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Keep your eyes on the heavens! A supernova, visible to the naked earthbound eye, is due in about 4 years!
UPDATE: Sorry to say, this has since been shown to have been a false alarm.
"Yankee Doodle" is a well-known American song and a nursery rhyme, the early versions of which predate the Seven Years' War and American Revolution. It is often sung patriotically in the United States today and is the state anthem of Connecticut.
The tune of "Yankee Doodle" is thought to be much older than the lyrics, being well known across western Europe, including England, France, Netherlands, Hungary, and Spain. The melody of the song may have originated from the Irish tune "All the way to Galway," in which the second strain is identical to "Yankee Doodle." The earliest lyrics came from a Middle Dutch harvest song which is thought to have followed the same tune, possibly dating back as far as 15th-century Holland.It contained mostly nonsensical words in English and Dutch:
Yanker, didel, doodle down
Diddle, dudel, lanther
Yanke viver, voover vown
Botermilk [buttermilk] und tanther [1/10 of the grain, which was entitled to the farm laborers]
The term Doodle first appeared in English in the early 17th century and is thought to be derived from the Low German Dödel, meaning "fool" or "simpleton". The "Macaroni" wig, an example of Rococo fashion, was popular in elite circles in Western Europe in the 1770s, but was mocked in the London press and became slang for being a fop. Dandies were men who placed particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisure hobbies. A self-made "dandy" was a British middle-class man who impersonated an aristocratic lifestyle.
In British conversation, the term "Yankee doodle dandy" implied unsophisticated misappropriation of upper-class fashion, as though simply sticking a feather in one's cap would transform the wearer into a noble.
The song itself was a pre-Revolutionary War song originally sung by British military officers to mock the disheveled, disorganized colonial "Yankees" with whom they served in the French and Indian War. It was written at Fort Crailo around 1755 by British Army surgeon Richard Shuckburgh while campaigning in Rensselaer, New York. The British troops sang it to make fun of their stereotype of the American soldier as a Yankee simpleton who thought that he was stylish if he simply stuck a feather in his cap.
However, it was also popular among the Americans as a song of defiance, and they added verses to it that mocked the British troops and hailed George Washington as the Commander of the Continental army. By 1781, "Yankee Doodle" had turned from being an insult to being a song of national pride.
The earliest known version of the lyrics comes from 1755 or 1758, as the date of origin is disputed:
Brother Ephraim sold his Cow and bought him a Commission;
And then he went to Canada to fight for the Nation;
But when Ephraim he came home, He proved an arrant Coward,
He wouldn't fight the Frenchmen there for fear of being devoured
The sheet music which accompanies these lyrics reads, "The Words to be Sung through the Nose, & in the West Country drawl & dialect."
An alternate verse that the British are said to have marched to is attributed to an incident involving Thomas Ditson of Billerica, Massachusetts. British soldiers tarred and feathered Ditson because he attempted to buy a musket in Boston in March 1775; he evidently secured one eventually, because he fought at Concord:
Yankee Doodle came to town, for to buy a firelock,
We will tar and feather him, and so we will John Hancock
Another pro-British set of lyrics believed to have used the tune was published in June 1775 following the Battle of Bunker Hill:
The seventeen of June, at Break of Day, the Rebels they supriz'd us,
With their strong Works, which they'd thrown up, to burn the Town and drive us
"Yankee Doodle" was played at the British surrender at Saratoga in 1777. A variant is preserved in the 1810 edition of Gammer Gurton's Garland: Or, The Nursery Parnassus, collected by Francis Douce:
Yankey Doodle came to town, how do you think they serv'd him?
One took his bag, another his scrip, the quicker for to starve him
During the aftermath of the Siege of Yorktown, the surrendering British soldiers looked only at the French soldiers present, refusing to pay the American soldiers any heed. The Marquis de Lafayette was outraged, and ordered his band to play "Yankee Doodle" in response to taunt the British.
Stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni
(Chorus)
Yankee Doodle keep it up, Yankee Doodle dandy,
Mind the music and the step, and with the girls be handy.
