Showing posts with label Mysterious. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mysterious. Show all posts
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Dolphin birth: Amazing photos
A dolphin born in an aquarium in the Netherlands is to be named by the public.
As these amazing photos show his mother Finagain gave birth in her pool in the Harderwijk Dolfinarium on the 22nd May.Finagain, a common bottlenose dolphin, was herself born in captivity to Notchfin and Guy in 1992.
Her pregnancy lasted twelve months, and the as-yet unnamed calf is around 3ft long at birth, already fully capable of swimming. Unlike human babies dolphin calves are born “breech”, i.e. tail first.
It will live with its mother until it is six. Male dolphins become sexually mature around age nine to thirteen.
The Dolfinarium is home to sixteen dolphins and six harbour porpoise. As well as hosting dolphin displays it acts as a rehabilitation centre, taking in beached or injured cetaceans and preparing them for life back in the wild.
It was first opened in 1965 by Frits den Herder and his brother Coen. During its chequered history the park went bankrupt after an ill-advised expansion into other European countries.Only a state intervention by the Dutch government restored it to the not-for-profit animal rehabilitation centre it is today.
Mayor Bloomberg, go see this amazing lady
Make it right, Mr. Mayor.
Take a moment this week to extend New York's best wishes to an uncommonly spirited woman left paralyzed in the crossfire between a cop and three gunmen 74 years ago, but who has yet to receive so much as a syllable of sympathy or a penny of support from her city.
The most innocent of bystanders, Leonora Tomasulo was
shot on her 16th birthday. The bullet remains lodged against her spine as she comes to her 90th this week.
"It's still in me," Tomasulo reported from her wheelchair yesterday.
She seems incapable of self-pity. Bitterness only edges into her voice when she describes what the city did for her in the aftermath.
"Nothing."
Tomasulo turned 16 on that May day in 1934 and she was returning home with a strawberries and cream birthday cake she had bought with a dollar one of her sisters gave her.
She was starting onto Cherry St. when she heard gunfire. She saw Police Officer Arthur Rasmusen go down in front of her, fatally wounded, his gun blazing at a trio of thugs behind her.
"They held up a store for $25, a grocery store," Tomasulo recalled.
One stray bullet grazed the face of an off-duty detective's 10-month-old son. Another struck Tomasulo in the shoulder, tearing by her heart and lodging against her spine.
At Beekman Street Hospital, she was listed in extremely critical condition.
"They said I was going to die," Tomasulo recalled. "I told God, 'Please don't let me die.'"
She clung to life, but she was paralyzed from the waist down. She was transferred to Bellevue and was still in the intensive care as the holidays neared. She offered a full measure of her spirit when she started singing.
"Whoever heard of such a thing in the ICU unit?" her older sister Dora Pignanelli said as she sat with Tomasulo yesterday. "She's entertaining all the people there at Christmas. It gave them ..."
Pignanelli paused, searching for the right word.
"Courage," Tomasulo said. "I have a lot, thank God."
She needed all of it.
"I was in the hospital for five years," she noted.
When she was released from a rehabilitation center in Haverstraw, she was able to struggle about with a brace, crutches and pure will power, falling so often she got good at it.
"She fell a lot of times, but she fell easy," her sister said.
A good-hearted citizen gave her a wheelchair. The only thing the city ever gave her was an old hand-cranked sewing machine worth all of $1 so she could teach herself a trade and not be a burden.
Her luck took a good turn when a city worker named Louis Tomasulo chanced to see her by the entrance to her tenement. He announced that she was going to be his wife.
"Of course his mother didn't want him to marry a cripple," her sister recalled. "'He told his mother, 'If I don't marry that girl, I'm going to turn to drink.'"
They were married and if she still had a bullet lodged against her spine, she also had her Louis to help her. He died when he was not yet 60.
Her siblings continued to do all they could, as they had from the start, helping her live with the damage a single bullet can inflict.
"It's something nobody should go through," she said.
A moment of pure horror decades ago remained just a thought away.
"It always comes to me," she said.
Her great blessing continued to be her family. Fifty assorted relatives assembled for an early 90th birthday party at a Little Italy restaurant on Sunday.
