Camonica Club of North America: geology

1979's 'Breaking Away' was a very memorable film. It's one of those movies with a lot of depth and background, despite it's relatively simple message. There's a lot about a young person trying to find themselves and their place, which is very relatable. The film is based on an actual race held annually at the University of Indiana, and the film was filmed in Bloomington, Indiana, and the cinematography was excellent, and really captured various moods.

The filming of the film's fictional 'Little 500', although again it is an actual race attended by 25,000 spectators annually, was excellent. It might have been filmed on the same day as the actual race. If you haven't seen this movie, then you probably should read no further! I love the metaphor of the final stage of the race, where "the Cutters" are well behind, and the protagonist David is exhausted from carrying the team on his back. Two of the Cutters are ordinary at best, then Mike was strong and athletic but is not a trained cyclist, and David is their superstar.

As the spent and banged up David comes in for his final stop, Mike jumps on the bike and through sheer determination and vitality, gets the team back within striking distance. Then comes one of the great underrated metaphors of film history! Going up against these well-trained collegiate teams, they're incredibly still in it. The other two teammates tape David's shoes to the pedals for the final stage, which powerfully symbolizes "there's NO going back now." No more substitutions, no more breaks, no more water. I don't really know if that would ever happen, as what if the cyclist had to stop for whatever reason? Then through guts and talent, David wins the race. In life, we all have a few ace cards that we can play decoy with, but eventually we have to just put our best out there; win, lose, or draw.

Looking back at the film "BREAKING AWAY" from 1979

Louis Rondoni

I'm related to Louie Rondoni as he was known, who was a very good competitive cyclist from San Mateo County back in the '50s, and maybe before that. His family, related on my paternal side, had come to the county earlier in the last century from the Ironwood-Hurley area.

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Nature is BARBARIC

Some time ago, I was looking out our front window back home. There were no houses across the street on the hillside, and there are a lot of trees, mostly pines, and a good number of birds. However, during the last couple of decades, ravens have moved into the area, and they don't like other birds around, so we saw less of them than what was usual before that. So on this day I spotted one of those pretty little white butterflies. I call them angels of the day due to their bright appearance in the sun, and their angelic motion. As I watched this white butterfly move along, and pondered my last days living in the home that we had for so many years, out springs a small black or dark grayish bird from the trees! To my surprise, it made a beeline towards the butterfly! It knew what it wanted, and the butterfly did also, and a chase ensued! The butterfly went into a surprisingly high rate of speed, then I lost track of them for a moment due to all of the background colors of the environment. In another moment, I spotted the bird on a branch, and I could see by it's beak and motions that it was clearly eating. It ate the butterfly.

After the ravens moved in, things would change in the local food chain. The ravens didn't tolerate anything except humans. They would stoop low and lunge at small dogs or cats. They particularly went after other birds, even going so far as to try to intimidate an occasional hawk when they entered the area. They kept a safe distance, but they at least tried to intimidate them, usually two-on-one. I think the animal they despised the most were sea gulls, who occasionally crossed over the mountain from back and forth between the bay and the ocean. One day I was in the kitchen, and I noticed a large amount of white feathers in the air, which really got my attention. When the feathers cleared, I could see ravens killing a sea gull on top of the house next to ours. They then fed on it. Although we commonly think of nature as being serene, which it is, we always seem to forget it's brutal side. When our pets enter it, they become part of the food chain, and we do as well!

There are videos of rabbits eating their young. or puppies eating one of their siblings alive. Very graphic videos! If we shrunk down to eight inches tall, and walked in a nearby park or hillside, dogs and cats would suddenly become defacto grizzly bears and Bengal tigers! How do we know that our own pets wouldn't do us in? Of course, there are dogs which can kill adult humans, without us having to shrink down in size. Our cats while we lived there over the many years, were able to live very full lives. They were free to roam, and they did, sometimes far distances, hunting. One of them was injured once, and we never did know what happened. Today, our cats would never survive there. Coyotes have moved in during the last fifteen years, and there is a lot of room for them. They're also active during the day. They will go after small dogs and cats. The first thing they did was eliminate all of the foxes and wild cats. One of our cats narrowly escaped being killed by a chasing pitbull, right in front of us, but he managed to make it to our six-foot fence and leap out of danger just in time.

