Thursday, January 23. 2014
Saturday, January 4. 2014
HE WATERFALL ISLAND AT IGUAZU FALLS
This stunning rock formation is located at Iguazu Falls. Apparently this particular view can be seen from the lookout on San Martin Island on the Argentinian side of the falls.Iguazu Falls are waterfalls of the Iguazu River located on the border of the Brazilian State of Parana and the Argentine Province of Misiones. The falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguazu. The Iguazu River originates near the city of Curitiba. It flows through Brazil for most of its course. Below its confluence with the San Antonio
River, the Iguazu River forms the boundary between Brazil and Argentina.The total height of the falls is about 60-82 meters (200-269 ft). There are approximately 275 different drops and the total width of the falls is a staggering 2.7 kilometers (1.7 miles).
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Tuesday, December 3. 2013
Saturday, November 16. 2013
- Дорогая, я дома!
- Почему так поздно?
- По дороге медведь ногу вывихнул - пришлось водкой отпаивать.
- Садитесь все! Давайте выпьем водки.
- Мам, я пойду поиграю с медведем.
- Хорошо, только стачала выпей водки.
- А где наш дедушка?
- Он вторую неделю стоит в очереди за талонами на талоны.
- Хорошо, что он перед этим выпил водки. И ты без дела не сиди - иди тоже выпей водки.
- Ладно, иди, погуляй, сынок, и не забудь написать вечером отчёт в КГБ! А
по пути домой не забудь купить водки - она заканчивается.
- Дорогая, что-то жарко. Выключи, пожалуйста, атомный реактор.
- Сейчас водку допью и выключу, а ты пока сыграй на балалайке.
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Thursday, November 14. 2013
- Как жаль, что вы, наконец-то, уходите… - Глядя на вас, хочется еще раз пожелать вам здоровья! - Что вы на меня так смотрите, как будто ваши родители на дачу уехали? - Вы так на меня смотрите, как будто я уже голая. - Вы такой умный. Вам череп не жмет?
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Saturday, October 12. 2013
Saturday, April 20. 2013
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Бывает часто с игроком: Сел богачом - встал бедняком. Кто карты взял, прельстясь наживой, Тому не знать игры счастливой. Игра азартная грешна: Она не Богом нам дана,- Ее придумал сатана! Себастиан БРАНТ. 1494 г.
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Saturday, March 30. 2013
SUNRISE OVER LONDON’S TOWER BRIDGE
Photograph by Jason Pope
In this stunning photograph by amateur photographer Jason Pope, we
see a beautiful sunrise over the Tower Bridge in London, England.
According to the Daily Mail, the photo was taken at 7am from the sixth floor office of the Northern and Shell building on Lower Thames street.
The equipment used? An inexpensive Panasonic point and shoot camera.
Pope, a 35-year-old IT engineer said he shared his capture with some
colleagues in the office and someone eventually posted it to Reddit where it promptly became the number one post for a brief period.
Tower Bridge (built 1886–1894) is a combined bascule and suspension
bridge in London, over the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of
London, from which it takes its name. It has become an iconic symbol of
London. The bridge’s present colour scheme dates from 1977, when it was
painted red, white and blue for the Queen Elizabeth II’s silver jubilee.
Originally it was painted a mid greenish-blue colour. Tower Bridge is
sometimes mistakenly referred to as London Bridge, which is the next
bridge upstream.
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Saturday, March 16. 2013
MAELSTROM AT KAUAI, HAWAII
Photograph by PATRICK SMITH PHOTOGRAPHY
A maelstrom is a very powerful whirlpool; a large, swirling body of water. A free vortex, it has considerable downdraft. The power of tidal whirlpools tends to be exaggerated by laymen. There are virtually no stories of large ships ever being sucked into a maelstrom, although smaller craft are in danger and tsunami generated maelstroms may even threaten larger crafts. Tales like those by Paul the Deacon, Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe are entirely fictional.
One of the earliest uses of the Scandinavian word was by Edgar Allan Poe in his story “A Descent into the Maelstrom” (1841). In turn, the Nordic word is derived from the Dutch maelstrom, modern spelling maalstroom, from malen (to grind) and stroom (stream), to form the meaning grinding current or literally “mill-stream”, in the sense of milling (grinding) grain.
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Wednesday, February 13. 2013
by Robert Rickhoff
Tuesday, January 22. 2013
SALAR DE UYUNI AFTER SOME RAIN
Photograph via Paean on Reddit
Salar de Uyuni (or Salar de Tunupa) is the world’s largest salt flat at 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi). It is located in the Potosi and Oruro departments in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes, and is elevated 3,656 meters (11,995 ft) above the mean sea level. The Salar was formed as a result of transformations between several prehistoric lakes. It is covered by a few meters of salt crust, which has an extraordinary flatness with the average altitude variations within one meter over the entire area of the Salar. The crust serves as a source of salt and covers a pool of brine, which is exceptionally rich in lithium. It contains 50 to 70% of the world’s lithium reserves, which is in the process of being extracted.
The large area, clear skies and exceptional surface flatness make the Salar an ideal object for calibrating the altimeters of the Earth observation satellites. The Salar serves as the major transport route across the Bolivian Altiplano and is a major breeding ground for several species of pink flamingos. Salar de Uyuni is also a climatological transitional zone, for towering tropical cumulus congestus and cumulus incus clouds that form in the eastern part of the massive salt flat during summer, cannot permeate beyond the salt flat’s considerably more arid western edges, near the Chilean border and the Atacama Desert.
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Saturday, January 19. 2013
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