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Sami reports about golden eagles hunting reindeer calves confirmed by BBC

Kattullus — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:50:14 -0800

The BBC has captured footage of golden eagles hunting reindeer calves in northern Finland, confirming Sami reports. For more about the Sami, you can watch this series of videos, which cover a wide range of subjects, among them the language, arts and crafts, religion and music. And here is more about Sami reindeer folklore.

Man and eagle soar over the French Alps

homunculus — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:52:51 -0800

L'homme et l'oiseau au Mont-Blanc. Falconer Jacques-Olivier Travers runs the Aigles du Léman park on Lake Geneva where he teaches eagles raised in captivity how to fly. Here he is paragliding down the Alps with his student Sherkan.

A Distant Replay

octothorpe — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:43:56 -0800

The game as it was played in 1958 “is still an entertaining sport to watch, but it’s just not near as complicated,” Reid said. Writer Mark Bowden watches the 1958 NFL Championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants with Eagle's coach to find how he thinks the game has evolved. They find a game that is at times barely recognizable as being in the same sport. (Via)

Keep Watching the Skies!

LarryC — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:26:19 -0800

And you stand there, and you stand there, and now you all look like a human head, and say cheese

Astro Zombie — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:53:12 -0800

People pictures; Or, Photographs by Mole and Thomas, E.O. Goldbeck, and Others, Taken Between the years 1915 – 1920, and Consisting of Many People Lined Up and Posed in Such a Way that they Resemble Human Heads, the Statue of Liberty, Eagles, and Other Great Patriotic Symbols of This Nation.

Eagles are so free

c:\awesome — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:55:10 -0800

Can't you see? There's one in a tree, and he's looking at me. A St. Louis TV station took a bunch of footage of bald eagles for a segment, but half of the interview footage was lost due to microphone problems, so they improvised. What resulted is a sweet-ass-sweet musical montage on the awesomeness of eagles. [YouTube filter, by the way, via the boing.]

Life In The Fast Lane

gfrobe — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:51:47 -0800

Wal-Mart workers walk out. "It's the first time that Wal-Mart has faced a worker-led revolt of such scale, according to both employees and the company". Apparently the working conditions of Wal-Mart employees is not much of a concern to The Eagles though. Time to start greasing the wheels for the new album.