Can You Make It Through This Post Without Having Your Mind Blown? - Unbelievable Facts. 1. Let's start small: 2. Here's something that you never realized: 3. 4. 5. Moving on... 7. 8.DID YOU KNOW? 9.DID YOU KNOW? 10.DID YOU KNOW? 11.And pineapples like this: 12.Before we move on, here's the ending to "Inception" explained: 13.Now let's shrink things down. 14.Here's what chalk looks like under a microscope: 15. 16.Speaking of sand, there are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth: Thanks to Carl Sagan for this knowledge.Via: science.nationalgeographic.comLet's go deeper: 17. 18.Speaking of things that are huge, a Blue Whale's heart is so big, a small child can swim through the veins: 19.There's enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of water: 20.Here's the true size of Africa: 21.And the Pacific Ocean: 22.Let's think bigger: If you dug a hole to the center of the Earth and dropped a book down, it would take 45 minutes to reach the bottom: 24.And here's what a sunset on Mars looks like: Too much?
PHEW! Catarina Migliorini: Brazilian student, 20, set to sell her virginity for $780k online. Student Catarina Migliorini makes deal with Japanese man named Natsu He faced strong competition from an Indian man and two AmericansClaims she is not a prostitute because she is only selling her body onceShe will be followed by film crew for a documentary called Virgins WantedMan also being featured in the documentary nets $3,000 for his virginity By Lee Moran Published: 14:44 GMT, 24 October 2012 | Updated: 08:20 GMT, 25 October 2012 A Brazilian student is set to sell her virginity for a staggering $780,000 after she put it up for auction online.
A man called Natsu, from Japan, fended off strong competition from American bidders Jack Miller and Jack Right, and Indian big-spender Rudra Chatterjee, to secure a date with 20-year-old Catarina Migliorini. The auction closed this morning, and the physical education student - who said she will use the cash to build homes for poverty-stricken families - was the subject of 15 bids. Scroll down for video But she said: 'I saw this as a business. Calculating Cousins. Calculating Your Cousins For cousins to exist, there must be a common set of ancestral parents, or even a single parent, of however many greats. So, when a potential cousin asks you to figure out the relationship, determine who the common parental ancestors are, and their parental relationship to each of you, then... 1. If those parental ancestors are GRANDPARENTS to one or both of you, you are FIRST cousins. Most computer genealogy programs will number your cousins (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.) and also tell you their degree of removal (once, twice, three times, etc.), but a simple chart will do the job equally well, and if you know TWO SIMPLE RULES you can even do it in your head.
(GGG) George Norris & Elizabeth Ridley --> (GG) John Norris --> (G) Martha Norris --> Blanche Russell --> ME (G) George Norris & Elizabeth Ridley --> George Norris --> Victoria Norris 2. Click here for a printable copy of the chart. "Once removed" means that there is a difference of one generation. 25 Images You Won't Believe Weren't Photoshopped. 16 Unbelievable Acts Of Kindness. Www.cestamoi.ca. There’s Nothing Small About the World. “Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish opinions.” ~Zen saying I don’t watch the news anymore, and I don’t get the paper. It took too much time to read, and often it would put me in a bad mood. There was too much to disapprove of, too many unsettled and unsettling stories.
So I cut it out. Television news was no better, mostly celebrity misbehavior and crises of some kind: fires, diseases, bombings and market trouble. Initially, I feared I would feel out of the loop, that suddenly I would not know what was going on in the world. I pictured giving up news as some sort of sacrifice. Now I realize I was not giving up anything of any use to anyone. The Grand Scale of Life on Earth My city has 650,000 people, each of whom experiences enough during his or her waking hours to fill eight feature-length movies, every day.
Even the so-called mundane events may carry unseen significance. I’m just one person. And that’s just the people. How do they choose them? They choose what sells. Journal de Québec en édition électronique. Barcode Diagram by Scott Blake. Tubes compressibles avec pince en nylon de Coghlan's > Mountain Equipment Co-op. Livraison gratuite disponible.
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(Hawaii and Arizona don't participate in this annual ritual.) Daylight saving time was first suggested by Ben Franklin, who seemed to mean it as a joke. He wrote in 1784 that Parisians' night-owl ways could perhaps be cured by forcing them to live by the sun's light. (Franklin suggested that cannons at sunrise might do the trick.) But no one put daylight saving into place until World War I, when Germany instituted the biannual time change to save fuel for the war effort.
Getting everyone on the same page So how is it that we're dutifully turning our clocks forward and back these days? [ Quiz: Do You Get Daylight Savings? For a few years, the country fell into chaos. Danse orientale, démonstration de Samar. Featured projects, Feb 20-24 | SourceForge Community Blog. NHR CARTOONS . Culture Code: Creating A Lovable Company. The Hearst Castle | Castles - Medieval and Pictures of.
The Hearst Castle is Californian Historical Sight mansion on Central Coast in California. It has been built between 1919 and 1947 and it is designed by architect Julia Morgan. The castle has been designed for William Randolph Hearst who died in 1951. Since that castle has been donated to the state of California and has been stated as historical park. The few things that caught our attention are indoor and outdoor pools, library, dinning area, jewel box and exterior design. The Indoor Pool The Library The Outdoor Pool The Dining Area The Isabella Jewel Box. DVICE.
Kayce Cover. A long history working with animals in numerous and varied situations, prepared Kayce for role today. Formulation of her widely renowned training program is a direct result of thousands of hours spent in training and managing animals, and teaching people, of all types. Kayce Cover started training marine mammals at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1973, while enrolled at Revelle College, UCSD. There Cover assisted in various medical research labs. Important mentors were Erica Abt (Movie: “Day of the Dolphins”) and Jim Mastro (SIO). Important guidance also came from Dan Petersen and Jim Corey of the US Navy programs, and Al Garvey, of Sea World.
