Vaidovo

Egg'quilibre

Le rassurant de l'équilibre, c'est que rien ne bouge.
Le vrai de équilibre,
c'est qu'il suffit d'un souffle pour tout faire bouger.

Julien Gracq

Glup!

Let's throw eggs at the Olympics

A worldwide sporting activity sadly overlooked in Athens is long-distance egg throwing. Every four years, world athletics and swimming records are broken, but the egg-throwing record has survived for more than a quarter-century. We'd like to see this bizarre sport included in future Olympic Games.

The world record was established on November 12, 1978, in Jewett, Texas, when Johnie Dell Foley threw a fresh cackleberry the almost incredible distance of 323ft 2in (98.51m) to his cousin, Keith Thomas, who caught it flawlessly. Many of the other catchers no doubt finished with egg on their faces.

After checking out Johnie's performance with the Guinness Book of World Records, we searched the internet for further details. Jewett (population 668) is described as "a small agricultural based community in the rolling hills of East Texas approximately half-way between Dallas and Houston."

A local website, jewett-texas.com, says the town is "home of the oldest continually operating newspaper in Texas, birthplace of Jack Adkisson (Fritz Von Eric) and blues singer Alger 'Texas' Alexander, and the first town in the United States to have an all-female government." Not a word about its greatest claim to fame. (more...)

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Fresquinho

Gigante

Instalação tem 9 metros de altura e 5 metros de diâmetro. Wolfach, na Alemanha, quer entrar no Guinness com ovo gigante.

Giant Pysanka

The Egg of Vegreville (Alberta, Canada)
built with 3 500 aluminium pieces (7 meters llong, 5,5 wide)

It seams it's the world's largest pysanka, created to celebrate Vegreville's ethnic heritage.

Ovo de Abril

This is an authentic Goose Egg painted with acrylic color and decorated with pearl like beads. Inside the egg is filled with handmade clay carnation flowers. The whole piece is hand made and hand painted. (Here)

Victorian Egg Blow Football

Remaining on the subject of Blow Football mention must be made of ancient versions of the game. In Victorian times there was a superb indoor football game. To play all you needed was an un-carpeted drawing room, some paper fans and a blown hen's egg (prick a pinhole in each end and blow out the yolk). Goals were created at either end of the room and then teams tried to propel the egg towards them using only the power of wind created by frantically fanning their fans close behind it. The unpredictable motion of an egg coupled with the exertion required to move it would, one suppose, result in lots of tired arms and many no-score draws. (More)

Medieval and Modern Egg Throwing

Possibly the most ancient use of an egg for fun is Medieval Egg Throwing. Played in churches of the time, at Easter, the priest would throw a hard boiled egg to a choirboy who would then proceed to throw it to another and so on. A kind of medieval version of Hot Potato. Whoever had the egg in their hands when the church bell rang the hour was the victor and for his prize got to keep the egg.
Over the centuries the game of egg throwing has developed dramatically. (Strange Games)

Celebrate Earth Day with eggs

Celebrate Planet Earth with these cool colored eggs. Who says coloring eggs is just for Easter? Each egg creation is unique from the other, no planet looks the same! A fun way to discuss Earth Day and its importance.
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The Red Egg

The Red Egg, 1940-1941,
Oscar Kokoschka,
Oil on canvas,

National Gallery in Prague.

After his flight to England in 1938, Oscar Kokoschka produced a number of poignant paintings related to current war developments.

This painting is an satire scene showing the English lion and a French pussycat helping Hitler and Mussolini dismantle Czechoslovakia during the Munich Agreement in septembre 1938.
Hitler is wearing a pointed clown's hat. His mouth hangs open in shock.
Mussolini's face is massive and the largest one.
Great Britain appears through the crowned lion the tail of which trains the symbol of the English £ivre. France is also evoked thanks to the presence of the three-coloured Rosette (on the left).
The roast chicken of the dinner, complete wtih knife in back, is a metaphor for Czechoslovakia and her refugees in exiled. She has flown the coop, but in her place she has left a pitiful remnant of herself, the broken red egg. Adding to the poignant scene, the city of Prague burns in the background.
All the Heads of state sit around a table, sharing the red egg. But the table is encircled with rats, images of the Nazi threat.
On piled books is an inscription: "Munchen Pact", making reference to the evoked event.

Les Œufs ont des Oreilles...