Another time a couple of years ago, a neighbor's wandering cat narrowly escaped walking through the neighbors yard, being chased by an aggressive border collie. Hawks can sometimes go after a cat, although it never occurred up there. I think that would tend to be a larger species of hawk, and a smaller cat. Wild areas are much like urban areas, where everything can seem fine, then predators strike. I remember long ago when I spent a week at Jones-Gulch camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains one late spring when I was about eleven I think, and right after we had arrived and got off the school bus, one of my classmates was attacked by bees. She must have walked too close to a hive. It was only a few bees, but she was stung a number of times. I remember that day, how warm it was that early afternoon, the rugged mountains and woods. It's not surprising that there are many dangers up there, including poison oak! On a side note, I had mentioned earlier, paternal relatives who has migrated to San Mateo County long ago. At least a couple of them had attended Jones-Gulch as children, in the '40s!

My first experience with the brutality of nature was when I was a small child in our backyard. I would pick up grasshoppers by their legs gently, and look at them. Also, moths by their wings lightly. I remember turning them around and looking at their alien-like appearance. One day, I had two grasshoppers, one in each hand, and for whatever reason I put them together to see their reaction. They immediately clutched each other and started biting and drawing blood! I recall just throwing them in the soil. They didn't hesitate for a second, before tearing into each other. I'm 100% certain that if any human being shrunk down to two inches tall, and ran into one of those large preying mantises, they would clutch the person, and just start feeding on their heads! There are strange aspects of nature, such as we think of wolves as being very violent, and doves as being very gentle. Actually, wolves never kill other wolves, and they mate for life. Humans can't even say that! However, doves are particularly brutal, and kill each other all the time, or peck each others eyes out! So, shouldn't the old metaphor be changed from "the dove of peace," to...... "the wolf of peace?"

The following articles today, got me thinking about this issue:

'Mountain lion tears dog on leash away from its owner in California neighborhood'

'Great White Shark Bites the Head Off of a Diver in Extremely Rare Type of Fatal Shark Attack'

'Bird Rips Snake’s Eyes Out as it Tries to Escape' (video included)

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Yvonne Elliman If I can't have you 1977 16:9

RETROVISOR

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31,641,870 views - June 19, 2015

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"It’s hard to listen to this song, it brings tears to my eyes every time. How I long for those days in the 1970s, when I was a little girl! My dad passed away in 2016, and I remember he had this album and he played it all the time, when I was young. My dad was a lover of music, all genres. I miss him so much! I miss my childhood! I wish I could go back, things were so peaceful, and so much simpler back then."

-- Dee Lo

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“When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won’t do to get it, or what he doesn’t believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn’t believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire . . . or preserve his freedom.”
— Malcolm X

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These concepts are almost never spoken of in the mainstream. They present something of a perception, rather than anything really thought provoking. Two Stateist idealogies; a clear violation of the written social contract.

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“The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
-- Winston Churchill

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'There’s New Footage of a “Giant Wolf” Roaming Montana'

Cassandra Yorgey - Exemplore - February 14, 2023

What do we want? Dire wolves! When do we want them? Now, and also slightly fictional please. Giant wolf sightings have increased significantly since the rise of Twilight and Game of Thrones which both feature giant wolves, and now a new video has surfaced out of Montana claiming to show a dire wolf frolicking about in a field of wintery grass.

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Hey Jude (Remastered 2015)

The Beatles

7.19M subscribers

57,241,300 views - June 17, 2018

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Ships sailing by moonlight

James Gale Tyler

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Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus)

Carl Brenders

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Angel of Grief

Angel of Grief or the Weeping Angel is an 1894 sculpture by William Wetmore Story for the grave of his wife Emelyn Story at the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. Its full title bestowed by the creator was The Angel of Grief Weeping Over the Dismantled Altar of Life.

