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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Pledge to Stand up for Human Rights

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Regal

Google translation of first sentence: Another major point on the map of medieval Thailand. We made a half-day trip to this town, 45 kilometers from Sukhotai, to visit the UNESCO World Heritage Park and the famous pottery workshops. To get around, we rented from a local agency, through the hotel reception, a car with a driver from morning to afternoon.

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Si Satchanalai, 2017

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Un alt punct major pe harta Thailandei medievale. Am făcut o excursie de jumătate de zi în această localitate aflată la 45 kilometri de Sukhotai, pentru a vizita parcul istoric aflat în patrimoniul UNESCO și celebrele ateliere de olărit. Ca să ne deplasăm, am închiriat de la o agenție locală, prin recepția hotelului, o mașină cu șofer de dimineață până după-masă.

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Zona istorică ocupă un parc de întindere medie pe care îl poți parcurge pe jos, în două ore, fără grabă. În exteriorul parcului, la marginea orașului, mai este un alt templu important pe care îl recomand.

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Orașul Si Satchanalai este destul de izolat, fără posibilități de cazare, de aceea și parcul este mult mai liniștit decât alte obiective de turism de masă.

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Dacă ești interesat de frumusețea pură a templelor de la începuturile istoriei thailandeze, vei vedea un loc magic. În lumina dimineții, construcțiile păreau din…

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Eight Legged Freaks!

Steve's Photos

Commonly called the ‘daddy long legs,” this is called the Harvestman, a group of creatures belonging to the Arachnid class.  Although they resemble much like a spider, they are actually not for two reasons.  They do not spin webs (they have no spinnerets) and they do not carry venom.  Though they cannot bite, they release a chemical secretion that is considered distasteful to a lot of predators.  Their second legs are the longest because they are actually antennas used to detect vibrations in the ground of oncoming predators.  Harvestmen are commonly found in the woods and sometimes appear in people’s home, but are not considered dangerous.  The actual spider that is considered correctly a ‘daddy long legs” spider is the long bodied cellar spider, known to vibrate its web violently to make it difficult for predators to detect.  They are known to also have a slim abdomen and long slender legs…

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Pamukale, Turska – Pamukkale, Turkey

Google translation of title and first sentence: Pamukkale, Turkey
The long avenue with a series of pillars, Plateia, represented a wide road paved by the Romans with huge travertine blocks in the 2nd century and was the backbone of everyday life in Hierapolis.

Myrela

Dugačka avenija s nizom stubova, Plateja, predstavljala je širok put koji su u II vijeku Rimljani popločali ogromnim blokovima od travertina i bila je okosnica svakodnevnog života Hijerapolisa. Hijerapolis je bio važan banjski grad, smješten dvadesetak kilometara sjeverno od Denizlija u sjeverozapadnoj Turskoj, koji je u II vijeku p.n.e. osnovao Eumen II , pergamski kralj, na mjestu gdje se mnogo vijekova ranije razvilo društvo. Hijerapolis (“Sveti grad”) svoj značaj stekao je zahvaljujući neobičnoj pojavi u donjem sloju tla na kom se nalazi: vodi bogatoj mineralnim solima kalcijum – bikarbonata. Voda te soli prikuplja prolazeći kroz sloj krečnjaka na putu ka površini i stvara termalna vrela koja, prema antičkim izvorima, imaju izuzetna ljekovita svojstva i upečatljiv izgled. Današnji turski naziv, Pamukkale, što znači “dvorac od pamuka”, dobili su zahvaljujući svojim bijelim stjenovitim tvorevinama. A one su i glavni razlog zbog kojeg je Pamukale toliko zanimljiv.

Spuštajući se niz blagu padinu visoravni…

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Flights of Fancy

Let’s give peace a chance…

The BUTHIDARS

Well, it’s 3.27 am on Thursday morning and I can’t get to sleep. My legs itch and while having a scritch I did check that it was still plural. I checked them twice in case like other asses I had forefeet. In the (almost) week since the last nurse signed me off to fend for myself I haven’t managed to lose a leg and that’s something I don’t think that any of them had faith in. To be honest I think they would have considered coming until my right leg was fully healed but as the last one left clutching her tin of chocolates , she did mumble something about them all having to go on diets. I’ve missed them this week and their mostly tender ministrations but it’s honestly no reflection on them if I say I won’t mind if I never have to see them again. Unfortunately that’s…

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Ordnance P-38 Lightning

Pacific Paratrooper

P-38 in the Pacific

Perhaps Colonel Ben Kelsey, a P-38 test pilot, summed up the war bird’s legacy best of all. “(That) comfortable old cluck,” he said, “would fly like hell, fight like a wasp upstairs, and land like a butterfly.”

The P-38 was the most successful USAAF fighter in the Pacific War. It served with four separate air forces, spread out from Australia to Alaska. The most successful American Ace of the Second World War, Major Richard Bong, scored all 40 of his victories flying the P-38 Lightning over the Pacific.

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The 11th Air Force was allocated the task of defending the Aleutian Islands, in the far north of the Pacific. There the extra reliability provided by the twin engines of the P-38 was essential, with missions being flown over long distances and in poor weather. The first P-38 victories of the war fell to pilots of the…

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What Kind of Civics Education Should Americans Get?

Filosofa's Word

Americans are woefully under-educated when it comes to how our own government works. And this makes it really easy to manipulate citizens.  I was appalled to read that only 1 in 4 people can name the three branches of government:  Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.  A few days ago I read that somebody said the House and Senate were two separate branches.  What are we teaching our children???  Or rather, what are we not teaching them?

Today’s big argument from the right is about whether or not our children should learn the true history of the United States, warts and all.  Some on the right think our schools should teach a whitewashed version of such things as slavery, Japanese internment camps, Jim Crow, etc., but I would argue that to ignore the darker part of our history is to paint a false picture and to doom us to repeat those mistakes.

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Foreigner

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

I gotta take a little time

A little time to think things over

I better read between the lines

In case I need it when I’m older

Oooh, woah – ooh

Now, this mountain I must climb

Feels like the world upon my shoulders

Through the clouds, I see love shine

It keeps me warm as life grows colder

In my life

There’s been heartache and pain

I don’t know

If I can face it again

Can’t stop now

I’ve travelled so far

To change this lonely life

I wanna know what love is

I want you to show me

I wanna feel what love is

I know you can show me

Oooh, woah-ooh…”

Foreigner. I Want To Knowles What Love Is.

Composição : Mick Jones.

Fonte: m.letras.mus.br

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