Father and I went down to camp, long with Captain Gooding
And there we saw the men and boys as thick as hasty pudding
(Chorus)
And there we saw a thousand men, as rich as Squire David,
And what they wasted every day, I wish it could be savèd
(Chorus)
The 'lasses they eat every day, would keep a house a winter;
They have so much, that I'll be bound, they eat it when they've a mind to
(Chorus)
And there I see a swamping gun, large as a log of maple,
Upon a Deucèd little cart, a load for father's cattle
(Chorus)
And every time they shoot it off, it takes a horn of powder,
And makes a noise like father's gun, only a nation louder
(Chorus)
I went as nigh to one myself as 'Siah's underpinning;
And father went as nigh again, I thought the Deuce was in him
(Chorus)
Cousin Simon grew so bold, I thought he would have cocked it;
It scared me so I shrinked it off and hung by father's pocket
(Chorus)
And Cap'n Davis had a gun, he kind of clap't his hand on't
And stuck a crooked stabbing iron upon the little end on't
(Chorus)
And there I see a pumpkin shell as big as mother's basin,
And every time they touched it off, they scampered like the nation
(Chorus)
I see a little barrel too, the heads were made of leather;
They knocked on it with little clubs and called the folks together.
(Chorus)
And there was Cap'n Washington, and gentle folks about him;
They say he's grown so 'ternal proud, he will not ride without 'em
(Chorus)
He got him on his meeting clothes, upon a slapping stallion;
He sat the world along in rows, in hundreds and in millions
(Chorus)
The flaming ribbons in his hat, they looked so tearing fine, ah,
I wanted dreadfully to get to give to my Jemima
(Chorus)
I see another snarl of men, a-digging graves, they told me,
So 'ternal long, so 'ternal deep, they 'tended they should hold me
(Chorus)
It scared me so, I hooked it off, nor stopped, as I remember,
Nor turned about till I got home, locked up in mother's chamber.
(Chorus)
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"Poisoning the well" is a type of informal fallacy where adverse information about a target is preemptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing something that the target person is about to say.
Poisoning the well can take the form of an (explicit or implied) argument, and is considered by some philosophers an informal fallacy. A poisoned-well "argument" has the following form:
1. Unfavorable information (be it true or false) about person A is presented by another.
2. Therefore, the claims made by person A will be false.
Poisoned well arguments are sometimes used with preemptive invocations of the association fallacy. In this pattern, an unfavorable attribute is ascribed to any future opponents, in an attempt to discourage debate. Any person who steps forward to dispute the claim will then risk applying the tag to him or herself in the process. This is a false dilemma: not all future opponents necessarily have the unfavorable attribute. This type of poisoned well argument takes the following form:
1. Unfavorable definitions (be it true or false) which prevent disagreement (or enforce affirmative position)
2. Any claims without first agreeing with above definitions are automatically dismissed.
Macaroni being the then current version of armani. IE, he's such a hick he thinks a feather in the cap was high fashion.
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Primal is an American adult animated adventure television series created and directed by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim. Primal draws in elements of fantasy, horror, action, and adventure. The first episode premiered on Adult Swim on October 8, 2019. The first season of Primal consists of 10 episodes, the first half airing daily on the week it premiered. The second half of the season aired on October 4, 2020. A film retelling of the first four episodes, Primal: Tales of Savagery, screened at the London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills on November 21, 2019. This version was submitted in the Best Animated Feature category for the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Critics have praised the series, in particular the animation, the pacing and editing, and the storytelling. The show has won three Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation Juried Awards from the Emmy for Storyboard Artist (Genndy Tartakovsky), Art Director (Scott Wills) and Character Designer (Stephen DeStefano).
A second season is set to premiere in 2021.
