Simit sellers in Istanbul weave through the city balancing towering stacks of bread on their heads as if it were the easiest thing in the world. Turkey 🇹🇷
[📹 maps_stambul]
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How Ancient Romans made water flow uphill without pumps.
[🎞️ simple.history_]
Snow falling under a purple-tinted sky in Birmingham tonight — the result of city lights reflecting off low clouds and snowfall. Still looks unreal though… Birmingham doesn’t feel like a real place 😂
The beautiful Dolmabahçe Clock Tower in Istanbul.
The 945-meter-tall Mardalsfossen in Norway 🇳🇴
Horseback riding through Cappadocia in winter 🐴❄️
Snow-covered landscapes, deep stillness, and a quiet, steady beauty that carries you forward.
And no — not AI. Just the stunning cinematography of Murat Köksal.
Good night Nostr.
[📹 muratkoksalart]
When you realize the iconic intro to Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” is essentially the opening of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony played in reverse.
Mind-blowing.
Snowboarding taken to the next level.
[📹 Stefano Leoni]
An incredible display of precision, as a kestrel hovers effortlessly in the wind, maintaining perfect head stabilization while riding the breeze.
[📹 Anthony Roberts]
A timelapse capturing Orion, Sirius, Mars, and the Pleiades Cluster shining in the night sky above West Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi.
[📹 Travis Shak]
Michael Jackson doing the robot on the Cher Show in 1975.
One of Europe’s most imposing landmarks, the 91-meter Monument to the Battle of the Nations (1913) towers over Leipzig, Germany 🇩🇪—a massive reinforced-concrete structure featuring a stone hall watched over by 9-meter-tall warrior figures.
Montmartre transforms into a ski slope.
Heavy trucks in China.
Cutting cat shaped cakes in front of #catstr
[🎞️ tin.ca214 / Sora, ai]
Nine legends. One seemingly impossible cover.
[🎞️ thismustbefake. ai]
The tomb of Ramesses IX in Luxor’s Valley of the Kings, dating to 1129–1111 BCE
Incredible balance on a unicycle 15 feet in the air.
How Rome’s Pantheon, with its 27-foot oculus, has avoided flooding for 2,000 years
[🎞️ ancient-techie]
A German Shepherd sits down in the street to play with a group of children — because to them, he’s one of their own.