Mildly interesting
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All The Bars In France That Primarily Serve Alcohol
https://brilliantmaps.com/bars-in-france/
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Average Daily Long-Haul Truck Traffic on the National Highway System (2015).
Interesting that the heaviest flow seems to be from Chicago to Cleveland on I90.
wrote on 14 Dec 2024, 18:57 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Average Daily Long-Haul Truck Traffic on the National Highway System (2015).
Interesting that the heaviest flow seems to be from Chicago to Cleveland on I90.
I think the 35/37 corridor in Texas is a little busier.
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Everything in Texas
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All The Bars In France That Primarily Serve Alcohol
https://brilliantmaps.com/bars-in-france/wrote on 14 Dec 2024, 19:33 last edited by@Mik said in Mildly interesting:
All The Bars In France That Primarily Serve Alcohol
https://brilliantmaps.com/bars-in-france/I wanna party with the Bretons.
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The seven City Gates into Medieval London
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@Mik in the upper right hand corner is "And Gate."
https://spywrite.com/2021/02/24/where-is-slough-house-located/
Google map search
Not sure if it's the same location, though.
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There is a real Slough House? Cool!!!!
One of my very favorite shows.
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@Mik said in Mildly interesting:
There is a real Slough House? Cool!!!!
One of my very favorite shows.
The books are a ton of fun. Herron's style is a bit awkward until you get used to it. I've done 5 of them so far.
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Dang. Slough House is not real.
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I have stayed in a couple different hotels in Slough, it is out near Windsor Castle and Heathrow.
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Half of the silent generation accomplished all three by age 26 or so. Gen-x still hasn’t quite made half by 40. (I barely made it at 40, three months before turning 41).
(Odd that the graph slopes go negative at points- are they subtracting people out for getting divorced?)
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Blaine County...
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All three residents?
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@Mik said in Mildly interesting:
All three residents?
7044...
Blaine County has actually voted for the winner in every election since 1916 - except 1988, when they voted Dukakis.
True, but...
Blaine County is the nation's most consistent long-term bellwether county, having voted for the winning presidential candidate in all but two elections held in its history. After backing Theodore Roosevelt against Woodrow Wilson in the county's inaugural 1912 election, Blaine County has been won by the winner of the presidential election in every election except that of 1988, held during the aftermath of a major drought and farm crisis; Michael Dukakis won the county by 58 votes.
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The reason why Gene Simmons never drank or did drugs
Simmons has always been firmly against alcohol and drugs because of his mother, a Holocaust survivor who endured the horrors of a concentration camp, where many members of her family perished. “I’m her only child,” the musician shared. “I knew I had no right to hurt my mother. Life had already done enough to her.”
Gene Simmons recounted a memorable and humbling moment during his first major interview with Rolling Stone when his mother interrupted:
“When I met the Rolling Stone writer, I was very careful to cultivate the mystique of the demon. I wore all my spider and silver jewelry and my leather pants. I puffed my hair as big as it could go. With my seven-inch platform boots with silver dollar signs on them and black nail polish, I thought I was ready to project the perfect rock-and-roll image.
Then, at one point, the doorbell rang. I answered it, and there was my mother at the door with enough food to feed the world: fresh soups, veal chops, pancakes, jams, and cakes.
She insisted that the writer and I—whom she referred to as "hungry boys"—stop what we were doing and eat. She kept calling me by my Hebrew name, Chaim, and told the writer that I was a good boy. The big, bad demon was just a mama’s boy."
