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Beer is one of the most popular beverages in the world, but how much do you know about the popular alcoholic drink?
Did you know evidence suggests its
about 6000 years old? Did you know that there are 400 different kinds?
Find out more in this terrific infographic that will take only a few
minutes to teach you some astounding facts about beer!
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We'll start with a short story.
During a barbeque, one of the
guests, a woman named Jane, tripped and fell. She got up almost
immediately and assured everyone around her that she was fine. Others
suggests she get an ambulance, but she refused and explained that she
bumped into a small stone and tripped due to her new shoes.
They helped her clean up and handed her a new plate of meat, she seemed to be a bit shaky, but continued to enjoy the evening.
Later that night, her husband called
and told everyone that his wife was rushed to the hospital. She died a
few hours later. It turned out that she had a small stroke during the
BBQ.
If someone had known how to check for signs of stroke, Jane might still be alive today.
According to Neurological experts,
if a person has had a stroke and receives treatment within 3 hours, they
would be able to save them and return them to normal condition. All one
needs to know is how to identify a stroke, and once you know it has
happened - rush the person to the hospital immediately, so they can be
saved in time.
So how do you identify a stroke?
At times, it can be quite hard to identify the symptoms of stroke. Unfortunately, this may lead to brain injury and death.
Today, neurologists recommend 4 simple steps to identify if the person has had a stroke:
1. Ask the person to smile.
2. Ask them to say a simple sentence and repeat it a few times.
3. Ask them to raise their hand above their head.
4. Ask them to stick out
their tongue. If the tongue is crooked, meaning leaning to the right or
left, that is a clear indication of stroke.
If the
person has trouble doing ANY of these, call the emergency number right
away and describe the symptoms so they send an ambulance.
Please share this important information, it may save someone one day.
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The Most Magical Places on Earth! |
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We've selected, with a fine tooth
comb, the most magical, rare and beautiful places in the world. Each of
these places is a five star on our travel list for places we'd like to
see in our lifetime! |
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| The Greenland 'Ice Canyon' |
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| The 4 seasons hotel, Bora Bora |
 The Stalagmite Caves, Israel |
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The Capilano Bridge, Vancouver, British Columbia
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Sanyo cave restaurant, above the Chang Jiang River, Hubei, China
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| Skatflii, Iceland |
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| Fritz'rz Rock, Frixtoln, Norway |
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Lake Fitbit, Croatia
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| Crystal Turquoise Lake - National Park, China |
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| Multnomah Falls, Oregon |
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| Gardens of Marqueyssac, France |
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| Blue Caves - Zakynthos, Greece |
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Ice rink, Paterswoldse Meer, Lake south of the city of Groningen, the Netherlands.
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| East Iceland. |
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| Waterfall Seljalandsfoss, the southern coast of Iceland. |
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Benteng Chittorgarh, India
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| Riomaggiore, Italy. |
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Marble Caves, Chile.
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Peaks Valley , Moraine Lake, Alberta, Canada.
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Mount Roraima, Venezuela.
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| Keukenhof Gardens, the Netherlands. |
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The City of Alesund Birdseye, Norway.
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Petra, Jordan.
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| Seychelle Islands. |
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| Lantern Festival, Taiwan. |
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| Luka, Tuscany, Italy. |
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| Verdon Provence, France. |
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| Mall Vermilion Cliffs "Paria", the Colorado Plateau, Arizona. |
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| Freycinet National Park, Tasmania, Australia. |
The Surreal White Temple! |
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The Wat Rong Khun is an unorthodox
Buddhist temple in Thailand. Building of this unusual building started
in 1997 by Thai painter-architecht Chalermchai Kositpipat, and was
immediately dubbed 'The White Temple'.
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The luxurious temple is a blend of
traditional architecture that combines surreal elements together, and if
you ever get to visit, you'll be hard pressed not to be impressed... |
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The main building is painted all in
white to symbolize the purity of the Buddha. It is covered with a mosaic
of mirrors, alight in the sun, which gives it a holy look. |
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But around the building, the
atmosphere is a lot less holy. Complex statues of demons and skulls,
severed heads hanging from trees and other strange objects, promise the
traveler an otherworldly experience. |
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The main building is part of a 12
acre compound, that will hold 9 different buildings. But to get to the
main building, you'll need to cross a bridge over a creepy moat that has
arms coming out of it, symbolizing desire. |
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The surreal experience doesn't stop outside, but continues within. |
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If you thought to be welcomed by
statues of Buddha and white angels, you'll be surprised to discover huge
wall paintings coming from western popular culture. |
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Instead of battling demons,
Chalermchai Kositpipat decided to take scenes of epic battles between
good and evil, and put it in a buddhist context. And so we see paintings
of batman, superman and even Keanu Reevs as Nemo from the matrix
movies. |
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And in the middle of this chaotic
mess, sits the serene image of the buddha, surrounded by golden flowers
and hovering angels, in a heavenly kingdom. |
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| The white temple was built to serve as a learning and meditation center for people, and there's no doubt it gives much inspiration... |
A new dictionary is soon to come out,
defining some issues in marriage that people were curious about. Here
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Bachelor
1. A man who has been able to avoid the opportunity of making some woman miserable.
2. A man who is said to be foot-loose and fiancee-free.
3. A man who never made the same mistake once.
4. A bad boy who has cheated some poor girl out of her alimony.
5. A person who believes in life, liberty, and the happiness of pursuit.
6. The only man who has never told a wife a lie.
Bride
A girl with great prospects of happiness behind her.
