#livingstone island

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Victoria Falls, Devil’s Pool, Zambia: Devil's pool is situated adjacent to the famous Livingstone Island at the top of Victoria Falls, and is run and operated by Tongabezi Lodge in Zambia... Victoria Falls is a waterfall on the Zambezi River, located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Wikipedia

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Victoria Falls — Zambia/Zimbabwe

Victoria Falls straddles the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe on the Zambezi River. One of the best vantage points in which to view this mile-long waterfall is from Livingstone Island, so named for David Livingstone, the first Westerner to come across the falls in 1855.

Vic Falls has long been considered one of the most beautiful places in the world — and one of the most adventurous, with bungee jumping, zip lining, and white-water rafting all in the vicinity of the falls.

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Island of the Lizard King by Ian Livingstone. Fighting Fantasy Gamebook No. 7 from 1984. Cover by Iain McCaig, interior illustrations by Alan Langford.

[wanderingnewyork]

A house in #Livingston, #Staten_Island.

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turn week 2024 // day 5: pair a character ship with a plant based on its meaning

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Livingston Island AKA Colonel By Island - History of Wag's Lodge- Part 2

Portland on the Rideau Historical Society Might this photo of Wags Lodge, Big Rideau Lake spark some descriptions/memories? Wag’s Lodge was named after his dog Wag. Part 1-Ted Bain Danny Arnstein and the Checker Cab Home to a fishing lodge called the Angler’s Inn during the 1890s, the island has as its centrepiece these days a sprawling maroon, glass-fronted cottage built for business tycoon…

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Half Moon Beach

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Artwork for 'Island Of The Lizard King by Ian Livingstone, 1985 (Richard Corben)

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Soon come..."His New Coach"

Summary:

Misha Livingston's family have been trailblazers in basketball since she was a little girl. Her grandfather was recently inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame, and her father is the head coach for the Dallas Mavericks. Misha is an Olympic gold-medal basketball champion and a former WNBA player turned coach. When she's given the opportunity take an assistant coaching job in the NBA, she's pit against a popular player Terry Richmond, a former marine who has recently made the unusual leap into professional sports. Terry struggles with instant superstardom that may hinder Misha's ability to coach her new team into another championship. A chance encounter on a remote island in the Maldives shows Misha that she has the power to get Terry back on his game.

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Today In History

Robert Nesta Marley was born on this date February 6, 1945 in Nine Miles, St. Ann, Jamaica.

Marley is one of the pioneers of reggae, his musical career was marked by fusing elements of reggae, ska, and rocksteady, as well as his distinctive vocal and songwriting style.

Marley and his friends Neville “Bunny” Livingston (Bunny Wailer), and Peter McIntosh (Peter Tosh) formed the Wailing Wailers. The Wailers’ big break came in 1972 when they landed a contract with Island Records. The result was the critically acclaimed “Catch a Fire.”

Marley went on to sell more than 20 million records throughout his career, making him an international superstar. His musical legacy continues through his family and longtime bandmates.

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.” - Bob Marley

CARTER™️ Magazine

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"Land of Light" Morning light dances on the edge of the world. I spent hours out on deck that day marvelling at the tumbling ice and jagged peaks of Livingston Island. Antarctica, 2023. #GoodTripsOnly — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/X5mrBzq

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Do you think any of the people professionally involved with Band Of Brothers ever wondered about the exact nature of the relationship between Nixon and Winters? I'm reading the Dick Winters interview transcript where he talks about Nixon for several pages, and it caught my eye how the interviewer calls it a "different kind of relationship", "it's very curious", etc. Or the things Ron Livingston has said (asking Winters to prom, etc.)

GOD YES. I firmly believe that these acting choices that built this fandom came directly from how Dick Winters talk about his best friend. Not only that, but Dick did NOT object to what he saw on screen except for that boy in Paris.

BUT Dick Winters was on a untouchable level where everyone was not only obeying orders but trying to not to tarnish anything or piss him off. It's not until years later anyone admits they liked Speirs more. I think everyone also wanted to respect it, keep the focus on the war story and used it to enhance that bond they were trying to demonstrate.

And most of those interviews were definitely leaving those questions open ended for him to come out and say more. An honestly what he does say, especially in how critical he can be of everyone else, kinda says what he really couldn't or wouldn't. And then there are the photos. LORD. But yeah, I really think there was a "'So, we agree, these two guys were in love right?" conversation between Damian and Ron when they started talking about how they play this thing.

IRL guys...well I've been thinking about how odd it is that Nix has a huge island farm out in California he gets Hester to run, but Dick "My goal in life is to have a farm" Winters is out in Central Pa cutting rocks by hand to build a house, living in a house without water, working like crazy to make it all happen by his own hand when his best friend already got him a job when he came home and has no problem making jobs exclusively for him.

