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Siberian shaman borrowed red and white colour scheme from Amanita muscaria. The modern Santa Clause copied from Siberian shaman.

Older Christmas ornaments looked like Amanita muscaria.

Older Christmas card contained Amanita muscaria.

In old Siberian custom, mushroom dried above fireplace in socks.

Reindeers are said to enjoy the mushroom because of its euphoric results in Siberia.

The mushroom has had a religious significance in Siberian culture and possibly also in ancient Indian and Scandinavian cultures.

Amanita muscaria is a cosmopolitan mushroom, native to birch, pine, spruce, fir and cedar woodlands throughout the temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, including high elevations of warmer latitudes in regions like the Hindu Kush, the Mediterranean and Central America.

Throughout history, each tribe/culture has looked for leadership and insight to the local Holy-man, or otherwise known as the Shaman, Healer, Priest, Mage, Sage, Yogi, and Magician.

People have worshipped representation of the sun, or an aspect of it for all of recorded history.

People have believed that the sun was the instrumental for lives in the earth.

The missing sun is a theme in the myths of many cultures, sometimes including the themes of imprisonment, exile, or death.

The missing sun is often used to explain various natural phenomena, including the disappearance of the sun at night, shorter days during the winter, and solar eclipses.

Sun chariot pulled by a horse is believed to be a sculpture illustrating, Sól, an important part of Nordic Bronze Age mythology.

This post is continual of previous (part 1 & 2) posts on Indus valley civilization.

This post is continual of previous (part 1) post on Indus valley civilization.

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In 1920, excavations at Harappa brought to light the ruins of a large brick-laid city, and soon a whole unknown civilization was uncovered in and around the Indus valley.

The Indus civilization, now dated to c. 2600-1800 B.C., collapsed some 500 years before the composition of most of the hymns collected in the Rgveda-Samhita, the oldest historical document of India.

The Indus (or Harappan) people used a pictographic script. Some 3500 specimens of this script survive in stamp seals carved in stone, in moulded terracotta and faience amulets, in fragments of pottery, and in a few other categories of inscribed objects.

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Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers.

Computer animation is essentially a digital successor to the art of stop motion animation of 3D models and frame-by-frame animation of 2D illustrations.

For 3D animations, objects (models) are built on the computer monitor (modeled) and 3D figures are rigged with a virtual skeleton.

Finding Nemo
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Finding Nemo is an Academy Award-winning computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios.

Introduction
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The cheetah is an atypical member of the cat family, a poor climber that hunts by speed rather than by stealth.

It is the fastest of all land animals and it can reach speeds of more than 105 kilometers per hour in short bursts up to 460 meters.

The cheetah has a slender, long-legged body with blunt non-retractable claws.

Its chest is deep and its waist is narrow.

The cheetah has a small head with high-set eyes.

Black `tear marks` run from the corner of its eyes down the sides of the nose to its mouth to keep sunlight out of its eyes and to aid in hunting and seeing long distances.

Introduction
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Elephants are mammals and the largest land animals alive today.

There are three elephant species, which are the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant and the Asian Elephant.

The elephant`s gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal.

Family structure
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Elephants live in a very structured social order.

The females spend their entire lives in tightly knit family groups made up of mothers, daughters, sisters, and aunts.

RMS Titanic
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RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner that became infamous for its collision with an iceberg, and for its dramatic sinking on April 14, 1912.

Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of her sinking.

Snapshot of the Disaster
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During Titanic`s maiden voyage, she struck an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on Sunday evening April 14, 1912, and sank two hours and forty minutes later, after breaking into two pieces.

An aircraft carrier
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An aircraft carrier is a warship designed to deploy and recover aircrafts in which afford it acts as a sea-going airbase.

Modern navies that operate such ships treat aircraft carriers as the capital ship of the fleet, a role previously played by the battleship.

Unescorted carrier is considered vulnerable to attack by other ships, aircraft, submarines or missiles and therefore travels as part of a carrier battle group.

Parts of an Aircraft Carrier

DNA
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Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions for the development and functioning of living organisms.

DNA is a long polymer of simple units called nucleotides, which are held together by a backbone made of sugars and phosphate groups.

This backbone carries four types of molecules called bases, and it is the sequence of these four bases that encodes information.

DNA is a normally double stranded macromolecule.

Two polynucleotide chains, held together by weak thermodynamic forces, form a DNA molecule.

Introduction
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Operation Migration was founded in 1994 as a non profit charitable organization by Bill Lishman and Joe Duff.

That was five years after Bill became the first human to fly with birds, and one year after the two artists, turned biologists, used ultralight aircraft to lead a small flock of Canada geese from Ontario, Canada to Virginia, USA.

The unassisted return migration of these geese the following spring garnered world-wide attention that led to the making of the hit movie Fly Away Home with Columbia Pictures.

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Unlike modern bomber aircrafts crew that rely on electronic devices such as missile warning system and missile counter measures to protect themselves from enemy attacks, Second World War bomber aircrafts crew completely depended on their judgments and counter measures.

Machine guns were strategically placed all around the aircraft to shoot down the approaching enemy.

This article puts together to illustrate and introduce the gun positions of two famous Second World War bombers.