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Wild horses are rounded up in the hills on the eve the Rapa das Bestas festival in Sabucedo, Spain. Wild horses are brought down from the mountains in the festival to be tamed in Sabucedo and re-relased to the wilderness with a new micro chip attached.

 

 Horses are seen as a cloud of ash billows from the Puyehue volcano near Osorno, 870 km south of Santiago.

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A horse with a local Pakistani mobile number painted on it is left for rent on a roadside on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.

 

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A grey seal comes for a closer look at a group of divers at the Farne Islands, England. The Farne Islands, which are run by the National Trust, are situated two to three miles off the Northumberland coastline. The archipelago of 16-28 separate islands (depending on the tide) make the summer home to approximately 100,000 pairs of breeding seabirds including around 36,000 Puffins, 32,000 Guillemots and 2,000 pairs of Arctic Terns.

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A southern right whale, known in Spanish as 'ballena franca austral,' jumps out of the water in the Atlantic Sea near Argentina's Patagonian village of Puerto Piramides. The whales regularly come to breed and calve in this marine reserve from June to December.

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A red forehead parrot in its cage in the Animal Rescue Center at the National Zoo, some 16 km south of Managua. The Nicaraguan National Zoo opened the first shelter rehabilitation for wild animals rescued from illegal trafficking of endangered species, with support from the government, businessmen and the United States.

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Heidi the cross-eyed opossum is pictured in her new enclosure at the zoo in Leipzig, eastern Germany. Cross-eyed Heidi made the headlines in December 2010 and became an internet hit, winning more than 65,000 "friends" on Facebook.

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Floridians Can Party With Alligators Now | NewsFeed | TIME.com

Published shed on Sep 26, 2012 by ABCNews
 

Alligator wrangler says bringing gators to kids' parties is safe, clean and fun.

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Floridians Can Party With Alligators Now

What is it about frightening party themes? Some kids (and adults) are scared of clowns, others are creeped out by Chuck E. Cheese’s. Everyone, or at least we thought, is wary of hopping into a pool with a live alligator — but Bob Barrett, owner of Alligator Attractions in Florida, is gambling on that not being the case.

Barrett’s business model is basically that any children’s pool party will be spiced up by letting man-eating reptiles get in on the fun. Seems like the threat of drowning just isn’t enough for some people.

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Floridians Can Party With Alligators Now | NewsFeed | TIME.com

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Man brings donkey to testify in case

 

 

 

DALLAS — Faced with complaints that his donkey was too loud, Dallas attorney Gregory Shamoun decided to bring his case directly to the court: He had the donkey testify. 

Buddy the donkey appeared in court Wednesday. He walked to the bench and stared at the jury, the picture of a gentle, well-mannered creature and not the loud, aggressive animal he had been accused of being.
  

Despite the donkey’s appearance, neither jurors or Buddy had the last say — the neighbors settled their dispute while jurors deliberated.




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‎"The Lion Man" - Shocking Real Story - YouTube

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"The Lion Man" - Shocking Real Story - YouTube

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Two Headed Albino Snake - YouTube

 


 on Dec 29, 2007 by ricuw11

Thank you for all the views. This is my friend's snake. Also, the video was edited afterwards by my friend (don't know what she was thinking). Either head can eat, and that nourishes the whole snake.

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Tiger hunts huge wild boar - YouTube

loaded by NaturesKings on Feb 5, 2012
 

Watch as this beautiful tigress hunts a huge wild a boar. Great courage.

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Man jumps off Bronx Zoo monorail, mauled by tiger - SFGate

  FILE- In this Sept. 20, 2010 photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society, three Amur tiger cubs rest by a fallen tree limb at the Tiger Mountain exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in New York.  New York police say a man on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012, climbed into an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo and has been mauled by a tiger and lost a leg. Photo: WCS, Julie Larsen Maher / AP

NEW YORK (AP) — A man was mauled by a 400-pound tiger at the Bronx Zoo on Friday after he leaped from a moving monorail train and plummeted over a protective fence.

The man was alone with the tiger for about 10 minutes before he was rescued by zoo officials, who used a fire extinguisher to chase it away. He suffered bites and punctures on his arms, legs, shoulders and back and broke an arm and a leg.


Zoo director Jim Breheny said the man was lucky to escape the tiger's clutches.

"If not for the quick response by our staff and their ability to perform well in emergency situations, the outcome would have been very different," Breheny said.

The man was mauled by an 11-year-old male Siberian tiger named Bashuta, which has been at the zoo for three years. 


After zoo staff chased the tiger off, the man was instructed to roll under an electrified wire to get to safety, Breheny said. Zookeepers then called the tiger into a holding area, he said.

The 25-year-old man was conscious and talking after the mauling, Breheny said.  


