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>> It’s amazing how you walked into my life ♥ ^_^ ;) And now I can’t even remember how I lived without you! ♥ ♥ ;)

>> It's amazing how you walked into my life ♥ ^_^ ;) And now I can't even remember how I lived without you! ♥ ♥ ;)

A real love story in my dreams...

Yes, it's true. A love story as it has never happened before! ^_^ And if this love exists in my dreams only, don't wake me up! ;) <3 ---------- Sent from my Nokia phone

Love is a crime? <3

If Love Is A Crime, Then I Wanna Be A Criminel! <3 ;) ---------- Sent from my Nokia phone

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, but they choose to go & stay together on Earth! :):) <3

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, but they choose to go & stay together on Earth! :):) <3 ---------- Sent from my Nokia phone

Interesting Facts about the Netherlands.

The other day, while reading the blog A Letter from the Netherlands, I was surprised to learn that the general public can only fly the Dutch flag on 5 specific days of the year (or 6 if you live in the Hague). This is yet another Dutch rule that is contrary to the way I was raised in the USA, where you can fly the flag for pretty much any reason you want. I know Germans were encouraged to not be patriotic after WW2, but I’m not sure why the Dutch have this rule. It got me to start looking for other interesting (to me) facts about my new home. * The official Head of State is Queen Beatrix, but the country is actually ruled by a coalition government. Unlike Queen Elizabeth of the UK, Queen Beatrix actually does have some power. * Of all European countries with over 1 million residents (i.e. Monaco and the Vatican don’t count), The Netherlands has the highest population density, about 480 people per square kilometer. * Netherlands (or, in Dutch: Nederland), means “Low Countries.” Ab...

Ten fun facts about The Netherlands

Fact 1: The capital city of The Netherlands is Amsterdam. Fact 2: There are over 16 million bicycles in use, almost one for every citizen. Fact 3: The largest Van Gogh collection is housed in the Van Gogh museum. Fact 4: Potato and Cheese is the prime ingredient for most Dutch cuisines. Fact 5: The Netherlands is often known as the Land of Compromise. Fact 6: There is over 4,400km of rivers, lakes and canals. Fact 7: The Netherlands landscape is dotted in windmills, a famous hallmark. Fact 8: There is as many as 300 castles open to the general public. Fact 9: Holland is the third larges exporter of agricultural produce. Fact 10: Only 3% of the Dutch population is employed in the agricultural sector.

15 Interesting Facts About Dreams

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1. You Forget 90% of Your Dreams Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone. 2. Blind People also Dream People who became blind after birth can see images in their  dreams . People who are born blind do not see any images, but have  dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion. 3. Everybody Dreams Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder). If you think, you are not dreaming, you just forget your dreams. 4. In Our Dreams We Only See Faces, That We already Know Our mind is not inventing faces – in our dreams we see real faces of real people that we have seen during our life but may not know or remember. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces throughout our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams. 5. Not Everybody Dreams in Color A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black a...

Facts about The Sun

1. The SUN is just ONE of about 100 billion STARS in our GALAXY. 2. It has a DIAMETER of 1,390,000 km 3. Its CORE temperature is 15 million º C. 4. Its SURFACE temperature is 5,500 ºC. Cooler (3,800 ºC) surface areas are called SUN SPOTS. 5. It is the LARGEST object in the SOLAR SYSTEM and makes up 99.8% of the total MASS of the Solar System. 6. It consists of 75% HYDROGEN and 25% HELIUM. 7. The ENERGY output of the Sun is about 386 billion megawatts and is produced by NUCLEAR FUSION, using Hydrogen as fuel. 8. Apart from HEAT and LIGHT, the Sun also emits a stream of CHARGED PARTICLES called the SOLAR WIND. The Solar Wind:- a. - Causes Radio INTERFERENCE at certain times b. - Produces the AURORA BOREALIS or "The NORTHERN LIGHTS" c. - Causes the characteristic TAILS of COMETS. d. - Alters the TRAJECTORY of SPACECRAFT 9. The Sun is about 4.5 BILLION YEARS old. It will probably continue to exist in its present FORM for about another 5 BILLION YEARS before RUNNING out...

