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Mystery of Amelia Earhart Solved? Fragment From Missing Plane Identified Researchers at The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) revealed that a piece from Amelia Earhart's vanished aircraft has been identified in Nikumaroro, an atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati. This is the first time that an artifact from the wreckage has been directly linked to Earhart's last expedition, in which she was attempting to circumnavigate the Earth at the equator, and sheds new light on the 77-year-old aviation mystery. The 19-inch-wide by 23-inch-long piece, found by researchers in 1991, is strongly believed to be a metal fragment installed on the window of Earhart's Lockheed Electra aircraft during her eight-day stay in Miami, which was her fourth stop on the journey. A photograph on TIGHAR's site from The Miami Herald, dated July 1, 1937, sho...

Phil Collins holds a Bowie knife that belonged to Jesse Robinson who fought under Jim Bowie at the Battle of Concepcion and the Siege of Bexar on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014 in San Antonio. Collins has handed over his vast collection of artifacts related to the Battle of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution to the state of Texas. Collins donated what's considered the world's largest private collection of Alamo artifacts. It includes a fringed leather pouch and a gun used by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie's legendary knife. (AP Photo/The San Antonio Express-News, Bob Owen)

Collecting wild water lily During the floating season on Mekong delta every year from August to November,wild water lily grow every where in the rice field now covered by water. They become a traditional food for people living in this region and processed into special dishes such as salad,sour soup with fish... By: Nhiem Hoang - Vietnam

  Is There A Limit To How Big Vegetables Can Grow? Fourteen years ago, the world's largest pumpkin weighed in at 1,140 pounds. That's an impressively-sized pumpkin, but it doesn't even come close to sizing up to the newest monster crop of the last decade, the largest of which weighs more than twice that at 2,323 pounds.

Climbing Palitana Palitana is the world's only mountain that has more than 900 temples. The Palitana temples and whole mountain are considered the most sacred pilgrimage place (tirtha) by the Jain community, and is the world's largest Temple Complex. There are more than 3000 temples located on the Shatrunjaya hills, exquisitely carved in marble. The main temple on top of the hill, is dedicated to 1st tirthankar lord Adinath (Rishabdeva) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palitana

Elvis in the Army, 1958.

Disneyland opening day, 1955 (via LIFE)

The "shadow" of a Hiroshima victim, permanently etched into stone steps, after the 1945 atomic bomb

"Chợ" (Market in Vietnamese), a culture is indispensable in Vietnam. By: Duy An Nguyen - Vietnam

Turkey tail bracket fungus Fall day saw this beautiful bracket fungusBy: Lance Isackson - Canada

  A view of flooded cranberry bogs in Carver, Mass as berries float to the surface during the harvest on Oct 9. (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)

  Have you had any nightmares, lately? Would you like some? Then you'll love the   South American Goliath birdeater . This furry spider is the size of a puppy, and thanks to hard claws on the tips of its foot-long legs, it makes a horrifying clicking sound when it scampers through the forrest. Harvard etymologist Piotr Naskrecki   recently spotted a Goliath birdeater   in Guyana. He was actually hunting for katydids but instead he enjoyed the pleasure of meeting a puppy-sized spider. EXPAND At first, Naskrecki thought it was a possum. Then, like any good scientiest would do when spotting a rare species, he lunged at it. This   was a mistake : Every time I got too close to the birdeater it would do three things. First, the spider would start rubbing its hind legs against the hairy abdomen. "Oh, how cute!", I thought when I first saw this a...

  The X-37B—America's spy space drone— has landed safely   after a record-setting orbit of 675 days.   While this was expected,   that doesn't make it any less incredible. The fact that this spacecraft has been in orbit for almost two years and has returned to Earth intact is an amazing technological feat. The spacecraft landed today at 9:24am at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after carrying various "on-orbit experiments." Nobody knows what these orbital experiments are. Her missions and actual capabilities are classified. Speculation ranges from capture, refuel, and repair of spy satellites using robotic gear to actual spy missions of rival space powers to testing of advanced spy gear directed at Earth. For all we know, it may as well be a weapons testing platform.

The morning sun kindles a view of fall foliage on Lake Towada in Aomori, Japan. Sitting at the base of Mount Hakkoda, the lake and the annual autumn display of its forested banks are a popular tourist draw. This photo was submitted to the 2014 National Geographic Photo Contest. http://www.picture1000.com?id=24