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Biwa Fall near Oboke Canyon, Tokushima prefecture (Shikoku island)
Named after a legend that Heike fugitives played the biwa, an old mandarin-shaped guitar from China, to comfort each other in front of the fall. There are many sayings about loser refugees of Heike clan in Shikoku, which founds none in Kyoto, the then capital city in Heian period.
Biwa (Chinese lute)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipa
I have seen it only at Nara National Museum’s Annual Shoso-in Treasure Repository Exhibition. I sometimes find them in old tales but I wonder there still exists any player.
The Tale of the Heike
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Heike
There were monk bards for telling/singing the story as playing the biwa in old time. All Japanese are forced to memorize the head part in classical literature class at high school.
大歩危峡近隣の琵琶の滝（徳島県）
平家の落人がこの滝の前で互いを慰めあって琵琶を奏でたところからこの滝の名前が付いたそう。四国では平家の落人伝説の話をちらほら聞く。京都ではまず聞かないので興味深い。
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Photo: Mother Polar Bear Nursing Her Cub
Photographer caption: I was on an extreme expedition with my brother and daughter in East Greenland where our mission was to document the natural history with dog sleds as our only means of transport. We joined two locals, Izak and Age, from Ittoqqortoormiit on their journey to Jameson Land. Earlier this morning, the wind speed dropped, and the dogs became restless. To Izak, these are the tell-tale signs of a polar bear in the vicinity, and we soon find two sets of tracks. Polar bears amble at around 5km per hour, but it isn’t until the sun sets that a mother bear revealed her cub to us.
Photo by Danie Ferreira (Cape Town, South Africa); Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland
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The base camp of an expedition to Arnhem Land, Australia.
Photograph by Howell Walker, National Geographic
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Terra Nova expedition captured by Herbert Ponting
— Posted by tiphaine
https://bazaar.co/nico/ekselens/posts/17121
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On #DofE practice #expedition with a bronze group. Perfect weather!
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Although centuries of abuse and mismanagement have reduced Earth’s once bountiful oceans to a lifeless chemical broth, a great abundance of carbon-based organisms not dissimilar to ancient earth life continue to thrive in the outer reaches of the galaxy, far from human interference.
The first robotic probes to Tantum XII detected vast swarms of complex life cavorting through the perpetual darkness of the gas giant’s upper atmosphere. To the shock of human observers back on Earth, these aerodynamic creatures were observed tumbling unpredictably through the nutrient rich clouds, raising and reducing their altitude at apparent whim. Subsequent missions have discovered over 200 distinct varieties of life amidst the swirling hydrogen clouds of Tantum XII.
Scientifically designated as Balaena (though often more casually described as “Arrowheads”) these vast organisms “swim” gracefully through the upper layers of their gas giant’s atmosphere, feeding on particulate matter and absorbing solar radiation. Balaena lack a central nervous system and possess only the relative intelligence of an Earth sponge. Because there is no solid material in their gaseous habitat to navigate around, Balaena never developed the complex intelligence necessary to interact with their environment, and even Balaena apex predators are relatively stupid by the standards of most Earth life.
Most species are able to alter their buoyancy with a rudimentary gas bladder in response to changing atmospheric temperature, and rise to the higher levels of their atmosphere during their planet’s several week long day before retreating to the deeper levels for the long night. Observation suggests that these creatures can live for hundreds of Earth years, but eventually age and sink into the deeper layers of their planet where they are crushed by increasing atmospheric pressures.
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A fine day on the sea ice at the #NorthPole (Aug 20, 2018)
#seaice #Arctic #polenord #polar #frozen #sunnyday #latergram #landscape #ice #midnightsun #cleanair #arcticocean18 #arcticocean #icebreaker #science #expedition #inspiring #calm #remote #wild #nordpolen #frozenlandscape #sun #horizon #brightness #screensaver
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Old good time ! Aventure was everywhere, people were pioneers. Only a stat of mind maybe ?
#mountain #mountains #exploration #neverstopexploring #expedition #aventure #north #himalaya #everest #mounteverest #summit #climbing #ski #backcountry #history #sherpa #amazing #love #instagood #photooftheday
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Όσο απομακρύνεται από την Αθήνα, ο καφές είναι πιο γλυκός.
