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15 Extraordinary Secret Indoor Gardens

Posted by Think Extraordinary on 5:49 AM 1 comments

The following 15 gardens are amazing examples of how modern technology can bring nature indoors.

1. Gardens Under Tokyo Bank Vaulttokyo skscraper garden

This garden, which is hidden underneath an office building in the Otemachi business district in Tokyo is the perfect example of a secret hidden garden. It is an underground rice and vegetable field which takes advantage of the existing structure. This area was once used to house a bank vault, but thanks to computer controlled light and temperature it is the perfect growing area for these amazing plants.

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2. Indoor Vertical Garden

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Would you think this is an optical illusion, a painting or truthfully an indoor vertical garden? This unique indoor garden is 8 meters long by almost 6 meters wide. The designer of this stunning indoor garden, Patrick Blanc created this unique piece for the national concert hall located in Taipei, Taiwan. This structure continues to wow visitors whenever they visit the concert hall.

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3. Subway Garden

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Another subway secret garden is on the tram stop to Koraku-en. It’s underground and surrounded by glass; lit by sun lamps; and every now and then a mist spray watered it. This image could be a glimpse of what the future holds for all indoors plants.

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4. Madrid Main Train Station

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Have you ever wanted to cross though a Jungle during your morning commute? This indoor garden isn’t so secretive but it sure is amazing! Madrid, Spain is the next stop in the awesome secret gardens of the world. Atocha is the main train station for Madrid and has a beautiful garden simply known as the JUNGLE.

The original station that stood here was destroyed by fire and was rebuilt by Alberto de Palacio Elissage and Gustave Eiffel- the guy who built the Eiffel Tower!

While you might have to catch a train it’s worth spending at least a few moments walking though the many unique walkways that this garden contains.

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5. Singapore Changai Airport Garden

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These unique indoor gardens are at an airport in Changi Singapore. The orchid garden displays more than 15 unique species of the flower, and the rooftop cactus garden is also quite unique to the airport. If you get a chance it’s worth checking out the unique butterfly garden with more than 1,000 roaming butterflies native to both Singapore and Malaysia.

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6. Earths Largest Indoor Garden

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The Eden Project is one of the largest hidden gardens in the entire world. It is the largest greenhouse on earth and plants are growing extremely well under the domes. One of the largest domes on the site, as well as one of the most visited is the Rainforest Biome. It is 180 feet high, 328 feet wide and 656 feet long.

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7. Gardens of Opryland

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The Atriums & Gardens of Opryland are not as hidden as some of these other secret indoor gardens, but they offer beauty just the same. These gardens cover an impressive nine acres of thick greenery and are separated into three distinct areas: the Cascades, the Delta and the Garden Conservatory.

The garden includes a 44 foot waterfall and even a indoor riverboat cruise! Throughout the three exhibits there are 50,000 total plants, many unique water features, and masses of beautiful foliage that are in full bloom.

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8. Indoor Household Garden

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Designed by Japanese architects, Supposed Design Office, this unique garden is called “The House” and is found in a home in Nagoya, Japan. While some homes may feature an outdoor space for a garden, this home features an entire room for it’s garden!

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9. Saudi Awesome Indoor Garden

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This futuristic piece of architecture in Riyadh – Saudi Arabia, is going to be home of the largest indoor gardens in the world. The dome will cover over 24 acres! These two crescent-shaped sections will interlock including many of the key botanical elements from around the world.

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10. Garden Inside A PC Case

Obviously a good one to conceal marijuana or other illegal crops, just but also an interesting recycling method to keep other plants. What not grow a mini herb garden in an old computer?

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11. Underground Garden installation

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We typically think of subway stations as being dark and boring. However, The Underground Garden installation at Platform makes this into a living project that was designed to deal with the strange and odd problems of subway structures maintenance. Certain plants can survive underground for many months using only fluorescent light!

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12. Indoor Garden Waterfall

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This small waterfall is located inside the greenhouse at the Regenstein center, Chicago Botanic Garden. While many cities are proud to have indoor waterfalls, this unique design allows visitors to truly see something special. Whether you like the view of the unique terrace waterfall or the fauna around it, enjoy this natural creation!