Si les lapins en chocolat et les œufs de Pâques sont des classiques, Pierre Marcolini a innové en croisant ces deux valeurs sûres. Cet artisan chocolatier belge récemment installé dans la capitale a conçu ces gourmandises originales en collaboration avec le designer Charles Kaisin. Elles ont pour vocation de se laisser découvrir facilement dans les jardins, grâce à leurs oreilles qui dépassent de la coquille ! Déclinés en chocolat noir, au lait ou blanc, ces œufs bucoliques sont décidément aussi craquants que délicieux.

Prix : 9,50 euros
Où : 89, rue de Seine, 75006 Paris, ou ici.

Aeroporto de Keflavik - Islândia

Record Eggs

In November, 2006, Ashrita Furman from New York (USA) balanced 700 eggs in 12 hours.

The record for the most eggs held in the hand is 17 and was achieved by Rob Beaton (USA) in Ocean Gate, New Jersey, USA, on 10 January 2007.

Russian Egg Roulette

Egg Nightmare

Warning to egg-throwing children

Children caught throwing eggs in Shropshire are being warned they face prosecution.
Police say there have been a growing number of incidents involving gangs of youngsters roaming housing estates, usually at night.

In the past few weeks, the egg-throwers have struck in Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Craven Arms, Ludlow, Highley and Albrighton.
Officers say they have had complaints from people who have had eggs thrown at the doors and windows of their homes and cars.

In some cases the victims have been elderly people living alone who have become frightened and distressed.

Shops are being asked to be watchful for youngsters trying to buy eggs. Police are asking them not to sell them to children if they are suspicious about what they will be used for.

Parents who think eggs are going missing from the kitchen are being asked to check whether their children are involved in the attacks.

(Fonte: BBC)

Musée de l'Œuf

Celebra-se hoje o Dia Internacional dos Museus e não podia faltar uma referência ao Le Musée de l' Oeuf, em Montelimar, França:

In April 2002, the International Egg Museum was therefore created in Montelimar (a famous city in the southeast of France), with Tatiana Fabergé (the granddaughter of the Czars' jeweler) as its "god mother". This museum, like its creator, is bilingual and the visits can be done in English. Everything is based on the theme "the tales of the egg". There is a comprehensive documentation about the symbolism of the egg, researches about the first eggs (dinosaur eggs) and the evolution of eggs throughout the ages. There are books, slides, videos, recipes, among other resources.

The various egging techniques are represented by "egg'ceptional" creations: sculpting, hinging, painting, engraving, pasting. There will also be classes explaining how to decorate eggs. (More...)

Paul McCartney and the Egg

"Scrambled Eggs" was the working title for The Beatles popular song "Yesterday".

Paul McCartney's working lyrics for "Yesterday"
Scrambled eggs
Have an omelette with some Muenster cheese
Put your dishes in the wash bin please
So I can clean the scrambled eggs

Join me do
There's a lot of eggs for me and you
I've got ham and cheese and bacon too
So go get two and join me do

Fried or sunny side
Just aren't right
The mix-bowl begs
Quick, go get a pan, and we'll scramble up some eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs

Scrambled eggs
Good for breakfast, dinner time or brunch
Don't buy six or twelve, buy a bunch
And we'll have a lunch on scrambled eggs

Paul McCartney finished writting the lyrics while on a holiday trip to Albufeira in Algarve, Portugal in May 1965.

Learn all about it here.

Paul Simon and the Egg

"I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one."

"Mother and Child Reunion" is considered to be one of the first attempts at reggae music by a white musician. The name has its origin in a chicken-and-egg dish which Paul Simon saw on a menu at the Say Eng Look Restaurant in New York City's Chinatown.

It was included on Paul's first self-titled album after he and Art Garfunkel parted ways.

Lyrics
No I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reu-nion
Is only a motion away, oh, little darling of mine.
I can't for the life of me
Remember a sadder day
I know they say let it be
But it just don't work out that way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again

No I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reu-nion
Is only a motion away, oh, little darling of mine.

I just can't believe it's so,
and though it seems strange to say
I never been laid so low
In such a mysterious way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again

But I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
When the mother and child reu-nion
Is only a motion away,
Oh, oh the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
Oh the mother and child reu-nion
Is only a moment away

Words & music by Paul Simon

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Grelhados

Roast egg is one of the special foods of Hotan.It used ash of firewood,first,put the eggs in the carbon and roast it slowly,then turn it repeatedly.Eggs after roasted are really tasty.

Ovo atómico

A ver no Museu de Ciência da Universidade de Lisboa

O que é nacional é .... delicioso!

