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Terrible clouds and strange

2010-02-12T16:36:00.004+07:00

"Desert on The Sky"

"Volcano on The Sky"

"Sea on The Sky"

"Snow on The Sky"

"Bubble on The Sky"

"Hell on The Sky"

"Dome on The Sky"

These photos taken from trusted sites are National Geographic, Guardian, and Wired Science. The photographs are professional photographers in a number of countries, including the United States, New Zealand, Scotland, within the last dozen years.

Enjoying exotic lakes in the Lower Cave

2010-01-10T13:42:00.003+07:00

Lake Cave Yucatan

Tiger underground lake located in Che Yucatan peninsula, believed to be a gift from the gods the Maya in Mexico and is known as the forbidden lake.

Lake Cave Luray Caverns

Underground river located in Luray Caverns, Virginia. Its water reflection effect on the cave ceiling like a golden reflection.

Lake Cave Banff

This underground lake supernal Banff, Canada. It took how long a mini waterfall to meet the volume of the lake?, A natural creation is very interesting.

Lake Cave Mellisani

Underground lake located in Mellisani Cave, Kefalonia, found that the cave wall-ruins destroyed by an earthquake in 1953.

Lake Cave Cheddar Gorge

Cheddar Gorge, the underground river is located in one of the largest gaps in the UK called Cheddar Gorge. There in a cave which was also named Cheddar here's oldest human skull found in England in 1903 estimated at 9000 years old.

Lake CaveHamilton

This underground lake used as a natural swimming pool located in Austin, Texas named Hamilton.

Lake Cave Lechuguilla

Lechuguilla Cave in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico is the fifth longest cave found. The long depth of 193 km and 489 m, the deepest in the United States.

Hawaii island landscape

2009-11-27T14:28:00.004+07:00

Asian Girls beauty legs picture

2009-11-25T14:22:00.002+07:00

Picture / Snake eat Kangaroo

2009-07-28T16:23:00.003+07:00

Panorama Valley Harau ( Lembah Harau ) Payakumbuh at West Sumatra

2009-07-19T15:49:00.007+07:00

The Beauty of Village in the Dutch ( HOLLAND )

2009-06-26T23:53:00.004+07:00

Photo collection of Adolf Hitler who had never published

2009-06-16T15:06:00.005+07:00

Site www.telegraph.co.uk recent show photos of Adolf Hitler personally has never been published. Photos are from the collection of Hugo Jaeger, photographer Adolf Hitler personally. Hugo take this moment from the year 1936 to year-end 1945.

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (front row, second right) runs through a Nazi honor guard on the way to a meeting with Adolf Hitler on 28 September 1938

Adolf Hitler visiting A International Auto Exhibition in Berlin on 17 Feb 1939

Adolf Hitler speak in Munich on 15 of the 1923 Beer Hall putsch, in which Hitler and other members of the Nazi attempt to overthrow the government of Germany on 8 November, 1938

Hitler attended the launch of cruise ship Tirpitz first time on April 1, 1939

Adolf Hitler spoke with several young women while walking on the German cruise ship Robert Ley on the maiden voyage on April 1, 1939

Julius Schaub, adjuvant and ajudan pribadiaide and ajudan Hitler, the people around him at the February 25, 1939. After going to the bombardment experiment hitler, scaub claimed to have been injured in the bombardment.

Adolf Hitler and Nazi officials who attended an official Christmas party in 1941, the peak of the second world war

The Beautiful Water Fountain in the World

2009-06-08T18:06:00.005+07:00

1. Fountains of Bellagio (Las Vegas)

2. Fountain of Wealth (Singapura)

3. Magic Fountain of Montjuic (Barcelona)

4. Volcano Fountain (Abu Dhabi)

5. Big Wild Goose Pagoda Fountains (Xian)

6. People’s Friendship Fountain (Moskow)

7. Trevi Fountain (Roma)

8. Oval Fountain (Tivoli)

9. Peterhof Fountain (Saint Petersburg)

10. King Fahd’s Fountain (Jeddah)

strange and wonderful images

2009-04-29T11:40:00.003+07:00

Source : http://www.liweiart.com

Alina Vacariu HQ Lingerie Model

2009-04-29T11:27:00.002+07:00

She is Romanian sexy model.....

Unique Soap like Controller PS GAME

2009-04-29T11:02:00.004+07:00

Some soap is a unique creation of a new factory ... With a variety of colors and shapes is unique, in part to attract people to buy it ... of course parents will be happy if their children use this soap as a substitute for their game PS .. though not too many play the game ..

