The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are on display at the Musée national du Moyen Âge in the Hôtel de Cluny. The Hôtel was the Paris residence of the powerful Abbots of Cluny until the Revolution. It is well worth a visit.
A tapestry woven in Melbourne Australia by the Victorian Tapestry workshop was Australia’s wedding gist to Charles and Diana. (my mum wove it)
Very cool!
In play: With GitHub gists :D, single files, parts of files, and full applications can be shared with other people. Directories can’t be shared. Every gist is a Git repository, which means that it can be forked and cloned. The gist editor is powered by CodeMirror. There are two types of gists: public gists and secret gists.
The National Mine Map Repository is part of the United States Department of the Interior. It resides in the Pittsburgh suburb of Green Tree, Pennsylvania, and collects and maintains mine map information and images for the entire country. The Green Tree facility provides and stores, digitally and in microfilm over 182,000 maps of abandoned mines. The repository contains maps of mine workings from the 1790s to the present day.
Why “green with envy”? In antiquity, the Hebrew word for envy, qinah, referred to the burning color in the face produced by a deep emotion. The Greeks believed that jealousy was accompanied by an overproduction of bile, lending a yellowish-green pallor to the victim’s complexion. In the seventh century B.C., the poetess Sappho used the word “green” to describe the face of a stricken lover. After that, the word was used freely by other poets to denote jealousy or envy. The most famous such reference and the origin of the term “green-eyed monster” is Iago’s speech in Shakespeare’s Othello: “O! Beware my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-ey’d monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green is a popular 1970 song performed by Kermit the Frog on both Sesame Street and The Muppet Show. The song has since been covered by singers including Thurl Ravenscroft, Frank Sinatra, Buddy Rich, Van Morrison, Ray Charles, Mandy Patinkin, Della Reese, …
… and Oscar the Grouch.
Adam Sandler’s “The Chanukah Song” appeared on the 2013 edition of “Broadway’s Carols for a Cure CD.” performed by Eric Anderson, Amber Iman, Ron Orbach, and The Original Broadway Cast Of “Soul Doctor.” Instead of singing Sandler’s original lyrics, the singers listed off famous Broadway performers who are Jewish.
Chanukah is the festival of lights
Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights
When you feel like the only kid in town without a Christmas tree
Here’s a list of Broadway people who are Jewish just like you and me
Mandy Patinkin lights the memorah
While Joel Gray and Stephen Schwartz sit and read the Torah.
So many Jews on The Great White Way.
Even Harry Potter was heard chanting “Oy veh.”
The Great White Fleet was sent by President Theodore Roosevelt to circumnavigate the globe, both to build goodwill and to show the worldwide reach of the United States Navy. The warships returned to the U.S. just in time for the President to welcome it back a few weeks before leaving office in March 1905.
Ninja’d!
[del]A favorite song!
Mandy Patinkin, as Inigo Montoya, has several memorable lines in The Princess Bride (1987), including:
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
You seem a decent fellow… I hate to kill you.
I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it’s over, I do not know what to do with the rest of my life.
There will be blood tonight!
Fezzik, tear his arms off.
He’s right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.
Let me explain… No, there is too much. Let me sum up.
I do not think you would accept my help, since I am only waiting around to kill you.
I do not mean to pry, but you don’t by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.[/del]
Great White Buffalo is a song written and performed by Ted Nugent. It appeared on the album Tooth, Fang, and Claw, which was the seventh and last album that featured Nugent’s band, The Amboy Dukes. Nugent went solo after this album and released a string of successful albums throughout the Seventies.
(I saw Nugent live a couple of times in my misspent youth. I blame those concerts for at least part of my hearing loss…)
Bison, or buffalo, are the largest land mammals of the continent. They can still be seen in protected locations in the US, including Antelope Island State Park in the Great Salt Lake near Salt Lake City, Utah; National Bison Range in Moiese, Montana; Catalina Island near Los Angeles, California; Land Between the Lakes Elk and Bison Prairie in Golden Pond, Kentucky; Theodore Roosevelt National Park in Medora, North Dakota; and also a small herd in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California.
There is also a small herd of bison at Wind Cave National Park, SD.
The Buffalo Paddock in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park holds a small herd of bison. In 1890, a bison cow and a bison bull were transported from the US Great Plains to the park. They were named Sarah Bernhardt and Ben Harrison. The current paddock has been standing in its current location since 1899. By 1918 the herd had grown to 30 bison.
Bison, out in open country, can run at speeds up to 30 MPH.
The cheetah is the fastest land animal, they can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in about 3 seconds, reach a top speed of 70 - 75 mph and can sustain that speed for up to 1500 feet - over a quarter of a mile…
Accelerates (just a little bit) faster than a Tesla 3!
The pronghorn antelope is the second fastest land animal. It can run up to about 55 MPH.
The maximum speed on most American highways during the 1970s energy crisis was 55 mph, but with cheaper oil, safer cars and arguably more impatient drivers, it is up to 65 and even 70 mph on many larger or isolated highways today.
Texas State Highway 130, also known as the Pickle Parkway, is a highway that parallels I-35 and is intended to relieve the Interstate’s traffic volume through the San Antonio–Austin corridor. The highway is noted for having a speed limit of at least 80 mph along its tolled section. The 41-mile section of the toll road between State Highway 45 and I-10 has a posted speed limit of 85 mph, the highest posted speed limit in the United States.
On Texas State Highway 130 with a speed limit of 85 MPH, that translates to 137 KPH. Italy, with a speed limit of 150 KPH (93 MPH) on some limited motorways, has the highest posted speed limit in the world.
Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative is a form submitted to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (or, in the rare case of Direct Consular Filing, to a US consulate or embassy abroad) by a United States citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident petitioning for an immediate or close relative (who is not currently a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident) intending to immigrate to the United States
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British director Ridley Scott named the commercial starship USCSS Nostromo, the setting for most of his acclaimed 1979 science fiction/horror film Alien, after a story by Joseph Conrad, a favorite author of his. The name of the starship’s lifeboard, the Narcissus, is also taken from a Conrad story.