Pics that you don't make you laugh but are still cool
I hop you don't mind if I use this thread as an excuse to post some Earth porn: My current Wallpaper, The Havasu Falls The Guilin Mountains "Elephant Foot" Glacier My favorite at the moment: Rainbow(Northern Lights?)
Hinduism
About Hinduism: Oldest of the world's major religions. It evolved from the Vedic religion of ancient India. Though the various Hindu sects each rely on their own set of scriptures, they all revere the ancient Vedas, which were brought to India by Aryan invaders after 1200 BC. The philosophical Vedic texts called the Upanishads explored the search for knowledge that would allow mankind to escape the cycle of reincarnation.
Armored Personnel Unit - Matrix Wiki - Neo, Trinity, Wachowski Brothers
The Armored Personnel Unit (commonly referred to as APU) was first seen in The Matrix Reloaded, but mostly seen in The Matrix Revolutions. They are hydraulic power battle suits designed for combat and defense of Zion. More than 120,000 units were produced, however by the time of the Battle of Zion, only 350 remain (although in screen when Mifune gives his speech there are only around 70 APUs present).
frontline: hunting bin laden
Osama bin Laden is charged with masterminding the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa, believed to have had a role in the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden, and now is a prime suspect in the Sept. 11, 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center and the bombing of the Pentagon. This report features reporting by a Pulitzer-Prize nominated team of New York Times reporters and FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman. Tracing the trail of evidence linking bin Laden to terrorist attacks, this updated report includes interviews with Times reporters Judith Miller and James Risen and former CIA official Larry Johnson. They discuss the terrorist attacks which are linked, or are likely linked, to bin Laden's complex network of terrorists, outline the elements of his international organization and details of its alliances and tactics, and address the challenges confronting U.S. intelligence in trying to crack it.
Reasons it's good to be a man
This has been sitting on my hard drive in one form or another for years. I don't have an attribution for it. It appeared in a number of emails over the years. I don't claim that its original.
The Ajanta Caves – Ancient Temples Carved from Rock
Two thousand two hundred years ago work began on an extensive series of cave monuments in Maharashtra, India. Over a period of hundreds of years, thirty one monuments were hewn piece by piece from the rock face. Then, some speculate around the year 1000AD, they fell in to disuse. Dense jungle grew around, hiding the caves away from human eyes.
Sherilyn Hyde
Sherilyn Hyde (シェリリン・ハイド, Shieririn Haido?) is a fictional character in the side stories of Mobile Suit Gundam 00. Sherilyn is a MS mechanic and a disciple of Ian Vashti for working for Celestial Being's Fereshte. Personality & Character
Seth Howard
Sgt. Seth E. Howard On the morning of 6 April 2008, a pair of American Chinook helicopters zoomed in low over the Shok Valley in the unforgiving mountains of rural Afghanistan. This impenetrable, rocky ravine was unfamiliar and unfriendly territory to the Western powers – a heavily-fortified network of caves laced the canyon walls, concealing a massive network of terrorist freedom-and-pie-hating insurgents from the prying eyes of Allied warplanes and satellites. No NATO force had ever dared venture into this daunting region, and even the Soviets had been repeatedly turned away from this area by determined Mujahedeen fighters when the Russkies had launched their ill-fated invasion in the 80s.