The Big Tiger in The World

2009-04-06T18:37:00.003+07:00

The image of the "HERCULES" (the name of the tiger) - the largest in the world at this time with more or less weight to reach almost half tons

Source : www.worldamazinginformation.com

Creativity with A4 size paper

2009-04-04T18:10:00.003+07:00

10 wonders of the world left behind

2009-03-29T17:15:00.007+07:00

1. The Wave. Between Arizona and Utah - USA
located in Arizona and Utah border. made of sand that are 190 million years which turned into stone.

2. Antelope Canyon. Arizona - USA
in Navajo Land, near Page, Arizona in South America.

3. Great Blue Hole (Belize)
are in the 60 mile distance from the city of Belize. circle with a diameter of 0.4 kilometers. a nice place for diving. in about 480 feet or 145 meters. because in that its color so dark blue

4. Crystal Cave of the Giants (Mexico)

located in the mining in Chihuahua Mexico. colors and a variety of shapes. color is gold and silver.

5. Eye of the Sahara (Mauritania)

are in the sahara desert southwest. diameter of 30 miles, so clearly visible from space. a rounded shape that is still a mystery.

6. Blue Lake Cave (Brazil)

7. Giants Causeway (Ireland)
This is caused by a reaction at the time vulkanik mountain erupt. most of the hexagonal shapes. the highest is 12 meters.

8. Hell Gate (Uzbekistan)
usually referred to "the door to hell." is located near the small town, Darvaz. 35 years ago, the team are geological dig to find the source of gas. but that they find is a large cave that fiery.

9. Wave Rock (Australia)

made naturally by itself. given the nickname "Wave Rock" because of wave-like shapes. height can reach 15 meters in length and up to 110 meters.

10. Chocolate Hills (Philippines)
width reaches 50 square kilometers. located in Bohol, Philippines.

Unique Building Picture

2009-03-24T15:29:00.003+07:00

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2008/2009 Part 1 - 6 --->>> VIDEO

2009-03-23T15:50:00.003+07:00

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Part VI

FedEx Cargo Plane CRASH at NARITA International Airport ,JAPAN --->>> NEWS and VIDEO

2009-03-23T15:30:00.007+07:00

An inbound cargo plane operated by United States parcel delivery firm FedEx Corp. burst into flames at Narita International Airport Monday morning, killing 2 crew members, Japan's Jiji Press, reported.

This was the first-ever fatal accident at Narita, the largest gateway to Japan east of Tokyo, and the first in Japan since June 1996, when three died in a Garuda Indonesia jet's accident at Fukuoka Airport, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism said.

The plane, which was flying from China's Guangzhou, went out of a runway and flipped over after touchdown due to a gusty wind, officials of Narita International Airport Corp. said.

The cargo jet was manned by a 54-year-old captain and a 44-year-old co-pilot, and they were both confirmed dead, local police said.

It was carrying tonnes of flammable liquid, people familiar with the matter said.

According to the Meteorological Agency, winds of up to 20.1 meters per second were hitting the airport and surrounding areas around 6:50 a.m., when the accident took place.

News Source : http://www.bernama.com

Free Photo Gallery - Nature Photo

2009-03-17T12:03:00.001+07:00

Photo Gallery --> Pleasing the Mountain Spirits 2009 in Yogyakarta

2009-03-17T11:12:00.004+07:00

The Bekakak bride was shown to the public before being sacrificed.

A man created a model that looked as if he was riding on turtle

Locals made dolls depicting the spirits and some dressed up as spirits themselves.

The slaughter of the Bekakak groom at Gamping Mountain. The sacrifice was believed to tame the spirits. The event became a place to show off local creativity.

Two men acted as if they were carried by dolls. The cultural parade enlivened the Saparan Bekakak ritual with a touch of fun.

Visitors grabbed fruit from the alms carriers. The alms are believed to bring good luck.

In 1755, when Prince Mangkubumi became king and assumed the title of Sultan Hamengkubuwono I, he occupied a temporary palace (keraton) in the Gamping mountain range, Sleman, Yogyakarta.

One unfortunate day, a royal servant Wirosuto and his wife disappeared. The palace believed they were captured by mountain spirits and the king ordered the people to hold a ritual to please the spirits and prevent it from happening again.

The ritual, called Saparan Bekakak, is done every Sapar month in the Javanese calendar, hence the name Saparan.

Bekakak means the sacrifice of animals or humans, but this ceremony uses dolls. A male and female doll sitting in crossed-legged positions were made of glutinous rice filled with palm sugar paste by a local shaman. They were dressed in Javanese wedding attire and brought along in a 5-kilometer procession from a nearby village to the mountain.

The procession held on Feb.13 this year, involved hundreds of people including students and people from the village acting as entertainers. The main ritual itself involved four soldiers on elephant back, 20 soldiers on horseback, a pair of Bekakak dolls, Delingsari soldiers and dolls depicting the evils spirits. There were also fruit offerings beautifully arranged and carried along in the procession.

Original Post By: www.thejakartapost.com

Paris Fashion Week - Photo Gallery++++

2009-03-13T16:35:00.002+07:00

Building Unique Architecture

2009-03-07T14:15:00.004+07:00

1. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)
Construction of the building started in in January 2003 and in December 2003 it was finished. House architecture is based on Jan Marcin Szancer (famous Polish drawer and child books illustrator) and Per Dahlberg (Swedish painter living in Sopot) pictures and paintings.

2. Forest Spiral - Hundertwasser Building (Darmstadt, Germany)
The Hundertwasser house “Waldspirale” (”Forest Spiral”) was built in Darmstadt between 1998 and 2000. Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the famous Austrian architect and painter, is widely renowned for his revolutionary, colourful architectural designs which incorporate irregular, organic forms, e.g. onion-shaped domes.
The structure with 105 apartments wraps around a landscaped courtyard with a running stream. Up in the turret at the southeast corner, there is a restaurant, including a cocktail bar.

3. The Basket Building (Ohio, United States)
The Longaberger Basket Company building in Newark, Ohio might just be a strangest office building in the world. The 180,000-square- foot building, a replica of the company’s famous market basket, cost $30 million and took two years to complete. Many experts tried to persuade
Dave Longaberger to alter his plans, but he wanted an exact replica of the real thing.

4. Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Ideal Palace (France)

5. Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, United States)

6. Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)

7. Cubic Houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
The original idea of these cubic houses came about in the 1970s. Piet Blom has developed a couple of these cubic houses that were built in Helmond.
The city of Rotterdam asked him to design housing on top of a pedestrian bridge and he decided to use the cubic houses idea. The concept behind these houses is that he tries to create a forest by each cube representing an abstract tree; therefore the whole village becomes a forest.

8. The Torre Galatea Figueras (Spain)

Art from the Collection of Crayon Drawing

2009-03-07T14:04:00.002+07:00

Plane Crash Photo Gallery 2008

2009-02-24T14:50:00.005+07:00

Plane Crash in New York

Hudson River in New York

Congo Plane Crash

Colombia Plane Crash

Encyclopedia - SALAMANDER - Article and Image

2009-02-19T10:02:00.005+07:00

Salamander is a common name of approximately 500 species of amphibians. They are typically characterized by slender bodies, short noses, and long tails. All known fossils and extinct species fall under the order Caudata, while sometimes the extant species are grouped together as the Urodela.[1] Most salamanders have four front toes and five rear toes. Their moist skin usually makes them reliant on habitats in or near water, or under some protection (e.g., moist ground), often in a wetland. Some salamander species are fully aquatic throughout life, some take to the water intermittently, and some are entirely terrestrial as adults. Uniquely among vertebrates, they are capable of regenerating lost limbs, as well as other body parts.

Range and Habitat of Salamanders
Salamanders are found throughout much of the world at altitudes up to 4,000 m (13,000 ft). In the western hemisphere their range spreads across the United States and Canada and extends south through Central America to the northern portion of South America. Salamanders also live in Europe, the Mediterranean area, Africa, and Asia, including the islands of Japan and Taiwan. Salamanders are not found in Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Madagascar, or Antarctica.

Physical Characteristics of Salamanders
An adult salamander has a slender, elongated body with a long tail, and in most cases, two pairs of legs roughly equal in size. Most salamanders are drab in color, but some, such as fire salamanders, have brilliant yellow, orange, or red markings. The majority of salamanders measure 10 to 15 cm (4 to 6 in) in length, but the smallest known salamander reaches just 2.7 cm (1.1 in), and the Japanese giant salamander grows to 1.5 m (5 ft).

