Jesus, the Alpha & the Omega
Photography August 2014
The Sony World Photography Awards are one of the world’s most prestigious photography competitions, and this year it drew over 139,000 submissions from 166 countries across all disciplines: from fine art to photojournalism to lifestyle. A few of the winning entries are showcased here; included are the names of the respective photographers.
Bible Verse for Today
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892).
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There are 150,000 miles of blood vessels scattered throughout the brain. These blood vessels carry blood and oxygen to various parts of the brain.
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M43: The Orion Falls.
Image Credit & Copyright: Zhuoqun Wu, Chilescope Telescope 2. M43, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is the often imaged but rarely mentioned neighbour of the more famous M42. M42, which includes many bright stars from the Trapezium cluster, lies above the featured scene. M43 is itself a star-forming region and although laced with filaments of dark dust, is composed mostly of glowing hydrogen. The entire Orion field, located about 1600 light years away, is inundated with many intricate and picturesque filaments of dust. Opaque to visible light, dark dust is created in the outer atmosphere of massive cool stars and expelled by a strong outer wind of protons and electrons.
NASA Mars Exploration Programme
December 12: The Moon is at apogee (405,177 km from Earth), 12h25m UT (7:25 AM EST).
December 14: Geminid meteor shower peaks.
December 14: The Moon passes 3° south of Neptune (image above) 7h20m UT (2:20 AM EST).
December 14: The Moon passes 4° south of Mars, 23h UT (6 PM EST).
December 15: First Quarter Moon occurs at, 11h49m UT (6:49 AM EST).
December 15: Mercury is at greatest western elongation (21°), 12h UT (7 AM EST).
Credit: Astronomy.
Conservation International
The Mapuches are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of present-day Patagonia. Their traditional economy is based on agriculture. Today, many Mapuche communities are engaged in conflict over land and indigenous rights in both Argentina and in Chile.
The U.S. Department of State Travel Warnings
The flag of Nigeria was officially hoisted on 1 October 1960. The flag has three vertical bands of green, white, green. The two green stripes represent Nigeria’s natural wealth, while the white band represents peace.
The UK Foreign Service Travel Advice
Sunflowers (Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind, both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. On March 30, 1987, Japanese insurance magnate, Yasuo Goto, paid the equivalent of US $39,921,750 for van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London. The painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.
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