Merry Christmas!

*The Christmas tree nebula*


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*Click here for a pre-Christmas world tour:*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/6871906/Pictures-of-the-day-23-December-2009.html?image=4

*More beautiful real snowflake close-ups this year, click here:*

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236779/Snowflakes-coolest-shapes-planet-beautiful-close-up.html



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Today's New Features

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St. Marks, Venice

*See full size, click here:*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/6699763/Pictures-of-the-day-1-December-2009.html?image=26

Most all pictures recommended this day!!

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Today's New Features

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"A team of skydivers complete a 70-person formation wearing wingsuits. The team of daredevils came together at Lake Elsinore in California to attempt the world record-breaking stunt..."

Most all pictures recommended viewing this day!!

*See the big, luminous photo, Click here:*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/6580513/Pictures-of-the-day-16-November-2009.html?image=4

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Today's New Features

Earthrise...

"Earthrise is seen by the camera aboard the ESA's comet chaser Rosetta. The outline of Antarctica is visible under the clouds that form the striking south-polar vortex"

*Click here:*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/6560670/Pictures-of-the-day-13-November-2009.html?image=1

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Penguins take charge of the camera

*Click here:*

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1227172/P-p-p-picture-penguin-Arctic-birds-turn-tables-photographer-peering-lens-setting-shots.html

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Today's New Features

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A real Wallace & Gromit style breakfast machine!

*Click here:*

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223310/What-cracking-invention-Design-teachers-incredible-Wallace-Gromit-style-breakfast-making-machine.html

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Today's New Features

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See big and beautiful:

A gorgeous picture of the Isle of Skye which has won the top prize in this year's Landscape Photograph of the Year award

*Click here:*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/6373684/Pictures-of-the-day-19-October-2009.html?image=14


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Today's New Feature

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*See Quotes of the Days for new Wise Buddha quotes!!*


"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."




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Today's New Feature

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"The DIY fish supper: Future kitchen grows its own vegetables and seafood"

*Click here:*

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1219701/The-DIY-fish-supper-Future-kitchen-grows-vegetables-seafood.html

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Today's New Features

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*Click here:*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/6264707/Pictures-of-the-day-6-October-2009.html?image=3

Interesting NYT article: "How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect"

*Click here:*


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/health/06mind.html?_r=1&em


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"A farmer sprays milk on police forces during a protest against falling milk prices outside the European Headquarters in Brussels"

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"While riot police protect themselves against manure and straw thrown by other protesters"

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Today's New Features

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*Click here:*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/6261420/Pictures-of-the-day-5-October-2009.html?image=12

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Happy Gandhi's Birthday!

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*Click here:*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/6254090/Pictures-of-the-day-2-October-2009.html?image=10

*Most all photos recommended viewing today!!*


*See Quotes of the Days for Gandhi's remarkable quotes!!*

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

Mahatma Gandhi, (attributed)

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Today's New Features

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*Click here:*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/6238952/Pictures-of-the-day-28-September-2009.html?image=9

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Nothing like a timely visit to an old friend, and pictures that may just challenge your ability to keep your drool in your mouth...

*Click here:*

http://www.creampuffsinvenice.ca/

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Exploring 'Engrish'

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A funny site for those who enjoy the comedy of English errors, and what is gained in translation...

*Click here:*

http://www.engrish.com/



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Today's New Features

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"A gold sword fitting inlaid with garnet"

"Unearthed after 1,400 years: Amateur treasure hunter finds 'seven figure' haul of Anglo-Saxon gold"

*Click here:*

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215723/Staffordshire-hoard-Amateur-treasure-hunter-finds-Britains-biggest-haul-Anglo-Saxon-gold.html

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*Quotes of the Days:*

"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."

Henry Miller

*I don't think he meant entirely...*

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Today's New Features

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*Fleur de sel*...

"Fleur de Sel, an installation made of lace and silk parasols by artists Steve Messam and Hannah Stewart which represented Cumbria at the Venice Biennale, floats at Ullswater to celebrate the National Park's 60th birthday"

*Click here:*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/6161424/Pictures-of-the-day-9-September-2009.html?image=29


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It's Comic Relief Sunday... Stay Tuned!

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"Guests enjoy heated pools filled with diluted beer at Starkenberg's brewery's castle headquarters in Austria."

*Click here:*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/6161424/Pictures-of-the-day-9-September-2009.html

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*More Monty Python!!:*

"The Funniest Joke In The World..."

*Click here:*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gpjk_MaCGM&feature=related

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*And Stephen Colbert Rules!!:*

Favorites this week...

*Click here:*

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/249080/september-16-2009/i-s-on-edjukashun---muslim-textbooks---tony-danza

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/249083/september-16-2009/wayne-coyne


More of the funniest featured clips at his site...

*Click here:*

http://www.colbertnation.com/home

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*Also:*

"Urinating on your tomato plants could give you fruit four times larger: Gardeners keen to boost their crop of tomatoes can fertilise them with their own wee, according to a new study."

*Click here:*

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1214346/Urinating-tomato-plants-fruit-times-larger.html


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Today's New Features

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To see this picture big and beautiful...

