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Post by Dathron on Jan 19, 2007 9:01:18 GMT -5
 Wow that sounds awesome! Heh I checked wikipedias list of french composers and out of the composers born between 1550 and 1700 I knew one...Jean-Baptiste Lully.
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Post by Hermione on Jan 19, 2007 17:16:53 GMT -5
Lol, it's amazing how MANY people there are in each field...
Oh! Did you know that the first popular stapler was made by the B. John Mfg. Co. in 1905? It was made of steel, with rear-load strips of herringbone staples, connected by a thick center wire that was really hard to break the staples loose from (there were 25 to a strip). To work it, you'd hit the ramshead with a mallet or a stick! Maybe that's why everyone slams staplers today instead of just pressing down. Anyway, back then they weren't called staplers. That wasn't a term in general usage until 1909 -before that, it was 'fastener' or 'Hotchkiss'. Neat, huh?
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Post by Irishman on Jan 19, 2007 20:41:03 GMT -5
Miss Hermione, I must say tha' yer description alone has set me heart ta soarin'. I can just see it now, a group o' friends with flutes and harps and such like instruments having a campfire of song and meditation in the deep woods with no civilization ta intrude. Tis a scene ta warm the heart I'd bet.
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Post by Hermione on Jan 19, 2007 20:48:36 GMT -5
Lol, flutes, sure. But do you really want to haul a harp in? Especially considering the fact that it would be rather hard to protect it? There aren't any cabins or anything, you know, and no motorized anythings allowed -you go in quite a few miles by foot and paddle. A harpist would have to be very determined.
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Post by Irishman on Jan 20, 2007 12:04:17 GMT -5
Ahhh, the real world, where Football, is soccer, Not some game with lotsa pads and no heart.
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Praetheus
Second Year, Second Semester
"From every seed - a world. From every world - a thousand seeds."
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Post by Praetheus on Jan 21, 2007 12:30:12 GMT -5
A duck's quack never echos.
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Post by Hermione on Jan 22, 2007 2:59:38 GMT -5
I've heard that, but somehow... does the cry of the loon actually echo, as it sounds, or is the 'echo' part of the cry itself?
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Post by Irishman on Jan 24, 2007 15:26:07 GMT -5
Bald Eagles build Enormous Nests!
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Post by Dathron on Jan 25, 2007 10:07:19 GMT -5
I'm always calling my staples Hotchkiss now! Um... turnips have 20 chromosomes in their individual cells, while rutebaga have 38.  |
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Post by Hermione on Jan 25, 2007 11:04:06 GMT -5
the Bank Secrecy Act is about how banks have to share information.  |
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Post by Dathron on Jan 25, 2007 11:51:28 GMT -5
I have over $100 in my wallet. |
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Post by Hermione on Jan 26, 2007 1:44:30 GMT -5
the FINCEN site keeps track of which computers you visit it from. I think.
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Post by Dathron on Jan 26, 2007 12:46:37 GMT -5
what's FINCEN?
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krondore
Second Year, Second Semester
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Post by krondore on Jan 26, 2007 15:40:57 GMT -5
Its : Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (( Fincen)) at least i think thats what it is...
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Post by Hermione on Jan 26, 2007 16:31:06 GMT -5
Yup. I was looking something up, and it kept saying, 'thank you for visting from...' and it'd list a bunch of incomprehensible numbers, which I THINK were something to do with the computer.
I just said, 'yeah, yeah' and kept looking for that ruling. Lol!
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Post by Irishman on Jan 28, 2007 13:02:42 GMT -5
Ogre, Ogre a good book in the Xanth novels, Look it up Krondore
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Post by Hermione on Jan 29, 2007 0:54:53 GMT -5
Wait a sec, I thought that was the auto- oh. No, that was Bio of an Ogre.
Nevermind!
(Herkimer diamond is another term for quartz.)
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Post by Irishman on Jan 29, 2007 11:28:54 GMT -5
Iron Pyrite is a name for Fool's Gold! An i 'ave foun d the mother load, so I be rich, RICH I tell ya!
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Post by Hermione on Jan 30, 2007 3:42:58 GMT -5
Lol, there are many different types of Pyrite. My favourite are those that form cubes rather than octohedrons.
Peacock ore is actually mined as an ore! I never would have believed it, but... there you are.
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Post by Dathron on Jan 30, 2007 9:42:19 GMT -5
uh...what's pearooster ore?
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Wow that sounds awesome!
