Unusual Animals: Hydrocynus Goliath

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    Author: alice from 14 November, views 3348, Educative
    Unusual Animals: Hydrocynus Goliath



    [Hydrocynus goliath, also known as the goliath tigerfish, giant tigerfish or mbenga, is a very large African predatory freshwater fish. The giant tigerfish is restricted to the Zaire River system, Lualaba River, Lake Upemba and Lake Tanganyika]. (Photo by Tigerfishcamp / Tourettefishing / Bigfishesoftheworld)...

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    Mongolia in Colour 1913

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    Author: jone from 14 November, views 2437, Educative
    Mongolia in Colour 1913



    A woman sentenced to starvation death......

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    Simply Some Photos: In The Deep

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    Author: peter from 14 November, views 3115, Educative
    Simply Some Photos: In The Deep



    Imagine living in the sea where it is permanently dark, cold, and food is hard to find. For many animals at depth, it may be weeks to months between meals. If you find something to eat, you have to hang on to it. This is why so many deep-sea fishes have lots of big teeth. This dragonfish, spotted off the coast of Australia, even has teeth on its tongue. They would be terrifying animals ... if they weren’t the size of a banana. (Photo by Julian Finn/Museum Victoria)...

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    [Vintage Photoshop] or The Spirit Photographs Of William Hope

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    Author: peter from 14 November, views 2801, Educative
    [Vintage Photoshop] or The Spirit Photographs Of William Hope



    [William Hope (1863 – 8 March 1933) was a pioneer of so-called [spirit photography] (spirit photography is a type of photography whose primary attempt is to capture images of ghosts and other spiritual entities, especially in ghost hunting). Based in Crewe, England, he was a member of the well known spiritualists group, the Crewe Circle]. – Wikipedia

    Photo: Couple with a young female spirit....

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    The world's largest statue of Chinggis Khaan

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    Author: alice from 14 November, views 2834, Educative
    The world's largest statue of Chinggis Khaan



    The Genghis Khan Statue is a 40-metre tall statue of Ghengis Khan (1162–1227) on horseback, on the bank of the Tuul River at Tsonjin Boldog (54 km east of the capital Ulan Bator), where according to legend, he found a golden whip....

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    Milky Way over ...

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    Author: peter from 14 November, views 2836, Educative
    Milky Way over ...



    Milky Way over Switzerland

    The Milky Way is the galaxy in which Earth is contained. This name derives from its appearance as a dim [milky] glowing band arching across the night sky, in which the naked eye cannot distinguish individual stars. The term [Milky Way] is a translation of the Classical Latin via lactea, from the Hellenistic Greek γαλαξίας κύκλος (pr. galaxías kýklos, [milky circle]). The Milky Way appears like a band because it is a disk-shaped structure being viewed from inside. The fact that this faint band of light is made up of stars was proven in 1610 when...

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    Titanoboa Replica On Display At Grand Central Terminal

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    Author: alice from 14 November, views 3815, Educative
    Titanoboa Replica On Display At Grand Central Terminal



    [Titanoboa is a genus of snake that lived approximately 58–60 million years ago, during the Paleocene epoch, a 10-million-year period immediately following the dinosaur extinction event. The only known species is the Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever discovered, which supplanted the previous record holder, Gigantophis]. – Wikipedia

    Photo: Leah Del Rio views a replica of the prehistoric Titanoboa, the largest snake to ever live, on display at Grand Central Terminal on March 23, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)...

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    The Fall Of The Soviet Union

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    Author: peter from 14 November, views 4824, Educative
    The Fall Of The Soviet Union



    A pro-democracy demonstrator fights with a Soviet soldier on top of a tank parked in front of the Russian Federation building on August 19, 1991, after a coup toppled Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The same day, thousands in Moscow, Leningrad, and other cities answered Russian Republic President Boris Yeltsins call to raise barricades against tanks and troops. (Dima Tanin/AFP/Getty Images)...

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    Nikon Small World Competition 2011 Winners

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    Author: peter from 14 November, views 2562, Educative
    Nikon Small World Competition 2011 Winners



    The double compound eyes of a male St. Mark's fly (Bibio marci), submitted by Dr. David Maitland from Feltwell, UK. (Dr. David Maitland)...

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    Mekong

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    Author: alice from 14 November, views 4235, Educative
    Mekong

    Among the fish populations that could be harmed by the Xayaburi dam in Laos is the critically endangered Mekong giant catfish, considered by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the world’s largest freshwater fish. The fish, which grows to 650 pounds and about 10 feet long, is only found in the Mekong River. It is migratory, moving between downstream habitats in Cambodia upstream to northern Thailand and Laos each year to spawn. Some experts fear the Xayaburi dam could block the migration and drive the giant catfish to extinction. (Photo by Courtesy of Zeb Hogan/University of Nevada, Reno)...

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