WARNING:This is SERIOUS and really interesting, some even...you know, actually, it's better you read and have your own conclusions ! SO: " Here are a few natural occurrences of nature that look a lot like… well, things that don’t naturally occur in nature.
1) The Badlands Guardian:
We can thank Google Earth for the discovery of this guy. The Badlands Guardian is located near Medicine Hat in Alberta, Canada. The natural shape of the land looks remarkably like a man wearing a native American headdress and earphones. The head was likely created by erosion of the soft soil following a particularly intense rainfall. The earphones are a road and an oil well. The head is located in Cypress County, so the Cypress County Council held a contest to name the landmark.

2)The Old Man of the Mountain:
Sadly, if you haven’t already seen the Old Man, you never will – at least not in person. After 10,000 years in existence, the Old Man of the Mountain collapsed in 2003 . He was carved out by glaciers many moons ago, but the first confirmed discovery of his profile was in 1805. However, Native American legends that date back as far as 1604 said that following the Merrimack River would lead to a mountain with a stone face . Daniel Webster had a particularly poetic description of the Man:
-“Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.”
Although the state tried desperately to save the Old Man – including using cables and spikes to try to keep him upright – he “died” sometime between midnight and 2 a.m. on May 3, 2003. People were so upset that they left flowers at the base of the mountain to mourn him .
Even though he’s not there now, you can still see him, sort of – viewfinders were erected at the base of the cliff that let viewers see how the Old Man of the Mountain used to look .

3) Cydonia Mensae:
This startling face on Mars was found on July 25, 1976, by a couple of computer engineers looking through NASA archives at the Goddard Space Flight Center. At first experts thought it was just a trick of the light, but then a second picture corroborated the first. It’s generally thought just to be an optical illusion due to the formation of the land, but at least a couple of people have different theories. Richard C. Hoagland, who is somewhat famous for his… “interesting”… theories, thinks it’s evidence of an ancient Martian civilization . If you’d like to read more about Hoagland’s theories, check out Wikipedia. It’s entertaining, if nothing else.

4) Galle:
Galle is a crater on Mars, which isn’t really a big deal, except it looks like a smiley face. The smiley is created by a mountain range and the eyes are two small craters within the big crater. The Viking Orbiter first took a picture of the “happy face crater” on March 12, 1999.

5) The Man on Mars:
Another one from Mars – the Mars rover Spirit took pictures of what appears to be a man sitting on a rock on Mars . But he’s a lot tinier than he appears to be in the picture – NASA issued a statement saying that the “man” was “a 2-inch sedimentary rock that has been eroded by the wind.”

**Hey--( PSSSSST, between us..doesn't it really seems a human or some kind of a man there? Watch this pic. well WOW, 4me it really seems someone sitting there or just there REALLY! AMAZING THIS one

6) Mushroom Rocks:
This one doesn’t quite fit the category “human” looking pieces of nature, but they’re pretty cool all the same. These rocks used to be shaped more symmetrically, but years and years of erosion – the rock that forms the top of the mushroom is a harder rock than the one on the bottom. You can find rocks like this scattered all over the world - this particular rock is from Mushroom Rock State Park near Salina, Kansas. Image from Wikipedia user NationalParks."
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PS: - * I'm in love, stunned with these Nature's pieces of ART We live in an awesome, fantastic world, and Universe! I just LOV'IT

ADD:-- * HA, this one it's different than the previous one, as is much more interesting in another perspective/way. Though the Origin of Booze is a good article

Well, you see there are fun articles, plus we can blog about ourselves, OUR WORLD, UNIVERSE, RELATIONSHIPS, OUR HISTORY, and so on, etc. so many themes around to blog about so sometimes i also post funny thingies, jokes and so, as you know usually I do but I do enjoy to post interesting stuffs too instead of let my blog be a self-centered one, you know it isn't though it can happen of course depending my mood or whatever i blog about something related w/myself; there are lots around already that only know speak/blog about themselves/him/herself...i'm not criticising please, it's just a constatation of mine, as we are all different and that's great, or blogs would be all equal and no fun about that

Of course this is my oppinion, I just refer this bcz that's why i enjoy blogs with variety and not self-centered ones as those tend to repeat themselves and turning boring ... ha well, lets have a nice evenning and fun always as well a:
* GREAT WEEK for US ALL YESSSS, CHEERS and HUGS2U ALL
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Kiki

" The ORIGIN of The BOOZE : A historical look at the stuff that gets us hammered. Who’s ready for the first round?
.BEER:
To quote Homer Simpson, is there anything it can’t do? Most likely invented in Persia circa 7,000 B.C.E., beer’s gone on to become hugely important in almost every ancient society it’s touched. Back in Sumerian culture, the drink was considered positively divine - a fact confirmed when archaeologists dug up the 4,000-year-old "Hymn to Ninkasi." The ode to the goddess of brewing actually doubles as a recipe for a barley-based beverage
guaranteed to make people feel "exhilarated, wonderful and blissful."