Rebuçados de ovo de Portalegre

O momento mais aguardado pela garotada, na Páscoa, era a chegada das tias de Portalegre e o carregamento habitual de rebuçados. Os rebuçados de ovo!

Nessa altura, a doce calda que envolve a mistura das gemas com o açúcar nunca era uniforme, fazendo os rebuçados parecer pequenos bonés brancos cobertos de neve.

Hoje a calda é menos densa e quase transparente e o resultado é o formato mais redondo e tom dourado que adoptaram estas deliciosas iguarias da doçaria tradicional portuguesa.

"As suas origens remontam ao séc. XVIII, mais precisamente ao momento em que as freiras do Convento de Santa Clara, em Portalegre, precisamente, decidiram que era preciso encontrar uma utilidade para as gemas que sobravam dos ovos empregues na confecção das hóstias."

Saiba mais aqui.

Encomende aqui.

How long does it take to boil an ostrich egg?

The answer is... 48 to 60 minutes for a soft-boiled egg and 1 to 1.5 hours for a hard-boiled one--at sea level. You might wonder what hat I pulled these numbers from. It wasn't an easy hat to find. As you discovered--the numbers vary all over the map. So I contacted ostrich ranchers all over the map: England, Africa, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, and the USA. That's the answer I got.

After hard boiling the egg for 1.5 hours, the Flemings of Saanichton Christmas Tree & Ostrich farm in Canada, make deviled ostrich egg sandwiches. One ostrich egg, scrambled, fills a 12-inch frying pan to the brim. Ostrich eggs taste similar to chicken eggs: light and fluffy.

The boiling times vary, I suspect, for a couple of reasons. Low answers (like 40 minutes for a hard-boiled egg) result from blithely scaling up the time it takes to boil a chicken egg. That won't work because an ostrich egg has a shiny, whitish shell built to sustain a 345-pound weight--an adult male ostrich. That's a whopping thick shell the heat must penetrate before it even starts cooking the egg. The shell stays too hot to touch for two hours afterwards. Beware.

Perhaps a fear of undercooking a six-inch long, grapefruit-size egg gives rise to the extremely long time estimates. Who wants to crack a "hard-boiled" ostrich egg and get egg on their face?

By the way, the ostrich egg is the largest egg laid by all living creatures but the smallest bird egg in relation to the hen's size. (Wonder Quest)

Chinesices (3)

Sobre... Lignes pures... Sculpture ? ça ressemble à un œuf...

Esthétique... c'est un œuf...
Peu appétissant un fois ouvert ! (Chinesices or Tea eggs)
A essayer ?

Frigorovico

Une plaque flexible, magnétique recouvre entièrement la surface de votre frigo. Elle se découpe tout simlement aux ciseaux à vos dimensions. En vente ici.

Egg troller

Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs

Fresh from a ride on a Nazi submarine, Indiana Jones is persuaded by a beautiful missionary to search for her missing father in Mongolia. Professor Angus Starbuck has discovered a dinosaur bone in the Gobi Desert. But unlike other discoveries, this bone isn't ancient! As Indy crosses from China through a treacherous mountain pass to Outer Mongolia, he runs afoul of the region's fiercest warlords. Meanwhile, the world's last innocent people, dwelling in a Stone Age paradise, are poised on the brink of destruction. Suddenly Indiana Jones is dueling wild dogs and bloodthirsty killers in a desperate effort to save the most historic discovery of the twentieth century: the last living Triceratops! (More)

Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs is the tenth Indy novel in the series of original stories published by Bantam Books, and the second by author Max McCoy. It was released in December 1993.

The Egg World of Eli Heil

The Gallery “The Egg World of Eli Heil” houses the collection of prestigious Brazilian plastic artist Eli M. Heil, in a permanent exhibition of her work.

Easter T-shirt

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The L'eggs egg

In the 1970s, L'eggs introduced a unique trade dress by placing its product in white plastic chicken egg-shaped containers egg (albeit much larger) and garnering shelf space in grocery stores. (More - wiki)

Omeleta para Burros

Reservai todos os ovos estragados e deita-os numa malga. Batei-os com um pouco de mel rançoso e sementes de cominhos antes de os fritar e servir aos vssos burros com as ervas da manhã.

in Apontamentos de Cozinha de Leonardo da Vinci

Ovo (da Ilha) de Páscoa

A origem do ovo de Páscoa

The egg is widely used as a symbol of the start of new life, just as new life emerges from an egg when the chick hatches out.

