Mrs. Sippi’s Blog

About the Mariana Trench, the Black Sea and similar cool stuff

Saturday
01/10/2009

11:43 pm

In case you wonder

This Yahoo page has an interesting answer regarding what is really at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. ;-)

Friday
01/09/2009

3:34 pm

The Mariana Trench a monument?

Recently, the number of visitors to this site rose sharply, by several hundreds per day. What might be the cause of that?

Turns out that the exiting President of the United States, G.W. Bush, has declared the Mariana Trench area a monument.

A minute ago, information about the current issue of the journal Science dropped into my boss’s inbox. As expected, Science does comment on this new development, but you need to pay in order to access the article. I’ll ask my boss to buy it for me. I am kinda curious what it says.

Saturday
01/03/2009

12:36 am

Bombay Sapphires…

I think it was mid November when I discovered that Bombay Sapphire gin is the favorite Christmas beverage of some English people. (My boss told me about it.)

The name - Bombay Sapphire gin - sounds fairytale-like to me and hints at a certain richness, conjures up images of treasure troves filled with oriental jewelry and an Aladdin’s lamp or two all placed on marvelous oriental carpets with deep burgundy colors and a touch of purple here and there.

It also raises questions. What is it made of? And do Bombay sapphires exist? I decided to investigate.

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