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Iceland - the Affluent High-Tech Wilderness

Iceland - the Affluent High-Tech Wilderness
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the annual World-Press-Photo-Exhibition in the shopping center

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the annual World-Press-Photo-Exhibition in the shopping center

My contribution to "one week to … people".
The exibition is always very interesting with very powerful photographs and awakes every kind of emotion. There are pictures of funny situations, sport, nature, … but also death and disaster victims.

Voting Question: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince official movie release dates… comments?
Release dates are as follows (courtesy of MuggleNet.com) Nov. 19 Belgium, Egypt Nov. 20 Germany, Greece, Holland, Israel, Portugal, Russia, Switz (German), Ukraine, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico Nov. 21 Austria, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, UK, India, Indonesia, Japan, Brazil, Colombia, Panama Nov. 26 France, Switz (French) Nov. 27 Croatia, Czech Rep, Lebanon, Middle East-other, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bolivia Nov. 28 Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela Dec. 5 South Africa Dec. 11 Australia, New Zealand Dec. 18 Hong Kong, Korea It says on the website November 21 so ‘m guessing that’s when it comes out in the US

Resolved Question: Have you ever ate a potato chip that was in the shape of Iceland?

Open Question: The top 4 countries at risk for failure Somalia, Sudan, Zimbabwe, and Chad. The 10 most stable are?
Norway,Finland, Sweden, Ireland, Switzerland, Iceland, New Zealand, Denmark, Australia. What are the differences? Why cant the failing countries overcome? This info is per The Failed States Index 2008 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4350 Does race have any bearing here? Does past impearialism? Zim was overcomming, but for some reasaon Mugabe decided to destoy the country You can have more socialistic tendancies when there are not millions of people in your country illegally

Open Question: Did you know…?

