Jumbo fingerprints made from random stuff.

“France in the Year 2000″ is a series of futuristic pictures issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901, and 1910. Also, science-fiction writers’ predictions of the 2012 future, from 1987.

Gallery: Caravanserai, staging posts of the desert.

Cooking with power tools.

Flamingos have erectile tissue in their mouths. Related: Want to persuade Flamingos to mate? Play them Barry White and Marvin Gaye.

Ninety-one-year-old takes controls of rare two-seat aircraft 70 years after he first flew one in WWII.