The ancient Persians painted eggs for Nowrooz, their New Year celebration, which falls on the Spring equinox. The Nawrooz tradition has existed for at least 2,500 years. The decorated eggs are one of the core items to be placed on the Haft Seen, the Persian New Year display. The sculptures on the walls of Persepolis show people carrying eggs for Nowrooz to the king.

At the Jewish Passover Seder, a hard-boiled egg dipped in salt water symbolizes both new life and the Passover sacrifice offered at the Temple in Jerusalem.

The pre-Christian Saxons had a spring goddess called Eostre, whose feast was held on the Vernal Equinox, around 21 March. Her animal was the spring hare, The Germanic goddess is known from the writings of Bede Venerabilis the seventh-century Benedictine monk. Bede describes the pagan worship of Ēostre among the Anglo-Saxons as having died out before the time he was writing. Bede's De temporum ratione attributes her name to the festival, but does not mention eggs at all.

Some belive Eostre was associated with eggs and hares, and the rebirth of the land in spring was symbolised by the egg. (More, wiki )

The Easter Egg

Eggs were used to symbolize a hope common to many cultures - that of a rebirth into a new life after death. They were found in many pagan and Christian graves and tombs as a symbol of this hope and, in the case of pagans, as nourishment for the deceased on their final journey. In some religions, the egg was a symbol of reincarnation. Christians saw the chick emerging from its shell as a symbol of Christ exiting His tomb on Easter morning. Eggs were blessed, used in Easter ceremonies, hung on altars and tombs and even under the feet of Christ Crucified as emblems of the resurrection. Red eggs were used to remind believers that the new life sprang from the blood of Christ.
For a long time it was forbidden to eat eggs during Lent so Christians began decorating the spring surplus of eggs and giving them as gifts on Easter morning to celebrate the resurrection and the end of the Lenten fast. In Ireland it was customary to eat eggs for breakfast on Easter morning. The Ukrainians made special Easter eggs called pysanky by repeatedly drawing wax designs on raw eggs and then dipping them into a dye bath. It was believed that pysanka-writing was an important weapon against Satan and if pysanky were no longer made the world would be engulfed in evil or simply cease to exist.
In most countries the Easter Rabbit, Hare, or Chick brings baskets of eggs to the children. But in a few Roman Catholic countries, where church bells are not rung from Maundy Thursday until Easter Eve, children may be expecting the bells to come back from Rome bearing Easter eggs. The Easter Hare began delivering eggs when he was still a bird and the companion of the pagan spring goddess, Eostre, from whom we get the name Easter. Apparently he displeased her one day and was changed into a hare.
Egg races, egg rolling, and other egg games are popular at Easter, and in some areas children may go caroling for their eggs. Colorful Easter egg trees were made popular in some parts of America by the Pennsylvania Dutch who improved upon their German ancestors' custom of hanging undyed eggs outside on bushes and trees. The English used to write notes on their Easter eggs. In some countries, eggs are even given to the dead during the Easter season. In Yugoslavia some eggs are dyed black and left on family graves and the Ukranians throw eggshells in rivers in honor of their departed family members.

Tucker, Suzetta. "ChristStory Egg Page." ChristStory Christian Bestiary. 1998

Happy Easter !

Última Ceia

Egg shaped lyra

(Wiki)

Brera Madona

The Brera Madonna is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca.

The work represents a 'sacra conversazione', with the Virgin enthroned and the sleeping Child in the middle, surrounded by a host of angels and saints.

The apse ends with a shell semi-dome from which a ostrich egg is hanging. The shell was a symbol of the new Venus, Mary (in fact it is perpendicular to her head) and of eternal beauty; in fact, differently from the Greek goddess, Mary's beauty will remain eternal in the Kingdom of God. According to another hypothesis, the egg would be a pearl, and the shell would refer to the miracle of the Immaculate conception (the shell generates the pearl without any male intervention). The egg is generally considered a symbol of the Creation and, in particular, to Guidobaldo's birth; the ostrich was also one of the heraldic symbols of the Montefeltro family.

Kiss

KISS Rock and Roll Eggs

White House Easter Egg Roll

The White House Easter Egg Roll is an annual family event to hunt for and race Easter Eggs on the White House Lawn while enjoying storytelling and a visit with the Easter Bunny. The holiday tradition has a long history dating back to 1878 when President Rutherford B. Hayes officially opened the White House grounds to local children for egg rolling on Easter Monday. Successive Presidents have continued the tradition of inviting children to the White House Lawn for egg rolling and other activities and entertainment.

