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✦ Cute Kittens and Babies ✦

❤ God cannot reach everywhere…So he created Mothers on the Earth!!! ❤

THERE IS NOTHING IN THE WORLD BETTER THAN MOTHER’S LOVE…….

✪ The Laws of Reality ✪

Law of Mechanical Repair
After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch and you’ll have to pee.

Law of Gravity
Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

Law of Probability
The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.

Law of Random Numbers
If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal and someone always answers.

Law of the Alibi
If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire.

Variation Law
If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were in will always move faster than the one you are in now (works every time).

Law of the Bath
When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings.

Law of Close Encounters
The probability of meeting someone you know increases dramatically when you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with.

Law of the Result
When you try to prove to someone that a machine won’t work, it will.

Law of Biomechanics
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

Law of the Theater
At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last.

The Starbucks Law
As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

Murphy’s Law of Lockers
If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

Law of Physical Surfaces
The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing face down on a floor covering are directly correlated to the newness and cost of the carpet/rug.

Law of Logical Argument
Anything is possible if you don’t know what you are talking about.

Brown’s Law of Physical Appearance
If the shoe fits, it’s ugly.

Wilson’s Law of Commercial Marketing Strategy
As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it.

Doctors’ Law
If you don’t feel well, make an appointment to go to the doctor, by the time you get there you’ll feel better. Don’t make an appointment and you’ll stay sick.

✚ 7 Marvels of the Ancient World ✚

Photo: Berthold WernerThe Treasury Building, Petra, Jordan

Remember seeing this glorious building in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? Who among us has not dreamed of stepping in the footsteps of famous archaeologists and visiting sites that may still have secrets to offer up? If that fictional character played by Harrison Ford had ever had a wish list of places to see, it might have resembled the one assembled here. The Rose Red City of Petra, pictured above, is one of the most memorable ancient sites in the Middle East. Built during the fifth and sixth centuries BC, this once thriving city was rediscovered in 1812 by a Swiss traveller, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, but only came to be a true tourist spot after its appearance in the 1989 Indiana Jones film. Petra's most striking feature is the 2,000-year-old treasury building, which in the early morning sun glows a wonderful shade of red.

The Theatre Buildings, Palmyra, Syria
Photo: Andreas Praefcke

Palmyra was in ancient times an important city of central Syria. Though the old site fell into disrepair after the 16th century, it is still known by the name Tadmor and there is a small newer settlement next to the ruins of the same name. Palmyra – a wealthy and elegant city located along the caravan routes linking Persia with the Mediterranean ports of Roman Syria and Phoenicia – came under Roman control. Tadmor is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a desert city built by King Solomon of Judea, the son of David. Palmyra was made part of the Roman province of Syria during the reign of Tiberius (14–37). It was later taken by the Muslim Arabs under Khalid ibn Walid in 636. After the year 800, people started abandoning the city.

Vijayanagar, Hampi, India 
Photo: Ajar

Vijayanagar is Sanskrit for ‘city of victory’. This ruined city in South India was the capital, from the 14th through to the 16th centuries, of the Hindu Vijayanagar Empire, founded by Sangama dynasty princes Harihara and Bukka in 1336. The empire embraced all of India south of the Kistna River and protected it from the Muslim kingdoms of the north. Between 1510 and 1530, Krishna Deva Raya ruled and the empire had dealings with many Asian and European countries. The city, then some 60 miles across, flourished as a prosperous trade centre, noted for its artists, writers and temples. After a crushing defeat of the Hindus at Talikota (1565) Muslim forces utterly demolished the city and, except for a brief revival, the empire was destroyed.

Frontage of Celsus Library, Ephesus, Greece Photo: Kitkatcrazy

Ephesus was an Ionian Greek city in ancient Anatolia, founded by colonists from Athens in the 10th century BC. The city was located in Ionia, where the Cayster River flows into the Aegean Sea. Ephesus hosted one of the seven churches of Asia, addressed in the Book of Revelations, and is also the site of a large gladiator graveyard. The city was important in early Christianity. Paul used it as a base. He became embroiled in a dispute with artisans, whose livelihood depended on the Temple of Artemis there (Acts 19:23–41), and wrote 1 Corinthians from Ephesus.

Ruins of the city of Palenque, Mexico Photo: Choumel

The site of Palenque had been abandoned by the Mayans for several centuries when the Spanish explorers arrived in Chiapas in the 16th century. This city state in southern Mexico flourished in the 7th century. Abandoned more than a millennium ago, this once great city rose to prominence under Pakal, a club-footed king who reigned from 615AD to 683AD. Today the tallest and most notable structure is Pakal's pyramid crypt: the elaborate Temple of Inscriptions. The jungle took over after the city fell into disuse, but in modern times it has been excavated and restored and is now a famous archaeological site attracting thousands of visitors. The first European to visit the ruins and publish an account was Priest Pedro Lorenzo de la Nada in 1567.

