I’m sure everyone has heard about the great Lake Baikal, and if you haven’t,boy, are you missing out.
This ancient lake, which is about 25 million years old, and thought to be the oldest in the world, contains 20% of the world’s unfrozen fresh water. That’s right, it contains just 1% less fresh water than all the Great Lakes combined,while it’s surface area is over 7 times smaller.
Why is that, you ask? It’s because Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world: It’s maximum depth is 1642 meters, which is deep enough for the Eiffel Tower to stand on itself 5 times and not reach the surface.
But it gets better: the Lake Baikal is among the clearest lakes of the world, so you can see the bottom to a depth of nearly 40 meters, and you can drink right from it, no purifying needed. Furthermore, Lake Baikal sustains 2630 different species of animals and plants, 80% of which are unique to it, and can’t be found anywhere else.
Oh, and by the way? Under both the lake and it’s underwater sediment some of Earth’s tallest mountains(plural!) are submerged, their height over 7000 meters.
Lake Baikal is perhaps one of the world’s most amazing, awe-inspiring, and unique locations, and I would seriously recommend everybody who has some free time on their hands to discover more on their own.
P.S. Have I mentioned that when it freezes (fully, whoa!) it’s ice looks like this? And you can listen to some beautiful sounds you can make with it here!
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The Five Markets
http://www.examiner.com/article/us-underground-economy-doubles-from-2009-to-2012
A recent study by Edgar Feige, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, suggests that the size of the underground economy in the U.S. in 2012 reached $2 trillion.
The incredibly intricate and captivating custom animal sculptures by Creatures From El, Ellen June.
OH HOLY SHIT iam so jealous, how have i never thought of this?!
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If you like Summoning and/or Falkenbach, I strongly suggest to check out this new band, Caladan Brood
Heard these on the Northern Silence website and enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
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things to keep in mind:
- you do not know the religion of the people who planted these bombs
- you do not know the race of the people who plated these bombs
- you do not know the nationality or the political motives of the people who planted these bombs
- tumblr is not a credible source
- terrorism tries to instill fear and hysteria in people. keep calm
- your political party is NOT relevant right now
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mother
tell your children not to walk my way
tell your children not to hear my words
what they mean, what they say
mother…but if you wanna find hell with me, I can show you what it’s like - till you’re bleeding.
(Mother, Danzig)
OK. So when I was 17 I took my Driver’s ed class with a few of my pals. It was good fun. We befriended a few kids from a neighboring school and got to know them a little. After we were comfortable with one another, one of the guys divulges his football team’s pre-game ritual.
Basically, they all got stark-ass naked, turned off the lights and sang this song in its entirety. Acapella. Hitting lockers to keep beat. Then they would get dressed in silence and say nothing until the game started.
Is that not the scariest fucking thing you have ever heard in your entire life?
Then the kid said he founded a Lumberjack club and it just consisted of wearing flannel and eating pancakes for lunch and it had fifty members. So there’s that.
reblogging both for the song and the above comment
The watch of Mary Queen of Scots, c. 16th Century. This Memento-Mori watch presented to Mary Queen of Scots by her attendant Mary Seaton, is from the 16th century. The forehead of the skull is engraved with a figure of death between a palace and a cottage, and a quotation in Latin, “pale death visits with impartial foot the cottages of the poor and castles of the rich”. The skull is held upside down and the jaw lifted to read the silver dial. The hour is struck on a bell. Made by Moyant A. Blois (1570-90). The skull is silver gilt and engraved with figures of death with his scythe and hourglass, Adam and Eve and the crucifixion. The lower part of the skull is pierced to emit the sound when it strikes. The works occupy the brain’s position in the skull fitting into a silver bell which fills the entire hollow of the skull. The hours are struck on this bell by a small hammer.
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Kamelot || Temples of Gold
i sometimes forget how good kamelot is
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