Angels Are Always With You

This image reminds me of my mother. To me there are three angels: My mother (Janet), my sister (Catheine), and my ex-fiance (Rachel). Also, I'm sure there are angelic spirit guides and elemental spirits that know me.

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Rita Hayworth

bluewater

38,185 subscribers

5,574 views - December 31, 2022

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Jacqueline Rondoni

I have something like a second cousin once removed on my paternal side who came out to Hollywood to try to get into maybe films, in the '30's I think! She was striking looking, if not beautiful. One of those smiles and eyes that just lite up. She may have had a bit part in something, but ended up being a waitress for some years. We had some photographs of her, as she had stayed with our earlier relatives who had lived in Brisbane. It's drives me crazy because a lot of these photos somehow got lost. I think I have one of her left, so I'll put that up sometime. She went from the Northwoods to Hollywood! Her photos remind me of Rita Hayworth. It's fun to think that a relative of mine was so glam and fancy, coming from a very historically isolated, blue collar background.

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'Sunshine On My Shoulder' John Denver with lyrics

alexandre gianola

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I hadn't thought of it other times listening to this song, but I do feel a sense of my mother being gone, the memories. This song make loss easy to contemplate and yet also hard to contemplate. It kind of goes hand-in-hand with the 'Angel of Grief' above.

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"My mother passed when I was 12. When I was younger she would sing this to me. Now I’m 24 with two kids of my own. I sing this to them just to keep her alive in my mind."
-- david childress

"So emotional to hear this song..My only daughter passed away Aug 2020..so hard for me to get over.. after 8 months my son died..after a week my wife also went through.. i dont know what to think about but i had so much Faith in God Will.. 😭 "
-- Dan Deladia

"Suggestion to all my brothers and sisters viewing this. This beautiful song is here to teach us to feel this way. Find the light inside you that resonates with sunshine. It is there! Heal your body, feed it well, give love to yourself and others. Let this beauty fulfill John's wishes for all of us to live in light.💞 Let's make the world the place he wanted for us. We are lifting the energy that has dragged us down in the past. Love yourself. Let your light shine. Pass it on!"
-- Notadonna

"I just recently lost my 66 year old grandpa, he introduced me to all of my favorite things, one of those includes John Denver, we lost him to cancer and we were so close you can't imagine it, but this music will help me get through it. I miss you Papa Sam I know you are out there and you will always be in my ❤️ "
-- Kalin Watkins

"Years ago I listened to my daughters singing this song....I cried....it was a beautiful moment.... and I find myself crying again....this song is heavenly"
-- Sonia Mayrink

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For dad- Sunshine On My Shoulders by John Denver (Jamie Goodso)

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Chickens On A Village Road

Johan Krouthen

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Upper Falls, Minnesota After Dark

dark woods creek

[Apparently in Minnesota]

Photo by dovlindphoto on flickr

Rami Cohen

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Beautiful fantasy image

This was written in French, so I can't give any information, but you could translate it if you want..

Germany Pomahuacre

Article from flawless-insideout.over-blog.com

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'Scientists Discover Gigantic Sharks in Mammoth Cave... Yes, Sharks!'

Sharon Parry - AZ Animals - February 18, 2023

Not the sort of news story that you would usually associate with Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky bearing in mind that it is miles from the sea! However, as is the case with many inland areas, this area was once an ocean and in those ancient waters there lived sharks. Shark fossils have been discovered miles underground and are allowing scientists to learn more about these incredible species.

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'Prehistoric 91-million-year-old Shark Discovered in Kansas Was Size of a Great White and Had Cannibal Babies'

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Just like crocodiles, sharks go right back to the age of the dinosaurs. Obviously this implies strongly that parts of Kentucky and Kansas were a part of the ocean at one point.

The Earth 65 million years ago

The Atlantic Ocean is seen extending into the middle of North America.

