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POPSWorld's Most Romantic Restaurants These 12 restaurant picks from around the world have all the right elements—a seductive view, an unhurried atmosphere, terrific food—but never veer into sentimentality. Because style mixed with subtlety is a more potent aphrodisiac than straight saccharine.
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POPS'Chemical equator' keeps southern air clean The virtual map says it all. Now it means the approach to the solution of the pollution problem needs to be tackled in different ways in each hemisphere. Atmospheric pollution is only one problem. More investigation needs to be done into the nature of oceanic pollution. it did make me wonder of the Nuclear Fusion experiments on Mururoa (Aopuni) and Bikini atolls in French Polynesia last Century. The first nuclear test was conducted on July 2, 1966, code named Aldebaran. France abandoned nuclear testing in the atmosphere in 1974 and moved testing underground in the midst of intense world pressure. A total of 147 underground nuclear tests were conducted at Mururoa and Fangataufa. This practice created much controversy as cracking of the atolls was discovered, A 1979 test conducted at half the usual depth caused a large submarine landslide on the southwest rim of the atoll. Just somehow seemed relevant
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POPSTuamatuan conceptions of the cosmos by Paiore "Tuamotuan Conception of the Cosmos", by Paiore (1820). This diagram first appeared in the writings of Rev. Pere Herve Audran, a missionary. In December 1919, during the course of research on her Ph.D. dissertation, Margaret Mead saw this illustration in the Journal of the Polynesian Society. Later, in 1924, she resolved to do ethnological fieldwork in the remote Tuamotu islands of central Polynesia. See Freeman (1991) “There’s Tricks I’ th’ World,” Visual Anthropology Review, Volume 7(1).
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POPSStingrays gliding along in the water Some of the most beutiful things you will ever see are hidden under the water - Dive with Manta rays, turtles, dolphins and MANY more http://www.activediving.co.uk
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POPSFrench Polynesia Our little ship, drawing over two metres, and also conscious of this potential to wreck and ruin, approaches their first one together with some trepidation.
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POPSAncient "Transpacific" Voyages? Did the Polynesians cross the Pacific and visited South America in pre-Columbian times (even in prehistorical times) ? Some new evidence suggest so.
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POPSTop 5 Most Luxurious Hotels and Resorts just reading traveling related stuff make me to go weak on my knees: I am a self proclaimed travelist (is there a word like this?) love visiting places, talking to people, the tastes, the air special to every other place in the world...just traveling...
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