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revontuli
Funny how you never covered or mentioned Warsaw which never saw war until war saw Warsaw.

I am going with order, I will post the Warsaw photos once I go through the others.
Also why such a huge rant on a travel photo thread? What does any of that have to do with appreciation of artful buildings and beautiful cities?


Anyways, I am back, I have been quite unwell and wasn't able to post anything.
Now I'm better so I can continue. The next stop of my trip was Poznan, which was quite lovely also.
Here are some examples of the architecture, on the way to the old town square.

A PREMATURE baby was decapitated inside his mum's womb when a top NHS doctor detached his body from his head during a botched birth, a tribunal heard.

The hearing was told the first-time mum was then forced to undergo a C-section to remove the head - which was sewn onto the tragic tot's body so she could hold him and say goodbye.

It is alleged Dr Vaishnavy Laxman, 41, should have given the 30-year old patient an emergency Caesarean section at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, as the baby was in a breech position.

But it is claimed the consultant gynaecologist instead attempted to carry out the delivery naturally and told the mum to push while pulling the baby's legs.

This caused his legs, arms and torso to become detached, leaving the head still in his mother's womb, the hearing was told.

At a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester, the mum - known as Patient A - told Dr Laxman “I don’t forgive you - I don’t forgive you” as the doctor stared down at the floor. The mum, holding two teddy bears in her arms, told the hearing it was her first birth and had been assured she would be given a C-section in the event of a breech birth.

She told the tribunal she was not informed about what would happen next, before being told to push.

She said: ''The only pain relief I was given was a spray on my tongue.

"I was told it was meant to loosen my cervix but I was not given gas and air - I was in pain.

"I had the doctors putting their hands inside me and I had them pushing on my stomach and then pulling me down."

The grieving mum said Dr Laxman apologised after she was told her son had died - but as she didn't know what had happened she told her "it’s alright, these things happen, I forgive you".
She added: "She went away but I started screaming when I found out the full extent - I was just crying. I was upset because of the severity of his injury.

“I would never use the word stillborn, he was not stillborn he was decapitated.''

Midwife Mona Chard described the birth as "something you cannot forget and Patient A was very distressed".

Lawyer for the General Medical Council Charles Garside QC said: “Dr Laxman allegedly delivered the legs, torso and arms successfully but whilst trying to deliver the head, it got stuck in the cervix.''


https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6252191/baby-decapitated-nhs-doctor-breach-birth-vaishnavy-laxman/

What does shaku shaku mean?

"Some Mexicans believe hummingbirds have supernatural powers. Beyond the internet, merchants sell them from behind counters at spiritual shops called botanicas, filled with herbs, incense, candles, oils, and scythe-wielding statues of Santa Muerte, the goddess of death. Mystics call the hummingbird la chuparosa, a token akin to a lucky rabbit’s foot for good fortune in love. Chuparosas are often sold wrapped in red paper and satin tassels with an accompanying love prayer.

The underground market for hummingbirds is so secretive that U.S. government officials didn’t even know it existed until about 10 years ago when agents with the Fish and Wildlife Service intercepted a postal package inbound from Mexico containing dozens of lifeless, jewel-colored birds.

“We were like … hummingbirds? What do people do with a commercial quantity of dead hummingbirds?” recounted Special Agent James Markley, who has led investigations into the hummingbird trade. He soon learned about the love connection. “Women trying to attract a man, widowers hoping to remarry, men carrying them as a way to keep their mistresses and wives from meeting each other, a wife trying to prevent her husband from straying and looking at other women,” he said. "We’ve heard all sorts of stories.”


"Almost every vendor we met had nearly a dozen hummingbirds dangling like charms on hooks, red thread stitched through their eyes and throats. Soberanes, who’d worked in pet shops and aquariums as a child and studied military macaws in Oaxaca’s Sabino Canyon in graduate school, touched them in disbelief. He whispered, “These are the birds we try to preserve. It’s very depressing.”



Link for the whole story and photos:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/wildlife-watch-illegal-hummingbird-trade-love-charm-mexico-witchcraft/

There is a half Yoruba pagan priest in there, he helped the journalists uncover the illegal hummimgbird trade in witch markets.

Some photos don't need any caption. Words would ruin it here in fact.
It speaks volumes on its own already.
Buhari why!

See how Rwanda took huge steps to eliminate HPV:
Almost all Rwandan adolescent girls are immunized against human papillomavirus by vaccinating.

https://scielosp.org/scielo.php?pid=S0042-96862012000800014&script=sci_arttext

Doctors should be responsible and push for public health programs instead of meddling in people's sex lives with stupid and outdated advice.

