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Avi you forgot:
-McKielbasa (polish of course!): http://www.flickr.com/photos/laws/558307499/in/set-72157600376166732/
-McLobster (served on the Canadian east coast)
-McWieś (polish, "McVillage"): nothing exotic except for the name. lots of local produce basically.
Love your blog!
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"I also seem to remember that when I first went to Australia in 2003, there was a Billabong Burger that had beetroot between two patties. Sadly (or perhaps thankfully), I don’t have any photographic evidence, though it tasted as grim as it sounds. There was also a similar one called McOz with only one patty (plus beetroot)."
There's also the Kiwiburger, which the McOz was based on, which has an iconic song and ad to go with it, well in New Zealand anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwiburger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5CX_NCf8Ow
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I'm Australian, and it's quite common for people to eat beetroot on hamburgers. Whack a fried egg on there too and it's delish!
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I really think you need to give beetroot on a burger a go, it is fantastic. Not so sure about the sugar soaked spaghetti though.
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In Paris you can buy McMacarons. You can buy far better ones _everywhere_ else but that doesnt stop the McCafe from selling their own evil copy.
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I love this blog. Always fun stuff.
Of course I'm just buttering you up to ask a question. How is it ironic that spam is available in Hawaiian McDonalds restaurants?
Funny? Yes, but ironic?
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you should have posted more items from McDonald's in India.
they have items like "McMaharaja" which I find really funny!
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The McDonalds branches in Albuquerque, New Mexico (and elsewhere in the state) serve up the local delicacy on their double cheeseburgers: green chile! They'll add it to pretty much all of their other sammiches on request too. In fact, if you DON'T want it on your doublecheeser, you have to order it plain. :)
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In Finland McDonalds sells McRuis (McRye), basically normal hamburger but with rye bread.
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In Poland they had fried broccoli available as well as "salad cream" . . . which turned out to be regular ol' mayonnaise.
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in scotland last year, mc'd's was selling a cheesburger with salsa. it was called the little mexican.
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I've been told that in Quebec, they have McPoutine, which is fries, with fresh cheese curds, smothered in gravy... Stent me now!
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Wonderful Bulgogi burger at McDonald's in Seoul, S. Korea. A little on the sweet side but yummy.
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The McDonalds in Istambul by the train station sells McKabobs. Hilarious because the real kabob vendors are everywhere and I am sure a million times better.
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Mmmmmm I love the McLobster!
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I went to McDonalds in Paris because we'd been there nine days, my friends were passed out and I was hungry... plus, I needed a bit of home.
My friends were very disappointed in me that I'd gone to such a place. However, over the next few days, every one of them managed to find their way over. As much as I love to embrace the foreign experience, sometimes I need a little bit of home.
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Where the hell did you get that -- spaghetti soaked in sugar?!? That's bull. That info is wrong dude. Mcspaghetti never tasted like sugar.
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It is amazing that you guys keep coming up with these great posts, it is hard to do so on a consostent basis.
There is always something new to learn
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Also the Dutch Mcdonalds has got the McKroket >> http://mcdonalds.nl/wps/wcm/connect/mcd/mcdonalds/Home/Producten/Producten/Burgers+en+Nuggets/McKroket
It's a thick ragout thing with a crispy layer around it, and they serve it with mustard.
And all dutch people love it.
I didnt really like the taste... :S
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In the McDonald's restaurant in Aqaba, Jordan, you can get hold of McArabia chicken burger in a pita bread.
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In Malaysia, there's something called Prosperity Burger. Basically a beef burger with thick black pepper sauce & onions. They are served only around Chinese New Year and are fantastically popular...
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I am from the Philippines and McSpaghetti is not soaked with sugar. I don;t know what your Filipino friends meant with that, but McSpaghetti taste just like any other spaghettis, no issue with that.
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The Japanese tentacle snack is sold at Muji. Never seen it at MacDs anywhere, but you can buy it at all Muji stores -- Japan, England, Singapore, wherever.
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Here is why travel journalism is interesting as it is. I had put my ass into one of the Mcdonalds temples exactly three times, and that many too many, but as long as there are people daring enough to enter the charming instutions, the rest of us can thus feel better, knowing we're not missing out on anything, except for the extremely bad taste in food...
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I'm from the Philippines, and yep the McSpaghetti is on the sweet side. However, this is how Pinoys like their spaghetti - sweet. In groceries you can buy either Italian style spaghetti sauce or Pinoy style which is both sweet and sour. Filipino spaghetti also has cut up hotdogs and ham.
Do you know also that the McDonald's hamburger is hardly sold here? Instead we have a sweeter version called a "Burger McDo" which has thousand island dressing. Weird yeah, but tasty and cheap.
