Wonder Valley

When you travel from Calais, France to England you might be able to see them : the White Cliffs of Dover.
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The Dixieland Crackerjacks took this trip when they went to their tour in the United Kingdom. Birmingham International Jazz Festival 2008

The white cliffs of Dover are cliffs which form part of the British coastline facing the Strait of Dover and France. The cliffs are part of the North Downs formation. The cliff face, which reaches up to 106 metres high, owes its striking façade to its composition of chalk (pure white calcium carbonate) accentuated by streaks of black flint. The cliffs spread east and west from the town of Dover in the county of Kent, an ancient and still important English port.

The cliffs have great symbolic value for Britain because they face towards Continental Europe across the narrowest part of the English Channel, where invasions have historically threatened and against which the cliffs form a symbolic guard. Because crossing at Dover was the primary route to the continent before air travel, the white line of cliffs also formed the first (or last) sight of the UK for travellers.

References in culture
In Matthew Arnold’s 1867 poem “Dover Beach”, the cliffs are a sign of reassuring strength. Rudyard Kipling’s 1902 poem “The Broken Men” ends with the lines “How stands the old Lord Warden? Are Dover’s cliffs still white?” to represent the English exiles’ homesickness. The most iconic reference is perhaps the World War II song, sung by Vera Lynn, “(There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover”.

Other people to cover the song or sing about the white cliffs include Glenn Miller, The Righteous Brothers, Kaye Kyser, Kate Smith, Blur, in the song “Clover Over Dover”, Coil, in the song “Ostia (The death of Pasolini)”; The Decemberists, Louis Prima, Robson and Jerome, Clutch, Andrew Bird, Current 93 and Fatboy Slim. Other poetry includes Alice Duer Miller’s “The White Cliffs”, on which the 1944 film The White Cliffs of Dover was based. The cliffs are also mentioned in Jimmy Cliff’s hit Many Rivers to Cross.

In Ian Fleming’s third James Bond novel, Moonraker, a chapter is set at the cliffs. The villain attempts to assassinate Bond and Gala Brand by bombing the cliff so they are showered in debris.

Guitarist Eric Johnson wrote a well-known composition called “Cliffs of Dover”, which won a Grammy.

In the animated film The Chipmunk Adventure one of the songs, “Off to See the World” refers to seeing the “Cliffs of Dover”

in 2000, Shakespere’s Cliff was used as a level setting in Tomb Raider III:The Lost Artifact. In this level, the protagonist Lara Croft is on the journey searching for an artefact named the Hand of Rathmore in Paris. She adventures through the channel tunnel between Dover and Calais.

In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, the cliffs were named as the 3rd greatest natural wonder in Britain.

Twenty-eight days before it was released, a quarantine sign was projected on the cliffs to promote the 2007 film 28 Weeks Later.

Therell be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover
Tomorrow
Just you wait and see

I’ll never forget the people I met
Braving those angry skies
I remember well as the shadows fell
The light of hope in their eyes
And though I’m far away
I still can hear them say
Bombs up…
But when the dawn comes up

Therell be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover
Tomorrow
Just you wait and see

Therell be love and laughter
And peace ever after
Tomorrow
When the world is free

The shepherd will tend his sheep
The valley will bloom again
And Jimmy will go to sleep
In his own little room again

Therell be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover
Tomorrow
Just you wait and see

Therell be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover
Tomorrow
Just you wait and see…

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Winding up the drive to this 36 acre preserved sanctuary, what a Gorgeous location. The main house is approximately 1700 square feet. Look at this generous familyroom, fireplace with woodburning stove, pasture views and new floors, Wide hallway, Large Master bedroom with plenty of light and more views of the trees, Remodeled bathroom with new tile all around and new window. A large Family sized kitchen, can accommodate gatherings of any size, again with views of the trees from every window. Off the Kitchen at the back of the house is a bath and mudroom with sink and enough area for a desk, artist easel, or reading area.

The 2nd unit is above the garage boasting 870 square feet of space, two bedroom, one bath, Full
Kitchen, dining area and livingroom. The two car garage with new doors has a shop area to the rear/back, The barn for storage, tack room, or tools.

Wonder through the meadows, under the redwoods and feel the calm serenity of this environment, nature at its best, see the seasons change with mountains and trees all around you. This is what the locals call the beauty of Happy Valley!

Ideally situated between Santa Cruz and Scotts Valley on the corner of Granite Creek and Branciforte
Road. Close proximity of Happy Valley School, ideal weather and the beautiful natural surroundings,
make 35 Granite Creek Road the ideal tranquail place to be. You have to come see this very wonderful
multi-family residence.

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Volcanic eruptions reshape Arctic ocean floor: Evidence of the volcano came as an unintended bonus from a research plan to investigate why a massive ice sheet, known as the Larsen B, collapsed and broke up several years ago. Scientists hope to understand whether such a collapse is unique or part of a cycle that extends over hundreds of thousands of years.

Hmmm? I wonder if this has anything to do with the ice sheets breaking off and falling into the ocean? I researched and found this: From: www.antarticconnection.com Is it global warming or just a natural occurence? Please comment. Its something to think about!

PARIS (AFP) – Recent massive volcanoes have risen from the ocean floor deep under the Arctic ice cap, spewing plumes of fragmented magma into the sea, scientists who filmed the aftermath reported Wednesday.

The eruptions — as big as the one that buried Pompei — took place in 1999 along the Gakkel Ridge, an underwater mountain chain snaking 1,800 kilometres (1,100 miles) from the northern tip of Greenland to Siberia.

Scientists suspected even at the time that a simultaneous series of earthquakes were linked to these volcanic spasms.

But when a team led of scientists led by Robert Sohn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts finally got a first-ever glimpse of the ocean floor 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) beneath the Arctic pack ice, they were astonished.

What they saw was unmistakable evidence of explosive eruptions rather than the gradual secretion of lava bubbling up from Earth’s mantle onto the ocean floor.

Previous research had concluded that this kind of so-called pyroclastic eruption could not happen at such depths due to the crushing pressure of the water.

“On land, explosive volcanic eruptions are nothing exceptional, although they present a major threat,” said Vera Schlindwein, a geologist with Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute for Sea and Polar Research, which took part in the study.

But the new findings, published in Nature, showed that “large-scale pyroclastic activity is possible along even the deepest portions of the global mid-ocean ridge volcanic system.”

The mid-ocean ridge runs 84,000 kilometres (52,000 miles) beneath all the world’s major seas except the Southern Ocean, and marks the boundary between many of the tectonic plates that make up the surface of the Earth.

When continental plates collide into each other, they can thrust up mountain ranges such as the Himalayas.

But along most of the mid-ocean ridge — including the Gakkal Ridge — the plates are pulling apart, allowing molten magna and gases trapped beneath the crust to escape.

Sohn and his colleagues gathered their data in July last year aboard the ice breaker Oden, using state-of-the-art instruments including a mutlibeam echo sounder, two autonomous underwater vehicles and a sub-ice camera designed for the mission.

Both sonar and visual images showed an ocean valley filled with flat-topped volcanos up to two kilometres (1.2 miles) wide and several hundred metres high.

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