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Post by BillG on Nov 9, 2024 6:22:35 GMT -5
Who Knew??? November 9TH is Lou Ferrigno's birthday! (73 years old)
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Post by soutxed on Nov 9, 2024 8:55:12 GMT -5
November 9, 1989, East Germany lets the Berlin Wall come down.
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Post by MidnightSun on Nov 9, 2024 18:30:52 GMT -5
Space smells like a Nascar race—a mix of hot metal, diesel fumes, and barbecue. If you were ever able to use your sniffer in space, you’d discover that it smells like a mixture of hot metal, diesel fumes, and barbecue. That's all thanks to compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that emanate from dying stars. According to Louis Allamandola, the founder and director of the Astrophysics and Astrochemistry Lab at NASA Ames Research Center, the stinky molecules “seem to be all over the universe… And they float around forever," he told Popular Science.
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Post by johnmori on Nov 10, 2024 10:45:44 GMT -5
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November 10, 1969
National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.
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Post by MidnightSun on Nov 10, 2024 19:34:53 GMT -5
The largest book ever weighs more than 3,000 pounds. Avid readers won’t be intimidated by a hefty novel, but they’ll still surely be impressed by what’s been deemed the largest book ever. Weighing more than 3,000 pounds and measuring 16.40 feet by 26.44 feet with 429 pages inside, the book, which is titled This the Prophet Mohamed, was created in 2012 by 50 people working together in the United Arab Emirates.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Nov 10, 2024 20:22:04 GMT -5
Who Knew?? What do the different coloured poppies mean?  www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/45975344They say that the red poppy represents remembrance and hope. The purple poppy is often worn to remember animals that have been victims of war. The BlackPoppyRose commemorates the contributions of black, African and Caribbean communities to the war effort - as servicemen and servicewomen, and as civilians. They say that the white poppy commemorates people who died in conflict, but focuses on achieving peace and challenging the way we look at war. |
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Post by BillG on Nov 11, 2024 7:36:10 GMT -5
Who Knew??? November 11TH is "Veterans Day"!
 
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Post by soutxed on Nov 11, 2024 9:06:35 GMT -5
November 11, 1939, Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"
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Post by johnmori on Nov 11, 2024 10:26:40 GMT -5
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November 11, 1993
A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Nov 11, 2024 17:44:35 GMT -5
Who Knew?? World War I ends 11 November 1918At 5:00 am on this day in 1918, the Allied powers and Germany signed an armistice document in the railway carriage of Ferdinand Foch, the commander of the Allied armies, and six hours later World War I came to an end. 1992: The Church of England voted to ordain women as priests; the first ordination took place two years later. 1966: Gemini 12, the last spacecraft in the Gemini series and the first to make an automatically controlled reentry into Earth's atmosphere, was launched. 1920: Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of World War I, was marked with the burial of unknown soldiers in tombs in Paris and London, and a similar ceremony was held at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, in 1921. 1889: Washington was admitted to the union as the 42nd U.S. state. 1865: For her work as a surgeon during the American Civil War, physician Mary Edwards Walker became the first woman to be granted the U.S. Medal of Honor; the award was rescinded in 1917 but reinstated in 1977. 1493: Christopher Columbus sighted the island of St. Martin. www.britannica.com/History-Society |
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Post by MidnightSun on Nov 12, 2024 0:23:53 GMT -5
Autological words are words that describe themselves—like short, unhyphenated, and word. Words are capable of doing all kinds of quirky things, including some terms that are autological, which means that they describe themselves. Take “short,” for example, which describes something that is small and is a small word itself. Or “unhyphenated” which is, in fact, spelled without a hyphen. And when you use the word “word,” it is definitely a word. Other autological words include English, noun, cutesy, suffixed, prefix, polysyllabic, and buzzword.
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Post by BillG on Nov 12, 2024 7:21:29 GMT -5
Who Knew??? November 12TH is "National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day"!
 
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Post by soutxed on Nov 12, 2024 8:52:42 GMT -5
November 12, 1984, First salvage operation in space. Astronauts Dale A. Gardner and Joseph P. Allen aboard space shuttle Discovery performed a series of space walks to salvage parts from two satellites, the Palapa B-2 and the Westar 6 which had steered away from their orbits.
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Post by johnmori on Nov 12, 2024 10:00:25 GMT -5
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November 12, 1954
Ellis Island ceases operations.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Nov 12, 2024 13:40:53 GMT -5
Who Knew?? Did You Know That the train route from San Francisco to New York is one of the longest and most scenic in the United States, crossing a wide range of landscapes and regions? The service is operated by Amtrak, but there is no direct train, usually requiring a transfer in Chicago.  Here's a summary of the route: Departure: San Francisco, California (Emeryville Station) The journey typically begins at Emeryville Station, as there is no Amtrak station in San Francisco itself. However, there is a connecting bus service from downtown San Francisco. Train: California Zephyr From Emeryville, passengers board the California Zephyr, one of Amtrak’s most iconic routes. This train travels through the heart of the United States, passing stunning landscapes like the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. Key destinations: Sacramento, Reno, Salt Lake City, Denver, Omaha. Travel time: Approximately 51-52 hours from Emeryville to Chicago. Transfer in Chicago At Chicago Union Station, passengers need to switch trains. The train that typically continues to New York is the Lake Shore Limited. Train: Lake Shore Limited This train follows the route along Lake Michigan and the Hudson River before reaching New York. Key destinations: Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo, Albany. Travel time: Approximately 20 hours from Chicago to New York. Arrival: New York (Penn Station) The journey ends at Penn Station in New York, located in the heart of Manhattan. Total travel time: Approximately 70 to 75 hours (depending on layover and transfer times in Chicago). |
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