Flying Colours - Colourful Aeroplanes....
Creative Sequence Photography - Amazing Photos...
Popular posts from this blog
Crete and the Libyan War
What was the first civilization in Europe? What European country had the first palace? The answers to those questions are (1) Crete and (2) Crete at Knossos. A prediction: The role of Crete in the Libyan war will cause her reappearance in the news in the coming months. A French C160 Transall taxis as a Greek F16 fighter takes off at the Souda military base, on the Greek island of Crete. Greece has no direct involvement in the air and missile attacks on Libya that began on the Saturday after the UN resolution of March 17, 2011. Still it has sent a navy frigate to the region and has offered the use of its air bases to the countries involved. The United States has also used a navy base on the island to build up Libya-bound forces. A Qatar Emiri Air Force Dassault Mirage 2000-5EDA fighter jet prepares for takeoff from Larnaca international airport, Cyprus, Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Two Qatar Air Force fighter jets and a C-17 Globemaster cargo aircraft were heading to Crete in the first sig...
Chinese Cannibal (食人魔)
.jpg)
This is a new cannibal story. Due to the apparent blocking of the word "cannibal" (食人魔) by the Chinese government and/or media, the recent news of a cannibal serial killer has taken some time to be disseminated widely. (Revisit my recent overview of cannibals here .) According to the Washington Post , on May 27, 2012, an arrest of 56-year-old Zhang Yongming in southwestern China occurred. He was accused of killing 11 people and dismembering, burning and burying their bodies to destroy the evidence. He allegedly attacked male victims walking on the quiet road near his home in Jinning county. The word "cannibal" was not used in the American story. Details were graphically being given elsewhere (as per the photograph above). An article in the Daily Telegraph said it all in their headline: " China's 'Cannibal Monster' Detained ." One critical sentence, tied to the headline, was this one: Zhang, a loner who never talked to his neighbours, had prev...