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Post by sandipaws on Sept 15, 2019 8:17:07 GMT -5
Washington Monument to reopen September 19
WASHINGTON – The Washington Monument will reopen to the public on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, at 9 a.m. after a 37-month closure to modernize the elevator control system and construct a new security screening facility.
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Post by johnmori on Sept 15, 2019 9:34:46 GMT -5
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September 15, 2000
The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in Sydney, Australia.
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Post by waubeek on Sept 15, 2019 10:16:41 GMT -5
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Post by MidnightSun on Sept 16, 2019 0:07:49 GMT -5
If you exercise in the morning, your body will burn fat instead of energy, since you have used up all your carbohydrates while you slept.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2019 4:58:29 GMT -5
Mayflower Day.
Observed annually on September 16th.
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Post by johnmori on Sept 16, 2019 6:51:40 GMT -5
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September 16, 1959
The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
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Post by waubeek on Sept 16, 2019 14:41:15 GMT -5
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Post by MidnightSun on Sept 17, 2019 0:00:21 GMT -5
Dead ants emit a chemical that tells other ants to move the body to a sort of burial ground. If this chemical is sprayed on a live ant, other ants will treat it as dead ant, regardless of what the live ant does.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2019 5:02:04 GMT -5
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day.
Also known as Citizenship Day and Constitution Day.
Observed annually on September 17th.
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The Day sandwiched between Mexico and Chile's National Holidays !!!
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Post by johnmori on Sept 17, 2019 6:32:09 GMT -5
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September 17, 1961
The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Post by waubeek on Sept 17, 2019 7:32:13 GMT -5
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Post by sandipaws on Sept 17, 2019 12:30:54 GMT -5
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September 17, 1787 ~ U.S. Constitution signed
The Constitution of the United States of America is signed by 38 of 41 delegates present at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Supporters of the document waged a hard-won battle to win ratification by the necessary nine out of 13 U.S. states.
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Post by sandipaws on Sept 17, 2019 18:26:54 GMT -5
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There's a fish in the ocean that looks like this ...
 Fisherman snags ‘alien’ fish that looks like something straight out of a horror movie Mike Wehner 13 hrs agoEarth’s oceans are home to an incredible number of interesting creatures, and sometimes certain species show up where you’d least expect them. That’s exactly what happened to a fisherman off the coast of Norway during a routine fishing trip that yielded a beast rarely seen near the surface.
Oscar Lundahl, a 19-year-old fishing guide for Nordic Sea Angling, was hoping to catch some blue halibut in deep water off the coast. Instead, Lundahl snagged a ratfish, and if you didn’t know better, you might think it was something from another dimension.
Lundahl was fishing at a depth of over 2,500 feet at the time, and in an interview with The Sun he explained that it took him a full half-hour to reel the fish to the surface. Once he finally got a look at it, he was shocked. With two massive, bulging eyes and a bizarre, eel-like tail, it was like nothing he’d seen during his young career on the high seas.
“It was pretty amazing. I have never seen anything like it before,” Lundahl told The Sun. “It just looked weird, a bit dinosaur-like. I didn’t know what it was but my colleague did.”
Unfortunately, the fish didn’t survive the ordeal. Deep-sea creatures that end up snagged on fishing nets or, in the case, a hook, rarely live to tell the tale. There’s such intense pressure in their native habitats that, when they’re yanked to the surface, their bodies simply can’t handle the strain.
This unlucky ratfish didn’t go waste, however, as Lundahl says he actually filleted and fried the fish, calling it “really tasty,” according to The Sun.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/fisherman-snags-alien-fish-that-looks-like-something-straight-out-of-a-horror-movie/ar-AAHowRm?li=BBnbcA1
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Post by MidnightSun on Sept 18, 2019 1:29:34 GMT -5
If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
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Post by waubeek on Sept 18, 2019 3:45:41 GMT -5
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