Also it wasn’t nearly completed. Its sister ship (Global Dream) started construction a year earlier and is still only 80% complete. The pictures I’ve seen of Global Dream 2 (the one being scrapped) looks like a container ship with scaffolding instead of containers. I think a lot of media has featured images of her sister giving the impression that a shinny new ship is being scrapped.
Good point!
Looking at Roadside America today, there’s an article about Connie’s Photo Park, where you can stick your head in various comic foregrounds (aka photo stand-in)
It turns out that the guy who invented them, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, was also the artist who painted the original Dogs Playing Poker.
Ford’s Theater all on its own killed more people than John Wilkes Booth.
In 1893 Col. Fred Ainsworth, the chief of the pension bureau, ordered construction to install electric lights in the building, “for the comfort and convenience of the employees,” the New York Times reported at the time. The electric light plant required extensive renovation to the basement, and employees began getting edgy when they noticed plaster falling from the ceiling on the upper floors.
On Friday, June 9th, during the workday, a beam in the basement collapsed, and a huge portion of the interior of the building collapsed, killing 22 people and injuring more than 100, most of them War Department employees.
Did the beam yell out, “Sic semper tyrannis!” after collapsing?
Genius! 22 less pensions to pay out!
But that’s nullified by the expense of all the Purple Hearts.
OK, bear with me…
I heard that there were so many purple hearts minted for WWII, anticipating the massive number of casualties for the invasion of Japan–which never happened, that today they’re still giving out the WWII purple hearts.
So…was there perhaps something similar going on during or after the Civil War? And, were purple hearts given out by both Union and Confederate armies? If so, did they look the same??
The original Purple Heart, designated as the Badge of Military Merit, was established by George Washington – then the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army – by order from his Newburgh, New York headquarters on 7 August 1782. The Badge of Military Merit was only awarded to three Revolutionary War soldiers by Washington himself. Washington authorized his subordinate officers to issue Badges of Merit as appropriate. Although never abolished, the award of the badge was not proposed again officially until after World War I.[7][8]
So…neither. There were things like “wound stripes” but the Purple Heart didn’t exist during the Civil War.
Here’s an interesting read on words like pickpocket and swashbuckler.
They are a construction that only appeared new between 1550 and 1700.
Normally if this type of construction occurs, it’s noun+verb+suffix meaning a person who verbs (The suffix is usually -er, but sometimes -or, and sometimes something else)
So, a person who fights fires is a firefighter. Someone who always says “nay” to ideas is a naysayer.
But in this construction, the noun and verb are reversed, and the suffix is sometimes dropped:
Person who steals by picking things things out of a pocket is a pickpocket, not a pocketpicker.
A person who disregards, or scoffs at the law is a scofflaw, not a lawscoffler.
And the really interesting thing about this is that the words constructed this way tend to be “insults or street slang”
Lioconcha hieroglyphica - Wikipedia is a marine bivalve so named because the markings on its shell resemble runes or cuneiform.
Okay, somebody’s trying to tell us something…
“NO KILL I”
Piss off, Discourse.
THAT does not look natural. Wow.
Looks like someone was playing Conway’s Game of Life on the shell!
It’s basically this:
but with random lines missing
I tried to build a cubical one of those in Minecraft once. Unfortunately it caught fire…
Notice they are all right angles so it is more similar to his carpet
The Rosetta Stone was difficult to translate because some of the words were “spelled” wrong.
“Spelt”!
Spelt.
Nuts [.com] to you.