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You should thank you can find english menus when you go to other countries. Making fun of other cultures makes you look like a fool. Wake up and go to learn a new language bcos learning other languages is learning other cultures, and you are definitively in need of that.
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mc kroket
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All American fast food is generally soaked in some sort of sodium flavoring solution and/or high fructose corn syrup. Even if it were true, I'm surprised that you're surprised about McSpaghetti being soaked in sugar.
This is an interesting post but it has a kind of irritating "everything unfamiliar is weird" subtext too it.
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What I loved about McDonalds in Japan is that they're the only ones I've ever been to where the food you see in the pictures matches the food you get at the table.
Plus it's cute when the counter girls say "Thank You" after every item you order.
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While in Cairo, Eqypt a few years back we had a Pizza Hut stop and had to try the sliced hot dog pizza! different but not bad. I know this wasn't a McDees story but... the McDonalds was either not bad or i was longing for home so much that I didn't notice the strange. :-)
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Singapore had a Kiasu Burger and also Kampung (Village) Burge, which is basically a mc chicken with tangy sauce with an added pineapple slice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YduaMBZefc0
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Much to my disappointment, you cannot get the Mc Oz here in Australia anymore :( Try throwing a slice of beetroot in your quarter pounder and I promise you'll love it!
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You should add KLG (as in KFC) to the copycat restaurant section. There are many branches around Taiwan. Here's a Flickr pic. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hey-gem/668512507/
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Sorry for all of your poor Mc fast-crappy-food.
Here in Spain, "tapas" and "pinchos" are a really tasty and healthy alternative.
Going now for some of theses, with delicious red wine or beer.
Yum !
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Taro Pie in Guam! My friend spent a few summers there and told me about this.
http://mcchronicles.blogspot.com/2006/10/mcdonalds-sweet-taro-pie.html
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Sorry for all of your poor Mc fast-crappy-food.
Here in Spain, "tapas" and "pinchos" are a really tasty and healthy alternative.
Going now for some of theses, with delicious red wine or beer.
Yum !
yeah there are a lot of mcdonalds in spain. were not talking about tapas and cadaver-looking pig hindlegs hanging in bars while your having your tapas, yikes.
Yum !
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In Israel McD's sells the McShwarma: kabob meat in a pita with yogurt sauce. Of course it's a poor choice compared to the yummy shwarma sold from the hundreds of street vendors.
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Hay algunas cosas que dan asco, como ese hamburguesa de arroz. Un saludo!
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The "guacamole" thing is not from Chile, the cost is totally irrational, here it could cost like $1200, also cents didn't exist here. Maybe is from Mexico.
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In Costa Rica, they can serve pico de gallo with your burger (rice and beans). Also the have the Tica burger, which is a hamburger seasoned with Costa Rican spices.
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And in Portugal they sell a true expresso coffee for 0.50 euros.
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i remember the McRib! mcLobster.....
oh! in india Mcdonalds "meat" is made of bread ;)
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Really Good stuffs, I wish the sell some of those here in the US
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In austrailia they even have beetroots on the hamburgers ;-)
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Mc D's in the Philippines doesn't have Mc Breakfast (from what I saw) 9am and everyone is having hamburgers and fries and Mc Spaghetti. I love the avocado at Chilean Mc D's on their hamburgers.
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The commenter about the "Guacamole" in Chile was right, that picture does not seem to be from there - although they DO have it there on burgers it's referred to as "Palto"
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oh "pita and lay bread" sound good! McD made a splash with the Chicken Tatsuta revival in japan. that successfully ended up with running out of chickens.
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"In Costa Rica, they can serve pico de gallo with your burger (rice and beans). Also the have the Tica burger, which is a hamburger seasoned with Costa Rican spices."
I think you mean gallo pinto. Pico de gallo is a chunky "salsa" with tomatoes and onions, maybe bell peppers. Gallo pinto is only served for breakfast though. Otherwise the McD menu is pretty much the same as in the U.S. Where did you see a Tica burger? Could be BK, they have some weird stuff here!
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back in 1999 I saw Bratwurst on the menu at a McDonald's in Germany.
In 2005 I went to a McDonald's in Ireland only because I needed to use the bathroom, we ordered some sodas cause it was 'customers only' and the small was like 8 oz! I was shocked because I'm used to a small being 22 oz.
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The reason i will go to a McD's while traveling - i know they will have a clean restaurant, and usually a clean bathroom.
Of course - the former is more important than the latter!
i did a blog about how McDonalds made me McAwesome - love your feedback on it.
http://brandscaping.ca/2009/11/how-mcdonalds-made-me-mcawesome/
- Jason
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Crikey! I had no idea McDonald's had so many speciality foods in different countries. Does that mean they do Spitting Cobra McMuffins in China?
