One Of My Very Own
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This headache I have right now must be a punishment for all the ones I lied about.
- My wife
PEOPLE
The founder of Macy's died on the Titanic, along with his wife, because he refused to board rescue ships before women and children were helped. His wife chose to stay behind because she did not want to abandon her husband, so they both died together aboard the Titanic.
Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion.
Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry Potter in the film series was allergic to his own glasses. He had a nickel allergy and suffered for weeks with mysterious bumps around his eyes, where the glasses touched his face. The nickel glasses were quickly replaced with hypoallergenic specs.
Nice save bro...
We need all the brains we can get. Think of the Middle East wherein many country's women's brains need not apply.
Amanda Gorman - The Hill We Climb
Mr. President, Dr. Biden, Madam Vice President, Mr. Emhoff, Americans and the world, when the day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?
The loss we carry asea we must wade. We’ve braved the belly of the beast. We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace, and the norms and notions of what "just is" isn’t always "justice."
And yet, the dawn is ours before we knew it. Somehow we do it. Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished. We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president only to find herself reciting for one.
And yes, we are far from polished, far from pristine, but that doesn’t mean we are striving to form a perfect union. We are striving to forge our union with purpose. To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and conditions of man.
And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us, but what stands before us. We close the divide because we know to put our future first, we must first put our differences aside. We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another. We seek harm to none and harmony for all.
Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: that even as we grieved, we grew. That even as we hurt, we hoped. That even as we tried, we tried that will forever be tied together victorious. Not because we will never again know defeat, but because we will never again sow division.
Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree and no one shall make them afraid. If we’re to live up to her own time, then victory won’t lie in the blade, but in all the bridges we’ve made. That is the promise to a glade, the hill we climb if only we dare.
It’s because being American is more than a pride we inherit. It’s the past we step into and how we repair it. We’ve seen a forest that would shatter our nation rather than share it. Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy. This effort very nearly succeeded.
But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated. In this truth, in this faith we trust for while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us.
This is the era of just redemption. We feared it at its inception. We did not feel prepared to be the heirs of such a terrifying hour, but within it, we found the power to author a new chapter, to offer hope and laughter to ourselves so while once we asked, how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe? Now we assert, how could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?
We will not march back to what was, but move to what shall be a country that is bruised, but whole, benevolent, but bold, fierce, and free. We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation. Our blunders become their burdens. But one thing is certain, if we merge mercy with might and might with the right, then love becomes our legacy and change our children’s birthright.
So let us leave behind a country better than the one we were left with. Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one.
We will rise from the hills of the West. We will rise from the wind-swept Northeast where our forefathers first realized revolution. We will rise from the Lake Rim cities of the Midwestern states. We will rise from the sun-baked South.
We will rebuild, reconcile and recover in every known nook of our nation, in every corner called our country our people diverse and beautiful will emerge battered and beautiful. When the day comes, we step out of the shade aflame and unafraid. The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it.
If only we’re brave enough to be it.
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Rats are unable to gag or throw up so my wife's soup was so bad it broke one of the rules of nature.
PLACES
Salt dome in Iran
In 2012, a survey in eastern Germany (regions formerly part of East Germany/GDR) was unable to find a single person under the age of 28 who believed in God.
America's inauguration vs Norway
In Norway the former prime minister hands over the office key card. That's it.
30 years ago you had 15-17 minutes to escape a house fire. Nowadays you only have 3-5 minutes due to more plastics & petroleum-based products in the house as well as more open floor plans, bigger rooms, & higher ceilings.
The great smog of London in 1952 was so bad that pedestrians couldn't even see their feet.
Some of the 4,000 who died in the 5 days it lasted didn't suffer lung problems – they fell into the Thames and drowned because they could not see the river.
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C. Up the Street
D. Down the Street
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So, how many times have you eaten that thing that always gives you indigestion?
THINGS
Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" was painted on cardboard
Since 2007, artist Walead Beshty has been cleverly using FedEx’s shipping infrastructure to create a series of artworks.
"As for the corporate dimension, I was aware that standard FedEx boxes are SSCC coded (serial shipping container code), a code that is held by FedEx and excludes other shippers from registering a box with the same dimensions. In other words, the size of an official FedEx box, not just its design, is proprietary; it is a volume of space that is a property exclusive to FedEx. When thinking about the work, its scale, and so on, it made sense to adhere to that proprietary volume, because, as a modular, it had a real and preexisting significance in daily life, it was common, specific, and immediately familiar. That is, it had an iconic resonance that a more arbitrary form or shape wouldn’t have."
If you grind a marine sponge through a sieve into saltwater, it'll reorganize itself back into a sponge. It's the only animal that we know of that can do that.
Mercy dogs were trained during World War I to comfort mortally wounded soldiers as they died in no man's land.
Gaur, aka the Indian bison, is the world's largest breed of cattle
4 comments:
C4...exactly how many other animals have scientists ground up and sieved into seawater to observe if they self assemble?
A fool and his money are soon parted.
B10: not Texas. That is Juniors BBQ in Hayden, ID.
Actually the Y is also a vowel in this case.
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