Column 1

Editorial
Source:
The National, Friday May 27th, 2016

WE welcome all overseas visitors to Port Moresby and wish them a pleasant stay. If you have time, we’d like you to visit the Nature Park at Gerehu and the Adventure Park up at 14-Mile It is now one of the major attractions of the city. It provides an opportunity for residents and tourists alike to drive to this beautiful location, enjoy the scenery and have fun fishing, enjoying the water slides or just gazing around.
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Port Moresby Nature Park is Papua New Guinea’s leading botanical and native zoological parks and gardens, showcasing the best of the nation’s flora and fauna in a safe and picturesque setting. Over 150 animals are on display including multiple species of tree kangaroos, cassowaries, birds of paradise, parrots, pigeons, reptiles, wallabies and more. The Nature Park is perfect for those that won’t get the opportunity to explore all of PNG’s vast regions.
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WHILE the 1970 Bhola cyclone was not the strongest tropical cyclone to hit East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), it was the deadliest, claiming approximately half a million lives. It ranks among the most deadly natural disasters of modern times. The low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta were particularly susceptible to the storm surge’s floodwaters, which reached 33 ft (10 m) when the cyclone made landfall.
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DOROTHEALange was a profoundly influential American documentary photographer. During the Great Depression, her photos of stark poverty led to her employment by a federal agency to bring the plight of the poor to public attention. Her images were so effective that the government was compelled to establish camps for migrant labourers. Lange produced several other photo essays, including one documenting the WWII internment of Japanese-Americans.
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THE name of this Jewish holiday means “thirty-three omer,” an omer being a sheaf of barley or wheat. In the biblical book of Leviticus, the people were commanded by Jehovah to make an offering of a sheaf of barley on each of the 50 days between Passover and Shavuot. After the evening service, the number of the day was solemnly announced, and, in time, this ceremony came to be known as “the counting of the omer.” Lag ba-Omer represents a break in the otherwise solemn season between Passover and Shavuot.
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TODAY is the 147th day of the year (148th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 218 days remaining until the end of the year.
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QUOTE of the day: He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. – George Eliot (1819-1880)
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