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Why axolotls seem to be everywhere €” except in the one lake they call home
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Scientist Dr. Randal Voss gets the occasional reminder that he€™s working with a kind of superstar. When he does outreach events with his laboratory, he encounters people who are keen to meet his research subjects: aquatic salamanders called axolotls.
The amphibians€™ fans tell Voss that they know the animals from the internet, or from caricatures or stuffed animals, exclaiming, €œ€˜They€™re so adorable, we love them,€™€ said Voss, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. €œPeople are drawn to them.€
Take one look at an axolotl, and it€™s easy to see why it€™s so popular. With their wide eyes, upturned mouths and pastel pink coloring, axolotls look cheerful and vaguely Muppet-like.
They€™ve skyrocketed in pop culture fame, in part thanks to the addition of axolotls to the video game Minecraft in 2021. These unusual salamanders are now found everywhere from Girl Scout patches to hot water bottles. But there€™s more to axolotls than meets the eye: Their story is one of scientific discovery, exploitation of the natural world, and the work to rebuild humans€™ connection with nature.
A scientific mystery
Axolotl is a word from Nahuatl, the Indigenous Mexican language spoken by the Aztecs and an estimated 1.5 million people today. The animals are named for the Aztec god Xolotl, who was said to transform into a salamander. The original Nahuatl pronunciation is €œAH-show-LOAT€; in English, €œACK-suh-LAHT-uhl€ is commonly used.
Axolotls are members of a class of animals called amphibians, which also includes frogs. Amphibians lay their jelly-like eggs in water, and the eggs hatch into water-dwelling larval states. (In frogs, these larvae are called tadpoles.)
Most amphibians, once they reach adulthood, are able to move to land. Since they breathe, in part, by absorbing oxygen through their moist skin, they tend to stay near water.
Axolotls, however, never complete the metamorphosis to a land-dwelling adult form and spend their whole lives in the water.
€œThey maintain their juvenile look throughout the course of their life,€ Voss said. €œThey€™re teenagers, at least in appearance, until they die.€
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Scientist Dr. Randal Voss gets the occasional reminder that he€™s working with a kind of superstar. When he does outreach events with his laboratory, he encounters people who are keen to meet his research subjects: aquatic salamanders called axolotls.
The amphibians€™ fans tell Voss that they know the animals from the internet, or from caricatures or stuffed animals, exclaiming, €œ€˜They€™re so adorable, we love them,€™€ said Voss, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. €œPeople are drawn to them.€
Take one look at an axolotl, and it€™s easy to see why it€™s so popular. With their wide eyes, upturned mouths and pastel pink coloring, axolotls look cheerful and vaguely Muppet-like.
They€™ve skyrocketed in pop culture fame, in part thanks to the addition of axolotls to the video game Minecraft in 2021. These unusual salamanders are now found everywhere from Girl Scout patches to hot water bottles. But there€™s more to axolotls than meets the eye: Their story is one of scientific discovery, exploitation of the natural world, and the work to rebuild humans€™ connection with nature.
A scientific mystery
Axolotl is a word from Nahuatl, the Indigenous Mexican language spoken by the Aztecs and an estimated 1.5 million people today. The animals are named for the Aztec god Xolotl, who was said to transform into a salamander. The original Nahuatl pronunciation is €œAH-show-LOAT€; in English, €œACK-suh-LAHT-uhl€ is commonly used.
Axolotls are members of a class of animals called amphibians, which also includes frogs. Amphibians lay their jelly-like eggs in water, and the eggs hatch into water-dwelling larval states. (In frogs, these larvae are called tadpoles.)
Most amphibians, once they reach adulthood, are able to move to land. Since they breathe, in part, by absorbing oxygen through their moist skin, they tend to stay near water.
Axolotls, however, never complete the metamorphosis to a land-dwelling adult form and spend their whole lives in the water.