Compromise
A nice little arrangement between husband and wife whereby they both fully agree to let her have her own way.
Diplomat
A man who is able to convince his wife that a fur coat would make her look fat.
Gentleman
A husband who holds the stepladder tightly so his wife doesn't fall while she's painting the ceiling.
A man who notices his wife dropping her knitting and immediately kicks it over to her so that she can pick it up.
Housework
What a wife without anyone noticing it until she doesn't do it.
Husband
A man who has decided to give up privileges he never knew he had.
A guy who controls the house and everyone in it, and is allowed by his wife to say so.
Joint Checking Account
A great little device which allows a wife to beat a husband to the draw.
Love
An obsessive delusion easily cured by a wedding.
Mother-in-Law
A woman who slowly destroys a man's peace of mind by telling him what's on hers.
Mrs.
A job title involving long duties, very light earnings and zero recognition.
Spouse
Someone who will protect you, help you and help you solve all the problems you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single.
Wife
A partner who is always complaining
that she doesn't have a thing to wear at the exact same time she
complains about not having enough room in the closet.
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The Ever-Green Bamboo Forests... |
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Bamboos are some of the
fastest-growing plants in the world, and are of enormous economic and
cultural significance in South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia, being
used for building materials, as a food source, and as a versatile raw
product.
They have over 5000 different uses,
and have aided the human species countless of time over the millenia.
Some think they were the original building materials for homes. The
bamboo family has more than 1,450 different species, and there are a
number of bamboo forests in the world. All of them, as you are about to
see, are stunning.
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| Bamboo is a type of grass, yet when it grows large, it resembles a tree more than anything. There are bamboo forests all around the world, this is a shot of a beautiful bamboo forest in Japan. |
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| Oahu is what the local residents call the path that winds through the bamboo forest. |
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| A photo of the bamboo forest in Kyoto. It's actually rare to get a shot of this path without it being full of people. No surprise there, who wouldn't like a stroll along this beautiful path? |
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| Bamboo, perhaps because it is a type of grass, is one of the fastest growing plants in the world, while some species can grow up to 100 centimeters (39 inches) in just 24 hours. |
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| A bamboo forest in Koali, Hawaii. This beautiful path culminates in a stunning waterfall. |
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| Another bamboo forest in Kyoto, this is the Sagano bamboo forest. Some of the bamboo here range from half a meter (1.5 feet) to a staggering 35 meters (115 feet) tall. |
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| After the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima at the end of the second world war, bamboo was the first plant to come back, bringing back a touch of green. |
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| Go up these stairs and you'll arrive at the 'Ocean of Bamboo', Huangshan, China. This is a beautiful, and very green, bamboo forest. |
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| Acrobats holding a mock duel at a bamboo forest in Indonesia. |
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| A photo from within the biggest bamboo forest in Korea: Jungnokwon. |
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| While some bamboo types do not flower according to a schedule, they usually flower together. Some types of bamboo flower so rarely, that up to 120 years can pass between flowerings. |
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| The green bamboo ocean in China. |
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| One of the most relaxing things about strolling through a bamboo forest is the gentle swaying of the bamboo stalks as the wind gently pushes them around. |
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| Bamboo forests have such intense green colors, that they always seem full of life. |
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| Bamboo has literally thousands of uses by man, including diesel fuel, aphrodisiacs, musical instruments, food, paper, medicine and the list goes on and on... |
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| Humans have been using bamboo for so long, some think it may have been the oldest construction material in history. In South America, for example, evidence was found that bamboo was used to build dwellings up to 9,500 years ago. |
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| On the left is the Minuma bamboo forest in India. On the right is Kodai-Ji, a bamboo forest in Kyoto, Japan. |
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| A mystreious path through the forest in Hawaii. |
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| Pandas feed on bamboo, that includes giant pandas, red pandas, mountain gorillas and even golden bamboo lemurs. |
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| Not all bamboo is green. Because bamboo is a grass, some grow fast and then look like a lawn might look in winter - yellow and dead. |
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| Stunning field of bamboo growing outside Kyoto. |
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| 'The eye of the forest' - can you see it? |
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| The sun touching the bamboo forest of Kyoto. |
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