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View Post: Seahorse 'Hitchhikes' Atlantic - Ocean Leadership
20 Nov 2009 by Will Ramos  
However, a seahorse that lives on the western coast of the Atlantic has been found in the Azores almost 5000km away from its possible home. Researchers suggest the seahorse may have completed the epic journey using its prehensile tail ... Dr Woodall believes that although the seahorses are hard to find in the wild, due to their excellent camouflage, a lack of sightings in the Azores and Europe suggests it is unlikely that it occurs in greater numbers on the eastern side ...
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View Post: Black Buzz: First Genocide, Then Lie About It
20 hours ago by Black Buzz  
Then the Nina and the Pinta set sail for the Azores and Spain. During the long voyage, many of the Indian prisoners died. Here's part of Columbus's report to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain: .... To which Gandhi replied: "Western Civilization? I think it would be a good idea." And so enters "Civilization," the civilization of Christian Europe, a "civilizing force" that couldn't have been more threatened by the beautiful anarchy of the Indians they encountered, ...
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View Post: Wader World: Azores Pelagics, Behind the Scenes, September 09
13 Nov 2009 by Shorebirder  
The Western group of Islands. Marine chart showing the area around, Sao Jorge, Pico and Faial. Also showing the area of underwater sea-mounts of both the Azores and Princess Alice Bancs.Part of the central group of islands. ... This count is now the highest record for the Azores and also the highest count in Europe. Feas Petrel, Santa Maria. Photo (Peter). This bird was a most wanted hit. This was the second of the trip but the first which we saw 5 miles north of Faial ...
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View Post: Gwent Birding: Azores FAQs: part the first
27 Oct 2009 by Darryl  
Well, whatever you think, and despite the fact that Corvo is on a different tectonic plate to the rest of Europe, the Azores are in the Western Palearctic. If you define yourself as a local birder you probably spend a fair bit of your ...
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View Post: Meeke: this weather reminds me of the hurricane like conditions ...
19 Nov 2009 by Scott Coursey  
meeke irc Meeke: this weather reminds me of the hurricane like conditions during Rally Azores. With torrential rain battering the stages and gales whipping through the forests, newly-crowned Intercontinental Rally Champion Kris ... Lanark's McRae, the 38-year-old who now lives in Perth, Western Australia and is one of the favourites for the rally, is competing in an international event in Scotland for the first time since he won the Scottish Rally with Volkswagen in 1998. ...
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View Post: Excellent Coder: PHP : Timezone array - Code Tutorial
9 Nov 2009 by Coder  
'Atlantic/Azores' => '[GMT-01:00] Azores Time (Atlantic/ Azores)', 'Atlantic/Cape_Verde' => '[GMT-01:00] Cape Verde Time (Atlantic/ Cape Verde)', 'Europe/Lisbon' => '[GMT+00:00] Western European Time (Europe/ Lisbon)', ...
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View Post: Weather and Climate Through the Eyes of Mark Vogan: Warm Western ...
11 Oct 2009 by Mark'sWxWorld  
For warmth, head to the Mediterranean coast, Spain and the Canaries where highs skies remain sunny and temps in the upper 20s to low 30s under the still dominant Azores High. Here it's currently a beautiful, bright sunny ... Changes are occuring however as whilst Western Europe is still enjoying the mildside of Autumn 2009, central Europe is feeling winters first chills of cold and snow as a strong trough is digging south from eastern Scandinavia and European Russia. ...
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View Post: Electroconvulsive Therapy: First National Conference on ECT ...
24 Mar 2008 by shrink  
At least one new unit (Azores) will start activities in 2008. As in other European countries, the main indication for ECT is medication resistant depression, the bilateral electrodeposition is used most frequently, as is the hypnotic propofol (Sienaert & van den Broek, ... Electroconvulsive therapy in continental Western Europe: a literature review. In: Swartz C. (Ed.) Electroconvulsive Therapy and Neuromodulation. Cambridge University Press. at 22:44. Labels: Congress ...
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View Post: global warming scam, promoted by haarp and chemtrail technology ...
24 Aug 2009 by georg  
Earlier attempts to create extreme weather patterns over Western Europe like the extreme drought conditions in 2003 or the earlier flooding in Poland could not be repeated since the atmospheric heaters on the Azores and generally on the ...
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View Post: Visualizing the decline of empires - Boing Boing
17 Nov 2009 by Xeni Jardin  
From the late 16th century to the mid 20th, the Dutch had settlements spreading from the Caribbean to the western edge of the Pacific, and did not finally lose the remaining larger ones until World War II and some time after. ... In stupidly short, let me say this (on the basis that we're talking of the explosion of the British and French empires in the 1960's not the Spanish which had already vanished): the two world wars weakened the two European metropolises on their ...
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