The Bridge

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
-- Winnie the Pooh

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Irish Countryside

"O Ireland isn't it grand you look--
Like a bride in her rich adornin?
And with all the pent-up love of my heart
I bid you the top o' the mornin!"
--John Locke

Photo by Jon Sullivan, PDPhoto.org

The Tower of London

Among the ghosts said to haunt the Tower of London are Anne Boleyn, Henry VI, Lady Jane Grey, Margaret Pole, and the Princes in the Tower.

Photograph: Public Domain, from PDPhoto.com

Fuchsia

There are over 100 varieties of fuchsia, the majority of them native to South America.

Photo: Public Domain, pdphoto.org

The Mighty Karatoa

The Karatoa River in Bangladesh, now not much than a small stream, was once a mighty river. It was said that a visit to the Karatoa, after a three-day fast, granted as much spiritual power as the sacrifice of a horse.

Illustration: the Korotoa River at Mahasthangarh, Bogra, Bangladesh, public domain

The Four Horsemen

"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."

-- Revelations 6:8

Illustration: Albrecht Durer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1498, Public Domain

Amber

Amber is the fossilized remains of tree resin, and has been known since very early times. Amber ornaments have been found in Bronze Age excavations, in the Mycenaean tombs, and among the remains of the Lake People in Switzerland.

Photograph: Insect remains in amber pendants, Public Domain