Makepeace Island is a small heart shaped island resort located in the Noosa River on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. The island is currently owned by Virgin Australia founding partners, Brett Godfrey and Sir Richard Branson. The island is Branson’s Australian home and can hold up to 22 guests accommodated in three 2-bedroom villas and a 4 bedroom Bali House wing. The property has a tennis court, theatre, two-story Balinese wantilan, 500,000-liter pool and indoor bar and dining area.
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No “probably” about it.
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In Superman 2, criminal mastermind Lex Luthor, when asked by General Zod what reward he would want for helping the Kryptonian exiles take over Earth, replies with a big grin, “Australia!”
In 2012, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson worked with DC Comics to select a real-life star to be designated as the parent star to the planet Krypton in DC continuity. Tyson then appeared as a character in Action Comics #14, in which he revealed that Krypton had orbited the red dwarf star LHS 2520, in the constellation Corvus, located 27.1 light years from Earth.
Tyson later revealed that he selected a star in Corvus (Latin for “crow”), in part because a crow is the mascot of Smallville High School.
Noted astrophysicist and pop-science guy Neil deGrasse Tyson once appeared on The Big Bang Theory, making an aggressive phone call to Bill Nye the Science Guy, who hurriedly hung up on him.
I cannot tell a lie…copied and pasted directly from Wiki!
Edited: Ninja’ed by Elendil’s Heir!
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Noted astrophysicist and pop-science guy Neil deGrasse Tyson once appeared on The Big Bang Theory, making an aggressive phone call to Bill Nye the Science Guy, who hurriedly hung up on him.
Bill Nye’s mother, Jacqueline Jenkins-Nye, was a codebreaker during World War II. She was among a small elite group of young women known as “Goucher girls,” alumnae of Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, whom the Navy had enlisted to help crack the codes that were used by the Japanese and German military.
Nye’s father, Ned Nye, also served in WWII and worked as a contractor building an airstrip on Wake Island. He was captured and spent four years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Living without electricity or watches, he learned how to tell time using the shadow of a shovel handle, leading to a passion later in life for sundials and other forms of time-telling.
What??? Who the hell does that??? I’ve never done that.
Yeah right. 
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The “gnomen” is the past of a sun-dial which casts a shadow. The word is derived from the Greek root for knowledge, similar to Gnosticism.
Besides the gnomon, the other part of a sundial is the dial, onto which the shadow cast by the gnomon falls. Sometimes (usually) the gnomon is fixed, and sometimes (less commonly) the gnomon is movable. Further, the gnomon has a style which is its time-telling edge.
For fixed gnomon sundials the style must lie at an angle from the horizontal equal to the latitude of its location.
In Redding CA is the Sundial Bridge (image, Aerial view of the Sundial Bridge, Redding, California Stock Photo - Alamy). Its support tower is a 66 meter mast pointing north at a cantilevered angle and serves as the gnomon for its horizontal sundial. The dial is at the north end of the bridge. The shadow moves about 1 foot per minute so that the Earth’s rotation can be viewed with the naked eye.
Shadowlands, a play by William Nicholson about C.S. Lewis and his wife Joy Davidman, was first shown as a BBC film starring Joss Ackland and Claire Bloom in 1985. It was adapted for the stage, premiering on Broadway in 1990 with Nigel Hawthorne and Jane Alexander as the leads, and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. A 1993 film version directed by Richard Attenborough starred Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger. It has been revived as a play in the West End and Off Broadway (2007 and 2017) and in 2019 at the Chichester Festival, starring Hugh Bonneville (better known for his role in Downton Abbey)
Hugh Bonneville had a relatively small role in Notting Hill, playing a clueless stockbroker who doesn’t recognize a famous movie star when he meets her: Notting Hill | What Do You Do? | Screen Bites - YouTube
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Lake Bonneville of the Pleistocene epoch covered present-day Utah and extended into present-day Idaho and Nevada. It existed until about 14,500 years ago, when a large portion of the lake was released through the Red Rock Pass in eastern Idaho, south of Downey (gMap, Downey ID is 40mi SSE of Pocatello in SE Idaho, Google Maps). Following the Bonneville flood, as the release is now known, the lake receded to a level called the Provo Level. Many of the unique geological characteristics of the Great Basin are due to the effects of the lake. Lake Bonneville was more than 1,000 ft deep and more than 19,691 square miles in area, and as such was nearly as extensive as Lake Michigan and significantly deeper — Lake Michigan’s max depth is 923 feet and its average depth is 279 feet.
With the climate change, Lake Bonneville began drying up, leaving remnants including Great Salt Lake, Utah Lake, Sevier Lake, Rush Lake, and Little Salt Lake.
Image, Lake Bonneville Pleistocene epoch — https://is.gd/gYQqxt.
The USS Salt Lake City was a Pensacola-class heavy cruiser, commissioned in 1929, which saw extensive service during World War II. She survived two atomic-bomb blasts at Bikini Atoll in the July 1946 Operation Crossroads testing before being sunk off the Southern California coast as a target vessel in May 1948.
French automotive engineer Louis Réard, who tried his hand at clothing design in 1946, introduced a two-piece swimsuite design he named the “bikini”, adopting the name from the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Réard hoped his swimsuit’s revealing style would create an “explosive commercial and cultural reaction” similar to the explosion at Bikini Atoll.
Only a churl would copy and paste from Wikipedia, btw. 
July 5th is National Bikini Day. Apparently July 5, 1946 is when the bikini first hit the beach in the US.
SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick, Squidward, and his friends live in Bikini Bottom, where they dine on Krabby Patties at the Krusty Krab restaurant.
The bikini swimsuit has spawned many variant styles, including:
- the “bandini” (a bikini with a bandeau (strapless) top)
- the “tankini” (a bikini with a tank top rather than the traditional bikini top)
- the “string bikini” (a more revealing bikini, using thin “strings” to connect the bottom at the hips, and connecting the two pieces of material which cover the breasts)
- the “microkini” (an even more revealing string bikini)
- the “monokini” (a topless bikini)
Apollo 11 splashed down at 12:49 a.m. EDT, July 24, 1969, about 812 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii and only 12 nautical miles from the USS Hornet. That’s in less than two hours, exactly 50 years ago today. There were crabs and squid — and bikinis! — in the ocean that day. As there are today.
Nichole Brown’s dog was named Kato after “Kato” Kaelin, who took the name from the Green Hornet’s sidekick. To figure out the time of the Brown & Goldman murders, prosecutor used the dog. Between 10:15 and 11pm, neighbors stated that they heard Kato howling. One neighbor, Steven Schwab, later found Kato with bloody paws. After being examined, he realized that Kato was not injured and, before long, the canine led another neighbor, Sukru Boztepe, to the murder scene.
Since Kato seemed like a dog who cared about his owner, why didn’t he protect her? Is it because he knew her killer?