She sang as she had in the ICU, as she had through all the years, good and bad. Her spirit was as young as on that day 74 years before when she turned 16. And she still loved birthday cake.
"What happened to the cake that was left over?" she asked at the end of Sunday's party. "It was so good I thought we'd take some home."
Leonora Tomasulo turns 90 on Sunday. The mayor should take a moment to say a few words that should have been said more than seven decades ago.
Take a moment this week to extend New York's best wishes to an uncommonly spirited woman left paralyzed in the crossfire between a cop and three gunmen 74 years ago, but who has yet to receive so much as a syllable of sympathy or a penny of support from her city.
The most innocent of bystanders, Leonora Tomasulo was
shot on her 16th birthday. The bullet remains lodged against her spine as she comes to her 90th this week."It's still in me," Tomasulo reported from her wheelchair yesterday.
She seems incapable of self-pity. Bitterness only edges into her voice when she describes what the city did for her in the aftermath.
"Nothing."
Tomasulo turned 16 on that May day in 1934 and she was returning home with a strawberries and cream birthday cake she had bought with a dollar one of her sisters gave her.
She was starting onto Cherry St. when she heard gunfire. She saw Police Officer Arthur Rasmusen go down in front of her, fatally wounded, his gun blazing at a trio of thugs behind her.
"They held up a store for $25, a grocery store," Tomasulo recalled.
One stray bullet grazed the face of an off-duty detective's 10-month-old son. Another struck Tomasulo in the shoulder, tearing by her heart and lodging against her spine.
At Beekman Street Hospital, she was listed in extremely critical condition.
"They said I was going to die," Tomasulo recalled. "I told God, 'Please don't let me die.'"
She clung to life, but she was paralyzed from the waist down. She was transferred to Bellevue and was still in the intensive care as the holidays neared. She offered a full measure of her spirit when she started singing.
"Whoever heard of such a thing in the ICU unit?" her older sister Dora Pignanelli said as she sat with Tomasulo yesterday. "She's entertaining all the people there at Christmas. It gave them ..."
Pignanelli paused, searching for the right word.
"Courage," Tomasulo said. "I have a lot, thank God."
She needed all of it.
"I was in the hospital for five years," she noted.
When she was released from a rehabilitation center in Haverstraw, she was able to struggle about with a brace, crutches and pure will power, falling so often she got good at it.
"She fell a lot of times, but she fell easy," her sister said.
A good-hearted citizen gave her a wheelchair. The only thing the city ever gave her was an old hand-cranked sewing machine worth all of $1 so she could teach herself a trade and not be a burden.
Her luck took a good turn when a city worker named Louis Tomasulo chanced to see her by the entrance to her tenement. He announced that she was going to be his wife.
"Of course his mother didn't want him to marry a cripple," her sister recalled. "'He told his mother, 'If I don't marry that girl, I'm going to turn to drink.'"
They were married and if she still had a bullet lodged against her spine, she also had her Louis to help her. He died when he was not yet 60.
Her siblings continued to do all they could, as they had from the start, helping her live with the damage a single bullet can inflict.
"It's something nobody should go through," she said.
A moment of pure horror decades ago remained just a thought away.
"It always comes to me," she said.
Her great blessing continued to be her family. Fifty assorted relatives assembled for an early 90th birthday party at a Little Italy restaurant on Sunday.
She sang as she had in the ICU, as she had through all the years, good and bad. Her spirit was as young as on that day 74 years before when she turned 16. And she still loved birthday cake.
"What happened to the cake that was left over?" she asked at the end of Sunday's party. "It was so good I thought we'd take some home."
Leonora Tomasulo turns 90 on Sunday. The mayor should take a moment to say a few words that should have been said more than seven decades ago.
Earth Day 2008: Birthday of the Greenness
An estimated 1 billion people are scheduled to take part in Earth Day festivities and events across the globe, including numerous and varied activities in the Seacoast region.Though officially on Tuesday, Earth Day already was celebrated at Coastal Ridge Elementary School in York, Maine, where students created a compost for school lunch and learned valuable lessons about waste and waste disposal for the students and school administrators.
While major national rallies will take place in locations like the Mall in Washington, D.C., Portsmouth High School will hold a student-created Earth Day celebration designed to educate the community about the environment.
