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This chicken’s body is all black, perhaps the organs, meat, and bones. The Kadaknath is an Indian variety of chicken local to the Madhya Pradesh area, where it is known as "Kali masi" ("fowl having black flesh"). The Kadaknath is popular mainly because of its adaptability, and also the good-tasting black meat, which can be believed to infuse vigor.[3] Its color comes from the deposition of melanin pigment. The birds are completely black: black plumage with a greenish iridescence, black legs and toe nails, black beak and tongue, black comb and wattles, black meat and bones and also dark organs. Because of the meat's alleged medicinal properties, it is in high demand. To save the breed from extinction, the state government started a Kadaknath poultry breeding program involving 500 BPL families, have been to receive financial support and assistance Picture source  http://imgur.com/a/X1Km8#f3DfuLC

Every several years into the badlands of Utah, an unusual occurrence happens, under the ideal conditions, turning the landscape into a colored carpet of scorpionweed and beeplant. The 3rd picture is curious. I assume these plants don't need a lot of water, but what they need, they require, period. And anything else which may grow there needs at the very least a tad bit more. Therefore if the water availability a couple of inches over drops just beneath the threshold, then we do not get any plants there after all. source : reddit

Around the 1890s and beginning 1900s, a large number of illustrations like this were produced and distributed around the United States and England, on postcards, in magazines and on public billboards. The message was that women’s rights were dangerous and letting women think for themselves could only end in a nightmarish society.     Find more at thevintagenews

An exploration to Honduras has appeared from the jungle with dramatic news of the discovery of a mysterious culture’s lost city, never before explored. The team was resulted in the remote, uninhabited region by long-standing rumors it was the website of a storied “White City,” also referred to in legend while the “City for the Monkey God.” Archaeologists surveyed and mapped extensive plazas, earthworks, mounds, and an earthen pyramid belonging to a culture that thrived a lot of years ago, and then vanished. The team, which returned from the site last Wednesday, also discovered an amazing cache of stone sculptures which had lain untouched considering that the city was abandoned. Contrary to the nearby Maya, this vanished culture has been scarcely studied plus it remains virtually unknown. Archaeologists don’t even have a name for it. source :  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150302-honduras-lost-city-monkey-god-maya-ancient-archaeology/?