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From Stephen Hough's Book "Rough Ideas."
The American pianist Jerome Lowenthal told me he was backstage in Paris in the 1950s when he overheard an old lady speaking to the pianist at the end of the concert.
'My father said that people always play L'Ile joyeuse too quickly.'
'Oh,' replied the pianist, 'and who is your father?'
'Claude Debussy.'
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From Stephen Hough's Book "Rough Ideas."
The American pianist Jerome Lowenthal told me he was backstage in Paris in the 1950s when he overheard an old lady speaking to the pianist at the end of the concert.
'My father said that people always play L'Ile joyeuse too quickly.'
'Oh,' replied the pianist, 'and who is your father?'
'Claude Debussy.'
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@George-K said in Mildly interesting:
That’s actually a good idea and it often works. Lots of guilty people are set free or found not guilty because the defense presents some random DNA found at the scene that isn’t the defendant’s. Reasonable doubt. And because it allows the defense to say “DNA”, the jury is impressed. In this guy’s case, he had a chance of lucking out with some random fingerprint from some random person that just happened to be at the scene.
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@George-K said in Mildly interesting:
She's mostly doing fountains. Classic exchanges wouldn't look nearly as cool from that angle.
Really good, though.
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https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/marine-angel-vessel-chicago-river/
"in 1953, the biggest vessel to travel the Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway (at the time) managed to wind its way downtown on the Chicago River.
This steel hull behemoth was nearly 634 feet long (193m) and 70 feet wide (21.3m) and according to a Chicago Tribune account, the freighter had only seven inches of clearance on each side at Van Buren Street."
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Thanks, George! That's really cool.
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47% of American homes are heated with natural gas, 40% electricity (resistance + heat pumps), and about 5% each with propone and oil.
The map matches my experience, Oil in Boston, Electricity in Northern VA, and Oil in South eastern VA. It looks like there might be a small bit of purple near this neighborhood.
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@George-K said in Mildly interesting:
The average cat’s reaction time is approximately 20-70 milliseconds, which is faster than the average snake’s reaction time, 44-70 milliseconds.
As opposed to the average middle aged white guy’s reaction time, which is 5-7 seconds.