The Tower Compound of Great Zimbabwe Photo: Jan Derk

Today spread across nearly 1,800 acres of south-eastern Zimbabwe, this huge settlement was begun in the eleventh century AD by Bantu-speaking ancestors of the Shona tribe. Great Zimbabwe was built up over the following three centuries and is set apart from similar sites in the area by the massive scale of the building there. Its most memorable feature, called by many the Great Enclosure, has walls up to 36 feet high and over 800 feet long, making it the largest ancient structure south of the Sahara Desert. During the 19th century, European and English visitors, stunned by the workmanship of Great Zimbabwe, refused to believe that native Africans could have built it. Archaeological investigations during the first decades of the twentieth century confirmed both the antiquity of the site and its African origins, putting paid to those ridiculous suppositions.

Ruins around the Ubar Oasis Photo: 9591353082

Ubar was mentioned in ancient records and was spoken of in folk tales as a desert trading center in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula. Founded on the frankincense trade route around 3000BC, the ancient city of Ubar, in the south-west of Oman, is believed to have been a fantastically wealthy place of ornate buildings adorned with spectacular golden pillars. The city, which fell into ruin sometime between 300AD and 500AD, was only rediscovered in 1992 by a team using Nasa satellite technology. According to the Qur'an, God destroyed Ubar as punishment for its inhabitants' immoral lifestyles. All of the places mentioned above are fascinating leftovers of a history we can never fully comprehend but nonetheless long to understand.

We cannot all be adventurers or archaeologists, but we can still enjoy the brooding atmosphere of ancient sites and the feeling that just maybe we too can make some wonderful discovery whilst there. If you want to tread in the footsteps of history, like Indiana, you know what you need to do.

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♧ The Mystery Behind the Sailing Stones of Death Valley ♧

Photo: Jim Gordon

Death Valley National Park in California is home to a place called The Racetrack Playa. The Racetrack is a dry lake situated 1130m above sea level, and even though it is 4.5km long, the ground is surprisingly flat, with only a 4cm height differential between the north and south ends. The mountains surrounding the Racetrack, comprised primarily of dark dolomite, reach as high as 1731m above the lake bed. When the heavy rains come, water rushes down the mountains and onto the lake bed, forming a shallow endorheic lake. Due to the hot temperatures of the region, the water evaporates, leaving behind a layer of soft mud. When the liquid fully evaporates, the ground cracks and leaves a mosaic pattern behind. While all of this is interesting, the feature that makes this area truly unique is something that has yet to be fully understood by the scientific community.

Photo: Dan Mayer

Over time, stones have fallen from the mountainsides onto the lake bed. Some of the stones are small, though others weigh as much as 700 pounds. Once they are situated on the incredibly flat surface, one might be inclined to think that they would sit undisturbed for thousands of years. This, however, is not the case. These gigantic rocks and boulders (known as Sailing Stones, Sliding Rocks, or Moving Rocks) are found all over the dry lake bed with long trails, or racetracks, having formed behind them, extending for hundreds of meters. Since there is no evidence of human or animal intervention in the movement of these stones, one has to wonder how the phenomenon is happening.

Photo: Daniel Mayer

Not only to the stones move, but they move in completely different directions. Two stones could start next to one another, and start moving at approximately the same speed, but one will suddenly stop or change directions. Sometimes the sailing stones will turn around completely, moving back towards their point of origin. The tracks left behind are generally no wider that 30 cm, and less than 2.5cm deep. The longest tracks have been forming for numerous years, though to date, nobody has ever witnessed the event.

Photo: Daniel Mayer

In 1972 Bob Sharp and Dwight Carey began a seven year study, when thirty stones were named and movements monitored with stakes. During that time two stones of similar size were placed in a corral with a diameter of 1.7m, surrounded by rebar placed 64 to 76cm apart. Over the study period one of the stones moved, though the other did not. By the end of the study 28 out of the 30 selected stones had moved, and only seemed to do so in the winter. The smallest of the stones monitored was 6.5 cm in diameter, and had the longest single movement of 201m, while the largest stone to move weighed 36kg. The largest stone was approximately 320kg, though it was one of the two not to move during the seven year period. This stone had disappeared sometime before 1994, and was discovered in 1996 about 800m away.

Photo: Dan Duriscoe

Another study was done in the mid 90s and concluded that the trails left in the 1980s were formed by a large ice floe, possibly up to 800 meters wide in conjunction with strong winds, upwards of 145km/h in the area. While the movement during the 80s has a strong hypothesis, until someone actually witnesses the event, we won't know for certain how these gigantic stones sail around the lake bed in Death valley National Park.

