joi, 29 noiembrie 2012

201 de tari

British man becomes first person to visit all 201 countries... WITHOUT using a plane

Graham Hughes, 33, used buses, taxis, trains and his own two feet to travel 160,000 miles in exactly 1,426 days - all on a shoestring of just $100 a week
Yesterday he trudged into Juba, the capital of South Sudan, to end the epic journey that began in his hometown of Liverpool on New Year's Day 2009
Spent four days 'in a leaky boat' to reach Cape Verde, was jailed for a week in Congo, and was 'saved from Muslim fundamentalists by a Filipino ladyboy'
His lowest point was when his sister, Nicole, died of cancer two years ago
He says: 'I think I wanted to show that the world is not some big, scary place, but in fact is full of people who want to help you'

PUBLISHED: 10:09 GMT, 27 November 2012 | UPDATED: 16:11 GMT, 27 November 2012

If anything can be said about record-breaking globetrotter Graham Hughes, it's that - throughout his travels - he's always kept his feet firmly on the ground.

The 33-year-old adventurer, from Liverpool, has become the first person to visit all 201 countries in the world - without using a plane.

Hughes used buses, taxis, trains and his own two feet to travel 160,000 miles in exactly 1,426 days - all on a shoestring of just $100 a week.

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Finish line: Graham Hughes yesterday trudged into Juba, the capital of South Sudan, to end the epic four-year journey that began in his hometown of Liverpool on New Year's Day 2009

He spent four days 'crossing open ocean in a leaky boat' to reach Cape Verde, was jailed for a week in the Congo for being a 'spy', was arrested trying to 'sneak into' Russia and had to be 'rescued from Muslim fundamentalists by a Filipino ladyboy called Jenn'.

And yesterday ended the epic four-year journey by crossing into Juba, the capital of South Sudan, which did not even exist when he set off from his hometown of Liverpool on New Year's Day 2009.

'I love travel, and I guess my reason for doing it was I wanted to see if this could be done, by one person traveling on a shoestring,' he told the Christian Science Monitor. 'I think I also wanted to show that the world is not some big, scary place, but in fact is full of people who want to help you even if you are a stranger.'

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He has traversed the borders of all 193 members of the United Nations plus Taiwan, Vatican City, Palestine, Kosovo, Western Sahara and the four home nations of The United Kingdom - all without flying.

Guinness have now confirmed that Hughes, who filmed the expedition for a documentary and raised money for charity WaterAid, has achieved the world record.

'The main feeling today is just one of intense gratitude to every person around the world who helped me get here, by giving me a lift, letting me stay on their couch, or pointing me in the right direction,' Hughes added.

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His route: Graham Hughes traversed the borders of all 193 members of the United Nations plus Taiwan, Vatican City, Palestine, Kosovo, Western Sahara and the four home nations of The United Kingdom - all without flying

His route: Beginning in Uruguay and ending in South Sudan, Graham Hughes traversed the borders of all 193 members of the United Nations plus Taiwan, Vatican City, Palestine, Kosovo, Western Sahara and the four home nations of The United Kingdom - all without flying

Feet on the ground: Hughes used buses, taxis, trains and his own two feet to travel 160,000 miles in exactly 1,426 days - all on a shoestring of just $100 a week

While all land transport had to have either wheels, hooves or sturdy rubber soles, he made the longer-haul voyages mostly by hitching lifts on cargo ships.

He even managed to blag a lift on a friendly cruise ship to the Dominican Republic.

Other highlights include dancing with the Highlanders of Papua New Guinea, befriending orangutans in Borneo, riding through the badlands of Kenya on an 18-wheel truck, meeting the Prime Minister of Tuvalu - and 'warning schoolchildren in Afghanistan about the dangers of men with beards'.

He says people tend to wonder how he got into the further-out countries like North Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan, but he says they were the easy ones.

Finally finished: Hughes says people tend to wonder how he got into the further-out countries like North Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan, but he says they were the easy ones

Far tougher was negotiating routes into tiny island nations like Nauru, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the Maldives and the Seychelles 'where there were sometimes pirate threats'.

He says there were low points on the trip such as 'sitting in a bus station in Cambodia at one in the morning or riding some awful truck over bad roads' when he thought: 'Why am I doing this?'

The lowest point came when his sister, Nicole, died of cancer two years ago aged just 39. He broke the trip to hurry home to see her.

'I’d done 184 countries and had only 17 to go and I thought why not leave it there? (...but) she told me not to stop,' he added.