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13. Forestiere Underground Gardens

Forestiere Underground Gardens

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There are a long series of myths about this secret underground complex. Well, it turns out there are some that actually true. In 1906, Forestiere spent 40 years building (using only his farmer’s tools and two mules, with no dynamites) a complex of underground rooms, passageways, and garden, complete with skylights and catch basins for water. The garden is completely unique and even has been designated a national landmark important to history.

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14. Bank of America Garden

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Bank of America has been one of the most hated companies in the United States as of recently. The secret indoor garden inside of the New York office have installed living sculptures in the Urban Garden Room at Bank of America Tower’s 60-foot high street-level atrium space at One Bryant Park, New York. The Durst Organization, the building’s owner and developer, commissioned WRT to create an appropriate – natural – signature for New York City’s first LEED Platinum office tower.

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15. Paris Metro Garden

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The Paris Metro is one of the busiest subway systems in the entire world. You may think it almost impossible to find a hidden space or secret indoor garden within this system, but This garden is found on the line 14! Only gardeners are allowed to enter this exotic paradise, however, all can experience the beauty as they walk around the entire subway station!

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13 Most harshest people in World recorded history

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Most people harshest in the World

Apparently there are many cruel people in this world, including 13 people most of the world's harshest the entry in the history list. 2 They are the ones who may not have pity, too concerned with politics and personal ambition. Their actions are necessary in scorch the earth, Do so until his successor well of you.

Jump aja dah, the following 13 people most of the world's harshest :


1. Josef Stalin

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Josif (Josef) Stalin Vissarionovich , Iósif Vissarionovich Stalin), real name Ioseb Jughashvili, (December 21, 1879 (Gregorian calendar chronicle) - March 5, 1953) was the leader of the Soviet Union and a very cruel dictator, also known as the Man of Steel. He is thought to have ordered the murder of about 30 million population of Russia and surrounding countries. He is also known as people who hate religion. He had entered the seminary in Tbilisi, but he then became lost faith in God after reading the book Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.

Stalin is the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953. IN under the leadership of Stalin, State of Ukraine suffered very severe famine (Holodomor), by most people this is considered a result of mass extermination is part of the policy of Stalin's rule. Estimated number of deaths varied from 2.5 million to 10 million. Hunger caused by political and administrative decisions.

Besides famine, Stalin ordered the cleanup in the Soviet Union any person who is considered as an enemy state. In total, the approximate number who were killed under Stalin's rule ranged between 10 million to 60 million people.

2. Mao Zedong

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Mao Zedong (Shaoshan, Hunan, December 26th, 1893 - Beijing, 9 September 1976), is a name of a prominent philosopher and founder of the People's Republic of China.

Mao and the party
Mao's Party was founded in 1921 and Mao's increasingly vocal. Between the years 1934 - 1935 he held a central role and led the Chinese Red Army undergoing "Length of Mars." Then since the year 1937 he participated to help Dai Nippon combat troops that occupied much of China's territory. Finally, World War II ended and civil war broke out again. In the war against these nationalists, Mao became the leader of the Reds and he finally won in 1949. On October 1 1949, People's Republic of China was proclaimed and the Chinese nationalist leader, Chiang Kai Shek fled to Taiwan.

3. Adolf Hitler

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Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 - April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) (Third Reich), Germany since 1934 until he died. On August 2, 1934, he became dictator of Germany after President von Hindenburg died. He unites the position became chancellor and president of the Nazi Führer at once made as a single party in Germany. He is also a Chairman of the Nationalist-Socialist Party (National Socialist Germany Workers Party or NSDAP / Nazi) who is known by the Nazis.

Nazi Germany was officially disbanded after the defeat in World War II because Hitler's dictatorship system. Hitler was a charismatic orator, Hitler is one of the most influential leaders in dunia.Ketika end of World War II, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin with his wife whom he married not long in the bunker, Eva Braun.

German Chancellor Adolf Hitler set in 1933, became the "Fuhrer" in 1934 until his suicide in 1945. At the end of World War 2, the policy of territorial conquest and extermination rasianya have brought death and torture millions of people, including the slaughter of approximately six million Jews now known as the Holocaust.

On April 30, 1945, after severe fighting street-to-Street, when Soviet troops appear in a block or two Chancellory Reich, Hitler committed suicide, shot himself, biting the cyanide capsule sebiji.

