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LEGENDS of SCOTLAND
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_whisky
www.scotchwhiskyexperience.co.uk/about-whisky/history
The term ‘whisky’ derives originally from the Gaelic ‘uisge beatha’, or ‘usquebaugh’, meaning ‘water of life’. Gaelic is that branch of Celtic spoken in the Highlands of Scotland.
Paper boat
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Figure 5
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Red crowned cranes perform their mating dance on the frozen plains of Manchuria. the two dozen flutes made from the early Neolithic site of Jiahu were exclusively made from one of the wing bones (the ulna) of this bird Photography @ by James G. parker
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This magnificent Neolithic rock painting, dating from the third millennium B.C., or earlier was discovered by the explorer Henri Lhote in the Tassili n’Ajjer Mountains of the central Sahara Desert. Among their herds, nomads appear to engage in a drinking ceremony. A man (kneeling at left), helped by possibly his father or an elder (seated at left) drinks from a large decorated jar using long straw. From encampment to encampment, cereal beer and its technology made their way from east to west across Africa. Image @ Pierre Colombel/CORBIS
Night Fire Dance
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Mesopotamian barley beer was drunk through straws. In the earliest known depiction of a popular motif, on a clay seal from Tepe Gawra, Iraq, ca. 3850 B.C., two thirsty individuals are thought to be imbibing beer through drinking tubes in his fashion from a gargantuan jar.
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Drinking beer through a long straw in an ancient tradition that continues today throughout Africa. Funerary stela from el-Amarna (ca 1350 B>C) showing an Egyptian man, sporting a Semitic-style beard, quaffing his brew through a drinking tube, aided by a servant boy. The cup in the latter’s hand might have been used to dispense a special ingredient or hallucinogen, such as essene of blue lotus. Photography courtesy of J. Liepe, Agyptisches Museum, Staatlich Museen zu Berlin, Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz/Art Resource Ny # 14,122
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Carved bowl or goblet in limestone from Nevali Cori, Ca.8000 B.C., height 13.5 cm. The exuberant dancing scene of two humans and a tortoise on the exterior of this vessel is unique. Photography courtesy of Professor Dr. Harald Hauptmann, Euphrates Archive, Hdidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften.
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In his dealings with the Amazonian Indian tribes, Francisco Orellana used his considerable language skills and diplomacy much more frequently than force. he found many of the tribes to be generous hosts, some allowing him and his men to remain for over a month at a time in their villages and providing the Spaniards with food and boat building materials
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The conquistadors found the heart of the Andes stunningly beautiful and yet virtually impenetrable. they faced violent flash floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions as they descended to the Amazon Basin
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The Rain forests that Orellana and his men encountered
were filled with larte cats like jaguarundi, ocelots, and pumas,
and the dark woods echoed with the ominous , lionlike roars
of red howler monkies and the piercing calls of macaws
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Caripuna Indians with a large tapir near the Madeira River. One such animal sustained Orellana and his men for nearly a week.
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On the fields of Cajamarca, November 16, 1532, Francisco Pizarro and his 167 men annihilated some seven thousand Incas and took emperor-elected Atahualpha prisoner
The Timeless Amazon
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napo_River
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara%C3%B1%C3%B3n_River
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River
