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- Arthanari Chandrasekaran
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Strange questions that humans have not yet found an answer for!
We all have a unique course of action through out our day. Many of the conversation along with our friends or some that we hear from others talking at times surprise us and gets our brain thinking, but only to later ignore saying this might be beyond human reach. Have you come across any such question through your brain or from others which you think humans have not yet explored or researched or any unanswerable question?
Cornelia Valeria
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Jul 23 2012: A random thought… Why do they say you can't change your past? I would say is generally accepted that what you do today is past tomorrow… So actually you can influence partially your past, by paying good attention at what you are doing today.-
Jul 23 2012: Cornelia,
You are suggesting that by being aware and mindful today, we can influence our future past!
Good point!!! I LOVE it:>)-
Jul 24 2012: Exactly my point! I didn't know how to put it in simple words and seeing your comment it couldn't have been more precise. Thank you! Your contribution is always encouraging for new members like myself.
Jul 26 2012: Cornelia,
You said it PERFECTLY....notice the thumbs up you are getting for that very simple and profound idea!!!! I simply said it in a different way to confirm what I perceived you to say:>)
Thank you for your kind feedback my friend:>)Jul 26 2012: The past is for reference only. Being mindful, to me means acting in certain pre-determined set of ways. Which would inhibit creative behavior.Jul 26 2012: If you look at your life as a free fall through time/space then you will learn how small course corrections will influence the trajectory of your decent. The wake you leave behind affects everything in the universe more then you could ever know.
We are blessed with the ability to consciously make these corrections, while other matter is not. This is why if we live our lives radiating love and tolerance we make the universe a better place for all who inhabit it.Jul 27 2012: The past is changed by feeling and understanding the content of the past. To do this one must express the sound the body originally wanted to make in response to the feelings which were felt in the past. Sound with out words. Just the raw sound because words have already intellectualized the experience. The body holds the tension which was created in order to block the feelings from being expressed in their raw form. When the body is allowed to express feeling as voluminous sound the vibrations generated releases the body's original tensions which had been inhibiting expression.
This tension release in the tissue of the body simultaneously deepens the memory around the original event and expands ones memory of the past on many levels. This is because with in the numbness that the tension was holding in place is also lost (numb) memory. As the tension is release memory returns.
What could be considered the unknown or unconscious becomes more consciousness, which in turn brings up more feelings for processing through expression. It seems to be a never ending journey into the past until the past is completely processed into consciousness. Life gets a little bit better with each step.Jul 16 2012: Why are we spending so much money on Research on outer world and nuclear weapons (military) , when we could use the same amount of money for helping the poor and needy people ??
This is the strangest question that has been bothering me ...-
Jul 17 2012: Just who is 'WE?'
I'm not spending any money on those things so please don't include me in "we"
That now makes the question, why are "you" spending money on weapons, the military and all those other kinds of things?
If the answer is that you are not, then who is? And why is the aforementioned 'WE' allowing it, since it is all money that comes from them!!
The average citizen of the world wants to live in peace, harmony and with safety, without worry.
Just who is against that? The very people who we look up to, give our power to and we don't even need them to live the way we want. They certainly don't want to live that way, so they are totally irrelevant and we don't need them so we need to get rid of them as means, method and manner of operating in the world.
We continue to believe their lies, we continue to believe in lies rather than truth and we continue to do the same things over and over and expect different results!
Because we are insane.-
Jul 17 2012: Actually our money that we pay as taxes are not used in the right manner .... In other words we are indirectly spending on military through our taxes ...Jul 17 2012: You give humans to much credit by calling them insane. Is a heard of cows insane when it follows it's leader?Aug 12 2012: Are you saying "that the German Government and/or any group (like the European Union) that it is involved in is not do spend money on "Research on outer world and nuclear weapons (military)". For if you live in Germany and pay taxes then you are definitely part of a "We". The people of a country are responsible for allowing anything their government does, even if the people do not know about it. Unless ignorance is a defense, if so then I will stick my head in the sand and then my government can do what ever they like. Maybe if we all started taking responsibly for what those around us do, then some of the negative things that happen wouldn't. And if one believes that everything is a figment of their imagination, then they are personally responsible for all that happens to the figments of their imagination, so those figments should put the punishment onto them for everything that has ever happened in said figments history.Jul 17 2012: Hi Bharath,
Thanks for the reply.
There is another conversation going on a similar topic, thought you might be interested.
All the Best,
ArthaJul 23 2012: I read your question and found myself wondering what the numbers are
World GDP 70 trillion 2011 (Google, world bank)
World R&D 1.4 trillion projected 2012 (http://www.rdmag.com)
While you can (and should) question what we spend research money on, I don't think you can call the percentage(2%) spent unreasonable.
I am all for switching research $ from entertaining cell phone apps and aircraft carriers to... well, almost anything else. I would defend space research (I assume that's what you mean by outer world) because without it humanity will never gain access to the resources and capabilities needed for long term survival.
That said I think that in a moral world the human race would collectively declare that every person had a legal right to safe food, water, and shelter(a bed to sleep in out of the weather and free from sexual coercion) to start with and to go even further: basic literacy(preferably in a common language as it's hard enough to make peace when you CAN talk to each other), and basic health care(generic antibiotics, vaccinations, stitches... not unlimited access to specialists)
let the individual countries decide their own logistics in fulfilling this minimum, but create a way for people to remove their government for non compliance.
This would cost a lot of money undoubtedly, but It would eliminate the need for countless redundant and ineffectual organizations. Economically it would cause changes but it would create a safer, healthier, and more competitive world workforceAug 2 2012: Where did I put the car keys?-
Elizabeth Gu
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Aug 4 2012: genius! lolAug 7 2012: a better question than "where did I put the car ".. Unless you have both questions simultaneously and are standing in a very large parking lot ... late at night ... with big rain clouds hovering menacingly above you.
( Nope ... never happend to me!)
But after a while, (hypothetically) you might start thinking more about a far more serious question:
"Where did they put the bathroom?" but that is another story ...-
Aug 7 2012: I have the car part solved, I think. Once I do find my keys, I can use that panic button for a beep to let the car call me. I once really screwed up and tried it in a multi story hosptial parking lot and spent a lot of time wandering around. YIKES!
