Der Fall der Berliner Mauer

20 years ago, the Wall collapsed and History took off.







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(turnbeutelvergesserB)

Now, is a planet with no walls possible ? and when ?

The walls anti-migration are specific of the XI century.
They have emerged in recent years and are intended to
ward off the fear of others.
(more/fr).

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Another 1989 historic event :

Invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, the WEB was
a new way of using the Internet to store text, images,
sound and video... but just two years later, it was
hailing the web as a roaring success. This year marks
the 40th anniversary of the technologies that led to
the Internet.

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Feline Fashion on Le Mur Oberkampf...

Nov. 05th - # 59 - by CHATNOIR 1980.

Sorry, I couldn't find a possible "chatnoir 1980" on the web...
This one exists, anymay.
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In Memoriam - C. Lévy-Strauss

Claude Lévy-Strauss
(Brussels 1908/Paris 2009).
The father of modern anthropology.





(europeimages)
Return to the Amazon.
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Back on La Pigna hill in Sanremo...

I've already reported a first visit up to the Sanremo ancient area in
a previous post. I was recently back there and up the hill to enjoy
its particular atmosphere and take a closer look to the huge fig trees
that thrust their roots into the crevices of that rocky ground.


The Ficus macrophilla, commonly known as the Moreton Bay fig is a
large evergreen banyan tree of the Moraceae family, subsection of the
Malvantherae.


Its specific epithet macrophylla is derived from the ancient Greek makro
(large) and phyllon (leaf) and refers to the size of the leaves.






The characteristic "melting" appearance of the Ficus macrophylla is due
to its habit of dropping aerial roots from its branches which on reaching
the ground thicken into supplementary trunks which help to support the
great weight of its crown.


The trunk can be massive, with thick, prominent structure and a rough
grey-brown bark. Some trees can reach heights of 60 m.


Currently the tallest Moreton Bay Fig (49 m) is found near Egg Rock, in
Queensland, Australia, but even Europe exhibits some sizeable
naturalized specimen.
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(More on > Wikipedia).

Female Nephila komaci, the hugest webweaving spider.

The Nephila komaci can be found in Madagascar and South Africa.
They can be up to three feet (one meter) wide and are a member
of the orbweavingb spiders' group.

"In the PLoS ONE paper, Kuntner and Coddington described Nephila komaci
as a new species, now the largest web-spinning species known, and placed
it on the evolutionary tree of Nephila". (EurekAlert)


(Photos M. Kuntner)
1) a giant golden orb-web exceeding 1 meter in diameter: Nephila inaurata,
Rodrigues, Indian Ocean.
2) extreme sexual size dimorphism in Nephila spiders: Small male and large
female, Nephila pilipes, Singapore.
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