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February 5th, 2010


Image taken on 2006-04-13 03:31:49 by mel_j_ellis.

Sunset on Norderney Island

January 28th, 2010


Image taken on 2004-05-20 21:25:46 by dirk@bremen.

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January 21st, 2010


Image taken on 2007-09-19 12:24:45 by mel_j_ellis.

harbour sunset impression (087☺03)

January 13th, 2010


Image taken on 2008-04-13 19:31:56 by Juergen Kurlvink.

Northsee Bensersiel: running gull 59.139.02

January 10th, 2010


Image taken on 2008-04-12 12:24:13 by Juergen Kurlvink.

waiting (096☺08)

January 6th, 2010


Image taken on 2008-04-12 12:59:32 by Juergen Kurlvink.

The Best Way To Enjoy Healthy Tea

January 2nd, 2010

The Preparation of Darjeeling tea has its own laws. Thus, the quality and the correct temperature of water for future consumption play a large role. The quantity of tea that is poured into the water fit must be precise, in order to know the fantastic taste of this tea. Darjeeling Tea: Darjeeling is a high-altitude region on the slopes of the Himalaya `s in 2000-3000 meters. The Darjeeling tea is a very delicate and aromatic tea. A distinction as Darjeeling tea in first flush (first harvest in early March), a very delicate, aromatic tea with a slightly greenish infusion and the second flush Darjeeling tea, this tea is slightly stronger in flavor and darker in the cup. The second flush Darjeeling is more durable than the first flush Darjeeling. Assam: Assam is the largest contiguous region in northern India. Assam tea is very full-bodied, malty, strong and dark. The Assam tea is the base of the East Frisian tea. The Preparation of Darjeeling tea has its own laws. Thus, the quality and the correct temperature of water for future consumption play a large role. The quantity of tea that is poured into the water fit must be precise, in order to know the fantastic taste of this tea. For the infusion of first-flush Darjeeling, the tea is harvested in the spring, should be a quantity of 1 liter of water, at 85 – is heated 90 ° C. Now here is added a quantity of 10 – 12g tea leaves (about 4-5 level teaspoons). The tea should be 2-3 minutes to draw in not completely covered pot. In second-flush Darjeeling (should) harvest time in the summer, the water will be briefly boiled. Here, too, should be an encore of the tea from 10 – 12g. The Ziehdauer then takes about 3 to 4 minutes in place covered pot. Then the delicate tea flavor can be enjoyed.

Wo sind sie geblieben? Ostfriesen in Amerika / Where did they stay? East Frisians in America

December 25th, 2009

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Wo sind sie geblieben? Ostfriesen in Amerika / Where did they stay? East Frisians in America

Friesisches Vogelhäuschen

December 18th, 2009


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79 famous people born january 7 (actors)

