Body language:
Also Turkish body language is different from British and it can often say more than a thousand words.
Inclining head backwards raising eyebrows: means “no”
Inclining head forwards: means “yes”
Shaking your head from side to side: You do not understand what is being said
One hand placed on the heart: You are very excited
Bending hand downwards at wrist and waving: means ”come closer” or can be a means for stopping buses or taxis. To ”thumb it” is not known in Turkey.
Rubbing your palms against each other:means ”done” or to finish something
Turned-up palm and fingers held together forming a small ”bowl” : means “good”, and is used for example when commenting on food

 Apart from the first and the last not much different to British really

Christian attrocities in history:

Christians have always portrayed non-Christian civilizations as backwards,  underdeveloped, superstitious, and barbaric.
  What really underlies all of their criticism is that these cultures do not accept Jesus, the  Bible 
....shows that they  are really the ones who are showing the qualities of barbarians.

excellent post!

Well..I dont think it is an excellent post..

I was just trying to show how easy is to go and find these things on the net. That is all..

it`s still an excellent post no matter what the purpose is!

Guinness world record card stacker Bryan Berg completes a model of the Beijing Athlete Village out of playing cards in Hong Kong on July 24, 2008. Berg took 160 hours to construct the entire piece, which includes famous Beijing landmarks such as the National Stadium, also known as the "Bird´s Nest, the National Aquatics Center and the Beijing CCTV Tower. Berg commented saying that the biggest challenge was the Bird´s Nest because of its many curves and cantilevers.

http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/worlds-tallest-structure-of-playing-cards

Chinese cheered by solar eclipse a week before Olympics, after months of natural disasters.

Following the northern route of the ancient Silk Road, it passed over the western desert county of Yiwu, where about 10,000 tourists gathered to watch after astronomers said it would have the best view; over Dunhuang, where the oldest known map of the stars was found in a desert cave a century ago; and over Jiuquan, where China launched its first manned spaceflight.

http://www.newsday.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-solar-eclipse,0,2743716.story

JIAYUGUAN, China - Darkness fell over the last outpost of the Great Wall of China on Friday, where a rare total solar eclipse ended its journey across the earth, delighting skywatchers one week before the Olympics open in Beijing.

The stellar spectacle - when the moon passes between the sun and the Earth - began in Canada, tracked across Greenland and crept into Siberia, before ringing in the momentous month of August in China, when it will host the Games.

In northwest China, cheers went up from the Jiayuguan Fort as hordes of tourists welcomed the eclipse.

An airplane flies past during a partial solar eclipse in Almaty August 1, 2008. REUTERS/Zturgan Aldauyev

"It´s really doubly special, because I´m standing here on the Great Wall and watching it," said Feng Lei, a backpacker from the China´s southwestern province of Sichuan, who was making his way to Beijing for the Olympics.

Eclipses were considered dark omens by ancient Chinese astronomers but many Chinese view this one as particularly fortunate as it comes exactly a week before the torch is lit in Beijing for the opening ceremony of Games designed to restore China´s pride and showcase its achievements.

"I have a really deep feeling, especially because it´s exactly eight days before the Olympics," said Chuai Rui, college student from Xi´an. Chinese consider eight a lucky number.

In Russia, thousands had flocked from around the world to Novosibirsk, mixing awe with excitement as day turned into night.

All gazed in wonder as an eerie silence descended on the Siberian city and gusts of unusually strong wind tore through the crowd of skywatchers. Birds stopped chirping and the temperature suddenly dropped, a Reuters TV reporter there said.

In Russia´s second city of Petersburg, people shouted "Look! Look!" and pointed as the sun´s outer corona appeared in the sky.

"You just feel part of nature. ... This is so rare," said Lev, a software specialist in St Petersburg.

Several thousand people turned out at a park in Norway´s capital, Oslo, where the eclipse was near 50 percent, to peer up at the sun through dark glasses in cardboard frames and see pictures of the total eclipse beamed onto a large screen from an plane tracking the phenomenon in the Arctic.

Many in the Oslo crowd, which included many families with small children, tried photographing the eclipse, some with their mobile phones pressed against their eclipse sunglasses.

"There´s a strange light now," said Norwegian astronomer and popular author Knut Jorgen Roed Odegaard as the eclipse progressed and the midday light in Oslo grew slightly dimmer with a silvery sharpness.

"These are historical pictures," he said as real-time photos from a Norwegian air force plane appeared on the big outdoor screen to show the total eclipse from the Arctic.

 http://www.earthview.com/ages/mystified.htm

http://omoikane.minstrum.net/one-world.jpg

Actually Turkish body language isn´t hard to understand - the only weird/different thing is that clicking sound done with tongue to say "no." Body language is way more fun in Bulgaria - they nod their head for "no" and shake it from side to side to say "yes"

 OMG, then I probably made many mistakes when I was 15 years ago in Bulgaria....