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🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- Leaning tower of Pisa - lead counterweights, 1998 Numerous efforts have been made to restore The leaning tower of Pisa to a vertical orientation or at least keep it from falling over. Most of these efforts failed; some worsened the tilt. On February 27, 1964, the government of Italy requested aid in preventing the tower from toppling. It was, however, considered important to retain the current tilt, due to the role that this element played in promoting the tourism industry of Pisa. The tower was closed to the public on January 7, 1990, after more than two decades of stabilisation studies and spurred by the abrupt collapse of the Civic Tower of Pavia in 1989. The bells were removed to relieve some weight, and cables were cinched around the third level and anchored several hundred meters away. The solution chosen to prevent the collapse of the tower was to slightly straighten it to a safer angle by removing 38 cubic metres (1,342 cubic feet) of soil from underneath the raised end. The tower was straightened by 45 centimetres (17.7 inches), returning to its 1838 position. After a decade of corrective reconstruction and stabilization efforts, the tower was reopened to the public on December 15, 2001 and was declared stable for at least another 300 years. In total, 70 metric tons (77 short tons) of earth were removed. Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- The world's only taxidermized blue whale, known as the Malm Whale, named after the taxidermist August Wilhelm Malm who, with great difficulty, created it in 1865. It's a unique construction that is still the jewel of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum and one of the most popular museum artifacts in Sweden. The long strips of skin and blubber are transported, along with the tail, arms, and intestines, to the Gothenburg Museum (the intestines are kept in barrels in the yard, where the tail and fins are arranged on stools and boxes and photographed). Parts of the whale, including the heart, one eye, larynx, rectum, and parts of the intestines, are preserved with glycerine and alcohol. The pieces of skin are stored on the floor according to an elaborate system, while the skeleton is being boiled at another location. Back in the museum, eight fishermen remove 3,400 kilograms of blubber from the skin, which is hung up on wooden frames. The skin is then treated with specially manufactured brushes (“a radical way to make the skin evenly thick and to tear away the cellular tissue and remove a large part of the oil, without causing the skin to lose anything essential of its strength”) to reach a thickness of roughly a centimeter—a process that will take almost three weeks. Simultaneously, an equal number of fishermen are working in the yard of the museum to clean the boiled skeleton. Every part is labeled with copper and brass pins so that it can be put back in the right place. In the museum, the baleens are salted while waiting for the wooden jaw in which they will be mounted. A sculptor produces a tail and fins of wood, which are dressed with the processed version of the skin. Source: Cecilia Grönberg and Jonas J. Magnusson Pictures: The whale as today (Gothenburg Museum of Natural History) The Malm Whale upon arrival in Gothenburg. Plate from Monographie illustrée du baleinoptère trouvé le 29 Octobre 1865 sur la côte occidentale de Suède, 1867. The photographer was most likely J. P. Peterson, owner of Göteborgs Musei Fotografiska Atelier. Courtesy National Library of Sweden. The Malm Whale being moved from Ostindiska Huset to its newly built premises at Naturhistoriska Museet at Slottsskogen, 1 November 1918. Photos Elisabet Petersson. Detail of skin from the Malm Whale, 2002. Photo Cecilia Grönberg & Jonas J. Magnusson. Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- The Level Of Detail In This Marble Sculpture By Riccardo Gatti Is Insane. Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- THE DOOMSDAY DJ: TUNES FOR THE POST APOCALYPSE “You’re No Good”: On this day in 1974, Linda Ronstadt released the single “You’re No Good” (November 19) "You're No Good" was a song written by Clint Ballard Jr., and first performed by Dee Dee Warwick in 1963. Ronstadt loved the song, and had been performing it at live shows for a couple of years prior to its release. Her version was the most successful recording of the song, making it all the way to #1 on the US Billboard charts, and peaking at #7 in Canada, #15 in Australia, #17 in the Netherlands, and #24 in New Zealand. The track was included on the album “Heart Like a Wheel” and helped propel the LP to #1 in the US. It was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. #lindaronstadt, #yourenogood, #womeninrock, #rockchick, #70smusic, #dailyrockhistory, #thisdayinmusic, #onthisday, #heartlikeawheel Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- 1958 Ford Nucléon Bubbletop concept car. Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- Hi guys !✨ My name is Rocío, from Spain! I’m putting together a small trip to French Polynesia September 2026 when we have highest changes to encounter humpback whales and their littles ones (calving season!) and totally legal and ethical to swim with them! 🥰 It’s been a dream of mine for so long! This is the kind of experience I have in mind: 🧜‍♀️ Swimming with humpback whales, including the baby ones 🌊 Encounters with mantas, reef sharks, and Moorea’s crystal lagoons 🍍 A 4x4 adventure through the pineapple plantations and mountain viewpoints 🌺 Slow island moments, local food, warm sunsets, and beautiful places to stay I’m a freediver and scuba diver (still learning though! 