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A zoo is an institution where mainly wild and exotic animals are restricted within enclosures, bred and displayed to the public. The term zoological garden refers to the biological discipline zoology, which derives from Greek Ζωο ("animal"), and λογος ("study"). The term was first used in 1828 for the London Zoological Gardens, soon shortened by the Londoners to the abbreviation “zoo”.

 

All the photos are taken at Belfast Zoo which started life as Bellevue Pleasure Gardens, a public park and recreational area, in 1911 on the slopes of Cavehill.

 

The gardens were opened by Belfast City Tramways to give an incentive for Belfast's residents to use the company's new tramway. Twelve acres of the site were redeveloped as a zoo in 1933. Initially the zoo was very popular, attracting over 280,000 visitors a year.

 

During World War II many of the zoo's dangerous animals were put down. The decline continued into the 1960s, when the zoo's facilities fell into disrepair.

 

Belfast City Council acquired the facility in 1962, starting a long process of renovation. Under the supervision of manager John Stronge, the new zoo eventually opened in 1978.

 

May 17, 1992 was the beginning of a four day public uprising in Bangkok, Thailand against the military dictatorship of General Suchinda Kraprayoon, who had established martial law after assuming power through a coup d'etat a year earlier.

 

Students organized a rally in central Bangkok to protest against the imposition of martial law, and were confronted by heavily armed troops in full battle gear, who opened fire on the crowd of protestors.

 

Up to 300 people are believed to have died during the protests. Further escalation was avoided by the intervention of King Bhumibol. (The current worlds longest serving head of state)

 

The protests ended with Suchinda's resignation on 24 May 1992. The Deputy Prime Minister, Meechai Ruchuphan, took office for a transitional period until the new government was assigned. He was succeded by Anand Panyarachun.

On the Bebelplatz Portal in Berlin, there bears an insciption "Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen"

 

The German writer Heinrich Heine famously wrote these words in 1821 in his play “Almansor” the English translation would read "Where they burn books, they will end in burning human beings." Just over a century later the Nazis did exactly as Heine had predicted.

 

May 10, 1933 on the Opernplatz in Berlin, S.A. and Nazi youth groups burned around 20,000 books from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and the Humboldt University; including works by Thomas Mann, Erich Maria Remarque, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx and H.G. Wells. Student groups throughout Germany also carried out their own book burnings on that day and in the following weeks.

 

I’ve been to the memorial shown in the last picture the memorial art is an empty library, located underneath the square and visible through its ceiling. Through a translucent panel you can see rows and rows of empty bookshelves. 

It’s a bit eerie just imagining the reality of Heine’s words.

Coca-Cola is the most recognised trademark in the world with 97% of the Worlds Population having seen it.

 

Today in 1886 Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented the carbonated beverage that we all know today as  "Coca-Cola".

 

This bad boy drink was supposed to be a medicine when it was invented but when Asa Griggs Candler, took over the company he led Coke to world-wide domination of the soft drink market.

 

Why anyone drinks the stuff is beyond me!

 

You can clean your bog with this stuff! just pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the "real thing" sit for one hour, and then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.  And that’s not all this stuff removes!

 

It removes rust off chrome car bumpers, cleans the corrosion from car battery terminals, loosens rusty bolts, removes grease stains and it’s a great wee window cleaner.

 

This stuff so good a removing things that to transport the Coca-Cola syrup about (the concentrate that is) the lorry carrying it must use the "Hazardous Material" warning signs reserved for highly corrosive materials

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