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kateyes

kateyes

Active Member
Here are two:

A language becomes extinct in this world every two weeks.

American novelist Mark Twain was the first known author to submit a typed manuscript.
 
Aqualung

Aqualung

Tasty
According to a National Geographic article I recently, read:

A nationwide health survey in 2005 concluded that for every thousand children under age five living in the North-Western Province, there were 1,353 cases of malaria.
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Cynic

Cynic

Well-Known Member
Buttercup said:
This reminds me of an odd thing all my birds do....they constantly look above my head like they can see something. Sometimes they turn their head sideways to look too. I wonder what they see?
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Everytime I took my green cheek outside, she would stare at the sun. (She flew away BTW). I let her grow her wings and let her outside all the time. I accidently scarred her though, when I ran into the house and slammed the door shut.
 
Buttercup

Buttercup

Veteran Member
Cynic said:
Everytime I took my green cheek outside, she would stare at the sun. (She flew away BTW). I let her grow her wings and let her outside all the time. I accidently scarred her though, when I ran into the house and slammed the door shut.
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OH no! I'm so sorry you lost Kiwi! :( How long ago was it? You couldn't find her?
 
Scuba Pete

Scuba Pete

Le plongeur avec attitude...
doppelgänger;945758 said:
Blueberries. :cool:
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Then where do all those stinking cranberries come from?

Cranberry Fun Facts
  • The cranberry is one of only a handful of major fruits native to North America. Others include the blueberry and Concord grape.
  • The cranberry gets its name from Dutch and German settlers, who called it "crane berry." When the vines bloom in the late spring and the flowers' light pink petals twist back, they have a resemblance to the head and bill of a crane. Over time, the name was shortened to cranberry.
  • During the days of wooden ships and iron men, American vessels carried cranberries. Just as the English loved limes, American sailors craved cranberries. It was the cranberry's generous supply of vitamin C that prevented scurvy.
  • Native Americans used cranberries to make a survival cake known as pemmican. They also used the fruit in poultices and dyes.
  • Dennis, Massachusetts was the site of the first recorded cranberry cultivation in 1816.
  • American recipes containing cranberries date from the early 18th Century.
  • Legend has it that the Pilgrims may have served cranberries at the first Thanksgiving in 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
  • During World War II, American troops required about one million pounds of dehydrated cranberries a year.
  • The hearty cranberry vine thrives in conditions that would not support most other crops: acid soil, few nutrients and low temperatures, even in summer.
  • It takes one ton or more of cranberry vines per acre to plant a bog.
  • Depending on the weather, cranberry blossoms last 10 to 12 days.
  • Contrary to popular belief, cranberries do not grow in water. They are grown on sandy bogs or marshes. Because cranberries float, some bogs are flooded when the fruit is ready for harvesting.
  • If all the cranberry bogs in North America were put together, they would comprise an area equal in size to the tiny island of Nantucket, off Massachusetts, approximately 47 square miles.
  • Cranberries are primarily grown in five states -- Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Oregon and Washington. Another 5,500 acres are cultivated in Chile, Quebec, and British Columbia. There are nearly 1,000 cranberry growers in America.
  • The 1996 harvest yielded more than 200 billion cranberries -- about 40 for every man, woman and child on the planet.
  • In 1996, cranberry growers in the United States harvested 4.84 million barrels of fruit, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. End to end, that many berries would span more than 1.75 million miles. Did you know that there are 440 cranberries in one pound? 4,400 cranberries in one gallon of juice? 440,000 cranberries in a 100-pound barrel?
  • Americans consume some 400 million pounds of cranberries each year. About 80 million pounds -- or 20 percent -- are gobbled up during Thanksgiving week.
  • Seven of 10 cranberries sold in the world today come from Ocean Spray, a grower cooperative started in 1930.
  • If you strung all the cranberries produced in North America last year, they would stretch from Boston to Los Angeles more than 565 times.
  • Cranberries are sometimes used to flavor wines, but do not ferment as naturally as grapes, making them unsuitable for the traditional winemaking process.
 
Scuba Pete

Scuba Pete

Le plongeur avec attitude...
[FONT=&quot]Helium: Facts About the Gas[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]General Facts[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Chemical symbol: He[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Second lightest elemental gas, after hydrogen[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Smallest of all molecules[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Lowest boiling point of any element (-452.1°F, -268.9°C, 4.2 K, 7.6 R)[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Seven times lighter than air[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Conducts sound three times faster than air[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Has five times air's thermal conductivity[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Does not become radioactive under irradiation[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Physical Properties[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Colorless[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Odorless[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Tasteless[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Non-toxic[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Inert[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Non-flammable[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Slightly soluble in water[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]High thermal conductivity[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In the Environment[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Helium is produced continually by the radioactive decay of uranium and other elements, gradually working its way into the atmosphere[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Helium atoms are light enough to escape the Earth's gravitational field and into space[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Commercial extraction from air is impractical because helium's concentration is only about five parts per billion[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]
Where It's Found [/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Commercially, helium is obtained from the small fraction of natural gas deposits that contain helium volumes of 0.3 percent or higher[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Most of the world's helium comes from the Texas panhandle, Oklahoma, Kansas and the Rocky Mountains' eastern flank, other sources include the mid-east and Russia[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]These natural gas deposits contain more than 3,000 ppm of helium[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Unusual Characteristics[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]At atmospheric pressure, helium becomes liquid at the lowest of all boiling points (-452°F, -269°C, 7.6 R)[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]Helium remains liquid to absolute zero[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]The coldest known substance, helium is important for cryogenic research[/FONT]
  • [FONT=&quot]At 3.9 R, liquid helium exhibits super fluidity or virtually zero viscosity (Helium II), defies gravity to flow up container walls and becomes nearly a perfect heat conductor[/FONT]
 
PureX

PureX

Veteran Member
John Kennedy Toole wrote a novel called, "A Confederacy Of Dunces" and then committed suicide. His mother took his novel around to publishers for ten years until she finally got Walker Percy to read it and he helped her to get the book published. Shortly therafter, John Kennedy Toole was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for the book.

His mother then began peddling a short novel that her son had written when he was just 16 years ald called, "The Neon Bible" and she got that published as well. It was eventually made into a movie.

A Confederacy Of Dunces is one of my all time favorite novels. There are parts of it that made me laugh so hard that my eyes teared up and I couldn't read the words on the page.
 
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