This is true LOL
" Fossil Evidence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster :

( - click on the image please, it enlarges and you have a full view )

Scientists have discovered the first fossilized evidence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster! Either that or some fossilized jellyfish from the Middle Cambrian (about 500 million years ago)."

- I wonder myself if there's any yet of this ...but i never saw a jellyfish flying ..and not for sure a giant and spaghetti one

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KK
PS:Ok, this one is already the 4th.post today, so please have fun with all and have a very nice day,
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Kk

Well, i decided today to delete from my blogfriend's list those who aren't blogging since more than 140 days ago...were about 3 or 4 bloggers, and are gone already! And soon, this weekend i'l delete the ones who aren't blogging about more than 50 days ago today yet, as i guess they must stopped blogging..at least with me they did it
If they are reading me or not i dunno, indeed i have a good high number of visitors everyday on my blog but i dunno if are them and aren't logged in, that's why deleted! There's no other reason for delete them as are good persons, i did it only bcz what i refered in this post, and this time i didn't delete no one by mistake
HUGS2you all
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KK

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Kiki
PS: CLick on the image to enlarge it and have fun

That AVE-MARIA's old man, my neighbour, is really annoying me and letting me MAD again during the nights as he wakes me up ! OH You all must remember my posts about it, and he started again to pray without stop around 3.30am and 4am and prays LOTS of Ave-Marias during 30 minutes or more sometimes, and in an annoying loudly voice i am really mad now His bedroom must be next to mine as in the silence of the night i listen all
Once i put my radio loudly w/Hard Rock'n Roll Hahaha ( was funny LOL ) at 3.30am when he started it, next to the wall and he really stoppped praying!! But now he's doing it again and i'm needing to sleep I guess next night i'l be preapred to make LOTS of NOISE with various things ..lol, then i'l tell you what i did hahahahaha... will not be only loudly Rock music but he'l have a huge scare! Oh yes bcz: AAARRRRGH! Stupid one this old guy praying so many Ave-Marias OH at tis time of the night!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lets me very MAD ::

Well, today i'm home so i'l try to have a " siesta " during the day but as i was away since 2 days ago, that's why i didn't blog yesterday, i am sorry my dear blogfriends/friends and visitors, as i had to go to Batalha, a town near Lisbon...1hour n half driving carefully, if speeding in 1hour we are there, I must say that Batalha is a site where all foreigners/tourists..as portugueses too, must visit as is the our BEST Monument in the GOTHIC style..( Jeronimos Monnastery is huge, bigger than Batalha one, and Gothic too but has the influence of style of our King D.Manuel, that's why Historians and Architects call it the Manuelino Style..though is in the Gothic one yet yes but w/some changes already )and has a beautiful History related w/it, as is an amazing architecture, check out few photos..there are lots more on net too to see, as it's such a wonderful one:

Hope you liked it,
- BTW..( this isn't writting by myself, if so i would WRITE about others important things i know related w/this following subject related w.the Monnastery's History, but this is already a resumed article which says the important to know )...HERE'S THE ARTICLE :

.1)" Monument classified as UNESCO World Heritage: Built in the XIV/XV century to commemorate the victory of the 6.000 men of the Portuguese army, against the 32.000 Spanish soldiers in one of their many invasion attempts, the Battle Monastery is the most glorious example of the Gothic architecture in Portugal. ( We WON Them again )
The story tells that in the 1383-1385 crisis, when the Spanish army with their king was marching to Lisbon to claim the throne they encountered a small Portuguese army. Laughing of such small force they’ve decided to pass around because they didn't want to be delayed in their conquest. The Portuguese seeing that the only chance to keep the independence was to fight and win, started to insult the Spanish calling them cowards ( ) It had its result as the Spanish decided to turn back to teach the Portuguese a lesson... ( we, portuguese were waiting that hahahahaaaaaaaaa )
Right from the start the battle was a catastrophe to the Spanish. When their cavalry charged, the knights started to fall into the many traps built in the battle camp. Those who escaped reached the Portuguese army in a disordered formation and tried to pull back. But while some were trying to get back, large numbers of Spanish knights not understanding what was happening continued to charge and push all in their front against the Portuguese spears! More, the Portuguese army chose a very narrow space to fight and the long spears of the Spanish knights were not manoeuvrable, so they started to break them in half to make them shorter. The problem was that when the broken piece was thrown to the ground the horses tripped in them and fell...
Soon it became a catastrophe to the Spanish and their king was forced run to Spain barely escaping the Portuguese persecuting force. This victory kept Portugal safe for the next 200 years... ( YESSSSSSSSS )

