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An American in Albania

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:13:38 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead
clipper's remarks: ...The Albanians of Montenegro were lucky, I thought as we approached the customs agents, to live under Josip Broz Tito's relatively lenient communist system in Yugoslavia instead of suffering Enver Hoxha's full-bore Stalinist regime just a few miles away in Albania proper. Hoxha, who ranks among the most thoroughly oppressive tyrants in history, made Tito's dictatorship look libertarian....

Clip Source: www.michaeltotten.com

“Mister, where are you from?” said a little girl.

“America,” I said.

“Yay!” The kids cheered.

Albania is fanatically pro-American, which is perhaps a bit counterintuitive to many Americans since it is at least nominally a Muslim-majority country. The conventional assumption that Muslims hate Americans everywhere isn't true.

“You should have seen President Bush’s face when he came to Albania,” an ethnic Albanian man later said to me in Kosovo. “All over Western Europe he was met by protests, but the entire country of Albania turned out to welcome him. He was so happy. You could see it on his face.”

Albanian pro-Americanism resembles that of both Poland and Iraqi Kurdistan. The unspeakably oppressive communist regime pushed Albanians strongly into the U.S.-led Western camp

More kids tugged at me and wanted their pictures taken. It was overwhelming, and more than a little bit startling.

Tags: europe, albania, politics, america, travel, photography

Pictures of the Week

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:52:34 GMT

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Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Atlanta, US: A male weedy sea dragon carries eggs on his tail at the Georgia Aquarium

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Minnesota, US: Lightning strikes during a storm that rolled across north-western Minnesota

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Washington DC: A large bee hovers around the flowers in the grounds of the White House

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Hyderabad, India: A child plays among sarees left out to dry at a cotton saree factory

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Texas, US: A pair of young raccoons, one an albino, lounge on a chain-linked fence

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

New York, US: The Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, arrives for a town hall meeting at the Federal Hall

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Iowa, US: A man carries his two cats to dry land from their flooded and evacuated home in Cedar Rapids

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London: Young girls with union jack umbrellas walk past the Houses of Parliament

Tags: photography, photos, nature, animals

Lovely Landscapes

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:22:00 GMT

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Clip Source: www.linkinn.com

Tags: photography, photo, nature

Nasa Photo Galleries

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:30:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Go to www.nasa.gov to click on the other links.

Clip Source: www.nasa.gov

NASA Image Exchange →

Not a collection in itself, the NASA Image Exchange is a search engine that pulls images from across NASA's Web space.

Dryden Image Gallery →

A collection of images and multimedia on NASA aircraft, aeronautics facilities and research.

Kennedy Multimedia Gallery →

Images and video from the Kennedy Space Center, including shuttle launches and landing, crew training and satellite launches.

Great Images in NASA →

A selection of the best and best-known images from a half-century of exploration and discovery.

Planetary Photojournal →

A vast archive of images from across the Solar System, from the early missions to Mars and Venus to Cassini and Deep Impact.

Astronomy Picture of the Day →

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured.

Tags: space, science, photography

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:27:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Look at the full size pics at the site...awesome.

Clip Source: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov

Ten Earths could easily fit in the "claw" of this seemingly solar monster. The monster, though, visible on the lower left, is a huge eruptive prominence seen moving out from our Sun.

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What dark forms lurk in the mists of the Carina Nebula? These ominous figures are actually molecular clouds, knots of molecular gas and dust so thick they have become opaque

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For about 300 years Jupiter's banded atmosphere has shown a remarkable feature to telescopic viewers, a large swirling storm system known as The Great Red Spot. In 2006, another red storm system appeared, actually seen to form as smaller whitish oval-shaped storms merged and then developed the curious reddish hue. Now, Jupiter has a third red spot, again produced from a smaller whitish storm.

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A Supply Ship Docks with the International Space Station

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Connecting the Pipe Nebula to the bright star Antares is a flowing dark cloud nicknamed the Dark River.

Tags: science, astronomy, photography, stars, space

The Mexico You've Never Seen

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:20:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Beautiful pics

Clip Source: www.wild-landscape.com

Tags: nature, photography, mexico, art, landscapes

Sea of colour: amazing underwater photographs

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:46:41 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

These wonderful pictures of some of the most beautiful creatures of the deep are the work of just one photographer, taken over the past 30 years. Richard Merritt has won a host of awards for what could be described as holiday snaps.

His full-time job is as a computing lecturer at the University of Plymouth, but he is also one of the world's most talented amateur underwater wildlife photographers.

Technicolour battle: A harlequin shrimp and a starfish (left) and a harlequin filefish

"The big fish, sharks, rays and dolphins are exciting to photograph, but I have an even greater passion for smaller subjects," he says.