The epic of Gilgamesh tells us a similar tale; one of the main characters, Enkidu, is said to have had "seven cups of beer, and his heart soared." ( As I'm an Historian i know too about Gilgamesh, and never heard this of the beer related to that tale and him but may be true!) After seven rounds we can definitely see why. In ancient Egypt, wages were often paid to the poor in beer, or as they called it, hqt. It was sort of light beer, apparently, and not very intoxicating, which explains how construction workers of the day managed to drink three daily rations of it and still build their masterpiece: the not-at-all-leaning pyramids of Giza.

.WINE
A wine snob will happily tell you, for hours on end, how difficult it is to make a decent wine and how many complicated steps are involved. This may be true, but it’s ridiculously easy to make basic wine. The beverage in its roughest form probably goes back thousands of years to primitive cultures who mistakenly left grapes in the sun for too long and then attempted to eat them. As it turns out, all the yeasts needed to ferment grapes actually grow on grape skin. (No additives necessary!)

Around 5,000 B.C.E., the people of present-day Georgia and Iran started making wine in clay pots. By the time of ancient Greece, wine had acquired a religious significance; perhaps in homage to Dionysus, the Greeks planted vines in all their colonies, including France and Egypt. (We’d love to know what the French make of the fact that they have the Greeks to thank for their vaunted grapes.)

California winemakers should also praise God, literally, for the fruits of their labor: when Christian missionaries arrived there, they planted the region’s first vines so they’d have something to transmogrify into:
the blood of Jesus when they took Communion.

.CHAMPAGNE
As you probably know, bubbly comes from the Champagne region of France, a longtime center of trade (and also a region in the path of rampaging hordes: Attila the Hun, among others, left footprints there). As you may also know, Dom Perignon was in fact a real person - his first name was Pierre - and, in a sense, he’s the inventor of the sparkly stuff. A Benedictine monk, the Dom served as treasurer of an abbey in the Champagne region starting in 1688.
The region had slightly chilly weather that year, and the growing season was unusually short anyway - which meant grapes spent less time fermenting on the vine and more time fermenting in cellars. Essentially, it was this process that led to carbon dioxide being trapped inside the bottles.

At first the Dom was horrified; this was a sign that he’d failed in his duties as treasurer (which included, for some reason, winemaking). Try as he might, he couldn’t get rid of the bubbles. Finally, resigned to dealing with them, he blended grapes to make a light white wine, which suited the effervescence far better than a heavy red.
He also realized he’d have to solve another problem caused by trapped carbon dioxide: a considerable number of his bottles exploding . So, instead of stopping them with wood and oil-soaked hemp, he started using a soft material from Spain and Portugal: cork.

This lovely story, by the way, doesn’t sit so well with the natives of Limoux, France. They allege that they were making sparkling wine in their backyards as early as the 1500s, and that Perignon stole their idea. We’ve got to side with the Dom on this one: After all, the guy was a monk.

.VODKA
Believe it or not, the name really does come from the Russian word for "water," which is "voda," and the Russians have a pretty good claim to inventing the stuff. Production from grains has been documented there as far back as the 9th century. It wasn’t, however, until around the 14th century that vodka became known as the Russian national drink, and for good reasons; it was served everywhere, even at religious ceremonies.

Poland likes to boast that its own vodka production goes back even further than Russia’s, to the 8th century, but what was going made in that region at the time was more like grappa or brandy. Later Polish vodkas were called "gorzalka," or "burnt wine," and were used as medicines, as were all distilled liquors in the Middle Ages. Vodka was also used as an ingredient in early European formulations of gunpowder.

By the way, for those of you who turn your noses up the fruit-infused vodkas that have recently hit the market: they’re the original. Early vodkas were not quite as palatable as your average Grey Goose, so makers often masked the taste with fruits and spices.

