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Post by Catman on Jan 12, 2019 17:16:33 GMT
Xanthophylls (originally phylloxanthins) are yellow pigments that occur widely in nature and form one of two major divisions of the carotenoid group; the other division is formed by the carotenes. The name is from Greek xanthos (ξανθός, "yellow") and phyllon (φύλλον, "leaf"), due to their formation of the yellow band seen in early chromatography of leaf pigments.
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Post by Catman on Jan 12, 2019 17:38:16 GMT
Cotinusa is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Its species occur in the Americas from Panama to Brazil, with one species, C. splendida, found in Pakistan.
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Post by Catman on Jan 12, 2019 18:40:41 GMT
Hans Pichler; (1882–1958) was an Austrian-born German philosopher. A student of Windelband and Meinong, he revived in his work the philosophy of Wolff contra the epistemologism of the Neo-Kantians, particularly in his Über Christian Wolffs Ontologie (1910). Among those influenced by Pichler's turn to realist ontology was Nicolai Hartmann.
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Post by Catman on Jan 12, 2019 19:02:37 GMT
Space Battleship Yamato debuted at number 1 on the Japanese box-office, ousting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.
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Post by Catman on Jan 12, 2019 19:26:38 GMT
Sam Lee Chan-sam (born 27 September 1975) is a Hong Kong actor. He started his film career when he was first spotted by director Fruit Chan who cast him in Made in Hong Kong. Since his debut, Lee has been working hard on many films. In 1999, he made thirteen films in that year alone. He appeared in a Japanese film Ping Pong as one of the contestants in the movie. Lee is best known for his role as Sha Jang in the Hong Kong television series The Monkey King: Quest for the Sutra (2002).
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 12, 2019 20:06:11 GMT
The America's are named after Italian Explorer Amerigo Vespucci. He surveyed the coastline of the America's after Columbus and reported his findings to a German Cartographer by the name of Mueller. In Mueller's initial mappings, he named the America's the Latin "Americus" which eventually became America.
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Post by Schwarzwald Magnus on Jan 12, 2019 21:23:56 GMT
Licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jan 12, 2019 22:34:25 GMT
Mary 1 of England is known as bloody Mary. But out of the 5 Tudor Monarchs Mary 1 is actually the least bloody.
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Post by Catman on Jan 13, 2019 1:20:32 GMT
Mirai Shida (志田 未来 Shida Mirai, born May 10, 1993) is a Japanese actress. She became recognized after her breakthrough role as Kazumi Kanda in The Queen's Classroom (aka "Joō no Kyōshitsu" in Japanese), leading her to more prominent roles, such as Miki Ichinose in 14-year-old Mother. Currently, she is one of the most active young actresses in Japan, appearing in many dramas and commercials.
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Post by deembastille on Jan 13, 2019 1:27:44 GMT
In 1883 people were only willing to travel the Brooklyn Bridge after Ringling Brothers walked their elephants over it to help prove the bridge's soundness.
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Post by Catman on Jan 13, 2019 14:54:31 GMT
The Vâna Șerbenilor River or Șerbeni River or Râul Șerbenilor is a tributary of the Pădurani River in Romania.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 13, 2019 16:30:23 GMT
Vlad Tepes A Wallachian prince, is the historical Dracula. He was known as Vlad the Impaler.
There was an individual (a man) who was booked on the maiden voyage of the Titanic and cancelled before the voyage. Several years later, he was aboard the Hindenburg when it exploded in New Jersey. He survived the disaster. Good karma, anyone?
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Post by Catman on Jan 13, 2019 17:21:26 GMT
Leap of Faith is the seventh album by the group Shooting Star. It is the last Shooting Star album to feature vocalist Keith Mitchell and drummer Rod Lincoln; as well as the only album to feature violinist Christian Howes.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jan 13, 2019 18:28:54 GMT
Switzerland does not have an official capital. Bern has never legally been made the capital of Switzerland but it functions as the capital. But officially its not the capital.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jan 15, 2019 21:54:30 GMT
King Henry V of England is credited with having invented what some consider the first passport in the modern sense, as a means of helping his subjects prove who they were in foreign lands.
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Post by Sandman on Jan 15, 2019 22:28:22 GMT
When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months. On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonald's BigMac bun.
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Post by deembastille on Jan 15, 2019 23:56:53 GMT
When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months. On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonald's BigMac bun. Does it, or does your head/scalp skin shrink so your hair appears longer? Same thing with your nails.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 16, 2019 0:45:13 GMT
In May of 1883, the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge was big international news. The bridge had been under construction for 13 years, and its unveiling was a highly anticipated event. Showman P.T. Barnum, never one to turn down a PR opportunity, offered authorities a novel way to show–and show off–the safety of the new bridge: He’d walk his troupe of elephants across it. At first, his proposal was rejected. But in 1884, after a woman fell on the side stairs on the Manhattan side, causing a stampede that killed 12 people and making others wary that the bridge would collapse, Barnum’s “elephant walk” (the subject of a June, 2004 New Yorker cover) happened. It was to the amazement of New Yorkers who happened to catch the sight of 21 elephants, 7 camels, and 10 dromedaries (basically furry camels) trekking from the bottom of Cortlandt Street across the illuminated arches of the bridge, with Barnum’s celebrated seven-ton African elephant Jumbo bringing up the rear.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 16, 2019 0:48:23 GMT
Tenryū-Futamata Station (天竜二俣駅 Tenryū-Futamata-eki) is a train station on the Tenryū Hamanako Line in Tenryū-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is located 26.2 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kakegawa Station.
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Post by Sandman on Jan 16, 2019 1:01:40 GMT
Tenryū-Futamata Station (天竜二俣駅 Tenryū-Futamata-eki) is a train station on the Tenryū Hamanako Line in Tenryū-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is located 26.2 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kakegawa Station. The Legend of the Loch Ness Monster Goes Back Nearly 1,500 Years.
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