4. Vladimir Lenin

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Vladimir Illich Lenin, Original name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (April 10 (April 22 according to Gregorian calendar in the year), 1870 - January 21, 1924), was a revolutionary communist Russia, the Bolshevik party leader, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union first and creators understand Leninisme.Nama Lenin is actually a a pseudonym, and took its name from the river Lena, in Siberia.

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In February 1917, in connection with a major Russian defeat in World War I, the Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. Then formed a cabinet led by Alexander Kerensky. Then Lenin on 16 April 1917 back to Petrograd, the name of the city of Saint Petersburg has di'Rusia' out.

5. Idi Amin

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General Idi Amin Dada Oumee (Koboko, Uganda, circa 1925-Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, August 16, 2003), also known by the name of Idi Amin, is a leader in the Ugandan military dictator who ruled on January 25, 1971 to 13 April 1979.

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As soon as Idi Amin's rule, Uganda became the most famous countries in the international world. In August 1972, all British Asians berwarga countries (60,000 people) were given ninety days to lift the foot from Uganda.

This action not because of racism, but because he wanted to give "real independence for the people of Uganda". A frenzy of course England, which its officials hurriedly contacted the Australian, New Zealand, and British Commonwealth countries to discuss other shelter, especially Kenya and Tanzania refused to give shelter to the refugees. Ten days later promulgated additional rules that foreigners who have become citizens of Uganda should get out of Uganda. The number is about 23,000 inhabitants.

Surely the citizens of foreign descent who was born in Uganda confusion. If they leave, their status is stateless (stateless). Moreover, the India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (their home countries) refused to accept their return. Nasionalisasai policy coupled with the companies of the European people in Uganda. Idi Amin was an actual "confusing many people."

Consequences of this decision, arising from a severe economic crisis in Uganda. Approximately 90% of trade and industry controlled by Asians. Uganda's own people are still very traditional agrarian and less skill, capital and skills. Actually, the expulsion of Asians plan had been designed by Milton Obote because it felt too grabbed the Ugandan economy, but is still targeting the next five years, by reason of preparing people of Uganda.

Ugandan government in such chaos that the UN International Law Commission to report to the UN secretary general at the time, Kurt Waldheim on June 7, 1974, which read: "Uganda is a land without law." One peak is requested asylum crisis Finance Minister Emmanuel Wakheya to England because they do not stand any more of the economic decisions taken by the military regime of Idi Amin's reign.

In early 1977, William Johnshon write a daily report to the Bangkok Post that read: "After four years in power, Idi Amin of Uganda has changed the lives of the poor. First-exporting country of Uganda tea and coffee, but because of administrative systems and poor transportation, hundreds of sacks of coffee piled in warehouses awaiting export, semetara tens of thousands of tons are smuggled into Kenya.

Uganda was once as one of the most fertile land in Africa, is now so scarce agricultural produce to city dwellers to plant sugar cane and bananas. Soap, sugar, and wheat are treated like gold was so scarce. While in rural areas so abundant harvests, the urban population can not enjoy the results. Five years ago, operates 298 buses run by the government, now only 11 are still the road. "In April 1979, Idi Amin had been overthrown by Ugandan nationalists soldiers who assisted in Tanzania. Prior to Idi Amin with the help of Libya trying to attack the Kagera, the northern province of Tanzania.

Idi Amin fled to Libya, eventually flying which then asked for asylum in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and settled there. According to him, the death rate of 100,000 to 300,000 people and killed dianiya is due to improper intelligence section. National Research Bureau even threatened to kill him. According to Amin, a lot of bad things that are hidden when he took power. When he knew the existence of the firm, it was too late.

However, during the Amin has not been falling, David Martin in his article in the South China Morning Post revealed how Idi Amin know football lunge-oknumnya elements. He claimed to not want to be president, tentaranyalah asked for it, but about the expulsion of Asians, he says: 'They are too powerful and mocked our people'.

Idi Amin has four wives. His first wife was Sarah or Mama Malian whom he married in 1958, which both Kay, Norah third, fourth and Medina, whom he married in 1971. In early 1974 he divorced his first wife so that the three lived Medina. On August 1, 1975, he married Sarah, a daredevil racer Army troops of Uganda. Four months later, she married the daughter of a businessman Babirye of Uganda. Idi Amin's that time already had 34 people anak.Pada dated July 20, 2003, before his death at the King Faisal Hospital in Jeddah, she pleaded to President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda to Idi Amin was buried in his country, but this request was rejected. Idi Amin died in Saudi Arabia on August 16, 2003 and is buried in Jeddah.