Now I am becoming obsessive about remembering to the point of writing it on my ticket at airports.Dan Geurin
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Jul 20 2012: Where are my car keys? :)Richard Gono
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Aug 9 2012: I already saw a similar question here (about babies).
Mine is more like an alternative version of it.
"If you are deaf, and were never taught any language (verbal or non-verbal) how do you think?"
I'm asking because a few months ago, when i started reading books in english, my - what should i call it? - my "inner voice" became an englishman. When i think about abstract things i mostly do it in english now.
But what about someone who has never heard a word? Or never seen one? How can they "abstract"? What if the person is blind too? (most unlucky person ever)
You can't think in pictures, you can't think in words you can only think in smells, physical sensations? One silly question.... do you even think?-
Aug 10 2012: This reminds me of a joke I recently heard that goes "How do you tell a person who is blind, deaf and dumb that he/she has lost his/her mother?". It is quite hard to imagine how their inner selves communicate with them. I want to risk saying that they do not have "a talking" inner self.
Sophia Grace
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Aug 10 2012: I think in both pictures and voices. I guess people think in the same was they experience the world.
So not so strange question after all.-
Aug 12 2012: thank you for the links :)
I knew language was important for the mental development, but never thought this much. The analogy of language being the OS of the brain is astounding.Aug 13 2012: That´s ok, but I think about the questions we do not even know they are questions. Maybe one day the easiest thing, known by everybody, will pop up offering new faces, different views, and opening a lot of new questions. I hope it so, if not, life'll be very bored! ;-)Aug 10 2012: it would take time, but their brain would use some neural algorithm/code of their interpurited world, wouldnt they. just as you use memories of captured images or sound persepted to construct your conclusions and inturpereted world. (i am a terrable speller~sorry~). This seems kind-of abstract, but i am just a teenager and haven't realy studied pycology.Aug 1 2012: I believe in mysticism to a degree, and what I want to know is did humanities ancestors (druids, priests, shamans, etc.) actually gain extraordinary abilities at some point. Or is there the possibility of it lying dormant in us all (kind of like an underutilized part of our brain that is not being triggered anymore)
Thought of another one but most people don't know about this stuff:
What information is stored in the oldest library in the world, the Vaticans-
Aug 1 2012: Excellent questions.
The scientific approach to knowledge has had huge benefits, and many people believe that one of those benefits has been the retreat of mysticism. But it seems to be a law of nature that everything comes with a price, and we may never know the full price of science. Is it possible that if our ancestors had rejected science and accepted mysticism, we would all have super powers?-
Aug 1 2012: I would hope so (would be sweet) or at least the world would be much richer culturally in my opinion
But on a sociological level I believe we would be closer to nature, and more tolerant of othersAug 7 2012: Hi Barry,
You are right. The scientific method has shown itself to have great advantage in the pursuit of knowledge.
In the pursuit of that knowledge it is often hidden assumptions about nature which we find in our path. Just like Einstein found that there was no absolute time to nature and all time was relative.
However, science as an institution does not operate free from assumptions, it operates with a limited scope. We cannot therefore fully accept any answer it comes up with since it may be restricted.
Science (particularly pertinent to physics) makes the starting assumption that all comes from the material. In other words there was a big bang which started it all off. But with this assumption in place, we as a race cannot accept that it is a full and only answer as to our origins. Only when this assumption is removed and the big bang is still the answer can we accept it.
You must not think I am a religious fanatic when I say this, I am not. But it is still a very important point I make. Science rules out God by saying it was all started with a big bang, but it is only by virtue of its starting assumption it can do this. Its starting assumption should be telling science that it has no authority to talk about origins. Perhaps our origins are more spiritual. Knowledge, or science, if it is all about the truth, should not be structurally opposed to spirituality as it seems to be today.Aug 2 2012: It seems most cultures find a way of creating an altered mind state through some kind of hallucinogenic, usually plant or fungus based. Aztecs retained chocolate for their warrior caste. It's a stimulant. Caffeine is a stimulant. Various mushrooms are but many are also toxic. Fasting is a way to induce a trance like state as are the breathing exercises in some meditations. Extreme pain is also a mind altering experience and is used in many initiation ceremonies for young men. Insights might well be arrived at during an altered brain chemistry but would the person remember afterwards or would it just seem like a dream.Jul 27 2012: How do they get the Caramel inside a Caramilk bar??-
Aug 1 2012: Oh, that is a very messy question.
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Jul 31 2012: Excellent idea.
Imagine being the first person to think, and knowing that you are very different from the people in your family and everyone else in your tribe. Scary.Neya Kumar
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Aug 15 2012: Why do we have schools, if all they do is to ask you to accept and understand, and measure your intelligence through examinations, when actually it really doesn't measure intelligence but only how much you've remembered/accepted. Why do we learn about circles, log, angles, salts, chemicals, when the chances are you're probably not going to remember them? its not that I don't appreciate school, but why is the global education system like this? is it because it always has been, or are we just too lazy/out of ideas to change it?
-thanks :)Aug 8 2012: Could someone please explain how the human consciousness works please.
Also, while at it, what exactly does gravity consist of?
Hmm, and has and will the universe be reborn?
Oh, and why can't anything go faster than light?
Finally, the most puzzling one to me...
Why don't we humans do something about climate change now that we know we're causing it and the effects will be much worse than the effort to do something about it?-
Aug 8 2012: Don't you have any easy ones?Aug 9 2012: The best book I ever read on that subject was by a prof named Harry Hunt from an obscure Canadian university (He was originally an American) and it is called "The nature of Consciousness" and if I could honour your request and answer your question, I would but even with more than7 years of education in psychology, I cannot give you one that is satisfactory to myself. Harry's book however, traces all the factors and considers everything from Freudian and Jungian thought to existentialism to altered states - it is a dense but safisfying read.
Andrew Hu
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Aug 6 2012: why can't I make her love me (T T)-
Aug 7 2012: Ah! The age old question! Most of us have to be content with this expression:" Because the heart wants what the heart wants"
I have a friend right now who is suffering this in a most destructive way. She is in love with a guy who is so bad for her - it is almost unimaginable and yet no matter what anyone says or what she experiences she goes back to wondering why he treats her this way. It is pretty simple really - he can not possibly love her - he has no room to love her for his heart is in love with himself.
