MailOnline has published animations by Google which shows the impact that man has had on our planet in just less than three decades. The animations take you from 1982 to 2012. You can see desert's changed in front of your eyes. Forests disappear from the earth. Lakes vanish in just a decade.
Watch and learn and then speak out!
Some of the most daring and fantastic architecture has come out of China. Now fans of exciting new buildings know that some of the most ugly buildings also come out of China. Mail Online has picked some of those buildings for our amusement (or horror!).
Mail Online is reporting that LGBT drummers were outside the theater where Dame Helen Mirren is playing the Queen in "The Audience". The huge number of drummers were promoting an upcoming festival. Evidently the drumming could be heard inside the theater and was bothering the audience.
Dame Helen Mirren would have none of it.
Here is the Mail Online report:
But when Dame Helen Mirren’s latest performance was disturbed by the noise of a drumming troupe outside the theatre, her language was far from regal.
She stormed out of London’s Gielgud theatre – still dressed as the Queen in pearls and tiara – and screamed at them to shut up.
Reports of her exact words differ, but it is clear the 67-year-old was, like Queen Victoria, not amused.
Some said she told the group to ‘shut the **** up’.
Others said she ‘stomped out and shrieked “Quiet! I’m trying to do a play in here!” ’
Dame Helen is playing the Queen in The Audience, a play about the monarch’s private weekly meetings with various prime ministers at Buckingham Palace.
Last week the role earned her an Olivier award for best actress.
The play’s writer Peter Morgan also scripted the 2006 film The Queen, for which Dame Helen won an Oscar.
But Saturday night’s West End performance of the play was disturbed by the sound of drums five minutes before the interval.
A troupe of performers marched past the theatre in a parade designed to promote As One In The Park, a festival for gay and transgender people due to take place in East London this month.
Followed by a crowd of around 200, the musicians and dancers stopped outside a bar to perform a drum crescendo – unaware they were drowning out Dame Helen’s lines.
Audience member Ben Scotchbrook told the Daily Mail that the actress finished the first half without letting the noise affect her performance.
When the second half was interrupted by a lighting blackout, she went on stage and revealed she had dealt with the source of the noise.
‘She was a real pro, she saved the day,’ said Mr Scotchbrook, a 43-year-old communications consultant from Buckinghamshire.
‘The noise was really irritating, but she didn’t get ruffled on stage.
‘In the interval I went out and tried to ask the drummers to move on, to no effect. I don’t think they realised they could be heard inside the theatre.
‘I went back in without realising Dame Helen had also been out. Then in the second half the performance was halted for several minutes by a technical failure.
‘Dame Helen came on stage and said, “We’re having a bad night”.
'She apologised for the noise and said, “I went outside dressed as the Queen and told them, not too politely, to ‘go away’ as they were spoiling the play”.’
Mr Scotchbrook added: ‘I have since heard that she was even less polite than we had imagined.’
Writing on Twitter, Lucy Lumsden said: ‘Brilliant – Helen Mirren, dressed as the Queen, stormed off stage last night and told a bunch of drummers to “shut the **** up”.’
Miss Lumsden could not be contacted to verify whether she heard the exchange first-hand.
One of the parade organisers said: ‘She stomped out and shrieked, “Quiet! I’m trying to do a play in here! People have paid a lot of money for tickets”.’
Yesterday a spokesman for As One In The Park offered Dame Helen a free ticket to the event to apologise for the disturbance.
An unpredictable and monster fire that has covered over 40 square miles is raging out of control in Ventura County/ Malibu area. Even Britney Spears had to rush to her home to pack her most precious belongings. Several colleges have been evacuated and thousands have sought shelter. The fire is burning a ten mile stretch and the winds are often changing directions which challenges the firefighters.
Mail Online has dozens of photographs and here are some of them.
MailOnline has published a long page of horrible and embarrassing engagement photographs. Looking at them, it is hard to believe these couples ever let these photographs out of their hands. Most likely they will spare their children in the future from looking at them. Here are some of my favorites!
As a child, I used to wake up early and search high and low for the hidden Easter Basket left by my favorite Easter Bunny. My even for a short time had some pet rabbits and always some chickens with their babies. For this Easter, MailOnline published some wonderful bunny and chick photographs. Have a great day!
Mail Online calls this video "Giraffic Park" as a giraffee that is suffering from a hormonal imbalance' attacked a Land Cruiser full of tourists. The ranger hits the accelerator at full speed to put distance between the raging animal and themselves. However, the giraffe caught up, banged the vehicle and broke off the mirrors! What fun!
MailOnline has a wonderful photograph essay about the love of a mother for their babies in the wild. After reading about 100 million sharks dying a year and 24 rhino killed in one week, thought we needed a little love going into the weekend. Enjoy!
Alright, so for many of you I am coming out of the closet as a hopeless Elvis fan.
In my youth, he got me going with shaking his hips, his sultry looks and incredible talent. Even today listening to his music I find myself taken back into time of true greatness. The songs like "Love Me Tender" and "Can't Stop Loving You" are among my favorites. Who can't feel the urgency of "It's Now Or Never"?
Mail Online has a photo essay of Elvis of pictures taken when Elvis was just 21. The photographer Alfred Wertheimer went on the road with "The King" in 1956. Elvis had just signed his contract with RCA and had yet to make his famous appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
These photographs by Mr. Wertheimer will explain to you why I fell in love with the bad boy Elvis (Always loved those bad boys!).
The World War I battles along the Western Front left town after town totally devastated by the raging battles. The first World War took a horrific toll. The dead were piled high in the trenches. The number killed was overwhelming for the countries: A total of ten million soldiers were slaughtered and an appalling seven million civilians lost their lives. The roll call of dead by nation takes your breath away:
United Kingdom: 1.1 million
France: 1.4 million
Germany: 2 million
Austria-Hungary: 1.1 million
The United States lost well over a 115,000 soldiers!
Mail Online printed this rare images from the Western Front.
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