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10 Glorious Lost Cities.

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:43:00 GMT

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MACHU PICCHU (Peru): The Lost City of the Incas _[Wiki]

ANGKOR (Cambodia): Contains the world's largest religious monument _[Wiki]

MEMPHIS (Egypt): ancient capital of Egypt_[Wiki]

PETRA: stone structures carved into rocks _[Wiki]

PALMYRA (Syria): the Bride of the Desert _[Wiki]

POMPEII (Italy): buried by the volcano_[Wiki]

PALENQUE (Mexico): one of Mayan's most exquisite cities _[Wiki]

VIJAYANAGAR (India): capital of one of the largest Hindu empires _[Wiki]

EPHESUS (Turkey): one of the most important cities of early Christianity _[Wiki]

SANCHI (India): the best-preserved group of Buddhist monuments _[Wiki]

Tags: ancient, lost, cities

13 Dangerously Endangered Species

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:38:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Let's all try and do our bit...

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13 Dangerously Endangered Species

These endangered species are near extinction, but researchers and scientists have helped these rare animals reproduce in captivity.

a collection of 13 endanger species, all with babies born in captivity

Rare Red Pandas

On May 26th, 2008, the Edmonton Valley Zoo welcomed two rare red pandas, who were named Tai and Pip. The cubs have double their birth weight, and increase their survival rate.

Vancouver Island Marmot

only 25 marmots in the wild

Pygmy Rabbit

Scarlet Macaws

live to 80 years and begin to reproduce at 7 years old

White-Backed Vulture

Through the effort of breeding, one white-backed chick had hatched in captivity, in India.

Black-Footed Ferrets

Golden Langur

Black Jaguar

Siberian Tigers

Angel Shark

White Rhinos

The white rhinos are close to extinction, and the first white rhino born in captivity was at Pretoria on June 8, 1967.

Rare Chinese Snub-Nosed Monkey

Black and White Ruffed Lemurs

Tags: endangered, birds, animals, fish, captivity, zoo, sanctuary, national park

Top 9 comments made by NBC sports commentators during the Olympics

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:00:05 GMT

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1. Weightlifting commentator: "This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing."

2. Dressage commentator: "This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother."

3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father."

4. Boxing Analyst: "Sure there have been injuries,and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious."

5. Softball announcer: "If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again."

6. Basketball analyst: "He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces."

7. At the rowing medal ceremony: "Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew."

8. Soccer commentator: "Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field."

Tags: nbc, commentators, humor, olympics, sports, comedy

7 Terrible Abuses Suffered By Women Around The World

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:45:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Barbaric - we have no right to call ourselves developed nations of the 21st century until such scourges are removed from the face of this earth forever and those guilty of these heinous crimes are severely punished. I ask what 'honor' do people speak of when they treat women so degradingly?!

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7 Terrible Abuses Suffered By Women Around The World

Ritual servitude

Ghana, a family may be punished for an offense by having to turn over a virgin female to serve as a sex slave within the offended family.

Human trafficking

former Eastern bloc countries such as Albania, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine

major trafficking source countries for women and children.

Female genital mutilation

refers to all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious or other non-therapeutic reasons.

Acid attacks

Acid Attacks are a violent phenomena that primarily occur in Afghanistan.

Bride burning

Bride Burning is a form of domestic violence practiced in parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and other countries located on or around the Indian subcontinent.

Honor Killing

a punitive murder, committed by members of a family

Bride kidnapping

common

in Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan

Tags: women, atrocities, female, prostitution, honor killing, human trafficking

Proven: Gorillas have human emotions

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:48:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Heartbreaking!

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Gorilla grieves over death of her baby

A female gorilla has been photographed grieving over the loss of her baby, showing a strength of emotion rarely witnessed in the animal world.

Gorilla Gana, 11, was left shattered in her compound at the zoo in Muenster in northern Germany at the weekend when her three-month-old baby Claudio suddenly died.

Visitors wept as Gana held her lifeless child up in the air, vainly seeking to restore movement to his lolling head, his limp arms.

She put the baby on her back and walked around, stopping to look at him after a few paces to see if he had recovered.

