Unhappy brides — Young women look miserable as they await mass marriage

Over 3 dozen Hindu brides look a touch less than enthused as they prepare for the mass marriage ceremony that was held as part of the Akshaya Tritiya festival in Bhopal, India last Monday…

(via Wall Street Journal, This Isn’t Happiness, Sanjeev Gupta/European Pressphoto Agency)

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BBC reporter describes baseball for a British audience

Narrating footage of Prince Harry trying out baseball, a British reporter give his viewers a quick primer on the sport…

(via Bag of Nothing)

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Hipster Holland — Silly ad promotes Amsterdam as “The Original Cool”

(via Voices)

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Beautifully vivid portraits of rare and exotic Ecuadorian frogs [12 pictures]

Despite being a little country, Ecuador is home to almost 9% of amphibian species in the world. And a third of these are endangered. The Catholic University of Ecuador has a program that aims to reverse the decline of as many of these animals as it can. The effort is called Balsa de los Sapos — Life raft of the frogs.

Photographer Peter Lipton worked with these conservationists to document some of the frogs and toads that the program is working with and for…

Male Gastrotheca Testudinea, last known specimen

Hyloscirtus Psarolaimus of unknown gender, last known specimen

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Border trivia — Countries in countries and single-neighbor nations

An interesting geography lesson from C. G. P. Grey

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