But having finished his journey, he has no intention of buying a plane ticket any time soon and says he now plans to 'keep in the spirit of the adventure' and travel through Africa some more before getting the ferry home from Ireland just in time for Christmas.

VIDEO: Graham FINALLY makes it to South Sudan! For more of his journey, click here...

AROUND THE WORLD IN 1,426 DAYS: GRAHAM HUGHES' TRIP... IN ORDER!

Bolivia: The Death road from La Paz to Coroico

SOUTH AMERICA

1. Uruguay

2. Argentina

3. Paraguay

4. Bolivia

5. Chile

6. Peru

7. Ecuador

8. Colombia

9. Venezuela

10. Brazil

11. Guyana

12.Suriname

THE CARIBBEAN

13. Trinidad & Tobago

14. Grenada

15. St. Vincent & The Grenadines

16. Barbados

17. St. Lucia - Martinique**

18. Dominica

19. St. Kitts & Nevis

20. Antigua & Barbuda

Antigua: He visited palm fringed beaches in The Caribbean

St. Martin/Sint Maarten

British Virgin Islands

US Virgin Islands

21. Dominican Republic

22. Haiti

23. Jamaica

CENTRAL AND NORTH AMERICA

24 Mexico

25 Guatemala

26 El Salvador

27 Nicaragua

28 Honduras

29 Costa Rica

30 Panama

31 Belize

32 The United States of America

33 The Bahamas - The Conch Republic**

34 Cuba

35 Canada

EUROPE

36 Iceland - The Faroe Islands**

37 The Netherlands

38 Belgium

Cape Verde: He spent four days on a 'leaky fishing boat' getting to this Atlantic isle

39 France

40 England*

41 Wales*

42 Ireland

43 Northern Ireland*

44 Scotland*

45 Luxembourg

46 Germany

47 Denmark

48 Sweden

49 Norway

50 Finland

51 Estonia

52 Russia

53 Latvia

54 Lithuania

55 Belarus

56 Poland

57 The Czech Republic

58 Slovakia

59 Hungary

60 Romania

61 Moldova

62 Ukraine

63 Bulgaria

USA: He saw a space shuttle take off in America

64 Greece

65 Macedonia

66 Kosovo*

67 Montenegro

68 Serbia

69 Albania

70 Croatia

71 Bosnia & Herzegovina

72 Slovenia

73 Austria

74 Liechtenstein

75 Switzerland

76 Italy

77 Vatican City*

78 Malta

79 Tunisia (Africa)

80 San Marino

81 Monaco

82 Andorra

83 Spain

84 Portugal

AFRICA

85 Morocco

Estonia: Tallinn is the capital of Estonia, the most northern of the Baltic states

86 Western Sahara*

87Mauritania

88 Senegal

89 Cape Verde

90 The Gambia

91 Guinea-Bissau

92 Mali

93 Guinea

94 Sierra Leone

95 Liberia

96 Côte D’Ivoire

97 Ghana

98 Togo

99 Benin

100Burkina Faso

101 Niger

102 Nigeria

103Cameroon

104 Chad

105 Central African Republic

106 Equatorial Guinea

107 Gabon

108 Saõ Tomé & Principé

109 Congo

110 Democratic Republic of Congo

Kenya: Masai Warrior in red standing near Acacia tree

111 Angola

112 Namibia

113 South Africa

114 Botswana

115 Lesotho

116 Swaziland

117 Mozambique

118 Zimbabwe

119 Malawi

120 Zambia

121 Tanzania

122 Comoros

123 Madagascar - Reunion**

124 Mauritius

125 Rwanda

126 Burundi

127 Uganda

128 Kenya

129 Ethiopia - Somaliland**

130 Somalia

131 Djibouti

MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA

132 Saudi Arabia

Afghanistan: He warned Afghan children 'of the dangers of men with beards'

