The Cano Cristales – River of Rainbow in Colombia

The Cano Cristales, touted as the most beautiful river in the world (also called as the “River of five colors”), is definitely a treat to human eyes. It is so indistinguishable from other rivers of the world, that just a look at it or a beautiful visit to it can leave an everlasting impression on a person. A river flowing in Colombia runs for about 100 km before joining into the main water body. It is located in the northern part of Colombia, in “Sierra de la Macarena”. The real pictures of the river look more of a graphical representation, but which is not the case. It appears like that because of the rainbow colors which the river reflects, at a particular season every year.

The river can be seen with multi-color mosses and algae all around, at a specified time of a year, otherwise which appear to be dull green and brown all over. The multi-color effect is mainly due to the variation in the water level which is affected during some parts of the year, and thus making the mosses bright up and blooms for the spectators. The water level adjusts the required sunlight for the plants, but if observed in the dry and rainy seasons, the picture is different.

There is a kind of shallowness in the dry season and a kind of swampy in the rainy season which do not give out that illuminating rainbow effect all over. The point lies in between the two, and perhaps, this is where the water level is appropriate for the display of all the spectacular combinations of red, green, yellow, and blue algae.

The waterfalls too, from the river adding more radiance to the already existing spectacle. The river is more of a biological heritage for the people of La Macarena, attracting many adventurers and tourists from all around the globe.

Divorce Cakes by Fay Millar

London confectioner Fay Millar has been baking cakes since she was old enough to pick up a wooden spoon in her mother’s kitchen. She gradually took over making the family birthday cakes and carried on practicing her skills on friends and relatives, until recently she started baking cakes to celebrate …. divorces. After all, a divorce does call for celebration. Price ranges from $100 to $1300.

 

ذكرياتنا هي هويتنا الأخرى ____ احلام مستغانمي

أن تنسي شخصًا أحببته لسنوات، لا يعني أنّك محوته من ذاكرتك. أنت فقط غيّرت مكانه في الذاكرة. ما عاد في واجهة ذاكرتك، حاضرًا كلّ يوم بكلّ تفاصيله. ـ

ما عاد ذاكرتك كلّ حين، غدا ذاكرتك أحيانًا. الأمر يتطلّب أن يشغل آخر مكانه، و يدفع بوجوده إلى الخلف في ترتيب الذكريات.ـ

ذلك أن الذكريات لا تموت. هي تتحرّك فينا، تخبو كي تنجو من محاولة قتلنا لها. ثمّ في أوّل فرصة تعود و تطفو على واجهة قلبنا. فنحتفي بها كضيف افتقدناه منذ زمن بعيد و مرّ يسلّم علينا و يواصل طريقه.ـ

الذكريات عابر سبيل، لا يمكن استبقاؤها مهما أغريناها بالإقامة بيننا.ـ
هي تمضي مثلما جاءت. لا ذكريات تمكث. لا ذكريات تتحوّل حين تزورنا إلى حياة. من هنا سرّ احتفائنا بها. و ألمنا حين تغادرنا. إنّها ما نجا من حياة سابقة.ـ

ليس بإمكان أحد الإدعاء أنّه من يتحكّم في ذكرياته. و لا هو يحتاج أن يبحث عنها في الزوايا خلف عنكبوت الزمن. هي التي تتحكّم فيه.. و هي التي تبحث عنه حين تشاء.ـ


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مقتطف من كتاب " نسيان.كم"ـ

Expensive Art Works Found Accidentally

This is a list of 8 great works of art (well – maybe one is only nominally so) that were found in unusual places. It makes you wonder how many great works of art are lost to the world simply because no one is looking in the right place!

1. In a farmer’s field

In 1820, a Greek peasant named Yorgos was digging in his field on the island of Milos when he unearthed several carved blocks of stone. He burrowed deeper and found four statues – three figures of Hermes and one of Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Three weeks later, the Choiseul archeological expedition arrived by ship, purchased the Aphrodite, and took it to France. Louis XVIII gave it the name Venus de Milo and presented it to the Louvre where it became one of the most famous works of art in history.

2. Beneath a street

On February 21, 1978, electrical workers were putting down lines on a busy street corner in Mexico city when they discovered a 20 ton stone bas-relief of the Aztec night goddess, Coyolxauqui. It is believed to have been sculpted in the early fifteenth century and buried prior to the destruction o the Aztec civilisation by the Spanish conquistadors in 1521. The stone was moved 200 yards from the site to the Museum of the Great Temple.