Tags: photography, sea, ocean, science, nature

Winter Landscapes

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:26:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.outdoor-photos.com

Tags: photography, photos, landscapes, nature

Best Underwater Photos - National Geographic

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:51:17 GMT

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Clip Source: photography.nationalgeographic.com

Translucent Goby, Indonesia

Clip Source: photography.nationalgeographic.com

Spike-Cheek Anemonefish, Indonesia

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Channel Islands Anemone, California

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Bannerfish, French Polynesia

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Scorpionfish, Papua New Guinea

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Kaikoura Krill, New Zealand

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Longfin Bannerfish, Marshall Islands

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Swimming Snapper, Florida

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Reef Scallop, Yap Islands

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Leopard Seal Underwater, Antarctica

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Australian Sea Lion off Adelaide

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Goby and Bubble Coral, Indonesia

Tags: photo, photography, nature, science

Random Beauty from around the World

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:24:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: An eclectic collection

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

National Drama Theatre on Gedimino Prospect in Vilnius

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Koi carp in the Chinese pool in the park near Marcelle, France

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Lamlash, Isle of Arran

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I saw this slug accompanied by a woodlouse. It looked as if they were deep in conversation

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The Guggenheim Museum

Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain

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Loch Ness

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Canary Wharf, London. The city that never sleeps.

Tags: photography, photos, travel, entertainment

Photo Gallery: Mount Everest

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:37:35 GMT

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Clip Source: photography.nationalgeographic.com

Barry Bishop, who summitted Everest in 1963, wrote in a November 1988 National Geographic article: "We had been lucky that season: Everest had been uncommonly tranquil. In short, the weather had been only miserable, not impossible."

Clip Source: photography.nationalgeographic.com

A Sherpa village in Nepal rests at the base of Mount Everest. Predominantly Buddhist, Sherpa continue to lead simple lives even as tourism brings more and more visitors to their land each year.

Clip Source: photography.nationalgeographic.com

Before being named Mount Everest by the British in 1865, the mountain had gone by many names in many languages over the centuries. Tibetans call it Chomolungma, often translated as "mother of the universe."

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In 1921, famed Everest explorer George Leigh Mallory wrote to his wife saying, "I can't tell you how it possesses me, and what a prospect it is." In 1924 he perished trying to reach the top. His body was not discovered until 1999.

Clip Source: photography.nationalgeographic.com

Bishop's teammates became the first Americans to summit Everest on May 1, 1963.

Tags: photography, photos, science, travel, geology

Great Volcano Pics

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:16:37 GMT

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Clip Source: slightlywarped.com

In those few places in the Earth where the ground opens and rock flows like water, we find a sight so breathtaking in both its beauty and its danger that it holds us captivated at the raw unsurging power beneath our feet.

Tags: volcanoes, photography, nature, science

Spectacular Sky Over the Grand Tetons

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:56:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Go to the site to see the full-sized version. It's breathtaking.

Clip Source: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov

A Spectacular Sky Over the Grand Tetons

Behold the breathtaking beauty of Earth and sky together. In the foreground is the Teton Mountain Range of Wyoming, USA. The Grand Tetons are a relatively isolated set of high peaks that are part of the Rocky Mountains. On the far left, vast clouds of bright stars and dark dust are visible in the nearly vertical plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Our Galactic Plane appears to crash into the Tetons, but is actually far more distant. On the left, just to the left of the southernmost Teton peak, the planet Jupiter is visible. Near the image center is the bright star Arcturus. Scrolling to the far right will bring over the familiar asterism of the Big Dipper. Last month it took five images, later digitally fused, to capture the majesty of this panoramic view.

Tags: astronomy. science, photography

New Zealand Snaps

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:40:21 GMT

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Clip Source: www.wild-landscape.com

EXPEDITION NEW ZEALAND

Tags: photography, photos, nature, scenery, new zealand

Animal Orphanage - Mount Kenya

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:05:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.animalorphanagekenya.org

Two young Americans met up in East Africa for the first time in 1964. They were in Kenya, their country of choice, for no good purpose other than to enjoy themselves.

they came to realize was that the sheer pleasure and personal reward they received from the African "bush" experience were not from the destruction of wildlife but from feelings of wonder and exhilaration at its very existence in a timeless natural environment.

The two friends and partners in the enterprise were film actor William (Bill) Holden and TV personality, Don Hunt.

Clip Source: www.animalorphanagekenya.org

Bill went back to Hollywood

Don and the others stayed on to get the work started

Iris found herself more and more required to take responsibility for the young, often sick and dying wildlife

These were "orphans of the wild" in need of a new home - of care and resuscitation in the safe environment of the Ranch.

Clip Source: www.animalorphanagekenya.org

Tags: animals, wildlife, conservation, africa, science, biology, photography