I just realized that it is possible everyone thinks it is me. It really isn't.-
Aug 8 2012: Or maybe........ she loves him precisely because he is bad to her. As commonly found or said: "Girls like bad boys."
Aug 8 2012: YUCK! Maybe that is why it is so hard for me to understand. I have never ever gone for that bad boy type and so cannot imagine it. I think the toughest thing in life is to be a good man and I think it should be rewarded with an equalient Good woman.
Juniper Blue
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Aug 5 2012: With "progress" do we often lose more than we gain? I am thinking about unexpected consequences that result when we (as individuals or as the human race) "progress."
I am thinking about various things like genetically modified grain. We make a trade off when we adopt a genetically modified crop and (often) the risks are not well understood. So, while it may appear that problems will be solved by the use of genetically modified grain, new, more complicated problems are likely to arise over time. Yet, this is progress??
Even in my own life ... I wonder if there are times when I was happier knowing less. There are times when it seems that the more I become aware of, the more I realize how so much is beyond my control. Certainly, it is better ( at least more responsible) to know as much as I can. At the very least, I am then able to do what I can, even if it does not seem like much. It is better than nothing (or at least I hope) but what f I am helping to put more genetically modifed grain out into the world? Will I help to end a famine or merely help to cause a more serious famine in several years?
So, I will ask the impossibly broad question: Are "we" making progress? ( personally and/or globally as human beings)-
Debra Smith
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Aug 5 2012: Dear Juniper Blue
One of the most important maxims of psychology is that| "contol is an illusion". I sometimes want to revert temporarily to times when I knew less but then I realize that trading illusion for truth is a pretty good deal.-
Aug 5 2012: I reached my maximum of "thumbs up" for you or you would have received one for this response.
Aug 5 2012: Thank you,Rhona. I am just trying to share what is true to me so that I can prime the pump and get everybody else to help me with all those things that confuse me.Aug 7 2012: Thanks Debra ... nicce to know that I am in good company.
Barry Palmer
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Aug 5 2012: Hello Juniper,
An excellent question.
A century from now historians might be saying that this is the definitive question of the twenty first century.
It is becoming increasing clear that the 'progess' of the last few centuries has run its course and we must, at a minimum, modify our ideas about progress.
Regarding unexpected consequences, our technologies are becoming so powerful that it behooves us to develop a method (in the same sense as the scientific method) to better predict consequences and decide which technologies are just too risky. Technologies like genetic manipulation could possibly wipe out all life on this planet. Wisdom is no longer optional-
Aug 7 2012: I loved this statement: "Wisdom is no longer optional" Right ON!Aug 7 2012: Ahhhh. Now that is just way too smart!! Thanks for the response Barry ... I hope that someone out there is perfecting such a method.
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Aug 14 2012: In agreement!Aug 13 2012: A thought....
The polio epidemic of my parents generation was directly tied to the spread of indoor plumbing and the ethic of cleanliness propogating through wealthy cultures. It seems there is a bio-immune respose in the body when exposed to feces that has a side effect of reducing succeptability to polio. So... cleanliness is "progress" in the area of general medicine, social encounters, etc... but not in polio avoidance.
The very notion of progress seems to be deceptive to me, when used as an absolute. Conditional progress, i.e. : we are halfway there, the job is almost done, etc... is one thing, but that we are better than our predecessors because we have remote controls and credit cards is a matter of opinion, not fact.
Even social institutions like parenting are open to broad interpretations of progress. Anthropologists might point out that hunter gatherers are known to be caring and attentive parents, and limited to small families. (Two toddler/infants at a time, more and you can not flee from predators). It was the spread of agrarian societies that led to large, labor related, and often abusive families. At the same time, the food surplus allowed for larger families and the diversification of trades. In this example progress in one area is matched by detriment in the other.
Who defines the base factors, on which we might judge and make an absolute statement? You do.
Aug 14 2012: Thanks for this thoughtful response Ian. Very insightful.Aug 2 2012: Once, my little brother asked me a question. "Why we need to sleep? "
Aug 4 2012: lol he reminds me of my little sister.
Aug 5 2012: LoL maybe the way the kids think does not matter what gender they are :).
Barry Palmer
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Aug 1 2012: Suppose there is an alien civilization much like ours on a galaxy thousands of light years away. This civilization is almost identical to us, with similar technology and similar intelligence. Like us, they point their instruments outward and take all manner of measurements of the universe. Because of just one reason, their location, EVERY SINGLE ITEM of their data would be different from our data. With this in mind, what is the probability that they would understand the workings of the universe in the same way that we do? Would they have a theory of relativity? Would their equations match ours?-
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Aug 1 2012: math seems to be the universal language. they may have different symbols, and methods, and equations, but a lot of their results might be the same as ours. for example their planet may have gravity like ours,--they may not called it gravity, but they would understand it as much as we do.
theory of relativity its good, but its a THEORY. we as species don't really know a lot of FACTS about the universe. and sometimes scientific laws are broken, ( abnormalities that happen here and then in the universe).
that's means we have yet to truly understand the universe, so our theories and hypothesis may be a lot different from them. the only thing we'll have in common will be FACTS--such as gravity. much of our understanding comes from theories and religion on how the universe, and nature works. they might live in a HOLE different world, so their perspective on how things work can be very different. our universe is the same so the answers no matter the form for questions like what is a black hole ? should be the SAME. unfortunately we only have theories---they might only have theories too. if we live in the same universe/dimension there should be ONE answer to such a question. and other questions too.Raul De Maio
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Aug 1 2012: I asked myself sometimes if there could be another kind of progress. I mean a not-technological progress.-
Erno Mijland
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Aug 2 2012: Or progress without the necessity of economic growth. So that humanity prospers without having to consume more and more and more...JEFF D.
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Aug 2 2012: the way we think. MORAL progress. and spiritual progress. knowing ourselves more. how we interact we each other etc. knowing more about the nature of the universe and ourselves. without tech. increase in wisdom and knowledge. etc.Tanka Poudel
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Jul 21 2012: IN MY VIEW:
Strange answer for a strange question.
Is questioning every time for every thing necessary or even relevant?
Do answers meet the expectation of the question to end it forever or of the questioner such that the answers become unsatisfactory for new generation?
