Finally! A sport I could do well in!
All of China is in one time zone. It’s the same time in Shanghai as it is in Kashgar - 4200 km/2600 miles directly west. You go back two hours when you cross the western border into the adjoining K-Stans; 3 hours into Pakistan; 3.5 hours in Afghanistan.
You’ve never heard James Earl Jone’s natural voice. The voice everyone knows is an assumed voice, his way of beating a stutter.
Whereas Russia covers 11 time zones.
It must be a decision by the government.
The sun doesn’t care about governments. Imagine one time zone in the US. Assume a 8AM to 5 workday. People on the East Coast would go to work in daylight and go to bed at 9 when its night.
West coast goes to work in the dark at 8AM and won’t see daylight until 11AM. 9 pm bedtime would still be daylight.
I guess you can get used to anything. I’m glad we have time zones.
Rural people get up by the sun and ignore clocks. Livestock don’t wakeup to eat until sunrise. You really can’t plow the fields efficiently in the dark.
Yes you can. This is why I think the whole world should use the same clock. When it’s 12pm in Greenwich, it should be 12pm everywhere.
And Samuel L. Jackson says “motherfucker” to beat his stutter.
I stumbled across this purely by accident, but it blew me away. This takes a bit to explain.
Fontaine Foxx created the comic strip Toonerville Folks, which is probably not so well-known today to your average person, but is considered iconic (although usually as “Toonerville Trolley”). But he never let it be continued, as many strip asre, and itt’s rarely been collected and reprinted.
Anyway, like L. Frank Baum, who started a silent movie series based on his Oz books, Foxx started a silent movie series based on his strip. Instead iof starring one of his adult characters, the focus was on the town bully, a little boy named Mickey McGuire (“himself”). They were apparently a lot like Hal Roach’s “Our Gang/Little Rascals” comedies. But, again, they were never syndicated to TV, so they’re little known today. Very popular in their time. They starred a (when he started) seven year old son of vaudeville parents named Joseph Yule, Jr. as McGuire. He eventually had his own name changed to Mickey Maguire (slight spelling difference) for some sort of copyright legal case. Except for a short span, Mickey Maguire was Mickey McGuire for nine years and 78 films, crossing into the sound era.
Mickey was justifiably proud of his accomplishments, and nanme. He claimed to have influenced Walt Disney’s changing the name of his cartoon mouse from “Mortimer” to “Mickey” (although that’s not the story the Disney people tell.)
The role ended in 1936, and Mickey, who had also acted in other films, was going to start working with other studios. But they objected to his using the name “Maguire”, claiming that they owned it. He still wanted to be “Mickey”, but he changed his last name…
…to Rooney.
And this was a year before the first Andy Hardy movie.
Or rather, time should be kept in 24 hour Zulu mode, but local activities follow a convenient day/night schedule. So in the Central time zone most businesses would have hours of 14:00 to 23:00 Zulu.
Have you read the Metric conversion threads?
You wish.
Burt Ward (Robin from the Batman TV show) and Linna Quigley (a lot of b-movies) were in a movie together called Virgin High. Haven’t seen it, don’t plan to do so.
According to Google Maps, driving distance from El Paso, Texas to San Diego, California is 726 miles. Driving distance from El Paso to Houston, also in Texas, is 746 miles.
According to researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, all mammals spend 21 seconds urinating. Size doesn’t matter. Elephants and rats spend the same time emptying their bladders.
Apparently mother nature has hit on this number as the best compromise for minimizing vulnerability. Maybe predators take 22 seconds to target and attack?
Cite: 21-Second Rule Governs Mammal Micturition - Scientific American
Also according to Google Maps, the driving distance from Brownsville, Texas to Buffalo Springs in the Texas panhandle is 100 miles less than the driving distance from Buffalo Springs to Portal, North Dakota.
Very nice.
At the opposite end of the country, a driving route from Portland, Maine, to Battleboro, Vermont, to Providence, Rhode Island, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Baltimore, Maryland is 669 miles. This route passes through 11 states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland.