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hofelina · « **on:** September 21, 2010, 05:04:33 AM »

Flawless Fruit

Orthodox Jews inspect an etrog, a type of citrus fruit, for imperfections at a market in Jerusalem. The fruit plays an important part in the rituals accompanying the Jewish holiday of Sukkot which begins later this week.

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hubag bohol · « **Reply #1 on:** September 21, 2010, 05:40:19 AM »

Flawless Fruit

Orthodox Jews inspect an etrog, a type of citrus fruit, for imperfections at a market in Jerusalem. The fruit plays an important part in the rituals accompanying the Jewish holiday of Sukkot which begins later this week.

Green lang, pero mora man nig ragay...

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hofelina · « **Reply #2 on:** September 21, 2010, 05:52:40 AM »

hubs bahala na basta dili lang mahimong bakeh!

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hubag bohol · « **Reply #3 on:** September 21, 2010, 10:14:05 AM »

hubs bahala na basta dili lang mahimong bakeh!

Bwahaha! Delikado, kay green ra ba!

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hofelina · « **Reply #4 on:** September 21, 2010, 02:11:07 PM »

the Flour face

A boy in Panchimalco, El Salvador is covered in flour after taking part in the traditional "Las Chamcacas" game of blowing into bowls of flour during three day festival of the patron saint "Santa Cruz de Roma," or "The Holy Cross of Rome."

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hofelina · « **Reply #5 on:** September 22, 2010, 02:47:57 PM »

Full Moon Fever

Visitors stroll past giant lanterns at the Lantern Wonderland exhibition in Hong Kong's Victoria Park. The annual exhibition celebrates the middle of autumn and the full moon, which is supposedly at its largest and roundest this week.

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hofelina · « **Reply #6 on:** September 23, 2010, 04:56:30 AM »

Floating Bridge

Commuters cross the Buriganga River on a floating boat bridge in Dhaka, Bangladesh. When rampant-growing water hyacinth prevented boats from moving freely on the river, a group of boatmen came up with a bright idea. They made this floating bridge by connecting 34 wooden dinghies together and are charging a small fee to cross.

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hofelina · « **Reply #7 on:** October 02, 2010, 06:57:06 PM »

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi gets a wash on the eve of the anniversary of his birth in Jammu, India. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on Oct. 2, 1869 in Porbandar near Mumbai. He is often referred to as "Mahatma," a name which means "Great Soul" in Sanskrit. Saturday would have been his 141st birthday. Every year India celebrates the day with a national holiday. Gandhi was famed for his simple diet and lifestyle and in his honor no alcohol or meat is sold or consumed on the day.

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hofelina · « **Reply #8 on:** October 08, 2010, 04:28:31 AM »

Two thrill-seekers take a leap of faith from the 421-meter-high Kuala Lumpur Tower seconds before releasing their parachutes on Thursday. Base jumping is an extreme sport where parachutists jump from tall buildings or cliffs instead of from aeroplanes. B.A.S.E stands for Building, Antenna, Span and Earth which are the categories of fixed objects from which such adrenalin junkies leap. Around 120 professional base jumpers from 22 countries around the world took part today in the annual KL Tower International Jump in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The KL tower is the sixth tallest TV tower in the world, the largest being the Canton Tower in Guangzhou, China at 610 meters.

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hofelina · « **Reply #9 on:** October 09, 2010, 05:26:30 PM »

A spooky spectre looms out of the fog in the Tatra mountains in Poland -- but it isn't a ghost. It's an example of a rare optic phenomenon which occurs when an observer standing at a higher altitude sees his own shadow cast onto cloud below him. As here, the shadow is often encircled with colored rings caused by diffraction of light by water droplets. The phenomenon is called a 'Brocken spectre' after a peak in the Harz mountains in Germany, where the first recorded sighting occured in 1780. According to an old mountain climbers' superstition, whoever sees a Brocken spectre will one day die in the mountains.

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hofelina · « **Reply #10 on:** October 28, 2010, 04:11:56 AM »

Fog hangs low over a field near Hopkinsville in the US state of Kentucky. A line of cattle make their way through the early morning mist. Storms passed through the area on Tuesday, bringing cooler temperatures and fog to low-lying areas. The area is famous as the site of the "Hopkinsville Goblins" UFO sighting in 1955, when locals claimed to have been visited by little green men.

