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Super Squirrel
Super Squirrel, welcome to A2K, glad to have you here.

What a great thread. I will have to do some research.

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The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

Cheers for the welcome....I'm glad to be a part of this! Oh, and about that penguin thing....it really does happen, even if I don't know my geography!!

It happens alright....but it is in the Falklands, where we have had troops stationed since the Argentinian invasion.

I believe it is called skittle duty, and the RAF are now trying to avoid those particular beaches.

Welcome to A2K by the way, Mr Squirrel.

did you know that 90% of all statistics are made up on the spot?

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The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the container.

Scientists believe that the reason why left-handedness has survived so long, it being less common and it's people tend to be clumser and die younger (could be true) is that in battle, every warrior would have trained to fight against a right handed opponent, but a left-hander would be less expected and subsquently have a shock tactic against his foe.

money names
The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation for the British Pound Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L' for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it to indicate abbreviation.

Sames goes for the Italian lira which uses the same abbreviation ('lira' coming from 'libra'). So British currency (before it went metric) was always quoted as "pounds/shillings/pence", abbreviated "L/s/d" (libra/solidus/denarius).

Left Handed women more vulnerable to cancer
Left Handed women more vulnerable to cancer:

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1588529#1588529

wherever did you get that strange fantasy from BBB

taking too much

LSD = lysergic acid diethylamide?

If you eat to much carrots you can turn orange... besides seing in the dark...

Your liver preforms upto 500 jobs in the body...

there is no connection between the earth's rotation and how water goes down a drain.

There is actually. Water will drain clockwise or anti clockwise determined by movement in the water itself. But it is possible to observe the much weaker Coriolis effect with careful experimentation. The movement then is always cyclonic.

not true! if you spin water clockwise in a sink in the north and pull the plug, it will continue to drain clockwise. The amount of energy that the correolous effect has on water in that small amount is negligeable. It will only effect large quantities of water ie oceans, and weather systems.
Besides, if I was on the equator, what way would the water drain?

Is it possible to detect the Earth's rotation in a draining sink?

from

http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html

Yes, but it is very difficult. Because the Coriolis force is so small, one must go to extraordinary lengths to detect it. But, it has been done. You cannot use an ordinary sink for it lacks the requisite circular symmetry: its oval shape and off-center drain render any results suspect. Those who have succeeded used a smooth pan of about one meter in diameter with a very small hole in the center. A stopper (which could be removed from below so as to not introduce any spurious motion) blocked the hole while the pan was being filled with water. The water was then allowed to sit undisturbed for perhaps a week to let all of the motion die out which was introduced during filling. Then, the stopper was removed (from below). Because the hole was very small, the pan drained slowly indeed. This was necessary, because it takes hours before the tiny Coriolis force could develop sufficient deviation in the draining water for it to produce a circular flow. With these procedures, it was found that the rotation was always cyclonic.

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No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes.

However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.

did you know that France actually invaded Germany in 1939... and occupied small parts of Germany...

Good 'un, Milf.

Hey, folks, this is supposed to be the history forum. Whence all this scientific data which has nothing to do with history? Or hysteria, come to that?

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It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

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Yes, that's an excellent observation, BBB. The 46th Psalm of the King James version is often used by amateur historians as evidence that William of Stratford-on-Avon was, indeed, one of the translators of the Bible. It's exactly the kind of word-play that Shakespeare -- who was quite well-read in both Latin and Greek, Ben Jonson's gibe notwithstanding -- would have delighted in. A hidden clue within the text. Delicious.