The tiger that mauled the man was returned to a holding area where it usually sleeps at night and will not be euthanized, zoo officials said.



"The tiger did nothing wrong in this episode," Breheny said.





This Jack Ass was really lucky:  There are 10 tigers at the Wild Asia exhibit, but Bashuta was the only one on display at the time.
 

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The Bronx Zoo, one of the nation's largest zoos, sprawls over 265 acres and contains hundreds of animals, many in habitats meant to resemble natural settings. Its exhibits include Tiger Mountain, Congo Gorilla Forest and World of Reptiles.




Associated Press writers Tom Hays and David B. Caruso contributed to this report.

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Man jumps off Bronx Zoo monorail, mauled by tiger - SFGate

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This video tells you a little about the power of the Tiger! Don't go jumping into their compound....


Uploaded by TIGERLOVERr on Feb 5, 2009
 

This tigress Machli also called as "QUEEN of Ranthambore", "Lady of the Lakes" is specialist in killing in huge Indian Crocodiles also known as Muggers.

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Evolutionary Dr Pepper ad spurs religious kerfuffle - Life Inc.

 

 Controversy is good business:

Evolutionary Dr Pepper ad spurs religious kerfuffle

Dr Pepper

This ad has created an online uproar.

By Ben Popken, NBC News contributor

Dr Pepper marched directly into controversy a week ago when it launched its “March of Progress” ad campaign. And the uproar has not abated.


On Sept. 13, the soft drink maker posted to its Facebook wall an ad using the classic “March of Progress” image tweaked to promote the “evolution of flavor.”

The whimsical ad showed a chimpanzee dragging his knuckles, followed by a semi-erect hominid reaching for a Dr Pepper, followed by a fully upright man walking and gulping a Dr Pepper.

The images are captioned “Pre-Pepper,” “Pepper Discovery,” and “Post-Pepper” respectively.

Sounds harmless. Even banal. But about 7,000 comment and nearly 33,000 likes later, the ad is still provoking reaction by creationists who say it promotes the theory of evolution.

Some are even threatening to boycott Dr Pepper. That in turn has stoked evolutionists to make counter comments. Then there's folks jumping on the pig pile just for laughs.

After all, we are talking about a soda pop ad, right?

  
The debate also blew up on popular link-sharing site Reddit, whose users flooded the thread to mock the outrage and post parody comment, further inflaming the debate and spreading the conversation ...

 Dr Pepper has posted over 450 images to its Facebook wall since 2009.  Most garnered a few hundred comments... proving:

 Controversy is good business

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Lion and Tiger perched on a car...how did that happen?

                                                CLYDE BEATTY RADIO SHOWS

OTRCAT.com, an outfit that sells old radio shows on-line, is planning a special offer on its Clyde Beatty Radio Show MP3 disc. If you don't already have it, here is a chance to pick up all of the surviving episodes in good sound. Here is a link to the OTRCAT website:

http://www.otrcat.com/clyde-beatty-show.html]

 

(They also have hundreds of other old radio shows that are worth checking into.)

 

 

 

From Eric Beheim:

Link: http://www.otrcat.com/eric-beheim.html 

Article from Buckles Blog

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barrio North on Essex Road, Isslington - Tessellation Appreciation

 

  

Vintage Look

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Tessellation Appreciation

Tessellation Appreciation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

King’s Cross train station

 

 Mason's

 

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Tessellation Appreciation

Dribbble - Mosaic by Webshocker

Mosaic

Sweets

 

Bricks

 

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Dribbble - Mosaic by Webshocker

Dribbble is show and tell for designers, who share shots — small screenshots of the designs and applications they’re working on.

What are you working on? Dribbble is a community of designers answering that question each day. Web designers, graphic designers, illustrators, icon artists, typographers, logo designers, and other creative types share small screenshots that show their work, process, and current projects.

Dribbble is a place to show and tell, promote, discover, and explore design.

Headquarted in Salem, Massachusetts, Dribbble began as a side project and is now a tiny, bootstrapped and profitable company helping the world's design talent share their creations and get hired. Dribbble has become a go-to resource for discovering and connecting with designers around the globe.

 Team Co-founders:

Rich Thornett

Dan Cederholm

 Dan is the author of four best-selling books: CSS3 For Web Designers (A Book Apart), Bulletproof Web Design 3rd Edition (New Riders), Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design with Ethan Marcotte (New Riders), and Web Standards Solutions (Apress/Friends of ED). 

 

Dribbble - Pocket knife by Rafał Urbański

 


Combat Knife

 




 Combat Knife 2

 

 

Golden Desert Eagle

 

Uzi Micro

 

 

G36c

Taurus Model 605

ALL by Rafał Urbański Aug 21, 2012

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Dribbble - Pocket knife by Rafał Urbański

Tessellations

 

Spot the opportunity” Illusion Poster

By Vurdlak on September 14, 2012

Have you seen this #Escher_inspired poster released by Etrade Australia recently?

