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Post by Catman on Feb 8, 2019 18:41:56 GMT
Cloquet is home to the R.W. Lindholm Service Station, the only gas station designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and a structure now on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Post by Catman on Feb 11, 2019 20:15:35 GMT
Tardigrades (/ΛtΙΛrdΙͺΛΙ‘reΙͺd/; also known colloquially as water bears, or moss piglets) are a phylum of water-dwelling, eight-legged, segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who gave them the name of "little water bears". The name Tardigrada (meaning "slow steppers") was given three years later by the Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani. They have been found everywhere: from mountaintops to the deep sea and mud volcanoes; from tropical rain forests to the Antarctic. Tardigrades are among the most resilient known animals, with individual species able to survive extreme conditions that would be rapidly fatal to nearly all other known life forms, such as exposure to extreme temperatures, extreme pressures (both high and low), air deprivation, radiation, dehydration, and starvation. Tardigrades have even survived exposure to outer space. About 1,150 known species form the phylum Tardigrada, a part of the superphylum Ecdysozoa. The group includes fossils dating from 530 million years ago, in the Cambrian period. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Feb 11, 2019 21:19:57 GMT
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Feb 11, 2019 21:29:39 GMT
Toe jam is actually a combination of dead skin cells, sock debris, dirt, body oil residue, fungus and bacteria. Those prone to it don't only get it in their toes.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Feb 12, 2019 0:18:34 GMT
Having been born on July 16, 1882, Felix Locher is the earliest born actor to appear in any "Star Trek" episode or film. He played "Robert Johnson" in the Star Trek TOS episode "The Deadly Years," Season 2, episode 12 (1967).
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Post by Catman on Feb 12, 2019 15:49:59 GMT
The tune of the 'Alphabet Song' (as well as 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star' and 'Baa Baa Black Sheep') is taken from the French children's song 'Ah! vous dirai-je, maman'. Mozart wrote 'Twelve Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman"', so you can take comfort in the fact children singing the 'Alphabet Song' are getting a bit of culture while they sing. The lyrics of the French song are somewhat grim: Ah ! Vous dirai-je maman Ce qui cause mon tourment? Papa veut que je raisonne Comme une grande personne Moi je dis que les bonbons Valent mieux que la raison. | Oh! Shall I tell you, Mommy What is tormenting me? Daddy wants me to reason Like a grown-up person, Me, I say that sweets Are worth more than reasoning. |
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Post by Catman on Feb 14, 2019 19:32:53 GMT
Campomanesia hirsuta is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. The plant is endemic to the Atlantic Forest ecoregion of southeastern Brazil, within Rio de Janeiro state. It is an IUCN Red List Endangered species, threatened by habitat loss.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Feb 15, 2019 17:20:31 GMT
Between the fall of 1348 and January of 1350. 60% of the Norwegian population died. The Population of Norway at that time was between 300.000 and 350.000
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Feb 16, 2019 0:46:08 GMT
Australian Buloke (sometimes called Bull Oak) is the world's hardest commercially available wood.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Feb 16, 2019 3:33:15 GMT
Between the fall of 1348 and January of 1350. 60% of the Norwegian population died. The Population of Norway at that time was between 300.000 and 350.000 What was the cause? Plague?
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Feb 16, 2019 3:39:42 GMT
Between the fall of 1348 and January of 1350. 60% of the Norwegian population died. The Population of Norway at that time was between 300.000 and 350.000 What was the cause? Plague? Yes The Black Death
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Post by Catman on Feb 23, 2019 16:26:52 GMT
Cyclamen (US: /ΛsaΙͺklΙmΙn/ SY-klΙ-men or UK: /ΛsΙͺklΙmΙn/ SIK-lΙ-men) is a genus of 23 species of perennial flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. Cyclamen species are native to Europe and the Mediterranean Basin east to Iran, with one species in Somalia. They grow from tubers and are valued for their flowers with upswept petals and variably patterned leaves.