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Philmont Scout Ranch is a ranch located in Colfax County, New Mexico, near the village of Cimarron; it covers 140,177 acres (219 sq mi; 567 km²) of wilderness in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of the Rocky Mountains. Donated by oil baron Waite Phillips, the ranch is owned and operated by the Boy Scouts of America. It is a National High Adventure Base where crews of Scouts and Venturers take part in backpacking treks and other outdoor activities. By land area, it is one of the largest youth camps in the world. During the season, between June 8 and August 22, an estimated 22,000 Scouts and adult leaders backpack through the Ranch's extensive backcountry. More than 1,130 seasonal staff are responsible for the Ranch's summer operations.
Philmont is also home to the Philmont Training Center, the National Scouting Museum and the Seton Memorial Library. The Training Center is the primary location for BSA's national volunteer training programs. Philmont is a working ranch, maintaining small herds of cattle, horses, burros, and bison.
The only documented Tyrannosaurus rex track in the world was discovered within the camp's boundaries in 1993 in North Ponil Canyon by the Anasazi Trail Camp. It was formally identified in 1994.
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Philmont Scout Ranch is a ranch located in Colfax County, New Mexico, near the village of Cimarron; it covers 140,177 acres (219 sq mi; 567 km²) of wilderness in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of the Rocky Mountains. Donated by oil baron Waite Phillips, the ranch is owned and operated by the Boy Scouts of America. It is a National High Adventure Base where crews of Scouts and Venturers take part in backpacking treks and other outdoor activities.
Strangely enough, I'm wearing my Philmont sweatshirt right now. I was there with my old Venture Crew in the summer of 2008.
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According to the 2014 documentary film Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau, the publication in 1899 of the novel Heart of Darkness by Polish-English author Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) prompted something of a falling-out between Conrad and his friend, English author H.G. Wells (1866-1946). Wells accused Conrad of copying elements from his 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, particularly the character of Mr. Kurtz, who he believed was based on the titular Dr. Moreau. Conrad responded that he had based the character instead on English explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904).
In 1979, Heart of Darkness was adapted by director Francis Ford Coppola (1939-) into the Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now, featuring actor Marlon Brando (1924-2004) as Kurtz. Brando later portrayed Dr. Moreau in the 1996 film adaptation of Wells's novel, which began production under director Richard Stanley (1966-), great-grandson of Sir Henry Morton Stanley.
That Universal's own Phantom of the Opera, himself, would openly name-drop both Jaws and the Incredible Hulk, along with Count Dracula and all his Co-horts... now why would that be?
Prolly 'cause there was a Live-action Universal Studios Park Show called Castle Dracula, which ran during the early Eighties and was apparently scripted by the Late Great Forrest J. Ackerman himself.
Having been fortunate enough to catch it live for m'self, the Show itself featured various Animatronics [the afore-mentioned Phantom, a 'falling' Gargoyle-like Statue, an enormous spider, etc.] with live Actors [Dracula, his monstrous party guests, Renfield, and the Incredible Hulk himself- Lou Ferrigno style at the time/CGI Hulk wasn't a thing back then!], plus some audience participation members [at least two ladies plus a single hapless guy who objects and gets stretched... 'armstrong' style; some of them possibly were other actors?]
Anyways, it seem appropriate enough to be included to this topic on Halloween 2021. ;)
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The artwork for the Magic: the Gathering card "Angry Mob", created by artist Drew Tucker for the 1994 expansion "The Dark" was based on a frame from the 1922 German Expressionist film Nosferatu, directed by F. W. Murnau.
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When Mel Brooks was preparing for Young Frankenstein, he discovered that Ken Strickfaden, who'd made the elaborate electrical machinery for the lab sequences in the Universal Frankenstein films, was still alive and living in the Los Angeles area. Brooks visited Strickfaden, and found that he had stored all the equipment in his garage. Brooks made a deal to rent the equipment, and gave Strickfaden the screen credit he didn't receive for the original films.
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That Universal's own Phantom of the Opera, himself, would openly name-drop both Jaws and the Incredible Hulk, along with Count Dracula and all his Co-horts... now why would that be?
