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Post by Catman on Jan 18, 2019 0:21:58 GMT
The Jefferson Pools, also called Warm Springs Bathhouses and Warm Springs Pools, are two spa structures near Warm Springs, Virginia. The name was changed in the 20th century from "Warm Spring Pools" to "Jefferson Pools". The spa is part of The Homestead, a resort hotel.
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Post by James on Jan 18, 2019 1:40:50 GMT
You need to piss on a jellyfish sting to make it better.
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Post by Catman on Jan 18, 2019 2:23:42 GMT
In 1998, Kidneythieves released their first single, "S+M (A Love Song)," as well as their first album, Trickster. They followed up their initial releases with the remix EP Phi in the Sky in 2001, and their second album Zerøspace in 2002. The album's title track was released as a single. Their song "Before I'm Dead" was featured in the 2002 film Queen of the Damned. In 2004, they re-released Trickster as Trickstereprocess, with digitally remastered tracks, five bonus tracks and a bonus DVD. After the release of Trickstereprocess, Free Dominguez went on to create an indie project while Bruce Somers created the band ShockNina.
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Post by Catman on Jan 18, 2019 16:10:46 GMT
Sun Sheng Xi (simplified Chinese: 孙盛希; traditional Chinese: 孫盛希; pinyin: Sūn Shèng Xī; born 13 November 1990), also known as Shi Shi (Chinese: 希希; pinyin: xī xī), is a Taiwanese-Korean singer-songwriter.
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Post by Catman on Jan 18, 2019 16:41:11 GMT
Popu Lady is a five-member Taiwanese girl group based in Taiwan. The group was formed in 2012 and is managed by HIM International Music. The name of the group stands for "popular lady", which expresses the desire of the group to gain popularity through its songs and to give a girly and mature look at the same time.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 18, 2019 17:22:27 GMT
The average family of 5 in Africa uses 5 gallons of water per day.
The average family of 5 in the USA uses 250 gallons of water per day.
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Post by Catman on Jan 18, 2019 17:30:43 GMT
Neutron diffraction or elastic neutron scattering is the application of neutron scattering to the determination of the atomic and/or magnetic structure of a material. A sample to be examined is placed in a beam of thermal or cold neutrons to obtain a diffraction pattern that provides information of the structure of the material. The technique is similar to X-ray diffraction but due to their different scattering properties, neutrons and X-rays provide complementary information: X-Rays are suited for superficial analysis, strong x-rays from synchrotron radiation are suited for shallow depths or thin specimens, while neutrons having high penetration depth are suited for bulk samples.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Jan 18, 2019 19:38:58 GMT
The area between the anus and the scrotum or vagina is called the perineum.
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Post by Catman on Jan 20, 2019 2:23:06 GMT
Henry Wimshurst (1804–1884) was a 19th-century British shipbuilder. Wimshurst was in business at Ratcliffe Cross Dock in east London. He is remembered primarily as the builder of Archimedes, the world's first propeller-driven steamship.
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Post by Catman on Jan 20, 2019 2:33:40 GMT
.мон is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Mongolia. It is administered by .MN Registry, Datacom. The domain name is composed of the consonants in the three first letters of the country name. The .МОН registry is operated under the thick registry model. Administrative, billing, technical and registrant contacts are required. In 2012 a new top domain was registered for Mongolia, intended for domain names in the Mongolian language. Registrations for the domain opened in May 2014. The first site мон.мон became active during that month.
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Post by deembastille on Jan 20, 2019 13:21:54 GMT
Abraham Lincoln had a patent for inflatable balloons used in lifting boats over shoals or reefs. Seeing the time wasted in unloading carho from boats, loading it onto wagons, dragging the horses and the wagons along until they found deeper parts of rivers, unloading the wagons, loading the boats back up, he designed this system to lift the boats higher than usual so they could skip steps seven through ten.
Sadly, it never became a reality.
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Post by Catman on Jan 21, 2019 19:28:07 GMT
Alonzo Albert Skinner (January 16, 1814 – April 30, 1877) was an American judge and Whig party politician in Oregon. He was the 16th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court and unsuccessful candidate for the office of governor. He also served as a circuit court judge for the state of Oregon, was a customs collector, a judge in the Provisional Government of Oregon, and a commissioner on a Native American treaty commission.
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Post by Catman on Jan 21, 2019 19:47:46 GMT
New York Blue Gene supercomputer, also known as NewYorkBlue, is an 18 rack Blue Gene/L and a 2 rack Blue Gene/P massively parallel supercomputer based on the IBM system-on-chip technology. It is located in the New York Center for Computational Sciences (NYCCS). The supercomputer is owned by Stony Brook University and is located at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, Long Island, New York. The funds for this machine were provided by the New York state, with the leadership of the NYS Assembly. It began operating on July 15, 2007, when it was the fifth most powerful supercomputer. The renovation of laboratory space was supported by the New York state and U.S. DOE fund. As of June 2010, the Blue Gene/L was ranked 67th in the Top 500 supercomputing rankings. Together with the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NewYorkBlue provides New York state with more computing power available for general research than any state in the nation.
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Post by Catman on Jan 27, 2019 17:48:52 GMT
The H-10 Pheasant was a tandem-seat conventional landing gear-equipped biplane with fabric covering, built in 1928 by the Pheasant Aircraft Company to compete in the crowded market of barnstorming biplanes. The company dissolved shortly after, during the Great Depression of the early 1930s.
