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    Darvaza Crater - The Gateway to Hell

    A few shots taken just a couple of days ago in Darvaza. It's located in Turkmenistan, Karakum Desert. It's about 4 hours drive from Ashbagat which is the capital city, also refereed to as the White Marble city. Every building in the city is white marble and also all cars are white. Only the...
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    Guess where?

    Can you guess where?
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    Now in Bishkek - Kyrgyzstan

    Landed yesterday around 5 PM in Bishkek. I mentioned here that booked travel through Emirates but they cancelled and fully refunded. Then I booked via Delhi, Air Astana, Delhi - Almaty - Bishkek. Started a 22 night trip in all Five Stans. Bishkek is a quite nice place. Visited the Al Archa...
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    NDB - 13.2 Billion - what happened?

    Just copying as received on WhatsApp. - Note: UNVERIFIED. The National Development Bank (NDB) is riding high — record profits, gleaming new headquarters, and a state-of-the-art digital core-banking system that the board proudly calls “unbreakable.” Arjun Wickramasinghe, 38, is the quiet genius...
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    Ali Khamenei Arrives in Hell.

    Brutal Interview with Demon Admissions Officer.. :unsure:
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    They Mocked His Mathematics for 40 Years. Then He Won!

    Joachim Frank (born September 12, 1940) is a German-American biophysicist at Columbia University and a Nobel laureate. He is regarded as the founder of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Richard...
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    Interesting Analysis on current situation.

    Copied as received. Purportedly from an original translated from Arabic..... Everyone is talking about Iran. They're talking about Khamenei. They're talking about Israel! I see something else. The real war is elsewhere. I'm going to show you two events. They seem unrelated. But they are...
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    Any EK members in Central Asia?

    If anyone residing in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan or Tajikistan please send me a pm. Thanks.
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    Merck's new pill cuts "Bad" Cholesterol by 60%

    A new experimental medication called Enlicitide has shown powerful cholesterol-lowering effects in a large clinical study. In a phase three trial reported in The NEJM, the once-daily pill reduced levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, often called “bad” cholesterol, by as much as...
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    Machu Picchu: What They Found Underground Should NOT Exist!

    Interesting....
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    RIP - Robert Duvall

    Oscar winner Robert Duvall of The Godfather, To Kill a Mockingbird, Apocalypse Now fame, passed away aged 95 years . His career spanned for over six decades. RIP. PS: @Stimulus mind - Hope you can do an updated post.
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    Foreign Currency Transactions between Residents in Sri Lanka.

    CBSL Press Release 12.02.2026 Central Bank of Sri Lanka (Central Bank) has noticed certain instances where residents in Sri Lanka transact within the country in foreign currency, rather than in Sri Lanka Rupees. In this connection, the Central Bank wishes to clarify that according to the...
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    Solved - Why some Covid vaccines caused rare blood clotting side-effect.

    "This study shows, with molecular precision, how a normal immune response to an adenovirus can very rarely go off‑track. By identifying the exact viral protein involved and the specific antibody change that drives this misdirection, we now understand not only what happens in VITT but why."...
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    Sri Lanka ups Corruption Index position.

    With a score of 35 out of 100, Sri Lanka has improved its position in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2025, released by Transparency International (TI) yesterday, rising to 107th place out of 182 countries, a jump of 14 places from the 2024 ranking. The annual CPI, which measures...
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    Village in Assam ended its war with elephants and made them their guests.

    Once feared, chased, and hated, the elephants of Assam’s Hatikhuli now walk peacefully through farms — thanks to a simple, extraordinary idea: feed, don’t fight. Watch how 90-year-old conservationist Pradip Kumar Bhuyan, Binod Dulu Bora, and the community turned fear into friendship, planting...

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