133 Egypt (Africa)

134 Sudan (Africa)

135 Jordan

136 Palestine*

137 Israel

138 Syria

139 Lebanon

140 Turkey

Iraqi Kurdistan**

141 Iraq

142 Cyprus (Europe)

Northern Cyprus**

143 Libya (Africa)

144 Algeria (Africa)

145 Georgia

146 Armenia

147 Azerbaijan

148 Kazakhstan

Karakalpakstan**

149 Uzbekistan

150 Kyrgyzstan

151 Tajikistan

152 Turkmenistan

Papua New Guinea: He danced with highlanders from Papua New Guinea

153 Afghanistan

154 Iran

155 Kuwait

156 Bahrain

157 Qatar

158 United Arab Emirates

159 Oman

160 Yemen

161 Eritrea (Africa)

162 Pakistan

163 India

164 Bangladesh

165 Bhutan

166 Nepal

Tibet**

167 China

168 Mongolia

169 South Korea

170 North Korea

171 Japan

172 Taiwan*

173 Vietnam

174 Cambodia

Borneo: He befriended orangutans in the jungle

175 Thailand

176 Laos

177 Burma

178 Malaysia

179 Singapore

180 Indonesia

181 Brunei

182 The Philippines

183 East Timor

West Papua**

OCEANIA

184 Papua New Guinea

185 Solomon Islands

186 Australia

New Caledonia**

187 Vanuatu

188 Fiji

Wallis & Futuna**

189 Tuvalu

190 Kiribati

191 Marshall Islands

192 Samoa

Hong Kong: He also saw some of the world's biggest and brightest cities

American Samoa**

193 Tonga

194 New Zealand

195 Nauru

Northern Mariana Islands**

Guam**

196Micronesia

197 Palau

Hong Kong**

Macau**

THE FINAL FRONTIER

198 Sri Lanka

199 The Maldives

200 The Seychelles

201 South Sudan

* Not a member of the UN, but still counts towards The Odyssey 201.

** Dependency, Territory, Semi-Autonomous Region or Largely Unrecognised De-Facto State. Does not count towards The Odyssey 201.

(Source: Hughes' website The Odyssey Expedition)

miercuri, 28 noiembrie 2012

rasa misterioasa?

RASA MISTERIOASĂ care va salva omenirea de la APOCALIPSĂ. CIVILIZAȚIA lor a fost tot timpul pe TERRA, într-un loc UIMITOR

Autor: Roxana Roseti

Una dintre cele mai controversate teorii privind sfârșitul lumii face referi la o rasă superioară, ce ar trăi în centrul Pământul, și care ar reprezenta salvarea omenirii din calea apocalipsei.

Centrul Pământului este o sferă goală sau găzduieşte o rasă de oameni super inteligenţi? Este una dintre întrebările care au fascinat şi fascinează lumea, şi care stă la baza unora dintre cele mai interesante teorii ale conspiraţiei.

Timp de secole, oamenii au crezut că Pământul este gol în centru, că miezul Terrei nu este o manta supraîncălzită care se roteşte în jurul unui nucleu de fier solid, ci o sferă goală, protejată de o crustă.

În teoria care a gravitat în jurul acestei idei, important nu era cât de subţire era această crustă care acoperea sfera din centrul Pământului, ci ce se afla înăuntrul acesteia.

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În 1692, Edmond Halley (de la numele căruia vine denumirea cometei Halley), a susţinut teoria potrivit căreia Pământul este un înveliş, gros de 805 kilometri, cu inele concentrice în interior. În centrul acestor inele ar exista un nucleu solid şi între inele ar fi atmosfere diferite de gaze fluorescente. Când aceste gaze ieşeau la suprafaţă, pe la Poli, atunci se formau Aurora Borealis şi Australis.

Hitler i-a căutat

Teoriile despre ce s-ar afla în centrul Pământului au continuat şi în secolul XX. De exemplu, Adolf Hitler ar fi trimis o misiune la Polul Sud ca să găsească intrarea către centrul Pământului, fuhrerul fiind convins că acolo era locul prin care putea pătrunde în măruntaiele Terrei.

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Mai mult decât atât, Hitler ar fi fost convins că în subteran există o rasă super-inteligentă de oameni care aveau o înălţime de 3,65 metri. Liderul german ar fi intenţionat să îi convingă pe aceşti super-oameni să vină la suprafaţă şi să lupte pentru trupele Germaniei naziste sau, cel puţin, să le dea naziştilor tehnica de luptă a viitorului.

După cum cum subliniază unii dintre comentatorii şi analiştii subiectului, dacă Hitler a trimis sau nu această misiune la Polul Sud este parte din teorie, dar daca a făcut aceasta, cu siguranţă oamenii care au participat la ea nu s-au mai întors niciodată. Aceasta pentru că fie au fost ucişi de super-rasa din centrul Pământului sau, mai simplu, de condiţiile dure din Antarctica.

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La 2300 de mile dincolo de Polul Nord ar exista o intrare către centrul Terrei. Aici, conform spuselor amiralului Richard E. Byrd, primul om care a zburat deasupra Polului Nord (în mai 1926 devine primul om care a zburat deasupra Polului Nord, iar în noiembrie 1929, primul om care a zburat deasupra Polului Sud) ar locui o civilizaţie umană mult mai evoluată.