.2)" The Portuguese Empire and Routes of Exploration, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: The maritime expansion of Portugal was the result of the threat to Mediterranean commerce that had developed very rapidly after the crusades, especially the trade in spices. Spices traveled by various overland routes from Asia to the Levant, where they were loaded aboard Genoese and Venetian ships and brought to Europe. Gradually, this trade became threatened by pirates and the Turks, who closed off most of the overland routes and subjected the spices to heavy taxes. Europeans sought alternative routes to Asia in order to circumvent these difficulties.
The Portuguese led the way in this quest for a number of reasons. First, Portugal's location on the southwesternmost edge of the European landmass placed the country at the maritime crossroads between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Second, Portugal was by the fifteenth century a compact, unified kingdom led by an energetic, military aristocracy, which, having no more territory on the peninsula to conquer, sought new fields of action overseas. Third, Portuguese kings were motivated by a deeply held belief that their role in history was as the standard-bearers of Christianity against the Muslims. Fourth, Portugal's kings had, since the founding of the monarchy, encouraged maritime activities. Dinis founded the Portuguese navy, and Fernando encouraged the construction of larger ships and founded a system of maritime insurance. Finally, Portugal led the world in nautical science, having perfected the astrolabe and quadrant and developed the lantine-rigged caravel, all of which made navigating and sailing the high seas possible." GREAT HUH?

- Ok, have a very nice day
Love2you all,
Kiki

" European scientists have discovered a 390-million-year-old fossilized claw of giant sea scorpion. The man-sized monster possibly was the ancestor of modern day scorpions and even spiders:

The immense fossilised claw of a 2.5m-long (8ft) sea scorpion has been described by European researchers... The creature, which has been named: Jaekelopterus Rhenaniae, would have paddled in a river or swamp.
The size of the beast suggests that spiders, insects, crabs and similar creatures were much larger in the past than previously thought, the team says.
The claw itself measures 46cm - indicating its owner would have been longer even than the average-sized human."

- Can you imagine if it were alive today, ready to devour unsuspecting swimmers?

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Kiki

This article is interesting as now i know if my dog will save me or not
- The Lassie Experiment:
" All those Lassie episodes and news stories on dogs that dialed 911 notwithstanding, will Fido really get help you are in trouble? Or will man’s best friend let you die?
1.The First Experiment: Fake Heart Attack
To find out, researchers Krista Macpherson and William Roberts from the University of Western Ontario arranged for twelve dog owners to pretend to have a heart attack while walking their dogs through an open field. The owners all performed the exact same actions. When they reached a predesignated point in the field, marked by a target painted on the ground, they began breathing heavily, coughed, gasped, clutched their arm, fell over, and then lay motionless on the ground. A video camera hidden in a tree recorded what their dogs did next. In particular, the researchers were curious to see whether the dogs would seek help from a stranger sitting ten meters away.
The dogs - from a variety of breeds, including collies, German shepherds, rottweilers, and poodles - didn’t do much to promote the theory of canine intelligence. They spent some time nuzzling and pawing their owners before taking the opportunity to roam around aimlessly. Only one dog- a toy poodle- directly made contact with the stranger. It ran over and jumped in the person’s lap - not because it was trying to signal that its owner was in distress, but because it wanted to be petted. It probably figured, Uh-oh! My owner’s dead I need someone to adopt me!
Concerned that the heart-attack scenario may have been too subtle for the dogs - perhaps they thought their owners were just taking a nap - and that the presence of the passive stranger might have suggested to the dogs that nothing was wrong, the researchers designed a second, more dramatic test.