Those salamanders that spend all or part of their lives on land tend to be slight, with small heads, slender bodies, and a sprawling gait that comes from moving the two legs that are diagonally opposite one another at the same time. Aquatic salamanders, such as the amphiuma, are usually larger, and they often have reduced limbs. Some aquatic salamanders, such as the greater siren, have no hind legs at all. The front limbs of most species end in four fingers, and the rear limbs typically end in five toes. Like other amphibians, salamanders do not have claws. Some salamanders can force their ribs through their skin to act as protective barbs, providing a defense against predators.

Salamanders are the only amphibians that have long tails as adults. They use these tails, which are often as long as their bodies, for balance in walking and propulsion in swimming. Many salamanders can shed their tails if a predator threatens them. Once shed, the tail reflexively flails about on the ground and distracts the would-be predator while the salamander slips away and later regenerates a new tail.

Salamanders are also able to regrow limbs that are lost or injured. Scientists are studying the genetic and hormonal processes that allow salamanders to regenerate body parts such as jaws, spinal cords, and brain parts in addition to tails and limbs. Because some of the same genes are present in humans, research into salamanders could lead to medical treatments that would allow humans to regrow or repair damaged organs and limbs.

Like all amphibians, salamanders have delicate, permeable skin through which water and gases, such as oxygen and carbon dioxide, can enter and leave the body. Most adult salamanders have saclike lungs for breathing air and use their permeable skin only as a source of supplemental oxygen. Some species never develop lungs and instead obtain oxygen through gills or through their skin and the mucous membranes of their mouths and throats. Salamanders also have glands in the skin that secrete a thick layer of mucus. On land, this mucus prevents the skin from drying out, and in water, it helps maintain the correct balance of salt and water in salamanders’ body fluids. Other glands in salamander skin secrete toxic poisons. Salamanders equipped with poison-producing skin glands often display bright colors and conspicuous markings, possibly to warn predators that they are poisonous to the touch. Male salamanders commonly have skin glands that produce scent-emitting chemicals called pheromones that play a role in courtship and mating.

Most salamanders have well-developed eyes. They also have nasal sensory organs capable of detecting chemical changes in the environment. These nasal organs serve an important function in feeding, courtship, and locating breeding sites. Their sense of hearing is poor, and salamanders rarely make noise, although some species are known to make faint squeaks or yelps when excited or disturbed.

Diet of Salamanders
Most salamanders are carnivorous—that is, they eat other animals rather than plants. Adult salamanders that live in water prey on the larvae of frogs, known as tadpoles, and various invertebrates, including snails and worms. Some also eat small fish. These salamanders locate prey by smell and ingest it by opening their mouths in the water and sucking in their prey.

Terrestrial salamanders rely on vision to find food. Most are solitary, sit-and-wait opportunists that eat soft-bodied invertebrates, including insects, slugs, and worms. When one of these prey animals unwittingly comes within reach, the salamander rolls its fleshy, sticky tongue out of its mouth to snatch it up. Some tropical salamanders have projectile tongues that they can extrude from their mouths for distances equal to 40 to 80 percent of their total body length to snap up unsuspecting prey.

Many salamanders are nocturnal—that is, they do most of their hunting in the cool, dark hours of night and remain inactive during the day. Those that are active during daylight retreat to the cool depths of bushes and other ground cover during the hottest period of the day. Some groups are active only during certain seasons. When conditions are too cold or too dry for them to muster the energy necessary to find food, these salamanders enter a resting state similar to hibernation. The siren spends much of its time burrowed in the muddy bottom of seasonal ponds and ditches that dry up in the heat of the summer. When the mud and sand starts to dry, the mucous coating on its skin hardens to form a protective cocoon, which enables the siren to survive out of water for many weeks.

Reproduction in Salamanders
For many types of salamanders, mating begins with complex courtship behavior. Some terrestrial male salamanders create scent trails to attract females. Among lungless salamanders of the western hemisphere, males initiate courtship by using their chins to rub the heads of females. As they rub, they secrete chemicals that stimulate the female. Among European newts, such as the crested newt, courtship takes place in water, and during the mating season, males acquire bright colors and intricate tail fins to attract mates.

Among most salamanders, fertilization occurs internally, meaning the egg and sperm unite inside the female’s body. During mating, salamanders use the cloaca, a chamber that opens into the animal’s digestive and urinary tracts as well as their reproductive tracts. Mating pairs of salamanders may position themselves with the muscular openings of their cloacae touching so that the male can transfer sperm directly to the female. Among many terrestrial and aquatic salamanders, males release one or more sperm-filled capsules called spermatophores onto the ground, then attempt to induce a female to pick up the spermatophores with the opening of her cloaca.