*Click here:*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/5982423/Pictures-of-the-day-6-August-2009.html?image=1

"This infrared picture provided by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud, known as DR22, bursting with new stars in the Cygnus region of the sky. Spitzer's infrared eyes can both see through and see dust, giving it a unique view into star-forming nests. The blue areas are dusty clouds, and the orange is mainly hot gas. The image is one of the first to be taken during Spitzer's warm mission - a new phase that began after the telescope, which operated for more than five-and-a-half years, ran out of liquid coolant. The picture was snapped with the two infrared channels that still work at Spitzer's still-quite-chilly temperature of 30 Kelvin (about minus 406 Fahrenheit)"

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And hear the stunning song, "Galaxies" by Portland, Oregon singer-songwriter, Laura Veirs...

*Click here:*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7vol9PUOj4&feature=related

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Today's New Features

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Telegraph UK correction:

These are Buddha pears:

"Buddha shaped pears are displayed in an orchard in Weixian county, Hebei province. Hao Xianzhang, a local famer, spent six years perfecting the process of growing the pears inside moulds"

*Click here:*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/6173678/Pictures-of-the-day-11-September-2009.html?image=3

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More new Quotes of the Days!

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Today's New Features

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What are they?

*Click here:*

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/6137628/Pictures-of-the-day-4-September-2009.html?image=2

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Great comic relief with: "Every Sperm is Sacred"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47P59ha9k9s

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"Nepalese children take part in a procession for Gai Jatra (Cow Festival) in Kathmandu"

Click here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/5982423/Pictures-of-the-day-6-August-2009.html?image=29

*New Quotes of the Days!*

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"If chased by angry samurais, would the world's fastest speed walker run, or walk? The Japanese solved again an intriguing question that was haunting us since time began."

Click here for the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP7umBNRxnw

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Today's New Feature

*Northern Lights*


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New Quotes of the Days!

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do...?

Friedrich Nietzsche

And more on Quotes of the Days page! -->

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A Cheese and Heirloom Tomato Panini slice sandwich recipe:

"One-inch wide slabs of toasted, cheesy, heirloom tomato filled deliciousness slathered with a basil-chive ricotta spread." Click here:

http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/001455.html


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Today's New Features and Happy Father's Day!

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From Cambridge and York Universities: read the fascinating underwater business and research behind a freshwater fish slump in medieval times, click below picture:

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Click here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1187291/A-sea-change-How-freshwater-fish-slump-forced-medieval-men-brave-oceans.html

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See a large picture of the controversial Google trike, and selected British landmark finalists, click here:
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1193743/Stonehenge-Warwick-Castle-Loch-Ness-The-historic-landmarks-filmed-Google-trike.html

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See square watermelon in Japan:



Click here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/5567430/Pictures-of-the-day-18-June-2009.html?image=24

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Today's New Features

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1,000's of warriors... An amazing archaeology dig in China... see real, impressive dig-in-action pictures and story, click here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1192983/Terracotta-warriors-rise-Chinese-archaeologists-begin-new-dig-24-years.html
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*See the dish-licious creative UK success story behind these pictures, click here:*

http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/lolas-ice-cream-sundaes-recipe.html

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Today's New Features

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"Close encounter of the rock kind: Schoolboy survives direct hit by meteorite travelling at 30,000mph"

Click here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1192503/Close-encounter-rock-kind-Schoolboy-survives-direct-hit-meteorite-travelling-30-000mph.html

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Flipping brilliant!: In Japan, the robots can do many things... even make you pancakes... while it wears a scarf!

*See and read more, click here:*

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1191884/Flipping-brilliant-Now-Japan-invented-robot-cook-pancakes-breakfast.html

Other articles of interest:

"Gentlemen prefer Miss Average..." click here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1192142/Gentlemen-prefer-Miss-Average-The-perfect-centrefold-body-ousted-homely-shape-girl-door-new-study.html


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Today's New Features

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*Beluga Lentil Crostini Recipe*

"This has become one of my favorite crostini recipes - goat cheese, black beluga lentils, and chives on garlic-rubbed crostini." - Heidi

*Click here:*

http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/000280.html

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*The science rule breakers:*

"It may be just four inches long - but the tiny Hummingbird flies faster than a space shuttle and a fighter jet..."

"From the hummingbird that's faster than a space rocket to the polar fish that make their own anti-freeze, nature has some incredible creatures," click here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1192225/Mother-Natures-humdingers-The-awesome-animals-turn-laws-science-upside-down.html

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"Is there anybody out there?"

To see a big, beautiful picture and more info about the question mark galaxy, click here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1172519/Is-there-question-mark-galaxy.html

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*Power Waffles*

"A delicious yeast-leavened waffle recipe featuring oats, buckwheat flour, and crystallized ginger. A denser, heartier, more nutritious waffle," click here:

http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/000164.html


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*A delicious must see and read herb salad recipe, click here:*

http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/herb-salad-recipe.html

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Today's New Features

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*Health Secrets from Greece*

Over one-third of everyone in the northeastern end of Ikaria reaches age 90. They suffer 20% less cancer and half the rate of heart disease. And there’s virtually no dementia...

Click here:

http://www.bluezones.com/component/content/article/11-news/415-ikaria-quest-lessons

Today's New Features

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One incredible vision for city farming, more pictures - click here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1186312/Garden-city-Dragonfly-shaped-skyscraper-feed-Earths-booming-population.html









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