Open Question: Did you know…?
For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects. The harmonica is the world’s most popular instrument. By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television. The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h). If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long. Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. There are 293 ways to make changea for a dollar. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are more chickens than people in the world. Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.” All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.” All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. Almonds are a member of the peach family. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs. There are only four words in the English language which end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula” - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: “L.A.” A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “Its A Wonderful Life.” A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON’T try this at home!) The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. Many hamsters blink one eye at a time. The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper. The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites. Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A. Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world. Starfish have no brain. Dolphins sleep with one eye open. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter “E”. Bulls are color blind. A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds. “Babe” was played by over 48 pigs. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. Lip stick contains fish scales. The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people. The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms. Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown. Women blink twice as many times as men do. The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs. A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down. The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957. Beaver Cleaver’s locker number is 9. The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver. Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A. The life span of a taste bud is ten days. Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits. The billionth digit in Pi is 9. The first 100 numbers of Pi are: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884… 58209749445923078164062862089986280348… Click HERE for 99,999 digits of pi! A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes. Emus can’t walk backwards. A group of unicorns is called a blessing. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of geese is called a gaggle. A group of owls is called a parliament. A group of ravens is called a murder. A group of bears is called a sleuth. 12 or more cows is called a flink. A baby oyster is called a spat. Chickens can’t swallow while they are upside down. In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive too! The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head. Pinocchio was made of pine. The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs. A mule won’t sink in quicksand but a donkey will. More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes. Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery. There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo. The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie. The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe. Maine is the toothpick capital of the world. New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states. There was once a town in West Virginia called “6″. Singapore only has one train station. The parking meter was invented in North Dakota. Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox. Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator. The green stuff on the occasional freak potatoe chip is chlorophyll. If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange. Pluto’s orbit crosses Neptune’s making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999. The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons. The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT. Popeye was 5′6″. Howdy Doody had 48 freckles. The first word spoken on the moon was “Okay”. Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first. The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year. Hilary Clinton once said We are the President. The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%. The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%. There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll. The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it. “Jaws” is the most common name for a goldfish. On an average work day, a typist’s fingers travel 12.6 miles. The average American eats 2 donuts a day. The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz. The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years. Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17. It takes the Where’s Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing. 2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties. A baby is born every 7 seconds. 10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday. On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day. Blue and white are the most common school colors. Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year. The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?. The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you. The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum. A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestd… His middle name is George James. It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat. A new book is published every 13 minutes in America. America’s best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla. American’s eat 18 billion hot dogs a year. American’s eat 134 pounds of sugar a year. Every year the sun loses 360 million tons. Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe. You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray. Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool. Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises. India has 50 million monkeys. By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life. Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year. Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed. You breathe about 10 million times a year. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you’ll have a bad dream. The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse. Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018. The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour. The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground. The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects. The most common time for a wake up call is 7am. The doorbell was invented in 1831. The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board. The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928. There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream. The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke. Japan is the largest exporter of frog’s legs. There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty’s crown. There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow. The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay. The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg’s weight. A squid has 10 tentacles. A snail’s reproductive organs are in its head. A cow’s only sweat glands are in its nose. The word “AND” appears 46,277 times in the Bible. The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is “horn”. The telephone’s U.S. patent number is 174,465. The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day. There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme’s apartment. When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it’s eyes. Napoleon was terrified of cats. The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint. The typical American eats 263 eggs a year. The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935. In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits. The human body weighs forty times more than the brain. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp. A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner. The oldest known vegetable is the pea. Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes. The avocado has the most calories of any fruit. The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia. The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel. France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese. The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone. 4000 people are injured by teapots each year. The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year. The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback. The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine. The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states. The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger. George Washington Carver invented peanut butter. The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year. Stainless stell was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913. A scallop has 35 blue eyes. The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one. The only dog that doesn’t have a pink tongue is the chow. Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935. The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal. The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey. Russia has the most movie theaters in the world. Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday. An Oscar weighs seven pounds. It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep. Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer. The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps. The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902. Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet. Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue. A jellyfish is 95 percent water. The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly. America once issued a 5-cent bill. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. You blink about 84,000,000 times a year. In England, in the 1880’s, “Pants” was considered a dirty word. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans. Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. A cockroach will live nine days without it’s head, before it starves to death. The most used letter in the English alphabet is ‘E’, and ‘Q’ is the least used. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed… or is that pawed? The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women. Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions. Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador’s waving cape no matter what color it is — be it red or neon yellow. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again! When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head. Coca-Cola was originally green. Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royce’s per capita. Alaska is the state with highest percent of people who walk to work. 28 percent of Africa is wilderness. 38 percent of America is wilderness. A duck’s quack does not echo and no one knows why. It costs $6400 to raise a medium size dog to age of 11. Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour: 61,000. 70 percent of Americans who visited Disneyland/World. Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair. The youngest pope was 11 years old. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country. The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only “mobile” National Monuments. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter “uncopyrightable.” Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ? The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and learned how to walk up standard staircases. When opossums are playing ‘possum, they are not “playing.” They actually pass out from sheer terror. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people (without killing them) used to burn their houses down - hence the expression “to get fired.” Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader’s lines, and didn’t know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star Game. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined. Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. On average people fear spiders more than they do death. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. Butterflies taste with their feet. A cat’s urine glows under a blacklight. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Coca Cola was originally green. The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words. There are more collect calls made on Father’s Day than on any other day. Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury. Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men. Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. The world’s youngest parents were 8 & 9 and lived in China in 1910. Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. The youngest Pope was 11 years old. “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey…). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell (”pocket full of posies…”). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease (”ashes, ashes, we all fall down”). The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; “7″ was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. “UP” indicated the direction of the bubbles. Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma. American car horns beep in the tone of F. No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.” The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes To “testify” was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles

Iceland - flag icon

Iceland - flag icon
Iceland - flag icon Glossy flag icon with metallic round frame.

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Author: NNZMNEP
Keywords: iceland
Added: July 3, 2008

A Film About Iceland

A Film About Iceland

A montage of footage taken in Iceland in June 2008, put to music. Highlights the sheer beauty, isolation and unique landscape that makes Iceland incredible.

Author: progresschrome
Keywords: reykjavik isafjordur westfjords krafla myvatn akureyri midnight sun glacier vatnajokull jokulsarlon gullfoss geyser
Added: July 3, 2008

Johann Johannsson @ Union Chapel, London UK

29/06/08 MAX RICHTER & JOHANN JOHHANNSON @ UNION CHAPEL Icelandic composer Johann Johannson (4AD/Touch) brought his stately, slow-building and hauntingly melodic music to the Union Chapel for a rare live performance. He played music from his albums Englabörn and IBM 1401, a User’s Manual, as well as new music from his forthcoming album which will be out in the autumn.

