EyeReport, Asia - Tibet, this photo has an interesting myth behind it. According to our guide, A giant was killing nomads and their yaks so a Llama was sent from Lhasa who battled the giant for several years.
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Sunrise.....sunset.....
EyeReport, Asia - China At last the sun rose. The most stunning moment came. The warm sunlight was gently casting on Kawabog Peak. It is so called "Golden mountain in sunlight" the most famous description of M...
The twelfth of never!
EyeReport, Asia: Tibet: the Land of Snows, the roof of the world. For centuries this mysterious Buddhist kingdom, locked away in its mountain fastness of the Himalaya, has exercised a unique hold on the ...
Nick Carraway
If Gatsby represents one part of Fitzgerald’s personality, the flashy celebrity who pursued and glorified wealth in order to impress the woman he loved, then Nick represents another part: the...
Rich girls don't marry poor boys
Daisy Buchanan
Partially based on Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda, Daisy is a beautiful young woman from Louisville, Kentucky.
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Jay Gatsby
The title character of The Great Gatsby is a young man, around thirty years old, who rose from an impover-ished childhood in rural North Dakota to become fabulously wealthy.
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My old love! I'm paralyzed with happiness!
The Great Gatsby!
The title character and protagonist of the novel, Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. He is famous for the lavish parties he throws ever...
Nestling in West Egg!
Jay Gatsby: I was raised in America but educated in Oxford. That's a family tradition. ...
13 Ways you can be a Mother in 2013
13 Ways you can be a "Wonderful Mother" in 2013.
Being a Mother is not limited to to a female that is a biological parent and being a biological female parent, does not necessarily translate to every fe...
Happy Mother's Day!
Stuttering, Muttering & Suffering
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it - Mark Twain
When I relay snippets of my upbringing...
Rhyme nor reason. Mime nor season....
EyeReport, United Kingdom - Warwickshire, Stratford-upon-Avon - A mime impersonating William Shakespeare -
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My salad days.......
EyeReport, United Kingdom - Warwickshire, Stratford - upon-Avon, The regular large influx of tourists is the major source of the town's prosperity.
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Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man
EyeReport, United Kingdom - Warwickshire, Stratford-Upon-Avon on Henley Street, this is the place where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and lived for his early life....
A foregone conclusion!
EyeReport, United Kingdom - Stratford-upon-Avon.known locally as Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in south Warwickshire, England.
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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
EyeReport, United Kingdom - Anne Hathaway's childhood was spent in a house near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.
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No worries, rocks will be my pillow!
EyeReport, United kingdom - Dartmoor, Devon Dartmoor is an area of moorland in south Devon, England.
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No mystery there, Sherlock!
EyeReport, United Kingdom - Dartmoor, Devon “presume nothing” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles...
The White Pickett Fence.....
EyeReport, United Kingdom - Dartmoor, Devon “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles...
May hay while the sun shines....
EyeReport, United Kingdom - England, the Yorkshire Dales (also known simply as The Dales) is an upland area of Northern England dissected by numerous valleys.
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Moor Yorkshire pudding, please!
EyeReport, United Kingdom - England, Yorkshire Yorkshire Pudding, also known as batter pudding, is an English dish made from batter and usually served with roast meat and gravy.
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Have you seen Heathcliff, anybody?
EyeReport, United Kingdom - England, North Yorkshire North York Moors National Park Unsurpassed heather moorland is what this National Park is all about.
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Rent My Man!
Stuttering, Muttering & Suffering
Who Needs James Bond?
Truth be told, I don’t think that 007 was all that great in bed, as for the women, let’s chalk th...
Have a Kit Kat.......
Scribbles:
For your eyes only....but when you get it, will you know what to do with it?...
There are more questions than answers.....
Why do you keep lying to yourself?
The Spew Yawker …..Think it!….Quip it! Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
......and the more you find out the less you know
1. Wh...
You can do a 180 degrees of separation
Stuttering, Muttering & Suffering
When it is all spent….
Since no one has the guts to tell you the honest truth, I am going to do so very candidly. Hey, getting old means that yo...
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Labour for learning before you grow old......for learning is better than silver or gold.....silver and gold will vanish away.....but a good education will never grow old
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Beating Season
It is said on the campuses of the Universities of the West Indies that when the flowers of the Tabebuia tree starts to fall, then it is time to hit the books and burn the burn the candle at both en...
Hello Kitty!
Hi birdie......
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Live to read....The Easter Holidays!
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Easter Eggs
Putting all your eggs in one basket...
Easter Bunny
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake. — Basil Hume...
Happy Easter
Romania - On the end of the Holy Pascha Liturgy (that is over night), follows a nice tradition in the Orthodox Church, the blessing of the Easter baskets.This moment represents the passing from an ascetical st...
Which one?
Sometimes a cupcake is just a cupcake, Ok!...
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To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of hi...
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Easter (Old English: Ēostre; Greek: Πάσχα, Paskha; Aramaic and Hebrew: פֶּסחא Pasḥa,) is the central feast in the Christian liturgical year. According to the Canoni...
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For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. — Corinthians 15:16,17...
Write me a prescription......
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The Spew Yawker …..Think it!….Quip it! Sunday, March 17th, 2013
Look, this friend of mine, a woman of the infertile persuasion, or so her doctors thou...
Do we have texting chemistry?
OMG!...
The luck of the Irish!
EyeReport, Canada - Montreal is the city where the longest continually running St. Patrick's Day parade is celebrated....
Happy St. Paddy's Day
EyeReport, United States - It's a bit o' the Irish. A St. Patrick's Day Parade Spectator, Chicago, IL St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland.
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As a leaf that beats on a mountain
United States, St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17, the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. I'm not sure how the clover has been associated with the occasion (maybe because it's green?).
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tabula rasa
A blank tablet about a student's mind...
ipsa scientia potestas est
Knowledge itself is power...
repetitio est mater studiorum
Repetition is the mother of studies
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difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas
It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practise it...
diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence...
assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit
Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill...
docendo discimus
Teach in order to learn; we learn by teaching...
aut disce aut discede
Either learn or leave...
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“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”
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William Faulkner
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