I can tell you how the mountains formed and why the ridgelines are shaped the way they are
Tell me a story, daddy!
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Hey, neither do I! One of the things with naval terminology is that it can be extremelly idyosincratic, and the names usually don't translate between languages. So while, sure, I can name all sorts of ship elements in Castillian, I still get confused with most of them in English.
It's like trying to name fishes or trees in another language.
In Gulliver's Travels, Swift just made up all (? some, anyway) of the nautical terms.
Hee hee! Jonathan Swift would've made a great internet troll.
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Judging from the way some of the trees here in Tennessee smell in the spring, I would contest that.... I don't know the real name of the offenders though.
I'm going to dub it a perch birch.
As a reader, the only thing that makes my eyes glaze over quicker than talk of capstans and mizzenmasts is talk of cabriolets and calashes.
Laufey is actually the name of Loki's mother in Norse Mythology. Neither his mother nor his father were frost giants.
The northernmost place to have hosted a World Cup game of football is Sandviken in Sweden (in 1958).
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Laufey is actually the name of Loki's mother in Norse Mythology. Neither his mother nor his father were frost giants.
His father was the frost giant Fárbauti. Who was married to Laufey or in some stories Nál, the mother of Loki. Laufey also seems to have been one of the Vanir. I looked this up quite extensively for my Norse/Russian/Finnish game I am currently off and on running.
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Danica McKellar, who played Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years, graduated summa cum laude from UCLA. While still an undergrad, she helped to formulate the mathematical 'Chayes–McKellar–Winn theorem'. She's also written three best-selling books aimed at encouraging middle-school and junior high school aged girls to learn and study mathematics.
Fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill.
That makes sense.
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Olive Oil is not supposed to smell or taste like olive. If it does, it is sign of a mistreatment during the production process.
Before putting together the Attractions, Elvis Costello recorded his first album, My Aim Is True with a country-rock band called Clover who went on to become Huey Lewis and the News.
Journey was formed from the remnants of Santana, after Carlos left the band. Steve Perry and his trademark voice didn't start with them until after they'd recorded a couple of totally fogettable albums.
Also, Santana's hit "Black Magic Woman" was originally a Fleetwood Mack song.
There have been five books written, and four films made about "the fifth Beatle" Stuart Sutcliffe.
-You spend more calories eating and digesting celery than what the vegetable itself provides (I still don't like celery, though).
-The Vatican is the only World Heritage site to encompass a whole country.
-The Vatican is also the only carbon-neutral country in the world. Most of it was offset by funding the creation of a new forest in Hungary.
-In order to join the Swiss Guard, one must be at least 1,74m (5'8.5'') in height, male, Catholic, between the ages of 19 and 30, have completed basic training in the Swiss military, and of course, be Swiss.
-The ATMs in the Vatican have the option to display in Canonical Latin.
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I'm sure it was posted pages ago, but the Vatican has, on average, 2 popes per square mile.
Before putting together the Attractions, Elvis Costello recorded his first album, My Aim Is True with a country-rock band called Clover who went on to become Huey Lewis and the News.
WHAT? I loved that album! Huey Lewis and the freakin' news? I think I just threw up a little.
Not all the News, but some. I think Huey was on vacation and they needed some quick cash.
-Turtles can breath through their butts.
-Cows can drown through their butts.
-Butter starts with butt.
-So does button.
-Buttingham Palace is not how you write Buckingham Palace, but it starts with butt.
-Farts have been clocked to travel at a speed of 10 feet per second.
-If you fart consistently for six years and nine months, you can produce enough gas to generate the energy equivalent of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
-If you fart consistently for six years and nine months, you can produce enough gas to generate the energy equivalent of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Now I can't unsee a mushroom cloud coming out of someone's ass. Thank You.
Camel's milk doesn't curdle.
Nor does donkey's, or so I'm lead to believe.
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No donkey cheese? This thread is depressing.
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-In order to join the Swiss Guard, one must be at least 1,74m (5'8.5'') in height, male, Catholic, between the ages of 19 and 30, have completed basic training in the Swiss military, and of course, be Swiss.
Or be a gorilla.
Or be a gorilla.
-In order to join the Swiss Guard, one must be at least 1,74m (5'8.5'') in height, male, Catholic, between the ages of 19 and 30, have completed basic training in the Swiss military, and of course, be Swiss.
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-If you fart consistently for six years and nine months, you can produce enough gas to generate the energy equivalent of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
I wonder, then, if I can harness the power that roars out of my gassy dog?
Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were college roommates, as were Christopher Reeve and Robin Williams.
Dear Evil Lincoln: nice Venture Brother's reference.
Speaking of Venture Brothers, the are rumours that the Monarch is based off of Goth musician Voltaire.
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You forgot the cartoon