Month: March 2011
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South African Sunset Painted By The Master Scientist
This photo was taken just after sunset with a Canon Powershot A460. If you painted this incredibly beautiful sky just this way . . well, it would look as if you changed your mind somewhere, wouldn’t it? The Bot River Estuary lies against the foothills of the Kogelberg mountains in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve and…
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Dame Elizabeth Taylor (1932 — 2011)
“I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.” Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) died yesterday morning at the age of 79. Related posts: No related posts.
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Marilyn Monroe American Icon
Without any acting experience, Marilyn became a Hollywood media star and a legend in a career that spanned 16 years and 29 movies. Born Norma Jean Baker (1926 – 1962), Marilyn Monroe began her career as a model and landed her first film contract in 1946. She made her first appearance on the cover of…
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Smoke and Fire in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve – Day 2
The Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve is in the heart of the Overberg about 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Hermanus in the Western Cape, South Africa By late yesterday afternoon the wind was a factor, blowing strongly from the south-east. The fire was moving rapidly into the mountainous area north of the N2 national road, threatening farms…
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Smoke and Fire in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve
After sunset the fire continued to burn as it marched over the peaks of the mountains in the distance at left casting a bright yellow glare in the night sky. Within minutes, yesterday afternoon, this fire had blossomed from a wisp to a towering column of smoke. The vegetation of Fynbos contains plant matter with…
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Japanese Tsunami and the Amazing Resilience of Japanese People
Day five and utter devastation and mounting problems face the deeply shocked survivors of the worst Japanese seismic event in history. The Japanese people, in the first moments realised that something was different from the intensity and duration of the movement of the ground. The one-meter drop in sea level which occurred immediately after the…