Help! My googling skills have failed

Does this type of rock formation have a specific name? (I have always thought of them as looney tunes scenery, are these mountains? hills? random rock formations? )

... people. The Jewish world is a small one in general, but coming together here in Israel, it's even smaller. Get a group of relative strangers together and usually within 5 minutes of playing 'Jewish Geography', you've discovered your six degrees of separation and often it's only 1 or 2 degrees. And every time that happens, it proves to me that one really shouldn't talk 'Lashon haRah' because you...

Masaa al-kreer

... ninja polar bears alike). Occasionally I write things, and I usually update fairly frequently. I have an obsession with tags. Things I Am Useful For: I am a massive history/linguistics/politics/geography geek, and will gladly freak out with you over glossy tidbits of information any day of the week. Book recommendations (want something to read? XD). Toy recommendations (need a present for your...

The Divine Comedy (1308 - 1321)

...Inferno" is the most popular because it's vivid. All that torture and gruesomeness, all those spiteful wretches cursing God and each other for sins such as charging interest (take that, capitalist pigdog!). The geography of Dante's hell as a giant pit, unnaturally divided into a series of concentric circles, with rivers of blood, water, and fire flowing down to the ice where Satan is frozen in the...

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Сегодня в Аризоне начался сезон " муссон " [monsoon] - сильные грозы, песчанные бури [очень редко, правда - ст о aрожилы говорят, что раньше бури эти были много сильнее].

Get me a bed please

... too, but after starving yourself the entire day in school (no I was trying to save money at recess time, a 20-inch waist just seemed too appealing), in addition to PE lessons and mind-numbing geography and biology lessons and attempting to top the cohort in math, you gotta give in to that deep-fried, creamy mix of sinful deliciousness as long as I finished my 200 crunches after I got home. And ...

kansas abortion provider shot dead

...is obviously important feminist news, especially in light of the fact that dr. tiller ran the only abortion clinic in the state of kansas NOT in kansas city. for those unfamiliar with kansas geography, kansas city is on the eastern-most edge of an enormous state that sprawls laterally across several hundred miles. while most of kansas's population is concentrated in the eastern towns (kansas city,...

Body of Skillz

... California and the 1900's, Psychology robotprospektr Speaks Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, Farsi, and Korean, Just About Anything and Everything to do with Music, Higher Education, Travel, Geography, Classic Literature vi0lentserenity ADHD, Folklore, Ghosts, Weird and Simple Math Tricks, Rubiks Cube, Just to Reiterate Her Knowledge in Psychology Ask Her For Any Information On Just ...

Dorne Index Part 2 Sec 1: People of Dorne

You might remember the Dorne Index Project that I started last summer. At last, I've finally completed the 2nd section. Here it is. Part 1:Geography (includes basic info about the project) III. Life & Society             People                         -There are 3 types of Dornishmen as categorized by Daeron I; stony, sandy, & salty. There are also the Orphans of ...

Behind the scene in Sartorias-deles

...volume in one of several series set in Smith’s fantasy world of Sartorias-deles. Like several other fantasy authors who have spent a great deal of time developing a complex history and cultural geography for their alternate universe (Lackey’s Velgarth and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover come most quickly to my mind), Smith has written several books and series set in different times and places in ...