6. Ivan IV of Russia

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Ivan IV Russia, also known as Ivan the Terrible, was the magnificent Duke of Muscovy from 1533 until 1547 and was the first ruler of Russia who took the rights of the Emperor. In 1570, Ivan under the belief that planned by the elite of the city of Novgorod to cross into Poland, and sent an army to stop them on January 2nd. Ivan soldiers built walls around the city perimeters to prevent people from town who is independent. Between 500 to 1000 people gathered every day by the troops, then tortured and killed in front of Ivan and his son.

In 1581, Ivan's daughter hit her full-in-law for wearing clothing that was not polite, causing keguguran.Anak son, also named Ivan, causing ayahnya.Yang argue with his son Ivan who struck in the head with pointy sticks, then her son died instantly.

7. Vlad Ţepeş

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Vlad III, Romania (Also known as Vlad the Impaler) was Prince of Wallachia three times from 1448 until the year 1476. Vlad is better known as a legend of a very cruel punishment. He was forced during his reign, and he also used as the principal inspiration for the main character a vampire "Bram Stoker" in the popular new Dracula.

In Romania he is considered as a prince with a deep sense of justice. List of torture he was declared to have employed extensive: nails on the head, cut off limbs, blinding, choking, burning, cutting off noses and ears, cutting sexual organs (especially in the case of women), scalp, skin, disclosure to the elements or to animals, and orangery boil stake. There are claims that on several occasions ten thousand people had been stabbed in the year 1460.

8. Pol Pot

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Pol Pot is the leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976 until 1979, has been de factor leader since mid-1975. During his reign, Pol Pot's agrarian communism impose extreme version in which all city dwellers moved to the countryside to work in plantations and collective labor projects. The combined effect slave labor, malnutrition, poor medical Perelman and implementation are estimated to have killed around 2 million Cambodians (about a third of the population). His regime achieved special notoriety for selecting all the intellectuals and the "bourgeois enemies" for murder of another.

The Khmer Rouge executed en masse in the place known as "The killing fields." Executed were buried in mass graves. To save ammunition, executions often dillakukan use a hammer, ax handles, spades or sharpened bamboo sticks.

9. Leopold II of Belgium

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Leopold II is the King of Belgium from 1865-1909.
With financial assistance from the government, Leopold create "Congo Free State", a personal project to tap rubber and ivory in the Congo region central Africa, which relies on forced labor and causing death by approximately 3 million people of Congo.

Congo Free State regime became an international scandal one turn of the century more notorious. Parcels of land privately owned by King is 76 times larger than Belgium, that he is free to master it as a private sphere through his personal army, Force Publique. Leopold owned the rubber plantation workers were tortured, brutally maim and kill until the end of the century, the heart nuran, i Western World and force Brussels to hold worship.


10. Ruhollah Khomeini

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Ayatollah Khomeini Iran is the Islamic religious leaders from 1979 until 1989.
At that time he was implementing the Islamic Shari'a (Islamic religious law) with the Islamic dress code applies to both men and women by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and other Islamic groups. Opposition to the rules of Islamic religious scholars or the public is often met with harsh punishment.

In conversations in Fayzieah School in Qom, August 30, 1979, Khomeini said:
"Who is trying to bring corruption and destruction for our country in the name of democracy will suffer. They are worse than Bani-Ghorizeh Jews, and they should be hanged. We will torture them on the orders of God and God's call to prayer."

In 1988 mass slaughter of Iranian prisoners, following the operation Forough-e Javidan mujahideen fighters against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Khomeini gave orders to his court officials to judge every Iranian political prisoner and kill all who do not repent of counter-regime activity. Many say that the thousands who quickly killed in prison. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Living History-Ali Montazeri reported details of the execution of 30,000 political activists. After eleven days in the hospital in surgery to stop internal bleeding, Khomeini died of cancer on Saturday, June 04, 1989, at the age of 86 years.

11. Maximilien Robespierre

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Maximilien Robespierre is a leader of the French revolution and was the argument that makes the revolutionary government kill the king without a trial. Robespierre was one of the main actors behind the cruel reign, 10 months since he led the post-revolutionary terror and mass executions. Terror that threaten between 18,500 to 40,000 people, with 1900 killed in the last month.