€œThey maintain their juvenile look throughout the course of their life,€ Voss said. €œThey€™re teenagers, at least in appearance, until they die.€
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Э‚и‡нос‚Œ и безопаснос‚Œ
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˜сполŒзƒй‚е законн‹е и о‚ꈋ‚‹е ис‚о‡ники.
—аклŽ‡ение
С‹ска‚Œ ин‚е€есн‹е „о‚о можно законн‹ми способами ‡е€ез об‰ес‚венн‹е аккаƒн‚‹, „ан-об‰ес‚ва, поисковики и о„и†иалŒн‹е Сœ˜. “лавное соблŽда‚Œ закон‹ и ƒважа‚Œ собс‚веннƒŽ жизнŒ ин‹… лŽдей. ’сегда п€ове€яй‚е ис‚о‡ники и м‹сли‚е о возможн‹… последс‚вия… пƒблика†ий найденн‹… снимков.
žб‰ес‚венн‹е ис‚о‡ники
1. ž„и†иалŒн‹е аккаƒн‚‹ в со†се‚я…
—в‘зд‹, блог刋 и об‰ес‚венн‹е ли‡нос‚и доволŒно ‡ас‚енŒко сами в‹клад‹ваŽ‚ собс‚венн‹е и закƒлисн‹е „о‚о в Instagram, Telegram, TikTok и д€ƒги… со†иалŒн‹… се‚я…. Ч‚об‹ следи‚Œ за нов‹ми пƒблика†иями, подпиˆи‚есŒ на о„и†иалŒн‹е канал‹ и исполŒзƒй‚е ƒведомления.
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’ ин‚е€не‚е сƒ‰ес‚вƒŽ‚ „о€ƒм‹, где полŒзова‚ели обмениваŽ‚ся сливами нап€име€, 4chan, Dvach, Reddit (€аздел‹ nsfw, leaks и ‚ак далее). Но имей‚е в видƒ, ‡‚о легалŒнос‚Œ ‚акого кон‚ен‚а може‚ б‹‚Œ под воп€осом.
Ÿоиск по изоб€ажениям
“ƒгл Images и Yandex.šа€‚инки дозволяŽ‚ най‚и по…ожие либо более ка‡ес‚венн‹е ве€сии ƒже извес‚н‹… снимков. Ÿ€ос‚о заг€ƒзи‚е изоб€ажение и се€вис покаже‚, с какого мес‚а оно б‹ло взя‚о и в каком мес‚е б‹ли заме‡ен‹ нов‹е по…ожие „о‚о снимки.
Э‚и‡нос‚Œ и безопаснос‚Œ
Не п‹‚ай‚есŒ взлома‚Œ ‡ƒжие аккаƒн‚‹ или исполŒзова‚Œ взломанн‹е ма‚е€иал‹ э‚о ƒголовно наказƒемо.
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Groupe: Visiteur
Look of the Week: Naomi Watts is twinning with her canine co-star
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What€™s white and black and red all over? Naomi Watts and her 145lb co-star, Bing, a Great Dane, taking a dog walk on the crimson carpet for the New York premiere of €œThe Friend.€
Directed by Scott Mcgehee and adapted from Sigrid Nunez€™s 2018 novel of the same name, the film €” set to release in US theaters on March 28 and in the UK on April 25 €” follows a solitary writer and teacher named Iris whose life is upended after a close friend bequeaths his giant pet dog to her following his death.
In front of the cameras Monday evening, the €œMulholland Drive€ actor and Bing looked like they were cut from the same cloth €” both in temperament and in their matching black polka dots. Watts was dressed in a white gown with fur-tufted spots that bore a striking resemblance to Bing€™s own coat, but the Cruella de Vil comparisons ended there. Instead, Watts and Bing were captured in the throes of lots of paw-shakes, puppy kisses and head scratches.
