Believe it or not...

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The observation that astronauts' blood sometimes clots and flows in reverse will need to be better understood before we head off on long space trips in the future.

A VERY COOL, VINTAGE CIRCUS PHOTO.
IT'S NOT THE BEST QUALITY OF PHOTO, SO FOR THOSE WHO MAY HAVE SOME DIFFICULTY, THOSE ARE AXES THAT HAVE BEEN THROWN AROUND A LADY

CEMETERIES ARE DIFFERENT FROM GRAVEYARDS
CEMETERIES ARE NOT SITUATED NEXT TO A CHURCH OR ON CHURCH GROUNDS
GRAVEYARDS ARE SITUATED NEXT TO A CHURCH AND ARE ON CHURCH GROUNDS

Weren't they stupid then,..smoking for two,had they no brains at all.,and then put a surgeons warning on the packet.

Do you believe,
There's nothing out there, Steve?

And nothing to see? Yes, I don't.

Have you heard? Prince Phillip's deee-ud !

Prince Philip?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_(dog)?fbclid=IwAR3Dd2Q84JGJAbzrtNfafucErQEgojwh4jG1Wnp1gKC8bKSb3HTyWMHgt2A

Awwww beautiful animals.

onathan (hatched c. 1832) is a Seychelles giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa), a subspecies of the Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea), and the oldest known living terrestrial animal in the world.

WWII | Smoky was found in a foxhole in New Guinea in Feb 1944. The American thought she must have been a Japanese soldier's dog, but when he took her to a POW camp, they found out she didn't understand commands in Japanese or English.
The soldier sold Smoky to Cpl. William Wynne of Cleveland OH for 2 Australian dollars.
Over the next two years Wynne carried Smoky in his backpack, fought in the jungles of Rock Island and New Guinea, flew 12 air/sea rescue.
She survived 150 air raids on New Guinea and made it through a typhoon at Okinawa, made a combat jump in Lingayen Gulf in Luzon, in a parachute made for her.
She would warn G.I's of incoming artillery and was dubbed the "angel from a foxhole."
Early in retaking the Philippines from Imperial Japanese forces, combat engineers were setting up a telegraph line to an airfield.
The joints collapsed filling them in with sand. Cpl. Wynne knew that Smoky could climb through the pipe with a new line and that is what she did.
Smoky's work saved approximately 250 ground crewmen from having to move around and keep operational 40 fighters and reconnaissance planes, while a construction detail dug up the taxiway, placing the men and the planes in danger from enemy bombings.
What would have been a dangerous three-day digging task to place the wire was instead completed in minutes.
In her down time she preformed tricks with the Special Services to improve the moral of the troops and visited hospitals in Australia and Korea.
Visiting with the sick and wounded, she became the first recorded "therapy dog".
After the war she became a sensation back in the US, had a live TV show, and often visited Veterans hospitals.
Smoky's work as a therapy dog continued for 12 years. Wynne had Smokey 14 years before she passed away.
He buried her in a 30 caliber ammo box in Rocky River Reservation in Ohio.
Smoky, the smallest war hero weighing in at 4 lbs even and standing 7 inches tall.
Courtesy: 1 8 2 0s

Can you credit some animals,in particular dogs,they must be angels on earth.
Re Tortoises,as a child I saw a three hundred year old one in Phoenix Park Dublin..she was massive,and I used to have one,but not as big as her lol.

In the 1950s, Ella Fitzgerald wasn't allowed to perform in Hollywood’s most popular nightclub, The Mocambo, because of her race.⁠ ⁠ Marilyn Monroe called the owner and explained that if he booked Ella, she would be there every night. He booked Ella and Marilyn was there, front table, every single night as promised.⁠ ⁠ Ella said, "After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman, a little ahead of her time, and she didn’t even know it."

https://allthatsinteresting.com/marilyn-monroe-facts?fbclid=IwAR0gOt4TEXjWUl6ZSouPXtldmVygGAN2cczI6gD2Gx3MATWbdd3k9qnmjLw

This rare orchid named ‘Flower of the Holy Spirit’ only blooms once a year. Before blooming it looks like a Mother and Child, and once it blooms it turns into a Dove in Flight