2.The Second Experiment: Trapped Under a Bookcase
They arranged for each of fifteen dog owners to bring their dogs into an obedience school, greet a person in the front lobby, and then walk into a second room, where a bookcase then fell on the person. (Or, at least, the bookcase appeared to fall on the person. In reality, the researchers had shown each dog owner how to pull the piece of furniture down in such a way that it would look like an accident without actually hurting the person.) Pinned beneath the shelves, each owner let go of his or her dog’s leash and began imploring the animal to get help from the person in the lobby.
Once again, the canine response to the emergency was somewhat lacking. The dogs spent a good deal of time standing by their owners, wagging their tails, but not a single one went to get help. The researchers concluded that "the fact that no dog solicited help from a bystander - neither when its owner had a ‘heart attack’ nor when its owner was toppled by a bookcase and called for help - suggests that dogs did not recognize these situations as emergencies and/or did not understand the need to obtain help from a bystander." In other words, don’t expect Fido to save your life. "
The researchers were quick to point out that in some cases, dogs clearly have saved their owner’s lives by seeking help. The media loves to report these stories, since they provide feel-good tales to end news broadcasts with - "Stay tuned for the dog that dialed 911!" But the researchers argue that such stories should not be considered indicative of typical dog behavior. So much for the urban legend of the life-saving pooch. "

- BTW, i'l try this with Elvis, my dog, i want to know if he will save me

Have a nice day
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Kiki

Aw! This scooter is really funny


Kk

Can you hear me, Santa???:
Maybe he is listening

Kiki
PS:Clicking on the image it enlarges

This is true LOL Check it out...These signs are in Germany:


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KK

Sunshinning and its reflection in front of my house

So blue isn't it?
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KK

Really FAT huh? That big ball of spikes is George, an extremely obese hedgehog (he tipped the scales at almost 6 lb or 2.7 kg) found by a wildlife aid group on the side of the road along with his friend Mildred, which is normal-sized:


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KK
PS>: You can clcik twice on the image to enlarge it

National Geographics has a neat feature of the twenty-five greatest photos of the universe, taken by Hubble Space Telescope in its 17 years in service. This one is the Red Rectangle, a protoplanetary nebula in the constellation of Monoceros:

Hubble’s image of HD 44179, a bipolar protoplanetary nebula, called the Red Rectangle, revealed ladderlike structures around a dying star. The ladder rungs may be a product of mass ejections from the nebula.
Gas and dust that HD 44179 emits generate the X shape. Astronomers suspect that hydrocarbons are responsible for the red hue.
A planetary nebula, such as HD 44179, is formed when a red giant transitions to a white dwarf at the end of the star’s life. Gas is expelled from the dying star. The gas makes up the nebula.
Here the link w/amazing photos:
- http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-11/hubble/hubble-interactive.html
I hope you enjoy it

Have a good weekend,
xx
KK

ADD:
My friend Usky from Usksider blog.. www.usksider.blog.co.uk .. shared these links with great photos from the space:
- http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/
- http://seds.org/images/
- http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/highlights/index.html
Have fun

This about the Soccer it is a comedy! But, sometimes it is a tragic comedy! I am happy but not 100/% as i am used to watch Portugal playing with England and winning, , and now for the 1st. time in my life i see England is OUT the Euro!
So, i am very happy with Portugal IN but very surprised with England Out!
My condolences to England's fans, and i promise don't talk about it again, I know it hurts!
So, the teams playing the Euro are:
- Poland, Portugal, Italy, France, Greece, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Germany, Croatia, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Romania and Holland. Plus Austria and Switzerland, the hosts.
Good luck to everybody and YES, MAY PORTUGAL WIN IT
And now lets have fun:


Have a very nice day,

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Kiki

Rocks that ring like a bell Unbeliavable but true :

Funny isn't it?
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KK

-1)Death by Beard: Austrian Hans Steininger was famous for having the world’s longest beard (it was 4.5 feet or nearly 1.4 m long) and for dying because of it.One day in 1567, there was a fire in town and in his haste Hans forgot to roll up his beard. He accidentally stepped on his beard, lost balance, stumbled, broke his neck and died!