December 3rd, 2009

200 famous people born january 7

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1355 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)1528 – Jeanne d’Albret, queen of Navarra/mother of French King Henry IV1539 – Sebastian de Covarrubias Horozco, Spanish lexicographer1611 – James Harrington, England, political author (Commonwealth of Oceans)1612 – Paul de La Pierre, composer1634 – Adam Krieger, German composer1647 – Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)1652 – Pavao Vitezovic, Croatia, writer/historian1653 – Bernhard Albinus, Germany, court-physician (Frederick of Prussia)1685 – Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company1685 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)1706 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)1710 – Josef Antonin Sehling, composer1718 – Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)1768 – Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (d. 1844)1786 – John Catron, Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (d. 1865)1796 – Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817)1799 – Daniel Tyler, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 18821800 – Millard Fillmore, Locke NY, (Whig) 13th president (1850-53)1808 – Jacob Ammen, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 18941816 – Stephen Miller, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 18811821 – Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Brig General (Confed Army), died in 18911822 – Lucius C M Bakker, Frisian physician/author (Goethe)1822 – Theodor Aufrecht, German indologist (Rigveda’s Hymns)1824 – James Morrison Hawes, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 18891827 – Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)1830 – (Samuel) Emerson Opdycke, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)1830 – Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter (US landscapes)1832 – James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)1834 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)1842 – Johan Lindegren, composer1844 – Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, [St Bernadette of Lourdes], saint/visionary1845 – Louis III, last king of Bavaria (1913-18)1845 – Paul Deusen, German philosopher (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft)1853 – Nikolai Arkas, composer1858 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)1860 – Emanuil Mandlov, composer1868 – Abraham M “Mark” Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist1870 – Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (d. 1943)1871 – Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)1873 – Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive (Paramount)1875 – Thomas Hicks, English/US marathon runner: (Olympic-gold-1904)1875 – Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)1876 – William Yeates Hurlstone, composer1877 – Johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer (1 great dog)1879 – St Bernadette (Marie-Bernarde Soubirous), 1844(?), religious visionary1883 – Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (WW II)1890 – Henny Porten, Magdeburg Germany, silent screen star (Deception)1890 – Maurice E McLoughlin, tennis champ (US Open-1912)1891 – Zora Neale Hurston, American writer (d. 1960)1892 – Rudolf Moser, composer1894 – Jose Rozo Contreras, composer1895 – Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist1895 – Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)1895 – Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of QANTAS (d. 1974)1896 – Arnold Ridley, Bath England, actor/dramatist (The Ghost Train)1898 – Art Baker, NYC, TV host (You Asked For It)1898 – Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer1898 – Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941)1899 – Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist (Les Biches)1899 – Kenneth Thomson, Pitts, actor (Broadway Melody, Little Giant)1900 – John Brownlee, Australian tenor (d. 1969)1903 – Alan Napier, Birmingham England, actor (Alfred-Batman)1903 – Albrecht Haushofer, writer1903 – Shalva Azmayparashvili, composer1903 – Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov, composer1905 – Francis Taylor, builder1907 – Nicanor Zabaleta, San Sebastian, Spain, harpist1908 – Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967)1910 – Alain JG de Rothschild, France, banker/baron1910 – Jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/runner (Olympic-gold-1936)1910 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (d. 1984)1910 – Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)1911 – Merv Waite, cricketer (S Australian all-rounder)1912 – Charles Addams, cartoonist (New Yorker, Addams Family)1912 – Günter Wand, German conductor, composer (d. 2002)1913 – Francis De Wolff, England, actor (From Russia With Love)1913 – Shirley Ross, Omaha NE, actress (Cafe Society, Prison Farm)1913 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)1915 – Herman Musaph, Dutch psychiatrist/sexologist/founder (NVSH)1916 – Gerrit Schulte, [Le Fou Pedalant], Dutch 6 day bicyclist1916 – Paul Keres, USSR, chess grandmaster (1950)1917 – Ulysses Sipmson Kay, composer1918 – Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader (Communist Party)1918 – Colin Snedden, cricketer (Test NZ v England 1947, 0-46, did not bat)1920 – Albert Meltzer, anarchist1920 – Aubrey Brabazon, jockey/trainer1920 – Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, engineer/Industrialist1921 – John Lanigan, tenor1922 – Jean-Pierre [Louis] Rampal, Marseilles France, flautist1922 – Vincent Gardenia, Naples Italy, actor (All in the Family, LA Law)1923 – Charles Russell Woolen, composer1923 – Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)1924 – Roloff Beny, Alberta, painter/photographer (A Time of Gods)1924 – Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (d. 1966)1925 – Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Britain, zoologist/writer (Mockery Bird)1928 – Rajindranath, cricketer (4 stumpings in his only Test for India)1928 – William Peter Blatty, NYC, author/director (The Exorcist)1929 – Douglas Kiker, NBC newsman (1970 Peabody Award)1929 – Kenneth Henry, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1952)1929 – Terry Moore, [Helen Luella Koford], LA Cal, actress (Little Sheba)1931 – Mack Mattingly, (Sen-R-GA, 1981-86)1932 – Joe Berinson, Australian politician1933 – Elliot Kastner, NYC, producer (Bobo, Big Sleep, Ffolkes)1934 – Charles Lamont Jenkins, NYC, 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1956)1934 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)1935 – Noam Sheriff, composer1935 – Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, 19, 36/35)1935 – Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006)1935 – Tommy Johnson, American tubist (d. 2006)1936 – Eldee Young, US bassist (Young Holt Unlimited-Hang on Sloopy)1936 – Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer1938 – Jasperina de Jong, Dutch cabaret performer (Jan Rao en z’n Maat)1938 – Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)1939 – David Buchan, ethno-musicologist1939 – Tom Kierman, British(?) rugby player1939 – Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark1940 – William Elgin Swinton, child psychiatrist1941 – Ann Susan Hills, freelance journalist1941 – Frederick Drew Gregory, Wash DC, Col USAF/astro (STS 51-B, 33, 44)1941 – Robert Hicks, rocker (Paul Butterfield Blues Band)1941 – Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004)1941 – John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate1942 – Paul Revere, rock keyoardist (Good Thing)1942 – Vasili Alexeyev, USSR, weightlifer (Olympic-gold-72, 76)1942 – Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter1943 – Jim Lefebvre, Hawthorne Calif, baseball manager (Seattle Mariners)1943 – Leona Williams, singer/songwriter (Ladies Get the Blues)1943 – Nicholas Warner, test Pilot1943 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955)1943 – Sir Richard Armstrong, British conductor1944 – Ad [GB] Nijhuis, Dutch MP (VVD)1944 – Mike McGear, Liverpool, singer (Paul McCartney’s brother)1944 – Arne Scheie, Norwegian sports commentator1944 – Tony Whitlam, Australian judge1945 – Tony Conigliaro, Mass, baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox)1945 – Dick Marty, Swiss politician1945 – Raila Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya1946 – Andy Brown, rock drummer (Fortunes Birmingham)1946 – Jann S Wenner, publisher (Rolling Stone)1947 – David Porcelijn, Dutch composer/conductor1947 – Shobha De, Indian writer1948 – Kaz Lux, Poland/Netherland, singer1948 – Kenny Loggins, Everett WA, singer (& Messina-This is it, Footloose)1949 – John Christopher Parry, rocker (Cure)1949 – Marshall Chapman, Spartanburg SC, country singer1949 – Anne Schedeen, American actress1950 – Erin Gray, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Silver Spoons, Buck Rogers)1950 – Ross Grimsley, American baseball player1950 – Johnny Lever, Indian actor1951 – Talgat Amangeldyyevich Musabayev, Russian mjr/cosmonaut (TM-19, TM-27)1951 – Mike Ward, Democratic Congressman for Kentucky & radio talk show host1952 – Giuliano Ferrara1953 – Agha Zahid, cricketer (open batting for Pak v WI 1975, scored 14 & 1)1953 – Earl Wilber Force “Wire” Lindo, rocker (Bob Marley & the Wailers)1954 – Alan Butcher, cricketer (one Test England v India, scored 14 & 20)1955 – Sandra Bernhard, Arizona (Follow That Bird, King of Comedy)1956 – Robin Walton, Boise ID, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Heartland Classic-15th)1956 – Rosalyn Bryant, Chic Ill, 4×400m runner (Olympic-silver-1976)1956 – Trudie Styler, England, wife of Sting/sponsor (Rainforest Concert)1957 – Katie Couric, [Katherine], Arlington VA, TV news host (Today)1957 – Kristen Meadows, actress (Santa Barbara)1957 – Nicholson Baker, American novelist1957 – Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer1957 – Reena Roy, Indian actress1958 – Donna Rice, New Orleans La, model/Gary Hart’s lover1958 – Peter R Mokaba, president (South African Youth Congress)1959 – Kathy Valentine, rocker (Go-Go’s-We Got the Beat)1960 – David Marciano, Newark NJ, actor (Det Ray Vecchio-Due South)1960 – Tierre Turner, Detroit Mich, actor (Waverly Wonders, Cop & the Kid)1960 – Loretta Sanchez, American politician1961 – Andrew Thomson, Australian politician1961 – Supriya Pathak, Indian actress1961 – John Thune, American politician1962 – Hallie Todd, actress (Check is in the Mail)1962 – Jeff Montgomery, Wellston OH, pitcher (KC Royals)1962 – Aleksandr Dugin, Russian politician1963 – Craig Shipley, Australian/US baseball infielder (San Diego Padres)1963 – Clint Mansell, English musician and composer1964 – Francisco Maciel, Mexico, tennis star1964 – Nicolas Cage, [Coppola], actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon)1965 – Mark Rushmere, cricketer (S Afr opening bat in comeback Test 1992)1966 – Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, model/wife of John Kennedy Jr1966 – Jennifer Luff, Australian rower (Olympics-96)1966 – Randy Burridge, Fort Erie, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)1966 – Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer1967 – Guy Hebert, Troy, NHL goalie (Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Team USA 98)1967 – Scott Galbraith, NFL tight end (Washington Redskins, Dallas Cowboys)1967 – Mark Lamarr, British comedian and broadcaster1968 – Michael Rosati, hockey goaltender (Team Italy 1998)1968 – Nathaniel Bolton, WLAF running back (Frankfurt Galaxy)1969 – Chris Hatcher, US baseball outfielder (Houston Astros)1969 – Doug E Doug, actor (Cosby)1969 – Erric Pegram, NFL running back (Pit Steelers, NY Giants, SD Chargers)1969 – Todd Kinchen, NFL wide receiver (St Louis Rams, Atlanta Falcons)1969 – David Yost, American actor1970 – Darryl Williams, NFL safety (Seattle Seahawks, Cin Bengals)1970 – Frank “Cliff” Mannon, Amarillo TX, team handball (Olympics-1996)1970 – Paul McCallum, CFL/WLAF kicker/punter (Claymores, Sask Roughriders)1970 – Todd Day, NBA guard/forward (Boston Celtics)

200 famous people born january 7