He is wrong and not keeping up with the literature.
HPV virus has been found under the fingernails of young men: https://www.seattlepi.com/g00/lifestyle/health/article/New-risks-discovered-for-HPV-1245277.php
10 year old study.
Any action with multiple partners and being sexually promiscuous comes with the high risk of HPV and Herpes.

HML to you guys, you have a bright future ahead. Post the wedding photos too!

Someone should proofread that Wikipedia page. "Young Nigerian youths" is redundant.

FannySwindler1:
Revontuli. You type is rare then. I'm broke too and proud of you.

It's common where I live. The dependent lady type is rare

Yahoo plus, primitive thinking...

FannySwindler1:
Revontuli.. You claim to be broke.

May be he is dating broke white ladies like you.

I'm broke but I buy my own stuff. Never, ever in my life any man bought me clothes, cosmetics, shoes, gadgets, anything. Every single thing I own is bought and paid for with the salary I earned myself. One can be broke and proud.

He says he's tired of buying weaves, white women don't use weaves. Obviously the guy is exclusively dating broke African ladies living in the UK. Maybe he should date successful Nigerian/African ladies like doctors, engineers, lawyers who make good money and buy their own stuff. If you date only for beauty and not pay attention to intelligence, education, career and personality, you get leeches and gold diggers.

Maybe the doll was faulty and he was returning it to the shop he bought it from. LMAO

olaboy1:
I think it’s more of Swedish thing. I have dated 3 Finnish girls and one was living between Swedish and Finnish border Lapland. Although they also complained about the social interactions here, but I felt it would be the same if they were in Finland.

The Swedes I studied with had to move back to where they were born because they couldn’t integrate properly and make friends in a different city from their place of birth, some even abandoned their studies half way.

Depression is an understatement, almost all the women I’ve been with have anti-depressant pills in their fridges. Watch the clip below to get a grasp of what I’m talking about.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvFZULPiiuk

OMG this sounds like a dystopian nightmare!
Have you tried dating immigrant women? Turkish, Moroccan, etc? There is a big African population in Sweden, it shouldn't be difficult to find highly educated African ladies or Eastern European, Middle Eastern, anything other than Swedish?
I don't understand why they can't make friends. Especially in a society so starved of friendship?
It sounds like hell on earth, but people make it into hell by being cold and isolating themselves like this.

olaboy1:
I am talking specifically about Sweden. Sorry they don’t live far away from family. My post is not about festivals and concerts that happen once in a year, I’m referring to daily life. If they move 2hrs away they can’t make friends, friendship and human bonding is not what the country is founded upon. But if you still don’t believe me, try and check the statistics of the country with the most single people and also see the video below.

Generally everyone is like you described in your last paragraph. Are concerts and festivals daily activities?

https://www.svtplay.se/video/10458343/the-swedish-theory-of-love

Maybe it's Swedish thing? I'm in Finland, most people I know are not from Helsinki, their families live in their hometowns. People go to multiple events all summer (most festivals and concerts are in summer and early fall cause of the climate,) but everyone I know meets up with friends at cafes or their home all the time. The women you describe sound like Middle Eastern women who are like fish out of water away from their families! Unbelievable. But single people statistics mean nothing, a lot of the friends I meet are single and living alone, they still go out and hang out with friends.

If they can't make friends outside their home turf, don't they get depressed? That's no life!

Some examples of the stunning art images on the building facades. I've never seen that kind of facades before Poland. So much beauty!

More examples of the impressive architecture and artistic touches in Gdansk.

Picture 1: Old mill building
Picture 2: Cute little lion statue
Picture 3: Back of the mill
Picture 4: Mill from the side

This establishment sign style is a legacy from the medieval times.
Most people weren't literate back then, so the signs for bars, eateries and shops featured pictures showing what they sell, sometimes even a 3d symbol like a little ale keg or shoe made of wood and painted with vibrant colors.

Too bad the towers were closed. They are open only in summer. I will definitely come back to climb those towers and take photos from there!
These red brick towers are so beautiful to look at, they withstood the time and the elements for centuries.

Here is a marketplace where they sell fruits, vegetables and flowers.

WinningSun:
that's nice hope you enjoyed your holiday.

I froze to my bones since we were outdoors taking photos all 4 days, but it was a wonderful time with all the magnificent sights and great food.

olaboy1:
False false false. Scandinavian women have zero social life except the few ones who go hiking or ice skating which are not even social activities but sporting activities. They don’t really make friends here and are forced to live very close to families all their lives, all social activities are centered around their parents and relocating her to another city 2hrs away will be very choking for you as she will not and cannot make any friends in 10yrs at your new location unless she moves back.

They don’t even talk to their neighbors, so be ready to be fully choked. Every black guy that I know married to Scandinavian women all complained the same thing, and also be ready for them to kick you out of the kids lives should the relationship end.