"On Wednesday he gave the impression to keepers that he wasn't feeling too well.

"On Friday he wasn't eating or drinking properly and seemed to be growing weaker.

"We were keeping a close eye on him but suddenly, on Saturday morning, he died."

By Monday morning the zoo keepers were still unable to get to the body of Claudio, so fiercely is Gana guarding him.

Tags: animal kingdom, apes, gorillas, munich, germany, zoos, captivity, wild

Weird: Old ads

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:28:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Some of them are hideous

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Old Creepy Ads

Sometimes it's really scary what human mind can conceive for advertising.

Tags: ads, marketing, retro

World’s Most Spectacular Skylines

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:04:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 'Spectacular' is right - each city/location has its own mesmerizing charm!

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The World’s Most Spectacular Skylines

Something about the outline of a city against its clear, crisp sky stops us in our tracks and commands our attention.

Below are staggeringly beautiful images where city meets sky all across the globe.

Miami, Florida, USA

Bangkok, Thailand

Vancouver, British Columbia

Republic Plaza, Singapore

Sydney, Australia

Shanghai, China

London, England

South Perth, Australia

Cologne, Germany

Graz, Austria

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Hong Kong

Detroit, Michigan

Berlin, Germany

Venice, Italy

New York, New York, USA

Warsaw, Poland

San Francisco, California, USA

Tags: skyline, horizon, architecture, photography, landscape, buildings

Clean Your House In 19 Minutes

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:03:20 GMT

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Clean Your House In 19 Minutes

With a plan of attack, you can maintain a sparkling house in just 19 minutes a day

Photographer: Mikkel Vang

Kitchen, 4 1/2 minutes daily

Always start with the sink. A sparkling sink becomes your kitchen's benchmark for hygiene and tidiness, inspiring you to load the dishwasher immediately and keep counters, refrigerator doors, and the stove top spick-and-span, too.

Photographer: Mikkel Vang

Bathroom, 2 minutes daily

Make cleaning the basin as routine as washing your hands. But don't stop there. Get the most out of your premoistened wipe by using it to clean around the edges of the tub and then the toilet before tossing it.

Photographer: Mikkel Vang

Bedroom, 6 1/2 minutes daily

Make your bed right before or after your morning shower. A neat bed will inspire you to deal with other messes immediately.

Photographer: Mikkel Vang

Family Room, Living Room, Foyer, 6 minutes daily

Start with the sofa -- as long as it's in disarray, your living room will never look tidy.

Tags: cleaning, house, tidying up, housekeeping

50 Facts that Should Change the World

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:00:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Interesting

Clip Source: www.christiantoday.com

50 Facts that Should Change the World

1 THE average Japanese woman can expect to live to 84; her counterpart in Botswana will die at 39.

2 BLACK men born in the US stand a one-in-three chance of going to jail. For white men the odds are one in 17.

3 ONE in five of the world's population - 1.25 billion people - is undernourished.

4 NEARLY half of British 15-year-olds have tried illegal drugs and nearly a quarter are regular cigarette smokers.

7 SUPERMARKETS in the UK know more about their customers than the government does. They use loyalty cards to determine your income and what your interests are.

11 THERE are 27 million slaves in the world.

14 ONE in five people live on less than 50p a day.

15 THERE are 44 million child labourers in India, some working 16-hour days.

21 CARS kill two people every minute.

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24 IN Kenya, bribery payments make up a third of the average household budget.

27 MORE than 150 countries are known to use torture.

33 THE world's oil reserves could be exhausted by 2040.

Tags: economy, stability, war, violence, crime, population, global, oil, money, dollar

20 Ways the World Could End

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:41:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Scary...yet possible?

Clip Source: discovermagazine.com

20 Ways the World Could End

Asteroid impact

1 Asteroid impact Once a disaster scenario gets the cheesy Hollywood treatment, it's hard to take it seriously.

2 Gamma-ray burst If you could watch the sky with gamma-ray vision, you might think you were being stalked by cosmic paparazzi.

