Hunger Games Trailer Parody

They told me to post it

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Hunger Games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Movie Review

This iz a spezial revoow by Rachel Chenault of da noo moobie da Hunga Games. Eet iz beery gewt and I sink yew shuld wotch it.

Ya but really it was awesome. (preview below)

But really I saw the Hunger Games 3 times just last weekend. I love it and I think you will too. It had freakin huge expectations by 99.9999% of America and it met all of our expectations.

The main characters are Katniss (played by Jennifer Lawrence), Peeta (Josh Hutcherson (TEAM PEETA)) and Gale (Liam Hemsworth)

I HIGHLY reccommend you read the books by Suzanne Collins and see the movie!

-Rachel :D

Master of the Ocean Deep!

The sperm whale is an awesome creature, a true beast of the deep. Diving up to 1000 feet beneath the surface to hunt, able to do so because their rib cages are able to fold in on themselves.

If our whale has just come up from a dive she first spends 10 minutes or more clearing her lungs, blowing a breath in and out every 12 seconds. She's getting rid of old carbon dioxide from the last dive and loading up with fresh oxygen. She's got to store up a lot of oxygen because . . . More

Blog Posting

Things have been rather hectic around here for the past two weeks but we should be able to get back on track with our inane ramblings!

In the meantime, imagine yourself in a long ship moving across the wastes of the Northern Sea heading to the Faroe Isles...and sing!

Venice continnues to sink into a hole in the ground

It is a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah. It is going to hell. Albeit slowly.

"Venice appears to be continuing to subside, at a rate of about 2 millimeters (.07 inches) a year," said Yehuda Bock, a research geodesist with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and the lead author of the new research paper on the city's downward drift. "It's a small effect, but it's important," he added. Given that sea level is rising in the Venetian lagoon, also at 2 millimeters per year, the slight subsidence doubles the rate at which the heights of surrounding waters are increasing relative to the elevation of the city, he noted. In the next 20 years, if Venice and its immediate surroundings subsided steadily at the current rate, researchers would expect the land to sink up to 80 millimeters (3.2 inches) in that period of time, relative to the sea.

Three inches in 20 years. Imagine where the citry will be in ten thousand years.

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VIkings Starting Early

It seems that even as early as 6000 BC the Vikings were starting their antics. Finds in Sweden that date back that far show skulls impaled on stakes . . . men, women, children. The stakes were found at the bottom of a shallow lake upon or near a stone edifice. No wonder the northmen kept periodically roaming the south lands looting, burning and conquering; from the Alamani to the Goths to the Vikings the saying went..."its cold up there and people are mean!" ;)

Hussars

It is speculated that the Hussars did not wear their wings into battle. This speculation comes from historians who reacted to a  movie in which the wings, once attached to the riders proved to catch the wind on fast moving horses on pull the rider from his mount. This is possible, though I wonder if these Knights would have had less affect on the  morale of their enemy without the wings upon their backs.

The Winged Hussars

These were some original bad ass warriors: The Winged Hussars of Poland. Founded in roughly 1500 they were the Iron of eastern Europe for 200 years, crushing the Russians, driving the Turks from Vienna and beating the Germans time and time again. They were the backbone of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. They served as the King's Guard and his main fighting arm.

From the wikipedia page, a small list of their battle achievements: 

In the battles of Battle of Lubiszew in 1577, Byczyna (1588), Kokenhausen (1601), Kircholm (1605), Kłuszyn (1610), Trzciana (1629), Chocim (1673), and Lwów (1675), the Polish-Lithuanian hussars proved to be the decisive factor often against overwhelming odds. For instance, in the Battle of Kluszyn during Polish-Muscovite War the Russians outnumbered the Commonwealth army 5 to 1, yet were heavily defeated. The hussars suffered some defeats, particularly during the Khmelnytsky Uprising (Battle of Zhovti Vody, 1648).

Battle of Grunwald

Upon the planes of eastern Europe in 1410 was fought the largest battle of Medieval Europe, Grunwald, when the Poles and the Teutonic Order fought over control of Lithuania. In a massive set piece battle involving thousands of Knights with all the flourish of the day (see movie) the two sides hammered at each other. In the end the Germans ground the Poles back, even onto the banner of their King, when their strength played out and the chivalry of Poland pushed them back and routed them, crushing them utterly.

The Poles

The Poles are the unsung heroes of the world. Jokes about them have become common place, but they commanded the eastern planes of Europe for centuries. One of the few peoples to conquer Russia and rule it. Defeated the Turks before Vienna and saved the north from centuries of brutal war. Even their acts of insane bravery during World War II should be recognized. They attacked German Panzer columns with cavalry and infantry (its all they had), almost breaking through their lines.

At any rate, here is a nice article on origins of the ancient Poles!