3. In a hole in the ground

In 1978 more than 500 movies dating from 1903 to 1929 were dug out of a hole in the ground of Dawson City, Yukon. Under normal circumstances, the 35mm nitrate films would have perished, but the permafrost preserved them perfectly.

4. Under a bed

Joanne Perez, the widow of vaudeville performer Pepito the Spanish Clown, cleaned out the area underneath her bed and discovered the only existing copy of the pilot for the TV series I Love Lucy. Pepito had coached Lucille Ball and had guest-starred in the pilot. Ball and her husband, Desi Arnaz, had given it to Pepito as a gift in 1951 and it had remained under the bed for thirty years.

5. On a wall

A middle-aged couple in a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, asked an art prospector to appraise a painting in their home. While he was there, he examined another painting that the couple had thought was a reproduction of a work by Van Gogh. It turned out to be an 1886 original. On March 10, 1991, the painting Still Life with Flowers sold at auction for $1.4m (US).

10 movie Characters That Turned Out To Be Real People

Lucy (50 First Dates) - Michelle Philpots

Every day, Michelle Philpots wakes up next to a man who has to convince her they are married. When she expresses doubt, he takes out a photo album and shows her pictures of their wedding 13 years ago. Only then does amnesiac Mrs Philpots accept she is talking to her husband, Ian, and that everything he has told her is true. The 47-year-old's condition was caused by brain injuries sustained in two road accidents. She can recall everything up to 1994 but since then everything that happens on one day is forgotten the next. Her case echoes 50 First Dates, the 2004 movie in which Adam Sandler tries to woo Drew Barrymore, who has no day-to-day memory following a car crash.

Zorro (The Mask of Zorro) - Joaquin Murrieta

Zorro is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega , a nobleman and master living in the Spanish colonial era of California. He is a black-clad masked outlaw who defends the people of the land against tyrannical officials and other villains. Joaquin Murrieta, also called the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a semi-legendary figure in California during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s. He was either an infamous bandit or a Mexican patriot, depending on one's point of view. Murrieta was partly the inspiration for the fictional character of Zorro. His name has, for some political activists, symbolized resistance against Anglo-American economic and cultural domination in California. In fact, a character with his name appears in The Mask of Zorro. In the film, after Joaquin's death, his (fictional) brother, Alejandro (Antonio Banderas), becomes the new Zorro and later kills Captain Love in revenge.

Viktor Navorski (The Terminal) - Mehran Nasseri

“The Terminal” is a moving tale, where Tom Hanks plays the victim of the modern world. That a man could spend months stuck in diplomatic limbo living in an airport may seem far-fetched, but in fact, the movie is inspired by a real-life character who lived at terminal one of Paris Charles De Gaulle airport. The living urban legend is Mehran Nasseri, known as “Sir Alfred” to those who work at the airport. Stranded without papers, Nasseri was a stateless refugee from Iran, unwanted by any nation. Having claimed to have one British parent, he decided to settle in the UK in 1986, but en route to there in 1988, his briefcase containing his papers was stolen in Paris. Despite this setback, he boarded the plane for London but was promptly returned to France when he failed to present a passport to British immigration. He was initially arrested by the French, but then released as his entry to the airport was legal and he had no country of origin to be returned to. A red plastic bench beside a luggage store was his home for no less than 18 years. Director Steven Spielberg may have moved the airport to New York for his movie and made Hank's character East European, but there's no doubt who the movie is based on. Nasseri's life at the airport ended in July 2006 when he was hospitalized and his sitting place dismantled.

Hanna Schmitz (The Reader) - Ilse Koch

Kate Winslet's character in The Reader was based on one of the Third Reich's most notorious war criminals. The life of Ilse Koch, a concentration camp guard nicknamed "The Bitch of Buchenwald", was strikingly similar to that of Hanna Schmitz, the role played by Winslet in the Oscar-tipped film. Like Schmitz, Koch came from a poor background. She married Karl Koch, a close friend of Adolf Hitler, in 1936, and accompanied him when he was made commandant of Buchenwald camp the following year. As a supervisor of the camp's female guards, she whipped and beat prisoners. Witnesses said she forced prisoners to rape one another and was eventually disciplined by Nazi chiefs for her brutality. As Schmitz does in the film, Koch killed herself after being sentenced to life in prison for her crimes perpetrated in a concentration camp. Before her suicide, Koch had been reunited with her illegitimate son, who had only recently discovered his mother's identity and crimes. He wrote poems and sent them to her in prison. In the film, Schmitz is effectively reunited with Michael Berg, a former lover who is shocked to see her in the dock when he attends a war crimes trial. After she is sentenced, he sends her taped books to listen to in prison. Also, Ilse was accused of having affairs with prisoners, while Hanna was suspected by her camp inmates of selecting female prisoners to have sex with.

