Tag: Lightning

Lightning struck the Christ of Rio. The moment was captured on camera

The 38-meter-tall statue, which was intended to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Brazilian independence, was erected in 1931. The very idea for the structure at the top of the granite Corcovado mountain (710 meters above sea level) was born a decade before the official unveiling. The ori...

The Lightning Bird, The Hamerkop

The bird is commonly named the Hamerkop. It is an Afrikaans name directly translated to Hammerhead. This is as a result of the bird having a head…you guessed it, shaped like a hammer. It is near-endemic to Africa occurring South of the Sahara desert down towards the Southernmost point of Sout...