🥹), but you don’t need to be one. Before swimming with whales, we can do gentle freediving training together so everyone feels safe and comfortable in the water. I’m creating a small group of like-minded people who want a beautiful, mindful, ocean-focused trip. If this sounds like something you’d love to join, send me a message — I’d be so happy to have you with us. Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- The Hobbit House, New Zealand Photographer: @shaun_jeffers #archidesiign #architecture #design #travel #photography #hobbithouse #newzealand Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- The Daily Stoic. Read aloud daily for you. 20 November 2025 924,384 blocks in the blockchain. $92,511 market price of bitcoin in USD. 1,081 value of 1 USD measured in satoshis. Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- THE DOOMSDAY DJ: TUNES FOR THE POST APOCALYPSE The Traveling Wilburys "Handle With Care" Been beat up and battered around Been sent up, and I've been shot down You're the best thing that I've ever found Handle me with care Reputation's changeable Situation's tolerable But baby, you're adorable Handle me with care I'm so tired of being lonely I still have some love to give Won't you show me that you really care? Everybody's got somebody to lean on Put your body next to mine, and dream on I've been fobbed off, and I've been fooled I've been robbed and ridiculed In day care centres and night schools Handle me with care Been stuck in airports, terrorised Sent to meetings, hypnotised Overexposed, commercialised Handle me with care I'm so tired of being lonely I still have some love to give Won't you show me that you really care Everybody's got somebody to lean on Put your body next to mine, and dream on I've been uptight and made a mess But I'll clean it up myself, I guess Oh, the sweet smell of success Handle me with care Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- GM 🌞 Proof of walk to watch the kitboarders at Bulabog Beach this morning with Amigo and Cypher. A great onshore breeze. Pura Vida 🏝️ Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- THE DOOMSDAY DJ: TUNES FOR THE POST APOCALYPSE Let It Be Song by The Beatles ‧ 1970 When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be Whisper words of wisdom, let it be And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree There will be an answer, let it be For though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see There will be an answer, let it be Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be There will be an answer, let it be Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be Whisper words of wisdom, let it be Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be Whisper words of wisdom, let it be, be And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me Shinin' until tomorrow, let it be I wake up to the sound of music, Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be And let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be Whisper words of wisdom, let it be And let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be Whisper words of wisdom, let it be Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- THE DOOMSDAY DJ: TUNES FOR THE POST APOCALYPSE The Beatles "Don't Let Me Down" Don't let me down, don't let me down Don't let me down, don't let me down Nobody ever loved me like she does Oh, she does, yes, she does And if somebody loved me like she do me Oh, she do me, yes, she does Don't let me down, don't let me down Don't let me down, don't let me down I'm in love for the first time Don't you know it's gonna last It's a love that lasts forever It's a love that has no past (Seeking past) Don't let me down, don't let me down Don't let me down, don't let me down And from the first time that she really done me Oh, she done me, she done me good I guess nobody ever really done me Oh, she done me, she done me good Don't let me down, hey don't let me down Heeeee, don't let me down Don't let me down Don't let me down, don't let me let down Can you dig it? Don't let me down Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- THE DOOMSDAY DJ: TUNES FOR THE POST APOCALYPSE Big Yellow Taxi Song by Joni Mitchell ‧ 1970 They paved paradise, put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop) They took all the trees put 'em in a tree museum And they charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop) Hey farmer, farmer put away that DDT now Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees Please Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop) Late last night I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi took away my old man Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop) I said don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop) They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop) They paved paradise Put up a parking lot Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- They weren’t just trying to control minds. They were trying to control behavior — the most valuable currency in any economy. MK-Ultra wasn’t science fiction. It wasn’t a rumor. It was a real, multimillion-dollar Cold War program designed to test whether human decision-making could be engineered. And while the experiments were brutal and scientifically chaotic, the idea behind them — that behavior could be shaped, predicted, and monetized — lived on long after the files were burned. In this investigative deep dive, we follow the money, the institutions, and the incentives behind MK-Ultra to reveal how its legacy quietly shaped the modern economy. From Cold War psychology to behavioral economics, advertising, and the attention-driven business models of Silicon Valley, this is the true story of how influence became a market — and why every powerful institution today competes not for your money, but for your mind. ________________________________________ Key Facts & Insights • MK-Ultra was a real CIA program (1953–1973) funding over 149 behavioral subprojects