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MCaver Founder
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MCaver
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Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:18 pm
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We have lots of intelligent people here with useless information about the past rattling around in their head. Anyone care to share some interesting but useless info? I'll start:
Around the year 1450, the British and French were heading into battle. The French threatened to cut off the middle fingers of the British so they couldn't draw their crossbows if they showed up. At the battle, the British displayed their middle fingers, showing they still had them, and thus was born...The Bird.
Source: Mail Call, The History Channel
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MCaver Founder
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MCaver
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Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:20 pm
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Another...
The Great Pyramid on the Gaza Plateau was the tallest man-made structure on Earth for over 4000 years, until 1889 when the French built the Eiffel Tower.
Source: History's Mysteries, The History Channel
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
The moon is made of cheese.
Source: Bugs Bunny
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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Dante Member
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Dante
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Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:57 pm
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IIRC the Koreans first used armored ships in a naval battle (to defeat the Japanese). The covered them with shields and called them "turtle boats". I don't remeber where I learned it, but it impressed the hell out of a Korean classmate in business school...
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mb Member
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Fri Oct 10, 2003 5:43 pm
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MCaver Founder
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MCaver
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Fri Oct 10, 2003 6:24 pm
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Interesting. The episode of Mail Call that mentioned it was during a segment about military hand signals. Maybe they meant that was the origin of it's military use, although they didn't say that explicitly.
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polarbear Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 3680 | TRs | Pics Location: Snow Lake hide-away |
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forest gnome Forest nut...
Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 3520 | TRs | Pics Location: north cascades!! |
Well gnomes are full of useless info.( one of our silent monk-like mental exercises)
Half of the population on this planet lives on less than 2 $ a day. Well that is all I have for now..... no wonder I got kicked out of the monestary.
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touron Member
Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 10293 | TRs | Pics Location: Plymouth Rock |
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Sat Oct 11, 2003 1:51 pm
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Won't $2 a day buy you two Big N' Tasties? That's probably enough calories for a whole week.
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
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forest gnome Forest nut...
Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 3520 | TRs | Pics Location: north cascades!! |
I don't know but interesting that you should mention mac.'d's... the average time an american works to buy a big mac? 10 min. then they went on to say up to a full day for some third world countries.(Heard on the radio)
Ostriches can see for 4 miles in good detail. 4 miles is a long way!
Prince Vladamire used to impale his enemys (you know where), set them at the dinner table and then have dinner while they took a few days to die.
Happy Happy.
average gnome life-span? 325 years. average foot size? 10.5 height? 3'5"
Ok...OK... History....Hmmmmmm....
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polarbear Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 3680 | TRs | Pics Location: Snow Lake hide-away |
In New York it is illegal for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs. If they are wide awake reading a book, maybe it is ok, who knows?
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MooseAndSquirrel Member
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If you read Mike Mailway every day you become a veritable library of useless, quirky facts & figures.
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MooseAndSquirrel Member
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I think our measuring system based on inches, feet, yards has so much more of an interesting origin- being based as it is on a King's hand width, spread of his arms or size of his vunderschtupper. Again, though, we are faced with the perplexing English usage of words with multiple meanings: feet, measurement and appendage...and yard, measurement and residential plot of land.
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16092 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
In Alabama it is illeagal to posses a firearm of the type "generally used by enemy agents". source NRA compendium of state gun laws
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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