The dress that Watts wore, titled the €œDomino€ and designed by Jacquemus, debuted during the Spring-Summer 2025 Paris couture shows in January. The look was both elegant and offbeat, with a high-cowl neck and open-back, asymmetrical waistline that mimicked a French tuck. It was styled with a skirt that sprouted furry black polka dots, which close up were unnervingly reminiscent of body hair. But from afar they gave the impression of soft-edged dabs of watercolor bleeding downstream.
The look was styled by Jeanann Williams, who has also been working with €œThe White Lotus€ star Leslie Bibb. Williams€™ decision to coordinate Watts with Bing was a new take on method dressing €” the thematic styling trend that has dominated celebrity red carpets since Greta Gerwig€™s €œBarbie€ in 2023. Since then, the sartorial trope, which connects actors to their on-screen characters through clothes, has become somewhat tired €” with some observers claiming that the 7-month-long €œWicked€ press tour, in which Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande became prisoners to the colors green and pink, was peak saturation.
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What€™s white and black and red all over? Naomi Watts and her 145lb co-star, Bing, a Great Dane, taking a dog walk on the crimson carpet for the New York premiere of €œThe Friend.€
Directed by Scott Mcgehee and adapted from Sigrid Nunez€™s 2018 novel of the same name, the film €” set to release in US theaters on March 28 and in the UK on April 25 €” follows a solitary writer and teacher named Iris whose life is upended after a close friend bequeaths his giant pet dog to her following his death.
In front of the cameras Monday evening, the €œMulholland Drive€ actor and Bing looked like they were cut from the same cloth €” both in temperament and in their matching black polka dots. Watts was dressed in a white gown with fur-tufted spots that bore a striking resemblance to Bing€™s own coat, but the Cruella de Vil comparisons ended there. Instead, Watts and Bing were captured in the throes of lots of paw-shakes, puppy kisses and head scratches.
The dress that Watts wore, titled the €œDomino€ and designed by Jacquemus, debuted during the Spring-Summer 2025 Paris couture shows in January. The look was both elegant and offbeat, with a high-cowl neck and open-back, asymmetrical waistline that mimicked a French tuck. It was styled with a skirt that sprouted furry black polka dots, which close up were unnervingly reminiscent of body hair. But from afar they gave the impression of soft-edged dabs of watercolor bleeding downstream.
The look was styled by Jeanann Williams, who has also been working with €œThe White Lotus€ star Leslie Bibb. Williams€™ decision to coordinate Watts with Bing was a new take on method dressing €” the thematic styling trend that has dominated celebrity red carpets since Greta Gerwig€™s €œBarbie€ in 2023. Since then, the sartorial trope, which connects actors to their on-screen characters through clothes, has become somewhat tired €” with some observers claiming that the 7-month-long €œWicked€ press tour, in which Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande became prisoners to the colors green and pink, was peak saturation.
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Groupe: Visiteur
Remote and rugged
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A more organic way to see this coast is by the multi-day coastal ferry, the long-running Sarfaq Ittuk, of the Arctic Umiaq Line. It€™s less corporate than the modern cruise ships and travelers get to meet Inuit commuters. Greenland is pricey. Lettuce in a local community store might cost $10, but this coastal voyage won€™t break the bank.
The hot ticket currently for exploring Greenland€™s wilder side is to head to the east coast facing Europe. It€™s raw and sees far fewer tourists, with a harshly dramatic coastline of fjords where icebergs drift south. There are no roads and the scattered population of just over 3,500 people inhabit a coastline roughly the distance from New York to Denver.
A growing number of small expedition vessels probe this remote coast for its frosted scenery and wildlife. Increasingly popular is the world€™s largest fjord system of Scoresby Sound with its sharp-fanged mountains and hanging valleys choked by glaciers. Sailing north is the prosaically named North East Greenland National Park, fabulous for spotting wildlife on the tundra.
Travelers come to see polar bears which, during the northern hemisphere€™s summer, move closer to land as the sea-ice melts. There are also musk oxen, great flocks of migrating geese, Arctic foxes and walrus.
