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Deep in the forests of Cambodia’s Siem Reap province, the elegant spires of an ancient stone city soar skyward above the sprawling complex of Angkor Archaeological Park.
The Khmer Empire’s various capitals thrived here from the 9th to 15th centuries, while their rulers presided over an empire that stretched from Myanmar (Burma) to Vietnam. Including forested areas and newly discovered “suburbs” Angkor covers more than 400 square miles (1,000 square kilometers)—an area considerably larger than New York City’s five boroughs.
Though just one of hundreds of surviving temples and structures, the massive Angkor Wat is the most famed of all Cambodia’s temples—it appears on the nation’s flag—and it is revered for good reason. The 12th century “temple-mountain” was built as a spiritual home for the Hindu god Vishnu. The temple is an architectural triumph laden with artistic treasures like the bas-relief galleries that line many walls and tell enduring tales of Cambodian history and legend.
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Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so that they don’t drift apart in the currents.
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the best way to a girl’s heart is to cut a hole and dig it out of her rib cage
And I’m going to eliminate some programs that I think are duplicative and unnecessary…(such as) Amtrak subsidies, subsidies to PBS, subsidies to the endowment for the arts, to the endowment for the humanities. I’ve laid out eliminating Obamacare…and…reducing the federal payroll, linking pay to government, government workers.
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A pregnant six-year-old female and her nine-year-old bull companion were drugged and de-horned by poachers in South Africa. The rhinos were darted with an overdose of a morphine derivative, known as M99, before having their horns hacked off with pangas or machetes. Besides losing the horns, the female is likely to lose her unborn calf as a result of the ordeal
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This has to stop. We’ve already lost the Western Black Rhino in the last year.
It’s a uniquely American prudishness. You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly detailed description of a penis entering a vagina, you get letters from people saying they’ll never read you again. What the hell? Penises entering vaginas bring a lot more joy into the world than axes entering skulls.
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Author George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire.) Interview published in May 2012 Rolling Stones Magazine. (via sweetupndown9)
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