Antarctica, 1961: A Soviet Surgeon Has to Remove His Own Appendix

In 1961, Rogozov was stationed at a newly constructed Russian base in Antarctica. The 12 men inside were cut off from the outside world by the polar winter by March of that year. In April, the 27-year-old Rogozov began to feel ill, very ill. His symptoms were classic: he had acute appendicitis. "He knew that if he 

was to survive he had to undergo an operation," the British Medical Journal recounted. "But he was in the frontier conditions of a newly founded Antarctic colony on the brink of the polar night. Transportation was impossible. Flying was out of the question, because of the snowstorms. And there was one further problem: he was the only physician on the base.

The Marble Caves, Chile

This geological formation is of unusual beauty. These caves have formed in a pure marble and are bathed in the deep blue water of General Carrera Lake.

The enormous General Carrera Lake is fed by rivers coming from several glaciers of Patagonian Andes.

The ice of glaciers contains small particles and, when the ice melts, many particles remain suspended in the water. This gives an unusual effect - the glacial meltwater is slightly turbid and it refracts the blue part of sunlight. Due to this the water of General Carrera Lake has a distinct blue color.

Preikestolen, Norway

This is a massive cliff 604 metres (1982 feet) above Lysefjorden, opposite the Kjerag plateau, in Forsand, Ryfylke. It's also known as the Pulpit Rock in English translations. The top of the cliff is approximately 25 by 25 metres (82 by 82 feet), almost flat, and is a famous tourist attraction in Norway.

Surfing Dolphins, Jeffrey's Bay

The U.S. Department of Energy's

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory has just launched a new era of scientific supercomputing with Titan, a system capable of churning through more than 20,000 trillion calculations each second -- or 20 petaflops -- by employing a family of processors called graphic processing units first created for computer gaming. That kind of computational capabi

lity—almost unimaginable—is on par with each of the world’s 7 billion people being able to carry out 3 million calculations per second. Titan will be 10 times more powerful than ORNL's last world-leading system, Jaguar, while overcoming power and space limitations inherent in the previous generation of high-performance computers.

Titan, which is supported by the Department of Energy, will provide unprecedented computing power for research in energy, climate change, efficient engines, materials and other disciplines and pave the way for a wide range of achievements in science and technology.

Snow rider penguins

And that is how you catch a fish

A set of photographs that shows how a kingfisher catches a fish !!!

Blue faced rancois's leaf monkey

Mother's Love ♥ I won't let the rain bother you

Aiguille du Midi, Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps

The cable car to the summit, the Téléphérique de l'Aiguille du Midi, was built in 1955 and held the title of the world's highest cable car for about two decades. It still holds the record as the highest vertical ascent cable car in the world.

"POMEGRANATE"-- most powerful anti-oxidant of all fruits!!

Potent anti-cancer and immune supporting effects
Inhibits abnormal platelet aggregation that could cause heart attacks, strokes and embolic disease
Lowers cholesterol and other cardiac risk factors
Lowers blood pressure
Shown to promote reversal of atherosclerotic plaque in human studies
May have benefits to relieve or protect against depression and osteoporosis.

Raggiana bird-of-paradise native to southeast asia.national emblem of papua new guinea

Blue Moon Valley and Baishuihe River Lijiang

Dewdrops weighing down a plant - a beautiful sculpture made by nature.

An extremely rare white rhino, of which there are only four left in wild, roam about the plains flanked by armed bodyguards.

Enchanting... Old Stairs Blue, Hydrangea, Japan

The Danxia Landform, Zhangye, China

This mesmerizing type of landform known as danxia is a result of a combination of active movements beneath the Earth’s crust in concurrence with exogenous forces which act on the surface, therefore, creating rock layers that differ in color, texture, shape, size and pattern.

An Inspirational Real Life Story

"Binti Jua is a western lowland gorilla female in the Brookfield Zoo, in Brookfield, Illinois. Binti is most well known for an incident which occurred on August 16, 1996, when she was eight years old.A three-year old boy climbed the wall around her zoo enclosure and fell 18 feet onto concrete below, rendering him unconscious with a broken hand and a vicious gash on the side of his face.

Binti walked to the boy’s side while helpless spectators screamed, certain the gorilla would harm the child. Another larger female gorilla approached, and Binti growled.Binti picked up the child, cradling him with her right arm as she did her own infant, gave him a few pats on the back, and carried him 18 meters (59 ft) to an access entrance, so that zoo personnel could retrieve him. Her 17-month-old baby, Koola, clutched her back throughout the incident.

