A mouse's eye view of the World!
Exhilarating to say the least. After about a minute you will see the altimeter and the airspeed indicator come on the screen. Watch the speed, and his rate of descent. You will be amazed at what you see.
Hold your breath and watch this, also watch the odometer as the speed increases and then decreases as he enters the earth’s atmosphere. What a view!
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There is an awesome dance, called the Thousand-Hand Guanyin. Considering the tight coordination required, their accomplishment is nothing short of amazing, even if they were not all deaf.
Yes, you read correctly. All 63 of the dancers are complete deaf-mutes. Relying only on signals from trainers at the four corners of the stage, these extraordinary dancers deliver a visual spectacle that is at once intricate and stirring. Its first major international debut was in Athens at the closing ceremonies for the 2004 Paralympics.
Imagine finding 63 deaf-mute girls that principally look alike i.e. have the same height and body build…
But it had long been in the repertoire of the Chinese Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe and had travelled to more than 40 countries. Its lead dancer is 29-year-old Tai Lihua, who has a BA from the Hubei Fine Arts Institute. The video was recorded in Beijing during the Spring Festival this year.
What does one say?
The late, great man of modern storytelling. As Parkinson said of him “gods gift to talk show hosts”.
This compilation of clips of interviews that parkinson did with him (7 times in all!) shows his wonderful genius as a raconteur and his razor sharp wit. As he said of himself, “I’m betrothed to laughter, the most civilised music in the universe”.
What a poor place the world is now without him, not just for his comedic talent but his tireless humanitarian work with UNESCO & UNICEF.
Sit down, be entertained and be prepared to laugh with one of the great storytellers of modern times.
Seventeen year old Joe Bush got a high school assignment to make a video reproduction.
He chose history as a theme and tucked it all into two minutes.
Joe took pictures from the internet; added the sound track “Mind
Heist” by Zack Hemsey (from the movie Interception) and came up with this.
Incredible work for a 17-year old. Just finding the pictures was a formidable task.
Hold on to your seat. This moves fast.
Underwater footage shot whilst scuba diving in the Fiji islands and Tonga. Featuring colorful coral reefs, huge schools of tropical fish, sharks, humpback whales, underwater caves, scuba divers and much more marine life from the south Pacific.
Saw this on Facebook and thought some of my readers / followers who don’t have FB (????) might like this wonderful diversion:
Lions are some of the most fearsome creatures in the animal kingdom, and for good reason. These predators can easily outrun and outsmart their prey, making them the perfect killing machines.
So that’s why when this lioness approached an injured baby bat-eared fox in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve, we truly feared the worst.
The lioness noticed the injured fox on a dirt road. The poor fox was absolutely terrified and froze in fear.
Then, a hungry male lion spotted them and came looking for an easy meal.
Things didn’t look good for the little guy.
But when the lion went in for the kill…
… the lioness decided she wasn’t about to let anything happen to her tiny new friend…
… and told him to back off!
Unbelievable.
The male lion wasn’t too pleased, but he left the fox alone.
The lioness went back to caring for the babies.
Once he was able to get back on his feet, the fox scampered off to safety.
This mighty predator saved the tiny fox’s life when she could have easily made him dinner.
Nature truly is full of surprises.
What a clever dog!