Among persons convicted by a revolutionary court, about 8 percent were of nobles, clergy as much as 6 percent, the middle class as much as 14 percent and 70 percent of the remaining employees or workers taniyang accused of hoarding, refusing military conscription, desertion, mutiny, and other crimes claim . For his actions, Robespierre was beheaded by not through the trial in 1794.

12. Attila The Huns

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Attila King of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453.
He is the leader Hunnic Empire that stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea. In the largest part of Western Europe, he was remembered as an example of cruelty and greed. The campaign failed in Persia in the year 441, followed by the invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire, Attila the success of them dared to attack the West.

He passed unhindered Austria and Germany, across the Rhine into the Gael, he was seized and destroyed all the people on the street with a ferocity not unlike the record of a savage assault and forced the deal to add that he's very large army. Attila drowned in his own blood on the perkiness night.

13. George.W.Bush

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This guy is the most sadistic men in the world this century with a sacrifice fly the war directly to tens of thousands of troops and coalition troops and tens of millions of human beings

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3 Guitar Chords Every Man Should Know

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Leadbelly playing his 12 string guitar

So you can get a perfect score on “Free Bird” in Guitar Hero? Besides your twelve year old cousin, who do you think that’s going to impress? Instead of wasting your time with pretend guitar, start learning how to play the real deal. The guitar is a skill that will provide you and those around you years of enjoyment. And chicks dig guys who play guitar. Always have, always will.

The guitar has a way of showing up at parties and campfires, and it often gets passed around so people who know how to play can strum out some tunes while everyone sings along. Instead of passing it on to the next dude, why not hold on to it and bust out a song of your own? Getting a group of people to sing a song while you provide the accompaniment is an easy way to command a room like a man.

But what if you’ve never played the guitar? What chords should a man know, so when the opportunity arises to “peacock,” he won’t be left looking like a turkey?

For the answer, I went to my best friend, Andrew Bays. Andrew has been playing guitar and other stringed instruments for most his life. He currently crafts handmade guitars at Collings Guitars in Austin, TX and plays banjo in the bluegrass band, Flatcar Rattlers. You can listen to some samples of their music here.

The Three Essential Guitar Chords

According to my bud, Andy B, the three guitar chords every man should know are G C D.

“You can play darn near anything with those chords (save Taylor Swift songs, cause they always have that dramatic teenage girl angst minor chord thrown in).”

Not only can you play darn near anything with these chords, they’re super simple to play.

Below we provide the guitar tablature, or tabs, for the G C D chords and an explanation on how to read the tab for the uninitiated.

There they are. Now what the heck do they mean?

How to Read Guitar Tabs

Guitar tabs are diagrams of a guitar neck as if we were looking at an upright guitar. That top dark horizontal line represents the nut. The nut is at the top of a guitar and is usually made of plastic, metal, or even bone.

The other horizontal lines represent the first four guitar frets. Frets are those horizontal lines that go down the neck of your guitar.

The six vertical lines represent the six strings on your guitar. The string on the far left is the 6th string, or low E, and the string on the far right is the 1st string, or high E. Here’s a diagram of the strings and their respective names.

Alright, so far so good.

Note how on the chord diagrams, there are some “X’s” and “O’s.”

When a string has an “X” over it, it means you don’t strum that string when you play the chord.

When a string has an “O” above it, it means you play that string open with no fingers pressing down on the string.

Finally, we can get to what those numbers mean. The numbers indicate what fingers you’ll be using to press down on the string and where you should press down.

So, we’ll use the G chord as our example.

According to the diagram, our second (or ring) finger will press down on the low E string on the third fret; our first (or pointer) finger presses down on the A string on the second fret; the B C D strings are played open, and finally our third (or middle) finger presses down on the high E on the third fret.

Your fingers should look like this on your guitar. Note that when you press down on the string, you don’t press down on the metal fret, but rather just above it.

Picture of G Chord

Go through that same process with the other two chords. Practice positioning your fingers so that it becomes almost natural. When you strum, a clear tone should come out. In the beginning, you might have some muffled noises, but keep practicing until you get it.

Watch these videos to see and hear the chords in action.


13 Songs You Can Play with the G C D Guitar Chords

So you know how to play the G C and D chords. What songs can you play with them?

A crap load.