The boy spent four days in the hospital and recovered fully."

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Gem Ammonite, a 70 million-year-old fossil of a mollusk found in British Columbia

A rare natural phenomenon turns one of Austria’s most beautiful hiking trails into a 10 meter-deep lake, for half the year,Green Lake

Located at the foot of the Hochschwab Mountains, in Tragoess, Styria, Green Lake is one of the most bizarre natural phenomena in the world. During the cold winter months, this place is almost completely dry, and used as a country park where hikers love to come and spend some time away from urban chaos. But as soon as temperatures rise, the snow and ice covering the mountaintops begin to melt, and the water pours down, filling the basin below with crystal-clear water.

A mother (97 years old), feeding and taking care of her paralysed son (60 years sold) everyday for more than 19 years . This is happening in China.

Be Grateful for Our Beloved Parents..
Thank You for Your Unconditional Love and Care.

Spring flowers on a hillside, Hokkaido, Japan.

HAPPY DUSSEHRA TO ALL

Dussehra (Vijaya Dashami) is a Hindu festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil. It is a gazetted holiday in India, which is marked on the 10th day of the bright half of the month of Ashvin, according to the Hindu calendar.

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Al Ain Paradise Garden, United Arab Emirates

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Oranges have many health benefits.

Oranges have many health benefits. They are rich in Vitamins C and A, flavonoids, antioxidants, calcium, magnesium, potassium, dietary fiber etc. Oranges have more than 60 flavonoids and 170 phytonutrients that have been shown to have anti-inflammatory, anti-tumour and anti-oxidant properties.

41 years and still burning.

While drilling in 1971, Soviet geologists tapped into a cavern filled with natural gas.The 

ground beneath the drilling rig collapsed, leaving a large hole with a diameter of 70 metres 

(230 ft). To avoid poisonous gas discharge, it was decided the best solution was burn it 

off.Geologists had hoped the fire would use all the fuel in a matter of days, but the gas is 

still burning today. Locals have dubbed the cavern "The Door to Hell".

Amazing Creativity: wood horse.

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Sea Lion Attacking Octopus .

Sulawesi Red-knobbed Hornbill.

I wonder if we are going to save these beautiful creatures for the generations to come.

Look Amazing - puffer fish.

There are around 120 known species of puffer fish, the second most poisonous creature on the planet after the Golden Poison Frog. The puffer fish is found in tropical waters worldwide, but they rarely go into the cooler waters.

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Awesome click at perfect timing

Phuktal Gompa, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Look Amazing - Beautiful sand art

Look Amazing - Charles Bridge, Prague

The Stokkur Geyser in Iceland has erupted every 4-8 minutes since a 1789 earthquake - here it is a split second before erupting

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Rosy-lipped batfish (Ogcocephalus porrectus), a strange looking creature found near Cocos Island off the coast of Costa Rica.

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell Bill Copeland

During forest fire I salute this act of kindness

Bald Eagle with fish over Conowingo Dam in Maryland

Look Amazing - Niagara Falls, Canada.

I'll Go on a Diet Tomorrow .I Promise

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Hit like if you think she’s still beautiful

Cancer victims literally loss hair specially during the course of chemotherapy treatment. The fear of losing hair became of one of the factors affecting one cancer patients. They begun to lose their self-esteem and confidence.

Chemotherapy is a strong drugs that attack rapidly the fastest growing cancer cell in our body. Including all the growing cells in our body particularly the hair roots. Chemotherapy causes hair loss in the entire body, cancer patients experience thinning and complete baldness. They even loss their eyelashes, eyebrow, hair in their armpit, pubic hair and other body hair were diminishing till it reach total loss.

This effect on their appearance can be a further setback to women who are already enduring physical and emotional hardship. The notion seems trivial in the context of cancer, but providing women with well-made wigs can do wonders for their self-esteem, as well as provide an important psychological boost in their fight against the disease. But to make wigs you need hair – preferably human hair – which is why a number of charities around the globe collect hair to make into wigs for cancer patients. So, Get a trim for a good cause this time, donate your hair to help cancer patients.

Four Circle Illusion, perfectly separate four circles seem to intermingle into each other.

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