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Stevie Nicks - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (Official Video) [HD]

Stevie Nicks

498K subscribers

31,690,592 views - March 29, 2019

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"This is one of those songs that NEVER get old… if you’re still listening to it in 2022 you’ve got GREAT taste in music 🎼😁"
-- Gypsy Soul

"When times was so much easier. Rip Tom Petty. You made a huge impact on countless lives through your music."
-- Kevin

"41 years later and it's remains a favorite in 2022."
-- Shelly Wyatt

"I feel privileged to have grown up listening to 80’s music. It will last forever!"
-- Mark

"This is one of the great ALL TIME man-woman rock duets. Perfect chemistry and vocal tradeoffs on this song!"
-- Wayne Polk

"I am 65. Still listening to this song, and all of Stevie Nicks songs. This is one of the greatest songs of all time. So glad I grew up listening to music in 60’s 70’s and 80”s. Greatest decades of music. The young ones today, DON’T KNOW WHAT REAL MUSIC IS!!"
-- Ron Williams

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Hard to believe that Tom Petty has been gone for over five years.

Friday, September 23, 2022

Equinozo di Autunno 2022 - Part 3

Sculpture hall of Louvre museum, Paris

PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 30, 2015: Sculpture hall of the Louvre museum, Paris, France. Louvre is the most-visited museum in the world

depositphotos.com

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Video Links

Homeland Security Officer REVEALS What He Witnessed - YouTube

CERN - They now admit they are communicating with "entities" from the other side - Anthony Patch

Incredible Recent Discoveries in Antarctica! - YouTube

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The Earth 300,000 Years Ago | 300,000 Subscribers Special

2,826,682 views - November 1, 2020

Ben G Thomas

547K subscribers

What was our planet like 300,000 years ago? What sort of animals were around? What was the climate and geography like? And which human species were alive?

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'Everything You Need to Know About the Angel Number 777'

Yes, it's lucky.

By Jaliessa Sipress - Cosmopolitan.com - August 24, 2022

You’re in the back of an Uber and you can’t stop thinking about that promotion—Will you get it? Will they choose someone else? Did you say the right thing in the interview? In the midst of your racing thoughts, you look out the window just in time to see a black Mercedes with 777 on the license plate.

You’ve heard that repeating numbers mean something *spiritual* somewhere, and honestly, with the rush that just went through your body when you spotted the 777, right as you worried about that promotion, you wonder: What does it all mean?!

What are angel numbers?

Well, repeating numbers are angel numbers, a sequence of numbers that come with a message. Angel numbers are related to numerology, and they are significant signs and symbols from the universe offering advice on what’s going on in your life, and what could happen in your future. When you see another repeating number (like 1111), a palindromic number (like 1221), or a number with special significance to you (like your mom’s birthday), this could offer some direction to help you on your path. Especially if it’s caught at an important moment, trust that that 12:12 isn’t just a cool coincidence, it’s a sign.

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Das Rheingold, WWV 86A: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla

Zubin Mehta - Topic

Das Rheingold, WWV 86A: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla · Zubin Mehta · Richard Wagner · New York Philharmonic Orchestra

Wagner: Highlights from "The Ring"

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Das Rheingold

Music drama by Richard Wagner

Alberich's seizure of the Rhine gold, as depicted in Scene 1 of the 1876 production

Librettist: Richard Wagner
Language: German
Based on: Nordic and German legends
Premiere: September 22, 1869
National Theatre Munich

Das Rheingold (pronunciation (help·info); The Rhinegold), WWV 86A, is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 22 September 1869, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, on 13 August 1876.

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Southern Wasatch Mountains Utah

This was featured on Windows 10 Spotlight about a week ago

Spectacular Bing images

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Wasatch Range

Highest point
Peak: Mount Nebo
Elevation: 11,928 ft (3,636 m)

Geography
Wasatch Range is located in Utah
Wasatch Range
States: Utah and Idaho
Parent range: Rocky Mountains

The Wasatch Range (WAH-satch) or Wasatch Mountains is a mountain range in the western United States that runs about 160 miles (260 km) from the Utah-Idaho border south to central Utah. It is the western edge of the greater Rocky Mountains, and the eastern edge of the Great Basin region. The northern extension of the Wasatch Range, the Bear River Mountains, extends just into Idaho, constituting all of the Wasatch Range in that state.