Not "the voice of an angel", perhaps...but at least it isn't Gerard Butler! *reflexively reaches for Punjab Lasso*
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Person of Interest is an American science fiction crime drama television series that aired on CBS from September 22, 2011, to June 21, 2016. Its five seasons comprise 103 episodes. The series was created by Jonathan Nolan; executive producers were Nolan, J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Greg Plageman, Denise Thé, and Chris Fisher.
The series centers on a mysterious reclusive billionaire computer programmer, Harold Finch (Michael Emerson), who has developed a computer program for the federal government known as "the Machine" that is capable of collating all sources of information to predict terrorist acts and to identify people planning them. The Machine also identifies perpetrators and victims of other premeditated deadly crimes; however, because the government considers these "irrelevant", Finch programs the Machine to delete this information each night. Anticipating abuse of his creation, and tormented by the deaths that might have been prevented, Finch limited its communication to the provision of a tiny piece of information, the social security numbers of these "persons of interest" to investigate, who might be victims, perpetrators, or innocent bystanders in a lethal event, and programs the Machine to notify him secretly of the "irrelevant" numbers. The first episode shows how Finch recruited John Reese (Jim Caviezel) – a former Green Beret and CIA agent, now presumed dead – to investigate the person identified by the number the Machine has provided, and to act accordingly. As time passes, others join the team.
From its first episode, the series raises an array of moral issues, from questions of privacy and "the greater good", the concept of justifiable homicide, and problems caused by working with limited information programs. By the last two episodes of the show's second season, it is revealed that the Machine had achieved sentience and had begun to protect itself from competing interests seeking control, increasingly directing the activities of team members, as the series began to transition from pure crime-fighting drama towards hard science fiction. Thereafter, the series brought to the fore questions about superintelligence, power derived from social surveillance, human oversight, competing superintelligent systems, the ethics of enforcing law and order by removing disruption (a policy adopted by a competing intelligent system called "Samaritan"), and other issues inherent in the use of artificial intelligence, as complex ethical questions to be addressed.
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Sounds like someone was trying to tell him something.
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Tama (April 29, 1999 – June 22, 2015) was a female calico cat who gained fame for being a station master and operating officer at Kishi Station on the Kishigawa Line in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. She was born in Kinokawa, Wakayama, and was raised with a group of stray cats that used to live close to Kishi Station. They were regularly fed by passengers and by Toshiko Koyama, the informal station manager at the time.
The station was near closure in 2004 because of financial problems on the rail line. Around this time, Koyama adopted Tama. Eventually the decision to close the station was withdrawn after the citizens demanded it to stay open. In April 2006, the Wakayama Electric Railway destaffed all stations on the Kishigawa Line to cut costs. Station masters were selected from employees of local businesses near each station, and Koyama was officially chosen as the station manager. On January 5 2007, railway officials officially awarded Tama the title of station master. As station master, her primary duty was to greet passengers.
In lieu of an annual salary, the railway provided Tama with a year's worth of cat food, a specially designed station master's hat, and a gold name tag for her collar stating her name and position. The publicity from Tama's appointment led to an increase in passengers by 17% for that month as compared to January 2006; ridership statistics for March 2007 showed a 10% increase over the previous financial year. A study estimated that the publicity surrounding Tama has contributed 1.1 billion yen to the local economy. Tama is often cited as part of a phenomenon known in Japan as "Nekonomics," which refers to the positive economic impact of having a cat mascot.
On December 5 2007, Tama was recognized as the grand prize winner of the railway's "Top Station Runner Award". The year-end bonus was modified to a special cat toy and a celebratory slice of crab, which Tama was fed by the company president. On January 5 2008, Tama was promoted to "super station master" in a ceremony attended by the president of the company, the mayor, and approximately 300 spectators. Her new position had an "office" — a converted ticket booth containing a litter box. Her gold name tag was modified to a gold tag with a blue background with an added "S" for "super".
