An Aussie love story AND trivia and boarding the ship

Apply What You Know

Throughout your life, people have been giving you advice. Recall the best advice you've ever received, and you will be able to benefit even more from that advice. Right now, think of some wise advice that you have not yet applied to the degree that you could. Be resolved to apply that advice in the near future.

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We load the ship to Alaska at the end of August:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjyaT4uJX38

TRIVIA INFORMATION:

                     

 

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth.

 

If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.

 

To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers

 

Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.

 

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

 

People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport ..

 

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

 

Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

 

Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.

 

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!

 

Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.

 

The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve", which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband.

 

Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros ..

 

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

 

Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years .

 

Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end .

 

If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

 

Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.

 

Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.

 

Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.

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The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.

 

Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.

 

Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450?F.

 

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

 

Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.

 

The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.

 

Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

 

The University of Alaska spans four time zones.

 

The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.

 

In ancient Greece , tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.

 

Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.

 

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

 

A comet's tail always points away from the sun.

 

The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more deaths and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent.

 

Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.

 

The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.

 

If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.

 

When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight

 

In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed. 

 

Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.

 

Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.

 

The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.

 

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

 

Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.

 

Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.

 

Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.

 

Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.

 

For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off

 

The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.

 

And last but not least:

In 2012, December has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays.

: An Aussie love story

A Story of Love, Compassion, Friendship & Loyalty About eight years ago a wild Australian Sulphur Crested Cockatoo flew into a car and broke its wing. The motorist took it to the Vet in Nerang , Queensland , who had to amputate the wing. We adopted her - for which we needed a National Parks and Wildlife permit - and kept her in a cage outside where she was often visited by wild Cockatoos. One of the things that impressed us was how she would push lettuce leaves through the bars of the cage, offering food to visitors.  Last Sunday 23 July 2006, she again had a visitor. As usual he spent a lot of time sitting on the cage with a tamper proof latch. There was a lot of talking and grooming. A bloke has to look presentable when courting a bird! Things got interesting when he approached the front door. . .... The clever fellow figured out how to undo the tamper proof latch! He opened the door for a lot of mutual grooming and food sharing... Oooh that's nice! Scratch a bit more on that side, dear... He was not shy to get into the cage and would go in and out a number of times. They mated! We are looking forward to beautiful baby cockatoos. Will keep you posted. Later on, the whole extended family came visiting but the special mate was back every day so far. We leave the door open during the day but if we forget, it doesn't matter - cockatoos have intelligence that rival primates. Because she has only one wing, she stays inside or just sits on top. Guess what happened next... The Babies At first it seemed as though he was annoyed because she did not fly off with him and he would squawk a lot. He soon came to understand that she could not fly so he just stayed. However, she was no longer returning to her cage. The two of them would stay in the trees in our garden and because the yard is well fenced, they were safe from dogs but the neighbour's cat is not kept indoors at night and we often have to chase it away. Chances are the cat would come off second best in a confrontation with a Cockatoo but at night cats remain a danger because they could stalk a sleeping bird on the ground. Cockatoos make their nests in hollow logs but we noticed the male hard at work digging a hole under a clump of Lilly Pilly trees. We put down a hollow log for them but they just ignored us. The nest he dug was a hole with a short tunnel leading off to where she laid her eggs. Once there were eggs in the nest, the male became extremely aggressive. You better not get near the nest or he will take chunks of flesh from your foot. It was difficult to take these pictures because I literally had to steal them while running away from the male.   We kept a vigil to see how things were progressing. They took turns incubating the eggs and covering the tunnel. After about three weeks, the eggs hatched. Have a careful look at this picture and try to spot the bit of yellow fluff. Whenever Mum & Dad Cockatoo leave the nest, we try to get a look but you have to do it while running because Dad Cockatoo is chasing you! Second lap running around the Lilly Pilly trees! Well, I hope his mother thinks he is pretty and eventually I might think so too but at the moment, both of them just look like pink balls with a bit of yellow fluff. How's that for a true Aussie Love Story???? Definitely has the aaawwwww factor!

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