Tărâmul MISTERIOS de la CAPĂTUL LUMII

Cei care populau Pământul s-ar fi mutat în subteran acum 100.000 de ani. Un război care ar fi avut loc atunci ar distrus suprafaţa Terrei. Virgil Armstrong, fost agent CIA, descrie fascinantul univers de sub noi: oameni nemuritori, atmosferă controlată, deplasări cu viteze de 3.000 de mile pe oră, atlanţi şi lemurieni, farfurii zburătoare pentru survolarea pământenilor.

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Secret de serviciu

Într-un interviu pe care l-a acordat în 1947, Byrd declara că la 2300 de mile dincolo de Polul Nord a întâlnit o zonă cu climă foarte caldă, cu vegetaţie, cu munţi, lacuri şi râuri. Byrd, un explorator celebru, mai presus de orice bănuială, şi-a notat foarte precis în jurnal despre ceea ce a întîlnit în această zonă. “Oamenii care locuiesc aici comunică prin telepatie.

De fapt, ei nu trăiesc la suprafaţă. Sub pământ, la câteva mile adâncime, există un oraş foarte mare, cu milioane de locuitori, care se numeşte Agartha", scria Byrd in jurnalul său secret. Un fost agent Aceste file din jurnalul exploratorului au fost date publicităţii chiar de fostul agent CIA, Virgil Armstrong. Armstrong susţine că Byrd a locuit în Agartha vreme de aproape o lună şi ca "civilizaţia subterană este net superioară nouă".

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Fostul agent CIA a adăugat că imediat după descoperirea jurnalului lui Byrd, filele referitoare la Agartha au fost declarate secret de serviciu şi s-a dispus ca în zona intrării în oraşul subteran să fie amplasate baze militare americane care să nu lase sub nici o formă intruşii să pătrundă. Amiralul Byrd subliniază de mai multe ori în jurnalul secret, că în oraşele subterane locuiesc "oameni cu trăsături delicate, iar ei cunosc secretul nemuririi trupului.

Demni de a fi salvaţi?

Armstrong a mai dezvăluit că farfuriile zburătoare care apar pe cerul planetei sunt mijloace de transport ale locuitorilor lumii subterane, iar o parte din tehnologia de fabricare a lor a fost dezvăluită Pentagonului, “avionul invizibil fiind o urmare a acestor cunoştinţe avansate". În afara celor dezvăluite de agentul CIA, există multe alte mărturii, consemnate în dosare secrete.

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Astfel, conform unora dintre teorii salvarea omenirii de la Apocalipsă va veni de sub Pământ. Dar, după cum subliniază Virgil Armstrong, "numai dacă civilizaţia subterană net superioară nouă ne va considera demni de a fi salvaţi!"…

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marți, 27 noiembrie 2012

Jimi Hendrix is 70 years old.

sâmbătă, 24 noiembrie 2012

a murit JR din Dallas...

Larry Hagman star of Dallas dies at 81

Larry Hagman first performed as JR Ewing in 1978 and became its highest-paid star

Larry Hagman, who spent more than a decade playing TV villain JR Ewing has died at the age of 81, his family says.

Hagman, who had suffered from cancer and cirrhosis of the liver, died in hospital on Friday afternoon, according to a family statement.

"Larry was back in his beloved Dallas, re-enacting the iconic role he loved most," said the family. "He was surrounded by loved ones."

Long-time friend Linda Gray, who played Sue Ellen, was by his bedside.

"Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years," said Ms Gray in a statement released by her agent.

"He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew. He was creative, generous, funny, loving and talented and I will miss him enormously.

"He was an original and lived life to the full."

During 13 years as the most scheming oil tycoon in Dallas, JR in his Stetson became one of the most distinctive faces on television screens across the world.

It quickly became one of the network's top-rated programmes - with its 356 episodes being seen by an estimated 300 million people in 57 countries - and was revived this year.

Five bottles of champagne

Born in Texas, Hagman later moved to Los Angeles where he was cared for mainly by his grandmother.

In this 1981 file photo originally provided by CBS, Larry Hagman, is shown in character as JR Ewing from Dallas

Hagman reportedly owned more than 2,000 cowboy hats

After a brief period spent working in the fields, Hagman followed his mother into showbusiness and even toured and played in musicals with her.

Moving into television, he played astronaut Tony Nelson in the 1960s television comedy I Dream of Jeannie.

He first performed as JR Ewing in 1978 and became its highest-paid star, as the programme came to define 1980s excess.

The actor himself owned more than 2,000 cowboy hats.

