Lavender

Lavender atau lavendel atau Lavandula adalah sebuah genus tumbuhan berbunga dalam suku Lamiaceae yang memiliki 25-30 spesies. Asal tumbuhan ini adalah dari wilayah selatan Laut Tengah sampai Afrika tropis dan ke timur sampai India. Genus ini termasuk tumbuhan menahun, tumbuhan dari jenis rumput-rumputan, semak pendek, dan semak kecil. Tanaman ini juga menyebar di Kepulauan Kanari, Afrika Utara dan Timur, Eropa selatan dan Mediterania, Arabia, dan India. Karena telah ditanam dan dikembangkan di taman-taman di seluruh dunia, tumbuhan ini sering ditemukan tumbuh liar di daerah di luar daerah asalnya.

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candi borobudur

Struktur Borobudur

Candi Borobudur berbentuk punden berundak, yang terdiri dari enam tingkat berbentuk bujur sangkar, tiga tingkat berbentuk bundar melingkar dan sebuah stupa utama sebagai puncaknya. Selain itu tersebar di semua tingkat-tingkatannya beberapa stupa. (more…)

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Pearl Harbor

Serangan udara terhadap USS West Virginia dan USS Tennessee di Pearl Harbor.

Pada 7 Desember 1941, pesawat Jepang dikomandoi oleh Laksamana Madya Chuichi Nagumo melaksanakan serangan udara kejutan terhadap Pearl Harbor, pangkalan angkatan laut AS terbesar di Pasifik. Pasukan Jepang menghadapi perlawanan kecil dan menghancurkan pelabuhan tersebut. AS dengan segera mengumumkan perang terhadap Jepang.

Bersamaan dengan serangan terhadap Pearl Harbor, Jepang juga menyerang pangkalan udara AS di Filipina. Setelah serangan ini, Jepang menginvasi Filipina, dan juga koloni-koloni Inggris di Hong Kong, Malaya, Borneo dan Birma, dengan maksud selanjutnya menguasai ladang minyak Hindia Belanda. Seluruh wilayah ini dan daerah yang lebih luas lagi, jatuh ke tangan Jepang dalam waktu beberapa bulan saja. Markas Britania Raya di Singapura juga dikuasai, yang dianggap oleh Churchill sebagai salah satu kekalahan dalam sejarah yang paling

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HARAJUKU-Youth Culture

Harajuku Fashion – Youth Culture

If it’s Harajuku’s youth culture you want to see, don’t even bother unless it’s the weekend and preferably a Sunday. The bridge across the train tracks from Harajuku station to Yoyogi Park is full of Gothic Lolita or GothLoli. The costumes are very outstanding and you can’t miss them. It is funny to see the surprise of the western tourists heading to Yoyogi Park and Meiji Jingu who clearly had not read their guide books fully on Harajuku. You can hear their comments that make it very clear they just don’t understand what is going on. Essentially the youth who have dressed up are just hanging out with friends, many of them come with the hope of being snapped by one of the many magazine photographers who mingle in the crowd. Failing that there are lots of western tourist happy to take their pictures. See nearly 50 exclusive pictures of GothLoli in Harajuku.

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Einstein

Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was unable to find a teaching post, he accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. In 1905 he obtained his doctor’s degree. (more…)

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PARIS Je t’aime

Paris (pronounced /paʁi/ in French; /ˈpaɹɪs/ in English) is the capital city of France. It is situated on the River Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region (aka “Paris Region”; in French: Région Parisienne or RP). The City of Paris has an estimated population of 2,167,994 within its administrative limits (January 2006).^[2] The Paris unité urbaine (or urban area) extends well beyond the administrative city limits and has an estimated population of 9.93 million (in 2005),^[3] while the Paris aire urbaine (or metropolitan area) has a population of nearly 12 million^[4] and is one of the most populated metropolitan areas in Europe.^[5] (more…)

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Global Warming???

Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation.

The global average air temperature near the Earth’s surface rose 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the hundred years ending in 2005.^[1] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes “most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations”^[1] via the greenhouse effect. Natural phenomena such as solar variation combined with volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward.^[2][3] These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least thirty scientific societies and academies of science,^[4] including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.^[5][6][7] While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with some findings of the IPCC,^[8] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC’s main conclusions.^[9][10] (more…)

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