-2)Death From Holding a Pee In : Danish nobleman and astronomer Tycho Brahe [wiki] was one interesting fellow. He kept a dwarf as a court jester who sat under the table during dinner. He even had a tame pet moose. Tycho also lost the tip of his nose in a duel with another Danish nobleman and had to wear a "dummy" nose made from silver and gold, but that’s another story.
It was said that Tycho had to hold his pee during one particularly long banquet in 1601 (getting up in the middle of a dinner was considered really rude) that his bladder, strained to its limits, developed an infection which later killed him! Later analyses suggested that Tycho died because of mercury poisoning but that’s not nearly as interesting as the original story.

-3)Death from Biting One’s Tongue: Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884)[wiki], famous for creating the Pinkerton detective agency and developing investigative techniques such as surveilling a suspect and doing undercover work, died of an infection after biting his tongue when he slipped on a sidewalk!

4)Death from Stubbing One’s Toe: Famous Tennessee whiskey distiller Jack Daniel [wiki] decided to come in to work early one morning in 1911. He wanted to open his safe but couldn’t remember the combination. In anger, Daniel kicked the safe and injured his toe, which later developed an infection that killed him!
Moral of the story? Don’t go to work early.

-4)Death on the Toilet: There are several examples of death on the toilet, but that of Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) was the most famous.
The King of Rock ‘n Roll was found lying on the floor of his Graceland mansion’s bathroom after throwing up while being seated on the toilet, taking care of business.
Doctors attributed his death to a heart attack from weight gain and taking too many prescription drugs.

-5)Death by Stingray: In 2006, Australian wildlife expert and TV personality Steve "The Crocodile Hunter" Irwin [wiki] died when he was stabbed in the heart by a stingray spine while filming a documentary Ocean’s Deadliest. ( really sad this one!)

Ciao, hugs2you all,
xx
Kiki

Really beautiful aren't they? Ed took it ( Wensum blog ), and his father sent me yesterday, as he is yet at the Hospital, are so colurful, check it out:

I hope it you enjoyed them and it brights your day
The storm is hitting Lisbon yet since yesterday all day, so i'l try return online
Ciao, hugs2you all,
KK

I was reading a joke on Chassy's blog when i remembered what happened to me 2 weeks ago: I was at a friend's house and she asked me help to give a suppository to her cat, Joao, a big fat cat but a very " Macho" one
So her husband and I managed put our arms around the cat..mind you that it IS a cat and a huge one !...LOL, so, we were trying that he has his butt quiet but he started to be mad with us till, after 20 minutes around the cat on a table, she managed give him the suppository..well i tell you: Becareful!
The cat screamed the loudest: MEEEEEEEOWWWWWWWWWWW i ever heard when she did it to him and he jumped away against the wall! It was a hilarious momment for us 3 and then i was sure that i will never try to give a suppository to Elvis, my dog! No way as it is a trouble already when he is at his vet. and he wants to put n his butt the thermometer!
Have a nice day
xxx
KK

"A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food,
warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to
those who wield an axe to cut it down" - Buddha.
There are probably hundreds of majestic and magnificent trees in the world - of these, some are particularly special:
-a)Lone Cypress in Monterey:

Buffeted by the cold Pacific Ocean wind, the scraggly Lone Cypress (wiki) (Cupressus macrocarpa) in Pebble Beach, Monterey Peninsula, California, isn’t a particularly large tree. It makes up for its small size, however, with its iconic status as a stunningly beautiful tree in splendid isolation, framed by an even more beautiful background of the Pacific Ocean.

