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  • Akule: Magnificent Black-and-White Underwater Photographs

    • 5 Aug 2011
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    "Most underwater photographers are divers first, then they get into photography to capture the beautiful scenes they see underwater. I was a photographer first. My first serious underwater photography was when I finished graduate school at Pratt in 1983. I returned to Hawaii to teach photography at University of Hawaii, and decided to photograph surfers from underwater. My first attempts were in color, but the results were very murky blue on blue. Then I switched to black and white, and everything came alive.” ~ Wayne Levin

    via brainpickings.org

     

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  • Record-Setting Appraisal at Antiques Roadshow... Tulsa

    • 5 Aug 2011
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    TULSA, Okla. - On Saturday, July 23, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, PBS’s Antiques Roadshow recorded the highest-value appraisal in the series’ 16 years of production. Veteran Roadshow Asian arts expert Lark Mason identified a collection of five late 17th/early 18th-century Chinese carved rhinoceros-horn cups and valued the set at $1 million to $1.5 million.
    via funtobebad.blogspot.com

     

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  • What's That Under Your Bed ?

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    • 04August11 Guatemala Sinkholes odd news
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    An elderly Guatemalan woman found a 40-foot-deep sinkhole under her bed.

    Inocenta Hernandez heard a loud boom that she thought was a neighbor's gas canister exploding.

    After searching her house, she found a sinkhole — about 40 feet deep and 32 inches in diameter — under her bed

    via globalpost.com

     

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  • A View Of The Tatra Mountains

    • 5 Aug 2011
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  • Mycorrhizal Fungi

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    by Phil Lachman

    The photo above shows a lovely group of mushrooms nestled against the trunk of a eucalyptus tree. The association between the fungi and the tree however is no accident.

    via epod.usra.edu

     

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  • Village of the Dead : The Anjikuni Mystery

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    Over 30 men, women and children vanished without a trace from an Inuit fishing village in the first half of the 20th Century.

    "Labelle methodically pulled back the caribou skin flaps and checked all of the shacks hoping to find telltale signs of a mass exodus, but, much to his chagrin, he discovered that all of the huts were stocked with the kinds of foodstuff and weapons that would never have been abandoned by their owners. In one shelter he found a pot of stewed caribou that had grown moldy and a child’s half-mended sealskin coat that lay discarded on a bunk with a bone needle still embedded in it as if someone had deserted their effort in mid-stitch."

    read much more via mysteriousuniverse.org

     

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  • Ston Walled at 42.846756,17.695348

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    • 04August11 Croatia Historical Ston Walls architecture
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    The Walls of Ston are a series of defensive stone walls, originally more than 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) long, that have surrounded and protected the maritime city-state of Dubrovnik (Ragusa), situated in southern Croatia.[1]

    The Walls of Ston so impressed visitors that it was known as the "European wall of China".

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    see also Walls of Dubrovnik 

    42.846756,17.695348 at Google Maps

    Ston and its smaller neighbor, aptly named Mali Ston (Little Ston), are completely connected and surrounded by a five-kilometer defensive wall. Situated on the Dalmatian coast, the walls and fortified port resemble the more famous Dubrovnik harbor, only 60 kilometers to the south.

    However, the walls of Ston are twice as long as those of the more-acclaimed Dubrovnik and make up the longest fortress system in Europe. The walls also feature forty stunning defensive towers and a massive hillside fortress looking over the city from the rocky outcroppings above.

     

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