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Polar Bears are never 'stranded' on an iceberg. They are excellent swimmers, they hunt in the water, and are known to swim tens of kilometers while hunting.
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So sad. Most pictures taken in captivity. And "tired" bear is just bored to death while sitting in concrette pit behinde bars. Damn it!
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Actually, during certain seasons, the polar bears can be effectively "stranded" on ice bergs, because the distance between ice floes can be hundreds of miles. They are strong swimmers, but even they have their limits.
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The Pyongyang Hotel certainly amazes me, but there's something even more impressive: the emptyness of the sreets even around such a key architectural point of NK.
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"Anyone wants a rocket?" A couple of bombs on the cart, not rockets. The rockets I've seen have exhaust nozzles at the back for propulsion, these don't.
I love that 1916 monster trike, nasty nasty.
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What? No mention of EXTREME IRONING?
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Well, actually, we did mention it in this article - http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/05/men-rules-humor.html (scroll down)
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As to the balloon photos, the one on the left (multi-color balloons) is real. I have crewed for this pilot. See clusterballoon.org See also clusterballoon.com The one on the right (blue and white balloons) is most likely a fake. In real life, the balloons tend to pack tighter than depicted and one needs many more of them
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How about Donkey Basketball?
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Ski jumping is a popular sport even nowadays, it's part of the Winter Olympic Games too! The countries of the Baltic and the Alps are very good at this, but I think there are some people doing it in the Far East (Japan, China) and in North America (USA, Canada) too. I wouldn't call it an extreme sport, although those people jumping more than 200 meters in the air need huge balls. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEIv95bzLy8
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The national sport of Argentina is the Pato (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pato) which originally was played using a living duck (not for long) inside a basket which was in itself the prize. If there was no duck ('pato' is the Spanish word for 'duck') any animal could be used and quite possibly goats have been used.
It is now played with a leather ball with 6 handles all around and formal rules.
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Check the Video in References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_ice_hockey
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LOLs This is very funny extreme sports. . haha
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Nice pics.
But you didn't label all the pics correctly. You did label a few ships as Dutch - They where in fact Danish.
You said:
Dutch ships: Elefanten, 1741, Jylland, 1739, Fyen, 1736
Nah - They were all danish...
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Thank you - corrected
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it might be worth noting that the vasa boat in the first pictures - the colored stern is a part of a scale model of the boat, while the unpainted stern is the real salvaged boat which occupies the complete museum. Flash is not allowed as they are trying to preserve the ship as much as possible.
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It would be cool to have some shots from inside the stern cabins.
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La Real, the flagship of the Holy League forces at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 has a rather interesting stern, definitely worth including in a Part 2 if you can find a good picture of it (the wikipedia link above had one that's decent, but a little fuzzy)
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I would definitely recommend reading 'The Places in Between' by Rory Stewart. It's his brilliant account of his journey walking from Herat to Kabul.
It's such a fantastic book, and I mention it here because Stewart encounters the minaret at some point along his route.
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Beautiful! On the other hand, I doubt the tower was truly lost, just unknown to Europeans and Americans. I am fairly certain that the local Afghan people knew it was there. I feel like it's disingenuous to act as though Westerners' knowledge is the only one that counts.
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Gaidig, the phrase that the tower was forgotten meant that it was forgotten to westerners, given the context of the rest of the text. I feel that it is a rush to judgement to feel that a phrase like that implies western arrogance.
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My great grandfather was in Afghanistan in Victorian times bringing telegraph cables. I wish he had kept a diary or taken photos.
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I really wish I could see something like that in the area of Afghanistan I am in. It is truly beautiful. Here... not so much. As I side note, we could all learn something from the message of tolerance on that tower.
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Is it a sign of tolerance, or a symbol of defiance built by those who had been conqured and forced to submit to islam? A leaning minaret covered in references to their native faiths built to show the contempt they felt for their new masters.
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Great post.
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That is a wonderful tower. I'm surprised that those ambassadors of cultural tolerance and religious freedom, the taliban, haven't blown it up by now.
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Great post
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Careful now Anonymous, we could easily replace 'Taliban' by USA, Britain, Spain or any other number of Western governments over the years that have treated countless other countries around the world to exactly the same regime.
I rarely quote the Bible, but the proverb about taking the plank out of your eye before removing the speck from another's seems appropriate.
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Regarding the Paris 26-gigapixel photograph, here you have the current world record which is a Seville 111-gigapixel photograph:
http://www.sevilla111.com/
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the glass trees look like Dale Chihuly creations
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As the first poster replied, those are Dale Chihuly creations (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuly). The one on the right is installed at the Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus OH, as are many other Chihuly glass sculptures. The one on the left may also be there, but I don't recognize it from my visits.
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Dale Chihuly for sure. The one on the left is at the New York Botanical Garden. And oh, the big trees growing in Cambodia might be Ficus trees, not Bombax.
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North America has its share of Magnificent trees. One of the oldest organisms, heaviest and generally biggest tree is the Pando in Utah's Fishlake National Forest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
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Yes, we have aspen clones in Canadian Rockies - interesting to observe them turn color as one organism.
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where did that last tree image get taken? the "tolkienesque" one?
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The Dark Hedges - County Antrim, Northern Ireland - see more: http://tinyurl.com/3jrolgj
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Bazil is the demon of death? I thought he was either a fox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Brush) or a hopeless hotel owner...!
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Gorgeous stuff! The writing is really interesting too--thanks for a great read :)
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Jacaranda is not endemic to Australia nor New Zealand. They are introduced; originally from South America.
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The Dragon Blood Tree is a truly magnificent herbal aid for blood issues, internally and externally. This page is making it sound like it's just for lipstick and superstitious BS.
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I saw "suicide", "scum", and "dread". Not fair! They were all right next to each other right in the middle.
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How To 'Get Smart' - That's Agent 99!
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That wise lady seems to be Agent 99 (Barbara Felton), from "Get Smart".
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Dang, Brian beat me "That much!"
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Life goals, in three words or less, but in five words. Yeah, makes sense.
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I saw Crush, Flesh and Secret. Damn, now I'm a closet cannibal...
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risk naked noir
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suicide, hidden and cut.
Damn. :p
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hate naked rage
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I beat y'all.
Mine were "mad", "naked", "man". In this order.
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Haha, Mad Naked Man. Awesome.
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"maniac", "orgia", "cut"
what should i do now? :(
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"secret", "flesh" and "rage". That doesn't sound too good...
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Gregory Peck from "To Kill a Mockingbird", methinks, not Alain Delon
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You do know that SCUBA stands for "Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus" don't you? That ain't self contained.
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See if you can find any Oskar Fischinger animations. He worked in the 1920s, first in Germany, then came to Hollywood. The opening sequence for Disney's Fantasia is based on his work.
YouTube has a lot of "based on" and "inspired by" videos, but the real thing is always the real thing.
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Much of Winsor McKay's animation has been recovered and is available on DVD. The creator of _Little Nemo_ and _Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend_ produced multiple works, some for those newspaper comics as well as the famous _Gertie the Dinosaur_.
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Very interesting collection! This could keep me entertained for days. I will be sure to check back to see what else you have in store.
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Why do you call the Leptocephalus Ghastly?! Because you are expected to be repulsed by something unusual?!
Maybe they meant "Ghostly."
That's hydrothermal, not hypothermal! Hyperthermal is likely, given it's habitat...
Good set of links this time round - thanks.
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