-b)Circus Trees:
As a hobby, bean farmer Axel Erlandson [wiki] shaped trees - he pruned, bent, and grafted trees into fantastic shapes and called them "Circus Trees." For example, to make this "Basket Tree" arborsculpture, Erlandson planted six sycamore trees in a circle and then grafted them together to form the diamond patterns.

Erlandson was very secretive and refused to reveal his methods on how to grow the Circus Trees (he even carried out his graftings behind screens to protect against spies!) and carried the secrets to his grave.
The trees were later bought by millionaire Michael Bonfante, who transplanted them to his amusement park Bonfante Gardens in Gilroy in 1985.

c)Giant Sequoias: General Sherman:

Giant Sequoias [wiki] (Sequoiadendron giganteum), which only grow in Sierra Nevada, California, are the world’s biggest trees (in terms of volume). The biggest is General Sherman [wiki] in the Sequoia National Park - one behemoth of a tree at 275 feet (83.8 m), over 52,500 cubic feet of volume (1,486 m³), and over 6000 tons in weight.
General Sherman is approximately 2,200 years old - and each year, the tree adds enough wood to make a regular 60-foot tall tree. It’s no wonder that naturalist John Muir said "The Big Tree is Nature’s forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things."
For over a century there was a fierce competition for the title of the largest tree: besides General Sherman, there is General Grant [wiki] at King’s Canyon National Park, which actually has a
larger circumference (107.5 feet / 32.77 m vs. Sherman’s 102.6 feet / 31.27 m).
In 1921, a team of surveyors carefully measured the two
giants - with their data, and according to the complex American Forestry Association system of judging a tree, General Grant should have been award the title of largest tree - however, to simplify the matter, it was later determined that in this case, volume, not point system, should be the determining factor.

d)Coast Redwood: Hyperion and Drive-Thru Trees:
There is another sequoia species (not to be confused with Giant Sequoia) that is quite remarkable: the Coast Redwood [wiki] (Sequoia sempervirens), the tallest trees in the world. The reigning champion is a tree called Hyperion in the Redwood National Park, identified by researcher Chris Atkins and amateur naturalist Michael Taylor in 2006. Measuring over 379 feet (155.6 115 m) tall, Hyperion beat out the previous record holder Stratosphere Giant [wiki] in the Humboldt Redwoods State Park (at 370 feet / 112.8 m). The scientists aren’t talking about the exact location of Hyperion: the terrain is difficult, and they don’t want a rush of visitors to come and trample the tree’s root system. That’s not all that’s amazing about the Coast Redwood: there are four giant California redwoods big enough that you can drive your car through them! The most famous of the drive-through trees is the Chandelier Tree [wiki] in Leggett, California. It’s a 315 foot tall redwood tree, with a 6 foot wide by 9 foot tall hole cut through its base in the 1930s:

e)Chapel-Oak of Allouville-Bellefosse:

The Chêne-Chapelle (Chapel-Oak) of Allouville-Bellefosse is the most famous tree in France - actually, it’s more than just a tree: it’s a building and a religious monument all in one.
In 1669, l’Abbe du Detroit and du Cerceau decided to build a chapel in (at that time) a 500 years old or so oak (Quercus robur) tree made hollow by a lightning bolt. The priests built a small altar to the Virgin Mary. Later on, a second chapel and a staircase were added.
Now, parts of the tree are dead, the crown keeps becoming smaller and smaller every year, and parts of the tree’s bark, which fell off due to old age, are covered by protective oak shingles. Poles and cables support the aging tree, which in fact, may not live much longer. As a symbol, however, it seems that the Chapel-Oak of Allouville-Bellefosse may live on forever.

f)Quaking Aspen: Pando (The Trembling Giant):

Pando [wiki] or the Trembling Giant in Utah