Artificial Owl is one year old!
To celebrate this first great year of existence, here is a new type of articles called "Best of AO".
They recap the best posts from the past year on a specific subject...Let's start with the 10 most spectacular shipwrecks.
On a completely unrelated note, you can now follow AO on twitter.
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The American Star
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The Ydra
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The Mediterranean Sky
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The Olympia
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The Dimitrios
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The Eden V
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The Murmansk
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The Eduard Bohlen
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The Panagiotis
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The United Malika
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This church is the only remaining building left from the village of San Juan Parangaricutiro, located in the state of Michoacán in Mexico. What happened? Not far from there In 1943 the Volcán de Parícutin started to rise out of a farmer's cornfield. In the following irruption, it buried 2 villages under lava and ashes, including San Juan Parangaricutiro.
The church of San Juan is now an abandoned ruin in the middle of nowhere. During the eruption, the lava flowed around and into the church, and covered 3/4 of the town. Just beneath the church, the old houses and buildings keep buried under the rocks.
No one died from the Parícutin volcano as all residents were evacuated before the villages were covered in lava. At the end of this phase, the volcano had grown 336 metres tall. For the next eight years the volcano would continue erupting.
coordinates : 19°31'59.58"N 102°14'49.88"W
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