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The Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan is a jewel among the national parks and sanctuaries in India, and probably one of the best places in the world to observe and photograph tigers in their natural habitat. It once formed part of a contiguous belt of virgin forest that stretched across the width of Central India. The past 50 years have seen the relentless destruction of vast tracts of forest land and all that remains today are isolated pockets of jungle preserved by virtue of the fact that they have been declared protected areas. Ranthambore was one of the eight national parks and sanctuaries designated as Project Tiger Reserves in 1973.
The park spreads over an area of 1,334 sq km and includes the adjoining sanctuaries of the Kaila Devi Sanctuary and the Mansingh Sanctuary. The idea to preserve the wildlife first came to the former rulers of Jaipur. Ranthambore became a Game Sanctuary in 1955 and was among the first few reserved areas for wildlife in India. The sanctuary acquired the status of a National Park in 1984. On Ranthambore Tours India, we may spot from the population of around 36 Tigers and 40 Leopards.
The star attraction is ofcourse the Tifer, which can be seen easily even during the day, mostly near the lakes inside the park. Apart from the Royal Bengal Tigers, we can see rare and unique animals and birds on wildlife India Tours include Panthers, Chital, Sambar, Blackbuck, Chinkara, Leopard, Sloth Bear, Hyena, Jackal, Wild Boars, Mongoose, Nilgai, Gazelle, Bears, Indian Hare, Monitor Lizards and a large number of exotic and colorful birds. There are ruins, lake palaces and old fortifications all around the park providing glimpses of its glorious past.
The Ranthambhore National Park is rich in its flora. The park is dotted with plenty of ancient Banyan trees, Pipal, Dhok, and Mango trees. Some of the Banyan tress in this park is more than 700 years old. The park has got two extremes – the open bush land and impregnable forests. During our Wildlife India Tours to Ranthambhore national park we will see a lot of Dhok trees, cluster of Mango trees, Peepal trees and ancient Banyan trees in the dry and deciduous forests of Ranthambhore.
Apart from rich flora and fauna, the Ranthambhore National Park is also known for the 10th century Ranthambhore Fort and the forest rest house – Jogi Mahal. The Ranthambhore Fort and Jogi Mahal are the worth visiting attractions of the Ranthambhore National Park.
Eating: Skeleton gingerbread man with green icing - pretty epic. :P
Drinking: Coca Cola
Playing: Nothing atm, but I really should play Avalon Code, Rune Factory, and finish up Rune Factory 2... oh, and Kingdom Hearts, the game I've had for about 2 years now (borrowing from a friend) and am only just after HalloweenTown. iFail. XD
Excited about: YOUMACON IN 22 DAYS!!!!! And NaNoWriMo is kicking up~
Should be writing: Duplicity rewrite
Should be outlining: NaNoWriMo plot
Happy about: Being free from school until Monday~
Kitsune no Tora is feeling: SUPER ESTATICALLY EXCITED, sleepy (constantly)
Uhh... hi?
Didn't I say a long time ago that I wasn't going to leave this for such a long time again?
...I guess I lied. XD Oops.
ANYWAYS...
Since the last time I posted, school has started. I have class Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. Mondays I have Calculus I 11-1, Tuesdays I have Short-Stories and Novels 1-4, then Career Planning 6-9, and Wednesdays I have Calculus I again 11-1, and then a (annoyingly easy) Word Processing class 6-9. Not toooooo busy of a schedule, but Calculus is kicking my ass. D8 I suck at trigonometry, so I fail terribly at all the problems involving that stuff. ^^; We just got done with limits, I think I did pretty decent on the exam this morning, but I'm not positive. It was hard. D8
Today I hit an animal driving through campus on my way to get some lunch. I was driving down the road and this squirrel just jumped right in front of my car. I braked a little, and I didn't feel anything or see anything in the road in my rearview mirror, so I'm hoping that I didn't actually hit him. But it made me sad anyway. :(
I want something (preferably living) to cuddle. But I'm not going to ask any of my family (eesh no), and my kitty Squirt is the most uncuddly cat ever. He doesn't like to be held for very long and he will NEVER sit on your lap. The most you can get is him sitting next to you. I had to trick him this morning to sit on my lap - I was in the living room on the couch and had a blanket over my legs because I was cold. I stuck my hand under and moved it around, and he jumped into my lap trying to get my hand under the blanket. He stayed there. :) But it was only because he didn't realize he was on my lap...Too bad I had to trick him, though. :/ I really hope he grows out of it.