Titled Spot the opportunity, this poster was done by use of a tessellation technique.

Tessellation is a process of creating a two-dimensional plane using the repetition of a geometric shape with no overlaps and no gaps. As we noted before, tessellations frequently appeared in the art of M. C. Escher, who was inspired by studying the Moorish use of symmetry in the Alhambra tiles during a visit in 1922.

Here’s an assignment for you today: can you think of one natural tessellated structure?

Perhaps bees and honey may serve as a quality hint ;D




“Spot The Opportunity” Illusion Poster | Mighty Optical Illusions

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Tattoos in the Circus

The popularity of tattooing during the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century owed much to the circus. When circuses prospered, tattooing prospered. When circuses went bankrupt, tattooed people and artists were out of work.  For over 70 years every major circus employed several completely tattooed people.  Some were exhibited in sideshows, other performed in traditional circus acts such as juggling and sword swallowing. 

Rival circuses competed with each other for the services of the most elaborately tattooed show people and paid them handsome salaries. Many of the old-time tattoo artists made most of their money while traveling with circuses during the spring and summer, returning to their shops and homes in the winter. The circus served as a showcase where tattoo artists could attract customers by exhibiting their work to a paying public, and in many cases the only surviving records are in the form of photos and posters which were used for circus publicity.
 

The connection between tattooing and the circus began in 1804 when Jean Baptiste Cabri who had been tattooed by the Marquesas became a carnival performer. In the last years of his life he was forced to compete with trained dogs and other popular amusements in country fairs. By 1822 he died, poor and forgotten.

The first tattooed English showman was John Rutherford. It was said that he was captured and held prisoners by the Maoris. During his years with the Maoris he participated in warfare, headhunting, and other tribal activities. When he returned he accompanied a traveling caravan of wonders where he showed his tattooing, and told of his adventures.

The great 19th century showman, Phineas T. Barnum, is credited with organizing the first group exhibitions of unique individuals. One of the principal attractions at Barnum's American Museum in 1842 was James F. O'Connell who had the honor of being the first tattooed man ever exhibited in the United States. He entertained his audiences wih tales of exotic adventures and according to O'Connell, savages on Ponape, in the Caroline Islands captured him and forced him to submit to tattooing at the hands of a series of voluptuous virgins. He was forced to marry the last one who tattooed him. Museum patrons, most of whom had never seen tattooing before, were impressed.

The railway in 1869, connected the east and west coasts of the United Sates. The circus entered a period of growth and prosperity that resulted in employment opportunities for many tattooed people and tattoo artists.

Constantine, a Greek who had spent many years in Burma, had himself tattooed with the intention of going into show business. He was the most elaborately and artistically tattooed performer of his time. He said that four strong men had to hold him down while he was tattooed every morning for three hours. It took three months for the work to be completed.

 

With the invention of the electric tattooing machine, many individuals were attracted to the opportunity of making an easy living in the circus. "La Belle Irene" made her London debut in 1890, claiming to be the first completely tattooed woman ever exhibited in a circus. Her decorations included an assortment of flowers, birds, hearts, cupids, scrolls and sentimental inscriptions borrowed from the ornamental commercial art of the day. Londoners were told that she received her tattoos as protection in a savage land (Texas) as a protection against the unwelcome advances of the natives.

During the last decade of the 19th century, the circus enjoyed an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity. As circuses prospered, the demand for tattooed people increased and the competition became intense as circus owners competed to come up with more extravagant tattooed shows. There were tattooed sword swallowers, fire eaters, dwarves, jugglers, mind readers, strong men, fat ladies, wrestlers, knife throwers and even circus animals.

It has been estimated that by 1920, over 300 completely tattooed people wee employed in circuses and sideshows. Some earned as much as $200 a week.

The Great Omi or the Zebra Man
The most famous tattooed man of this period was Horace Ridler. In 1927, he asked London's leading tattoo artist, George Burchett, to tattoo him all over, including his face with inch-wide zebra stripes.

To become a freak in order to earn a livelihood was a gamble which might not have come off. Ridler also had his teeth filed down to sharp points. He had his nose pierced so he could insert an ivory tusk and his ear lobes were pierced and stretched. He called himself the Great Omi and was one of the most successful freaks in the history of the circus. He succeeded because he was unique but during the latter part of his career there were fewer and fewer tattooed people seen in circuses. The popularity of the freak show was waning and tattooed people were no longer novelties. After WWII, freak shows came under attack and only a few of the larger circuses still included them.

Tattoos in the Circus
Jean Baptiste Cabri had been tattooed by the Marquesas became a carnival performer




Charles Wagner tattooed many circus people





Captain Costentenus  'The Greek Albanian'