facts about the sun

  The Sun is one out of billions of stars.  The Sun is the closest star to Earth.     The Sun rotates once every 27 days.  The Sun is now a middle-aged star, meaning it is at about the middle of its life.  The Sun formed over four and a half billion years ago.  You may think the Sun will die soon, but it will keep shining for at least another five billion years.       The Sun’s surface is called the photosphere.  The temperature of the photosphere is about 10,000 °   Fahrenheit.  Its core is under its atmosphere. The temperature at the core, or very middle, of the Sun, is about 27 million °  Fahrenheit.  That’s pretty hot!       The Sun’s diameter is about 870,000 miles wide.  The Sun is 109 times wider than Earth, and is 333,000 times heavier.  That means if you put the Sun on a scale, you would need 333,000 objects that weigh as much as the Earth ...

Facts about Dreams that will Rock Your World!

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The Strangers in Your Dreams are Actually People That You’ve Seen in Real Life! The human brain is responsible for many complex creations, but it can’t invent the image of people. So the “strangers” that you meet in your dreams actually have the faces of people who you’ve once seen in your real life but forgotten, like your childhood mailman or that guy bumped into on the side walk that one time.  Chances are that you’ve laid their eyes on more than a few individuals, and so the brain as a huge cast of characters to play with when you drift off to sleep. Except for in the case of extreme psychological disorder, every human being dreams. In fact, in a recent study, students who were awakened at the beginning of each dream but still allowed 8 hours of sleep, all experienced difficulty concentrating, irritability, hallucinations, and signs of psychosis in a span of three days.  When they were allowed their REM sleep, their brains compensated for the lost time by increa...

The Great Dark Spot in Saturn

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For more than a century astronomers thought that the Great Red Spot was the biggest thing on Jupiter. Not anymore. Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed something at least as large. The Great Dark Spot. "I was totally blown away when I saw it--a dark cloud twice as big as Earth swirling around Jupiter's north pole," says Bob West, a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Right : This composite of Cassini ultra-violet (UV) images reveals the "Great Dark Spot" swirling near Jupiter's north pole. Jupiter's auroral zone is denoted by the blue curve.  West has been chasing this cloud for some time. He first saw it--"just a glimpse," says West--in an ultraviolet (UV) picture of Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1997. But it only appeared in one image out of many spanning a period of years. "I didn't know what to make of it," he recalls. Now he knows. "The Cassini...

'Oceans of diamonds' on Uranus and Neptune

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High pressure experiments that mimic conditions on the icy gas giants show that chunks of diamond can float on a sea of liquid carbon. The research provides the first detailed measurements of the melting point of diamond, the hardest natural material known, and the finding that could also help explain the strange orientation of Uranus and Neptune's magnetic fields.   Uranus (left) and Neptune (right), as seen by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Image: NASA/JPL. The existence of pure carbon in the interiors of these giant planets has gained both experimental and theoretical support in recent years, and understanding the high pressure and temperature behaviour of carbon is essential to predicting their evolution and structure. Current theories speculate that Neptune and Uranus have solid cores surrounded by an icy mantle of water, ammonia and methane ices. In the new experiment, led by Jon Eggert of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, scientists blasted diamonds just two millim...

Diamond LOCATIONS

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When scientists melted diamond under high temperatures and pressure and then resolidified, the solid diamond chunks floated on top of liquid diamond   THE GIST: —  Like ice on water, solid diamond floats on liquid diamond. —  The finding explains possible liquid diamond oceans on other planets. —  Diamond oceans may cause off-kilter planetary tilts. Oceans of liquid diamond, filled with  solid diamond  icebergs, could be floating on Neptune and Uranus, according to a recent article in the journal  Nature Physics . The research, based on the first detailed measurements of the melting point of diamond, found diamond behaves like water during freezing and melting, with solid forms floating atop liquid forms. The surprising revelation gives scientists a new understanding about diamonds and some of the most distant planets in our solar system. "Diamond is a relatively common material on Earth, but its melting point has never ...