Victoria Falls

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first time since 1968 Vic Falls smokes again

In 1855, David Livingstone became the first European to lay eyes upon Mosi-oa-Tunya ("the smoke that thunders"), the astonishing waterfall on the border between present-day Zimbabwe and Zambia. He promptly renamed it Victoria Falls in honor of England’s queen. In 1862 British artist and explorer Thomas Baines visited the Falls and created lushly rendered paintings of the site. These works were exhibited, published as chromolithographs, and made into lantern slides. A proliferation of images spread the fame of the Falls throughout Britain.

The railway reached Victoria Falls in 1905, enabling Britain to impose imperial rule in the area and making the Falls a popular destination for British travelers. Advertising replaced ominous images of "Darkest Africa" with the attractions of "Brightest Africa." Victoria Falls was marketed as "the World’s Riviera," a destination for "tourists, sportsmen, invalids, and settlers."

Art of Matches, Fire and Smoke

Facebook Stats

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11. Harry Potter -54,618,525.

Blitsvinnig

Jy lê in ’n kar wat soos ’n vegvliegtuig lyk en teen ’n topsnelheid van 1 690km/h kan ry, en rem met behulp van ’n valskerm.
Dié vaartbelynde projektiel versnel van 0 tot 1 000km/h in 42 sekondes, dis heelwat vinniger as jou oorle skoonpa se Cortina.
Die Bloodhound- supersoniese kar (SSC) is ’n blitsryding wat deur ’n vuurpylenjin én ’n straalspuitenjin aangedryf word. Die straalspuitenjin gebruik ’n Formule 1-enjin as ’n brandstofpomp om hom van 800liter peroksied-brandstof binne 20 sekondes te voorsien.
En nou gaan dié meneer die landspoedrekord in 2013 aanvat. Nagenoeg 6000 ton se klippe is op Hakskeenpan in die Noord-Kaap verwyder om ’n 19 km lange renbaan voor te berei.
Die Britse ingenieur en projekbestuurder, Richard Noble, sê dat die Bloodhound nuwe standaarde in aërodinamika en spoedtoetse gaan stel. “Ons beproef die uiterstes van tegnologie en ingenieurswese met die Bloodhound. Dis die soort projek wat nuwe ingenieurs en ontwerpers gaan inspireer.”
Noble was self ’n jaagduiwel en het in 1983 en 1997 onderskeidelik twee landspoedrekords aangeteken.
As jy hierdie naweek in Kaapstad se V&A Waterfront is, kan jy self dié pappie van alle snelmotors gaan ry... oftewel 'n nabootser.
Klik hier vir die video
Die sneltoetse op Hakskeenpan – 45km suidwes van Twee Rivieren in die Kgalagadi-oorgrenspark – behoort teen vroeg 2014 voltooi te wees.

Web: http://www.bloodhoundssc.com

South African Government Sleeping

Learn how to sleep, in three easy steps

Art of Tin Cans

Africa's got Talent

Africa this is where I want to live

When the Golden Gate Bridge turned 50

The 50th anniversary of the Golden Gate bridge in May 1986. They closed traffic and let people walk over it. There were so many people on the bridge that the middle span of the bridge flattened out

Longest Traffic jam

Knowledge Bank

The world's longest traffic jam took place in Beijing, China. It was over 60 miles long and lasted 11 days

Art of Books

Nike Golf: No Cup Is Safe

The Sun

Milky way scientists

Sun Primer : Why NASA Scientists Observe the Sun in Different Wavelengths

www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/light-wavelengths.html

Taking a photo of the sun with a standard camera will provide a familiar image: a yellowish, featureless disk, perhaps colored a bit more red when near the horizon since the light must travel through more of Earth's atmosphere and consequently loses blue wavelengths before getting to the camera's lens. The sun, in fact, emits light in all colors, but since yellow is the brightest wavelength from the sun, that is the color we see with our naked eye -- which the camera represents, since one should never look directly at the sun. When all the visible colors are summed together, scientists call this “white light.”

Specialized instruments, either in ground-based or space-based telescopes, however, can observe light far beyond the ranges visible to the naked eye. Different wavelengths convey information about different components of the sun's surface and atmosphere, so scientists use them to paint a full picture of our constantly changing and varying star.

Yellow light of 5800 Angstroms, for example, generally emanates from material of about 10,000 degrees F (5700 degrees C), which represents the surface of the sun. Extreme ultraviolet light of 94 Angstroms, on the other hand, comes from atoms that are about 11 million degrees F (6,300,000 degrees C) and is a good wavelength for looking at solar flares, which can reach such high temperatures. By examining pictures of the sun in a variety of wavelengths – as is done through such telescopes as NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) -- scientists can track how particles and heat move through the sun's atmosphere.