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hofelina · « **Reply #11 on:** November 09, 2010, 06:55:27 AM »

He has already tried to break speed records for the world's fastest piece of furniture -- it was a couch -- but Perry Watkins was not satisfied. In September the British inventor took to the race track with a speeding dining table. His motorized meal, named "Fast Food," managed to reach speeds of up to 182 kilometers per hour (113 miles per hour). The table, which is laid for a meal, sits atop the modified body of a sports car.

Watkins, who formerly held the record for the world's smallest car, as listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, showed off his speedy culinary cart at a press preview for the Essen motor show, to be held from Nov. 27 to Dec. 5.

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hofelina · « **Reply #12 on:** November 10, 2010, 09:55:24 AM »

Wooden crosses planted at the newly opened Royal British Legion Wootton Bassett Field of Remembrance in southwest England. The new memorial, opened on Nov.9, pays tribute to the British servicemen and women killed in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prince Harry attended the opening ceremony and planted a cross for Lance Corporal of Horse Jonathan Woodgate, who was killed while on foot patrol in Helmand province earlier this year. In the UK, the red poppy is worn in the run up to Armistice Day on November 11, which commemorates the end of World War One. The poppy was chosen as a symbol after the flower grew over the battle fields in Belgium and France after the war.

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hofelina · « **Reply #13 on:** November 11, 2010, 06:00:57 AM »

Stormy weather off the Spanish coast whips the sea into a frenzy. Here, collossal waves crash against the seawall at the fishing port of Cudillero in northern Spain. The country has been experiencing an extremely turbulent autumn. Heavy storms lashed Spain's Mediterranean coast back in October, flooding homes and causing two weather-related deaths.

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hofelina · « **Reply #14 on:** November 18, 2010, 05:36:17 PM »

A butterfly perches on the screen window of the butterfly room in the Museum of Science in Boston, USA. In the background the Charles River and the Boston skyline. The collection includes butterflies and moths from all over the world.

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hofelina · « **Reply #15 on:** November 21, 2010, 03:59:56 PM »

Bulgarian doctors release pigeons into the air outside the parliament building in Sofia as part of a national protest against the Hungarian government's healthcare policies. Hundreds of medics are frustrated by inconsistencies in the government's approach to health, in particular a lack of state funding for healthcare.

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hofelina · « **Reply #16 on:** November 23, 2010, 03:28:46 PM »

A student at St. Andrews University in Scotland is covered in foam while taking part in the traditional "raisin weekend" foam fight to celebrate the start of the academic year. Every November, first year students are initiated with a wild weekend involving alcohol, crazy costumes and foam. Each new student is assigned an "academic mother" and "academic father" who will show them the ropes in adapting to university life. Traditionally, the new students give a pound of raisins to their elders as a token of gratitude for their guidance. In return they receive a receipt in Latin, often written on an absurd object, like an old car or baby clothing. In recent times, the raisins have been replaced with a bottle of wine and the traditional event held on campus at St. Salvator's Quad has taken a messy turn.

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hofelina · « **Reply #17 on:** November 25, 2010, 04:59:15 AM »

An earful;

Supporters of Ivory Coast's incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo bite an ear of corn during a rally in Abidjan on Tuesday. The west African nation's long-delayed presidential poll went ahead smoothly on Wednesday in spite of some street clashes (threatened unrest was official reason postponing the election). But it failed to produce a clear winner. A run-off between Gbagbo and his liberal challenger, Alassane Ouattara, is set for Nov. 28.

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hofelina · « **Reply #18 on:** November 27, 2010, 06:03:37 PM »

Pedestrians in central Delhi, India, were stopped in their tracks Friday by an aerial ballet taking place high above them. The Project Bandaloop dancers, who specialize in vertical dance and aerial ballet, are based in San Francisco. The idea came from founder Amelia Rudolph, who wanted to combine rock climbing and modern dance. The troop performed on the mirrored walls of the 120 foot high (36 meters) LIC building in the Indian city.