On October 28, 2008, Tama was knighted and awarded the title of "Wakayama de Knight" by the prefectural governor, Yoshinobu Nishizaka, for her work in promoting local tourism. In early 2009, the Wakayama Electric Railway introduced a new "Tama train" train on the line which was customized with cartoon depictions of Tama. In January 2010, railway officials promoted Tama to the post of "Operating Officer" in recognition of her contribution to expanding the customer base. Tama maintained the station master's job while taking over the new job, and was the first cat to become an executive of a railroad corporation. On January 6 2011, Tama's fourth year as stationmaster was celebrated with a ceremony and her promotion to "Managing Executive Officer", third in line in management after the company president and the managing director.
Tama died on June 22 2015, at the age of 16, of apparent heart failure at an animal hospital in Wakayama Prefecture. After her passing, thousands of her fans from all over Japan came to pay their respects. She was honored with a Shinto-style funeral at the station and was given the posthumous title "Honorary Eternal Stationmaster". She was enshrined at a nearby Shinto cat shrine as spirit goddess Tama Daimyōjin on August 11, 2015. After the traditional fifty day mourning period, Tama was succeeded by her deputy, Nitama. Nitama's first official duty was to be conveyed to her predecessor's shrine to pay her respects.
On January 5, 2012, Tama's official apprentice, named "Nitama" ("Second Tama") was revealed. Born in Okayama City in 2010, Nitama was rescued from under a train car and adopted by Okayama Electric Tramway. Nitama trained at Idakiso Station (five stops away on the same line as Kishi Station) before being chosen as Tama's apprentice. On January 6, 2017, the 10th anniversary of Tama's installment as stationmaster, Yontama ("Fourth Tama"), an eight month-old calico, was introduced as Nitama's subordinate and the new stationmaster of Idakiso Station, the station Nitama trained at, on Nitama's days off. Every year on June 23, the anniversary of Tama's death, her successors Nitama and Yontama are carried to her shrine and offerings are presented by the company president on their behalf.
"Sun-tama-tama" (a pun on "Santama", lit. "third Tama") was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tama's successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up, writing, "I will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama." As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tama's Twitter account.
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Since I am punished by awareness of this show, so must you all be…..
Gigantosaurus is a CGI-animated preschool series created by Franck Salomé, Nicolas Sedel, Fernando Worcel and directed by Olivier Lelardoux based on the book by Jonny Duddle. The series is a co-production between the French animation studio Cyber Group Studios and Kaibou, with animation done by Canadian studio Blue Spirit Studio, with participation from Disney Channel and France Télévisions, and support from other Canadian companies.
The series premiered on January 18, 2019 on Disney Channel as part of the Disney Junior block, airing on its dedicated channel as well.
On December 11, 2019, the series was renewed for a second and third season. The second season premiered on January 4, 2021. The third season premiered on August 9, 2021.
Based on the bestselling book by Jonny Duddle and publisher Templar, four dinosaur friends interact with the viewer and explore their world and seek out and learn about the titular dinosaur from the book the series is based on, the biggest, fiercest dinosaur of all: Gigantosaurus (not to be confused with the real species of dinosaur, Giganotosaurus).
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The fictional beverage Romulan Ale, featured on several Star Trek series, was created on-set by mixing seltzer water with Glacier Freeze Gatorade (introduced 1997). Prior to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999), Romulan Ale was never mentioned by name, but an unspecified blue-tinted Romulan beverage was depicted in 1991's Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, reportedly composed mainly of blue raspberry Kool-Aid.
Romulan Ale was first mentioned by name and shown on screen in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
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The fictional beverage Romulan Ale, featured on several Star Trek series, was created on-set by mixing seltzer water with Glacier Freeze Gatorade (introduced 1997). Prior to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999), Romulan Ale was never mentioned by name, but an unspecified blue-tinted Romulan beverage was depicted in 1991's Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, reportedly composed mainly of blue raspberry Kool-Aid.Romulan Ale was first mentioned by name and shown on screen in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
That'll teach me not to triple-check everything I find online with Memory Alpha. Now I need to track down the original source I found...
According to recent findings, woolly mammoths survived on the North American continent until roughly 5,000 years ago.