This collage of solar images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows how observations of the sun in different wavelengths helps highlight different aspects of the sun's surface and atmosphere. (The collage also includes images from other SDO instruments that display magnetic and Doppler information.)

[Credit: NASA/SDO/Goddard Space Flight Center]

Movies 2013

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Dakar day2

Kaapse Klopse Minstrel Carnival

TWEEDE NUWE DJAAR !

The Kaapse Klopse (or simply Klopse) is a minstrel festival that takes place annually on 2 January, in Cape Town, South Africa. As many as 13,000 minstrels take to the streets garbed in bright colours, either carrying colourful umbrellas or playing an array of musical instruments. The minstrels are grouped into klopse ("clubs" in Cape Dutch, but more accurately translated as troupes in English). Participants are typically from Afrikaans-speaking working class "coloured" families who have preserved the custom since the mid-19th century.

Although it is called the Coon Carnival by Capetonians, local authorities have renamed the festival the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival as foreign tourists find the term "coon" derogatory.
History

One story goes that the carnival was inspired by a group of African-American minstrels who docked in Cape Town in the late 1800s and entertained the sailors with their spontaneous musical performances. The popular song "Daar kom die Alibama" (There comes the Alabama) refers to the ship that is believed to have brought them.

Another story goes that the travelling minstrels were actually white and painted their faces black – hence the painted faces seen today.

The majority of the troupes (169) are represented by the Kaapse Klopse Karnaval Association which is one of the break away Associations from the Kaapse Karnaval ("Cape Carnival") Association. In addition,the other break away organisation,the Mitchell's Plain Youth Development Minstrel Board represent a minority of troupes.

The carnival today
The festival begins on New Year's Day and continues into January. Festivities include street parades with singing and dancing, costume competitions and marches through the streets. While many troupes now are supported by corporate sponsors, many refuse and remain sticklers for tradition. The 2005 carnival was nearly cancelled due to an alleged lack of funding, while the 2006 carnival was officially called off for the same reason.
However, the troupe organisations subsequently decided to go ahead with the parade despite continued unhappiness over funding, and the festivities were opened by Western Cape premier Ebrahim Rasool on 2 January 2006.

2013

Adorable Dog and Crap

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Art of Shadows

Nasa's Photo of Saturn

Milky way scientists

NASA

A Splendor Seldom Seen

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of Saturn, taken while the spacecraft was in Saturn's shadow. The cameras were turned toward Saturn and the sun so that the planet and rings are backlit. (The sun is behind the planet, which is shielding the cameras from direct sunlight.) In addition to the visual splendor, this special, very-high-phase viewing geometry lets scientists study ring and atmosphere phenomena not easily seen at a lower phase. Since images like this can only be taken while the sun is behind the planet, this beautiful view is all the more precious for its rarity. The last time Cassini captured a view like this was in Sept. 2006, when it captured a mosaic processed to look like natural color, entitled "In Saturn's Shadow." In that mosaic, planet Earth put in a special appearance, making "In Saturn's Shadow" one of the most popular Cassini images to date. Earth does not appear in this mosaic as it is hidden behind the planet. Also captured in this image are two of Saturn's moons: Enceladus and Tethys. Both appear on the left side of the planet, below the rings. Enceladus is closer to the rings; Tethys is below and to the left. This view looks toward the non-illuminated side of the rings from about 19 degrees below the ring plane. Images taken using infrared, red and violet spectral filters were combined to create this enhanced-color view. The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Oct. 17, 2012 at a distance of approximately 500,000 miles (800,000 kilometers) from Saturn. Image scale at Saturn is about 30 miles per pixel (50 kilometers per pixel). The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Mission: Cassini

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia14934.html

Dakar 2013

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Largest Puzzle 32256 pieces

Unpacked at Yuppie Gadgets The LARGEST JIGSAW PUZZLES (32,256 pieces) in the world HAVE ARRIVED IN SOUTH AFRICA- are you up to the challenge? They come in eight different bags and each bag forms one of the either different parts of the puzzle. In fact this puzzle is so big it comes with its own trolley (no extra charge).

Awesome Stuff Collection

Awesome Collection of Stuff

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Table Mountain

Vote for Table Mountain

Table Mountain is now officially one of the New7Wonders of Nature! Join us at Grand Parade by 7pm this evening to celebrate this.

See more pics from the mountain this weekend: http://tablemountain.net/blog/entry/table_mountain_inauguration_weekend_twitter_pictures/

Giza and Planetary Alignment

Planetary alignment With Giza Pyramids Egypt on December 3, 2012

Planetary alignment (Only Happens Once in 2,737 Years)

Plantes Inline: MERCURY / VENUS / SATURN

Planetary alignment that will take place Dec 3, 2012 is dead-on alignment with the Pyramids at Giza Egypt!
Time for Planetary Alignment: Local time, one hour before sunrise compared with the Pyramids at Giza.