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Liverpool all-star game best pictures - our pick of some fantastic images. There are some days as a photographer when you just need to point the camera and click in the knowledge you're going to take a great photo and so it was at Anfield yesterday for the Liverpool FC All-Stars game. Two teams captained by Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher took to the field, giving an entranced crowd the chance to see footballing legends take to the field again. Among the greats on show were the beloved Xabi Alonso, the forgiven Fernando Torres, the always-sung-about Luis Garcia and the please-come-back-for-good Luis Suarez from recent LFC history, as well as superstars including Thierry Henry and Didier Drogba.

We've rounded up the best photos from a historic day for you to enjoy again, and you can see links to the rest of our coverage below the gallery. 1x.com. From Flashcards to Freakouts: the Art of Learning Another Language and Not Going Crazy » My Spanish Adventure. Here’s the hardest part, hands down, of learning any language, ever. Harder than memorizing tenses. Harder than subjunctive conjugations. Harder even still than negative mandates in the pluperfect oh my gosh my head hurts. Are you ready? The hardest part of learning a language, no matter which language it is, is getting over the embarrassment of actually speaking it. If you just rolled your eyes, you’re either lying to yourself or you’re one of those extremely rare people who doesn’t suffer from crippling embarrassment when forced to speak in another language.

Or you’re European. There are myriad ways you can learn a new language. The thing is, none of that will make much of a difference if you don’t get over your fear of having to speak the words you’ve memorized. Accept the fact that you are indeed going to sound stupid and make a mistake. Put yourself in the other person’s shoes. Remember that the point of leaning a language isn’t perfection. 15 Perfectly timed Photos.

27 Surreal Places To Visit Before You Die. Most Beautiful Villages Around The World photo. Popeye Village, is a group of rustic and ramshackle wooden buildings located at Anchor Bay in the north-west corner of the Mediterranean island of Malta.

Photo by: Mosin Village on the bank of the Niger river, Mali. Photo by: Yann Arthus-Bertrand Hidden mountain village in Southern China. Photo by: Christian Ortiz Mist over countryside in Southwest England. Hobbiton village – “Lord of the Rings” movie location in New Zealand. Riomaggiore is a village and comune in the province of La Spezia, situated in a small valley in the Liguria region of Italy. Mountain Village, Iran. Beautiful African sea side village. Hallstatt, Upper Austria, is a village in the Salzkammergut, a region in Austria with 946 inhabitants. Gásadalur village, Faroe Islands. Village located in Himalayas, Tibet. Fort Bourtange is a star fort located in the village of Bourtange, Groningen, Netherlands.

- StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. Historical photos (part 3) 12 Beautiful World Heritage Sites. The 15 Craziest Things In Nature You Won't Believe Actually Exist. Mother Nature is beautiful and amazing because we can see many amazing stuff like these 15 things that you won’t believe they actually exist.

All these places are real. It is hard to believe in that, but that is true. 1. Volcanic lightning aka “dirty thunderstorms.” 2. Frozen air bubbles in Abraham Lake. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Train etiqette. MAIN : GHOSTCO. - StumbleUpon. Famous Quotes are Paired with Clever Illustrations. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based illustrator Tang Yau Hoong has just released a brand new series where he pairs one of his older illustrations with a famous quote.

A few years ago, we discovered Hoong and we quickly became fans after we saw his ability to cleverly incorporate negative space into many of his works. As he told us then, "I enjoy making illusion art because it has the ability to mislead us. We rely on sight in our lives and yet it is so fragile that we could easily be deceived by what we see. " In one of our favorite new prints, Hoong takes one of Steve Jobs' famous quotes, "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish" and illustrates it by putting two half eaten apples next to each other.

Within the negative space, one can subtly make out Steve Jobs' silhouette. As he tells us, "Most of them are old illustrations that I redrew to match the style I was looking for and the meaning of the corresponding quote. You can pick up these prints over at Hoong's shop.

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The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. - StumbleUpon. Just a waterdrop in front of a world map. - StumbleUpon.