Author: AcquaLola
Keywords: Johann Johannsson Apparat Organ Quartet Kitchen Motors 4AD Icelandic Music Reykjavik London Union Chapel
Added: July 3, 2008

Freyja showing as a veteran

Here is the late Multi Champion Foldar Freyja at a show in veteran class 12 yrs old. She was out of coat at this show but still managed to be top winning veteran of All breeds that year.

Author: tofrakennels
Keywords: Icelandic sheepdog Freyja Tofra Iceland dog showing
Added: July 3, 2008

Ole Gunnar Solskjær End Of An Era

Ole Gunnar Solskjær End Of An Era. Ole Gunnar Solskjær (born February 26, 1973 in Kristiansund, Norway) is a Norwegian former footballer who spent the vast majority of his career playing for Manchester United. He played 366 times for the Red Devils and scored 126 goals during a very successful period for the club. He was also part of the 1999 Treble winning Team, scoring the decisive last-minute goal in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich. Before he moved to England, Solskjær completed a year’s national service in the Norwegian army,[1] and played part time for Third Division Norwegian Clausenengen F.K., later moving to Norwegian Premier League Molde F.K. in 1994. He joined United on 29 July 1996, for a transfer fee of £1.5m. He is a patron of the Manchester United Supporters’ Trust (formerly Shareholders United). Solskjær was renowned for his tendency to score goals late in the game, often handing Manchester United a draw or win from the brink of defeat. The most famous example of this came in injury time of the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final against Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou in Barcelona. On 27 August 2007, Solskjær announced his retirement from football after failing to recover from a serious knee injury.[2] However, Solskjær remained at Old Trafford in a coaching role, as well as in an ambassadorial capacity. On 20 May 2008, Solskjær was announced as Manchester United’s first full-time Reserve team manager since 2006, taking over from Brian McClair and Jimmy Ryan, who had filled the role in a caretaker capacity. In November 2007 Solskjær was made a Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav by King Harald V of Norway.[3] He is to be presented with the award in a later ceremony in his hometown of Kristiansund. Solskjær is the youngest ever recipient of the knighthood, usually bestowed upon notable members of society in their later years. For his commitment to Manchester United, Solskjaer was granted a testimonial which is to take place in the pre-season preparations for the 2008-09 season. The match will be against Espanyol and will be played on August 2nd. Manchester United Premier League - Champions (6): 1996-97, 1998-99, 1999-00, 2000-01, 2002-03, 2006-07 Premier League - Runners Up: 1997-98, 2005-06 FA Cup Winner (2): 1999, 2004 FA Cup Runners Up: 2005, 2007 League Cup Winner (1): 2006 League Cup Runners Up: 2003 UEFA Champions League Winner: 1998-99 Intercontinental Cup: 1999 UEFA Super Cup Runner Up: 1999 Community Shield Winner (4): 1996, 1997, 2003, 2007 Community Shield Runner Up: 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004 [edit] Individual Knight of the Order of St Olav, First Class[3] Kniksen’s honour award in 2007 [edit] International goals Ole Gunnar Solskjær: International Goals # Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition 1 26 November 1995 Kingston Jamaica 1-1 Draw Friendly 2 27 March 1996 Windsor Park, Belfast Northern Ireland 2-0 Win Friendly 3 2 June 1996 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo Azerbaijan 5-0 Win FIFA World Cup 1998 Qual. 4 5 30 April 1997 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo Finland 1-1 Draw FIFA World Cup 1998 Qual. 6 25 March 1998 King Baudouin Stadium, Brüssel Belgium 2-2 Draw Friendly 7 27 May 1998 Molde stadion, Molde Saudi Arabia 6-0 Win Friendly 8 9 27 March 1999 Olympic Stadium (Athens) Greece 2-0 Win UEFA Euro 2000 Qual. 10 11 28 April 1999 Tblisi Georgia 4-1 Win UEFA Euro 2000 Qual. 12 8 September 1999 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo Slovenia 4-0 Win UEFA Euro 2000 Qual. 13 9 October 1999 Daugava Stadium, Riga Latvia 2-1 Win UEFA Euro 2000 Qual. 14 27 May 2000 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo Slovakia 2-0 Win Friendly 15 24 March 2001 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo Poland 2-3 Defeat FIFA World Cup 2002 Qual. 16 28 March 2001 Minsk Belarus 1-2 Defeat FIFA World Cup 2002 Qual. 17 15 August 2001 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo Turkey 1-1 Draw Friendly 18 14 May 2002 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo Japan 3-0 Win Friendly 19 22 May 2002 Aspmyra stadium, Bodø Iceland 1-1 Draw Friendly 20 2 April 2003 Luxembourg City Luxembourg 2-0 Win UEFA Euro 2004 Qual. 21 11 June 2003 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo Romania 1-1 Draw UEFA Euro 2004 Qual. 22 2 September 2006 Budapest Hungary 4-1 Win UEFA Euro 2008 Qual. 23 Club Performance League Cup Total Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Norway League Norwegian Football Cup Total 1990 Clausenengen 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 Molde Premier League 26 20 1996 16 11 England League FA Cup Total 1996-97 Manchester United Premier League 33 17 1997-98 22 6 1998-99 19 12 1999-00 28 12 2000-01 31 10 2001-02 30 17 2002-03 37 9 2003-04 13 0 2004-05 0 0 2005-06 3 0 2006-07 19 7 Total Norway 151 146 England 235 90 Career Total 386 236 [edit] References