In the language of the native Ute people, Wasatch means "mountain pass" or "low pass over high range." According to William Bright, the mountains were named for a Shoshoni leader who was named with the Shoshoni term wasattsi, meaning "blue heron."

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The beautiful Yvonne De Carlo

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Yvonne De Carlo

Margaret Yvonne Middleton (September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007), known professionally as Yvonne De Carlo, was a Canadian-American actress, dancer and singer. She became a Hollywood film star in the 1940s and 50s, made several recordings, and later acted on television and stage.

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, De Carlo was enrolled by her mother in a local dance school when she was three. By the early 1940s, she and her mother had moved to Los Angeles, where De Carlo participated in beauty contests and worked as a dancer in nightclubs. She began working in motion pictures in 1941, in short subjects. She sang "The Lamp of Memory" in a three-minute Soundies musical and in 1942 signed a three-year contract with Paramount Pictures, where she was given uncredited bit parts in important films. Her first lead was for independent producer E. B. Derr in the James Fenimore Cooper adventure Deerslayer in 1943.

She obtained her breakthrough role in Salome, Where She Danced (1945), a Universal Pictures release produced by Walter Wanger, who described her as "the most beautiful girl in the world." The film's publicity and success turned her into a star, and she signed a five-year contract with Universal. Universal starred her in its lavish Technicolor productions, such as Frontier Gal (1945), Song of Scheherazade (1947), and Slave Girl (1947). Cameramen voted her "Queen of Technicolor" three years in a row. Tired of being typecast as exotic women, she made her first serious dramatic performances in two film noirs, Brute Force (1947) and Criss Cross (1949).

The first American film star to visit Israel, De Carlo received further recognition as an actress for her leading performances in the British comedies Hotel Sahara (1951), The Captain's Paradise (1953), and Happy Ever After (1954). Her career reached its peak when eminent producer-director Cecil B. DeMille cast her as Moses' Midianite wife, Sephora, her most prominent film role, in his biblical epic The Ten Commandments (1956),[5] for which she won a Laurel Award for Topliner Supporting Actress.[6] Her success continued with other notable starring roles in Flame of the Islands (1956), Death of a Scoundrel (1956), Band of Angels (1957), and The Sword and the Cross (1958), in which she portrayed Mary Magdalene.

She starred in the CBS sitcom The Munsters (1964–1966),[7] playing Herman Munster's glamorous vampire wife, Lily, a role she reprised in the feature film Munster, Go Home! (1966) and the television film The Munsters' Revenge (1981). In 1971, she played Carlotta Campion and introduced the popular song "I'm Still Here" in the Broadway production of the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies. Yvonne, her best-selling autobiography, was published in 1987. A stroke survivor, De Carlo died of heart failure in 2007. She was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to motion pictures and television.

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Yvonne De Carlo - Documentary

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Cosmos

July 10th: NASA’s First Close Up Fly-Over of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot –“Three Times the Size of Earth”

Sarah Mertz

dailygalaxy.com

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Great Red Spot

The Red Spot is a persistent high-pressure region in the atmosphere of Jupiter, producing an anticyclonic storm that is the largest in the Solar System. Located 22 degrees south of Jupiter's equator, it produces wind-speeds up to 432 km/h (268 mph). Observations from 1665 to 1713 are believed to be of the same storm; if this is correct, it has existed for at least 357 years. It was next observed in September 1831, with 60 recorded observations between then and 1878, when continuous observations began.

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Scientists Make Unexpected Discovery On Jupiter | Real Images - YouTube

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Planet of the Apes (5/5) Movie CLIP - Statue of Liberty (1968) HD

1,715,117 views

Movieclips

CLIP DESCRIPTION:

Taylor (Charlton Heston) understands that he's on Earth when he finds the wreckage of the Statue of Liberty.