✤ The Most Colorful Desert on Earth ✤

Photo: Andy Cardiff

After taking a closer look you’ll realize the seven colors are very real. But this unusual coloring of the hills at Chamarel isn’t their only bizarre trait.

The coloured earths of Chamarel were promoted as Mauritius' first tourist attraction back in the 1960s. Even today souvenir test-tubes containing the multi-coloured earth can be bought from beach vendors and tourist boutiques, or from the yellow-roofed administration building at the entrance to the site. The land belongs to the Bel Ombre Sugar Estate and a small entrance charge is made to visit. An example of the horizontal mill, like a giant's washing mangle, lies in front of the administration building. It was introduced by Charles Telfair, one of Bel Ombre's first owners.

Photo: joysmith7mr 

Sunrise is the best time to see the Colored Earths. Geologists are still intrigued by the rolling dunes of the multi-coloured, moon-like landscape.

Photo: andangio / Andrea Angioletti (absolutely OFF) (picture used with permission)

The colors, red, brown, violet, green, blue, purple and yellow never disappear in spite of torrential downpours and adverse climatic conditions. The phenomena has never been fully understood but it is believed the soil is composed of mineral rich volcanic ash.

Photo: mariaone

The Colored Earths remain one of the most popular sights on the island. This unusual geological phenomena was formed when volcanic rock cooled at different temperatures, in multicolored layers.

Photo: Paulnew

Rains have shaped the rock into small hills that look like dunes of sand and, the first time you look at them, it will seem like the colors are actually just shadows.
Photo: www.soulsurfers.info   

Photo: Shoestring

Geologists have been fascinated with the Colored Earths ever since they were first discovered, but haven’t yet been able to explain why they never erode in spite of being exposed to harsh elements and torrential rains.

The Colored Earths of Chamarel also have the unique property of settling into layers. If you take a handful of each of the seven-colored sands and mix them together, they will eventually separate into seven different colored layers.

Photo: Roderick Parks

New Jellyfish Species Is Artfully Beautiful

You have to hand it to Mother Nature. Just when you think she’s hit a plateau with her creative bag of tricks, she’s pulls off something like this incrediblw new species of Jellyfish.The discovery is just one of many that some scientists discovered during a new survey of the ocean. The full reveal of all the wonderful new lifeforms they discovered will be released this coming October.

Check out some additional photos of the new species here.

ゃ 5 Most Bizarre Forms of Soccer on Earth ゃ

Photo: www.foot-volley.de

The beautiful game. The sport known as football to most of the world and soccer in the USA has been around for years. Now that the 2010 FIFA World Cup is coming to a close, fans around the world may begin to feel football-withdrawals. However, while standard football on grass may be going on a short vacation, there are some forms of football that many of us may not have heard of. Here is a list of the different styles of football, or soccer, that are played around the world, from the almost normal to the positively strange!

5)Futsal
Photo: Wilson Dias/ABr

Indoor Soccer. Seems simple enough doesn't it? Well, while this game is played on a smaller court with many less fans in the stadium, it has its very own Pele, set of rules, and ultra-competitive warriors battling it out for supremacy. These folks can nutmeg-maneuver you just as well as a grass-court soccer player!

4)Beach Soccer
Photo: Andres1010

Actually used as a form of training for the Brazilian soccer team, beach soccer has its own World Cup. As if running at blistering speeds on grass were not difficult enough, just imagine having to run and control a ball while your feet sink into the sand. If the Brazilians train like this every day, it’s a wonder how they don't win every World Cup tournament they enter!

3)Footvolley
Photo: via BrightOnLife

As you may have guessed, this isn't quite your typical game of footy! In fact, this is a mix of volleyball and soccer. Not allowed to touch the ball with their hands, competitors acrobatically dribble and kick the ball over the regulation volleyball net. Many a soccer star, once again from the Brazilian team, has been known to indulge in some good old fashion footvolley from time to time to hone their skills!

2)Roller Soccer
Photo: RollerSoccer

Leave it to San Francisco to create something as unique as this. This grueling sport involves skating abilities combined with soccer dexterity. Imagine moving on one rollerblade, kicking the ball out of mid-air! Now that's a challenge! Started in 1997 by a group of roller-blading enthusiasts, the sport took the city by storm and can be found being played in quite a few parking lots.

1)Ice Soccer
Photo: via Harvey Mudd College

Now this is for the very definition of a sport for a sports fan. Those of us craving both hockey and the soccer season can wait out the sport-impoverished months by combining the two in the strangest form of soccer of all! It too, apparently, has gained enough notoriety to merit a world championship!