What does god need with a car?
Cuz HE looks cool.
If I was god, I’d be out partying and stuff, not sitting at home by the phone, duh.
I dunno, but he has one. A Honda. As does his son, though Jesus didn’t like to talk about his:
Jesus: “For I speak not of my own Accord, but of my father’s”
(Jesus also owned a Plymouth, because he drove the moneychangers out of the temple in a Fury. Father and son three cars total–that we know of.)
Mammoth Mountain has a problem with toxic levels of CO2. On this date in 2006, three members of the ski patrol died when two of them fell into volcanic gases trapped beneath snow. A third died trying to rescue the first two.
That was at a point source, but apparently there are many diffuse sources throughout the area. Small cabins and tents, when covered in snow, can accumulate dangerous amount of the gas.
I saw something online that said that Martin Luther King’s heart, when examined during his autopsy, was found to be at the condition of a man in his 60s, despite being only 39 years old.
Curious, I managed to find the autopsy report online.
His heart was unremarkable.
But, I did learn 2 things.
If MLK had survived the assassination attempt, he would have been a quadriplegic. The bullet severed his spinal cord.
And, although described as a “well nourished” man, Dr. King was measured at only 5’ 9.5” and about 140 pounds (all that walking surely kept him trim).
Every English/British monarch since James VI and I has been descended from James VI and I. Sophia of Hanover (the matriarch of the Hanoverian dynasty) was James’s granddaughter. From there it’s a straight line to Charles.
Hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)), is a byproduct of human activities. Think welding on stainless steel, chrome plating, etc. it is a carcinogen, water soluble and hazardous to the environment (water contamination in Erin Brokovich lawsuit).
Ascorbic acid, or vitamin C, is one material that can be used to neutralize Cr(VI) to Cr(III), a non toxic compound found naturally in our bodies and the environment.
There are more than 200 Sequoiadendron giganteum left in the former kingdom of Württemberg (1/21 the size of California; now part of the state of Baden-Württemberg) - the remainder of about 5000-8000 seeds that sprouted. The King of Württemberg, a great nature lover, ordered a pound of seeds for 90 $ in 1864, unaware of giant redwood seeds being tiny - one pound is about 100,000 seeds. The royal tree nursery raised seedlings for distribution in forests and parks all over Württemberg
The giant redwood trees are well known natural features called Wellingtonien at the time and now popularly called Mammutbäume and marked on maps.
One congregation some 10 km from where I live displayed a regrettable lack of long term planning when planting their seedling at their 12th century church (click to see uncropped).
TIL in WW1 the Germans built an electric fence along the Belgian/Dutch border, to prevent any Belgian patriots going to France (via Netherlands and the UK) and rejoining the war.
Estimates of deaths it caused range from 1,000 to 4,000. A large number were shot, as to even approach the fence was forbidden.
In Turkmenistan, all cars must be painted white. In this video - you can see parking lots full of nothing but white cars.
A museum from 530 BC, in the state of Ur
It is literally the Ur-museum
ISWYD
“Nabonidus” was the named Robert E. Howard ripped off as the name of the Red Priest in the un-named city where his story “Rogues in the House” is set. Judging from the story, Nabonidus had a collection of interesting things in his house – Lotus poison, an optical viewing system, a live proto-human anthropoid – to make a decent museum.
I guess I kinda knew that the BBC provided a news service to numerous countries in their own language, but I never bothered to find out which. Well, here’s the list:
There are getting on for fifty languages. I looked this up because I stumbled across a BBC news article in Pidgin, and wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at. Here’s the Pidgin homepage:
And a sample article:
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Preceding vascular plants as the predominant large treelike organisms on land were the Prototaxites - Wikipedia, now believed to be large fungus organisms.
isnt the largest living organism some kind of fungus that spread below the surface for more than 1000 miles somewhere in the usa?
… and all the fruit (funghi?) that pop up share identic dna?
There is a honey fungus in Oregon that is about 2,200 acres in area that would be the largest organism by area if it is actually connected, but that hasn’t been confirmed. The largest organism by biomass is a clonal group of quaking aspen in Pando, Utah.
thx, that was it (I just confused tall trees with small funghi - but who doesn’t 
) … they share the same rhizomes and those are distributed over huge spaces under the surface …
If “Pando” is the name of the location, it’s named after the organism. The stand of trees is itself named “Pando”, from the Latin for “I shake”.