It was traditionally classified in the family Primulaceae, was reclassified in the family Myrsinaceae in 2000, and finally, in 2009 with the introduction of the APG III system, was returned to the subfamily Myrsinoideae within the family Primulaceae.
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Post by koskiewicz on Feb 23, 2019 16:53:09 GMT
A perfect condition T206 Honus Wagner baseball card is worth about $250,000. The card was issued on the back of cigarettes back in the 1900 teens and since Wagner was a non-smoker, he demanded that his card be withdrawn, but not before scores of them were issued.
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Post by Catman on Feb 23, 2019 18:59:01 GMT
Schwaben Quellen (in English, "Swabian Springs") is a large spa/waterpark complex located in Stuttgart, Germany. The Schwaben Quellen is associated with the SI-Centrum (Stuttgart International Centrum), an entertainment complex in Stuttgart.
It is a member of the European Waterparks Association (EWA), and provides saunas, steamrooms, and various kinds of baths. There are also what are referred to as "adventure showers". A small room full of snow, kept at -20 Β°C, is also available, so that participants can roll in the snow naked (this often follows use of a sauna or other type of steam room). Like many German bathing areas, people are expected to be nude throughout the sauna part of the resort.
Some of the baths are indoors, and others are outdoors, providing a good mix of different bathing environments. There is an indoor restaurant overlooking some of the baths, where a meal can be purchased using the wristband that also functions as a key and a locator. The wristband is coded for the locker into which the participants place their clothing and personal effects (no clothing means no pockets), and the wristband serves as point of contact, with an embedded microchip which tracks the bathers throughout the facility.
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Post by Catman on Feb 24, 2019 3:03:22 GMT
In mathematical physics, vanishing scalar invariant (VSI) spacetimes are Lorentzian manifolds with all polynomial curvature invariants of all orders vanishing. Although the only Riemannian manifold with VSI property is flat space, the Lorentzian case admits nontrivial spacetimes with this property. Distinguishing these VSI spacetimes from Minkowski spacetime requires comparing non-polynomial invariants or carrying out the full CartanβKarlhede algorithm on non-scalar quantities.
All VSI spacetimes are Kundt spacetimes. An example with this property in four dimensions is a pp-wave. VSI spacetimes however also contain some other four-dimensional Kundt spacetimes of Petrov type N and III. VSI spacetimes in higher dimensions have similar properties as in the four-dimensional case.
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Post by Catman on Feb 25, 2019 23:54:19 GMT
The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful and The New Russian School, were five prominent 19th-century Russian composers who worked together to create distinct Russian classical music. Mily Balakirev (the leader), CΓ©sar Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin all lived in Saint Petersburg, and collaborated from 1856 to 1870.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Apr 27, 2019 21:03:19 GMT
Bees start making honey, which is their food, by visiting flowers. They collect a sugary juice called nectar from the blossom by sucking it out with their tongues. They store it in what's called their honey stomach, which is different from their food stomach.
When they have a full load, they fly back to the hive. There, they pass it on through their mouths to other worker bees who chew it for about half an hour. It's passed from bee to bee, until it gradually turns into honey. Then the bees store it in honeycomb cells, which are like tiny jars made of wax. The honey is still a bit wet, so they fan it with their wings to make it dry out and become more sticky. When it's ready, they seal the cell with a wax lid to keep it clean.
So that's how bees make honey. They don't make very much of it, though. It takes at least eight bees all their life to make one single teaspoonful. Fortunately for us, they usually make more than they need, so we can have some, too.
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Post by Admin on Apr 27, 2019 21:11:48 GMT
When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months. That's a myth. Ditto for finger and toenails. They only appear to grow because everything else shrinks.
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Post by Catman on Apr 28, 2019 0:56:47 GMT
When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months. That's a myth. Ditto for finger and toenails. They only appear to grow because everything else shrinks. Everything?
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Post by Admin on Apr 28, 2019 1:21:55 GMT
That's a myth. Ditto for finger and toenails. They only appear to grow because everything else shrinks. Everything? Haha. Yeah. Sorry. Well, everything but hair and nails, apparently.
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