Among some very ancient types of salamanders, including hellbenders, fertilization is external. Females of these species deposit eggs in sacs or strings in the water. Male hellbenders release their sperm over the eggs to fertilize them, then guard the eggs until they hatch.

Among salamanders that have internal fertilization, females may either deposit their eggs on land or in water or, as in the fire salamander, retain the eggs within their bodies, eventually giving birth to live young. Among tiger salamanders, females lay eggs in clutches of up to 500 eggs in streams or ponds. Females of other species lay eggs singly or in small clutches at terrestrial sites, such as in rotting logs. Females that lay small clutches typically protect their eggs from hungry predators until hatching occurs.

Life Cycle of Salamanders
The life cycle of salamanders varies greatly among species. All salamanders have a larval stage in which they have external, feathery gills for breathing in water. Among salamanders that lay their eggs on land, the larval stage occurs inside the egg. In salamanders that give birth to live young, the larval stage takes place within the body of the mother. Only some salamander larvae actually live in a body of water such as a pond or stream.

Many salamander larvae undergo a transformation called metamorphosis, in which their bodies change in ways that make them better suited to life on land than life in the water. During metamorphosis, the larvae of most species lose their gills and acquire a pair of saclike lungs. The heart transforms from the two-chambered heart needed to support gills to a three-chambered heart capable of supporting lungs. The larvae also grow limbs, eyelids, and well-developed tongues.

Many larvae undergo metamorphosis in two or three months. Some, including hellbenders, take up to five years to mature. Many salamanders, including mud puppies, undergo partial metamorphosis and as adults retain some larval characteristics, such as gills. Other salamanders, such as the Mexican axolotl, never undergo metamorphosis unless they are exposed to certain chemicals in a laboratory. These amphibians retain many characteristics of larvae for their entire lives, except that they develop reproductive organs. Still others, such as the tiger salamander, metamorphose only if the ponds that they live in become uninhabitable and they must make the transition to land to survive.

Hellbenders are capable of surviving for 25 years in their natural settings, and some fire salamanders have survived as long as 50 years in captivity. The life span of most salamanders in the wild is unknown.

Declining Salamander Populations
alamanders are extremely sensitive to changes in their ecosystems, and the health of local salamander populations often mirrors the health of the habitat as a whole. Evidence suggests that habitat destruction, particularly forest clear-cutting, is severely depleting salamander populations. Especially vulnerable are those salamanders that live in the temperate forests of North America and in tropical forests of Asia and South and Central America, where deforestation is occurring at an alarming rate.

Mysteriously, some salamander populations are declining even in apparently pristine areas that have not been destroyed for human development. Non-native predators and competitive species whose range has been extended by humans may threaten salamander populations. They also appear to suffer at higher than normal rates from diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, or fungi. The chytrid fungus that causes the disease chytridiomycosis affects the skin of amphibians and is a particular threat to salamanders and frogs.

Although no one knows for sure, many researchers believe that the impacts of competitive species and disease are exacerbated by a variety of environmental problems. These problems include pollution and increased levels of ultraviolet light penetrating the atmosphere as a result of the thinning ozone layer. Rapid climate change associated with global warming can also affect local climates where salamanders are adapted to live.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species designates many salamanders as vulnerable to extinction or endangered. Species that are listed as critically endangered include the giant Chinese salamander and the axolotl. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) also recognizes all giant salamander species and the axolotl as endangered and prohibits trade for commercial purposes. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lists a number of salamanders found in the United States as threatened or endangered species, including the California tiger salamander and the Texas blind salamander.

Scientific classification: Salamanders make up the order Caudata in the class Amphibia. Newts and fire salamanders belong to the family Salamandridae; the crested newt is classified as Triturus cristatus and the fire salamander as Salamandra salamandra. The hellbender, the giant Chinese salamander, and the giant Japanese salamander belong to the family Cryptobranchidae and are classified as Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, Andrias davidianus, and Andrias japonicus, respectively. The smallest known salamander is a member of the lungless salamander family, Plethodontidae, and is classified as Thorius arboreus. The Texas blind salamander is also in the Plethodontidae family and is classified as Eurycea rathbuni. Sirens make up the family Sirenidae; the greater siren is classified as Siren lacertina. Mud puppies belong to the family Protidae; the widest-ranging mud puppy is classified as Necturus maculosus. The tiger salamander and the axolotl belong to the family Ambystomatidae and are classified as Ambystoma tigrinum and Ambystoma mexicanum, respectively.

Source by : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamander
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