This year’s White House Easter Egg Roll theme, ‘Let’s go play’, encourages America’s youth to lead healthy and active lives.

The White House will open the South Lawn to children age ten and under, along with their families, to enjoy sports, cooking classes, live musical performances, storytelling and the traditional Easter egg roll.

Date: April 13, 2009, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC (202) 456-7041.

All guests will enter the event from the Ellipse and will go through a security screening process.

For the first time, tickets were distributed online. The tickets are timed for entrance and exit to the South Lawn and will be emailed to each confirmed guest. Tickets are required for every attendee, including small children and infants.

Note to Ticket Holders: Each ticket is valid for a specific two hour time period only. You should arrive one hour before your scheduled time. All attendees will be required to go through a security screening process. No food or beverages are allowed on the grounds. Duffel Bags, suitcases and backpacks are not allowed. Strollers, diaper bags, baby formula, and baby bottles are permitted.

By Rachel Cooper, About.com

Chasse aux Œufs

On chasse les œufs à Caudebec-Lès-Elbeuf !

Avis à tous les amateurs de chocolat et de voyages !

Pour la 2ème année, le Secours Populaire Français organise une Grande Chasse aux Œufs de Pâques dans le Parc du Cèdre à Caudebec-Lès-Elbeuf.

Le dimanche 12 avril, à partir de 10h30, parents et enfants sont invités à venir chercher dans le Parc trois œufs numérotés.

Prix du permis de chasse aux œufs : 3 € par enfant et 4 € par adulte.
Sur place : buvette, sandwichs, pâtisserie, foire à tout, exposition photos …

Tous les œufs sont gagnants : chocolats de Pâques et de nombreux lots, dont un séjour d’une semaine en Corse pour une famille offert par VIVATS, association de tourisme !

VENEZ NOMBREUX TENTER VOTRE CHANCE !

Si vous souhaitez apporter votre soutien à notre Association, n’hésitez pas à nous contacter au :

SECOURS POPULAIRE FRANÇAIS

17 ter, rue Louis Poterat
76100 ROUEN
CCP : 2285 68 X Rouen
02 35 72 15 56 (du lundi au vendredi : de 14h00 à 18h00)
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Ovo-lar

O Ovo (Tarsila do Amaral)

Iracema pranteada e cheia de lantejoulas lágrimando seus pelos verdes-mares lançou: estou pra lá marrakesh. Não sou daqui e não fim para ficar. Sou de outro mundo e esta cidade me cansa porque os habitantes ovos, en-quadrados pela parentada achatada do Colombo ou de outro comboio sorrindo perigo, perigo, perigo. Quando fui sentar na praça muito engraçada-não-tinha-banco-não-tinha-praça-não-tinha-nada, eu não podia entrar nela não, ovos rolavam com asco dos outros, cuspindo no chão, jogando lixo que não lhes davam nojo, esmagando os meninos de lata de ozônio do país Amônia e não respiram, ou justamente para não inspirarem conspirações, cheiram alucinadamente e ficam colados nas fissuras do meio-fio com medo de cabeças-chatas. Ovo cú-bico cú-ri-culo ri-dí-culo, zombam com olhos de peixe na ponta do chifre. Estou a-cu-a-da. Por favor, me proteja. Eles não tiram os olhos da gente. Escuta só: perigo, perigo, perigo. Não ouve o ovo? Pode ser o direito ou o esquerdo, tanto faz. Às vezes tem seios enormes derramando uma gosma grudenta que dispara dedos para tudo quanto é lado e no bico dos peitos há um nariz que cresce toda vez que vaiam dos vacilos. Eu vou embora. Não é assim. Você está viajando? E quem não está. Sendo que aqui se viaja de lugar à nenhum numa canoa quebrada – duas remadas, tira água, duas remadas, tira água. A correnteza te acorrenta na tormenta de não parar enquanto não virar estátua. Olha as minhas irmãs-gemas medonhas expurgadas pelos ovos nos calçadões. Tadinhas, morrem de frio, sem roupa, mas gozam no consolo dos meninos que desmaiam com elas nas madrugadas. Eles lhes levam madrigais de estopa e lavam a porra da gosma deles. Me tira daqui, me leva daqui. Olha só você, está mudando, desgraçado, ovo-lado, de que lado você está? Ovo não tem lado. Eu sei, você quer me pegar. Essa é a senha de vocês: estou aqui para te ajudar. Se a gente se abre, vocês trazem uma novena e já começam a velar con-jurando nossa desistência. Ovo, eu? Nem morto. Quer me con-fundir, macho? Não é assim que vocês falam? Ovo não morre porque ovo não nasce. Posso estar doída, doida não. Faço das suas palavras as minhas: ovo, nem morta!