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According to a note from Doug Niles in the Dragonlance Annotated Chronicles, the names of the three volcanoes collectively called the Lords of Doom - Huerzyd, Duerghast, and Luerkhisis - were adapted from the names of Donald Duck’s nephews: Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
The 1758 edition of Poor Richard's Almanack, written and published by the American polymath Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) under the pseudonym "Poor Richard Saunders" includes the aphorism "He that lives upon hope, dies fasting." However, an earlier version of the quote appears in the 1736 edition as "He that lives upon hope, dies farting." It is unclear whether the 1736 version was a misprint or the 1758 quote a sanitized version of the earlier.
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The 2010 edition of Farmer's Almanac included a list of the "5 Worst Weather Cities," listing Syracuse, New York at #1. Several years later (for some reason), this produced a semi-tongue-in-cheek reaction from online periodical Syracuse.com, which described its home city as a "winter wonderland." The website also suggested an an alternative #1 entry:
"[E]nough with passing around this three-year old libel on Facebook against our partly sunny city. The No. 1 Worst Winter City? Really? What about Buffalo? They've got the Bills."
Between 13 November and 26 November 2014, a massive storm dropped record-breaking snowfall on much of Erie County, New York, with areas in and around Buffalo and the Southtowns area receiving up to 5-7 feet (1.5-2.1 meters) of snow, trapping people in their homes and stranding many vehicles. In one notable instance, a group of South Buffalo residents looted an abandoned Doritos truck. In August 2015, nine months following the November storm, there was a spike in the number of babies born in Buffalo, New York. One hospital reported an increase of six new babies a day to as many as 16, with expectations of a 25 to 30 percent increase in births by the end of the month.
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The longest recorded word to ever appear in literature, as well as the longest Greek word, is "Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioka rabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonopt ekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon," rendered in 183 Latin letters (in the original Greek, "λοπαδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεοκρανιολειψανοδριμυποτριμματοσιλφιοκαραβο μελιτοκατακεχυμενοκιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττοπεριστεραλεκτρυονοπτοκεφαλλι οκιγκλοπελειολαγῳοσιραιοβαφητραγανοπτερύγων," 175 letters).
The word originally appeared in Aristophanes' comedy Assemblywomen (Ecclesiazusae, Ἐκκλησιάζουσαι), written in 391 BC, and refers to a fictional dish of fish, fowl, hare, and sauce. In the 1966 Leo Strauss English prose translation, the dish is translated as "oysters-saltfish-skate-sharks'-heads-left-over-vinegar-dressing-laserpitiu m-leek-with-honey-sauce-thrush-blackbird-pigeon-dove-roast-cock's-brains-wa gtail-cushat-hare-stewed-in-new-wine-gristle-of-veal-pullet's-wings," while the 1902 Benjamin Bickley Rogers English verse translation follows the original meter with:
Plattero-filleto-mulleto-turboto-
-Cranio-morselo-pickleo-acido-
-Silphio-honeyo-pouredonthe-topothe-
-Ouzelo-throstleo-cushato-culvero-
-Cutleto-roastingo-marowo-dippero-
-Leveret-syrupu-gibleto-wings
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R.U.R. is a 1920 science-fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. "R.U.R." stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots, a phrase that has been used as a subtitle in English versions). The play had its world premiere on 2 January 1921 in Hradec Králové; it introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.
The 2010 edition of Farmer's Almanac included a list of the "5 Worst Weather Cities," listing Syracuse, New York at #1. Several years later (for some reason), this produced a semi-tongue-in-cheek reaction from online periodical Syracuse.com, which described its home city as a "winter wonderland." The website also suggested an an alternative #1 entry:
I went to college there, and walked around the city a lot getting to see a lot of its.. peculiarities up close. (One of which was the terrible bus system. Which is why i did a LOT of walking) When I ran a mixed group of white wolf characters (black dog) campaign I set it there because I could use the town as a setting like no sourcebook ever could.
The weather and cloud cover are so bad it was a plot point that the vampires were doing it as a safety measure in case they got caught outside. All sunlight levels were 1 less severe except for July when they show off the university campus...
