Sunday, January 2, 2011

The Hair Styles of Tokio Hotel Bands

Tokio Hotel is a German pop rock band founded in Magdeburg, Germany in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist (and brother) Tom Kaulitz, drummer Gustav Schäfer and bassist Georg Listing. The quartet have scored four number one singles and have released three number one albums in Germany, and in September 2008, they won in the US their first MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist.

According to Kaulitz, who was offered a blue pill while on tour in Taiwan:

“I first asked the seller ‘Do I look like someone who needs help with that?’” Tom told the German newspaper Bild. “He said ‘no’–but that I should nevertheless try it out. I popped one in.”

“I popped a few more pills, probably too many,” he said. “The next morning my head was pounding and everything in front of my eyes was blurry. It wasn’t fun any more. It was pretty bad.”

Viagra (chemical name Sildenafil) is a medication used in the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED), which is the inability to perform sexual intercourse. Sildenafil is in a class of medications called phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors. Sildenafil treats erectile dysfunction by increasing blood flow to the penis during sexual stimulation (see below). This increased blood flow can cause an erection.

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Hair Styles of Tokio Hotel Bands
Hair Styles of Tokio Hotel Bands
Hair Styles of Tokio Hotel Bands
Hair Styles of Tokio Hotel Bands
Hair Styles of Tokio Hotel Bands
Hair Styles of Tokio Hotel Bands
Hair Styles of Tokio Hotel Bands

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Gossypium Spring Flowers

Gossypium herbaceum, also called Levant cotton, is a species of cotton native to the semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa and Arabia where it still grows in the wild as a perennial shrub. It was probably first cultivated in Ethiopia or southern Arabia and from there, cultivation spread to Persia, Afghanistan, Turkey, North Africa, Spain, Ukraine, Turkestan and finally, to China. It was first cultivated in China by about 600 AD.

A legend was perpetuated from a factual description of this plant by Greek historian Herodotus in the 5th century BC. Although his book, simply titled Histories, was an account of a war between the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states; it also contained vast descriptions of lands beyond the boundaries of the world known by the Greeks at that time.

He wrote: "certain trees...bear forth their fruit fleeces surpassing those of sheep in beauty and excellence, and the natives clothe themselves in cloths made therefrom."

From this description came the legend of the "vegetable lamb plant" which was said to be a real sheep. The tree would grow from a melon like seed and grow into a lamb rooted to the earth by a stem from its navel. It was said to graze on the surrounding vegetation until the all greenery around it was devoured at which point it would wither and die. A 14th century traveler by the name of Sir John Mandeville, professed to eating the flesh of this herbal beast. Although scientist tried to debunk this tale it was not officially labeled as a fable until 1887.