Since its start in 1970, Earth Day has also come to represent an unofficial day of environmental accounting — about how far we've come and how far we need to go. What makes Earth Day 2008 as intriguing as any preceding it is that it comes in a vital election year that coincides with greater environmental awareness and more calls for political action.
"The technology exists now to move us beyond oil and coal to a clean energy future driven by wind, solar and other renewable sources of power, along with cost-saving, energy-efficient buildings, cars and appliances," said Jerry Curran, chairman of the New Hampshire Chapter of the Sierra Club. "Americans know this, and candidates should recognize that the public demands leadership in energy policy."
A shrinking group of politicians and pundits continues to insist that Americans contradict themselves on the environment. While Americans talk nicely about the environment and express concern about climate change, the wise guys claim we are more focused on keeping our jobs, paying our mortgages, and cheap gas — in short, we aren't willing to make the changes and sacrifices necessary.
We agree that Americans are full of contradictions, but they don't lack vision and they certainly don't lack the capacity to change. To cite but one of many studies measuring the attitudes of Americans on climate change and alternative energy development, a 2007 survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research reported that "Americans believe alternative energy sources, such as solar and wind energy, are a central part of our nation's economic future. As our traditional manufacturing jobs evaporate, they want America to lead in building a robust, alternative energy economy."
The importance of the study is that Americans realize the connections between today's skyrocketing rising energy prices and the need for rapid and massive alternative energy development.
While the environment ranks near the bottom of issues cited by voters in public polls, that is not the case when it's put in the context of almost every important economic and national security issue of our time.
The dubious success of ethanol is an example of poor policy choice. Ethanol is one of the contributing factors to higher food prices because it's an inefficient alternative fuel that takes up finite agricultural resources.
Thankfully, the era of official denial is coming to an end. The three remaining presidential candidates — Republican John McCain and Democratic hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — have all committed to dealing quickly and effectively with global climate change, to accelerate the transformation to alternative energy sources and a greener economy.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Amazing Rock in Saudi Arabia - Believe It Or Not!
A huge rock in a village of Al-Hassa region, SAUDI ARABIA raises 11 cms from the ground level once in a year during the month of April and stays elevated for about 30 minutes!!!
They say that 17 years ago, one Mujahid was shot dead behind this rock as he was hidden there. This encounter happened in the month of April 1989. You can see the fresh blood stains on the rock. Most surprisingly, when the rock raises from the ground, these stains become darker, fresher and wet. Local residents tried to wipe off the stains several times, but after some time it appears again on the rock automatically...
Isn't it astounding?
Have a look....
They say that 17 years ago, one Mujahid was shot dead behind this rock as he was hidden there. This encounter happened in the month of April 1989. You can see the fresh blood stains on the rock. Most surprisingly, when the rock raises from the ground, these stains become darker, fresher and wet. Local residents tried to wipe off the stains several times, but after some time it appears again on the rock automatically...
Isn't it astounding?
Have a look....
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Amazing Holes
I'm pretty sure most people have seen this one. It's an absolute beast and holds the title of largest open diamond mines in the world. At 525 meters deep, with a top diameter of 1200 meters, there's even a no-fly zone above the hole due to a few helicopters having been sucked in.
1. Mirny Diamond Mine , Serbia
This incredible geographical phenomenon known as a blue hole is situated 60 miles off the mainland of 
This is supposedly the largest man-made excavation on earth. Extraction began in 1863 and still continues today, the pit increasing in size constantly. In its current state the hole is ¾ miles deep and 2.5 miles wide. 3.
A glory hole is used when a dam is at full capacity and water needs to be drained from the reservoir. This is the 'Glory Hole' at 4. Glory Hole -
Apparently the largest ever hand-dug excavation in the world, this 1097 meter deep mine yielded over 3 tons of diamonds before being closed in 1914.
ABCD
important information
Did You Know ????
Letters 'A', 'B', 'C' & 'D' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99 (Letter 'D' comes for the first time in Hundred)
Letters 'A', 'B' & 'C' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999 (Letter 'A' comes for the first time in Thousand)
Letters 'B' & 'C' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999 (Letter 'B' comes for the first time in Billion)
And Letter 'C' does not appear anywhere in the spellings of entire English Counting...
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