Raymond Babbitt (Rain Man) - Kim Peek

Kim Peek is the man who inspired Dustin Hoffman's character in the movie Rain Man. His life was thrust into the spotlight after meeting screenwriter Barry Morrow, who used Peek as the inspiration for Dustin Hoffman's Oscar-winning character, Raymond Babbitt. Although inspired by Peek, he was portrayed as having autism. After the 1988 film became a hit, Peek spent the next 21 years demonstrating his mental abilities to more than 64 million people around the world. Peek, who was able to retain nearly 98% of what read, heard, and watched (the average person holds on to about 45%), could read and memorize books as a 16-month-old and had committed as many as 9,000 books to memory.

Norman Bates (Psycho) - Ed Gein

Norman Bates is a psychologically disturbed hotel owner who has delusions that his dead mother, whose body he keeps in the cellar, wants to kill hotel guests. He develops a dual personality and dresses like her when he commits his murders. The film's screenplay by Joseph Stefano was adapted from a novel of the same name by author Robert Bloch. Remarkably, Bloch's 1959 novel was based on legendary real-life, Plainfield, Wisconsin psychotic serial killer Edward Gein, who was arrested in 1957 for committing two murders and digging up the corpses of countless other women who reminded him of his dead mother. He skinned the bodies to make lamp shades, socks and a "woman suit" in hopes of becoming a woman. He was found to be insane and spent the rest of his life in a mental institution.

Laurel Hedare (Catwoman) - Heather Bird

There is a theory that says the character of the movie's villain (Laurel Hedare, played by Sharon Stone) was based on real-life anti-aging advocate/entrepreneur Heather Bird . At the time that the "Catwoman" movie was being developed by French director Pitof, Heather Bird was making headlines in Europe by introducing a revolutionary new anti-ageing cream. The fictional Laurel Hedare's revolutionary new anti-ageing cream is the central plot element of the "Catwoman" movie. Note that prior to filming, the screenplay referred to the cosmetics company central to the film's story as "Avenal Beauty." "Avenal" could be a play on the word "Aves," the scientific and Latin word for "birds," a subtle reference to Heather Bird's name. When the film was actually made, the name of the company was changed to "Hedare Beauty." The real-life Heather Bird is not an evil villainess. But she does have many traits in common with Sharon Stone's character, aside from their promotion of cutting edge anti-ageing technologies. Both are beautiful blonde women. Both are from Salt Lake City. Heather Bird was born and raised in Salt Lake City. Laurel Hedare lived in and had the company headquarters in Salt Lake at least at some point in the planning stages of the "Catwoman" movie.

Rocky Balboa (Rocky) - Chuck Wepner

Chuck Wepner, a battling, bruising club fighter who had never made it big time, but in 1975 he had his shot in a fight with world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali . It wasn't at all regarded as a serious battle. But as the fight progressed, this miracle unfolded. In the ninth round, Wepner landed a punch to Ali's chest and Ali was knocked down. Wepner went to his corner and said to his manager, "Hey, I knocked him down." "Yeah," Wepner's manager replied, "but he looks really pissed off now...". People went absolutely crazy. Wepner was finally knocked out in the 15th and final round, almost lasting the distance. Young actor Sylvester Stallone watched the fight at home on television and was inspired to write the script for Rocky, based on Wepner's gutsy challenge.