Joining IMATA in 1974, Cover soon thereafter moved to Boston, becoming the initial trainer for the project that became Helping Hands for the Handicapped. Next, to Mystic Marinelife Aquarium, doing shows for up to 1,500 at a time, up to 14 times a day, with Beluga Whales, Dolphins, and Sea Lions. Sa maison vendue à son insu | André Dubuc. Elle a eu un choc en allant payer son impôt foncier. À l'hôtel de ville, la préposée lui a dit que l'avis d'imposition avait déjà été entièrement payé et qu'elle n'était plus propriétaire de l'immeuble depuis octobre 2012.
«Je n'ai plus de maison. Je vis encore dedans, mais elle n'est plus à mon nom, a dit au téléphone la dame qui ne souhaite pas être identifiée. Si je meurs demain, mon testament n'est plus valable. Je suis très inquiète. Les fraudeurs ont usurpé l'identité de la dame. «Ils ont même fait faire un changement d'adresse à Postes Canada pour mon courrier», dit-elle, découragée. Voici le modus operandi : deux fraudeurs, un pour le vendeur et un autre pour le faux acheteur, arrivent chez le notaire avec des fausses cartes dans le but de faire notarier la vente de la maison.
La fraude est habituellement découverte quand le prêteur réclame le remboursement du prêt au supposé acheteur, victime lui aussi d'un vol d'identité. D'autres précédents. 27 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2012. We may never have our flying cars, but the future is here. From creating fully functioning artificial leaves to hacking the human brain, science made a lot of breakthroughs this year. 1. Quadriplegic Uses Her Mind to Control Her Robotic Arm At the University of Pittsburgh, the neurobiology department worked with 52-year-old Jan Scheuermann over the course of 13 weeks to create a robotic arm controlled only by the power of Scheuermann’s mind. 2.
Once the robot figures out how to do that without all the wires, humanity is doomed. 3. Photo Courtesy of Indigo Moon Yarns. At the University of Wyoming, scientists modified a group of silkworms to produce silk that is, weight for weight, stronger than steel. 4. Using an electron microscope, Enzo di Fabrizio and his team at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa snapped the first photos of the famous double helix.Source: newscientist.com / via: davi296 5. 6. ReCell by Avita Medical is a medical breakthrough for severe-burn victims. 7. 8. 10. Exquisite Hyper-Realist Painting by Omar Ortiz. Article by James Pond I am the owner of Pondly.com / art lover / electrical engineer / software developer / MBA in e-business student. I blog for pleasure and love to share my Internet findings. Web site: Mexican Omar Ortiz uses human body as main element in its work.
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Main Content Body 1. Real estate If the cost of home ownership — including mortgage, property taxes, repairs and other bills — fits into your budget, owning a home has many advantages: It can go up in value – You may be able to sell it for more money than you paid for it.It may save you money over time – Once you pay off your mortgage, the cost of owning your property goes down.It may provide tax advantages – There’s no tax if you sell your main home for more than you paid. The average price of a Canadian home increased more than 4.6% each year between 1990 and 2010. 2. Life insurance, health insurance and disability insurance can protect you from later loss of income. 3. When you stop working, you may live mostly on your savings.
In 2009, Canadian couples over age 65 had an average after-tax income of $54,000. 4. Diss Information: Is There a Way to Stop Popular Falsehoods from Morphing into "Facts"? A recurring red herring in the current presidential campaign is the verity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate. Although the president has made this document public, and records of his 1961 birth in Honolulu have been corroborated by newspaper announcements, a vocal segment of the population continues to insist that Obama's birth certificate proving U.S. citizenship is a fraud, making him legally ineligible to be president.
A Politico survey found that a majority of voters in the 2011 Republican primary shared this clearly false belief. Scientific issues can be just as vulnerable to misinformation campaigns. Plenty of people still believe that vaccines cause autism and that human-caused climate change is a hoax. Science has thoroughly debunked these myths, but the misinformation persists in the face of overwhelming evidence. Straightforward efforts to combat the lies may backfire as well. Ironically, these issues are also the hardest to counteract. Signe chinois du chien. Votre caractère Votre tendance naturelle à vous intérioriser engendre des difficultés à vous laisser aller, à exprimer vos pensées et vos désirs, sans craintes.
Ce détachement apparent, cette réserve certaine sont souvent interprétés par les autres — mais à tort — comme de l'indifférence, du dédain, ou encore de la sécheresse de cœur. Le signe chinois du chien réunit en sa personne un grand nombre de qualités humaines. Son honnêteté est sans faille, sa générosité n'a pratiquement pas d'égale. Il a le sens profond du devoir. En effet, intègre et protecteur, lorsque vous souhaitez défendre votre territoire ou votre clan, vous ne tolérez aucune invasion, aucune perturbation. On peut toujours compter sur vous, car vous n'avez qu'une parole et savez faire preuve d'une discrétion absolue. Lent à donner sa confiance et à se montrer chaleureux, le signe chinois du chien n’accueille pas d'emblée les inconnus mais peut former ensuite des amitiés durables. Vos capacités professionnelles L'argent.
50 Kick-Ass Websites You Need to Know About. It's time to update the entries in your browser's links toolbar. But with recent estimates putting the size of the internet at well more than 100 million distinct websites, it's getting harder and harder to get a handle on all the great stuff that's out there. That's why we've compiled this list. And unlike some lists you may have seen, which try to name the very "best" websites, but end up just telling you a lot of stuff you already know, we've chosen instead to highlight 50 of our favorite sites that fly under most people's radar. Think of it as the Maximum PC blog roll (remember those?).
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Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good byJune. Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. The floor was dirt. (Getting quite an education, aren’t you?) Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.
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