A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. The series of test images shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth.
I found all these postcard images on this Wikipedia page. I had to run the descriptions – which were in German – through Google Translate, which explains the choppy translation. Regardless, the images and stories behind them are still hilarious.
Once Munchausen rode in deep winter night inland , was tired and tied his horse to a pointed stick. After a deep sleep , he woke up in the bright morning in the middle of the cemetery , while his horse was tethered at the Steeple. In the evening the village was in fact been snowed in and melted together on the night of snow . The tree Plug , whom he believed to tie his horse had been the weathercock . Then he took out his gun , shot through the halter of the horse and was able to continue his journey at a gallop .
Munchausen Master Reinicke looked at a tree trunk on a fox hunt . He pulled his ball out of the shotgun and invited a board nail , fired and hit the tail of the fox . He nailed the animal firmly on the tree . He made the fox is a section through the face , whipped up to him , and this jumped out of his fur .
On a stag hunt Munchausen were once run out of bullets and was already the most beautiful deer in front of him . Then he took a handful of cherry stones , and shot them to the animal on his forehead . Two years later he met on the hunt a capital deer who carried between its antlers a cherry tree with beautiful red berries . With one shot he felled him and so had venison and Kirschtunke.
In a battle with the Turks Munchausen had fought at the forefront and pursued the enemy to the market square of a small town . His horse rushed to the well, and drank an inordinate amount . As he looked around , he noticed that his animals in combat throughout the buttock was cut off , and the water ran out the back again . Outside the city , however , he found the other half of the wonder horse and a Kurschmied pinned the animal back together .
On another expedition Munchausen wanted to ride on a swamp , but got so deep into it that he would have perished . Through the strength of his own arm he retired on Bunches and the animal , wedged between his knees , out of the morass out .
At the siege of a city , one should inquire what was going on in the fortress . Munchausen stood next to a cannon and jumped on the plane fired bullet . From the air out he looked at the fortress and jumped , as just a ball of the fortress was shot and flew past him on this over . So he got safely back to the camp of his people .
As Munchausen was in Turkish captivity , he came again with bears in battle . He flung his silver ax after them . But she flew into the air and fell on the moon . And immediately he planted a Turkish bean up grew rapidly until they entwined on a horn of the moon . Munchausen climbed to the moon and brought his ax . Since the sun had dried up but the bean , he had repeatedly cut off a piece of the slipping and tie down .
During his Turkish captivity Munchausen had to maintain the bees . The Bears sought but after the honey . He therefore bestricht the pole of a wagon with honey . During the night a bear came and began to lick , until the whole tiller went through throat , stomach and abdomen . When she looked back , Munchausen put a large nail through the bar and had caught the bear . Dre Grand Sultan had to laugh almost to death about it .
In a severe Russian winter of Postillon von Munchausen could not signal to blow on his horn . As they sat on the kitchen fire , it sounded at once : Tereng ! tereng ! teng ! teng ! The sounds were outside in the Horn frozen , and now came the thaw splendidly heard. Entire songs and marches sounded from the horn.
On a sea voyage Munchausen came to the island of Ceylon . Set on the banks of a raging river , he was surprised by a huge lion . When he tried to escape , he saw before him a crocodile which unlocked its jaws to devour him . Fright he fell stunned to the ground . When he looked up again , was the lion that losstürzte on Munchausen , jumped into the jaws of the monster . Now Munchausen could both succumbed .
On another occasion, fortified Munchausen to catch a piece of bacon on his leash ducks . Soon a duck swallowed the fat lumps together a leash . This was very soon out undigested back and already grabbed another duck afterwards . Finally Munchausen had a dozen on his leash . This he tied around his waist . When the animals flapped their wings , they wore Munchausen over the city . He expressed a duck after another his head and landed up the chimney in his house .
The claim that Eskimo languages have an unusually large number of words for snow is a widespread idea first voiced by Franz Boas and has become a cliché; it is often used to illustrate the way in which language embodies different local concerns in different parts of the world.
In fact, the Eskimo–Aleut languages have about the same number of distinct word roots referring to snow as English does, but the structure of these languages tends to allow more variety as to how those roots can be modified in forming a single word.
Popularly known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism, the principle is often defined to include two versions. The strong version says that language determines thought, and that linguistic categories limit and determine cognitive categories, whereas the weak version says only that linguistic categories and usage influence thought and certain kinds of non-linguistic behavior.
The E2 nightclub stampede occurred on February 17, 2003, at the E2 nightclub located above the Epitome Chicago restaurant at 2347 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois, in which 21 people died and more than 50 were injured when panic ensued from the use of pepper spray by security guards to break up a fight.
The fictional Baron’s exploits, narrated by himself, focus on his impossible achievements as a sportsman, soldier, and traveler, such as riding on a cannonball and traveling to the Moon.
Munchausen by Internet is a pattern of behavior in which Internet users seek attention by feigning illnesses in online venues such as chat rooms, message boards, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
While the original 100 m design would not exceed the angular resolving power of interferometric telescopes, it would have exceptional light-gathering and imaging capacity which would greatly increase the depth to which humanity could explore the universe.[1] The OWL could be expected to regularly see astronomical objects with an apparent magnitude of 38; or 1,500 times fainter than the faintest object which has been detected by the Hubble Space Telescope.
In June 1972, Black Sabbath reconvened in Los Angeles to begin work on their fourth album at the Record Plant Studios. The recording process was plagued with problems, many due to substance abuse issues. In the studio, the band regularly had large speaker boxes full of cocaine delivered.
Iommi claims in his autobiography that Ward almost died after a prank-gone-wrong during recording of the album. The Bel Air mansion the band was renting belonged to John DuPont of the DuPont chemical company and the band found several spray cans of gold DuPont paint in a room of the house; finding Ward naked and unconscious after drinking heavily, they proceeded to cover the drummer in gold paint from head to toe.
One of several reasons that aversion to happiness may develop is the belief that when one becomes happy, a negative event will soon occur that will taint their happiness, as if that individual is being punished for satisfaction. This belief is thought to be more prevalent in non-Western cultures. In Western cultures, such as American culture, “it is almost taken for granted that happiness is one of the most important values guiding people’s lives.” Western cultures are more driven by an urge to maximize happiness and minimize sadness. Failing to appear happy is often a cause for concern. Its value is echoed through Western positive psychology and research on subjective well-being.