U2 was ahead of the curve.
Sea cucumbers’ poop is actually cleaner than their food intake. Sea beds and coral reefs are healthier when there are sea cucumbers around.
And inspired a damn good song.
This one, maybe?
I was reading about (“Mama”) Cass Elliot’s death, which wasn’t really from choking on a ham sandwich. Singer Harry Nilsson had allowed her to use his place.
…Elliot, age 32…died in Flat 12, 9 Curzon Place (later Curzon Square), Shepherd Market, Mayfair, London. Four years later, The Who’s drummer Keith Moon died in the same room, also aged 32 years.[37][38
Nilsson, distraught over another friend’s death in his flat, and having little need for the property, sold it to Moon’s bandmate Pete Townshend[20] and consolidated his life in Los Angeles.
The room didn’t get Townshend? Well, I guess there’s still time left.
Pete isn’t 32 any more, so the danger has passed…
Today’s item: Trenton, TN has a speed limit of 31 mph.
Do you find sometimes that you get what you need?
Yes, but you made it sound like it was an optional/alternative way of verbally expressing a number; I’m saying your way is the only way it’s supposed to be done.
As a result of observations made by the Juno space probe (launched a decade ago), scientists now believe they have solved the mystery of where the scattering dust responsible for zodiacal light comes from
No. If I was referring to dalmations, no ‘half’ would be needed, but for inanimate objects, ‘one o one point five’ would be normal. For me at any rate.
That’s the second most interesting thing I’ve learned about the zodiacal light recently. The first is that Brian May, the lead guitarist of Queen, earned a PhD in astrophysics in 2007, and his thesis was on the dust that causes the zodiacal light. He started his astrophysics study in 1970 but abandoned it when Queen became popular. In the 2000s he found that so little work had been done on this topic in the intervening decades that his research from the 1970s was still relevant.
Going back to London Bridge: the original medieval bridge was finished in 1209 and the one in Arizona was built in the 19th century to replace it. You can still find bits of the original bridge around London today. St Magnus the Marytr’s Church uses a pedestrian archway from the bridge as part of it’s facade and has bits of the bridge piled in its courtyard.
One of the alcoves sits in the campus at Kings near Guy’s Hospital and there’s a seated statue of John Keats on the bench in it. I’ve sat and had a sandwich with him, though he wasn’t very interested in me.
That’s a cool alcove and story.
I believe I am one of the few people who has driven over, walked over and sailed under the 19th century bridge in both locations. I’ve urinated off of it too, but only in Arizona. Oh, to be young and foolish, instead of just foolish!
That is impressive!
Now that’s cool!
I understand why they planted him facing out, but it’s a shame they didn’t leave one seat’s worth of space to his right so someone could sit with him facing them. Having one’s lunch while he turns the back of his head to oneself is a bit insulting, even if he is someone far above my social station, and perhaps yours as well.
How very dare you!!!
G.I. Joe served in the United States Army Pigeon Service during World War II. He participated in the Italian Campaign and is credited for saving the lives of Italian civilians as well as members of the British 56th (London) Infantry Division in the village of Calvi Vecchia in 1943. In 1946 he was presented with the Dickens medal. Upon his death in 1961 he was stuffed, mounted, and put on display.
One of the UK’s more unusual War Memorials is dedicated to Warrior Birds “who gave their lives on active service 1939-45.” It’s located in a park in Worthing, on the south coast; that’s a day trip out for us, and we have passed by in November and found wreaths laid at the memorial.
According to this wiki “it is thought to be the only such memorial in Britain.”
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TIL Everest is getting taller at an estimated rate of 4mm/year.