Author: Magna087
Keywords: Ole Gunnar Solskjær End Of An Era
Added: July 4, 2008

the annual World-Press-Photo-Exhibition in the shopping center

Now in Iceland posted a photo:

the annual World-Press-Photo-Exhibition in the shopping center

The exibition is always very interesting with very powerful photographs and awakes every kind of emotion. There are pictures of funny situations, sport, nature, … but also death and disaster victims.

Celebrating the icelandic horse

This is a video I made for my friend of her Icelandic horses Stjarni and Drift(starring Arni and Drift but dedicated to all Icys :)). Sorry the video goes blocky in places but all the clips were filmed and taken off my mobile phone. The music is by Enya and 2002. No copyright infringment is intended.

Author: Cazamelia
Keywords: icelandic ponies pony horse riding show competition icy ride
Added: July 3, 2008

Resolved Question: what is allowed on flights? what has to be checked by a person?

Resolved Question: what is allowed on flights? what has to be checked by a person?
Im going to Iceland in a few weeks and im really confused about the whole “you can take this liquid if its under 3 ounces and in a clear bag” etc i was on this website http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm it says i will need to do this about “larger than 3 ounce liquids” etc, “-Declare you have the items to one of our Security Officers at the security checkpoint. -Present these items for additional inspection once reaching the X-ray. These items are subject to additional screening. ” is that much of a hold up? as i am going with my school and ive never been on a plane before and really dont want to hold people up so im guessing would the best option be to have the larger liquids in a separate bag in hand for the start of the journey ready to hand over to someone for inspection? or should i just leave them in my main luggage bag? whats the most suitable way to carry them..?

Iceland Dance Company - Sweet & Sour

Iceland Dance Company - Sweet & Sour Watch all my channels: http://youtube.com/hollywoodclassics http://youtube.com/hollywoodclassics2 http://youtube.com/hollywoodclassics3 http://youtube.com/hollywoodclassics4 http://youtube.com/hollywoodclassics5 http://youtube.com/classicanimation http://youtube.com/dancefrenzy http://youtube.com/classicdocumentaries http://youtube.com/vintagecommercials http://youtube.com/classicsoundbox http://youtube.com/videomiscellany Watch all my channels: http://youtube.com/hollywoodclassics http://youtube.com/hollywoodclassics2 http://youtube.com/hollywoodclassics3 http://youtube.com/hollywoodclassics4 http://youtube.com/hollywoodclassics5 http://youtube.com/classicanimation http://youtube.com/dancefrenzy http://youtube.com/classicdocumentaries http://youtube.com/vintagecommercials http://youtube.com/classicsoundbox http://youtube.com/videomiscellany

Author: dancefrenzy
Keywords: Iceland Dance Company Sweet Sour Performing Arts
Added: July 4, 2008

Johann Johannsson @ Union Chapel, London UK

29/06/08 MAX RICHTER & JOHANN JOHHANNSON @ UNION CHAPEL Icelandic composer Johann Johannson (4AD/Touch) brought his stately, slow-building and hauntingly melodic music to the Union Chapel for a rare live performance. He played music from his albums Englabörn and IBM 1401, a User’s Manual, as well as new music from his forthcoming album which will be out in the autumn.