Is answer that bring about more questions really the answer?
The big question is What is the "answer"?-
Jul 23 2012: 42Jul 26 2012: Answer assumes there's an end game. Perhaps if you exchange the word "answer" with "possibility. If we begin to accept everything as fact, Then we no longer ask questions. If we no longer ask questions, we become bound within our self created walls of logic.
Tanka Poudel
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Jul 26 2012: if we consider answer as possibility it means we will have multiple choices this brings another form of question to life "Which possibility is the right one?". I don't think questions are ever going to end similarly answers will also evolve but what will be the final answer is not known. In my view, right answer for any question are thoughts which give relief for today and avoid complication for tomorrow.queenie kwan
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Jul 17 2012: why some people have to argue or keep struggling with their family, friends, colleagues or even theirself everyday? won't human born to be happy and enjoy the days?-
Jul 18 2012: Maybe they need attention or some kindness. They're not happy with themseves for some reason.Jul 20 2012: I completely agree with both queenie and Frans. Arguing with others is not a constructive way to further one's personal life and the global evolution. Self-acceptance and happiness seem to have a correlation with this. Which raises another question, if someone is not pleased with them-self, why do they lash out that anger on others?
Devon Lee
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Jul 21 2012: In defence of arguing it is vital evolutionary tool for self defence. Because even the mundane act of washing the dishes although seen by oneself as a harmless/possitive/neccessary action in your life can be seen in negative light. You may feel that it is important to maintain your standard of living and it is your freedom and liberty to do so.
The flip side to this is that by using water on mere dishes is a waste and its consumption is driving up demand, therefore prices. This can be annoying for some but in a life of poverty having your water cut off can be life changing or ending.
I know this is extreme but you must have a means of defence especially when others don't even know or agree that they are doing wrong. And things like this can lead to wars. Believe it or not there is a purpose for negativity in life, whether I or anybody else likes it or not.
I'm not saying that we should stop trying to eradicate negativity, just understand it. The end fight that we play against negativity or eachother is essentially evolution, which is forever changing and blessedly unbeatable.
P.S i still wash my dishesJul 17 2012: Is anyone doing research into sound and its applications with other species, eventually finding someway to communicate with other species?
I know of some researchers that record whale calls, but that is just replay of the real sound, a copy of the real animal.
How about being able to make our own whale calls where we understand them and they understand us?
There was a story I heard of an experiment with trees and how they speak by frequencies of some sort?-
V Alexander
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Jul 18 2012: I think we could establish a simplistic dialog with many species, auditory or otherwise, and with sustained interaction of that sort have it slowly develop into more complex dialog, particularly if the species' offspring keep picking up and enhancing (however minutely) where the forerunners left off. The most ideal candidates, dolphins and chimps/monkeys/orangatangs/baboons, would have a working (if sparse) lexicon within the first few years of the first generation. A few generations of sustained interaction would see a much larger lexicon and probably a lot of understood abstractions. Keep going until the neo-species decide they want their own planet -- far, far away from us. :)
We'd be doing ourselves a favor by having non-human perceptive inputs, but do we do them any favors by interrupting their natural ascendency?


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Erythema infectiosum, Parvovirus B19, Slap cheek
Introduction to fifth disease:
A child with bright red cheeks and a rash on her trunk is sent home from kindergarten. Her teacher is pregnant. Was it best to send the child home?
What is fifth disease?
Fifth disease is a mild viral illness caused by a virus named parvovirus B19. The virus was discovered in the 1970's, but the disease has been known for centuries. It is one of the classic childhood exanthems. Fifth disease got its name because it was the fifth childhood disease with a somewhat similar rash to be discovered. It is poetically called "slap cheek" because of the appearance of the rash. The other name for this condition is erythema infectiosum (infectious red rash). This is ironic: We now know that a child is contagious before the rash starts, but not contagious at all once the rash develops; many children are kept out of school and daycare unnecessarily.
Who gets fifth disease?
Fifth disease is most common among school-aged children aged 5 to 14, but it is also seen in preschool children, parents, and teachers. About half of adults tested have already had it and are immune. All pregnant women who have been exposed to fifth disease should discuss this with their obstetricians. Even when women get fifth disease for the first time during pregnancy, most of the babies do well. Still, some babies do need treatment, and the pregnancy should be monitored closely.
What are the symptoms of fifth disease?
Most children who get fifth disease start to feel a little under the weather 4 to 14 days after they are exposed. Headaches, low-grade fevers, muscle aches, and tiredness are common. The symptoms are usually mild and last for about 2 or 3 days. It is before and during this period that the children are contagious.
This is followed by about a week during which most children are free of symptoms. After this, the telltale rash appears. Because there is a long period between the first phase and the rash, most people don't suspect the link between the two phases.
The rash phase of the illness typically goes through three stages. The first stage is the bright red rash on the cheeks that gives rise to the name "slap cheek." It is most pronounced when children go from a cool environment into a warm one. The second stage of the rash begins 1 to 4 days later, with the appearance of a less intense rash on the trunk, buttocks, and limbs. The rash usually spreads in a downward direction but does not reach the palms or soles. Toward the end of this stage, there is a blotchy clearing of the rash, leaving a lacy pattern. The third stage of the rash usually lasts for longer than a week and can last for a month or more. During this stage, intensity of the rash fluctuates—especially with changes in temperature. A child can appear to have completely recovered, only to have the rash reappear when she takes a bath.
Is fifth disease contagious?
How long does fifth disease last?
The characteristic time course is outlined in the 'symptoms' section.
How is fifth disease diagnosed?
The diagnosis is generally based on a typical history and physical exam. Making the diagnosis is usually straightforward, especially during an outbreak in the community. Occasionally it can look similar to other conditions, such as rubella (German measles), scarlet fever, drug reactions, or allergies. Blood tests can make a reliable diagnosis if necessary.
How is fifth disease treated?
There is no specific treatment for fifth disease. Sometimes the rashes itch or the joints ache. If this is the case, symptomatic treatments, such as oatmeal baths or acetaminophen, can be helpful. Unless children have an underlying blood disease or immune deficiency, they should recover spontaneously and completely.
How can fifth disease be prevented?
