World in Focus Photo Contest - Neatorama

Do you have some nice vacation pictures? Can you take some? National Geographic Traveler is sponsoring the World in Focus Photo Contest with both amateur and professional divisions. Get this- the grand prize in the amateur division is a 10-day expedition to the Galapagos islands! There are lesser prizes as well, like a trip to Hawaii and cameras and stuff. Even if you don't enter, you can see the entries and vote for the "people's choice" award (which is separate from the contest judging). The deadline for entries is August 23rd. Link -Thanks, Marilyn Terrell!

(Image source: National Geographic Expeditions)

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No, I'm in the province of Quebec, in Canada.

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Are you in Arizona, New Jersey, or Vermont? Then you are indeed out of luck. It must be state laws, because no contest would exclude people otherwise.

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Yeah, too bad people from my part of the world are probably forbidden to enter this contest.

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A bicycle-tree hybrid. Genetic engineering has GONE TOO FAR!

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It is hoax. Trees only grow by their tops

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How many years has the tree? Look at the bike. Is that a 50th years old bike?

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I think the kid still on the bike. Where is the X-ray picture?

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Lola, I agree that it's a hoax, but if trees only grew by their tops, there would be a whole lot of really skinny trees in the world...

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I thought this looked familiar, that's my step-mother's favorite childrens book. It's cute, you should read it.

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It's actually not fake. I couldn't find it on snopes, but I found it elsewhere:

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==1412

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The tree is actually NOT eating the bicycle. It is simply growing around it.

If this is real, it was obviously set up a long, long time ago, and never touched since. Dubious, but not impossible.

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This is too good.

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Not a hoax, I've got a news clipping from the Oregonian (November 15, 1993) about the bike, with a pic of a man grasping the front wheel of the bike. The man, who lived in Vashon at the time, theorized that the bike had been there some 40 or 50 years.

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we have old trees around my house that have old barbwire (from the farm boarder) in them much like this bike

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I've been there - it is real, and very cool to boot. This isn't a hoax, staged or anything of the sort - just an example of what Nature will do if need be.

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