Some of these animals are fair game for the local communities. Perhaps Greenland€™s most interesting cultural visit is to a village that will take longer to learn how to pronounce than actually walk around €” Ittoqqortoormiit. Five hundred miles north of its neighboring settlement, the 345 locals are frozen in for nine months of the year. Ships sail in to meet them during the brief summer melt between June and August.
Locked in by ice, they€™ve retained traditional habits.
€œMy parents hunt nearly all their food,€ said Mette Barselajsen, who owns Ittoqqortoormiit€™s only guesthouse. €œThey prefer the old ways, burying it in the ground to ferment and preserve it. Just one muskox can bring 440 pounds of meat.€
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A more organic way to see this coast is by the multi-day coastal ferry, the long-running Sarfaq Ittuk, of the Arctic Umiaq Line. It€™s less corporate than the modern cruise ships and travelers get to meet Inuit commuters. Greenland is pricey. Lettuce in a local community store might cost $10, but this coastal voyage won€™t break the bank.
The hot ticket currently for exploring Greenland€™s wilder side is to head to the east coast facing Europe. It€™s raw and sees far fewer tourists, with a harshly dramatic coastline of fjords where icebergs drift south. There are no roads and the scattered population of just over 3,500 people inhabit a coastline roughly the distance from New York to Denver.
A growing number of small expedition vessels probe this remote coast for its frosted scenery and wildlife. Increasingly popular is the world€™s largest fjord system of Scoresby Sound with its sharp-fanged mountains and hanging valleys choked by glaciers. Sailing north is the prosaically named North East Greenland National Park, fabulous for spotting wildlife on the tundra.
Travelers come to see polar bears which, during the northern hemisphere€™s summer, move closer to land as the sea-ice melts. There are also musk oxen, great flocks of migrating geese, Arctic foxes and walrus.
Some of these animals are fair game for the local communities. Perhaps Greenland€™s most interesting cultural visit is to a village that will take longer to learn how to pronounce than actually walk around €” Ittoqqortoormiit. Five hundred miles north of its neighboring settlement, the 345 locals are frozen in for nine months of the year. Ships sail in to meet them during the brief summer melt between June and August.
Locked in by ice, they€™ve retained traditional habits.
€œMy parents hunt nearly all their food,€ said Mette Barselajsen, who owns Ittoqqortoormiit€™s only guesthouse. €œThey prefer the old ways, burying it in the ground to ferment and preserve it. Just one muskox can bring 440 pounds of meat.€
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Siham Haleem, a private tour guide for 15 years, says that Doha now has many world-class, modern museums €” the National Museum of Qatar being a firm personal favorite. And yet he says that visiting Sheikh Faisal€™s museum should still be on everybody€™s to-do list.
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€œFor those eager to learn about Qatar€™s €” and the region€™s €” heritage and beyond, the museum is an ideal destination,€ he says. €œPersonally, I€™m captivated by the car collection, the fossils, and especially the Syrian house, painstakingly transported and reassembled piece by piece.€
Stephanie Y. Martinez, a Mexican-American student mobility manager at Texas A&M University in Qatar likes the museum so much she includes it on all of her itineraries for students visiting from the main campus in Texas.
€œThe guided tours are very detailed, and the collections found at the museum have great variety and so many stories to unfold,€ she says. €œTruly, the museum has something to pique everyone€™s interest. My favorites are the cars and the furniture exhibits showcasing wood and mother-of-pearl details. Definitely one of my favorite museums in Qatar, every time I visit I learn something new.€
Raynor Abreu, from India, also had praise for the unusual and immense collection.
€œEach item has its own story, making the visit even more interesting,€ he says. €œIt€™s also impressive to know that Sheikh Faisal started collecting these unique pieces when he was very young. Knowing this makes the museum even more special, as it reflects his lifelong passion for history and culture.€
It takes time and dedication to truly examine the many collections within the museum €” especially since most of them are simply on display without explanation.
Eclectic it may be, but it€™s hard to fault the determination of Sheikh Faisal, who has brought together items that tell the story of Qatar and the Middle East.