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"Possibly the most iconic ending in movie history."
-- Tom McFarland

"I was 11 when I saw this movie and I've never forgotten the horror gasp from the audience of this ending. It's etched in my mind forever."
-- Steve Jorfi

"When I saw this as a youngster it really scared me. I was sad at the destroyed Statue of Liberty and after the movie my father told me about nuclear war. I lost some innocence watching this film."
-- Chris L.

"One of the best, most shocking scenes in the history of movie making."
-- Timotheus

"No other movie has ever had an ending this powerful and this shocking. Still makes me gasp every time I see it."
-- Bryan Nelson

"Taylor falling to his knees in the sand as the Statue of Liberty watches from above has got to be one of the greatest shots in cinematic history"
-- O Benbenisti

"I remember watching the movie with my father in the theater when it came out. I was in grammar school at the time. Everyone who saw it previously kept their mouths SHUT. The gasps from the audience were unbelievable at the conclusion. NOBODY saw it coming! ALL you had at the end was that iconic scene with the derelict Statue Of Liberty, fade to Black, then the credits rolled. Absolutely NO music JUST the waves of the ocean crashing to the shore. Iconic scene and one of the BEST movie endings EVER!"
-- Charles Kuckel

"One of the most iconic scene in the cinematography without a doubt."
-- Sergio Ramón Rodríguez Cajiga

"I was sixteen when I saw this at the theater.One of the best endings to a movie ever."
-- BOND0930

"There are so many combinations that make this scene so great. Heston yelling, camera movements and the sound of the ocean as it intensifies. The sound of the ocean is telling us that its alive and well and it will outlast man and machine through the test of time."
-- GTX

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My YouTube response to the last comment above

I noticed that the "flame piece" on the statue was missing; the spark of human civilization was long gone. Also, the beautiful Captain Stewart was to have been the "New Eve." She was probably first in her class, first in everything, 170 IQ, etc. However, it ended up being the simple, innocent Nova ("the sun" representing "the new torch" "the new horizon") who became the "New Eve." As Taylor agonized on the sand on his knees, Nova was standing and holding the reins of the horse and looking up at the statue which she couldn't comprehend.... maybe symbolizing "lets move forward."

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Rock the Boat

2,035,432 views - January 25, 2017

The Hues Corporation - Topic

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"No quarter" - A new escalation

No quarter flags have been adopted by some police and their supporters as s symbol of fighting crime. According to the "No quarter" Wikipedia page: "The phrase no quarter was generally used during military conflict to imply combatants would not be taken prisoner, but killed." The above image caught my eye before I even knew what it represented. Of course, it's a type of pirate-inspired flag. What could go wrong? It does go on to say: "According to some modern American dictionaries a person who is given no quarter is "not treated kindly" or 'treated in a very harsh way.'" I suppose the latter is the actual intent, although anyone looking it up will see the former first, and that could very well be after a violent incident.

ZeroFoxTrot.com

Exact page link with quote

"Inspired by the one officer we all wish we had in our midst. Fly his colors proud and send a clear message."

International humanitarian law

"Under international humanitarian law, "it is especially forbidden ... to declare that no quarter will be given." This was established under Article 23 (d) of the 1907 Hague Convention IV - The Laws and Customs of War on Land.[10] Since a judgment on the law relating to war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials in October 1946, the 1907 Hague Convention, including the explicit prohibition to declare that no quarter will be given, are considered to be part of the customary laws of war and are binding on all parties in an international armed conflict."

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An exoplanet exists in our closest star system!

Yes, that's it above! An Earth!! It's called "Proxima Centauri b," and it's in the Alpha Centauri binary star system. The actual star in which it orbits is called "Proxima Centauri.". Proxima Centauri b is officially a "potentially habitable planet" according to the weekly journal 'Nature'. It's 4.2 light years away, or 266,000 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun (92.96 million miles). Unfortunately, that means that the distance between the Earth and Proxima B is between 24 and 25 trillion miles. The only planetary body that is even close for human habitatin is Saturn's moon Titan, which has an average temperture of -290 F. In comparison, the average temperature of Antarctica -70 F.

Proxima Centauri b