Emily Rose (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) - Anneliese Michel

In the movie, a priest is on trial for the death of a young woman named Emily Rose, upon whom he had performed an exorcism. The film was inspired by Anneliese Michel, a 16-year-old German girl who, in 1968, began displaying symptoms of demonic possession. For years, she suffered paralysis, self-abuse, starvation and demonic visions until 1975, when two priests performed exorcisms of what was believed to be several demons over 10 months. During that time, Anneliese barely ate, and she died of starvation in July 1976. Her parents and the priests were tried and found guilty of manslaughter. They were sentenced to six months in jail

Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofski or Krusty the Clown (The Simpsons)– Jim Allen from Rusty Nails

Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofski, better known by his stage name, "Krusty the Clown", is the cynical, burnt out, addiction-riddled smoking clown host of Bart and Lisa's favorite TV show, The Krusty the Clown Show. The character of Krusty was partially inspired by real-life clown "Rusty Nails" whom Simpsons creator Matt Groening watched as a child while growing up in Portland, Oregon. Jim Allen (b. 1928 or 1929) portrayed the clown character Rusty Nails. His program on KPTV was the second-longest running children's program in Portland, second only to Ramblin' Rod Anders.

Basically most of the characters from The Simpsons were inspired in Groening's family and acquaintances.

اللهم آمين

الهي كيف أدعوك وأنا انا وكيف أقطع رجائي منك وأنت أنت .
الهي إن لم أسألك فتعطني فمن ذا الذي أسأله فيعطني؛وإن لم أدعك فتستجيب لي فمن ذا الذي أدعوه فيستجيب لي ؛وإن لم أتضرع اليك فترحمني فمن ذا الدي أتضرع إليه فيرحمني.
الهي وكما فلقت البحر لموسى فنجيته من الغرق؛فصلي وسلم يارب على محمد وآل محمد ونجني مما أنا فيه من كرب بفرج عاجل وغير آجل وبرحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين.
اللهم آمين

معاني جميـــلة جدا!!!

˚ஐ الابتسامة ˚◦˚ஐ

أقدم وأسرع طريقة للمواصلات عرفها الإنسان واللغة الوحيدة التي تفهمها جميع الشعوب دون ترجمان

˚◦˚ஐ الشوق ˚◦˚ஐ
معدن نادر يتمدد بالحرارة وينكمش بالبرودة
˚◦˚ஐ الأمثال ˚◦˚ஐ

خلاصة تجربة قيدت ضد مجهول

˚◦˚ஐ الطلاق ˚◦˚ஐ

شركة أفلست بعد أن نفذ رصيدها من العواطف
˚◦˚ஐ الخجل ˚◦˚ஐ
فرصة نادرة تتيح للفتاة أن تبدو متوردة الوجه بدون استخدام المساحيق
˚◦˚ஐ الصدق ˚◦˚ஐ
قارة لم تكتشف بعد
˚◦˚ஐ الشائعة ˚◦˚ஐ
طائرة أسرع من الصوت
˚◦˚ஐ الأسرار ˚◦˚ஐ
معلومات تبوح بها للآخرين

ليقوموا باستغلالها ضدك عند اللزوم

˚◦˚ஐ الصمت ˚◦˚ஐ

أروع حديث بين ألأصدقاء
˚◦˚ஐ المنافق ˚◦˚ஐ
كائن يمدحك في ضجة ويخونك في صمت

˚◦˚ஐ الحرب الباردة˚◦˚ஐ

ابتسامة امرأة لامرأة أخرى

˚◦˚ஐ الإنسان˚◦˚ஐ

كائن من التراب خرج وعلى التراب عاش ومع التراب تعامل وإلى التراب سيعود

˚◦˚ஐ الشرير ˚◦˚ஐ
شخص يدرس طبائع معظم الناس
˚◦˚ஐ القلم ˚◦˚ஐ
القوي الذي يتكلم وينطق نيابة عن لساننا الضعيف
˚◦˚ஐ الكلمة الطيبة ˚◦˚ஐ

الجسر الرقيق الذي يصل بين قلوب الناس فوق بحر الأنانية

˚◦˚ஐ الحياة ˚◦˚ஐ

عبارة عن سفينة شراعها الأمل ووقودها العمل
˚◦˚ஐ الغضب ˚◦˚ஐ

الريح التي تهب فجأة فتطفئ سراج العقل

˚◦˚ஐ الصداقة ˚◦˚ஐ

عبارة عن صفقة تجارية رابحة بين قلبين وروحين
˚◦˚ஐ الكتاب ˚◦˚ஐ
المعلم الذي لا يعلم حتى يحركه التلميذ
˚◦˚ஐ الكرم ˚◦˚ஐ
أحيانا يكون ضرورة دبلوماسية للتعامل بين الناس
˚◦˚ஐ الأمل ˚◦˚ஐ
الشمعة التي تضيء لك دروب مليئة بالهم والحزن والرجاء والخوف
˚◦˚ஐ المتفائل˚◦˚ஐ
هي حديقة ورود بين أشجار الأشواك