When Dallas finally finished in 1991, Hagman went on to appear in hit films Nixon and Primary Colors.

His forthright biography, Hello Darlin', detailed his youthful drug-taking exploits and revealed the extent of his 50-year battle with alcoholism.

Even on the hardworking set of Dallas, he consumed five bottles of champagne a day for years and was finally diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver in 1992.

Three years later he had a liver transplant and kept a photo of the organ donor above his mirror.

"I say a prayer for him every morning," he said.

Despite this, Hagman continued to drink secretly until a further life-saving operation in 2003 forced him to stop.

vineri, 23 noiembrie 2012

UFO in Denver...

A man in Denver, Colorado videotaped a fast-moving UFO several times during November 2012. He sent the video to local news channel FOX31. FOX31 then sent their own camera crew to attempt to videotape the UFO, which had been appearing at the same location and time of day.The FOX31 cameras did succeed in capturing the object.

It’s a mile high mystery in the skies over Denver.

Strange objects caught on camera flying over the city and nobody can explain it.

We first learned about these sightings when a metro area man, who does not want to be identified brought us his home video. He captured the images on his digital camera from a hilltop in Federal Heights looking south toward downtown Denver.

He said, “The flying objects appear around noon or 1:00 p.m. at least a couple of times a week.” The strangest part is they are flying too fast to see with the naked eye, but when we slowed down the video, several UFOs appear.

We altered the color contrast to make it easier to see. You can take a look for yourself by watching the video clip.We wanted to verify the video we saw was legitimate and not doctored in anyway. So our photojournalist set up his camera in the same spot, and shot video from just before noon until just after 1:00 p.m. He also captured something unexplained on video.

joi, 22 noiembrie 2012

Papa nazist rescrie istoria

Jesus was born years earlier than thought, claims Pope

The entire Christian calendar is based on a miscalculation, the Pope has declared, as he claims in a new book that Jesus was born several years earlier than commonly believed.

The Pope also weighs in on the debate over Christ's birthplace Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP

By Nick Squires, Rome

4:02PM GMT 21 Nov 2012

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The 'mistake' was made by a sixth century monk known as Dionysius Exiguus or in English Dennis the Small, the 85-year-old pontiff claims in the book 'Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives', published on Wednesday.

"The calculation of the beginning of our calendar – based on the birth of Jesus – was made by Dionysius Exiguus, who made a mistake in his calculations by several years," the Pope writes in the book, which went on sale around the world with an initial print run of a million copies.

"The actual date of Jesus's birth was several years before."

The assertion that the Christian calendar is based on a false premise is not new – many historians believe that Christ was born sometime between 7BC and 2BC.

But the fact that doubts over one of the keystones of Christian tradition have been raised by the leader of the world's one billion Catholics is striking.

Dennis the Small, who was born in Eastern Europe, is credited with being the "inventor" of the modern calendar and the concept of the Anno Domini era.

He drew up the new system in part to distance it from the calendar in use at the time, which was based on the years since the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian.

The emperor had persecuted Christians, so there was good reason to expunge him from the new dating system in favour of one inspired by the birth of Christ.

The monk's calendar became widely accepted in Europe after it was adopted by the Venerable Bede, the historian-monk, to date the events that he recounted in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, which he completed in AD 731.

But exactly how Dennis calculated the year of Christ's birth is not clear and the Pope's claim that he made a mistake is a view shared by many scholars.

The Bible does not specify a date for the birth of Christ. The monk instead appears to have based his calculations on vague references to Jesus's age at the start of his ministry and the fact that he was baptised in the reign of the emperor Tiberius.

Christ's birth date is not the only controversy raised by the Pope in his new book – he also said that contrary to the traditional Nativity scene, there were no oxen, donkeys or other animals at Jesus's birth.

He also weighs in on the debate over Christ's birthplace, rejecting arguments by some scholars that he was born in Nazareth rather than Bethlehem.

John Barton, Professor of the Interpretation of the Holy Scripture at Oriel College, Oxford University, said most academics agreed with the Pope that the Christian calendar was wrong and that Jesus was born several years earlier than commonly thought, probably between 6BC and 4BC.

"There is no reference to when he was born in the Bible - all we know is that he was born in the reign of Herod the Great, who died before 1AD," he told The Daily Telegraph. "It's been surmised for a very long time that Jesus was born before 1AD - no one knows for sure."

The idea that Christ was born on Dec 25 also has no basis in historical fact. "We don't even know which season he was born in. The whole idea of celebrating his birth during the darkest part of the year is probably linked to pagan traditions and the winter solstice."