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hofelina · « **Reply #19 on:** December 05, 2010, 06:37:09 AM »

High-water alarms sounded in Venice on Friday morning as seasonal winter floods reached their highest level. Over half of the legendary Italian island city was under water. The heavy flooding is due to a combination of persistently bad weather and the usual tide coming in to the Venice lagoon off the Adriatic, the news agency AFP reported.

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hofelina · « **Reply #20 on:** December 07, 2010, 06:28:29 AM »

fearless Father Christmas!

A climber dressed as Santa Claus rappelled down the front of the 25-storey Kollhoff Tower on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin on Monday. The dramatic backdrop includes the Sony Center and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

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hofelina · « **Reply #21 on:** December 08, 2010, 10:29:37 PM »

Two-ton Nikica, Montenegro's only hippo, swims through the town of Pravnica after she was flooded out of her pen at a private zoo on Monday. The region around Lake Shadar has been suffering severe flooding since December 5 and over 1,000 soldiers have been brought in to help locals.

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hofelina · « **Reply #22 on:** December 09, 2010, 10:04:31 PM »

A Filipino fisherman casts his net amidst a vivid carpet of water lillies near the town of Paranaque, just south of Manila. The waters surrounding the 7,100 islands of the Philippines are home to a rich variety of marine life including around 2,400 species of fish. These fish stocks, currently under threat from overfishing and climate change, will be actively protected from 2011 when the government plans to suspend any new commercial fishing licences.

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hofelina · « **Reply #23 on:** December 10, 2010, 03:45:30 PM »

There were more amazing adventures for Spider-Man Thursday as a kite displaying the fictional superhero's image created a flash of color against the snowy skies of Red Square in Moscow.

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hofelina · « **Reply #24 on:** December 14, 2010, 04:11:48 AM »

The pink dawn sky provided a breathtaking backdrop for the Russian Soyuz TMA-20 rocket booster on Monday as it travelled to its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The space rocket is scheduled for lift-off on Dec. 15, 2010, carrying a crew of three astronauts: Catherine "Cady" Coleman from the US, Italian Paolo Nespoli and Russian Dmitry Kondratyev. The autonomous flight to the International Space Station (ISS) should take two days. Built by the United States, Russia, Japan, Canada and 11 European countries, the ISS is one of the largest international scientific projects ever conceived.

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hofelina · « **Reply #25 on:** December 15, 2010, 03:49:53 PM »

Heidi is one of Leipzig Zoo's more unusual attractions. The female possum, who was born in May 2008, has a squint. Cross-eyed or not, the possum gets around: She came from the Odense Zoo in Denmark and will move again next year with two of her possum friends into Leipzig Zoo's newly built Gondwanaland tropical house. This photo shows Heidi exploring her enclosure on Tuesday.

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hofelina · « **Reply #26 on:** December 17, 2010, 06:04:24 PM »

The Ashura festival falls during the month of Muharram in the Islamic calendar. It is a commemoration of the 7th-century martrydom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Imam Hussein at the Battle of Karbala. In this picture, a Shi'ite Muslim walks on hot coals during a ceremony at a mosque in Rangoon, Burma on Thursday.

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hofelina · « **Reply #27 on:** December 18, 2010, 05:31:01 PM »

Members of the Orthodox Church honored one of their most important saints on Friday -- the virgin martyr Saint Barbara, who died in Syria in 311 A.D. She's celebrated in eastern European countries on December 17, and part of the ceremony involves carrying a candle and an icon around to to neighboring houses. Here, a worshipper kisses a candle decorated with ribbons and paper flowers in the Belarus village of Bastenovichi, around 280km east of Minsk.

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hofelina · « **Reply #28 on:** December 21, 2010, 07:07:57 PM »

It's perfect swimming weather -- at least for this brave group of elderly Chinese woman. They seemed to be looking forward to a bracing swim in the icy river in Shenyang, in the north-eastern Chinese province of Liaoning on Monday. Winter swimming is popular in China. Many believe it delivers a multitude of health benefits, including improved circulation and vitality, younger looking skin and general stress relief.

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hofelina · « **Reply #29 on:** December 22, 2010, 08:39:26 PM »

A total lunar eclipse on Monday evening coincided with the arrival of the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere for the first time since 1638, casting a shadow on the earth for a full 72 minutes. This picture shows the lunar eclipse above the Teide volcano in the Teide National Park on Tenerife, one of the Spanish Canary Islands. The volcano is the highest peak in Spain. The last time it erupted was in 1798.