Sarah Bayley, from the UK, says she visited the museum recently with her family, including 16 and 19-year-old teenagers, and was won over by its sheer eccentricity.
€œAmazing. Loved it. It is a crazy place.€
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€œFor those eager to learn about Qatar€™s €” and the region€™s €” heritage and beyond, the museum is an ideal destination,€ he says. €œPersonally, I€™m captivated by the car collection, the fossils, and especially the Syrian house, painstakingly transported and reassembled piece by piece.€
Stephanie Y. Martinez, a Mexican-American student mobility manager at Texas A&M University in Qatar likes the museum so much she includes it on all of her itineraries for students visiting from the main campus in Texas.
€œThe guided tours are very detailed, and the collections found at the museum have great variety and so many stories to unfold,€ she says. €œTruly, the museum has something to pique everyone€™s interest. My favorites are the cars and the furniture exhibits showcasing wood and mother-of-pearl details. Definitely one of my favorite museums in Qatar, every time I visit I learn something new.€
Raynor Abreu, from India, also had praise for the unusual and immense collection.
€œEach item has its own story, making the visit even more interesting,€ he says. €œIt€™s also impressive to know that Sheikh Faisal started collecting these unique pieces when he was very young. Knowing this makes the museum even more special, as it reflects his lifelong passion for history and culture.€
It takes time and dedication to truly examine the many collections within the museum €” especially since most of them are simply on display without explanation.
Eclectic it may be, but it€™s hard to fault the determination of Sheikh Faisal, who has brought together items that tell the story of Qatar and the Middle East.
Sarah Bayley, from the UK, says she visited the museum recently with her family, including 16 and 19-year-old teenagers, and was won over by its sheer eccentricity.
€œAmazing. Loved it. It is a crazy place.€
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Groupe: Visiteur
Axolotl problems
As Mexico City grew and became more industrialized, the need for water brought pumps and pipes to the lake, and eventually, €œit was like a bad, smelly pond with rotten water,€ Zambrano said. €œAll of our aquatic animals suffer with bad water quality, but amphibians suffer more because they have to breathe with the skin.€
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To add to the axolotls€™ problems, invasive fish species such as carp and tilapia were introduced to the lake, where they feed on axolotl eggs. And a 1985 earthquake in Mexico City displaced thousands of people, who found new homes in the area around the lake, further contributing to the destruction of the axolotls€™ habitat.
These combined threats have devastated axolotl populations. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, there are fewer than 100 adult axolotls left in the wild. The species is considered critically endangered.
While the wild axolotls of Lake Xochimilco have dwindled to near-extinction, countless axolotls have been bred for scientific laboratories and the pet trade. €œThe axolotl essentially helped establish the field of experimental zoology,€ Voss said.
In 1864, a French army officer brought live axolotls back to Europe, where scientists were surprised to learn that the seemingly juvenile aquatic salamanders were capable of reproduction. Since then, scientists around the world have studied axolotls and their DNA to learn about the salamanders€™ unusual metamorphosis (or lack thereof) as well as their ability to regrow injured body parts.
In addition to their role in labs, axolotls have become popular in the exotic pet trade (though they are illegal to own in California, Maine, New Jersey and Washington, DC). However, the axolotls you might find at a pet shop are different from their wild relatives in Lake Xochimilco. Most wild axolotls are a dark grayish brown. The famous pink axolotls, as well as other color variants such as white, blue, yellow and black, are genetic anomalies that are rare in the wild but selectively bred for in the pet trade.
What€™s more, €œmost of the animals in the pet trade have a very small genetic variance,€ Zambrano said. Pet axolotls tend to be inbred and lack the wide flow of different genes that makes up a healthy population in the wild. That means that the axolotl extinction crisis can€™t simply be solved by dumping pet axolotls into Lake Xochimilco. (Plus, the pet axolotls likely wouldn€™t fare well with the poor habitat conditions in the lake.)