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They different menus all over the world. Things you will get in China may be not available in other countries. But by far they serve the best around the world.
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In Morocco they offer the McArabia. Don't remember exactly, but I think it was beef or chicken & falalfel.
I was disappointed by the lack of Pigeon McNuggets.
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McSpaghetti is not sweet. Jollibee spaghetti, now that's sweet eeew
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Next to the Madrid picture is Trier. Trier is in Germany, however, and not in Austria as written.
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You missed this one : http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/Business/VenuesForHire/SydneyTownHall/GrandOrgan.asp
Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FXoyr_FyFw
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You forgot about the only "Bamboo Pipe Organ in the World" found in the Philippines.
Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Pi%C3%B1as_Bamboo_Organ
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Many of the pipes seen externally in the churches are largely ornamental, and most of the actual sound-producing pipes are hidden behind panels.
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How could you omit this US gem co-designed by Frank Gehry and with absolutely the most beautiful pipes ever
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Uh, yeah
http://lamc.org/walt-disney-concert-hall-pipe-organ-facts.php
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You forgot this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_organ
It is in Zadar, Croatia.
Sea, more specific waves hitting the coast, pier pass through designed cavities in stone, and go to built in pipes. Wonderful music..
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I don't know how many pipes or when it was built, but I've never seen an organist need a kid to operate the stops.
'Til here --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd_oIFy1mxM
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The Zadar sea organ, in action...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rUVc5ZnnDk
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while this is not a functional organ, it's a visually impressive, cavernous warehouse-sized room filled with fantastic "organs" cobbled together from parts salvaged from many actual organs. crossing the many bridges and walkways in this red velvet monstrosity makes for a surreal experience.
http://www.thehouseontherock.com/HOTR_Attraction_TicsAndTours_Reg_Tour3_OrganRoom.htm
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http://www.thehouseontherock.com/HOTR_Attraction_TicsAndTours_Reg_Tour3_OrganRoom.htm
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http://www.travelwisconsin.com/upload/images/organ%20room009%20sm.jpg
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Great idea for a post and love some of these images! You should check out one that's in the United Artists Theatre in Detroit (I was reading about the place recently and am sure that's where this organ was?). Anyway, it's a grand old theatre but totally abandoned and decaying, and there's an amazing pipe organ still in there (if I'm thinking of the wrong place, apologies). Great post!
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Thanks for the great link. I happen to build Pipe Organs for a living,
At the end of my second decade it's still a riot.
Always touching when the old ladies in church get teary eyed hearing a new instrument play for the first time.
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Batillus tanker: sad to know it was scrapped after only 10 years of service.
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обезьяна с гранатой -это очень опасно!!!!!!!!!
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The link "Continue to thrilling movie posters" actually goes to Air Stewardesses.
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Guy, link fixed, thank you.
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Sophia Loren linkpic? I'm not convinced about the "Western" connection. West End London, perhaps. It's an outfit from her / Peter Sellars film "The Millionairess". Try YT for a most enoyable clip from the film.
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Forgot Sharon Stone in the "Quick and the Dead"
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Can we call them 'Cow Belles'? If so, ring, ring.
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Those pictures of NY in the 70/80's almost deserve to be accompanied by danish photographer Jacob Holdt's pictures of "Brutal New York 1965/95", here as seen on skyscrapercity.com:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=402544
Also, visit his own site for more documentaric storytelling and photographies from his journey around the american lower class communities:
http://www.american-pictures.com/english/index.html
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The animal in the fourth picture is a Solenodon (I believe that's how they call them in english) and is an endemic animal from the country I come from, Dominican Republic, but also found in our neighbor country, Haiti. Is endangered, btw.
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The pictures of the Bronx are sobering indeed...
The quintessential 'trip' movie "Koyaanisqatsi" features very similar images, images that truly mainstream shocked '70s America. The film as a whole is an entirely unique experience and I recommend it highly (plus the music is by Phillip Glass, which cannot fail to be magnificent).
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I'll have to pygmy up one of those geckos. I can send them down for milk and be assured they'll return... eventually...
Another magnificent update, Avi. Many thanks from the Antipodes.
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Great bit of gecko footage there! And I never quite understood why (other than for sheer amusement) the Gecko in the insurance ad has an east London accent??? That second pic, is pretty mad! Considering something I was reading in The Daily Dust about how health and safety in the UK posting guidelines on how to safely eat a biscuit, I can't imagine that country allowing this sort of thing any time soon! Awesome pics once again!
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I am so thankful that this gallery does differentiate between concept & finished product, Just because someone cam make a picture of something doesnt mean it can actually be made.I am so sick of tech blogs telling us the flying car or whatever is just round the corner.
