The White Nights are a kind of all-night arts festival held in many cities in the summer. The original festival is the White Nights Festival held in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The white nights is the a name given in areas of high latitude to the weeks around the summer solstice in June during which sunsets [...]
Rosh Hashanah literally “head of the year,” is a Jewish holiday commonly referred to as the “Jewish New Year.” It is observed on the first day of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar. It is ordained in the Torah as “Zicaron Terua” (“a memorial with the blowing of horns”), in Leviticus 23:24. Rosh [...]
Gucci has been making a big online push lately. They are launching a new “digital flagship” store on Gucci.com on September 22 the same date of the Women’s Spring Summer 2011 fashion show in Milan, Italy. As part of the launch, Gucci is holding a fashion “e-vent” that lets online watchers of the show participate [...]
Capitol Hill, aside from being a metonym for the United States Congress, is the largest historic residential neighborhood in Washington D.C., stretching easterly in front of the United States Capitol along wide avenues. It is one of the oldest residential communities in Washington, and with roughly 35,000 people in just under two square miles, it [...]
The Odeon Leicester Square is a cinema which occupies the centre of the eastern side of Leicester Square, London, dominating the square with its huge black polished granite facade and 120 feet (37 m) high tower displaying its name. Blue neon outlines the exterior of the building at night. It was built to be the [...]
Live web cam feed at Cathedral Square in the centre of Christchurch, as 7.0 Richter scale magnitude earthquake hits New Zealand’s South Island, 4 September 2010 A 7.0-magnitude earthquake has struck off New Zealand’s South Island, the US Geological Survey has said. Police said there had been widespread damage to buildings and roads as well [...]
Sunday 5 September sees professional athletes and fun runners alike take to the streets of Sheffield for the Great Yorkshire Run 2010. An event that does a great deal to raise money for local, national and international charities, the BUPA Great Yorkshire Run takes place today with athletes from around the world. Webcams are in [...]
On Aug. 31, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo welcomed a litter of African lion (Panthera leo) cubs. Shera and her cubs can now be viewed on the Zoo’s live webcam. Five-year-old Shera gave birth to four cubs, her first litter and the first surviving litter for the cubs’ father, 4-year-old Luke. The cubs were born between [...]
September 3 2010 is Flag Day in Australia, a public holiday for the whole country. This live webcam feed is in Sydney to capture the day’s celebrations, fireworks and festivities. A major public holiday, Australian National Flag Day, proclaimed in 1996 as a national day, celebrates the first time the flag of Australia was flown [...]
After several days’ downtime, infamous video chat service Webcam Chatroulette has returned today with what is supposedly ‘version 2.0′ and it’s clear that the novelty is well and truly over. Besides a more plain, minimal interface, nothing’s changed. The core idea of seeing a random person on screen and having the ability to chat with [...]