Fame and misfortune
The difficulties that axolotls face in the wild are almost diametrically opposed to the fame they€™ve found in recent years. Axolotls have captured the human imagination for centuries, as evidenced by their roles in Aztec religion and stories, but the early 21st century seems to be a high point for them. An axolotl graces the 50 peso bill. There are axolotl-inspired Pokemon, and Reddit commenters have noted that the character Toothless from the €œHow to Train Your Dragon€ movie series is distinctly axolotl-like.
The introduction of axolotls to Minecraft in 2021 neatly mapped onto an uptick in Google searches for the animals, and social media makes it easy for people to gain access to photos and videos of the salamanders, particularly the photogenic pink ones often kept as pets.
The axolotl pet trade probably doesn€™t directly harm the wild populations since wild salamanders aren€™t being poached or taken from Lake Xochimilco. However, Zambrano said, axolotls€™ ubiquity in pop culture and pet stores might make people assume that because axolotls €œlive in all the tanks around the world, they are not in danger.€
As Mexico City grew and became more industrialized, the need for water brought pumps and pipes to the lake, and eventually, €œit was like a bad, smelly pond with rotten water,€ Zambrano said. €œAll of our aquatic animals suffer with bad water quality, but amphibians suffer more because they have to breathe with the skin.€
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To add to the axolotls€™ problems, invasive fish species such as carp and tilapia were introduced to the lake, where they feed on axolotl eggs. And a 1985 earthquake in Mexico City displaced thousands of people, who found new homes in the area around the lake, further contributing to the destruction of the axolotls€™ habitat.
These combined threats have devastated axolotl populations. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, there are fewer than 100 adult axolotls left in the wild. The species is considered critically endangered.
While the wild axolotls of Lake Xochimilco have dwindled to near-extinction, countless axolotls have been bred for scientific laboratories and the pet trade. €œThe axolotl essentially helped establish the field of experimental zoology,€ Voss said.
In 1864, a French army officer brought live axolotls back to Europe, where scientists were surprised to learn that the seemingly juvenile aquatic salamanders were capable of reproduction. Since then, scientists around the world have studied axolotls and their DNA to learn about the salamanders€™ unusual metamorphosis (or lack thereof) as well as their ability to regrow injured body parts.
In addition to their role in labs, axolotls have become popular in the exotic pet trade (though they are illegal to own in California, Maine, New Jersey and Washington, DC). However, the axolotls you might find at a pet shop are different from their wild relatives in Lake Xochimilco. Most wild axolotls are a dark grayish brown. The famous pink axolotls, as well as other color variants such as white, blue, yellow and black, are genetic anomalies that are rare in the wild but selectively bred for in the pet trade.
What€™s more, €œmost of the animals in the pet trade have a very small genetic variance,€ Zambrano said. Pet axolotls tend to be inbred and lack the wide flow of different genes that makes up a healthy population in the wild. That means that the axolotl extinction crisis can€™t simply be solved by dumping pet axolotls into Lake Xochimilco. (Plus, the pet axolotls likely wouldn€™t fare well with the poor habitat conditions in the lake.)
Fame and misfortune
The difficulties that axolotls face in the wild are almost diametrically opposed to the fame they€™ve found in recent years. Axolotls have captured the human imagination for centuries, as evidenced by their roles in Aztec religion and stories, but the early 21st century seems to be a high point for them. An axolotl graces the 50 peso bill. There are axolotl-inspired Pokemon, and Reddit commenters have noted that the character Toothless from the €œHow to Train Your Dragon€ movie series is distinctly axolotl-like.
The introduction of axolotls to Minecraft in 2021 neatly mapped onto an uptick in Google searches for the animals, and social media makes it easy for people to gain access to photos and videos of the salamanders, particularly the photogenic pink ones often kept as pets.
