black crow
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My Favorite Dictionary by far. One year I gave it for xmas to the relatives who would least appreciate it.o
Thanks Lars for that link. I just can not imagine what it took to sail across there. One word comes to mind, Brave!
Since this thread already is totally wrecked, allow me to be a little patriotic.
vop mentioned Olaus Rudbeck. There were two of them, and the younger (the son) had Carl von Linné as his student.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaus_Rudbeck_the_younger
In the text, his bird paintings are mentioned.
I have a life-size facsimile book and portfolio made after them, and they are truly beautiful. Those days, the bird was shot and pictured very quickly in order to mimic the vivid and natural colors of the living bird.
His father wrote the nationalistic epos "Atlantica", and like vop writes, the ideas are really far out, although the work confirms he was a true universal genius.
Thanks Lars for that link. I just can not imagine what it took to sail across there. One word comes to mind, Brave!
I read in some book about the Vikings that the Normans were Vikings/Norseman that had invaded France around 1000 C.E. , then hung out in and took up the local language, and ended up conquering England a bit later....
Ah, yep, here is a map of their settlement. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Viking_Expansion.svg
This thread has started out about Nikon, and now has drifted into nowhere, and
Sir Lostalots. Time to move on.
I was in Dublin today (another city founded by valiant Viking explorers), and one of the few camera shops that sell high-end binos has started stocking Nikon EDG. I tried the EDG 8x32, and just to show that they're only binos and one size doesn't fit all, I didn't like the handling. Kind of weighty and clunky, but not in a nice Trinoviddy-way, rather a compromise between open-bridge and closed that doesn't really work for me, as I couldn't use them "one-hand" comfortably. Great optics, although I had nothing with me to compare. And the Dublin retail price-tag? 1,700 euro, which is about 2,300 dollars. For that kind of money, I'd expect a degree from Uppsala University.
You could probably buy one for 2,300 dollars like VOP did.
I gladly pay $23,000 for anything, as long as you say it's the best!:smoke:
That's $2300 not $23,000. Did you ever have a math class in 8th grade which must have been the final grade you attended. HaHa. HeHe!