Author: AcquaLola
Keywords: Johann Johannsson Apparat Organ Quartet Kitchen Motors 4AD Icelandic Music Reykjavik London Union Chapel
Added: July 3, 2008

Resolved Question: Iceland warned of polar bear attacks?
Iceland warned of polar bear attacks Jun 24 2008 MARAUDING polar bears could cause terror on Iceland after experts claimed global warming could bring the killer beasts across the sea. The alert came as police there shot two bears in just two weeks. The animals - which are not native to Iceland - are thought to have floated across the Arctic Ocean on ice platforms which broke free from Greenland. Climate expert Thor Jakobsson said: “Since two have reached the shore, more could be on the way.” may I have your comments please.

Eurovision 2006 Albania - Luiz Ejlli - Zjarr e Ftoht

Eurovision 2006 Albania - Luiz Ejlli - Zjarr e Ftoht Ranking and Points in the Semi-Final: (The first 10 Countries qualified for the Final) 01 Finland 292 02 Bosnia & Herzegovina 267 03 Russia 217 04 Sweden 214 05 Lithuania 163 06 ARMENIA 150 07 Ukraine 146 08 Turkey 91 09 Ireland 79 10 Macedonia 76 ******************************** 11 Poland 70 12 Belgium 69 13 Iceland 62 14 Albania 58 15 Cyprus 58 16 Slovenia 45 17 Bulgaria 36 18 Estonia 28 19 Portugal 26 20 Netherlands 22 21 Monaco 14 22 Belarus 10 23 Andorra 8

Author: Tonyprishtina
Keywords: Eurovision 2006 Albania Luiz Ejlli Zjarr Ftoht
Added: July 3, 2008

Freyja showing as a veteran

Here is the late Multi Champion Foldar Freyja at a show in veteran class 12 yrs old. She was out of coat at this show but still managed to be top winning veteran of All breeds that year.

Author: tofrakennels
Keywords: Icelandic sheepdog Freyja Tofra Iceland dog showing
Added: July 3, 2008

Resolved Question: where can a find the section about the ice in iceland?

MY TOP 5 ESC 2007 SONGS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urCLhm_VBsk the winners video my top 10 10-Romanaia 9-France 8-Finland 7-Ukraine 6-Germany 5-Andorra 4-Austria 3-Cyprus 2-Iceland 1-Sweden

Author: Krzo22
Keywords: eurovision 2007 andorra austria cyprus iceland sweden
Added: July 3, 2008