The axolotl pet trade probably doesn€™t directly harm the wild populations since wild salamanders aren€™t being poached or taken from Lake Xochimilco. However, Zambrano said, axolotls€™ ubiquity in pop culture and pet stores might make people assume that because axolotls €œlive in all the tanks around the world, they are not in danger.€
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American LIFE Umraniye
Umraniye İngilizce Almanca Yabancı Dil Kursu. Umraniye'nin yetişkinler ve ocuıklar iin hazırlanan en iyi ingilizce kursu ve genel almanca ve aile birleşimi yabancı dil kursu.
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Adres: Atatrk Mahallesi, Alemdağ Cd. 54 A, 34764 mraniye / İSTANBUL
Telefon: +90 (216) 443 64 44
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Umraniye İngilizce Almanca Yabancı Dil Kursu. Umraniye'nin yetişkinler ve ocuıklar iin hazırlanan en iyi ingilizce kursu ve genel almanca ve aile birleşimi yabancı dil kursu.
Umraniye İngilizce Kursu, Umraniye Almanca Kursu, Umraniye Rusa Kursu
Adres: Atatrk Mahallesi, Alemdağ Cd. 54 A, 34764 mraniye / İSTANBUL
Telefon: +90 (216) 443 64 44
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American LIFE Umraniye
Umraniye İngilizce Almanca Yabancı Dil Kursu. Umraniye'nin yetişkinler ve ocuıklar iin hazırlanan en iyi ingilizce kursu ve genel almanca ve aile birleşimi yabancı dil kursu.
Umraniye İngilizce Kursu, Umraniye Almanca Kursu, Umraniye Rusa Kursu
Adres: Atatrk Mahallesi, Alemdağ Cd. 54 A, 34764 mraniye / İSTANBUL
Telefon: +90 (216) 443 64 44
E-Posta: umraniye@americanlife.com.tr
American LIFE mraniye
Umraniye İngilizce Almanca Yabancı Dil Kursu. Umraniye'nin yetişkinler ve ocuıklar iin hazırlanan en iyi ingilizce kursu ve genel almanca ve aile birleşimi yabancı dil kursu.
Umraniye İngilizce Kursu, Umraniye Almanca Kursu, Umraniye Rusa Kursu
Adres: Atatrk Mahallesi, Alemdağ Cd. 54 A, 34764 mraniye / İSTANBUL
Telefon: +90 (216) 443 64 44
E-Posta: umraniye@americanlife.com.tr
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€˜For the public to enjoy€™
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The museum€™s history starts in 1998, when Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani opened a building to the public on his farm some 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Qatari capital Doha.
A distant relative of Qatar€™s ruling family, founder and chairman of Al Faisal Holdings (one of Qatar€™s biggest conglomerates), and a billionaire whose business acumen had him recognized as one of the most influential Arab businessmen in the world, Sheikh Faisal had already amassed a substantial private collection of historically important regional artifacts, plus a few quirky pieces of interest, allowing visitors an intimate look into Qatari life and history.
In an interview with Qatari channel Alrayyan TV in 2018, Sheikh Faisal said that the museum started as a hobby.
€œI used to collect items whenever I got the chance,€ he said. €œAs my business grew, so did my collections, and soon I was able to collect more and more items until I decided to put them in the museum for the public to enjoy.€
His private cabinet of curiosities has since evolved into a 130-acre complex. Through the fort-like entrance gate lies an oryx reserve, an impressive riding school and stables, a duck pond and a mosque built with a quirky leaning minaret. There€™s now even a five-star Marriott hotel, two cafes and the Zoufa restaurant serving modern Lebanese cuisine.
Of course, there€™s also the super-sized museum, with a recently-opened car collection housing everything from vintage Rolls-Royces to wartime Jeeps and colorful Buicks. Outside you€™ll find peacocks roaming the grounds, and signs warning drivers to be aware of horses and ostriches.
Visitors to the FBQ museum are free to explore the grounds and can even enter the stables to pat the horses.
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The museum€™s history starts in 1998, when Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani opened a building to the public on his farm some 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Qatari capital Doha.