Outbreaks occur most often during the winter and spring months. Fifth disease is quite contagious, with cases following each other by 4 to 14 days. Keeping the hands clean with instant hand sanitizers can help to interrupt the spread of this infection, which is spread by respiratory droplets.
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Chase Anderson is about a month into his Major League career, and he'll make his seventh Major League start on Thursday, against the Brewers.
But for the first time since he's been in the bigs, he won't have Bronson Arroyo in the rotation with him, as the 15-year veteran is on the 15-day disabled list with a sprained UCL.
The D-backs' staff is feeling the absence of Arroyo, who helped Anderson get off to a 5-1 start.
"The thing about Bronson is, he brings so much experience, so much expertise," Anderson said. "You watch his last five, six starts, and his arm's been bothering him a little bit, but he still pitches and gets out.
"He knows how to figure things out and get through things."
Anderson himself has been pretty successful in getting through things, notching a 3.21 ERA in his first 33 2/3 innings. On Thursday he'll face the Brewers' Yovani Gallardo, who is 4-4 with a 3.51 ERA this season but 6-0 with a 1.91 ERA in his career against the D-backs.
Arroyo said on Wednesday that he is glad to be a role model and help young starters get settled in the big leagues.
"I've always related to the young guys," Arroyo said. "Even though now I'm 37, I feel like I'm still 27. And the younger guys -- 23, 24, 25 -- I just identify with them.
"I've always had a good way with those guys, so that allows some free and easy interaction that doesn't feel like they're talking to somebody who's like the principal of a school."
Said Anderson: "He has a lot of guts, and he's a team guy. He cares about the guys, and he wants to win, and he'll do whatever he has to do to win. If he's not feeling good, he still goes out there and guts out five, six, seven innings. It's a huge blow to our team. He's a great guy off the field, on the field, so we feel bad for him."
Brewers: Roenicke glad to see the last of Goldschmidt
The Brewers won't have to see Paul Goldschmidt again during the regular season, as they face the D-backs for the final time in 2014 on Thursday.
That farewell can't come soon enough for manager Ron Roenicke.
"I can't tell you that there's somebody better in the game than he is," Roenicke said. "Maybe there is. I can name some guys, maybe three or four, that are as good as him. He's incredible."
It's hard to blame Roenicke, as Goldschmidt has five homers in 18 games against Milwaukee.
The Brewers kept Goldschmidt in check on Tuesday by walking him in three of his four plate appearances.
"We've tried to pitch him hard in, and he hits a homer," Roenicke said. "We've tried to pitch him down and away, and he hits a homer or a double in the gap. We try to pitch him offspeed, and he rips that. We try to go hard stuff up; he rips that. There's not any holes. It's really hard to pitch to guys that don't have any weaknesses, and I don't see any. Maybe we're doing something wrong, but I don't see any."
D-backs: Gibson manages outfield despite injuries
Two of the D-backs' Opening Day outfielders are on the DL, and manager Kirk Gibson has been trying to fill their spots since.
Left fielder Mark Trumbo led the team with seven home runs before he went on the shelf with a stress fracture in his left foot in April. A little more than a month later, center fielder A.J. Pollock, who has a .920 OPS, sustained a fractured right hand after being hit by a pitch.
In the meantime, the D-backs have had six players play the two positions.
"Right before Pollock and [infielder Cliff Pennington] got hurt, we kind of found a decent rotation right there," Gibson said. "You can't replace Trumbo and what he can do, and then those two injuries has made it much tougher."
Worth noting
• The D-backs enter Thursday afternoon's contest with a 11-12 record in day games.
Adam Lichtenstein is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Another name for the exclamation point. "!" is the majuscule or upper case form of the character "1."
Every time I write numbers in my lab reports I use capital one instead of just one. I tried to type one thousand fourhundred three and came up with "!403."
от Shank89
16 ноември 2010


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Including the 50 Deadly Checkmates
This is not just a book for kids - for 'Dad' read any opponent who beats you regularly! This book teaches the 50 Deadly Checkmates - basic attacking patterns that occur repeatedly in games between players of all standards. Each mating motif is carefully and simply explained, and several illustrative examples are given. A final test enables the reader to grade his pattern recognition abilities, and the last chapter explains what to do if your Dad is Garry Kasparov. Fun, instructive - and guaranteed to improve your game.
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess
A World Champion's Approach to Chess
Hans Berliner is one of the most successful correspondence chess players of all time, and was utterly dominant in the 5th World Championship. Here, for the first time, he explains the set of principles - The System - that he used to guide him to the right moves. Readers will be astonished by the simplicity and power of Berliner's methods as he takes several major openings and subjects them to System principles, and finds radically new approaches to them.
The System
Advances Since Nimzowitsch
It is now seventy years since Nimzowitsch wrote his monumental work My System. While it remains a fundamental work on chess strategy, the way chess positions are handled has changed greatly since Nimzowitsch's time - both refinements to existing ideas, and completely new concepts.
Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy
1001 Original Chess Puzzles to Challenge All Standards of Player, From Beginner to Grandmaster
This book provides a wealth of puzzle positions to test just about every facet of your tactical skills. The puzzles in this book have been selected by analysing games new and old in search of original puzzle positions. It is very unlikely that even seasoned solvers will recognise many of these positions. Emms, by allying his skills with those of powerful computers, has also made every effort to ensure that the solutions are sound, and that there are no unmentioned alternative solutions.
The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book
A Collection of Sparkling Modern Games to Instruct and Entertain
One of the world's finest writers on chess presents his selection of brilliant modern games of 25 moves or fewer. Much can be learned from these sparkling miniatures. John Nunn examines how the loser might have avoided disaster, and explains how the winner managed to punch home his advantage so effectively.
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101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures
Comprehensive Coverage of an Important Modern Chess Opening
This book continues the coverage of the French Defence that was begun by Pedersen in The Main Line French: 3 Nc3. It is essential reading for all those who play the French, and for those who meet it with the popular and flexible Tarrasch Variation.
The French - Tarrasch Variation
A Life-Long Sozin Devotee Explains the Subtleties of this Aggressive System for White
This book presents in detail the theory of the Sozin in all its forms, including the razor-sharp Velimirovic Attack.
