Black sun
During spring in Denmark, at approximately one half an hour before sunset, flocks of more than a million European starlings gather from all corners to join in the incredible formations shown above.
BoozeTown
Mel Johnson was the visionary behind the utopian BoozeTown. His city would be comprised of dozens upon dozens of bars and nightclubs, all with different themes. He was meticulous in his planning and fleshed out every detail. Street names would allude to alcohol, such as Gin Lane, Bourbon Boulevard, and 21st Amendment Ave; there would be a moving sidewalk and an electric trolley system which would help escort staggering drunks home (or to another bar); much of the alcohol would be brewed or distilled inside the town which would produce revenue; every bar and liquor store would be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week; drinks would be allowed everywhere, even banks and places of worship; the city would have its own currency, BoozeBucks; there would be a police force, the Party Police, but instead of harassing drinkers they would be there to assist them
Bodie
Bodie, California began as a mining camp of little note following the discovery of gold in 1859. It is now a ghost town.
Bob and Mike Bryan
Twin brothers Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan are American professional tennis players. Between 2005 and 2006, they set an Open Era record by competing in seven consecutive men's doubles Grand Slam finals, three of which they won.
Ballistic Recovery Systems
Ballistic Recovery Systems is a company that was formed in 1980 by Boris Popov after he survived a 400 foot fall in a partly collapsed hang glider in 1975. Boris invented a parachute system which would lower a whole light airplane to the ground relatively safely for the people inside.
Belgian Blue
Belgian Blue cattle are a beef breed from, well, Belgium.
Book of 101 Books
Rare book maven Andrew Roth has turned his powers of judgment toward photography in The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the 20th Century. Given two full pages each, the selections receive a bibliographic and physical description and a publishing history, as well as cover images and a few choice samples of their contents there are 500 color illustrations in all.
Borgund Stave Church
Borgund Stave Church is a stave church located in Norway. It is classified as a triple nave stave church of the so-called Sogn-type. This is also the best preserved of Norway's 28 extant stave churches.The churches dragon heads a lot like gargoyles that are found on cathedrals, are used as drainage systems for the church.
Boeing 2707
The Boeing 2707 was developed as the first American supersonic transport. Rising costs and the lack of a clear market led to its cancellation in 1971 before two prototypes had been completed.
Down the Garden Path
Down the Garden Path has stood the test of time as one of the world's best-loved and most-quoted gardening books. Ostensibly an account of the creation of a garden in Huntingdonshire in the 1930s, it is really about the underlying emotions and obsessions for which gardening is just a cover story.