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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Are people still dying of AIDS? A gay sportscaster died at 33 of an auto immune disease that he's had for 20 years. That's an interesting narrative if it's AIDS.
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Was he a sportscaster that happened to be gay, or did he report on gay sports?
Me/rry/Christmas
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@LuFins-Dad said in Mildly interesting:
Was he a sportscaster that happened to be gay, or did he report on gay sports?
Not sure how much soccer reporting he did.
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Doggerland, 9,000 years ago, connected Britain to continental Europe through a mix of marshes, swamps, wooded valleys, and hills. It was likely inhabited by humans during the Mesolithic period and served as a hunting ground.
However, ice melted, sea levels rose, and Doggerland became submerged, cutting off the British peninsula from Europe around 7,000 BC. Today, Doggerland is a productive fishing bank, with fishermen dredging up hand-made bone artifacts, textile fragments, paddles, canoes, fish traps, a 13,000-year-old human remains, and a woolly mammoth skull
"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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1910 Gyro Monorail -
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Fascinating.
The gyroscopic stabilizer is the basis for the Segway, isn't it?
Also, the tilting during curves is accomplished in modern trains by what's called "superelevating" the rail, with the outside rail being just a bit higher than the inside rail.
The Acela's route is not superelevated along most (if any) of its route. Traveling at 135 mph around curves would be uncomfortable for passengers. The builder of the train solved that problem by allowing the body of the car to tilt "into" the curve while the trucks and wheels remained level.
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Roman Army Knife (201-300 AD); has a spoon, knife, fork, spike, spatula and pick allowing the user to even clean between their teeth after eating. It was part of the equipment of Roman legions.
This folding eating gadget has a three-pronged fork, a spoon,a spatula,a pick, a spike and an iron knife that has eroded away.
There is a hinge to allow each item to be folded out when it was needed, or folded away for ease of transporting it.
The spike might of helped in extracting the meat from snails, and the spatula in scraping sauce out of narrow-necked bottles. Some have even suggested the pick with the tiny spoon on the end could have been used to remove earwax.
Material : Silver and Iron
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