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Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher The term, “antiscorbutic,” refers to foods that cure scurvy. For centuries, people knew that there were certain foods that seemed to stave off the disease, but had no understanding of why.
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The stats for my blog, clearly show just how popular the various chapters of Science Tales have been, with the Evolution chapter a clear winner, with 259, 263 page views, and it's still getting a respectable 200 hits a day. Although Psychiatric Tales sold well enough, the chapters of that book I placed on my blog barely feature compared to Science Tales. Even if you subtract all the hostile traffic Science Tales has generated, there's still a huge level of potential interest for this book. It shows, I think, that the comic strip medium has a huge audience waiting out there beyond the tiny bubble of fandom. Readers coming to my blog to read these chapters were not the usual comic book crowd.
Darryl Cunningham Investigates
Packing all of your belongings into a U-Haul and then transporting them across several states is nearly as stressful and futile as trying to run away from lava in swim fins. I know this because my boyfriend Duncan and I moved from Montana to Oregon last month. But as harrowing as the move was for us, it was nothing compared to the confusion and insecurity our two dogs had to endure. Our first dog is - to put it delicately - simple-minded.
Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving
Television Tropes & Idioms
What is this about? This wiki is a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction. Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés . The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite." In other words, dull and uninteresting.
I've never thought of my allergies as a big deal. Sure, my peanut allergy has caused an emergency room visit here and there, and my dad used to pick me up from sleepovers because of my emphysema-like wheezing around cats. No big thing, right? But a few years back it seemed about time I went to see an allergy specialist and get a comprehensive list of the things my body hates. I found myself shirtless, laying on my stomach in the doctor's exam room with twenty pricks in my back (which isn't nearly as scandalous as it sounds). A constant tingle ran through my body, but all I could think about was how comically small the exam room table appeared under my enormous body.
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What Happened In My Birth Year offers a look into the past and the history surrounding you, and was created by Philipp Lenssen . Some content is from Creative Commons licensed Wikipedia with credit to its individual authors; this site is also CC licensed . Covers are reproduced under fair use and copyright to their individual publishers.
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Fascinating Fauna http://atlasobscura.com/category/natural-wonders/fascinating-fauna Instruments of Science http://atlasobscura.com/category/inspired-inventions/instruments-of-science When the Roppongi Hills urban development project opened in 2003, it quickly wowed Tokyoites with its office towers, art museum, deluxe hotels, and prestigious shopping. The most curious part of the development, however, is not its flashy design or luxury buildings, but the small garden that separates the office and cinema complex from a local TV studio. Here, amid sunbathing office-workers and locals eating lunch, sits a quiet pond ringed by reeds and irises. The pond itself dates back to the late eighteenth century, but that's not all: The pond is filled with tiny silvery fish - fish from beyond this world.
Roppongi Hills Garden Pond - Tokyo, Japan
Geocaching - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geocaching is an outdoor sporting activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device [ 2 ] and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world . It is a derivation of the outdoor sporting activity of Geotrekking . A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook where the geocacher enters the date they found it and signs it with their established code name. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers ( Tupperware or similar) or ammunition boxes can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little value. Geocaching is often described as a "game of high-tech hide and seek", sharing many aspects with benchmarking , trigpointing , orienteering , treasure-hunting , letterboxing , and waymarking .
Our records indicate that your account is overdue by the amount of $233.95. If you have already made this payment please contact us within the next 7 days to confirm payment has been applied to your account and is no longer outstanding. Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles I do not have any money so am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead.
7-leg spider
R v Dudley and Stephens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
R v Dudley and Stephens [1884] 14 QBD 273 DC is a leading English criminal case which established a precedent , throughout the common law world, that necessity is no defence to a charge of murder . It concerned survival cannibalism following a shipwreck and its purported justification on the basis of a Custom of the Sea . [ 1 ] It marked the culmination of a long history of attempts by the law, in the face of public opinion sympathetic to castaways , to outlaw the custom and it became something of a cause célèbre in Victorian Britain . The English yacht Mignonette was a 19.43 net tonnage , 52 feet (16 m) cruiser built in 1867. [ 2 ] In 1883, she was purchased as a leisure vessel by Australian lawyer John Henry Want . [ 2 ] The yacht could only reasonably be transported to Australia by sailing her there but she was a small vessel and the prospect of a 15,000-mile (24,000-km) voyage hampered Want's initial attempts to find a suitable crew.
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I think The Karate Kid ruined the modern world. Not just that movie, but all of the movies like it (you certainly can’t let the Rocky sequels escape blame). Basically any movie with a training montage. You know what I’m talking about; the main character is very bad at something, then there is a sequence in the middle of the film set to upbeat music that shows him practicing. When it’s done, he’s an expert.