High Definition Wallpapers

August 11th, 2014

Attacking from Cover

Our ongoing artwork theme continues with this great painting showing a scene from World War Two. An American Sherman tank lurks in the cover of old broken trees and wreckage with it’s turret trained to the left. In the distance the German Panzer burns from the Sherman’s last shell that blew through it’s armour and […]

August 10th, 2014

The Tower of Babel

We continue with our artwork theme today with this amazing painting showing the Biblical Tower of Babel. According to the Book of Genesis, the united tribes of humanity, gathered together in the generations after the Great Flood, decided to build a city and a great tower that would reach into Heaven so that they could […]

August 9th, 2014

Battle of Trafalgar

Fought on the 21st of October 1805, the Battle of Trafalgar was the climactic engagement between the Royal Navy and the Combined Fleet of France and Spain. The British ships were outnumbered, but thanks to innovative tactics by Admiral Lord Nelson, the British forced a close-range melee and carried the day, taking 22 enemy ships […]

August 8th, 2014

The Fighting Temeraire

The Fighting Temeraire is an iconic 1838 oil painting by the famous artist J Turner, showing the last of the old sail-powered men-of-war being towed to the breakers by a paddle steamer. The imagery is stunning: the last of the old era being towed to her end by the herald of the new age. The […]

August 7th, 2014

The Black hole

We venture back into deep space with today’s wallpaper. This is a stunning artists’ concept of a large black hole and the region around it. The great luminous disk is called the accretion disc, and is formed from all the matter that is in the process of falling into the black hole. It’s spinning because […]

August 6th, 2014

We continue our space adventure with this rather glorious artists’ concept of a future warp-drive starship built by Earth. Since it’s a proposed future starship with a warp drive, of course it bears the name Enterprise. This design was originally created by NASA and is supposed to be capable (if we ever actually build the […]

August 5th, 2014

Earthrise

Our space odyssey continues with this iconic image from NASA’s Apollo 8 mission, the first manned spaceflight around the Moon. The spacecraft’s crew, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell (Commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission) and William Anders became the first men in history to witness the glorious Earthrise; the majestic blue globe of Earth rising […]

August 4th, 2014

M87

We return to a space theme with today’s wallpaper, which is an image taken by the famous Hubble Space Telescope of the distant active galaxy M87. An active galaxy is one with a core that is much brighter than we would expect, and it thought to be caused by a supermassive black hole at the […]

August 3rd, 2014

Solving Problems

We return to our quotes theme with one from the legendary crazy-haired physicist, Albert Einstein. Not only a great scientists responsible for ground-breaking work, he also had a mean way with words. Just don’t start looking at his relationship with his cousin, it’s just a little bit weird.. This great and thought-provoking quote makes a […]

August 2nd, 2014

Democracy

Time to take a break from serious quotes. This time we have an amusing cartoon explaining the nature of democracy and liberty. The question is, which are you? A wolf or a lamb? And are you packing heat and ready to contest the vote, or will you just go along with the majority and get […]

August 1st, 2014

Quotes on the Internet

For today’s wallpaper we have a rather satirical quote from (allegedly) Abraham Lincoln. Now, if you believe he really said this, then I have a bridge to sell you…. Despite that, it is a good point and one worth remembering. This amusing wallpaper is presented in high definition and will bring a smile to any […]

July 31st, 2014

Success and Failure

Once again we have a legendary Churchill quote to inspire you on a dull day. Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. It’s so true. There are many times I have quoted this to encourage myself or others to carry on despite a setback, or to […]

July 30th, 2014

Enemies

We continue our Quotes theme with another Churchill gem, this time regarding his views on having enemies. It’s rather hard to argue with him on this one isn’t it? Having enemies means you took a stand on something, right or wrong: you stepped up and did something, rather than keeping you head down and going […]

July 29th, 2014

Going Through Hell

We’ve got a brand-new category of wallpapers for you, the Quotes category, packed full of inspirational and smuing sayings from the great and the good. What better way to kick things off than with a quote or three from that most quotable of leaders, Winston Churchill? This one features a nice simple message for those […]

July 28th, 2014

Crossroads Baker

This time we have a rather sobering image for you. This is the blast cloud from the Crossroads Baker nuclear test at Bikini Atoll in July 1946. This was the 4th nuclear weapon ever detonated and the test was aimed at finding out how effective nuclear weapons are against warships. This was the second blast […]

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