🏰 Powis Castle and Garden 🪴 Powis Castle is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country house near Welshpool, in Powys, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Europe attractions

High above the Italianate terraces of Powis Castle and Garden NT/YG Castell a Gardd Powis Gardener Dan trims the mighty 55ft yew hedge — a 300-year-old icon of this world-famous garden. Each autumn, it takes two months to shape the dramatic ‘tumps’ back into their cloud-like forms that wow visitors year after year. A living piece of history, these hedges have stood the test of time, style, and garden design — and remain one of Wales’s most spectacular sights. 📍 Powis Castle and Garden, Welshpoo

In 1954, a U.S. Air Force B-57B Canberra aircraft filmed Castle Bravo, the most powerful nuclear test ever carried out by the United States. The detonation took place at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands and produced a fifteen megaton explosion that was about one thousand times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The fireball grew several miles wide, and the mushroom cloud rose more than forty miles into the sky. The unexpected strength of the blast spread dangerous radioactive fallo

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