الشخص الذي مهما أقنعته بجمال الوردة لا يرى إلا الشوك

˚◦˚ஐ الشرف ˚◦˚ஐ

الشيء الوحيد الذي لا يجوز أن يفقده المرء أبدا ولو مرة واحدة

˚◦˚ஐ البلاغة ˚◦˚ஐ

تعني أن تجيب فلا تبطئ وتصيب فلا تخطئ

˚◦˚ஐ الحقد ˚◦˚ஐ

يعني شعور بالنقص تجاه الآخرين فيتحول إلى كراهية في القلب

˚◦˚ஐ العمر ˚◦˚ஐ

ذلك الشيء الذي كلما طال كلما قصر

˚◦˚ஐ الحب ˚◦˚ஐ

السحر الخفي لا يعرفه إلا المجربون وهو أجمل ما في الحياة

˚◦˚ஐ الحظ ˚◦˚ஐ

عكاز الفاشل وسلاح المنتصر

˚◦˚ஐ القراءة ˚◦˚ஐ

مفتاح سحري يفتح لك خزائن الكنوز في كل مكان

˚◦˚ஐ الزمن ˚◦˚ஐ

قطار سريع من المستحيل توقفه

˚◦˚ஐ الاستسلام ˚◦˚ஐ

ضعف يؤدي إلى المذلة

˚◦˚ஐ الضمير ˚◦˚ஐ

إشارة حمراء توقف الإنسان أمام نفسه ليصدق معها ولو لحظات

˚◦˚ஐ الأم ˚◦˚ஐ

هي المخلوق الوحيد الذي نجده أمامنا في الحياة صادقة الابتسامة رقيقة الغضب

˚◦˚ஐ الساعة˚◦˚ஐ

حكيم يصرخ بنا ويقفز أمامنا كل ثانية ونحن ننظر إليه بنفوس محملة بالنعاس

˚◦˚ஐ الوداع ˚◦˚ஐ

كلمة لا بد منها ولكن ما أسهل قولها وما أصعب سماعها

◦˚ஐ المتشائم ˚◦˚ஐ

ايوة بغير_هشام الجخ

ايوة بغير....ايوة بغير

لا انا نقصان ولا ضعفان
ولا مسطول ولا سكران
ولا زايغ من عيني الضيّ
ولا حد احسن مني في شيّ
بس بغير

واللي قالولك غيرة الراجل قِلّة ثقة او قلة فَهم
خَلْق حمير

غيرة الراجل نار في مَرَاجِل
نار بتنوّر مابتحرقش
واحنا صعايدة بنستحملش
شمسنا حامية وعِرْقنا حامي وطبعنا حامي
واللي تخلّي صعيدي يحبها
يبقى يا غُلْبها
اصلنا ناس على قد الطيبة
كلنا هيبة
والنسوان في بلادنا جواهر
طب لو عندك حتة ماس
حتخلّيها مداس للناس؟؟
ولا حتقفلي اوضة عليها بميت ترباس
يمكن حتى تأجري ليها جوزين حراس
يبقى انا لا انا جاهل ولا غافل
كل الفرق ما بيني وبينك اني صعيدي
ينعل ابو ده اليوم الاكحل
اللي لا ليه اخر ولا اول
اللي طلعت لقيتني صعيدي

لو كان بايدي
كنت اعملك هندي بريش
واقلب شعري كنيش كرابيش
والبس لك سلسلة متدلدلة خرزة وقلب
بس ازاي البس لك سلسلة ؟؟ هو انا كلب ؟؟

ثم العبرة ماهيش في اللبس
اصل المشكلة عندك .. عندك ..
قلت حاسيبها وبكرة تحس
بعده تحس
بعده تحس
ده انا لو جبس كنت زعقت
ماشي صداقة وماشي زمالة
بس ماجَتْش على الرجالة

ماهي نسوان الدنيا كتير
وانا ما بقولش تخاصمي الناس
ولا تِتْحِجبي عن الرجالة
ولا تعتكفي وتسكني دير
بس يا ريت حبة تقدير
اني بحبك
واني بريدك
واني زرعت حياتي في ايدك
واني غزلت بنات الدنيا عقود على جيدك
واني تعبت من التفكير
واني بغير