3 Collapse of the vacuum In the book Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut popularized the idea of "ice-nine,"

4 Rogue black holes Our galaxy is full of black holes, collapsed stellar corpses just a dozen miles wide.

5 Giant solar flares Solar flares— more properly known as coronal mass ejections

6 Reversal of Earth's magnetic field Every few hundred thousand years Earth's magnetic field dwindles

7 Flood-basalt volcanism In 1783, the Laki volcano in Iceland erupted

8 Global epidemics

9 Global warming

10 Ecosystem collapse

11 Biotech disaster While we are extinguishing natural species, we're also creating new ones

12 Particle accelerator mishap Theodore Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber,

13 Nanotechnology disaster

Tags: natural disasters, human-triggered disasters, willful self-destruction, apocalypse, technology

Mystery of the 'couple' buried arm in arm 1,000 years ago

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:25:07 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Mystery of the 'couple' buried arm in arm 1,000 years ago: Not husband and wife but Saxon warriors

For a thousand years they have lain side by side in a rough earth grave, one throwing a skeletal arm across the other.

Believed to be Saxon warriors, they are thought to have died together and been buried together as brothers in arms.

Their return to the limelight after so many centuries comes as archaeologists work on a 90-acre site near Ramsgate in Kent before it is developed into a salad-growing complex.

At first they were taken to be a man and wife, buried some time during the Saxon period between 410 and 1066, but now that opinion has changed.

'The body on the right is definitely male.

'They are exceptionally tall, both over six feet. The one on the left has got some female traits to it but it does seem to be male.

Another poignant grave is from the Roman era and is that of a young girl - thought to be in her early teens - who died in childbirth.

Tags: saxons, skeletons, kent, uk, mystery

7 Bizarre Unsolved Mysteries

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:45:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Interesting list...

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1 ) The Lead Masks Case

crazy shit happens in Brazil, there are parts of Rio de Janeiro where pilots refuse to fly over out of fears that slum lords will shoot them down

On August 20, 1966, in Niteroi, the bodies of two healthy men in their 30s were found on a hilltop. Both men were wearing half-masks made of lead

2 ) The Max Headroom Signal Piracy Incident

on November 22, 1987, someone wearing a Max Headroom mask managed to hijack a broadcast signal twice - once CBS and once PBS.

3 ) The May Day Mystery

Every May 1st since 1981, a cryptic ad has been placed in the Arizona Daily Wildcat.

4 ) The Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 Hijacking

November 24, 1971, a man that resembled Michael Douglas’ character in Falling Down sat down and requested a bourbon with soda.

D.B. Cooper

passed

a note saying that he’ll detonate a bomb

5 ) The Dyatlov Pass Accident

6 ) The Dancing Mania of Aachen

craze that swept across Europe

people started dancing

7 ) The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter

August 21, 1955

Tags: mysteries, suspense, crime, aliens, bizarre

Why We Get High

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:07:18 GMT

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Almost all of you have gotten "high." You might call it "getting stoned" or "tripping" or "having a session" or "going on vision quest" or "partying" but the urge to switch channels and move to another and less usual state of consciousness is as old as our species itself. Actually the quest for intoxication is even older!

Ronald Siegel, in his book, Intoxication

demonstrates through zoological and sociological evidence, that the urge to get high is among the most basic of motivations.

Many drug users talk about getting high. Highs are states of consciousness marked by feeling of euphoria, lightness, self-transcendence, concentration and energy. People who never take drugs also seek out highs. In fact, having high experiences just as laughter and dreaming seem to be necessary to our physical and mental health. Perhaps that is why a desire to alter normal consciousness exists in everyone and why people pursue the experiences even though they are sometimes uncomfortable side effects.

Tags: high, drugs

Hilarious Signages

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:07:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Some of them are really hilarious!

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Hilarious Signage, Part 11

Scratching of head required...

...and even then, it's no guarantee you'll figure out the real meaning behind these masterpieces of ambiguity. At least this signage provides much needed entertainment and comic relief on our all-too-stressful urban roads.