.GIN
If you’re unsurprised that vodka used to be given as medicine, you probably won’t be shocked to learn that gin was invented specifically for that purpose. 14th-century Europeans distilled juniper berries in hopes of fighting the plague (then again, almost everything they did was in hope of fighting the plague).
But gin as we know it didn’t come along until the mid-1600s. That’s when one Dr. Sylvius concocted the first formulation in the Netherlands, hoping it would serve as a primitive type of dialysis for kidney patients. (We’re guessing he didn’t particularly care about its effect on the liver.) By the end of the century, gin had become popular in Britain because it was sold at cut-rate prices, despite a very widespread rumor that it could induce abortion, which lead to it being nicknamed "mother’s ruin." Later, when the Brits started to occupy India, they found it useful in yet another medical mixture: the gin and tonic. The quinine in the tonic water was effective in fighting malaria. Portuguese were already using it in Africa, Brasil, India, well all around the globe, before british and others use it.

.TEQUILLA
As vodka was to Russia, tequila was to Mexico; it’s been made there since at least the 16th century and was originally used in religious rituals. (Having drunk a little too much tequila once, we can testify to its ability to cause drinkers to beseech God for mercy.) The name comes from a town founded in 1656. And while José Cuervo didn’t exactly invent the drink, he was the first to commercialize it. As for its migration northward, a fellow named Cenobio Sauza brought the stuff to the U.S. in the late 1800s; we can’t help but wonder if this is why frat boys on spring break still refer to this stuff as "the sauce."

.RUM
Yo-ho-uh-oh and a bottle of rum - the drink tastes great, but its history isn’t so sweet. The story, as far as we can tell, starts in India, where in 300, B.C.E., Alexander the Great saw some sugarcane and memorably called it "the grass that gives honey without bees."

All well and good, until Christopher Columbus went and brought sugarcane to the Caribbean. There, it flourished and became the engine of the slave trade. The ones in Africa sent slaves to the Caribbean, which sent sugar to New England, which sent rum and other goodies to Africa, which sent more slaves to the Caribbean. Known as the triangular trade, pondering the implications of it all is enough to make a person want a stiff drink. But not, preferably, one steeped in rum."

*-- This article wasn't written by me but it is very interesting and in some points of views i doubt a bit as i have my own views of it, anyway i share this post with you as in the whole it is very interesting, mainly a true story, and yes teachs a lot about the Origin of the Booze
So, that's great huh?
Hope you enjoyed it HMMMMM, did you ?
I enjoy it

PS: since last evening I already did some posts, so enjoy them, comment, or not, as well the today's morning ones bcz i'm not going2post nothing more by now today at least...unless i don't resist it but HEY my friends com'on i let here various posts for you have fun and enjoy ok?
It's up2you if you want or feel to comment or not, I also do and need to do more my blogarounds on friends blogs, so i guess for now these posts since yesterday's evening are enough OH but yes if returning online i always reply2you
I must rest now,
Have fun and a very nice sunday
Hugs2U all xxx
Kiki

"WANTED MAN STOPPED TO HELP POLICE" (HEY Dude that's a not gr8 Is he DUMB or what ): Police in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, said they arrested a suspected serial burglar after he stopped to offer assistance to two officers.
The police said William Vickers, 46, stopped at about 1 a.m. Sunday to offer assistance to two officers who were attempting to help a woman who had locked herself out of her car , the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Tuesday.

The officers told Vickers they had the situation well in hand but as the seemingly good Samaritan began walking away and into the light of a street lamp, one of the officers recognized him as a suspect in the After Midnight Burglar case.
Vickers is suspected of multiple burglaries four years ago as well as a break-in reported last week. Police fliers posted around the city bear the suspect's face.

-"It was nice for Willie to offer to help, and he probably has more experience getting into cars than our two officers on the scene" (oh yes he has ) Police Chief Martin Lentz said.

However, Vickers, who allegedly fought against the officers and damaged the woman's car, now faces multiple charges including burglary, assault on a police officer and resisting arrest. He was being held in Cleveland Heights Jail."

.Copyright 2008 by United Press International

YEAH, lets all be good samaritans, ok, but watch out if you're one wanted by Police LOOL Oh boy, OMG he even has more offences now just because he tried to help the Police
REALLY DUMB GUY EH?

xxx
Kiki