(Blogue: Aos pés de Iracema)

Œuf au Caviar d'Escargot

Recette de Raphaël Barthélemy, restaurant Chez Raphaël.

Delicious Easter record

A Belgian city has entered the Guinness book of records with the biggest Easter egg ever.
The Belgian chocolate producer Guylian made the chocolate egg with at least 50.000 bars on behalf of the city of St. Niklaas.
The egg measured 8.32 metres high and beats the record of Kwazulu-Natal in South-Africa in 1996. That egg was 7.65 metres high.
Twenty-six craftsman worked altogether 525 hours to build the egg. They needed 1950 kg of chocolates.
Alderman Urbain Vercauteren of the city of St.Niklaas said the egg wasn't meant to be eaten. He said: "After a week outside in all weather conditions, I don't think it would be very tasteful."

Source: www.ananova.com

A crise chegou aos ovos da Páscoa

Todos os anos, o Coelho da Páscoa tem à sua disposição um número infinito de ovos, que distribui por este mundo e por uma infinidade de outros. Onde os obtém e como consegue distribuí-los ninguém o sabe.

Mas este ano o coelhinho ficou inquieto, pois ouviu falar da crise e pensou que ela se poderia abater sobre os ovos. Se eles lhe faltassem para o ano, como conseguiria cumprir o seu ritual em 2010? O melhor seria fazer já poupanças.

Aprontou as coisas. Separou o seu saco mágico, onde cabe uma infinidade de ovos, e arranjou outro saco idêntico. Fez um furo no fundo do primeiro saco e disse ao seu ajudante, o Filipinho Diabinho, que aí ficasse para o ajudar. O coelhinho e o seu auxiliar são infinitamente rápidos e infinitamente eficientes - em pouco tempo conseguem manejar um número infinito de ovos.

Ora, os ovos da Páscoa, mais uma vez pouca gente o sabe, chegam ao coelhinho já numerados: 1, 2, 3... O que ele decidiu foi o seguinte. Iria fazer entrar os ovos no primeiro saco em grupos de dez: primeiro os ovos numerados de 1 a 10, depois os numerados de 11 a 20, depois os numerados de 21 a 30, e assim por diante. Por cada dez que entrassem, o Filipinho Diabinho, no fundo do saco, tiraria o primeiro da série e colocá-lo-ia no segundo saco. Assim, depois de entrarem os ovos 1 a 10, o Diabinho tiraria o ovo 1 e colocá-lo-ia no segundo saco. Depois de entrarem os ovos 11 a 20, tiraria o 11 e colocá-lo-ia no segundo saco. E assim sucessivamente...

(Continue a ler...)

Nuno Crato, Passeio Aleatório

Ukrainian Easter Egg

Vegreville, Canada is the site of the largest Easter egg in the world. The Easter egg or Ukrainian 'Pysanka,' was constructed in 1975 to commemorate early Ukrainian settlements in an area east of Edmonton.

· Egg Width: 25.7 feet
· Egg Height: 18.3 feet
· Total Height: 31.6 feet
· Material: Alumuinum skin
· Turns like a weathervane
· Weight: 5,000 pounds
· Star Patterns: 524
· Triangular Pieces: 2,206
· Visible Facets: 3,512
· Nuts and Bolts: 6,978
· Internal Struts: 177· Man Hours: 12,000

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World Egg

A world egg or cosmic egg is a mythological motif found in the creation myths of many cultures and civilizations. Typically, the world egg is a beginning of some sort, and the universe or some primordial being comes into existence by "hatching" from the egg.

In the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, there is a myth of the world being created from the fragments of an egg laid by a diving duck on the knee of Ilmatar, goddess of the air:

One egg's lower half transformed
And became the earth below,
And its upper half transmuted
And became the sky above;
From the yolk the sun was made,
Light of day to shine upon us;
From the white the moon was formed,
Light of night to gleam above us;
All the colored brighter bits
Rose to be the stars of heaven
And the darker crumbs changed into
Clouds and cloudlets in the sky.