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~Forgiveness does not change the past, but it will enlarge the future~

~Take no risks with your reputation!~

~Respect for others is peace. Respect for yourself is happiness.~

~You cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone with.~

~When things go wrong don't go with them.~

~Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will!~

~To ignore the facts doesn't change the facts.~

~Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.~

~Live every day up to your expectations not others.~

Friday, October 1, 2010

I have more pictures of the Highlands but I won't get to them for a bit.

Highlands: Urquhart Castle and Loch Ness

Urquhart (err-kit) Castle is right on the shore of Loch Ness. It is amazing!!!

Here's the link: http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/drumnadrochit/urquhart/

Looking down at Loch Ness

This is Charley Rader. He is one of my professors.

Do you see Nessie?!?!?!

A group of our students.

Me and my friend Angela .

This flag was made out of little pebbles.

Highlands: Culloden Battlefield

On my birthday we went to the battle-site of Culloden. It is a very important place to the Scots. It is like their Gettysburg.

Here's the link: http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/inverness/culloden/

Starting off on the tour. It was very cold (it was snowing in the mountains).

Those 2 ladies were standing there and as I passed by I could hear them speaking in Gaelic.

The memorial cairn.

They have red flags for where the British government stood and blue for where the Jacobites stood.

The clans were buried in mass graves.

So were the Brits.

In the Highlands it is very common to see signs in Gaelic and English.

Did Ya Know

...the latitude of Edinburg, Scotland is the same as Hudson Bay and Moscow, but because of the warm gulf stream air they have mild winters like Seattle, WA.

...the humming bird is the only bird that can fly backwards.

...Uranus doesn't have cloud layers so the methane in its atmosphere absorbs red light and makes it look blue.

...we only ever see one side of the Moon.

...our capillaries are so small that red blood cells can only go through one at a time and sometimes they have to bend in half to get through.

...elephants can't jump.

...chocolate can create the same reaction in your body as being in love.

...dueling in Paraguay is legal as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

...there are 49 different foods mentioned in the Bible and salt is mentioned 30 times.

...on Sept. 13, 1992 in El Azizia, Libya it was 136 degrees. This is the hottest recored temperature ever!

...most American car horns honk in the key of F.

...Europe has no desert. It is the only continent without one.

...most lipstick contains fish scales.

...for every 10 successful attempts to climb Mt. Everest there is one fatality.

...the 1st toy advertised on TV was Mr. Potato Head.

...approximately every 250,000 years the Earth's magnetic field flips making the North Pole the South Pole and so on.

...it is state law in Wisconsin that apple pie must be eatten with cheddar cheese on it.

...there were almost 150 "witches" arrested during the Salem Witch Trials, but only 31 were tried. All 31 (including 6 men) were sentenced to death: 19 hanged, 2 died in jail, and one man was slowly pressed to death under heavy stones. NONE were burned!

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