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[Tisme]

I must admit bridges do have a certain feminine quality when it comes to curves and bumps and other funny lumps (some of even have a tape to cut prior to the first crossing) so....

.. assuming that bridge is female this marriage could only be possible due to our SSM laws ?

So @Tisme was right. Society is going under water

The back of a bumpy school bus when you are 14 has the same strange attraction.

 

[noirua]

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Phantom Smell: Brain Disorder
You may smell something that isn’t there. The aroma could be pleasant or nasty. You might have it in one or both nostrils. It could stick around or come and go. Causes include epileptic seizures, head injuries, brain tumors, or a condition like Parkinson’s disease. See your doctor right away to rule out these conditions.

 

[noirua]

Oil
https://money.cnn.com/2017/03/10/investing/alaska-oil-discovery-repsol-spain/index.html

 

[noirua]

You don’t need training to use an AED (automated external defibrillator). Just follow the directions. This device can sense dangerous arrhythmias and send a lifesaving shock to the heart if needed. If you think someone is having cardiac arrest, call 911 and send someone to look for an AED. Do CPR until the AED or emergency responders arrive.
https://www.webmd.com/heart/ss/slid...=rdkRubj8zXFn4Y9Sa6bseuHnVev1imbCexA6bcodQzU=

 

[noirua]

Remembering the Nazi genocide of Sinti and Roma.
Many German Sinti fought for Germany not only in the First World War but also in the Wehrmacht from 1939 on.
In 1941 the German high command ordered all "Gypsies and Gypsy half-breeds" to be dismissed from active military service for "racial-political reasons."
Alfons Lampert and his wife Elsa were then deported to Auschwitz, where they were killed.
https://www.dw.com/en/remembering-the-nazi-genocide-of-sinti-and-roma/g-44930522
https://www.dw.com/en/roma-holocaus...llenreiner-recalls-nazi-gypsy-camp/a-44926614

Notorious SS doctor Josef Mengele worked at Auschwitz.
He and his colleagues tortured countless prisoners.
They mutilated children, infected them with diseases and carried out brutal experiments on twins.
Mengele sent eyes, organs and entire body parts back to Berlin.
In June 1944, he sent the head of a 12-year-old child.
He escaped Europe after the war and never faced trial.

 

[Tink]

The MCG is one of the largest stadiums in the world. Throughout its history, the 'G has held numerous events attended by well in excess of 100,000 people.

Australian football and cricket (both international and domestic) have been the staple diet of events at the MCG – the ground has hosted more than 100 VFL/AFL Grand Finals and more than 110 Test matches, many of them starting on the now-traditional Boxing Day.

Ever since the MCC encouraged its entrepreneurial caterers to sponsor the first visit by an England cricket team to Australia, big crowds have flocked to the MCG.

Stadium management always has been mindful of anticipating sporting trends. The MCG has successfully accommodated people at all levels of comfort and convenience in a variety of grandstands or open-air terraces.

http://www.mcg.org.au/the-stadium/mcg-history/attendances

 

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[noirua]

Did you know the company Tesla Motors was named after this man:

Nikola Tesla

• Lived: 10 Jul 1856 - 07 Jan 1943 (age 86)

was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.

• Inventions: Tesla coil · Alternating current · Induction motor · Three-phase electric power · Remote control · Wireless telegraphy · Neon lamp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

Tesla, Inc. is an American automotive and energy company based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in electric car manufacturing and, through its SolarCity subsidiary, solar panel manufacturing.Wikipedia

 

[noirua]

Over 470,000 Chinese companies and 20,000 Hong Kong companies are registered in the British Virgin Islands. Https://www.company-list.org

 

[noirua]

Do you know what your 'Plica Semilunaris' is?

 

[Tink]

I still have a dream, a dream deeply rooted in the American dream – one day this nation will rise up and live up to its creed,

"We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal."

I have a dream ...

—Martin Luther King Jr. (1963)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream

 

[noirua]

Make grand claims about how much gold, platinum, copper etc was produced in historical times by the Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Incas, Chinese and so on. Make it clear that those bozos could never have got it all out and there is still plenty left for everyone.

When presenting on TV or to a massed group always take a large piece of rock or drill core and wave it around imperiously.
Tell the audience that it is a very rare piece of vermiculated pyroxene gabbro. Don't let anyone touch it and never explain where it came from. Let them make the assumption that as you are holding the rock and you are talking about the company that the two are connected.
The fact that it came from your garden is not relevant here.

