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Underwater Ruins, Japan

One of the most hotly debated underwater discoveries dates back to 1995 and is still producing differing theories today. A wayward diver stumbled across the ancient ruin site off the southern coast of Yonaguni, Japan. The site appeared to show huge stone blocks cut into the shape of stairs, paved streets and crossroads. The discovery is estimated to be around 10,000 years old, with many scientists believing it to be the remains of an ancient sunken city. Not everyone agrees though and some experts believe the large blocks are naturally formed and the result of tectonic movement. Whatever the answer may be, it is undoubtedly one of the greatest underwater wonders of the world.

Source: 3. Underwater Ruins. Japan | 20 Underwater Wonders of Our Blue Planet | EarthTripper| Page 1

Toronto’s Ninjalicious Explorer

I’ve made a screen capture of the original post because I’d like more people to understand what exploring is about. Comments are already closed on The Star website but this will link to my own post and my comments are there. Mostly, I like to keep something like this from disappearing into deep, dark archives no one knows to look for.

Toronto’s Jeff Chapman shared his urban ‘infiltrations’ of off-limit buildings, sewers and tunnels through zine and website.

Source: Toronto’s Ninjalicious explorer left a global legacy | Toronto Star

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Hiroshima: Like a Graveyard with not a Tombstone Standing

60% of the US people still think this was the right thing to do. (Classic "not in my backyard" thinking).

Today is the 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb being dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, by a US aircraft.

The bombing – and a second one on Nagasaki three days later – claimed the lives of at least 140,000 people in the city. Half died slowly, over several weeks/ months from radiation, burns and dehydration.

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This war poster makes me think of all those movies where the US saves the world from… aliens, natural disasters, monsters, etc. Ironic.japnext

A Japanese report on the bombing characterized Nagasaki as “like a graveyard with not a tombstone standing”

Source: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Wikiwand

 

Old Photos from 335 Yonge, Toronto

335 Yonge St., Toronto is gone now. The former Reynolds Block/ Edison Hotel from the 1950’s,  from the 1970’s and thena more recent photo before the fall of one outside wall followed by the fire which finished it.

In the photos it seems to be called the Edison Hotel but most of the news sources referred to it as the Empress Hotel.

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Lion City at the Bottom of a Lake in China


A real life version of Atlantis can be found at the bottom of a man-made lake in China. In 1959, the Chinese Government decided that they wanted to build a new hydro-electric power station and so made the call to build a huge lake in the Eastern Provence of Zhejiang. The lake was built between the Five Lion Mountain and the ancient city of Shi Cheng (Lion City), that was flooded in order to make way for the power station. The city has been untouched for over 50 years. A dive team has recently rediscovered the remains of the city but there are now plans to turn it into a dive site. Incredibly, the dive team said that nearly every structure in Lion City was still intact, even after lying underwater for over half a century!

Lion City, China

Source: 20 Underwater Wonders of Our Blue Planet | EarthTripper

The original source link for this photo is 404.  Loved the photo too much to not repost it.