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A wildfire spurred by high winds is raging across Southern California, scorching more than 8,000 acres of land and sending thousands of resident fleeing from their homes as new evacuations are ordered. More than 2,000 homes in the Camarillo, Calif., area have been threatened, while 15 have sustained damage. About 10 percent of the fire has been contained as more than 900 first responders are on the scene battling the flames. There have been no reports of injuries. |
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Firefighters spray down hot spots on an ice covered warehouse that caught fire Tuesday night in Chicago January 23, 2013. Fire department officials said it is the biggest fire the department has had to battle in years and one-third of all Chicago firefighters were on the scene at one point or another trying to put out the flames. An Arctic blast continues to gripped the U.S. Midwest and Northeast Wednesday, with at least three deaths linked to the frigid weather, and fierce winds made some locations feel as cold as 50 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (-45°C) |
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The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) is an astronaut training facility maintained by and located at the Sonny Carter Training Facility near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The NBL consists of a large indoor pool of water, in which astronauts may perform simulated EVA tasks in preparation for upcoming missions. The NBL contains full-sized mock-ups of the International Space Station (ISS) modules and payloads, visiting vehicles such as the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA) HTV, the European Space Agency ATV, the SpaceX Dragon, and the Orbital Sciences Corporation Cygnus. Previously there was also a mockup of the Space Shuttle payload bay, but since Space Shuttle retirement it has been removed. The NBL tank itself is 202 feet (62 m) in length, 102 feet (31 m) wide, and 40 feet 6 inches (12.34 m) deep, and contains 6.2 million gallons (23.5 million litres) of water. Divers breathe nitrox while working in the tank. |
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Several hundred participants from all over Europe re-enact 'Operation Amherst'. Operation Amherst was a special mission during World War II to liberate Drenthe (a province of the Netherlands). Authentic blank firing guns where used during the re-enactment. |
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The Swamp Soccer World Championship is held every year at Hyrynsalmi during the summer. It's like regular football, only swampier. Each team consists six players, and there has to be at least one woman from each team on the muddy pitch throughout the course of the game. The playing field is 25m long and 15m wide. There is no off-side rule or penalty line, and each team can have an unlimited number of substitutes. Each game is thirty minutes in length consisting of two twelve-minute periods separated by a six-minute half-time break. |
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The fighting between the two tribes in Mimika district, located in Indonesia's restive Papua province. One more tribesman was killed on June 20 raising casualty figure in the raging tribal war to four dead following the recent clash on June 18 where four police vehicles were torched in the violence. Papuan tribal warriors armed with bows and arrows and improvised shields, joined by minors (at L foreground) from Amole village, clash with tribes from Harapan village (background) during renewed fighting between the two tribes in Mimika district, located in Indonesia's restive Papua province |
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People get older every day - that's a given. But everybody deals differently with the process of ageing. In the case of famous people, some carry it with dignity while others go grey kicking and screaming. Many grow fat while a few drink themselves thin, and some people never stop pretending they're still in their early twenties - while behaving accordingly, much to the annoyance (or malicious pleasure) of the audience they force their wrinkled personalities on. Here's a few (mostly Dutch) celebs and their battle against gravity. Most famous Dutch nude model from the eighties and early nineties: Tatjana Simic. Pic on the left is from one of her much desired nude calendars. On the right is how she looks today: like the wife of an Eastern European president. She's taking that body to the pages of Playboy again soon, though. Christina Aguilera is going Adèle on us. Or is she, deep down, really actually a black woman trying to fight her way out? If so: you're doing a good job, Tina.After seeing recent pictures Christina Aguilera, we suspect Mariah Carey has donned a fat suit to follow the trend. Or no, wait. She's in her forties. Finally, she's taking on some all natural body weight. |
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Tattoo Artist Horitaka was born in Japan and raised in the United States. His parents taught him Japanese, which helped later in his study of Japanese tattoo culture and traditions. Enamored with tattoos, he started collecting in high school and eventually began tattooing in 1998 before landing his coveted apprenticeship. Now an iconic tattoo artist of his own right, Horitaka is a pioneer in the tattoo industry with eight published books and his own shop, State of Grace, in San Jose, CA. Horitaka embraces the mentality that tattooing is more than a mark on the body and he likes to think of the art as a philosophy. Bacardi Dragonberry brought Horitaka to the Netherlands on the 8th and 9th of september 2012. They opened a 48 hrs pop-store in their Bacardi-huis in Amsterdam where visitors could see Horitaka in action. For this event Horitaka designed a special Dragon Tattoo, based on the Bacardi Dragonberry Dragon. |
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