Open Question: Did you know…?
For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects. The harmonica is the world’s most popular instrument. By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television. The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h). If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long. Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. There are 293 ways to make changea for a dollar. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are more chickens than people in the world. Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.” All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.” All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. Almonds are a member of the peach family. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs. There are only four words in the English language which end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula” - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: “L.A.” A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “Its A Wonderful Life.” A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON’T try this at home!) The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. Many hamsters blink one eye at a time. The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper. The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites. Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A. Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world. Starfish have no brain. Dolphins sleep with one eye open. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter “E”. Bulls are color blind. A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds. “Babe” was played by over 48 pigs. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. Lip stick contains fish scales. The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people. The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms. Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown. Women blink twice as many times as men do. The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs. A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down. The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957. Beaver Cleaver’s locker number is 9. The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver. Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A. The life span of a taste bud is ten days. Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits. The billionth digit in Pi is 9. The first 100 numbers of Pi are: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884… 58209749445923078164062862089986280348… Click HERE for 99,999 digits of pi! A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes. Emus can’t walk backwards. A group of unicorns is called a blessing. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of geese is called a gaggle. A group of owls is called a parliament. A group of ravens is called a murder. A group of bears is called a sleuth. 12 or more cows is called a flink. A baby oyster is called a spat. Chickens can’t swallow while they are upside down. In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive too! The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head. Pinocchio was made of pine. The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs. A mule won’t sink in quicksand but a donkey will. More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes. Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery. There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo. The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie. The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe. Maine is the toothpick capital of the world. New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states. There was once a town in West Virginia called “6″. Singapore only has one train station. The parking meter was invented in North Dakota. Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox. Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator. The green stuff on the occasional freak potatoe chip is chlorophyll. If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange. Pluto’s orbit crosses Neptune’s making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999. The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons. The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT. Popeye was 5′6″. Howdy Doody had 48 freckles. The first word spoken on the moon was “Okay”. Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first. The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year. Hilary Clinton once said We are the President. The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%. The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%. There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll. The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it. “Jaws” is the most common name for a goldfish. On an average work day, a typist’s fingers travel 12.6 miles. The average American eats 2 donuts a day. The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz. The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years. Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17. It takes the Where’s Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing. 2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties. A baby is born every 7 seconds. 10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday. On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day. Blue and white are the most common school colors. Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year. The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?. The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you. The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum. A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestd… His middle name is George James. It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat. A new book is published every 13 minutes in America. America’s best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla. American’s eat 18 billion hot dogs a year. American’s eat 134 pounds of sugar a year. Every year the sun loses 360 million tons. Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe. You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray. Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool. Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises. India has 50 million monkeys. By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life. Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year. Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed. You breathe about 10 million times a year. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you’ll have a bad dream. The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse. Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018. The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour. The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground. The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects. The most common time for a wake up call is 7am. The doorbell was invented in 1831. The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board. The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928. There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream. The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke. Japan is the largest exporter of frog’s legs. There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty’s crown. There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow. The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay. The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg’s weight. A squid has 10 tentacles. A snail’s reproductive organs are in its head. A cow’s only sweat glands are in its nose. The word “AND” appears 46,277 times in the Bible. The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is “horn”. The telephone’s U.S. patent number is 174,465. The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day. There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme’s apartment. When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it’s eyes. Napoleon was terrified of cats. The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint. The typical American eats 263 eggs a year. The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935. In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits. The human body weighs forty times more than the brain. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp. A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner. The oldest known vegetable is the pea. Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes. The avocado has the most calories of any fruit. The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia. The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel. France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese. The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone. 4000 people are injured by teapots each year. The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year. The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback. The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine. The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states. The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger. George Washington Carver invented peanut butter. The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year. Stainless stell was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913. A scallop has 35 blue eyes. The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one. The only dog that doesn’t have a pink tongue is the chow. Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935. The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal. The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey. Russia has the most movie theaters in the world. Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday. An Oscar weighs seven pounds. It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep. Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer. The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps. The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902. Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet. Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue. A jellyfish is 95 percent water. The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly. America once issued a 5-cent bill. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. You blink about 84,000,000 times a year. In England, in the 1880’s, “Pants” was considered a dirty word. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans. Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. A cockroach will live nine days without it’s head, before it starves to death. The most used letter in the English alphabet is ‘E’, and ‘Q’ is the least used. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed… or is that pawed? The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women. Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions. Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador’s waving cape no matter what color it is — be it red or neon yellow. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again! When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head. Coca-Cola was originally green. Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royce’s per capita. Alaska is the state with highest percent of people who walk to work. 28 percent of Africa is wilderness. 38 percent of America is wilderness. A duck’s quack does not echo and no one knows why. It costs $6400 to raise a medium size dog to age of 11. Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour: 61,000. 70 percent of Americans who visited Disneyland/World. Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair. The youngest pope was 11 years old. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country. The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only “mobile” National Monuments. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter “uncopyrightable.” Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ? The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and learned how to walk up standard staircases. When opossums are playing ‘possum, they are not “playing.” They actually pass out from sheer terror. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people (without killing them) used to burn their houses down - hence the expression “to get fired.” Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader’s lines, and didn’t know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star Game. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined. Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. On average people fear spiders more than they do death. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. Butterflies taste with their feet. A cat’s urine glows under a blacklight. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Coca Cola was originally green. The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words. There are more collect calls made on Father’s Day than on any other day. Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury. Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men. Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. The world’s youngest parents were 8 & 9 and lived in China in 1910. Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. The youngest Pope was 11 years old. “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey…). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell (”pocket full of posies…”). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease (”ashes, ashes, we all fall down”). The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; “7″ was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. “UP” indicated the direction of the bubbles. Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma. American car horns beep in the tone of F. No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.” The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes To “testify” was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles

Volcano and Aurora in Iceland

Volcano and Aurora in Iceland
In Iceland in 1991, the volcano Hekla erupted at the same time that auroras were visible overhead. Hekla, one of the most famous volcanoes in the world, has erupted at least 20 times over the past millennium, sometimes causing great

islande et géothermie - 05

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islande et géothermie - 05

Cinderella, Iceland

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Cinderella, Iceland

I wonder if i ever get to see her again. She didn’t leave the shoes tho.

