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geaNostra wishes you a merry Christmas!

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Gingerbread Christmas treeTo all of you who celebrate the Christmas tomorrow, I’d like to wish a joyful Christmas Eve and a merry Christmas! Whether you’re going to spend it at home or somewhere else, I wish you spend it happily and above all, in good health and surrendered by people you love.

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World AIDS Day – one color unites us

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

If you are a Twitter user, add #red to your tweets to turn them red! If you’re on facebook, you can join the cause by clicking the image below:

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December 1: World AIDS Day, Charlemagne, Iberian union, Yugoslavia…

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Union Day in Romania (1918)

World AIDS Day


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October 29.

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Republic Day in Turkey (1923)

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geaNostra is now 1 year old. Happy birthday geaNostra!

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Well, this has been a tough but interesting year for geaNostra, with many child illnesses that we’ve fortunately left behind. Today on October 20. 2009. geaNostra celebrates it’s first birthday. We hope it will celebrate many more growing to be better, more interesting and more inspiring every year, and to get many more friends.

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Piano stairs at Stockholm metro

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Stockholm metro piano stairs

A giant piano keyboard lays on the stairs of Stockholm’s Odenplan metro station.

”Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator and feel better” is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers. Few people actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to take the stairs over the escalator by making it fun to do?

Volkswagen’s “Fun Theory”

So what’s the result? See for yourself:

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The largest house in the world

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

If a castle can be called a house in the biggest one lives the British queen Elizabeth II (on the throne since 1952). Windsor is one of the most important castles of the English royalty. A 45.000 square meters castle with over one thousand rooms stands on a five hectares ground. This castle holds two other records: it is the oldest in the world and in continuous use since William the Conqueror (1066-1087). Windsor has been reconstructed and redesigned several times according to its owners’ style.

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Google Wave is coming. Are you ready for it?

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Today might be the day when Google opens the Pandora’s box that will change forever the way we use and develop the internet. If you thought Facebook was a revolution, wait till Google Wave grabs it’s users! And it most probably will, since there are already more than 146 million users of GMail, which will probably constitute the base for the user base of Google Wave. This might even start the web 3.0 era.

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Million copies of Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” sold in one day

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

brown_lost_symbolAfter the great success with the best-selling novels “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels and Demons” Dan Brown’s new novel, “The Lost Symbol” demonstrated once again the interest of the readers in mysteries and secret organizations that rule over the world.  This new thriller about Freemasons was sold in more than a  million copies in US, Canadian and British bookshops in just one day. This number also includes those copies sold before the official sale, through Amazon.com where it has been in the top list for months.

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The Pope Gets Solar Panels on His House

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI’s Bavarian house in Pentling next to Regensburg, will be getting almost 600 square feet of
photovoltaic solar panels.

They were intended to be installed on the roof July 27-31, by local students of a trade school. The panels were donated to the Pope by local workmen.

Once installed, they could generate nearly 6 MW of electricity. No church funds were used, and the Pope made it a condition of the project that it could proceed only without church support. The solar panels could generate as much as $3,500 dollars by selling electricity to the German grid. Any income generated will be donated to job and skill training for disadvantaged youth. (more…)

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