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WTC7. An explanation offered by NRK Norwegian TV.
Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:56 PM EDT
This is a "don´t-try-this-at-home”-trick. It’s going to make small explosions and vast quantities of pink smoke, Not the stuff you want for your living room or kitchen.
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What International Law Says about the Killing of Bin Laden
Seeded on Mon May 16, 2011 9:31 AM EDT (SPIEGEL ONLINE)
Should their guilt be established by way of a fair trial, they can be punished with severe sentences, including in some countries like the US, with the death penalty. The trial must come first, though.
That's Erik with a "k".
Sun Feb 20, 2011 9:15 AM EST
My first name contains only four letters. One should think spelling it it right would pose no problem at all. Not so. Even people who wish me no ill, change the “k” to a “c”. How could that be? I have a theory.
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Norway: Ferrytales (Photos)
Sat Feb 12, 2011 7:44 AM EST
If you ever do like me, travel the coast of Norway with a motor vehicle, you better get used to ferries.
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My favorite Flops (Photos)
Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:10 AM EST
"Delete, delete!" that's my first thought. The disappointment of seeing the miserable result of my efforts. Then I start to see the picture for what it is, Funny, amazing, astonishing, absurd. Worth keeping for the lesson learned, worth keeping for the fun of it.
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A Sichuan Walk with My Sony
Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:04 AM EST
These are consecutive photographs I took as I accompanied my wife and a friend of hers on a day-trip to a partly rejuvenated village a few miles from Yibin town in Sichuan. I invite you to join us. At least we speak the same language.
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Norway: Vegetation
Wed Feb 9, 2011 1:14 PM EST
We praise the tradition of grazing sheep and goats because they keep our landscape from turning back into forest. Where these animals graze there are always paths and the grass is kept low. But we lose something, too.
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Norway: Small Towns and "How-Can-Anyone-Live-There?"-Places. (II)
Sun Feb 6, 2011 1:11 PM EST
Yet another batch of romantic white houses and improbable places for people to live. Some of these houses do stand empty with plastic flowers in the windows and a single lamp burning day and night. But in general the Norwegian countryside is still full of life.
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Three Odes to the Absurd
Sat Feb 5, 2011 3:22 PM EST
Dream "You seem so distant today, Grandma, have you been dreaming again?" Ellie seated herself next to her grandmother on the sofa with the flower patterned covers. Yes, Martha had been napping and woke at the sound of Ellie's voice.
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Norway: Small Towns and "How-Can-Anyone-Live-There?"-Places.
Sat Feb 5, 2011 8:59 AM EST
A substantial difference between Norway and Sweden are the policies of centralilizaton and decentralisation. Norway has tried the latter, trying to maintain a scattered population while the major cities were to remain comparatively small.
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Expressions of Faith (Photos)
Fri Feb 4, 2011 11:37 AM EST
Physical religious expressions such as temples, churches and mosques are almost always built according to strict rules that not only express faith but also their function within that faith. Yet we see buildings being converted from one faith to another.
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Men Working (Photos)
Thu Feb 3, 2011 3:38 PM EST
Initiative, strength, reserve, speed, patience, experience... all a man needs to do his work well in addition to co-operation, mutual respect and cordiality. It takes time to learn, still does not guarantee success.
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The Baltic II: Traces of a Vanishing Curtain (Photos)
Thu Feb 3, 2011 9:47 AM EST
Sixty years of history don't vanish in a jiffy. We may smile now, as we see some of those vestiges, but we need to remember that this was serious business, the result of misguided policies, corruption and man's cruelty towards man.
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Austria: Vienna and Linz (Photos)
Wed Feb 2, 2011 9:57 AM EST
In Austria they speak a neat kind of German and say “Grüss Gott”. It is the birth place of Mozart and Hitler, but you can only buy Mozart chocolates.
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Luxemburg, Luxemburg (Photos)
Tue Feb 1, 2011 8:10 PM EST
Lichtenstein , Monacco, Andorra, Vatican, Iceland... compared to some of those, Luxemburg is a giant. When I think about what big nations do in this world, it makes me think Luxemburg may be just the right size. And the capital of Luxemburg is...? ..
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Norway: Buildings and Landscapes
Tue Feb 1, 2011 7:36 AM EST
In the old days we built our houses out of what was available in the vicinity, of clay, logs, straw, bamboo, stone. Buildings became an integral part of their surroundings. Not so anymore. Who knows where the brick and cement comes from that shape our homes.
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This is the Baltic (Photos)
Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:35 AM EST
Me and names, we don’t get along well. This is not the Balkans, these pix are from the Baltic, three former Soviet republics that regained their sovereignty and are now members of the European Union and NATO. Good for them.
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France: the Mediterranean (Photos)
Sun Jan 30, 2011 11:37 AM EST
You’ve heard them all before, the names of towns and cities along the southern coast of France. That’s were jet setters roam, where movie stars and gamblers mingle and ordinary people are chased out of town. Wrong.
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Norway: Fjordland
Sat Jan 29, 2011 9:14 AM EST
A fjord is a natural phenomenon. A mountainous continental shelf was partly submerged below sea level by the weight of the ice age glaciers. Since the bulk of the glaciers melted, the valleys between the mountains were filled with ocean water.
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People in Public Places (II): Europe (Photos)
Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:16 AM EST
I'm fortunate. I've been able to travel a lot. I'm even more fortunate being able to share some of my experiences with my friends here on Newsvine. There is another series of photos from China, here. All photos copyright 2011 by the author.
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People in Public Places (I): China (Photos)
Fri Jan 28, 2011 7:50 AM EST
Man, it’s hard to take a picture of someone without influencing the “subject”. Especially if you’re like me, a white man in China. Chances are, they’re already looking at me, before I discover them.
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Norway: In the Valdres Valley (Photos).
Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:37 PM EST
In the eastern track of the Valdres Valley stands a knob-shaped mountain called Rondemellen. Though she is a mere 100 meters taller than her nearest neighbour, she enjoys a curious fate, that of serving as a landmark for a hundred miles all around. I don’t know why that is.
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Stone: Nature's Canvas (Photos)
Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:46 AM EST
...just add moss and lichen as your paint, you’ve got abstract art no artist can rival. Of course it isn’t abstract at all, it depicts nature itself. Photos copyright 2011 by the author. Other photo series by me on Newsvine:
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Oslo: Where Once There Were Farms (Photos)
Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:32 PM EST
Oslo, the capital of Norway, is a city of 600 000. It wasn’t always this size, it has grown by leaps and bounds in the course of a thousand years - houses, factories and streets replacing farmland.
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Tunisia – Ongoing History
Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:32 PM EST
Tunisia is the news these days, I wish them all well with their Jasmine Revolution! I went there October 2006, just for a few days, taking the ferry from Marseilles. My reason for making the trip was Hannibal. That was the Carthaginian who attacked Rome with elephants.
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