On no account actually find anything or even worse, go into production. That removes all the upside potential of the company at a stroke.

Never forget that the object of the company is to raise money for the benefit of the directors. It is not the aim of the company to find anything. That makes life far too complicated and the management might have to manage something.

 

[noirua]

Due to safety reasons and concerns for air pollution, many Chinese cities have banned fireworks. More than 500 cities have restrictions.

 

[noirua]

The Rock Hyrax – The Elephant's Cousin. The rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) is one of four living species of the Hyracoidea family. Their habitat is limited to Africa and the Middle East. At first glance a hyraxlooks like a guinea pig but it is actually a mammal. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Rock_hyrax_(Procavia_capensis)_2.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Elephant.jpg

 

[noirua]

'Ultraprocessed' Foods Tied to Higher Death Risk
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/13/health/ultraprocessed-food-drayer/index.html

 

[noirua]

The average lifespan of a Snowshoe Hare is one year or less, but these hares are prolific breeders. The Snowshoe Hare breeding begins in late winter and lasts into mid-summer. The timing of the breeding season varies depending on location.
Snowshoe hare are lightning fast and only feed at night. During the day, the little rabbits snuggle down in the snow to sleep, making them nearly invisible to the naked eye.

 

[noirua]

CAPUCHIN MONKEYS PEE ON THEIR HANDS TO WASH THEIR FEET.

 

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[noirua]

...the longest living royal was
Queen Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II of the Ashanti Kingdom
She died aged 109 years as Queen Mother.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Afia_Kobi_Serwaa_Ampem_II

 

[noirua]

Robert Robinson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Robinson_(engineer)

Robinson moved with his parents to Cuba, where he grew up.[3] He and his mother were abandoned by his father when he was six.[4] His mother was born in Dominica and had gone to Jamaica while employed by a doctor.[3] He and his mother emigrated to the United States and settled in Detroit. He went to local schools and became a skilled toolmaker at the Ford Motor Company during the expansive years in the auto industry.

Robert Robinson (1907–1994) was a Jamaican-born toolmaker who worked in the auto industry in the United States. At the age of 23, he was recruited to work in the Soviet Union. Shortly after his arrival in Stalingrad, Robinson was racially assaulted by two white American workers, both of whom were subsequently arrested, tried and expelled from the Soviet Union with great publicity.

He arrived in Stalingrad on July 4, 1930, to begin working in a tractor factory.[8] The only African American among a contingent of workers from the United States, Robinson was beaten by two white American workers shortly after his arrival. After the incident the Soviet press turned him into a minor celebrity, publicising his case as an example of American racism.[9]

In 1937, the US government ordered Robinson to return home or relinquish his citizenship. Robinson chose to stay in the Soviet Union due to the continuing depression and accepted Soviet citizenship although he later regretted this decision. He survived Stalin's Great Purge while many of his foreign acquaintances in Moscow vanished in 1936–1939.[1]

Robinson survived the German invasion of Russia, during which Hitler's army was stopped only 44 miles (71 km) from Moscow. During the war, he almost died of starvation, with some meals consisting of six or seven cabbage leaves soaked in lukewarm water. Despite the war, the Soviets arranged for continued education. According to his autobiography, in July 1944, Robinson graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering, but did not receive his diploma until two years later.[17]

In 1947, he starred as a black American in a film about Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay.[1] He also advised and acted in a Russian film production of the American racial drama Deep Are The Roots, (Глубоки корни).[18][19][20]

Through the efforts of Ugandan officials, and US Information Service officer William B. Davis, he was eventually allowed to re-enter the United States and re-gained United States citizenship in 1986.[1] He lived in the US until his death in 1994. Following his return, he gave interviews about his insights into Soviet life from the inside, and was also featured in the Detroit Free Press. He was honored by the Ford Motor Company, 60 years after he began his work there. He moved to Washington, D.C. with his wife.[21]

After returning to the United States, Robinson wrote his autobiography, with the writer Jonathan Slevin. It was published as Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside The Soviet Union (1988).

Robinson died of cancer in 1994. Among those attending the funeral were his wife,[22] William B. Davis, and Mathias Lubega, former Ugandan ambassador to the Soviet Union.[23]