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hofelina · « **Reply #30 on:** December 23, 2010, 08:54:02 PM »

Two 30-meter-high, steel cranes rehearse a new show at Resorts World, a casino in Singapore on Wednesday. The cranes weigh 80 tons each and are automated. Created by Jeremy Railton, the free waterfront show tells the story of two robot birds that fall in love and how the power of their love transforms them into real birds. It opens to the public on Dec. 25, 2010.

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hofelina · « **Reply #31 on:** December 24, 2010, 03:41:11 AM »

A dog peered out of a porthole on the side of a ship on the Yenisei River in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. It is likely he quickly withdrew -- the temperatures dropped to minus 26 degrees Celsius (minus 14.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in Krasnoyarsk on Thursday. The Yenisei River is one of the longest rivers in Asia, rising in the borderland between south-central Russia and Mongolia and flowing along the edge of the West Siberian Plain to the Kara Sea.

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hofelina · « **Reply #32 on:** December 28, 2010, 01:51:39 AM »

The Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is considered one of the toughest yacht races in the world. This Dec. 27 photo, which shows a yacht heading toward a storm front near the Bass Strait, shows part of the reason why.

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hofelina · « **Reply #33 on:** December 30, 2010, 03:53:46 AM »

Eight-year-old Leon holds up a giant New Year's Pretzel in Freiburg, south-western Germany. According to local tradition, devouring one of these monsters on New Year's Day will bring good fortune and health for the coming 12 months. And possibly a touch of indigestion.

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hofelina · « **Reply #34 on:** January 04, 2011, 03:47:56 PM »

Adam Malysz of Poland competes during the Four Hills World Cup Tournament in Innsbruck, Austria, on Monday. The former competition champion is currently in second place going into the final event in the prestigious ski jumping tournament on Thursday in Bischofshofen, Austria. He is trailing Austrian Thomas Morgenstern, who currently leads by 27.3 points. The world famous event, which has taken place annually since 1952, is held in Oberstdorf, Germany, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Innsbruck, Austria, and Bischofshofen, Austria.

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hofelina · « **Reply #35 on:** January 05, 2011, 04:57:47 AM »

Snow-covered boats on the frozen Songhua River in China are seen illuminated in the glow from lights in a nearby restaurant on Monday. The river flows through the northern city of Harbin in Heilongjiang province. Northern China has experienced its heaviest snow in decades, causing chaos on the roads and stranding thousands of passengers at airports. Over the weekend, Beijing saw its heaviest snowfall since 1951, according to local media.

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hofelina · « **Reply #36 on:** January 06, 2011, 03:35:23 PM »

Massive ice sculptures form a magical frozen city. These sculptures are part of the 27th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival, in China's northern Heilongjiang province. The festival, which opened on Jan. 5, 2011, is an annual three-month event featuring hundreds of activities related to snow and ice.

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hofelina · « **Reply #37 on:** January 07, 2011, 05:36:07 AM »

A collapsed deer was rescued from the frozen surface of a lake by the fire department in Voerde in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Wednesday. The fire brigade used ropes to pull the exhausted but uninjured animal to safety. The lake near the town of Voerde is completely frozen over, and the fire team also had to perform a number of animal rescues on Tuesday.

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hofelina · « **Reply #38 on:** January 12, 2011, 05:11:52 AM »

Ice diving is all part of the training for Istvan Papp, a member of a Hungarian special rescue team. In a frozen pond in Nyireghaza, 245 kilometers (152 miles) east of Budapest, Papp and his team mates had to cut through ice with a knife and learn how to break through a thick layer of ice from underneath as part of their emergency training.

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hofelina · « **Reply #39 on:** January 13, 2011, 04:58:05 AM »

Russian performers in rabbit costumes wait backstage during rehearsals for a Chinese New Year TV show at Beijing Television studios on Tuesday. Chinese New Year begins on Feb. 4 and celebrations last around two weeks. The rabbit in the Chinese zodiac represents affectionate, serene beings who are introverted, humble and popular.

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