An revisited old photo, taken 5. Oct. 2005

Iceland, Strokkur Geysirs (hot springs)
Iceland is the land of ice and fire, geysirs and volcanoes, nature’s wonders surround you everywhere you go, and you won’t believe it until you see it! You experience it from the very moment you arrive, and a one day tour out of the

This old house

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This old house

Shot this on our little swimming trip to Reykjarfjörður last week. I found some interesting old houses there near by.

Nora Volkow

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Nora Volkow

Nora Volkow hjá National Institute of Drug Abuse. Hún var valin ein af 100 áhrifamestu manneskjum í heiminum í dag af Times.

Fréttablaðið 4. júlí

$50 off Iceland flights from Boston, New York
Icelandair has announced $50 off per person for departures to Iceland from Boston and New York’s JFK Airport. The discount applies to bookings made before July 14, for travel to the country in September and October.

The Economy of Iceland
Kennedy said that Iceland’s economy has exploded after they began to “decarbonize” their economy. Forget all the lurking variables in that assumption, the real reason Iceland’s economy has come on is because of taxes.

Only in Iceland

Only in Iceland
The following comes from the Iceland Tourism Office Newsletter and touts some of the more unusual spots to check out while visiting Iceland. I can vouch for Lake Myvatn and for the the island as a whole. I spent six incredible weeks

Sunday 7/13 at 1 pm - Equitrekking
From hot pots to horse drives, we experience the smooth gait of the Icelandic horses on rides with farmers and an Icelandic champion rider, traveling to lava fields, lakes and waterfalls. Riding through the varied landscapes of Iceland

Strokkur - Geysers - Iceland
Strokkur - Geysers - Iceland. Erupting every 5 to 10 minutes. The formation of geysers requires a favourable hydrogeology which exists in only a few places on Earth, and so they are fairly rare phenomena. There must be a volcanic heat

Thomson Financial UK at a glance share guide - CNBC

Thomson Financial UK at a glance share guide - CNBC
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - London shares look set for an easier opening this morning following a mixed close on Wall Street after yesterday’s half-day session, with trading expected to be directionless as U.S. markets will be closed Friday for …

Iceland Travel
Iceland Travel Incentives Conferences Groups FIT - Iceland Travel a leading tour operator and travel agency in incoming tourism, conferences and incentives.

Iceland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iceland , officially the Republic of Iceland ( Icelandic : Ísland or Lýðveldið Ísland ; IPA : [ˈliðvɛltɪð ˈistlant] ) is a country in northern Europe , comprising the island of Iceland and its outlying islets in the North Atlantic Ocean between the rest of Europe and Greenland . [1] It is the least populous of the Nordic countries and the second smallest; it has a population of about 313,000 and a total area of 103,000 km².Geography · History · Government · Demographics · Economy and … · Culture

House_in_a_pond

House_in_a_pond

   Art festival in Iceland —- And they put a house in a pond in the center of ReykjavikAuthor: dandi007Tags: iceland reykjavik Posted: 16 May 2008Rating: 0.0Votes: 0

One sock

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One sock



Chile reality show contestant expelled over porn (Reuters)
Reuters - So much for "love is blind." A contestant has been expelled from a popular Chilean TV dating show after he was found to have had previous acting experience -- in a pornographic movie.

London's deputy mayor quits as investigation launched (AFP)
AFP - London's new mayor Boris Johnson suffered his second setback in the job Friday when his deputy announced his resignation over allegations of financial irregularities and inappropriate behaviour.

France suspends 'shooting' troops
Two teams of soldiers and five officers are suspended over a shooting at a military show in south-west France.

Freed hostage gets hero's welcome in France
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Mercedes-Benz Cars Increases Sales By Eight Percent In First Half
The Mercedes-Benz Cars division posted considerable sales growth in the first half of the year.

Instant Success
DM: So Pascal, you've just closed an $8 million funding round. What are you going to do with the money? PL: We'll use it to finance the development of our US operations.

Donington Statement Regarding Hosting 2010 Formula One British Grand Prix
The future of the British Grand Prix has today been secured in a new 10-year agreement between Donington Ventures Leisure Limited and Formula One Management Limited.

Thomas Jefferson's All-American incognitum [Laelaps]
Edouard de Montule's 1816 painting of the mastodon reconstructed in the Peale Museum.

Canadian director behind "Kit Kittredge" film
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Children's exam results delayed
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