YOUMACON IS IN 22 DAYS!! I'm so super duuper excited. 8DDD Too bad my cosplay fell through. :( I took a last ditch attempt to get the right fabric so that my aunt could make it for me (she's a talented seamstress, and I know if she made it it wouldn't fall apart or anything and be of good quality), and now it's too late to order one. :( They say it takes 25-30 days just to ship it out to me, and probably somewhere around a week after that before it gets on my doorstep, since it would be coming from Hong Kong. :/ *sadface* Andrea said that I should still find something simple enough and cosplay, but I have absolutely no idea who to do. She said she'd look some up for me, though, so we'll see how that goes.
...Maybe I can find some overalls/coveralls, a blonde wig, a peach bandana and make a cardboard wrench and go as Winry Rockbell, haha. XD That could work... I dunno. I'll have to think about it. I want to do something that is easy, but not stupidly simple, like L from Death Note or something. Those are just lazy. :P
I'll definitely do Riza next year, though. And maybe someone from Hetalia, I dunno. 8D I'm partial to Italy~ He's so cute. <3 Plus it would be an excuse for me to act like a dork (moreso that I would normally at an anime convention. :P).
I WONDER IF WE'LL FIND JESUS AGAIN. XDDD And I hope they have Death Note Mafia again, that was a lot of fun, despite the douchebag who decided to act like a pompous smart-ass and ruin everyone's fun halfway through the night last year. I just hope it doesn't coincide with Mario Party After Dark again, I really wanted to go to that, but couldn't tear myself away from the game. XD We played it from like, 11 to 4 in the morning last time, it was a blast.
We should also totally do Otaku Family Feud again, we killed everyone at it last year. Pocky Brigade FTW! We'll need to find Jessica again, though, I didn't get any contact information from her. Maybe Andi did...
Aaaaaand NaNoWriMo is gearing up again! I'm both super excited but ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED at the same time. ^^; I've been having a lot of problems writing recently. I can see and imagine the scene in my head, and it's great. The words flow through my head perfectly. But when I go to put it on paper/document, it just... dies. No words come. It's insanely annoying. Hopefully I can break that before November. I'm already going to get a bad start because of Youmacon (the last day is November 1st, and after that I'm going to be completely wiped and have no will to write anything), so I really really hope that gets broken soon.
I decided to go ahead and do the sequel to Duplicity as my NaNo novel. Except it's slowly becoming too AU to be the true sequel. XDD; PLUS, Duplicity isn't actually DONE, I even went so far as to restart it because it sucked. ^^; So I'm technically writing the sequel to a story that hasn't been written yet. SO SMART Y/Y? Especially since I'm an extremely linear writer, I just can't jump around in my story. It just ends up weird and doesn't feel right. That's PROBABLY why Precious Wingbeats (working title of the sequel) is becoming so intensely AU. ^^;;;; Oh well. I've been using an outlining technique called the Snowflake Method, and so far it has been doing me some good. I've actually got things down; I guess restricting myself to your normal outline format was what was blocking me from creating previous outlines. I'm on stage 3 with Precious Wingbeats, and plan on trying it all the way through. I'm just too lazy right now to plot out all the characters, since I know them all pretty well at this point...
CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THE END OF THIS MONTH OMG. <333
I've been so intensely sleepy a lot recently. It's weird. I get enough sleep: anywhere between 7 1/2 and 10 hours. That's what I've been getting for most of my life now. But it just feels like I need a nap all the time, except during some points of the day. I have the hardest time EVER getting up. I feel like I need naps during the day (which I have never done in my life except on occasion). I don't know why... my lifestyle hasn't changed at all. Maybe it's a mental thing? But what would make me want to sleep all the time? Idk. :/ Oh well.
...I must be sitting weird, because my wrists are starting to hurt from the typing. D8 I guess I'm done for tonight.
Goodnight, digital abyss.
The other day I made a visit to my doctor to renew my blood pressure medicine. As usual, he wanted me to take some tests which he believe's are necessary and I refused. Why? I am among the millions of uninsured Americans who cannot afford "premium care", only a little maintance. I told him it was best not to know if I have cancer or something because I could not afford the treatment for it if he found it. Ignorance is bliss they say.
I told him if I got a serious disease I would just have to die and when I said those words to my doctor, I almost cried for I knew they were true.
Statisics show that 18,000 people have died every year for the past five years because of a lack of insurance. The premium for my husband and I would be more than our house payment every month! Maybe it doesn't matter to you if I live or die , you don't know me. But what about the people in your neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, or even your own family? How many of them have no insurance? Will one or more of them be one of the 18,000 who will die needlessly this year?
