How To Undress In Seven Seconds? (801 views)
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Most Popular Beers Around The World - Part II (3117 views)
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Belgium - Jupiler
Jupiler is the most famous and most popular beer in Belgium. This delicious lager is brewed with the finest ingredients (malt, maize, water, hop, yeast), using undisputed craftsmanship, ensuring an outstanding beer quality. Jupiler offers refreshment on a wide variety of occasions, thanks to its digestibility and accessible taste. Jupiler (5,2 % ABV) is ideally served at a temperature of 3°C.
Most Popular Beers Around The World - Part I (37026 views)
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United States - Bud Light
Introduced in 1982, Bud Light has grown to become the best-selling beer in the United States and the No. 1 light beer in the world. Brewed at all 12 Anheuser-Busch U.S.-based breweries, Bud Light is made with a blend of two and six-row malt and cereal grains for a clean and crisp, smooth taste. In addition, it is brewed with all-natural ingredients - water, barley malt, rice, hops and yeast. Due to its popularity and Anheuser-Busch’s network of more than 600 wholesalers, Bud Light is among the freshest beers in the industry. Each 12 ounce-serving contains 110 calories and 6.6 grams of carbohydrates and is 4.2 percent alcohol by volume.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Michael Phelps Jokes + Photos (15393 views)
Michael Phelps can walk on water but doesn’t want to show off, so he swims instead.
When Aquaman needs help he calls Michael Phelps.
Michael Phelps cashed his plane ticket in and swam Butterfly to the Olympics.
Michael Phelps arrived in China riding a chariot pulled by two electric eels.
Michael Phelps craps out Energizer batteries.
Michael Phelps is the only person in the world that can race a speed boat…. and win!
Michael Phelps doesn’t swim through the water… the water swims around him.
The only thing that can defeat Michael Phelps is another Michael Phelps.
Michael Phelps qualified with a top speed of 378 mph at the Daytona 500, swimming!
Michael Phelps doesn’t have a condo in Ann Arbor, he has a cave in the Atlantic.
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Saturday, August 30, 2008
Imaginary Faces (987 views)
Imaginary Faces is a photo collection of faces found in everyday places.
The Great Serpent Mound (6804 views)
The Great Serpent Mound of southwest Ohio averages about 1330 feet in length and 3 feet in height. Representing an unwinding serpent, the mound is sheathed in mystery and controversy. The serpent is thought by most to be about to swallow an egg. However many theories abound suggesting various interpretations. For instance some think it may represent an eclipse.
The mysteries don’t stop there. The very ground where the mound rests is also of interest to archeology. Seemingly full of cave-like or hollow structures, it is thought that perhaps there may be more to this serpent resting underground.
Conical mounds found nearby contained burials and implements that are characteristic of the prehistoric Adena people (800 BC-AD 100). Due to very acidic soil and predominant rainfall, many cave like structures reside underground. It is presumed that the Adena people may have resided in the caves. If true, there could be a treasure trove of artifacts waiting to be discovered.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
The World’s 10 Highest Mountains (8667 views)
1. Mount Everest/SagarMatha/Chomolungma
Mount Everest, also called Sagarmatha (Nepali: सगरमाथा meaning Head of the Sky) or Chomolungma, Qomolangma or Zhumulangma (in Tibetan: ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ, in Chinese: 珠穆朗玛峰 Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng) is the highest mountain on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level, which is 8,848 metres (29,029 feet). The mountain, which is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, is located on the border between Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal, and Tibet, China. In 1856, the Great Trigonometric Survey of India established the first published height of Everest at 29,002 ft (8,840 m), although at the time Everest was known as Peak XV. In 1865, Everest was given its official English name by the Royal Geographical Society upon recommendation of Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India at the time. Waugh was unable to propose an established local name due to Nepal and Tibet being closed to foreigners at the time, although Chomolungma had been in common use by Tibetans for centuries. The highest mountain in the world attracts climbers of all levels, from well experienced mountaineers to novice climbers willing to pay substantial sums to professional mountain guides to complete a successful climb. The mountain, while not posing substantial technical climbing difficulty on the standard route (other eight-thousanders such as K2 or Nanga Parbat are much more difficult), still has many inherent dangers such as altitude sickness, weather and wind. By the end of the 2007 climbing season, there had been 3,679 ascents to the summit by 2,436 individuals. This means climbers are a significant source of tourist revenue for Nepal, whose government also requires all prospective climbers to obtain an expensive permit, costing up to US$25,000 per person. Everest has claimed 210 lives, including 15 who perished during a 1996 storm high on the mountain. Conditions are so difficult in the death zone that most corpses have been left where they fell, some of which are visible from standard climbing routes.
Cheetah - The Fastest Land Animal (2454 views)
There’s nothing faster than a cheetah on the hunt. The maximum speed is of 112 km (70 mi) per hour, but the average hunting speed is still of 72-90 km (46-56 mi) per hour.
No living or extinct animal runs or used to run at such speeds. How can this be possible? The cheetah is a very special cat, with specific adaptations.
First, the claws of the cheetah are semiretractile (they do not retract completely into their pads, like in the other cats), functioning like crampons during the race. The paw’s cushions have transversal folds that increase adherence to the ground. The fact that the long tail acts like a rudder during the run helps cheetah overcome preys running in zig zag by making quick turns at amazing speeds.
The cheetah’s spine is extremely elastic, working like a spring. Also, compared with the limbs of other cats, those of the cheetah are extremely long and thin, adapted to running, possessing very lax articulations to the body (at the hip and shoulder), fact that allows them to make large steps. The skeleton of a cheetah is also very light. The elastic spine and the long legs allow the cheetah to make successive jumps 7 m (23 ft) in length each and in 2 seconds a cheetah has already reached 75 km per hour and in 3 even 110 km (that’s faster than most cars can do!). Its most rapid preys, the gazelles, do not overcome 80 km (50 mi) per hour.
During the race, the number of breathing movements booms from 16 per minute to 156. But the cheetah cannot stand a run more than about 800 m (0.5 mi). The weak point of the cheetah is that the cat cannot expel rapidly enough the accumulated heat and it gets overheated. Cheetah’s heart is one third of a human one, related to body’s proportions, fact that also explains cheetah’s lower stamina.
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