A rainbow is seen during a lightning strike above Haikou, Hainan province, China. (Photo: China Daily via Reuters / The Telegraph)
Catching the light | Near Southerness, Dumfries and Glloway, Scotland
© Anthony Johnstone
Wow! Amazing shot!
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I’ve noticed that your brand has a ton of satiric misspellings, in which words that would normally begin with the letter “c” start instead with the letter “k” (i.e. kream, kontrol, kommunity, etc.). I was interested in finding out whether there was any European influence behind this, so I googled it and found this excerpt from the online Vancouver Sun.
despite the proliferation of the letter “k” in product names and promotional lingo that Andrea calls “our vokabulary.” An invented word — like Lululemon — Skoah has no link to Scandinavian languages as some suspect.
Well, with that question answered and out of the way, I can only think of one other link to the satiric misspellings that abound within your brand. The following is an excerpt from the Wikipedia article on satiric misspellings — more specifically, the replacement of “k” for “c”.
Replacing the letter “c” with “k” in the first letter of a word came into use by the Ku Klux Klan during its early years in the mid-to-late-19th century. The concept is continued today within the ranks of the Klan.
I hope there are no ties, hidden or not, between your brand and the KKK. That would be completely and utterly disgusting!
#skoah #kkk
Eclipsed Moon in the Milky Way
On June 15, the totally eclipsed Moon was very dark, with the Moon itself positioned on the sky toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. This simple panorama captures totality from northern Iran in 8 consecutive exposures each 40 seconds long. In the evocative scene, the dark of the eclipsed Moon competes with the Milky Way’s faint glow. The tantalizing red lunar disk lies just above the bowl of the dark Pipe Nebula, to the right of the glowing Lagoon and Trifid nebulae and the central Milky Way dust clouds. At the far right, the wide field is anchored by yellow Antares and the colorful clouds of Rho Ophiuchi. To identify other sights of the central Milky Way just slide your cursor over the image. The total phase of this first lunar eclipse of 2011 lasted an impressive 100 minutes. Parts of the eclipse were visible from most of planet Earth, with notable exceptions of North and Central America.
MERCURY’ALL An image of Mercury taken by NASA’s Messenger spacecraft as it orbits the planet’s southern hemisphere. (NASA via the Telegraph)
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