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Tarachand And The Trembling Tracks

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

Tarachand turned over in his wobbly charpoy. The rickety bamboo bed meshed with handmade jute cord was just strong enough to support his enormous frame, however, it squeaked in protest with every twist and turn that the slumbering hulk made.

At seven-and-a-half feet of stature, the sleeping man’s arms and legs jutted well beyond the confines of the cot on which he lay. Deep in his sleep, he would occasionally place his palm flat on the floor to feel the ground rumble.

The giant had mastered the art of detecting an approaching train just by feeling the floor even in his sleep many miles before the locomotive passed by his ten-by-ten residential quarter cum office provided by the railways, the only dwelling in this wild and remote part of the Chapramari forest in the northeastern confines of India’s West Bengal state.

With the first faint vibration of the approaching locomotive…

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Nacionalni park Serengeti, Tanzanija – Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Myrela

Prema jednoj staroj afričkoj legendi posljednja životinja koju je Bog stvorio bio je gnu – oblikovao ga je spajajući ostatke dijelova tijela drugih životinja. Istina je da gnu (Connochaetes taurinus) – sa svojom prevelikom glavom i prednjim dijelom tijela koji je viši i krupniji od zadnjeg – nije graciozna životinja, posebno u poređenju s ljupkim antilopama koje naseljavaju savanu, ali ipak predstavlja najznačajniju kariku u lancu koji čini ekosistem Serengetija. Sezonska migracija skoro dva miliona gnua – kojoj se može pridružiti 300.000 zebri i drugih antilopa – fenomen je koji fascinira i prirodnjake i laike. Tokom kišne sezone (između decembra i juna), gnui se okupljaju u krateru Ngorongoro gdje se razmnožavaju. A kada trava počne da se suši, oni na sjeveru prelaze veliku ravnicu Serengeti, gdje ih stalni riječni tokovi snabdjevaju hranom neophodnom za njihov opstanak. Kraj novembra je vrijeme za povratak. Seoba traje četiri ili pet dana tokom kojih…

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« In assenza del sacro, tutto è in vendita. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Foresta pluviale lungo il fiume Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela – foto: Barbara Crane Navarro « L’ambiente non è qui. L’ambiente non c’è. Tu sei l’ambiente. » « Quelle che chiamate le vostre risorse naturali, la nostra gente chiama i nostri genitori. » – Oren Lyons, nazione Seneca Dobbiamo adorare di nuovo la foresta, fiumi, cielo – […]

« In assenza del sacro, tutto è in vendita. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Luang Prabang, Laos – Luang Prabang, Laos

Myrela

U drugoj polovini XVI vijeka Lan Sjang, Kraljevstvo milion slonova, vodilo je ogorčenu bitku sa susjednim Sijamom. Ratna sreća okrenula se protiv njega, i kada je zaprijetila opasnost da Sijamci ugroze prijestonicu, kralj Saj Setatirat prebacio je svoje statue Bude u pećinu, nedaleko od grada. U to vrijeme, bilo je rasprostranjeno vjerovanje, da svakoga ko vidi premještanje statua, zadesi zla sudbina. Pak Ou je velika krečnjačka litica što se nadvija nad ušćem rijeke Nam Ou u Mekong (Majka voda). U dvije velike pećine u litici nalazi se preko 4.000 Budinih statuta koje je Saj Setatirat prebacio iz svoje palate. Sve te statue pokloni su vjernika posvećeni uspomeni na kralja i spas zemlje. Luang Prabang se može vidjeti i sa udaljenosti od nekoliko kilometara južno, s velike okuke na rijeci. Legenda kaže da je grad, prvobitno, nazivan Muang Sjua, po imenu njegovog prvog vladara iz VIII vijeka. Godine 1353. kralj Fa…

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11th Airborne graduates Camp MacKall — Pacific Paratrooper

1943 Camp MacKall, 11th Airborne yearbook Smitty had acquired additional postcards to show the people back home what Camp MacKall looked like.  They were in the scrapbook his mother put together and was saved for all these years…. This slideshow requires JavaScript. General Order No. 1 listed the original organic units of the 11th Airborne […]

11th Airborne graduates Camp MacKall — Pacific Paratrooper

Maču Pikču, Peru – Machu Picchu, Peru — Myrela

U ljeto 1988. godine, u šumama oko Maču Pikčua bijesnio je požar koji je uništio 4.050 hektara vegetacije i ugrozio mnoge lokalne životinjske vrste, a zahvatio je i rubove ruševina. Ta najveća ekološka katastrofa u istoriji Perua pogoršala je ionako osjetljiv ekološki sistem u veličanstvenoj dolini Urubamba, ugrožen razvojem turizma, nedostatkom sredstava i slabom kontrolom […]

Maču Pikču, Peru – Machu Picchu, Peru — Myrela

A Little Girl’s Dreams – #poetry #NaPoWriMo

Night Owl Poetry - Dorinda Duclos


In a dream, she sails

To faraway places

Hoping, at last

To find out what space is

A bag fully packed

She reaches for the sky

Balloons, shaped like planets

Will help her to fly

A billion stars fill the night

Oh! How they shine!

A little girl and her dreams

How I wish they were mine…

©2021 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved
Image by Ajay kumar Singh from Pixabay

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A Rare Indulgence

New research suggests that a cup of cocoa each day can protect the cardiovascular system from the debilitating effects of stress.

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It’s rare that the medical research community finds an indulgence that might actually be good for you.

New research suggests that a cup of cocoa each day can protect the cardiovascular system from the debilitating effects of stress.

The body reacts physically to emotional stress as well as physical threats. Typical reactions include an increase in heart rate (number of heartbeats per minute), increase in blood pressure, and dilation of arteries to handle the increase in blood flow.

If there are any latent weaknesses in the cardiovascular system, stress events can trigger major problems, including heart attack and stroke. A break in an artery wall in the wrong place in the body can be fatal. Any major event while driving can have fatal results.

Endothelial cells line the walls of blood vessels. Breakdown in endothelial cell function is often a precursor of a variety of heart and vascular diseases.

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