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Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton, New Jersey

14 февраля 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

Princeton, New Jersey is located in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. Princeton University has been sited in the town since 1756. Although Princeton is a “college town”, there are many other important facilities in the vicinity that enrich the town’s character and economic basis. These institutions and companies include: the Institute for Advanced Study, […]

Vorontsovskye caves

Vorontsovskye caves

14 февраля 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

Murmansk #2

Murmansk #2

12 февраля 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

How to Fight Depression and Improving your Mood

12 февраля 2007 — Depression and bad mood, how to treat depression

Are you one of the millions of peoples who are depressed and tired all the time. Do you experience unbearable sadness and emptiness. Do you feel exhausted, dragged out and run down. You’re barely functioning and pushing yourself through the day. Then this few tips make your day more productive and full of happiness. Sleeplessness, […]

Anxiety and Depression

12 февраля 2007 — Depression and bad mood, how to treat depression

Many people who engage in various multi-tasking activities tend to exert too much of their brain power and as a result usually exhaust not only their physical strength, but they also tend to over extend their brains to the extent when it obviously needs some good old relaxation time. Busy people sometimes ignore the need […]

How To Beat Depression

12 февраля 2007 — Depression and bad mood, how to treat depression

Clinical Depression is the number 1 mental disorder in the world and the 2nd most disabling condition in the world behind heart disease. A staggering 16% of the population will suffer from depression at some point in their lives. Why should you be interested in this? 1. Because EVERYONE at some stage in their lives […]

Bridges over northern branches of the Neva

Bridges over northern branches of the Neva

11 февраля 2007 — History of St. Petersburg bridges

A few hundred metres downstream from the Liteiny Bridge the Bolshaya Nevka, the Neva’s longest northern effluent, forks off to the right.

Bridges over the Neva

Bridges over the Neva

11 февраля 2007 — History of St. Petersburg bridges

“And bridges spanned the waters’ width…” When Pushkin wrote his immortal poem, The Bronze Horseman, those bridges in masonry, wrought-iron and cast-iron spanned as yet only the creeks and canals of the southern section of the Neva delta.

Anichkov bridge

Anichkov bridge

11 февраля 2007 — History of St. Petersburg bridges

The old stone bridge built over the Fontanka in 1780 became, in time, too narrow to handle the increasing volume of traffic along Nevsky Prospekt.

St. Petersburg’s suspension bridges

St. Petersburg’s suspension bridges

11 февраля 2007 — History of St. Petersburg bridges

It may sound odd to speak of lions in the role of bridge supports, yet such a structure actually exists in St. Petersburg. We are speaking of the Lions’ Bridge that spans the Griboyedov Canal where it loops picturesquely in the vicinity of Theatre Square.