If America took the money it is wasting on death and destruction in Iraq and Afganistan every month, it would more than cover the cost of healthcare for every American citizen. Many countries have a national healthcare program including Canada, Britian, France and even Cuba. America ranks 37th in healthcare system performance among industrialized countries.
In Michael Moore's documentary film "Sicko" you can see how National healthcare works for others .(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicko). I think Moore's expose' on how the American health system is failing was brilliant. If the insurance and drug companies get their way, nothing will ever change. They're making a fortune the way it is.
But luckily there is a bill before the house that would provide healthcare to all Americans, it is called "HR 676" and it was introduced by Represenative John Conyers.
If you are interested in learning more about the bill and what you can do to help, visit "Healthcare Now" at http://www.healthcare-now.org:80/. As for me I plan to march, petition, make calls and write letters. My life may depend on it.
Japan switched from the traditional Japanese calendar - a lunar calendar based on the waxing and waning of the moon - to the Gregorian calendar starting in January 1873. It was at this time that the day of the enthronement of Emperor Jinmu, the first Japanese emperor, was made a national holiday and named Kigen-setsu. February 11 was determined as the day of enthronement by calculating the date in the solar calendar corresponding to the date recorded in the Nihon Shoki (The Chronicles of Japan), Japan's first history compiled on imperial orders. (However, many historians believe that Emperor Jinmu's enthronement, as described in the Nihon Shoki, was not a historical fact but folklore.)
Before World War II government offices and schools throughout Japan held all sorts of celebrations on Kigen-setsu, but after the war, the holiday was abolished for various reasons. Still, many voices lamented its passing, so that in 1966 the day was again made a national holiday as National Foundation Day.
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The Massacre at Lidice
| On June 10, 1942, the German government announced that it had destroyed the small village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, killing every adult male and some fifty-two women. All surviving women and children were then deported to concentration camps, or if found suitable to be "Germanized", sent to the greater Reich. The Nazi's then proudly proclaimed that the village of Lidice, it's residents, and its very name, were now forever blotted from memory. |
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For centuries Lidice was an ordinary agricultural village, which belonged to the Buštehrad manor, located in a shallow valley of the Lidice Creek in the Kladno district sone 20 km west of Prague. The village is today a quiet town that lies adjacent to valleys and of meadows, with a few stone ruins of a farmhouse and church, and a striking bronze sculpture of children. This is the site of the original village, and what happened here on June 10th, 1942, shocked the entire world.
After the Munich Agreement of September 1938, Hitler's troops occupied the ethnic-German border regions of Bohemia and Moravia (the Sudetenland). Soon afterwards Hungary received territory in southern Slovakia and Ruthenia. Czechoslovakia ceased to exist in March 1939, when Hitler occupied the rest of the Czech lands, and the remaining part of Slovakia became a Nazi puppet state.
The Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia had tragic consequences for Lidice. In order to suppress the growing anti-Fascist resistance movement, security police chief SS Obergruppenfuhrer - Reinherd Heydrich was appointed deputy Reichs-protektor in September 1941. During his short reign of terror, 5000 anti-Fascist fighters and their helpers were imprisoned.
The courts working under martial law were kept busy and the Nazis even had people summarily executed without a trial in order to spread fear throughout the country. So many people throughout the Sudetenland died on the scaffold from Heydrich' s persecution, that he earned himself the nickname the "Hangman".
Edvard Beneš, the leader of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile, together with František Moravec, head of Czechoslovak military intelligence, organized and coordinated a resistance network. Hácha, Prime Minister Eliáš, and the Czech resistance acknowledged Beneš's leadership. Active collaboration between London and the Czechoslovak home front was maintained throughout the war years.
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The most significant act of resistance was the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich during a mission codenamed: Operation Anthropoid. Two Czech patriots, Jan Kubis and Joseph Gabcik, serving with the Polish forces in Britain, volunteered to be dropped by parachute near Prague.
Their mission, to assassinate SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. The ambush took place on May 27, 1942, as Heydrich drove to his office. Severely wounded, he was rushed to Bulovka Hospital where he died eight days later.
Soon after his death, the Nazi reprisals began when an enraged Hitler ordered Heydrich's underling SS Gruppenführer Karl Hermann Frank to initiate mass executions of the Czech populace, but Frank persuaded him first to search for the assassins.
Read the full article of the Lidice Massacre here:
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/lidice.html
The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
www.HolocaustResearchProject.org
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