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Post by deembastille on Jan 27, 2019 22:22:26 GMT
Jesse James once helped out a widow who was very down on her luck.
she was just days away from losing her house and one night out of chance he knocks on her door and asks for food.
she makes him whatever she could find in the house and it was meager. he asks why and she tells him.
he listens to her story and immediately brings out the money [over a grand] that she would need to pay her bill collector who was arriving the next morning.
he gives her one word of advice... GET A RECEIPT.
he leaves and tomorrow morning the bill collector arrives. she gives him the money and demands a receipt and he provides her with it.
he leaves and is promptly held up by.....
WAIT FOR IT...
JESSE JAMES!
who robbed him of [his] money!
she had a receipt so that proved that she paid her bill!
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jan 27, 2019 22:41:14 GMT
Mary I was a highly impressive queen
Historians have long focused on the negative aspects of Mary’s five-year reign, branding her a religious bigot and a military failure, but in recent years Mary has been largely reappraised.
Anna Whitelock says: “Mary’s accession had changed the rules of the game, and the nature of this new feminised politics was yet to be defined, yet in many respects Mary proved more than equal to the task. Decisions over the details of the practice and power of a queen regnant became precedents for the future. In April 1554 Mary’s parliament passed the Act for Regal Power, which enshrined in law that queens held power as ‘fully, wholly and absolutely’ as their male predecessors, thereby establishing the gender-free authority of the crown.”
Mary also restructured the economy and reorganised the militia, rebuilt the navy and successfully managed her parliament. By securing the throne, Mary ensured that the crown continued along the legal line of Tudor succession.
Mary I was not such a military failure
Mary is remembered for her unsuccessful war against France that led to the loss of Calais, England’s last possession in France, in January 1558. But before the loss of Calais, Mary enjoyed military successes. For example, in August 1557 English and Spanish forces captured Saint-Quentin, an action in which some 3,000 French troops were killed and 7,000 captured, including their commander Anne de Montmorency, the constable of France.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Jan 28, 2019 2:09:11 GMT
The rather humorous-sounding surname of Lipschitz (or Lipshitz) is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname, which may be derived from the Polish city of Głubczyce (German: Leobschütz).
The surname has many variants, including: Lifshitz (Lifschitz), Lifshits, Lifshuts, Lefschetz; Lipschitz, Lipshitz, Lipshits, Lipschutz (Lipschütz), Lipshutz, Lüpschütz; Libschitz; Livshits; Lifszyc, Lipszyc. It is commonly Anglicized as Lipton.
Something to think about next time you're sipping your Lipton iced tea.
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Post by Catman on Jan 28, 2019 2:10:54 GMT
Wiki journalism is a form of participatory journalism or crowdsourcing, which uses wiki technology to facilitate collaboration between users. It is a kind of collaborative journalism. The largest example of wiki journalism is Wikinews. According to Paul Bradshaw, there are five broad types of wiki journalism: second draft wiki journalism, a 'second stage' piece of journalism, during which readers can edit an article produced in-house; crowdsourcing wiki journalism, a means of covering material which could not have been produced in-house (probably for logistical reasons), but which becomes possible through wiki technology; supplementary wiki journalism, creating a supplement to a piece of original journalism, e.g. a tab to a story that says "Create a wiki for related stories"; open wiki journalism, in which a wiki is created as an open space, whose subject matter is decided by the user, and where material may be produced that would not otherwise have been commissioned; and logistical wiki journalism, involving a wiki limited to in-house contributors which enables multiple authorship, and may also facilitate transparency, and/or an ongoing nature.
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Post by Catman on Jan 28, 2019 2:14:28 GMT
Karacaoğlan River (or Karacaoğlan Creek, Turkish: Karacaoğlan Deresi) is a small river in Erdemli ilçe (district) of Mersin Province, Turkey. Its headwaters are around Tepeköy in the Toros Mountains. It has a number of names depending on the villages around such as; Şahna, Müğlü, Dikiner, Sandal, Kargıpınarı (or Gilindire; the former name of Kargıpınarı). In the lower reaches in Çukurova (Cilician) plains it is used for irrigation . During the post-rainy seasons its excess water falls down over the cliffs to create an artificial waterfall to the east of Elvanlı. The waterfall is a popular excursion area for Mersin citizens. The river then flows between the towns of Kargıpınarı and Çeşmeli and discharges to Mediterranean Sea at 36°39′51″N 34°25′42″E.
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Post by Catman on Jan 28, 2019 2:35:43 GMT
The Zielona Góra Wine Fest (Polish: Winobranie w Zielonej Górze) is a wine festival held in the Polish town of Zielona Góra. The tradition is related to the period of harvest of grapes from the local vineyards which were then turned into wine. The first festival took place in October 1852. Nowadays it starts in the first or second week of September and lasts for nine days.
The festivities starts on a Saturday with a parade through the city centre. It is preceded by a symbolic ceremony when the Roman wine god Bacchus and his Maenads receive the keys to the town from the local authorities. During the nine days a lot of cultural and sport events take place, among which the International Festival of Folklore is one of the most prominent. There are also theatre meetings (including street theatres) and music concerts.
The centre of the town turns into a big marketplace for the time of the fest, with a separate street allotted for the antiques market.
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