1 minute, 14 laterals, and 61 yards later, Trinity beats Millsaps with the final play in the game.

Hold the Kayak

Classic NASCAR Daytona 500 race at Daytona International Speedway which was only a year old in 1960. The moonshine runner turned stock car racer, Junior Johnson, won the race by 23 seconds. Johnson's win earned him a whopping $19,600.00. This year Kevin Harvick won the Daytona 500 and took home $1,510,469.00. Of course Harvick's car cost more than the purse and he can't take it home and run 'shine in either!

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Welcome to the Brave New World in all its glory.

I loved skipping rocks as a kid, but never came close to skipping them like this all star.

This guy knows how to stand out in a crowd! When it comes to having a noticeable earring he has most everyone else beat.

The historic 1938 match race between west coast star, Seabiscuit, and Triple Crown winner, War Admiral. This race came to be know as the "Race of the Century," and kept Americans from coast to coast glued to their radios. When it was time to call the race for NBC radio, the legendary Clem McCarthy could not fight his way through the crowd to get back to the announcer's booth. He was forced to call the race from the finish line.

Many consider 1976 finish of the Daytona 500 to be the most exciting in history. When Petty moved up into Pearson just before the finish line all hell broke loose. To see who won play the video.

The Battle at Kruger--a battle over a baby calf between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and a crocodile-- was witnessed by Jason Schlosberg and David Budzinski in September 2004 at a watering hole near Pretoriuskop Camp, Mpumalanga in South Africa's Kruger National Park.

What do you do when you want to celebrate your company's 100th birthday? In the case of Ford they looked back to one of their greatest creations, the Ford GT, and created a limited edition super car that does 205 MPH (actually it's a little faster than that) and even gets pretty good gas mileage! To see more videos click the "Read More" link below.

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Al Gore, the nearly man of US politics, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, after reinvented himself as an Oscar-winning seer on climate change after his White House dreams were blown away.

Bill Clinton's former vice president won the prize, alongside a body of international climate experts, after helping propel global warming to the top of the international agenda with his 2006 film "An Inconvenient Truth," which received the Academy Award for best documentary the same year.

The Nobel prize was awarded "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change", the Norwegian Nobel committee said Friday.

After narrowly losing the 2000 US presidential election, Gore emerged from political hibernation with little bitterness, joking in his climate change film: "I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America."

Such one-liners came from a new-found store of wit that was not always apparent when Gore served in White House, working in the large shadow thrown by Clinton.

Once skewered by the press for being humorless and stodgy, crucified for apparently claiming to have invented the Internet (one of several notorious misquotations), the "Goracle" of climate change is now feted worldwide.

Shedding his image as a brainy but dull policy wonk, Gore oversaw the Live Earth concert in July, which elevated him to Bono-like coolness in some quarters.

"If you had told me 10 years ago that people were going to be appealing to me for tickets to a hot rock concert through my parents, I would have fallen over," his daughter Karenna Gore Schiff told October's Vanity Fair magazine.

A giant mother gorilla gently holds her tiny newborn child to her chest

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A future sumo wrestler takes on a behemoth. Our hearts are with the kid, but our money's on the big guy.

The Beautiful and Mysterious Helix Nebula is Often Seen as Resembling a Colorful Eye

General information

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula created at the end of the life of a Sun-like star. The outer gases of the star expelled into space appear from our vantage point as if we are looking down a helix. The remnant central stellar core, destined to become a white dwarf star, glows in light so energetic that it causes the previously expelled gas to fluoresce.

Helix lies about 650 light-years away towards the constellation of Aquarius and spans about 2.5 light-years. Recent pictures of Helix are a composite of newly released images from the ACS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope and wide-angle images from the Mosaic Camera on the WIYN 0.9 m Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory.

It is estimated to be 10,600+2,300-1,200 years old based upon an expansion rate of 31 km/s.

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About Franz Marc


Birth name Franz Marc
Born February 8, 1880
Munich
Died March 4, 1916
Verdun
Nationality German
Field Painting
Training Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Movement Expressionism
Famous works Fate of the Animals, Tiger
Franz Marc (February 8, 1880 – March 4, 1916) was one of the principal painters and printmakers of the German Expressionist movement.


Career

Marc was born of Wilhelm and Sophie Marc, Wilhelm a professional landscape painter and Sophie a strict Calvinist.

Marc was born in 1880, in the German town of Munich and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich starting in 1900. In 1903 and 1907 he spent time in Paris and discovered a strong affinity for the work of Vincent van Gogh. Marc developed an important friendship with the artist August Macke in 1910. In 1911 he formed the Der Blaue Reiter artist circle with Macke, Wassily Kandinsky, and other artists who decided to split off from the Neue Künstlervereinigung movement.

He showed several of his works in the first Der Blaue Reiter exhibition at the Thannhauser Gallery in Munich between December 1911 and January 1912. The exhibition was the apex of the German expressionist movement and also showed in Berlin, Köln, Hagen, and Frankfurt. In 1912, Marc also met Robert Delaunay, whose use of color and futurism was the next major influence on Marc's work. Marc began becoming increasingly influenced by futurism and cubism, and his art became increasingly stark and abstract in nature.

His name was on a list of notable artists to be withdrawn from combat in World War I. Before the orders were carried out, he was killed instantly when he was struck in the head by a shell splinter during the Battle of Verdun (1916).


Blue Horses

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