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Video: Check out the shortest passenger train in North America

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Don’t you just love it when you approach a railroad crossing just as the safety arms start coming down?

You sit there waiting for the train to pass, hoping that it will be a short one so you can make it to your appointment on time. For what seems like an eternity you wait and watch as car after car slowly passes by, making that extremely loud clanking noise every time the wheels roll over one of the joints in the tracks.  [Read more…]

Awesome time-lapse video: Storms moving across the countryside below

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It’s no secret that a powerful storm can be destructive, leaving behind devastation and sorrow in its wake. But when viewed from afar they can also be breathtakingly beautiful and intriguing.

The short, but awesome video below shows a series of powerful storms moving and dancing across the landscape below.  [Read more…]

Time-lapse video: Gorgeous scenes of clouds and the night sky over California

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Photographer Michael Shainblum spent an entire year taking photos of the sky over various places in California, then he selected 12,000 of the best images and used them to create the absolutely stunning time-lapse video below.

This video is less than four minutes long and every second of it is amazing.  [Read more…]

The Rest of the Story: The signers of the Declaration of Independence

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In their time, Paul Harvey’s short “The Rest of the Story” broadcasts were among the most popular, and most beloved programs in all the world of radio.

For decades, Mr. Harvey’s distinctive voice was welcomed into millions of homes and offices as he brought forth his latest true, but sometimes almost unbelievable stories about people and events that we all thought we were well familiar with.  [Read more…]