I don't know that Dick ever realized what Nix was to him (That West Virginia hitchhiking story makes it clear Dick knew men swung that way but he's got a fixation on image that I don't know he could ever shake. I think if he did we would have never heard some of these stories because he would be too protective of them.) but I think Nix did. I can't see an 'engraved knife with our initials in it like two lovers carving our names on a tree' being something he wasn't aware of. I think he's more than aware of how people talk and still was by Dick's side when he had no reason to be. I also think Nix had something to do with Ron Speirs being right there when Dick needed an option when Dike locked up, especially after he assisted in getting Peacock shuffled back to the States. I think he took care of him better than he did his own wife, even if it was to shuffle pieces around the chess board to make things fall into place.

One thing is for sure, the men of Easy Co. know how to circle the wagons and protect their own. I don't know if we'll ever know the truth about what Dick said, because in being part of BoB, the actors were also brought into that circle of trust.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Adam22, Felice Allesandri, Clem Burke, Dale Carnegie, Billy Connolly, Denise Crosby, Candy Darling, Howard Duff, Donald “Duck” Dunn, Colin Hanks, the great American composer Scott Joplin, producer-songwriter Terry Lewis, Stanley Livingston, Lee Michaels, Charles Theodore Pachebel, Elvis Ramone, Dave Sinclair (Caravan, Hatfield & the North), Baruch Spinoza, Staind, Chad Taylor (Live), keyboardist Richard Tee, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Robin Williamson (Incredible String Band), Teddy Wilson, Jim Yester (The Association), and Pete Best, the original drummer for The Beatles. That’s him on the Decca audition tapes and other early recordings. Deep Beatlemaniacs know that, in 1962, Best was replaced by Ringo Starr, which led to the classic line-up of the Fab Four. That episode is shrouded in urban legend, including rumors that Best was sacked because he was a bigger “chick magnet” than Paul McCartney. The true reason was more prosaic—Ringo had more experienced chops. It was an emotionally-wrenching career move for both Best and the other Beatles as they’d grown up together in Liverpool.

Best retired from drumming in the late 60s and became a civil servant. Then the 1995 Beatles ANTHOLOGY restored him to the public eye. At the behest of family, fans, and friends, Best formed a band and hit the road. In 2005 I was playing keyboards for The Davy Jones Band at a music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, and The Pete Best Band opened with a raw, rowdy rave up show, replicating the Beatles Cavern Club rock’n’roll set from the early 60s. It was a blast to watch! I lost my photo of Pete and I at the catering tent, but in this video I’m watching sidestage w/family members. HB Pete and God bless your rock’n’roll heart!

#beatles #petebest #drums #drummer #britishinvasion #davyjones #monkees #anthology #ringostarr #paulmccartney #cavernclub #liverpool #rhodeisland #newport #musicfestival #keyboards #johnnyjblair

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November 17th 1855 saw David Livingstone reached Victoria Falls in Africa.

Livingstone had been in Africa since 1851, most of his time there had been spent converting the indigenous people to Christianity, but he also liked to explore the African continent.

He followed the Zambezi River on foot and spent the night on Kalai Island a few kilometres upstream of the Falls. The next morning he set off in a dug out canoe guided by the locals who knew the river well. As they approached the falls they could see the columns of spray appearing in the sky and could hear the roar of the waterfall. This indeed appeared exactly like smoke rising from the ground. They took him to an island that was in the middle of the river on the lip of the waterfall (now known as Livingstone Island) as he viewed this magnificent scene he recorded the moment as follows;

“The whole scene was extremely beautiful; the banks and islands dotted over the river are adorned with sylvan vegetation of great variety of colour and form…no one can imagine the beauty of the view from any thing witnessed in England. It had never been seen before by European eyes; but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight.”

David Livingstone gave the English name Victoria Falls in honour of his monarch, Queen Victoria.

Victoria Falls is one of nature’s intricate mysteries, and features several principle gorges. These are the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth gorges – and the Songwe Gorge, named after the Songwe River, flowing in from the north east.

The numbers almost seem too impossible to imagine! That’s the equivalent of 200 Olympic-sized swimming pools, to put things into perspective. On the Zimbabwe side of the Falls you will find the Victoria Falls Rainforest, which is the only place on earth to see rain every single day of the year. The rains bless the area with lush greenery in the forest.

[wanderingnewyork]

A house in #Livingston, #Staten_Island.

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Livingstone's Fruit Bat (Pteropus livingstonii).

-Critically Endangered.

- Found only on the Comoros, two tiny islands off the northwestern coast of Madagascar.