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POPS Five Japanese Gardens Learn More… Explore the Portland Japanese Garden, discover a fresh perspective, and learn about Japanese arts and culture through our online articles and expert columns.
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POPSBeautiful Man "He looks like a damned handsome man to me. You can't keep character from shining through, his is luminescent, any more than you can fake what's not there" (from post)
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POPSUgly Bug Competition I think that they all are beautiful, but I note that many of them never knew their mother and so did not experience the blindness of a mother's love.
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POPSDangerous Beauty If you gave me a choice between facing a genuine and hostile ghost or being under one of these cloud formations, I'd have to take on the ghost, thank you very much. These photographers have some serious courage.
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POPSMillions in stimulus money going to beauty schools Demoncrates are idiots. One would think "stimulus" money would be better spent funding the education of engineers, scientists, and small businesses that actually hire people. Folks, the Three Stooges are running our country.
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POPSSmall Wonders: Finalists From the Nikon Small World Competition Small World is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. For over 30 years, Nikon has rewarded the world's best photomicrographers who make critically important scientific contributions to life sciences, bio-research and materials science.
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POPSObama dragged into university race row after student is crowned first white beauty queen The five judges crowned her over the nine other contestants - all of whom were black. She was the first white woman to win the title at the university. But the backlash began almost immediately, with some of the audience walking out of the auditorium as the announcement was made. In a traditional winners' photograph, two of the black runners-up are seen scowling into the camera. The next day Ms Churchill was heckled at a university football game. Previous winner Patrece Parson said she was 'very shocked' at the judge's choice of a white woman, adding: 'We've never had one before'. Miss Churchill said: "Many of my friends are nigras...my maid is a big black mammy and you know...some of them can even read and write...amazing!
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POPS More Reason's to Love my Microscope Can you see the duallities here? The first one looks like blackberries. So many of them look like popular fruits like oranges and strawberries, etc. There is one that looks like a waterfall landscape and some look like flower gardens. Fascinating and beautiful. To think that some of these common slime molds may hold the keys to cures for the most horrific diseases that plague the human race, is the scientific side of it. The sheer beauty is the aesthetic side. All of it is wonderous to me.