You will never purchase any of these "products" at any price because the manufacturing processes in order to produce these phones DOES NOT EXIST!
I am now two cents poorer.
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This is the web-site for a pub quite near to where I live. http://www.catandcustardpot.co.uk/
No satisfactory explanation for the name has ever been found
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Another one that has "reputed" origins is "The Case Is Altered". The most common origin given is "La casa alta" brough back from the peninsula campaign during the Napoleonic wars.
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In the '80s, traditional pubs were bought up by the fistful by large breweries who wanted places to sell their beer exclusively. Many, many original and quite exquisite turned-wood fittings, stained-glass windows and other irreplaceable pieces of history were tossed out to make way for cocktail bars and large-screen TVs.
Ironically, in the past decade well-heeled young revellers have been craving the feel of yore. Now these breweries are spending a fortune making ersatz versions of what they ripped out to begin with.
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loved this article, but great to see that the UK is still keeping the tradition alive, shame to see to many Weatherspoon etc...
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There's a pub in the New Forest called The World's End - seemed like quite a pleasant spot really, without a cliff or an apocalypse in sight.
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I have been to the last drop. Definitely a recommendation!
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There was a time when the traditional English oub was strong but times have changed and I agree there are too many bars around in Britain
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My parents used to have a cottage in Earl Sterndale where the Quiet Woman is! It's a tiny village in a steep gorge in probably the most bleak part of the Peak District National Park - and the pub is about as bleak and quiet as its name! In fact every time I've been there it's been closed... although apparently it does open daily - bizarre place!
Great names! The Kings Head is always a popular one too, and the "Wicked Woman" looks pretty attractive from where I'm standing!
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I don't know about the first vehicle but the O'keefe truck belonged to The O'keefe Brewery which was purchased by the Carling Brewery becoming the Carling O'keefe brewery which was then purchased by the Molsons Group. At no time did it ever belong to Labatts.
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The photographer of the Hakka houses is actually named Ryan Pyle (that's a y in his last name). And he's a very nice guy!
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The swastika is a Hindu symbol, facing either way. The Nazi's stole only the right-pointing one. (This is why it's amusing once in a while to see a stupid neo-nazi with the hindu symbol for evolution of the universe, the left-facing one.)
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Michael Moschen gave a ted talk years ago and discussed his philosophy and approach towards juggling. Worth watching for anyone who enjoyed the triangle piece. He's amazing!
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/michael_moschen_juggles_rhythm_and_motion.html
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Is there any info where or by whom the last photo, with the helicopters, was taken?
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No info... would like to know about this one, too.
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these are from the site:
EnglishRussia.com it is in their abandon Russian countries series on war machines forgotten.
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Heh, minefield sandals and metal detectors. Just got a flashback to my combat engineering service.
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Great Photographs
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Re Art Deco, I heartily recommend The Netherlands Plaza, at 3rd and Race St in downtown Cincinatti, OH. Furnishings purchased at the original Art Deco exposition in Paris, 192x. The 1st floor bar is probably the most surreal place to get drunk east of the mississippi.
Chris
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There's a reason why all of Vegas is photographed at night. The build "quality" of these structures is mediocre. Walk around during the day and look. Vegas is a visual dump by day.
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Jack is 100% right. Vegas is a paper mache city. Th build quality and energy efficiency of most of those buildings is shameful.
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The chocolate fountain smells fantastic in person. I have tried many times to photograph the ceiling in the Venetian and the pictures always come out too dark. Loved the vintage nighttime shots though, well done!
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Hard to believe that Vegas started out as a Mormon outpost.
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I think you'll find that the giant gerbil picture is from an ad campaign from Connex; the train operator for Melbourne, Australia
I think you'll find that the gerbil is a guinea pig
Regarding cave exploration photos: The author's nick is "howito", not "Zamieszkaly". "Zamieszkaly" in Polish language means "resident of...". In this case - City of Wadowice in Malopolskie Voivodship. So what we got here is a funny misunderstanding caused probably by the Howito's portfolio's structure :) Best of luck to You All. Arek from Poland.
I don't mind calling it weird. But I'd prefer it not be called tasty.
The seahorse harvest, so that they can be ground into powder, is having monumental effects on thier population and on ocean habitats in general.
Here's my infos: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2009/09/seahorses-facts-pictures.html
or straight to the source. http://seahorse.fisheries.ubc.ca/
oh and it is a guinea pig.
Yeah, it's a Connex campaign. The line is something about unexpected things might make the trains late. How could they anticipate giant hamsters blocking the tracks?
Of course, in reality, a hamster sneezing three km away will make a Connex train late.
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