The Sicilian Sozin
How to Use Your Pawns to Fight for the Initiative and Central Control
This book tackles fundamental questions such as: 'How should pawns be used to fight for the centre?' and 'How does the central pawn formation affect planning for both sides?' These issues are central to understanding chess. Marovic discusses central pawn-structures and their impact on play both in the centre and on the wings.
Dynamic Pawn Play in Chess
A Grandmaster Explains a Solid and Dependable Repertoire
Every chess-player needs a reliable defence against the Queen's Pawn Opening. The fundamental question is whether to go all-out for counterplay, which may involve a great deal of risk, or to adopt a more solid, classical approach, and first carefully neutralize White's initiative. This book shows the potential of the latter approach. By defending the Queen's Gambit Declined, Black puts a firm road-block in the way of White's ambitions.
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The Queen's Gambit and Catalan for Black
A Practical Guide to Encouraging Your Opponents to Self-Destruct!
Some players seem to have an inexhaustible supply of chessboard luck. No matter what trouble they find themselves in, they somehow manage to escape. Among world champions, Lasker, Tal and Kasparov are famed for peering into the abyss but somehow making sure it is their opponents who fall.
How to be Lucky in Chess
A New Endgame Encyclopedia for the 21st Century
In a major event in chess publishing, two German endgame experts have produced a masterly one-volume encyclopaedia that covers all major endgames. This is the first truly modern one-volume endgame encyclopaedia. It makes full use of endgame tablebases and analytical engines that access these tablebases; where previous authors could only make educated guesses, Muller and Lamprecht have often been able to state the definitive truth, or get much closer to it.
Fundamental Chess Endings
A Top-Class Grandmaster Explains Step-By-Step How Chess Games are Won
Publisher: Gambit
Author: John Nunn
Year of Publication: 2008 Pages: 240
Notation Type: Figurine (FN)
Book Description John Nunn is one of the most highly regarded chess writers in the world. He has carefully selected thirty modern games to help the reader understand the most important aspects of chess and to illustrate modern chess principles in action. Virtually every move is explained using words that everyone can understand. Jargon is avoided as far as possible. Almost all the examples are taken from the 1990s and show how key ideas are handled by the grandmasters of today. The emphasis is on general principles that readers will be able to use in their own games, and detailed analysis is only given where it is necessary. Each game contains many lessons, but to guide the reader through the most important ideas in each phase of the game, the thirty games are grouped thematically into those highlighting opening, middlegame and endgame themes. About the Author(s) John Nunn is a grandmaster from England. He has won four individual gold medals and three team silver medals at Chess Olympiads. In the Chess World Cup of 1988/9, he finished sixth overall, ahead of several former World Champions. He is arguably the most highly acclaimed chess writer in the world, with two of his books receiving the prestigious British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award.
Understanding Chess Move by Move
Comprehensive Coverage of the Long-Established Main Line of the Nimzo
Ever since Nimzowitsch introduced his flexible, dynamic defence to the queen's pawn, debate has raged over White's best reply. Many variations have been in and out of fashion, but one line in particular has proved an enduring weapon - the sound and solid 4 e3 line, known as the Rubinstein Variation. The 4 e3 Nimzo is extraordinarily rich in strategy. All manner of different central pawn-structures can arise, such as the blocked centre characteristic of the Hübner Variation and a variety of IQP positions.
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The Nimzo-Indian - 4. e3
Discover the Secrets of How to Win Chess Games
This book teaches basic tactical ideas such as the fork, pin, and discovered attack, and introduces general ideas such as elimination, immobilization and compulsion. A basic knowledge of simple tactics will enable a novice to start winning games, by giving checkmate or capturing material. As the player progresses, his tactical arsenal will broaden, and he will start to play sacrifices and combinations, and develop a deeper understanding of the game. Players who fail to study tactics systematically tend to suffer from tactical blind-spots that plague them throughout their playing career, and thus they fail to realize their full potential.
Learn Chess Tactics
250 Puzzle Positions to Train Your King-Hunting Skills
Checkmating the enemy king is the ultimate goal in chess. In this book Simon Williams helps readers to practice and improve their skills in this vital area of practical chess. A mating attack typically involves a build-up of forces, followed by an opening of lines, often involving a sacrifice
Improve Your Attacking Chess
Techniques that have Revolutionized Chess Analysis
Chess analysis is nearly as old as the game itself, with many of the pioneering works by the giants of chess history being devoted to the analysis of positions, openings and endings. Personal computers and powerful chess software are having a profound effect on chess analysis and theory - most grandmasters use them extensively. However, this book does far more than explain methods for computer-assisted analysis. Readers will develop a deeper understanding of the strengths and limitations of the human mind, and a greater understanding of many areas of chess while working through the examples that Robin Smith presents.
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Modern Chess Analysis
Size the Moment and Take Full Advantage of Your Chances!
Chess is fundamentally a dynamic game. Each move changes the situation and the possibilities for both sides. No piece is ever identically as valuable as any other, and their scope changes from move to move. The current generation of supergrandmasters plays unrelentingly dynamic chess, but a great deal of chess literature still deals with chess as if it were a predominantly static game. Much traditional chess teaching is based around rules of thumb that might work well 'on average' or in 'typical' situations, but these rules may not equip players for the specific and sometimes exceptional situations that they face in their games.
How to Play Dynamic Chess
How to Play the World's Most Popular Board Game
With this charming book, children will delight in learning the basic moves of chess - the most popular and challenging strategy game of all. All the rules of chess are clearly explained, step by step, assuming no prior knowledge. The lessons are reinforced by the inventive tales that George is told by his pet alligator Kirsty, self-proclaimed Grand Alligator of chess.
Chess for Children
A Guide to the Sacrifices that are most Fundamental to Understanding Chess
>Sacrifices are an essential part of chess. Those who never consider sacrificing will miss countless opportunities and find that promising positions repeatedly slip away. Players who do not appreciate their opponents' sacrificial possibilities will be unable to see danger signs, and find themselves on the wrong end of too many king-hunts. Rather than merely cataloguing the various possibilities and providing examples, LeMoir discusses the possible follow-ups to the sacrifices, the defensive options against them, and the positional factors that might suggest whether the sacrifice will be sound or unsound.
