By 1919 the Cathedral was a shambles, its 400-ton lead roof melted, nearly all of its great stained-glass windows blown out, 24 of its 35 ancient statues wrecked, all its flying buttresses ...

Building buttresses to support your heavy dome is a good solution -- but it won't work here. When the magnificent Turkish cathedral Hagia Sophia collapsed only 20 years after it was built ...

As Cannon says of flying buttress, 'where practical necessity met aesthetic adventure came strange and fantastic beauty.' Splendid stuff. Wells Cathedral, Somerset Nikolaus Pevsner at Cartmel ...

There are about 50 species of flying squirrels ranging across most of North America down into Central America, and stretching from Southeast and Northern Asia into Siberia and Scandinavia.

Or, if you’re visiting Paris on a day trip from somewhere else, like Reims in the Champagne ... where you can view the ...

Not the flying experience they had in mind. A routine Air Canada trip turned into the flight from hell after a severe patch of turbulence caused both passengers and food to go flying — with the ...

Flying fish can be seen jumping out of warm ocean waters worldwide. Their streamlined torpedo shape helps them gather enough underwater speed to break the surface, and their large, wing-like ...

Another element that some will be to see go are the flying buttresses on the top. Thankfully, it appears that BMW has decided to avoid the unnaturally long rear deck that would come with a hard ...

Flight AC19 departed from Vancouver on Friday and was on its way to Singapore when the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner suddenly hit "major bumps" and "everything went flying (including a few people!)," ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: For over a century, people have imagined a future with flying cars. We've seen them in movies, concepts from automakers, and fully functioning ...