A surprising number of popular songs use only these three chords. Here’s just a few Andrew could think of off the top of his head along with links to the lyrics and chord progressions. You can bust out any of these songs at a party and be the man of the hour. Or you can play them when you’re sitting on the porch at night with Opie and a lovely lady.

“Hey Pa?”

“Yeah, Ope.”

“Can you play ‘What I Got’ by Sublime?”

“Sure thing, Ope.”

If pop songs aren’t your thing, many of our beloved bluegrass, blues, and folk music use the G C D guitar chords as well.


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In addition to these great songs, you can use G C D to improvise some ditties as well. I always liked to give rap songs the G C D treatment. “Ice Ice Baby” never sounded so good.

Now that you know the G C D chords and a few songs that you can play with them, it’s time to drop that plastic Guitar Hero controller, pick up a real guitar, and start strumming out some tunes.

Rock n’ roll gentlemen.

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Muslim And Christian Massacres In Nigeria Prove A Point In Belfast

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11nigeria 337 395 articleLarge Muslim And Christian Massacres In Nigeria Prove A Point In Belfast

SO far not mentioned here is the weekend slaughter of hundreds in religious and tribal clashes in Central Nigeria, writes AGW.The final death toll in the Muslim on Christian attacks with machetes, knives and spears could be well over 500. Already 332 have been buried after what was probably a revenge attack for an incident in January.
Some of the suspected killers in a Nigerian police station.
The attacks were on three villages around the city of Jos. It seems to be the end result of the usual religious turmoil, lack of housing, jobs and lost opportunity.

There is a chilling account of it all from the murderer’s viewpoint in The New York Times
There is already the usual metaphorical shrugging of shoulders and “What you expect of savages?” littering the in-box.

There are no fast answers and human rights groups and government are equally shocked.

Nigeria was the first of the emergent ex-colonial African nations to experience civil war. It came within seven years of independence. Lightning speed when compared to the English Civil War (500 or so years) and even faster than the American one which took place after it had been simmering the 84 years from independence.

Others have experienced the savageries of internal conflict and the worst example may well have been the brief terrible flowering and cutting down of Pol Pot’s Kampuchea , formerly and once again Cambodia. Anyone who has seen the based-on-fact film the Killing Fields will have an idea of the horrors there.

Subtle

This sectarianism is not confined to emergent countries. Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Glasgow’s Rangers / Celtic fan fights and Northern Ireland are all rooted in the same vile prejudices.

Editors sometimes make their point very subtly and it may be that the current boss at the Belfast Telegraph has quietly made a very telling statement.

This week the fractious and very widely separate groups which make up the Northern Ireland Assembly agreed by a majority on the new way forward for policing one of the most sectarian, religiously and politically divided places it is possible to visit: Ulster. Already the Ulster Unionists are being accused of cynicism for not signing up to the agreement when the others did on Tuesday, March 9.

The same day the Belfast Telegraph editor ensured this was carried Mass burials for hundreds .

Its prominent coverage must have been deliberate. Even if accidental, it is a great juxtaposition of story and current political events.

 Muslim And Christian Massacres In Nigeria Prove A Point In Belfast

Why? Because no-one in Ulster will ever forget or want to return to The Troubles when it became so bad the Europa Hotel, left, in Great Victoria Street, central Belfast, was and still is, the most bombed hotel in the world.

This is not Christian – Muslim conflict. It is ancient Christian division and those differences are just as terrible as they always were.

It is not always a hot and foetid Central African village when Two Tribes Go To War.

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People of the Andaman islands pictures

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These pictures want me to travel back to the Andaman islands. I got reminded about the Andaman island because the BBC had an article about “Last speaker of ancient Andaman language dies” The Andaman Islands are a group of archipelagic islands in the Bay of Bengal, and are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India. The Andaman Archipelago is an oceanic continuation of the Burmese Arakan Yoma range in the North and of the Indonesian Archipelago in the South. It includes some two hundred islands. Of the slightly more than 300,000 people that live in the Andaman Islands, a small minority of about 1,000 are indigenous Adivasis of the Andamans. The rest are mainly divided between Hindi, Bengali, Tamil and Punjabi speaking people from the mainland. The aboriginal inhabitants are the Great Andamanese, Jarawa, Onge, Shompen, Sentinelese and the extinct Jangil. Photos via thierryfalise.com andaman.org freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com flickr.com absoluteastronomy.com




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