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THERISO
Theriso is a historic village and the birthplace of the mother of Eleftherios Venizelos. In 1905, Venizelos organised the Revolutionary Assembly in the village that ousted Prince George of Greece and precipitated the independence of Crete and its union with Greece.
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th Month it is the custom in Australia for genuine Australians to pause for 1 minute in silence to remember the sacrifice our troops made and continue to make so that we may live our privileged lives. Lest we forget.
my sister Jo has been drawing or painting a picture every day for almost a year now :)
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I finally found my first Pseudoscorpion of 2013, this is one of my favourite UK invertebrates, there is something very cool about them. I'm not 100% on the ID of this guy, but I think this might be Chthonius ischnocheles.
Anyway, this is a 9 image stack using an F/7.1 aperture, I used my MP-E at about x4 magnification. To get the studio look, I had placed this guy onto a petri dish(I always have a few in my kit bag), I then had a white card underneath, I was holding the petri dish above the card with one hand and camera in the other, this avoided any shadows. I took lots of shots as it was moving about a lot, but then I lucked out when stayed put long enough for a focus stack. The Pseudoscorpion was released unharmed back into the undergrowth.
Some Wiki stuff :-
Pseudoscorpions are small arachnids with a flat, pear-shaped body and pincers that resemble those of scorpions. They usually range from 2 to 8 millimetres (0.08 to 0.31 in) in length. The largest known species is Garypus titanius of Ascension Island at up to 12 mm (0.5 in).
The abdomen, known as the opisthosoma, is made up of twelve segments, each protected by plates (called tergites above and sternites below) made of chitin. The abdomen is short and rounded at the rear, rather than extending into a segmented tail and stinger like true scorpions (the fact that they look exactly like scorpions, aside from not having a stinger tail, is the source of the name "Pseudoscorpion"). The colour of the body can be yellowish-tan to dark-brown, with the paired claws often a contrasting colour. They may have two, four or no eyes.
A pseudoscorpion has eight legs with five to seven segments; the number of fused segments is used to distinguish families and genera. They have two very long pedipalps with palpal chelae (pincers) which strongly resemble the pincers found on a scorpion.
The pedipalps generally consist of an immobile "hand" and "finger", with a separate movable finger controlled by an adductor muscle. A venom gland and duct are usually located in the mobile finger; the venom is used to capture and immobilize the pseudoscorpion's prey. During digestion, pseudoscorpions pour a mildly corrosive fluid over the prey, then ingest the liquefied remains.
Pseudoscorpions spin silk from a gland in their jaws to make disk-shaped cocoons for mating, moulting, or waiting out cold weather. However, they do not have book lungs as most of their closest relatives, the spiders, do. They breathe through spiracles, a trait they share with the insects.
I hope everyone has a great weekend :o)
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Metra Milwaukee District West Train #2249 making a quick stop at the Roselle, IL stop while a light fog and mist brings out the 300W ditch and headlights.
82 x 103 cm
Dear Flickr friends, you are very welcome to hear some of my piano composition .
綠繡眼．攝於台灣 台中縣 大雪山
Japanese White Eye, taken at DaSyueShan, Taichung County, TAIWAN
Thanks to all who wrote to ask if I was ok over the last 6 months. I was, and am, absolutely fine... I just got bored with doing photos so packed the camera away for a while.
Texture pareerica Killer Grunge www.flickr.com/photos/pareeerica
thank you for texture
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Olha quem vem vindo virando a esquina da esperança, todo novinho e cheio de alegrias, lotado dos melhores sorrisos e com toda boa vontade do mundo de espalhar vida... ele mesmo, 2013 chegando na área e fazendo a festa!
A todos vocês, meninas, meninos, crafters e afins desejos de um 2013 cheio de realizações... ponha aí na sua lista um montão de coisas boas e vá realizando durante todo o ano! :)
Que o ano novo seja de intensas e renovadas esperanças... muita inspiração, criatividade, amor, saúde, paz! Que você deseje sempre o bem. Que realmente aconteçam mudanças!
Feliz 2013!
Beijocas!
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