The only problem Nigerian women have is financial dependence, otherwise they are the sweetest any man could wish for. Although I detest the entitled ones who feel they are doing you a favor by engaging in sex and should be paid.

Bro I don't know what kind of women you are dealing with, but this doesn't sound normal. Every single woman I know lives away from their family and pretty independent, many of them see their parents seldomly and hang out with their friends, go to festivals, concerts, conventions.
If the Scandinavian women are so boring, have no social life and never meet anyone other than their mom, then who are all those women at the concerts, festivals, parties, picnics and conventions? Do they come from the outer space? Maybe you and your friends eneded up with the socially inept introvert types. Intellectually active women, and women who have serious interests and hobbies have friends from the community related to that stuff.

WinningSun:
when you said 17th century. does it means those buildings can withstand centuries of weather

Yes, many of the old buildings, townhouses and cathedrals were from the 17th-18th century. I've seen even older intact buildings elsewhere. But they had renovations in the 19th and 20th centuries to repair damages. Nowadays there are regular restorations and maintenance to keep them in even better shape.

Su Song's Clock Tower

Su Song was a Chinese genius polymath who lived in the 11th century. His hydro-mechanical astronomical clock tower is one of the most famous time devices of the old times, a real wonder of ancient engineering. The marvellous clock tower is his most famous creation.

This impressive 40 foot tall clock tower had many impressive features, such as the water-powered, rotating armillary sphere crowning the top-level (weighing some 10 to 20 tons), a bronze celestial globe located in the middle that was 4.5 feet in diameter, mechanically-timed and rotating manikins dressed in miniature Chinese clothes that would exit miniature opening doors to announce the time of day (on designated reading plaques, ringing bells and gongs, or beating drums), a sophisticated use of oblique gears and an escapement mechanism, as well as an exterior facade of a fanciful Chinese pagoda.

First image is the original diagram from Su Song's book, second image is a modern scale model, third image is the modern lifesize replica displayed at National Museum of Natural Science in Taiwan.

Byzantine sundial pocket calendar

This incredible mechanical instrument, believed to date from the early sixth century A.D. was made in the Byzantine Empire. The first two photos are the excavated parts, which can be seen at London Science museum today. The last two are the modern reconstructions of it.

The instrument comprises two practically independent parts: a sundial for use at any latitude, and a geared calendrical device showing the phase of the Moon, the day of the month and the places of the Sun and the Moon in the Zodiac. Dating by the place names included in the latitude table, by the style of the heads of the planetary gods used to identify the days of the week. Two scales on the body enable the user to adjust the first part to the elevation of the Sun at noon, according to the place and the time of year: the shadow-caster is moved over a double scale of solar declination, marked out with abbreviations of the Julian month-names; and the arm is adjusted according to a quadrant scale of latitude near the rim of the body.

More decorated buildings, a small park and a castle-like fantasy fairytale cathedral structure. That could easily be a sorcerer's tower and magic school!
I wish I lived in a place like this, seeing magic everywhere.

These are called Prussian hags, they are anthropomorphic stone statues from very ancient times, and were present where the old Prussian people lived in the medieval aged.

Info I found about them: "These rare statues range in height up to two meters tall and are roughly carved from granite or sandstone rock. They feature either a warrior with a horn (a ritual drinking vessel) in one hand and a sword in the other or, presumably, a religious figure with arms crossed over the chest in a self embrace. Some include details like a belt, necklace, quiver, or shield.

The statues hail from two regions in the area: Bartoszyce, in the north east of Poland near the border with Kalingrad, and Iława, in the northern central part of the country just south of Gdańsk.

Archeologists still debate the significance of the stones, whether they were originally depictions of Old Prussian Gods, local warriors, or tombstones for tribal leaders. Another hypothesis is of a purely pagan origin: in Old Prussian folklore, figures of this type are often associated with people who were magically turned into stone for various offenses and several are attributed to local legends. Still, some scholars believe the stones to be boundary markers for local communities."

Edonojie007:
And Me Believing You Are An Oyibo Lady,makes Me Senseless Too.

Somali trolls didn't believe, either. They said I'm an angry West African

Edonojie007:
But Disappointed, I'm Nt Entertained.

Why on earth would the Vaseline crew send an oyinbo lady as their spokesperson to represent them
Una make no sense joor!

Ejadike:
just answer the damn question na. It might be helpful to him.

I went there as a tourist, no idea about opportunities. I didn't see any African people other than a tourist couple eating at the restaurant. I think it may be language wahala cause people don't speak much English, but I saw a few Turkish and Arab kebab shops around so there is restaurant business opportunity for foreigners.