with one survivor, an infant. The child’s distraught mother, known as the Grey Lady, is said to haunt the island to this very day, wailing in sorrow during the full moon.
On August 4, 1969, the station was discovered to have been abandoned by its two keepers, who were never found. The keepers’ house, cistern, and assorted buildings are crumbling into ruins. The Lighthouse look abandoned but is actually still in use, fully automated.















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Sunday, March 29, 2009

The Abandoned Acoustic Mirrors, Denge, UK

Denge is a former Royal Air Force site near Dungeness, in Kent, England. It is best known for the early experimental acoustic mirrors which remain there.

The mirrors were built in the 1920s as an experimental early warning system for incoming aircraft. Several were built along the south and east coasts, but the complex at Denge is the best preserved.There are three acoustic mirrors in the complex, each consisting of a single concrete hemispherical reflector.








Acoustic mirrors did work, and could effectively be used to detect slow moving enemy aircraft before they came into sight. They worked by concentrating sound waves towards a central point, where a microphone would have been located. However, their use was limited as aircraft became faster. Operators also found it difficult to distinguish between aircraft and seagoing vessels. In any case, they quickly became obsolete due to the invention of radar in 1932. The experiment was abandoned, and the mirrors left to decay.

The most famous of these devices still stand at Denge on the Dungeness peninsula and at Hythe in Kent. Other examples exist in other parts of Britain (including Sunderland, Redcar, Boulby, Kilnsea) and Selsey Bill, and in Malta.











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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Abandoned School in Detroit

In 50 years of XX century, Detroit was the automobile capital of the USA, the time to move up on the state level program of low-cost and public vehicles. In Detroit focused the largest automobile factories countries (Ford, General Motors, Chrysler), and the city experienced a boom in its development - it literally has flourished, becoming one of the richest cities in North America. As the car industry needed workers, and racial discrimination has subsided, the black population continued to grow rapidly. Demographic white population of the town was already beginning the wane, and this trend is increasing every year, actually a couple of decades, making the Detroit




By the beginning of the XXI century in Detroit white population makes up about 10 percent, and live concentrated in the southern part of the city, with most of the - in the suburbs. Ibid, in the south of Detroit is still preserved business district, but most of the city looks very bad. Crime is at a very high level. Even in the center, not just leave to the street, you risk to be completely stripped. Most skyscrapers empty theaters destroyed the once rich, elite housing thrown. A few years ago began a slow recovery of the city, but the rates still very low.























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Cardboard Home And Office Interior

Dutch designer Joost van Bleiswijk has designed a cardboard office interior for the new Amsterdam office of ‘Nothing’. ‘Nothing’ is an independent entrepreneurial agency that delivers innovation and commercial creativity for local and international clients out of a cardboard box. Literally, it seems! How do you like the idea?


























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Monday, March 23, 2009

Rein In Wild Horses




























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