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[Levina]

A 14th Century woman's accessory from Northern Iraq. May be the earliest surviving handbag in the world
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wow!!
That purse reminds me of my clutch, the shape is exactly same (and most prolly the purpose too).
I guess fashion hasn't changed much in all these one thousand nine hundred eighty two years.

This is my clutch purse (a tiny one)...

 

[IrbiS]

Would have been better if it was the faces of dead iraqis

Anything but should wake US citizens

wow!!
That purse reminds me of my clutch, the shape is exactly same (and most prolly the purpose too).
I guess fashion hasn't changed much in all these 1982 years.

This is my clutch purse (a tiny one)...

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Didn't know you werre that old

 

[Levina]

Didn't know you werre that old

Yes, I'm a dinosaur.

 

[jamahir]

wow!!
That purse reminds me of my clutch, the shape is exactly same (and most prolly the purpose too).
I guess fashion hasn't changed much in all these one thousand nine hundred eighty two years.

This is my clutch purse (a tiny one)...

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it is beautiful.

 

[IrbiS]

J.R.R. Tolkien's original first page for Lord of the Rings, 1937

 

[Levina]

it is beautiful.

My clutch??
I know

@Neemo neemo
Start reading from the top most post on this page. And don't miss @IrbiS 's posts on the previous page, he has posted some awesome stuff.

 

[Neemo neemo]

My clutch??
I know

@Neemo neemo
Start reading from the top most post on this page. And don't miss @IrbiS 's posts on the previous page, he has posted some awesome stuff.

Dude, I've told you already. I've no interest in these farsi looking artifacts or scriptures or whatever that is. It bores the hell outta me.

Btw, I get your point. He questioned your age?
Not fair, Just not fair.

 

[Levina]

Dude, I've told you already. I've no interest in these farsi looking artifacts or scriptures or whatever that is. It bores the hell outta me.

Btw, I get your point. He questioned your age?
Not fair, Just not fair.

70!!!

 

[Neemo neemo]

70!!!

Naani jiiiiiii

 

[IrbiS]

Armed guards in Sudan protect the last male northern white rhino on earth. His species survived for 50 million years

@save_ghenda

 

[Dubious]

Armed guards in Sudan protect the last male northern white rhino on earth. His species survived for 50 million years

@save_ghenda

Is that true? I thought they were endangered didnt know there is only 1 male left...Should start doing artificial insemination if they find a female

 

[Levina]

Armed guards in Sudan protect the last male northern white rhino on earth. His species survived for 50 million years

@save_ghenda

It is not just the last male but the last surviving white Rhino.

Someday the cockroaches should also become extinct, they 've survived on this planet for too long.

Is that true? I thought they were endangered didnt know there is only 1 male left...Should start doing artificial insemination if they find a female

There is no FEMALE left!
That's the last white Rhino.

 

[Dubious]

It is not just the last male but the last surviving white Rhino.

There is no FEMALE left!
That's the last white Rhino.

At home with the world's last male northern white rhinoceros | Environment | The Guardian


Today, there are only five remaining and three of them are to be found at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, a sprawling windswept ranch of dun-coloured thickets and acacia trees in central Kenya, where efforts to save the species are centred.

All the pressure is on Sudan, the last male of the species, to mate with Fatu and Najin, the two female rhinos with whom he shares a 300-hectare enclosure.

 

[IrbiS]

It is not just the last male but the last surviving white Rhino.

Someday the cockroaches should also become extinct, they 've survived on this planet for too long.


There is no FEMALE left!
That's the last white Rhino.

4 ladies a left 2 in conservatory and 2 in zoo but he's the only male left. Problem is this 42-43 years old has so far failed at reproducing

 

[Dubious]

Someday the cockroaches should also become extinct, they 've survived on this planet for too long.

Unfortunately cockroaches breed like crazy ...and no one sells them off as remedy for cancer ...

4 ladies a left 2 in conservatory and 2 in zoo but he's the only male left. Problem is this 42-43 years old has so far failed at reproducing

I know

IVF is best chance to save endangered northern white rhino, scientists say | Environment | The Guardian

Talks held in Kenya to come up with a last ditch plan to save the final five of the endangered species from extinction


Conservationists and scientists have held talks in Kenya this week to come up with a last ditch plan to save the northern white rhinoceros from extinction.

There are only five northern whites left on the planet: three live in a 700-acre enclosure on the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in central Kenya, where the emergency meeting was held on Tuesday, while the other two are kept in zoos in the Czech Republic and the US.

“The battle is to work out what is feasible scientifically in the short time still available to us,” Richard Vigne, Ol Pejeta’s chief executive, told AFP.



The best chance is the creation of a “test tube rhino” by in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). The embryo could then be implanted in the womb of a surrogate southern white rhino, a closely related rhinoceros subspecies that is less endangered.

Past attempts at artificial insemination of northern white rhinos, carried out at the Dvur Kralove Zoo, failed, and surrogacy is untested.

Stores of frozen sperm and eggs could be used to revive the animal artificially, but neither method will provide an immediate solution, meaning the northern white rhino will likely disappear, at least for a while.

“The science is just not there yet,” Vigne said.