Essential Chess Sacrifices
The Most Aggressive Response to the Nimzo Explained by One of it's Leading Exponents
The Nimzo-Indian is an extremely popular and reliable defence, upon which most world champions have relied at some point in their careers. Black controls the vital e4-square with his pieces, and retains total flexibility with his central pawns. By playing 4. f3, White challenges Black's idea head-on. Either Black grants White control of e4, or else he must commit his pawn to d5, whereupon White can begin concrete action in the center.
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Play the 4. f3 Nimzo-Indian
4... Qb6 - A Subtle and Reliable System for Black Explained in Detail
This book is in every way a definitive guide: Efstratios Grivas provides the inside story on a variation of the Sicilian Defence that he has worked for more than 20 years to perfect, and which rightly bears his name. The Grivas Sicilian (1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Qb6) has proved itself sound and reliable in practice, but is also far less well investigated than most Sicilian systems.
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A Complete Guide to the Grivas Sicilian
Garry Kasparov has dominated the chess world for more than twenty years. His dynamism and preparation have set an example that is followed by most ambitious players. Igor Stohl has selected 74 of Kasparov's best and most instructive games from 1973 to 1993, and annotated them in detail. The emphasis is on explaining the thoughts behind Kasparov's decisions, and the principles and concepts embodied by his moves. Stohl provides a wealth of fresh insights into these landmark games, together with many new analytical points. This makes the book outstanding study material for all chess enthusiasts.
Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games - VOLUME 1
A Leading Grandmaster Applies the "Move by Move" Approach to his Best Games
A collection of John Nunn's best games from 1994 to the present day, annotated in detail in the same style as the best-selling Understanding Chess Move by Move. Throughout, the emphasis is on what the reader can learn from each game, so the book is ideal study material for those seeking to progress to a higher level of chess understanding. There is also entertainment in abundance: Nunn has a direct aggressive style, and many of his opponents in these games are ambitious young grandmasters from the generation inspired by Kasparov's dynamic chess.
Grandmaster Chess Move by Move
Can you Rise to the Challenge?
This book pits readers against the grandmasters by placing them in real-game situations where there is a way to defeat a well-known player. Your task is to find the moves which lead to the defeat of some of the strongest players in the world. Quite often one move can change the course of the game, and calculating with precision at the right moment can mean the difference between winning and losing. Even if you have had a lost position for a long time, you may suddenly get the chance to turn things around if your opponent drops his guard for a moment.
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Beat the Grandmasters
50 Tricky Tactics to Outwit Your Opponent
Chess enthusiasts of all ages and levels will find this book an instructive delight. In a simple, easy-to-understand format it explains how to bamboozle your chess opponents using commonly occurring tactical motifs. The illustrative positions, all taken from real games, show the 50 Tricky Tactics that experienced chess masters use to win their games. Recognizing frequently-occurring tactical ideas is vital to success in chess. One of the fastest and most enjoyable ways to improve at chess is by learning these thematic manoeuvres. Beginners will benefit from the clear explanation of basic concepts, such as how to utilise a fork, pin, or skewer. Advanced players will delight in the many devious middlegame tricks - some classified here for the first time - which can catch out even grandmasters.
Chess Tactics for Kids
A Revealing Look at the Nuts and Bolts of Chess Thought
Thinking methods are at the heart of the chess struggle, yet most players devote little conscious effort to improving their calculating ability. Much of the previous literature on the subject has presented idealized models that have limited relevance to the hurly-burly of practical chess, or else provide little more than ad hoc suggestions. Here, experienced trainer Valeri Beim strikes a balance by explaining how to use intuition and logic together to solve tactical problems in a methodical way. He also offers advice on when it is best to calculate 'like a machine', and when it is better to rely on intuitive assessment.
How to Calculate Chess Tactics
A Challenging Repertoire Versus Five King's Fianchetto Defences
Grivas provides a full and detailed repertoire for White against five important openings: the Grunfeld, King's Indian, Benoni, Benko and Modern. In each case, he has recommended a line in which he has a wealth of experience, and has played a significant personal role in developing over many years. The recommendations are geared towards posing Black unconventional problems: your opponents will not be able to churn out lengthy memorized variations, but will need to solve problems at the board in positions that are somewhat different in character from those normally reached in these openings.
Beating the Fianchetto Defences
A New Approach to Understanding the Chess Openings
Chess Explained is a new series of books about chess openings. They are not theoretical works in the traditional sense, but more a series of lessons from a chess expert with extensive over-the-board experience with an opening. You will gain an understanding of the opening and the middlegames to which it leads, enabling you to find the right moves and plans in your own games. It is as if you were sitting at the board with a chess coach answering your questions about the plans for both sides, the ideas behind particular moves, and what specific knowledge you need to have.
Chess Explained - The Modern Benoni
A Much-Expanded New Edition of 101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures
Grandmaster Secrets - Winning Quickly at Chess
A Practical Course in the Most Important Type of Chess Endgame
For all chess-players - from beginners to grandmasters, and whatever their style of play - one thing is certain: rook endings will arise in a great many of their games. Yet it is precisely in this area of the game that many players give away hard-earned points, either through lack of knowledge or inadequate understanding. Most previous books on the subject have been extremely technical and theoretical, but this one is different. John Emms provides the essential specific knowledge and explains the key concepts that will enable readers to find the right plan in most common types of rook endings.
The Survival Guide to Rook Endings
33 Inspiration and Instructive Masterpieces
All chess-players love to play a smooth attacking game, flowing from start to finish, and sprinkled with spectacular ideas and sacrifices. However, few can do so regularly, and for most players, their collection of brilliancies missed far outweighs their creative successes. Innate talent plays an important role, but many of the skills needed for attacking chess can be learned by study and practice. Here, one of the world's most experienced annotators has selected 33 superb examples, and explained them in a way that strips away the mystery.
The Art of Attacking Chess
An Inspiring Guide for the Modern Attacker
Simon Williams, one of Britain's most dynamic and aggressive chess-players, has selected his favourite attacking games from the modern era, and annotated them with an infectious zeal that will inspire and instruct. He takes us inside the decision-making process, explaining how each stage in an attacking concept is formed, and shows how top players spot the signs that indicate it is time to stake everything on an all-out assault. We also get insights into the role of intuition and calculation in both attack and defence
How to Crush Your Chess Opponents
Sound Advice on all Aspects of Playing Chess
Steve Giddins is an author acclaimed for his ability to write in down-to-earth style on fundamental chess topics. In this book he answers the questions that really matter to chess-players. His topics include many basic ideas, including some that have rarely been addressed so directly in chess literature, and thus are often misunderstood by club players. Where appropriate, the answers also address highly sophisticated concepts, providing insights gleaned from many years of experience and discussions with players and trainers of the highest level.