through universities, hospitals, and corporations. • The project failed scientifically, but it revealed that human behavior could be studied and influenced — a concept that reshaped research funding for decades. • Cold War psychology and MK-Ultra’s academic ecosystem helped accelerate fields like cognitive science, persuasion research, and early behavioral economics. • Modern markets run on attention, emotion, and decision-shaping mechanisms — the same variables MK-Ultra sought to understand. • Tech platforms, advertisers, political strategists, and financial institutions now use data-driven behavioral tools far more powerful (and subtle) than anything MK-Ultra envisioned. • Today’s economic system is built on influence: from viral markets to algorithmic persuasion to the psychology behind debt, desire, and risk. ________________________________________ #FinancialHistorian​ #MKUltra​ #EconomicHistory​ #ColdWar​ #MoneyAndPower​ #BehavioralEconomics​ #HistoryOfMoney​ #FinancialEducation​ #thefinancialhistorian​ Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- THE DOOMSDAY DJ: TUNES FOR THE POST APOCALYPSE https://blossom.primal.net/094b655ccc23547b80cf9578ee8bf28e42a2dc39159d3103a2a5537da1bf72b0 This week in 1985, the Pet Shop Boys single “West End Girls” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #80 (November 16) The song written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe of the UK duo was actually released twice as a single… The first version of the song was produced by Bobby Orlando and was released on Columbia Records' Bobcat Records imprint in April 1984, becoming a club hit in the US and some European countries. After the duo signed with EMI, the song was re-recorded with producer Stephen Hague for their first studio album, “Please”. In October 1985, the new version was released, reaching #1 in the UK and the US in 1986. It also went to #1 in Canada, New Zealand and Norway, #2 in Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, South Africa, and Germany, #4 in the Netherlands, #5 in Australia and Austria, and #6 in Belgium. In 1987, the song won Best Single at the Brit Awards, and Best International Hit at the Ivor Novello Awards. In 2005, 20 years after its release, the song was awarded Song of The Decade between the years 1985 and 1994 by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters. A critic's poll in 2020 by The Guardian selected "West End Girls" as the greatest UK #1 single. #petshopboys, #westendgirls, #80smusic, #dailyrockhistory, #thisdayinmusic, #onthisday Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- Montecarlo, a hilltop town in Tuscany, Italy, is famous for the Castello di Montecarlo, a 13th-century castle located at the town's highest point. Originally built for defense, the castle features sturdy stone walls and watchtowers, offering panoramic views of the surrounding countryside and vineyards. The town's signature red-tiled roofs encircle the castle, creating a fairy-tale charm. Castello di Montecarlo is well-preserved, with fortified walls, a central courtyard, and ancient frescoes. Surrounding the castle, Montecarlo retains its rustic charm with narrow streets and medieval architecture, making it an enchanting destination that beautifully blends history, culture, and the natural beauty of Tuscany Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- 1963 BMW 700 by Luigi Colani 1963/4 Colani-BMW 700 is the world’s first vehicle with a self-supporting plastic monocoque car body. Weighing a mere 350kg, the small sportscar with its two-cylinder boxer engine has a Cd factor of 0.22 but hits speeds of 200km/h. The innovative and beautiful vehicle sadly never went into series production. The BMW 700 Colani weighed 440 kilograms, so despite the miniature 700 cc engine with 32 horsepower, the sports car could accelerate to 200 kilometers per hour. In addition to the body architecture, the Colani prototype featured a streamlined body with a drag coefficient of Cx = 0.22. The project attracted public attention and surprised BMW, but the innovative concept did not become serial: the car remained produced in a single copy. Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- Indonesian culture. Kalumpang traditional csotumes 🇮🇩 #IndonesianCulture #Indonesia Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️ -THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE- THE DOOMSDAY DJ: TUNES FOR THE POST APOCALYPSE A brilliant live version from 1972, with an extended intro: On this day in 1972, the Eagles single “Witchy Woman” peaked on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #9 (November 18) Eagles first ever US Top 10 hit… The song written by Don Henley and Bernie Leadon was the second single from the band's self-titled debut album. Guitarist Bernie Leadon actually started writing "Witchy Woman" while he was a member of the Flying Burrito Brothers. After joining Eagles, Leadon and Henley then finished the song together, and it would be the only song on Eagles' debut album where Henley had a writing credit. Henley recalled: “[Leadon] came over one day and started playing this strange, minor-key riff that sounded sort of like a Hollywood movie version of Indian music — you know, the kind of stuff they play when the Indians ride up on the ridge while the wagon train passes below. It had a haunting quality, and I thought it was interesting, so we put a rough version of it down on a cassette tape." Henley said it was an “important song for me, because it marked the beginning of my professional songwriting career". The song went to #8 in Canada, #9 in the US, and #26 in the Netherlands. #Eagles, #witchywoman, #70sMusic, #GlennFrey, #donhenley, #RandyMeisner, #BernieLeadon, #classicrock, #donfelder, #70srock, #dailyrockhistory, #thisdayinmusic, #onthisday Credits Goes to the respective Author ✍️/ Photographer📸 🐇 🕳️