Ever hear of a “Coke Float”?
(hint: look it up in the online Urban Dictionary and scroll down to an entry from 2007, lol)
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A cannon is certainly useful if you want to protect a pirate fleet. Though perhaps the French exaggerated.
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File that book under “Books I found but was probably too young at the time.”
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Never stopped me, LOL!
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The interesting part?
This is the first time I’ve seen the lyrics themselves and I’ve gotten by all this time knowing 75 percent of them; I’m surprised I knew that much, lol.
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It’s getting worse. Way worse.
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Yeah, if there is any country that could make the US seem progressive on Indigenous rights, it’s us. That’s not complimenting the US, either.
The worst shit you see in the States towards Black people, we replicate towards Indigenous and First Nations. It’s horrible.
ETA: I am not surprised this blew up around lobster, either. Let’s just say that industry has… issues, shall we?
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I ran into a seven-part series by a former young earth creationist defending human antiquity and the human nature of basal hominins. Also insisting that the biblical flood can only be a revelation of the Zanclean flood. And then at the end “and that’s why abortion is so wrong-- it is literally killing another soul.” And I’m thinking no, he hasn’t demonstrated that…
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You forgot Australia. From 2016:
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I, however, am fine with feline supremacy. Actually, non-human animal supremacy. I think the only animal overlords I would have problems with would be millipedes; I’ve built up a resistance to centipedes.
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It is unclear if the attack was meant to coincide with German Unity Day. But German reports have highlighted social media messages from Attila Hildmann in August in which he made outrageous claims about night-time practices surrounding the magnificent Pergamon Altar. The Pergamon Museum itself was built to house the monument.
In June, the conspiracy theorists addressed supporters from the steps of the nearby Altes Museum. Then in August, while the Pergamon Museum was still closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, he described the altar as being the “centre of global satanists and Corona criminals”
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That is truly bizarre.
As an aside, the Pergamon is one of my most favorite museums anywhere. The size is, well, Soviet: one room alone houses an entire temple (the Pergamon Altar), another room houses a three-story entry gate to a market, and a third houses the entire Ishtar Gate of Babylon and processional walkway. The massive scale has to be experienced to be believed. And so many beautiful West Asian (Middle Eastern) artifacts.
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The nest was discovered in the cavity of a tree on a property in the city of Blaine, near the Canadian border.
This achievement closely follows another advance: State entomologists had recently had luck trapping the hornets. This week, they were able to collect four live Asian giant hornets using a new type of trap – and managed to attach radio trackers to three of them.
One of those tagged hornets led staffers to the nest.
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Are we killing things with fire any more? I forget. The euphemistic meaning must be backed up by a proper special effect and transmission of visceral experience via all senses except smell.
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God, that’s a nasty-looking mofo.
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In 1955, when Qian had spent five years under house arrest, President Eisenhower took the decision to deport him to China. The scientist left by boat with his wife and two US-born children, telling waiting reporters he would never step foot in America again. He kept his promise.
“He was one of the most prominent scientists in America. He had contributed so much and could have contributed much more. So it’s not just humiliation but also a sense of betrayal,” says the journalist and writer, Tianyu Fang.
In a nutshell, during the Cold War former Nazis were OK but not the Chinese.
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he wasn’t the only one
Lee was publicly named by United States Department of Energy officials, including Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson, as a suspect in the theft of classified nuclear-related documents from Los Alamos.[5] Richardson was criticized by the Senate for his handling of the espionage inquiry by not testifying in front of Congress sooner. Richardson was less than truthful in his response by saying that he was waiting to uncover more information before speaking to Congress.[6]
On December 10, 1999, Lee was arrested, indicted on 59 counts, and jailed in solitary confinement without bail for 278 days until September 13, 2000, when he accepted a plea bargain from the federal government. Lee was released on time served after the government’s case against him could not be proven.[5] He was ultimately charged with only one count of mishandling sensitive documents that did not require pre-trial solitary confinement, while the other 58 counts were dropped.
President Bill Clinton issued a public apology to Lee over his treatment by the federal government during the investigation
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