Amazing picture thread

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...perspective: Great Pyramid of Giza...

Are you allowed to climb them?

[Saint Willy]

Are you allowed to climb them?

No.

Are you allowed to climb the Egyptian pyramids and what'''s happened to the couple who had sex at the the top?.

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How to fok like an Egyptian!

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A 200-Year-Old Wisteria Tree In Japan

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The world's largest and longest stone Buddha statue was started in AD 713 and completed in exactly 90 years: "The Big Leshan Buddha"

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A mountain of bison skulls before being used in fertilizer in 1870. Bison were hunted to the brink of extinction in the 19th century.

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...African land snail...I remember sitting in a "mammy wagon" with local Yoruba women returning from the market hauling these monsters...later, as I recall, had the beaten and chopped up version in a slimy okra stew enjoyed with steaming fufu...so relieved those days of culinary adventure are over...

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The Big Leshan Buddha

Thanks.

How to visit:

Leshan Giant Buddha Travel Guide, History & Facts

"Near to the hometown of Giant Pandas - Chengdu in Sichuan, China, sits the Leshan Giant Buddha which is one of the most popular destination for both tourists and Buddhists.

Carved in the 8th century AD out of the hillside, the stone Buddha is the tallest Buddha sculpture in the world with a height of 71 meters, 8 meters taller than Bamyan Buddhas in Afghanistan. Also, it is much taller than the famous the tall Buddha of Yungang Grottoes and Vairocana Buddha of Longmen Grottoes. It was listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site together with Mount Emei in 1996."


Leshan Giant Buddha History and Facts & Useful Travel Guide 2021

[VocalNeal]

^ Get there quick. Isn't China destroying Buddhist shrines?

[cyrille]

[Saint Willy]

a slimy okra stew enjoyed with steaming fufu.

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2000 year-old sapphire ring that was believed to belong to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his wife Caesonia.

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...^Sinovac side effect?

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...^Sinovac side effect?

It looks very similar to an, "Iguana iguana hilarius".

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[cyrille]

oh dear

[PAG]

^ and ^^

Actually from today's Times Photography section:

Dancers celebrating Venetian carnival traditions during the weekend’s Merchant City Festival in Glasgow

[lom]

^^^ It's a whole camel mouth..

[cyrille]

Dancers celebrating Venetian carnival traditions during the weekend’s Merchant City Festival in Glasgow

That explains it.

Somehow it has much more of a Glaswegian look than a Venetian one.

Perhaps it's the fried mars bar diet.

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[Edmond]

Here's one for yer ice climbing skills PH.



Traversing across the K2 bottleneck, 400m from the summit of the world's 2nd tallest mountain.

Alt. 27,000 feet, well inside the death zone, 13 of the mountain's last 14 fatalities have occurred here. You fall, you die.

Though your fall may be stabilized due to the mass of your giant testicles.


There is an alternate route, which involves climbing up the foking ice. Which has only been done once.

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A replica skull of a Deinosuchus, an extremely large, now extinct crocodile...