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“I’m never going to drink that much EVER again!” …. famous last words…
BMD
Saturday, 7 February 2015
7 February 2015. Greetings from Slovakia! Even the Animals Celebrated Silvester Night
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Monday, 3 February 2014
3 February 2014. WTF! It HAS to be Russia…
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This proud rooster is the “cock of the walk” of the village… WTF! It HAS to be Russia… you can’t understand it with your mind, you can only accept it for what it is…
BMD
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3 February 2014. RIA-Novosti Presents… The Polar Bears Bag Some Zs with Winter Dreams and Other Animal News
A Polar Bear sleeps in the snow in his enclosure in the Berlin Zoological Garden Berlin (Freistadt Berlin) GERMANY
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Penguins were in costumes on the eve of the Lunar New Year at Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise Yokohama (Kanagawa Prefecture. Kantō Region) JAPAN
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Pope Francisco blesses Amore the Parrot on 29 January 2014 in St Peter’s Square VATICAN CITY
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A keeper at the Giza Zoo EGYPT helps a young visitor to feed a hippo
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A trainer and a pony at a Beijing PRC equestrian club
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A man with a tame python on a beach in Colombo SRI LANKA
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A horse near the entrance to Central Park in New York (Borough of Manhattan) NY USA
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Tractor scattering feed for cranes in Hula Lake Park ISRAEL
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Cops captured a puma inside a residential house in Santiago de Chile CHILE (where it’s summer, but what the hey…), but no one was hurt. The cops took the big cat to the local zoo, whilst the authorities tried to figure out how it got into the building.
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At Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps raceway in Spa (Province de Liège. Région Wallonne) BELGIUM, fans of Michael Schumacher held a vigil in support of their idol
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2 February 2014
RIA-Novosti
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Sunday, 2 February 2014
2 February 2014. A Photo Essay. It’s Wintertime in Russia
It’s COLD in Norilsk (Krasnoyarsk Krai. Siberian Federal District) in the Far North… -46 (-50.8 Fahrenheit ) to be exact. She IS wearing her woolies, to be sure…
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Local “walruses” jump into the Yenisei River at a temperature of around -30 (-22 Fahrenheit) in Divnogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Krai. Siberian Federal District), south of Krasnoyarsk in Siberia
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Motocross in Moscow Oblast (Central Federal District)
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A child gives flowers to a war veteran during a parade on the 70th anniversary of Leningrad’s liberation from the fascist blockade on Nepokoryonnykh Prospekt (“Avenue of the Unconquered”… the Piskarovskoye Memorial Cemetery is on this street) in St Petersburg (Federal City of St Petersburg. Northwestern Federal District)
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Swans in the harbour in Baltiisk in Kaliningrad Oblast (Northwestern Federal District)
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A fisherman walks on the frozen Yenisei River in the village of Taiga (Kozulka Raion) at -20 (-4 Fahrenheit ), outside Krasnoyarsk
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A boy slides down a snow-covered hill in Tobolsk (Tyumen Oblast. Ural Federal District) in Siberia
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A cruise ship sails on Lake Baikal by the village of Listvyanka (Irkutsk Oblast. Siberian Federal District)
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The Kolyada rite in the village of Reshma (Kineshma Raion. Ivanovo Oblast. Central Federal District, 318 kilometres (197 miles) from Moscow)
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You think that YOU have it bad? Not only is it COLDER in Russia… everybody’s out and about! Pull out those valenki and pull on your ushanka and go join ’em! It’s wintertime in Russia! Pass the jug and have some fun…
BMD
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