Top 10 London Attractions

How many have you seen . . .

  

http://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/sightseeing/tourist-attraction/top-ten-attractions?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=facebook-ongoing

Best Two-Year Degrees

Railroad Conductor sounds like a fun choice . . .

http://career-advice.comcast.monster.com/salary-benefits/salary-information/best-salary-associates-degree/article.aspx?WT.mc_n=comcast800

2014 Thames Festival

For the first time, the Mayor's Thames Festival will take place across an entire month from 1st to 30th September 2014. Last year's event extended the weekend-long festival to ten days and this year the dates are lengthened even further. Another first: the festival will take place across a 42-mile stretch of the river between Hampton Court Bridge in the west and the Dartford Crossing in the east. One event, the River Relay, will go even further, covering the whole 215 mile course of the Thames from its source to the sea. The festival - much of which is free - celebrates the main waterway which winds its way through the heart of the city, through a diverse mix of art, music, and educational events both on the water and along its banks and bridges at various riverside locations from Westminster Bridge to Tower Bridge and beyond.

About Blackfriars Bridge

The present Blackfriars Bridge, open to walkers and drivers, was opened in 1869 by Queen Victoria to whom the bridge was dedicated - a statue of her can be seen on the north side of the bridge. It was originally named 'William Pitt Bridge' (after the Prime Minister William Pitt) but was soon renamed after Blackfriars Monastery, a Dominican priory which once stood nearby. More about Blackfriars Bridge

http://www.londontown.com/LondonEvents/MayorsThamesFestival/80a32/

Telluride

In this great comparison photo, we see the Mountain Quail Chute at the Telluride Ski Resort in Colorado during the winter and summer. The photos were taken by reddit user spacetaco12 who said the chute is located on the hike-to-terrain off of the Prospect chairlift.

Keen observers will note that the position on the mountain is not identical and that the summer image is slightly further to the right. This is due to the steep rockslide area which in the winter is just packed with snow and not a hazard. [source]

Telluride features over 2,000 skiable acres (810 hectares) of terrain and the mountain gets an average of more than 300 inches (762 cm) of snow and 300 days of sunshine each year. There are a total of 127 trails and a vertical drop of 4,425 ft (1,349 m).

http://twistedsifter.com/2014/05/same-spot-different-seasons/

Tiny Wyoming Creek Connects Atlantic & Pacific Oceans

Believe it or not . . .

The tiny Wyoming creek that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

While it’s not quite the Northwest Passage early explorers were looking for, the United States actually does have a continuous line of water dividing the country…

http://twentytwowords.com/the-tiny-wyoming-creek-that-connects-the-atlantic-and-pacific-oceans/

The Saddest Goodbye

The saddest goodbye: Endless words are written on dementia. But can ANY match the poignancy of cartoonist Tony Husband's account of watching it steal away his father?

When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, where he'd put things - it took a while for his family to realize that this was a different kind of forgetting. In fact, it was just the first sign of the dementia that gradually took him away from them. Now his illustrator son, Tony, has turned their story into a heartbreaking picture book unlike any other. The result is a profoundly poignant account that will strike a chord with so many families touched by this cruelest of illnesses.

Here we proudly publish it in full. . . http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2623800/The-saddest-goodbye-Endless-words-written-dementia-But-ANY-match-poignancy-cartoonist-Tony-Husbands-account-watching-steal-away-father.html#ixzz31F3kVIbW

Fighting Islam

A Catholic priest fights back against Islamists in Germany . . .

Last Saturday (May 3, 2014) the Salafists of Nuremberg held one of their rallies in a public square.

This time they experienced some pushback from local citizens, assisted by a priest who rang the church bells over the cries of “Allahu akhbar!”

http://gatesofvienna.net/2014/05/church-bells-vs-the-mujahideen/