Where is that frigging lane? -

Zebra to nowhere:

Another great zebra:

This is how you should draw the pedestrian. Not the other way. Got it? -

Warning signs to die for:

Clear & concise message:

Not fun -

Robot Milk -

Great navigational aid for Tokyo subway:

A deal is a deal -

Good creative stuff:

Great attraction for geeks (not really a sign yet, only an idea):

Good luck to keep them all! -

Tags: signage, humor, signs

Some great pics - British Air Force completes 90yrs

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:23:24 GMT

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90 - anniversary of the Air Force of Great Britain in London

In London, Air Force of Great Britain (British Royal Air Force) began to celebrate its 90 - anniversary. ВВС British air force was formed April 1, 1918.

For residents of the capital of Royal Air Force prepared colorful air acrobatic surprise. In the skies over the very centre of London team flew piloting fighter “red arrows” (Red Arrows).

Tags: aircraft, royal air force, red arrow, airshow, uk

Clipmarks | hitchhiker08's clips

10 Glorious Lost Cities.

MACHU PICCHU (Peru): The Lost City of the Incas [Wiki]

ANGKOR (Cambodia): Contains the world's largest religious monument [Wiki]

MEMPHIS (Egypt): ancient capital of Egypt[Wiki]

PETRA: stone structures carved into rocks [Wiki]

PALMYRA (Syria): the Bride of the Desert [Wiki]

POMPEII (Italy): buried by the volcano[Wiki]

PALENQUE (Mexico): one of Mayan's most exquisite cities [Wiki]

VIJAYANAGAR (India): capital of one of the largest Hindu empires [Wiki]

EPHESUS (Turkey): one of the most important cities of early Christianity [Wiki]

SANCHI (India): the best-preserved group of Buddhist monuments [Wiki]

13 Dangerously Endangered Species

13 Dangerously Endangered Species

These endangered species are near extinction, but researchers and scientists have helped these rare animals reproduce in captivity.

Rare Red Pandas

Vancouver Island Marmot

Pygmy Rabbit

Scarlet Macaws

White-Backed Vulture

Black-Footed Ferrets

Golden Langur

Black Jaguar

Siberian Tigers

Angel Shark

White Rhinos

Rare Chinese Snub-Nosed Monkey

Black and White Ruffed Lemurs

Top 9 comments made by NBC sports commentators during the Olympics

7 Terrible Abuses Suffered By Women Around The World

7 Terrible Abuses Suffered By Women Around The World

Proven: Gorillas have human emotions

Gorilla grieves over death of her baby

Weird: Old ads

Old Creepy Ads

World’s Most Spectacular Skylines

The World’s Most Spectacular Skylines

Clean Your House In 19 Minutes

Clean Your House In 19 Minutes

50 Facts that Should Change the World

50 Facts that Should Change the World

20 Ways the World Could End

20 Ways the World Could End

Mystery of the 'couple' buried arm in arm 1,000 years ago

Mystery of the 'couple' buried arm in arm 1,000 years ago: Not husband and wife but Saxon warriors

7 Bizarre Unsolved Mysteries

1 ) The Lead Masks Case

2 ) The Max Headroom Signal Piracy Incident

3 ) The May Day Mystery

4 ) The Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 Hijacking

5 ) The Dyatlov Pass Accident

6 ) The Dancing Mania of Aachen

7 ) The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter

Why We Get High

Hilarious Signages

Hilarious Signage, Part 11

Some great pics - British Air Force completes 90yrs

90 - anniversary of the Air Force of Great Britain in London

MACHU PICCHU (Peru): The Lost City of the Incas _[Wiki]

ANGKOR (Cambodia): Contains the world's largest religious monument _[Wiki]

MEMPHIS (Egypt): ancient capital of Egypt_[Wiki]

PETRA: stone structures carved into rocks _[Wiki]

PALMYRA (Syria): the Bride of the Desert _[Wiki]

POMPEII (Italy): buried by the volcano_[Wiki]

PALENQUE (Mexico): one of Mayan's most exquisite cities _[Wiki]

VIJAYANAGAR (India): capital of one of the largest Hindu empires _[Wiki]

EPHESUS (Turkey): one of the most important cities of early Christianity _[Wiki]

SANCHI (India): the best-preserved group of Buddhist monuments _[Wiki]