101 Chess Questions Answered
Test and Improve your Over-the-Board Decision Making
Most chess puzzle books put you in an artificial situation: you are told a combination exists, what the theme is and what you are required to achieve. This one is different. In a real game, a player may sometimes need to find a combination. On the other hand he may have to reject a tactical idea and simply find a good positional move. His task is to find the right move, whatever it may be.
John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book
Rock Solid or Flexible - Your Choice!
The Stonewall Dutch is a traditional favourite amongst club players, as it offers Black ready-made attacking plans on the kingside. As Grandmaster Bent Larsen has noted, the Dutch also has the tendency to 'bring out the coward' in opponents, giving it an added practical sting. However, up until the late 1980s, the Stonewall wasn't fully trusted at grandmaster level, despite its earlier use by Alekhine and Botvinnik. Black's attacking plans were too one-sided, and White's methods too well worked out.
Win With The Stonewall Dutch
A New Edition of a Winner of the USCF Award for Best Book
Igor Stohl has selected 62 outstanding games from recent years and analysed them in painstaking depth. Here he presents his findings to chess enthusiasts, who will find the games entertaining and the annotations both instructive and illuminating. Stohl is an outstanding theoretical expert, so the opening phase of each game reads like a lesson in the key strategic aspects of the opening chosen, with a critical survey of modern trends. The middlegame is dissected and the critical decisions subjected to keen scrutiny - we are invited inside Stohl's laboratory to join him in the quest for the truth. The endgame phase, if reached, is handled with similar erudition, with insights into the grandmaster's approach to questions of technique.
Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces


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Rick Steves advocates smart, independent travel. As host, writer and producer of the popular series Rick Steves' Europe, and best-selling author of more than 50 European travel books, he encourages Americans to delve deep into travel and become "temporary locals."
The Alps of France and Switzerland #101 We base ourselves in Chamonix, France's original alpine resort town. Mont Blanc is easy to conquer with a lift ticket. The Glacier Express loops us down to Appenzell in Switzerland's yodel-happy cow country. |
The Alps of Austria and Italy #102 Tirolean Innsbruck offers a towering Olympic ski jump and a dirndl-clad world of alpine thrills. Follow the Brenner Pass to Italy's rugged Dolomites for Alps with pasta. |
France's Alsace #103 After village-hopping and wine-shopping along the Alsatian wine road, we savor the world-class cuisine and art of Colmar and visit the birthplace of Champagne. |
Spain's Costa Del Sol #104 Granada's Alhambra echoes with Moorish intrigue. After some fun in the Costa del Sol sun, we climb the Rock of Gibraltar and take a plunge into exotic Morocco. |
Copenhagen and Ćrř #105 We'll tour historic Copenhagen - with its fine palaces, colorful maritime culture and fun-loving Tivoli amusement park - then wind up exploring the thatch-happy isle of Ćrř. |
Stockholm and Helsinki #106 We eat up Stockholm - a smörgĺsbord of lakes, islands, art and culture. After exploring the Versailles-like Drottningholm Palace and unlucky 17th-century Vasa warship, we cruise the Baltic Archipelago to dashingly modern Helsinki. |
Oslo, Bergen and the Fjords #107 Oslo surprises us with the Nazi Resistance Museum, Vigeland statues, Viking ships, Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki boat and sky-high ski jump. The most scenic train in northern Europe gives us "Norway in a Nutshell": mountains, fjords and historic Bergen. |
Northwest England #108 England's Lake District shimmers with images of Wordsworth's poetry. We'll explore Durham's heavenly Norman cathedral, Blackpool (Britain's Coney Island) and more. |
Great Side Trips from London #109 Day-tripping from London, we ponder Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford, the ultimate medieval castle at Warwick, a walk with Newton through Cambridge, ghost stories, a pub visit-all with the Steves' children and other colorful sights. |
Athens and the Peloponnese #110 In Athens, we explore the majestic Acropolis and ancient market and kick up our heels in the Plaka. Then we head south to tour the ancient theater at Epidavros and the mystical ruins of Mycenae. |
Greek Islands #111 Island-hopping, we visit touristy and exotic Santorini, get familiar with the Aegean ferries, ride a motorbike around Sámos, pop into a remote monastery and catch some rays on the Back Door island of Lipsi. |
West Turkey #112 We visit the ancient sites of Ephesus and Aphrodisias, meander up the Meander River, eat Turkish pizza and discover a blend of ancient and modern: nomadic life, whirling dervishes and strong Muslim beliefs. |
Central Turkey #113 From historic cliff hideaways in Cappadocia to the unspoiled town of Güzelyurt, we ride camels, ponder luxurious carpets, and are welcomed by friendly locals. In the modern capital of Ankara, we learn about Atatürk, the "father of modern Turkey." |
Istanbul #114 Exploring the 2,000-year-old city of Istanbul, we get lost in the Grand Bazaar and enjoy the Blue Mosque and the Topkapi Palace. Then we sail the churning and historic Bosporus. |
Egypt #115 After the urban jungle of Cairo, we climb into a Giza Pyramid. In Luxor, we ramble with Ramses through the temple of Karnac and the Valley of the Kings and bicycle into today's village Egypt. |
Israel #116 Jerusalem is home to the ancient holy sites of Jews, Christians, Muslims and Armenians. We visit the Dead Sea, Bethlehem, Jericho and the desert mountain fortress of Masada. |


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Rush Coaches Visit Madrid, Spain!
Last Updated on Friday, 04 April 2014 10:14
On Monday, the coaches were able to do some exploring in downtown Madrid, enjoying the markets, local eateries and some of the amazing architecture. The coaches are definitely enjoying their time and learning a lot at the same time!
Almuneda Cathledral, Madrid |
Vincente Calderon Stadium - Atletico Madrid |


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