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04-02-2019 12:34 PM |
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04-02-2019 06:27 PM |
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Hints of mysterious religion discovered in world’s highest lake
About 1,200 years ago, a reef in the middle of Lake Titicaca in what is now Bolivia became the repository of a people’s most valued possessions. In 2013, a sparkling cache of those objects was unearthed by underwater archaeologists. Six years later, researchers think they now know what the objects represent—evidence of a religion that helped the Tiwanaku state become a dominant force in the region.
Results of the excavation were revealed in a paper published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Gold objects, metal ornaments, semiprecious stones, and incense burners recovered at the site suggest the reef—located near the Island of the Sun, home to multiple Tiwanaku sacred sites—was once used as a ritual site for the ancient state.
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| Lee Stewart |
04-02-2019 06:30 PM |
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The U.S. Mint is adding a new letter to its alphabet -- W for its facility at West Point, New York.
The first coins to bear the W mark are 2019 America the Beautiful quarters, which are likely to go into circulation in four to six weeks, according to the Mint. West Point, which opened as a bullion depository in 1938, typically produces precious metal coins, such as gold and silver.
Circulating coins marked with a P are minted in Philadelphia while D indicates Denver. S is currently used on proof coins from the San Francisco mint.
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| Lee Stewart |
04-02-2019 06:39 PM |
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Collecting old soda bottles might not sound as prestigious as collecting rare whiskey or fine wine — and frankly, it’ll probably never be as valuable — but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any money whatsoever to be made in the non-alcoholic bottle game: A likely one-of-a-kind Coca-Cola bottle is expected to sell at auction later this month for as much as $150,000.
“This is the only known bottle of its type that has surfaced completely intact,” explains the auction house. “Advanced bottle collectors we have consulted consider it to be extremely rare and important.”
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| Lee Stewart |
04-02-2019 06:45 PM |
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A Wisconsin cruise ship passenger faces years in Cayman Islands prison after a gun was found in her luggage
This just happened (yesterday). If you are a frequent "cruiser" or you plan to go on a cruise ship it's VERY important you understand a few things. Once you leave the territorial waters of the USA you are no longer protected (legally) by it's laws. When you arrive at a destination, you are now under their law. Their police can come aboard your ship and search ANY cabin at any time and there is nothing you can do about it. You now fall under their laws which may not include the right to an attorney and may include mandatory prison time for certain offences.
DO NOT brings guns or drugs (yes even "mary jane") on a cruise ship! The risk is not worth it. If you have a "carry permit" for a hand gun - it is worthless outside of the USA. And that's what happen to the 68-year-old Madison, Wisconsin, woman
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| Lee Stewart |
04-02-2019 07:05 PM |
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Roller coasters were invented to distract Americans from sin
In the 1880s, hosiery businessman LaMarcus Thompson hated that Americans were tempted by hedonistic places like saloons and brothels. So he set out to straighten up one of the most immoral places he could think of: Coney Island in New York. There, he built America's first roller coaster to give New Yorkers some good, clean fun—away from seedier pastimes.
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| Lee Stewart |
04-02-2019 07:10 PM |
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04-02-2019 07:12 PM |
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Those fresh apples aren’t all that fresh, per say. They’re usually picked between August and November, covered in wax, hot-air dried, and sent into cold storage. After six to twelve months, they finally land on your grocery store shelves.
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| Lee Stewart |
04-02-2019 07:14 PM |
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| Lee Stewart |
04-02-2019 07:17 PM |
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Lobsters taste with their feet. Tiny bristles inside a lobster’s little pincers are their equivalent to human taste buds. Meanwhile, lobsters’ teeth are in one of their three stomachs.
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| Lee Stewart |
04-02-2019 07:18 PM |
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Tim Berners-Lee, who created the main software of the World Wide Web, admitted he regrets one thing: Adding '//' after 'https:' in a web address. It was standard for programming but didn’t serve any real purpose, and when looking back in 2009, he said leaving it out would have saved time and space.
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| Lee Stewart |
04-02-2019 07:20 PM |
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The world’s largest waterfall is underwater. Yes, there are waterfalls under the ocean. At the Denmark Strait, the cold water from the Nordic Sea is denser than the Irminger Sea’s warm water, making it drop almost two miles down at 123 million cubic feet per second.
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| Lee Stewart |
04-02-2019 07:21 PM |
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The Statue of Liberty used to be a lighthouse. About a month after the statue’s 1886 dedication, it became a working lighthouse for 16 years, with its torch visible from 24 miles away.
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| Lee Stewart |
04-02-2019 07:23 PM |
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NASA uses countdowns because of a sci-fi film. The countdown Fritz Lang used to create suspense in the rocket launch scene of his 1929 silent film Frau im Mond didn’t just change film history—it also inspired NASA to use countdowns before its own blastoffs. It's not exactly a race against the clock though. NASA can feel free to pause the clock to check mechanical difficulties.
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| Lee Stewart |
04-02-2019 07:24 PM |
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| Lee Stewart |
04-02-2019 07:28 PM |
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President McKinley always wore a red carnation for good luck but sometimes gave it out as a memento. When greeting the crowd in 1901, he handed a 12-year-old girl, Myrtle, his the bloom off his lapel, saying 'I must give this flower to another little flower.' Minutes later, he was fatally shot by a man in the crowd.
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| Lee Stewart |
04-02-2019 07:53 PM |
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Paxton’s Joe Granatelli contacted Carroll Shelby early in 1965 and pitched him on the idea of providing supercharger kits for the new G.T. 350. Shelby was skeptical of the idea but lent Granatelli a car to put the kit on.
When Granatelli returned to Shelby’s facility near the Los Angeles International Airport with the kit installed, Shelby pitted the blown Mustang against one of his 289 Cobras. Granatelli and the Mustang spanked the Cobra, convincing Shelby that the blower was a good idea. Shelby promptly ordered 500 of the kits.
According to the Shelby American Automobile Club’s Shelby Registry 1965-1966-1967, 11 '66 models and 35 '67 models were equipped from Shelby's factory. How many were sold over the counter or as upgrades in the garage are unknown
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| Lee Stewart |
04-02-2019 10:21 PM |
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| Lee Stewart |
04-03-2019 08:10 PM |
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No . . . it's not Hiroshima. It is Tokyo after the fire bombing on March 9, 1945. It was Japan's single biggest death toll in one day: Over 100,000 people died. More than either of the atomic bomb drops.
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| Lee Stewart |
04-03-2019 08:12 PM |
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04-03-2019 08:25 PM |
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The Battle of Antietam was the deadliest single-day battle in American history. Over 23,000 Union and Confederate solider casualties. If you thought it was D-Day - not even close at 4,414.
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| Lee Stewart |
04-03-2019 08:28 PM |
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To take it from John Wayne, Butch Cassidy, and Red Dead Redemption, the Wild West was an unpredictable free-for-all—just one region-wide, decades-long brawl. Thing is, that’s all myth. Peter J. Hill, a senior fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center, puts it succinctly: “the violence of the [Wild] West is largely a myth.” Some research indicates that, between the years of 1859 and 1900, there were fewer than a dozen robberies total. Even the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, perhaps the most storied shootout in the entire compendium of Wild West lore, resulted in a relatively modest body count: three.
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| Lee Stewart |
04-03-2019 08:30 PM |
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George Washington was our first President right? Actually . . . no. He was our first ELECTED President. Peyton Randolph was the first (and third) President of the Continental Congress.
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| Lee Stewart |
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