http://www.wirraltransportmuseum.org/

http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=1483&display=photoshop

http://tchorski.morkitu.org/

Un escalier au ciel ?

Another wonderful discovery by http://irongiant.stumbleupon.com/

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/tv/article2395996.ece

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God” (Matthew 5:9)

http://www.suesbirdphotos.co.uk/COMMONBLUE.htm

http://johnsmilitaryhistory.com/

Merchant Adventurer’s Hall, York

Some lovely photos on this site including wide panoramic views too large to post here.

http://ftsb.alt130.net/arts/eternal%20flame.jpg

“There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”

http://www.sonyclassics.com/shanghai/index.html

Shanghai, 1930. Mr. TANG (Li Boatian), the godfather chief of the Tang family-run underground Green dynasty, is the city’s overlord. Having allied himself with Chiang Kai-shek and participated in the 1927 massacre of the Communists, he controls the opium and prostitution trade. He has also acquired the services of XIAO JINBAO (Gong Li), the most beautiful prostitute-singer in Shanghai.

A mobster movie that focuses on the evil of criminals, instead of their coolness.

http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/emperorandassassin/index.html

http://www.georgeandpaula.com/photos/china2/China2.htm

天安门

http://www.thesweeney.info/

“We’re the Sweeney, son,
and we haven’t had any dinner
– you’ve kept us waiting.
So unless you want a kicking,
you tell us where those photographs are.”

Theme music:
http://www.thesweeney.info/sounds/sweeneythemeopening.mp3

http://cimenon.stumbleupon.com/

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free”

Alas Cimenon is no longer a stumbler.

http://timbok28.stumbleupon.com/

Timbok28 a.k.a. Aleister Kronos your one stop shop for all things in Second Life.

Check out his blog: http://slambling.blogspot.com/

http://www.mvdphoto.com/

“From February till March Hares gather because this is the mating period. Females only get in heat for a few days and all the males want to make sure they are there when the action happens.”

http://www.sabian.org/alice.htm

The Hatter shook his head mournfully. `Not I!’ he replied. `We quarrelled last March–just before he went mad, you know–‘ (pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,)

http://www.ggcmedia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

Drink!

http://www.nls.uk/scientists/

No.4 in the Scottish Science Hall of fame is….

Robert Watson-Watt (April 13, 1892-December 5, 1973)

Who on this day in 1935 first demonstrated the use of radar.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/13/content_5322720.htm

From the page:

“Pan Yuliang, renowned for her own model, self-portraits and bathing women, who was condemned as “depraved” in the 1930-40 by conservative officals and art critics in China, now gains her reputation — a female pioneer painter of western painting.

Pan, originally named Zhang Yuliang, of Jiangsu Province origin, was born in Anhui Province in 1895.

Her parents both died when she was a child. When she was 14, her uncle sold her to a brothel. In 1916, a local customs officer, named Pan Zanhua, bought her out of the brothel.

Thus, she went with Pan to Shanghai to study, renaming herself as Pan Yuliang. In 1918, she passed the exams and entered Shanghai Art School to learn western painting from Wang Jiyuan.

After graduating from Shanghai Art School she went to France to study in Lyons and Paris, sponsored by Pan Zanhua. She was awarded the Roman scholarship due to her excellent achievement in 1925, which enabled her to take further study in the Roman Royal Art Academy in Italy, studying painting and sculpture.”

Pan Yuliang’s life story was dramatised in the film “A Soul Haunted by Painting” starring the delectable Gong Li.

http://www.dirtflake.com/

Humor as it should be – slightly warped.

http://7×7.stumbleupon.com/

Quality Counts, and it show itself here.

http://www.intellectuk.org/

With their snouts firmly in the trough of “New” Labour’s “Big Brother’ ID Card scheme “intellect” the trade association for the UK hi-tech industry has warned opposition parties that it is they who should decide what happens not the electorate.

See:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/08/davis_spanks_higgins/

http://klassy.stumbleupon.com/

“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter
rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.” – KHALIL GIBRAN

From the pages of Klassy, beauty tinged with a touch of soulful realism.

http://www.markbrill.com/

“Mr Flibble is VERY cross.”

http://www.hermes.net.au/bayling/China.html

火车

http://flooted.stumbleupon.com/

Welcome to Stumbleupon

http://www.craftyframes.co.uk/landscapes1.htm

“Hopes may rise on the Grasmere…”

http://www.picturesofengland.com/England/West_Yorkshire/Ilkley/Cow_and_Calf_Rocks/pictures4/popup

Tha’s bahn t’catch thi deeath o’cowd
On Ilkla Moor baht ‘at

http://www.exodus.co.uk/picfiles/vlbh2.html

葱嶺 新疆中国

Pamir Mountains, Xinjiang, Western China.

http://english.cri.cn/2245/2005-7-27/153@261299.htm

泰山

See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tai

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/24/nrace24.xml

From the page:
“White men with an unusual Yorkshire surname have black African roots, according to a study that shows Britain’s multiracial society dates back hundreds of years earlier than most people realise.

It underlines how the concept of race has no scientific meaning by revealing that a white “Caucasian” man in Leicester has a significant African genetic ancestry, along with a lot of other men with the same rare surname.”

http://www.greenflashphotography.com/recent.html

不管白猫、黑猫，逮住老鼠就是好猫。

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/cells/viruses/influenzavirus.html

I am sufering from a little of this at the moment – sniff, cough, wheeze…

http://www.rjgeib.com/

Rich Geib’s Universe – an interesting place.

http://www.hooky-pubs.co.uk/english_civil_war.htm

“The Reindeer Inn has one of the most interesting and unique histories of all of the pubs in the Hook Norton Brewery tied estate.
It’s strong link with Oliver Cromwell and the English Civil war being one. Also being situated on Parsons Street, a location in days gone by that was the rough end of town and extremely well populated with ladies of the night and the activities that surround them. This was reflected in the name given to the Street at this time and, if repeated here (which I have no intention of doing!) would tell you all you need to know.”

P.S. It was called “Grope ***t Street”

http://www.picturesofengland.com/

Almondbury, Huddersfield.

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/article2140271.ece

Professional miserablist, Morrissey invited to pitch for Eurovision.

You couldn’t make this stuff up.

I laughed until I stopped and then some more.

So expect lyrics such as…

… Eurovision 2007, I can’t wait!

http://www.space.com/top10_alienencounters_debunked.html

Ten Alien Encounters Debunked

The following tales of alien encounters are true and by true, I mean false.

Its all lies.

But they’re entertaining lies, and in the end isn’t that the real truth?

The answer is no.

http://www.24-7simpsons.com/

Need help with that New Year’s Resolution?

“Hi, I’m actor Troy McClure!

You might remember me from other helpful videos such as Dig Your Own Grave and Save and Get Confident, Stupid!, but I am here today to tell you about the wonderful new secret of weight loss, proven effective by skinny mimes, sullen baristas, and beanpole beat poets.

Yes, you too can SMOKE YOURSELF THIN and I will show you how!”

http://www.marsgeo.com/Spirit/Top20.htm

Sunset on the Red Planet.

Many thanks to http://captain-da.stumbleupon.com/ for drawing my attention to this site.

http://monopolizten.stumbleupon.com/

Please give a warm Stumbleupon welcome to Monopolizten. A ‘legendary nerd’ who knows his Stenhousemuir from his Elgin City.