geidi-shakyamuni

Basically, this is a blog in which I research about my findings on the Internet that I find wondrous or intriguing. Hopefully you will find them to be the same. NOTE: I do not own any of the media posted on this blog unless stated otherwise. Some photos...

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Jack + Eliza "Hold The Line" No Wonders EP

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Sri Meenakshi Temple

Also known as the Meenakshi Amman Temple, the Sri Meenakshi Temple is a historic Hindu temple located in the holy city of Madurai, India. It is dedicated to Lord Shiva (in the form of Sundareswarar or "Beautiful Lord") and his consort, Goddess Parvati (in the form of Minakshi). The complex houses 12 magnificent gopurams or towers that are elaborately sculpted and painted for the representation of these two gods, as well as quite a few others.

The temple that forms the heart and lifeline of the 2500 year old city of Madurai Temple has a stunning architecture and a significant testimony for Vishwakarma Brahmins for their master architecture in sculpting this temple. It was a forerunner in the election for the modern "Seven Wonders of the World" for its architectural importance. The temple is a significant symbol for the Tamil people, and has been seen in ancient Tamil literature ever since, though the present structure is believed to have been built only recently in the early 17th century.

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HAPPY PI DAY! :D

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Song: Rosa Artist: Grimes Album: Geidi Primes

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The Pagoda Forests

This UNESCO World Heritage site is one of China's most well preserved relics, resting only a few hundred yards away from the Shaolin Monastery. The pagodas vary in the date in which they were built -- the exact date of each pagodas' contruction is engraved on one of its' walls -- but the most recent ones date as far back as 600 and 700 A.D. (during the Sui and Tang dynasties).

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Sunset over the Crystal Mosque (Masjid Kristal)

More sophisticated architecture and the possession of an IT department gives off that fact that this building is one of the more recent monuments of Malaysia. The mosque rests on top of the delta of a river branching off of Kenyir Lake, where the water feeds into the South China Sea.

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The Spotted Lakes of British Columbia

The lake appears to be a normal one during fall, winter, and a small portion of spring; but during the summer, most of the lake becomes evaporated. Dozens upon dozens of crater-like mineral deposits rest at the bottom of the lake and become visible during the warm weather. The mineral deposits span about 25 feet on average and contain many different concentrations of magnesium sulfate, and calcium/sodium phosphates, which gives them a distinct yellow, orange, green, or blue color.

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Albarracin, Spain

Home to many buildings that were architecturally spectacular for the time in which they were built, Albarracin was a former kingdom that housed many nobles. The city looks over the Guadalivar River as it sits on the 3,400 foot high Universale Mountains. Despite the place having scenic cobblestone roads that would take one back in time, it is not exactly a popular tourism area. The town is usually left in peace, allowing the buildings within it to be slightly untouched by time.

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Fjaðrárgljúfur, Iceland

The canyon was a product of erosion and build-up of palagonite over quite a few millennia. It has the typical yet beautiful earthy dark brown and green found all throughout Iceland.

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Song: Halcyon Artist: Ellie Goulding Album: Halcyon

The beginning of the song reminds me of a drop of sunshine splashing, if that makes sense. Gosh I miss summer!

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The Isolated Aogashima Island, Japan

Not only being the southernmost and most isolated island governed by Tokyo in the Philippine Sea, Aogashima is the least populated island in the country with just over 200 inhabitants. This is mostly due to the lack of transportation to and from the island. One can only access the island by boat or by helicopter. A smaller and more historical reason would be because a large portion of the island's inhabitants perished from an eruption of the volcano in the center of the island in the 1700's.

Since there is a lack of transportation, the island doesn't receive a lot of tourism, which is a shame because the volcano is interestingly placed near the center of the island, and farmers use the land on the volcano to grow crops, making an interesting design on it.

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lovin the new theme!

THANK YOU! It's a preset theme, but I've been working really hard to edit it to my liking. :D

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Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter series - JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Bible - Council of Nicea Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte  Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien  Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger Anthem - Ayn Rand The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Middlemarch - George Eliot Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Bleak House - Charles Dickens War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Emma - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Animal Farm - George Orwell The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Lord of the Flies - William Golding Atonement - Ian McEwan Life of Pi - Yann Martel  Dune - Frank Herbert Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon  A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon  Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov  The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas On The Road - Jack Kerouac Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie  Moby Dick - Herman Melville Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Dracula - Bram Stoker The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson Ulysses - James Joyce  The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome Germinal - Emile Zola Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Possession - AS Byatt A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Color Purple - Alice Walker The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry Charlotte’s Web - EB White The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery  The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Watership Down - Richard Adams A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole  A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Hamlet - William Shakespeare Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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Just a little above average, and I don't even like reading that much, unless it's a tertiary source (like manuals on how to do computer geek stuff). :D

Also, I added Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand's book: Anthem. I was surprised she wasn't on the list, despite her bringing concepts such as individualism to popularity and creating her own philosophies such as that of objectivism.

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Song: New Slang Artist: The Shins Album: Oh, Inverted World

Never gets old.

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Ottoman Calligraphic Roundels of the Hagia Sophia.

Kazasker Mustafa Izzet Efendi was a very famous calligrapher who created eight roundels for the Hagia Sophia in Ottoman, Turkey. Each roundel has scriptures that aren't exactly a single complicated ideograph, but a uniquely arranged group of characters from an Arabic dialect to represent important Islamic people (representing them through actual images or paintings was looked down upon). Uthman, who was one Muhammad's companion and a compiler of the Quran, is represented in this pictured roundel.

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Good Shepherd Cathedral in San Sebastián, Spain.

The Good Shepherd Cathedral is actually a close cluster of religious buildings within Spain's province of Gipuzkoa, the most remarkable one being the building of San Sebastián. This Roman Catholic building stands a good 75 meters tall and is home to the most important network of neoclassic organs maintained in Spain. There is a large organ surrounded by colossal pipes, and a smaller one located in another close-by presbytery.

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Lotus Temple, New Dehli, India

This building of complex design (not to be confused with the equally beautiful Lotus Temple of Ubud, pictured here) is used primarily for people of the Bahá'í Faith. Their beliefs revolve around the emphasis of spiritual unity for all humankind.

Perhaps the most popular symbol associated with their belief is titled "The Greatest Name," which has a nine-pointed star. The Lotus Temple sort of mimics the symbol since it is nine-sided as well, and shows how the Bahá'ís' faith plays a small part in their architecture.