I went to college there
Which college, and when?
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The 2002 film Scooby-Doo was originally set to have a much darker tone, essentially poking fun at the older cartoons, and was set for a PG-13 rating. Shaggy was set to be a stoner, Velma and Daphne had a side relationship, and there were many marijuana references. According to Sarah Michelle Gellar, after the cast had signed on, there was a change and the film became more family-friendly. However, by 2017, James Gunn confirmed that the original cut of the film got an R-rating and had to use CGI to cover cleavage.
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Before starring together on Amazon’s The Boys, Erin Moriarty (Starlight) and Jack Quaid (Hughie) appeared in a music video for the song Have You Ever Seen The Rain, by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
"Have You Ever Seen The Rain" was originally released by the band on their 1971 album Pendulum, but an official music video was not released until 2018, 47 years later, as part of a series of 50-year anniversary album reissues (a video for "Fortunate Son" was also produced).
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The origins of the name 'Demogorgon' are not entirely clear, though the most prevalent scholarly view now considers it to be a misreading of the Greek δημιουργόν (dēmiourgón, accusative case form of δημιουργός, 'demiurge') based on the manuscript variations in the earliest known explicit reference in Lactantius Placidus. Boccaccio, in his influential Genealogia Deorum Gentilium, cites a now-lost work by Theodontius and that master's acknowledged Byzantine source "Pronapides the Athenian" as authority for the idea that Demogorgon is the antecedent of all the gods. Art historian Jean Seznec concludes that "Demogorgon is a grammatical error, become god."
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I went to college thereWhich college, and when?
Suny College of Environmental science and Forestry (ESF) around 2000
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Romans had Ikea human hamster wheel powered water pumps.
One was found in Spain, of non Spanish wood, with roman numerals indicating which part went to which.
The British museum still put it together wrong, so the water would have been draining out on both sides instead of just one.
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Suny College of Environmental science and Forestry (ESF) around 2000I went to college thereWhich college, and when?
Figured as much-- my father was in the class of '82, and I was there '18-'20 going for my second degree. Seems like wherever I go, I run into ESF grads...
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ULTIMATE "GEEK-LOVE": H. P. Lovecraft was a virgin before marriage, and prepared for his wedding-night Rites of Spring the only way he knew how: By gathering up lots and lots of books on the subject, and reading them all - fully-functional and Al-haz-red in multiple techniques!
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The Last Kingdom is a British historical fiction television series based on Bernard Cornwell's The Saxon Stories series of novels. The series was developed for television by Stephen Butchard, premiering on the 10 October 2015 on the BBC. In 2018 the show was acquired by Netflix. The series lasted for a total of five seasons, with the final season airing on 9 March 2022. A feature-length sequel, titled Seven Kings Must Die, has been filmed for Netflix.
The protagonist of the series is Uhtred of Bebbanburg, born to a Saxon lord in Northumbria. He is captured as a child and adopted by a Danish warlord. The name of the fictional protagonist comes from the historical Uhtred the Bold; Cornwell is a descendant of this family.
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The Last KingdomI feel obligated to leave this here
I should probably share that with my brother. He’s the history major who actually read the books.
He’s trying to get me to read them, but I’ve got like 30 or 40 other books ahead of them on the list I keep in my head.
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Duesenberg Automobile and Motors Company, Inc. was an American racing and luxury automobile manufacturer founded in Indianapolis, Indiana, by brothers Frederick and August Duesenberg in 1920. The company is known for popularizing the straight-eight engine and four-wheel hydraulic brakes. A Duesenberg car was the first American car to win the 1921 French Grand Prix and Duesenbergs won the Indianapolis 500 in 1924, 1925, and 1927. Transportation executive Errett Lobban Cord acquired the Duesenberg corporation in 1926. The company was sold and dissolved in 1937.
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Your cooking is so bad it can pave the driveway....
Sticky Rice mortar is used in chinese construction and many parts of the great wall. Cooked rice is added to the lye and water , much like the romans used volcanic ash