A distant relative of Qatar€™s ruling family, founder and chairman of Al Faisal Holdings (one of Qatar€™s biggest conglomerates), and a billionaire whose business acumen had him recognized as one of the most influential Arab businessmen in the world, Sheikh Faisal had already amassed a substantial private collection of historically important regional artifacts, plus a few quirky pieces of interest, allowing visitors an intimate look into Qatari life and history.
In an interview with Qatari channel Alrayyan TV in 2018, Sheikh Faisal said that the museum started as a hobby.
€œI used to collect items whenever I got the chance,€ he said. €œAs my business grew, so did my collections, and soon I was able to collect more and more items until I decided to put them in the museum for the public to enjoy.€
His private cabinet of curiosities has since evolved into a 130-acre complex. Through the fort-like entrance gate lies an oryx reserve, an impressive riding school and stables, a duck pond and a mosque built with a quirky leaning minaret. There€™s now even a five-star Marriott hotel, two cafes and the Zoufa restaurant serving modern Lebanese cuisine.
Of course, there€™s also the super-sized museum, with a recently-opened car collection housing everything from vintage Rolls-Royces to wartime Jeeps and colorful Buicks. Outside you€™ll find peacocks roaming the grounds, and signs warning drivers to be aware of horses and ostriches.
Visitors to the FBQ museum are free to explore the grounds and can even enter the stables to pat the horses.
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Iceberg flotillas
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Located on the west coast, Ilulissat is a pretty halibut- and prawn-fishing port on a dark rock bay where visitors can sit in pubs sipping craft beers chill-filtered by 100,000-year-old glacial ice.
It€™s a place to be awed by the UNESCO World Heritage Icefjord where Manhattan skyscraper-sized icebergs disgorge from Greenland€™s icecap to float like ghostly ships in the surrounding Disko Bay.
Small boats take visitors out to sail closely among the bay€™s magnificent iceberg flotilla. But not too close.
€œI was on my boat once and saw one of these icebergs split in two. The pieces fell backwards into the sea and created a giant wave,€ said David Karlsen, skipper of the pleasure-boat, Katak. €œ€I didn€™t hang around.€
Disko Bay€™s other giants are whales. From June to September breaching humpback whales join the likes of fin and minke whales feasting on plankton. Whale-watching is excellent all around Greenland€™s craggy coastline.
Whales are eaten here. Visitors shouldn€™t be surprised to encounter the traditional Greenlandic delicacy of mattak €” whale-skin and blubber that when tasted is akin to chewing on rubber. Inuit communities have quotas to not only hunt the likes of narwhals but also polar bears, musk-ox and caribou €” which can also appear on menus.
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Located on the west coast, Ilulissat is a pretty halibut- and prawn-fishing port on a dark rock bay where visitors can sit in pubs sipping craft beers chill-filtered by 100,000-year-old glacial ice.
It€™s a place to be awed by the UNESCO World Heritage Icefjord where Manhattan skyscraper-sized icebergs disgorge from Greenland€™s icecap to float like ghostly ships in the surrounding Disko Bay.
Small boats take visitors out to sail closely among the bay€™s magnificent iceberg flotilla. But not too close.
€œI was on my boat once and saw one of these icebergs split in two. The pieces fell backwards into the sea and created a giant wave,€ said David Karlsen, skipper of the pleasure-boat, Katak. €œ€I didn€™t hang around.€
Disko Bay€™s other giants are whales. From June to September breaching humpback whales join the likes of fin and minke whales feasting on plankton. Whale-watching is excellent all around Greenland€™s craggy coastline.
Whales are eaten here. Visitors shouldn€™t be surprised to encounter the traditional Greenlandic delicacy of mattak €” whale-skin and blubber that when tasted is akin to chewing on rubber. Inuit communities have quotas to not only hunt the likes of narwhals but also polar bears, musk-ox and caribou €” which can also appear on menus.
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