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Bloody squiggly witty tooner

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Today's topic is Blood.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
~ Winston Churchill

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
~ Richard Bach

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
~ William Shakespeare

I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.
~ Charlie Sheen

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
~ Martin Luther

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
~ George S. Patton

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
~ Carl Jung 

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Artists' DNA

the way the colors mingle & exhibit themselves 

via the artist, it is sheer bliss

Khanfused?

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Today's topic is DNA.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
~ Alexander McQueen

Music is in my DNA!
~ Rihanna

I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.
~ Javier Bardem

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.
~ Kathryn Bigelow

Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
~ Fareed Zakaria

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.
~ Lewis Thomas

With time, fashion has become part of my DNA.
~ Roberto Cavalli

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.
~ Stephen Hawking

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.
~ Richard Dawkins

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Indira Gandhi's long lost Sister?

Rosalind Franklin

J. D. Bernal called her X-ray photographs of DNA, 

"the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken."

She was a remarkable woman. 

A role model for those who want to pursue science.

Rosalind Franklin, whose contribution to the Double Helix structure of the DNA went unrecognised.

I have depicted her looking at the X-Ray crystallographic image of DNA and the idea of a double helix forming in her mind. (The eventual winners of the Nobel Prize stole her X-Ray films and came up with the structure according to some accounts. Ref: "Double Helix" by Watson and a Biography of Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox, for instance)

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Today's topic is Rosalind Franklin.

25th July was Rosalind Franklin's birthday. More about Rosalind HERE.

Google celebrates DNA scientist Rosalind Franklin's 93rd birthday with a tribute doodle. More HERE.

Thanks to Anil Jagalur for suggesting today's topic.

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The Tiger Man!

Big  game hunter with a large heart turned conservationist.

For every school kid lucky enough to read his stories, he would be a hero!

The gentleman from Kumaon

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Today's topic is Jim Corbett.

Today is Jim Corbett's birthday. More HERE.

A tiger is a large-hearted gentleman with boundless courage and that when he is exterminated - as exterminated he will be unless public opinion rallies to his support - India will be the poorer by having lost the finest of her fauna.
~ Jim Corbett


Tigers, except when wounded or when man-eaters, are on the whole very good-tempered...Occassionally a tiger will object to too close an approach to its cubs or to a kill that it is guarding. The objection invariably takes the form of growling, and if this does not prove effective itis followed by short rushes accompanied by terrifying roars. If these warnings are disregarded, the blame for any injury inflicted rests entirely with the intruder.
~ Jim Corbett


I had spent many nights in the jungle looking for game, but this was the first time I had ever spent a night looking for a man-eater. The length of road immediately in front of me was brilliantly lit by the moon, but to right and left the overhanging trees cast dark shadows, and when the night wind agitated the branches and the shadows moved, I saw a dozen tigers advancing on me, and bitterly regretted the impulse that had induced me to place myself at the man-eater's mercy. I lacked the courage to return to the village and admit I was too frightened to carry out my self-imposed task, and with teeth chattering, as much from fear as from cold, I sat out the long night. As the grey dawn was lighting up the snowy range which I
was facing, I rested my head on my drawn-up knees, and it was in this position my men an hour later found me fast asleep; of the tiger I had neither heard nor seen anything.
~ Jim Corbett, champawat man-eater 

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Orion the Hunter

'Hunt'

a character from the medical drama 'Grey's Anatomy' on TV.

he reminds me of Van Gogh

All in d Game in d hunt for US Visa!

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Today's topic is Hunter.

I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.
~ Eva Longoria

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
~ Stephen Gardiner

I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.
~ George Eads

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?
~ John Lewis

In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
~ Carla Bruni

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.
~ Deepak Chopra

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
~ Andy Rooney

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Save the tiger!

Stripey Royal Beasts

I had a chance to visit Ranthambore tiger reserve last december. We didn't get to see any tigers then because of it being off season for tiger spotting. But we came very close to one, we could hear a deer giving warning signals to other animals. Those few moments we waited quietly and gripped in suspense if the tiger would come face to face with us next second. As they say sometimes fantasy is better than the real thing. Hope to see it someday!