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quarta-feira, agosto 10, 2016

Hotel HavanaTasteful amenities and characterful rooms await...





















Hotel Havana

Tasteful amenities and characterful rooms await guests at Hotel Havana in San Antonio. Beautifully restored by hip hotelier Liz Lambert, the 27-room historic property sits quietly along the city’s iconic River Walk in a magnificent 1914 Mediterranean Revival structure.

Unique in size, atmosphere, and design, its handsome rooms are decorated with distinctive antique furnishings, colorful rugs, and retro Cuban touches. All accommodations come equipped with adorable Smeg fridges and flat-screen TV’s, and the sprawling, luxurious suites have cozy living areas and reading rooms.

Ocho, the hotel’s waterside restaurant, serves tantalizing pan-Latin fare in a striking glass-enclosed space along the River Walk, while the sexy dimly lit Havana Bar in the basement has the atmosphere of a Prohibition-era speakeasy. Photos: Nick Simonite

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There Is A Cat Sanctuary In Hawaii Where People Come From All Over The World To Pet Them (11 pics)

If you’re a cat lover and you’re planning on going to Hawaii, you can pay a visit to these lovely kitties in the Lanai Cat Sanctuary.

Lanai Cat Sanctuary in Hawaii is home to almost 500 cats
And you can cuddle every one of them!

The sanctuary is located on the small Hawaiian island of Lanai

People come from all over the world to visit

One man flew all the way from Japan just to spend a single day with the cats!










Declassified Photos Of The US’s Preparations For Atomic Bombings Of Japan (16 pics)

Interesting photos that show the US’s final preparations of "Fat Man" and “Little Boy” which were codenames for atomic bombs that were detonated over the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in August of 1945.

Soldiers check the casings on the "Fat Man" atomic bomb. Multiple test bombs were created on Tinian Island. All were roughly identical to an operational bomb, even though they lacked the necessary equipment to detonate.
On the left, geophysicist and Manhattan Project participant Francis Birch marks the bomb unit that would become "Little Boy" while Norman Ramsey, who would later win the Nobel Prize in Physics, looks on.

A technician applies sealant and putty to the crevices of "Fat Man," a final preparation to make sure the environment inside the bomb would be stable enough to create a full impact once it detonated.

Soldiers and workers sign their names and other messages on the nose of "Fat Man."




At the airfield, "Fat Man" is lined up over a pit specifically constructed for it, from which it is then loaded into the plane that eventually dropped it over Nagasaki.

Both pits for "Little Boy" and "Fat Man," each roughly 8 feet by 12 feet, still exist today on the island and now serve as a memorial of sorts.


Workers check "Little Boy" one last time, keeping the tarp on for security reasons, following a similar lowering procedure like the one done for "Fat Man" three days later.

Once "Little Boy" is ready, the Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, is reversed and positioned over the trench.





Left: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Right: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, taken by Charles LevyAP