Nature's Epic Journeys - 1. Elephants

A thousand elephants, from magnificent bulls to vulnerable orphans, come together in a crucial annual gathering in northern Kenya, whilst facing deadly threats from both predators and poachers.
Liz Bonnin leads a team of scientists and film-makers using cutting-edge satellite-tracking technology to follow individual elephants day by day as they cope with their daily challenges. The team capture surprising new behaviour and witness how elephant society is responding to a world changed by poaching, including the remarkable way young elephants are coping with the loss of their parents.
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Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit-bbc iplayer

Episode 1

Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit Episode 1 of 4

In this first episode, Mary Beard reaches back to the myths and legends of the origins of Rome to gain an insight into the deep-rooted psyche of the people of Rome - a city born through fratricide and rape. But from the very beginning, Rome was also an asylum for outcasts and exiles and because of this, it adopted a uniquely inclusive approach towards its neighbours and defeated enemies. The expansion of the city brought territory in first in Italy and Sicily, where Rome first came head to head and eventually defeated her great rival, Carthage.

Mary then travels to Greece, where Rome adopted a complex mix of brute force and cultural cringe, and France, where she finds evidence of war methods akin to outright genocide. In typical myth-busting style, Mary argues that the period of greatest Roman expansion occurred when Rome itself was little more than a provincial backwater, a shantytown of mud and brick. The marble, monumental Rome we know came about because of imperial conquest - not the other way round. And likewise, the creation and possession of an empire transformed the politics of Rome forever, creating the conditions for one-man rule, and ending the centuries-old Roman Republic.link

dancing tigers

picture shows a pair of tigers seeming to be dancing yogether in kunal khinwasaria,mumbai,india.

Giant pelican spotted in the UK for the first time in centuries: Red-billed Dalmatian

A huge pelican - the largest of its kind and one of the biggest birds in the world - has been spotted in the UK for the first time in centuries.

The giant Dalmatian Pelican, whose wingspans measure up to 11 and a half feet, is thought to have been carried here on last weekend's humid weather from Europe.

The red-billed bird, native to Eastern Europe, Russia and Asia, was first seen on Saturday at Gwithian in Cornwall.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3583995/Giant-pelican-spotted-UK-time-centuries-Red-billed-Dalmatian-species-11-foot-wingspan-seen-Cornwall-weekend-s-hot-weather.html#ixzz48kKDs3PW
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mercury .

mercury appeared in the sky over the week as a tiny black dot which seemed to crawl across the sun -8 hour transit -surface,moving 31 miles a second .

wiki leaks has a kitten .

julian assange has got a new kitten and its going to tweet from inside the Ecuadorian embassy,London.

sue,s essentials.

police in ely,cambs have come up with a weird idea to help cut shoplifting.this idea is to give teens free pants and toiletries to stop them from embarrassment and bullying which in turn causes low self esteem and may make teens turn to crime.

moon changes mood?

I personally disagree with an article seen in a newspaper stating that the moon does not effect behaviour ,mood,sleep .In the article it states no evidence supports the belief we are influenced by its gravitational  forces and only effect full moon is on children sleep five minutes less -eastern ontario research institute,Canada. I myself have work in mental health for a number of years and most patients did act differently near  or during full moon .

wallgate --holsworthy.

 pictures of my wall by wet room- westward housing are not  a lot about --angry face if carries on wall will get worse and could become dangerous.

Little yellow lines show up in Holsworthy update

Little yellow lines show up in Holsworthy

By NDJJoe  |  Posted: May 12, 2016

Rodney Parrish

The new yellow lines

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LITTLE yellow road markings have appeared in Holsworthy confusing residents.
A number of concerned people took to Facebook when the road markings appeared to find out what they mean.

Read more: http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/Little-yellow-lines-Holsworthy/story-29263850-detail/story.html#ixzz48dOJcf8G
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Northdevonfirefly 23.7.2016

To the fairy folk person inside you a visit to the show is for you, song's, dance,and more see list. ..
bands at the Faery Ball are : Spiral Navigators, Taking The Piskies, Lara Conley, The Raggle Taggles,Malachite and tigerBalm..wait dear post readers for more details. ..
contd: between 5pm and Midnight..to be entertained. . other entertainment at the faery ball : includes  Fire act by Draven Blaze ,Mark Norman a Devon faery Folklorist, Wolfsinger with his harp and storytelling in the bar area and UV facepainting by Abby Weir. What time can you sing along or dance. . Performers during the day from 11am to 4pm : Prismic Weave ,Threadbare Ravens, Re Turnbull, Wolfsinger (again) members of the Raggle Taggles and pirates tales and mischief from Capt'n Bachkeart o Brixham and his quartermaster Bertha...take part and you may take a little bit of fairy dust with you
Workshops : Hula hooping with project pixie workshop, Crafty Food Cafe, Sparklyfairy wings and costume workshop,Shamanic Charmbag Making Workshop ,Gemma Stacey ''meet your animal spirit guide' workshop.so let this stagebe your play and music be the food  of love and please do go to see this show . https://m.facebook.com/northdevonfirefly2016/about?refid=17.

scent spayed to kill birds sexual urges.

cafes based in Venice ,Italy  have  decided to use a scent that kills off gulls sexual urges .this is being done to done  the gulls  terrorizing tourists and swooping on the cafes.

beakie the seagull.

a seagull called beakie  keeps wandering into a family's home to steal cat biscuits  or taps on patio door  in penzance,Cornwall.

beware jimmy the budgie .

postmen in workshop,notts are afraid to deliver post due to a boisterous budgie  called jimmy.he swoops to scratch and peck as the post when it is dropped through the letter box.

bar d,alsace-tin .

this is a temporary bar  that is going to open in london as part of stunt for beer makers kronenbourg 164.what makes this bar unique is going to be staffed by well -trained Alsatians.the dogs will wear harnesses fitted with miniature barrels to carry bottles of lager and you can see an advert featuring eric cantona and the Alsatians on a tv.

university tips to deal with zombie.

corwell university ,u.s.a scientists have pondered  and  tapped numbers into a computer to help to deal with a zombie Apocalypse  .the answer is simple run away  preferably to some hills as likely to be fwer zombies wandering around .if cornered by a zombie ,dot reason with it or listen to it as may rip out your throat.

leicester city .

no not a club i support but in terms of football  have done a real roy of the rovers story.at the beginning of the football season the foxes started at 5000-1 outsiders  to win premiership you could have got better odds on elvis turning up at their king power stadium .should be known as unbelieveables and i like an underdog having its day from an arsenal fan since 1968.

ant

this is a nano scale device powered by light a few billionths of a metre in size.the prototype engine is made of tiny charged particles of gold bound in gold in gel.the particles are heated with a laser to form clusters before being cooled like a spring and could help fight disease.

trappist -1

powerful telescpes have discovered red worlds orbiting a star known as Trappist -1 .40 light years away and in habitable zone ,all the red worlds are the size of earth roughly and may be right temperature for water for life as we now it too exist.Trappist -1 is a ultracool dwarf star -smaller ,colder,dimmer.

1 st eaten human discovered .

archaeologists have discovered a 500,000 year old human thigh bone  with teeth marks  in a cave near casablanca,morocco .may have been chewed by hyenas ,hominins early humans are known to have clashed with predators over resources and living spaces.