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Funny Days, Weird Holidays, Holidays, Celebrations 2014

Funny Days, Weird Holidays, Holidays, Celebrations 2014

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How to Tie Basic Knots Basic knots Welcome to Basic Knots The eight knots in this section are the most basic knots - the building blocks of knot tying. Select the knots from: the index above left; the pictures above; or the Basics Usage page. Selection Dumb Laws in Utah. Crazy Utah Laws. We have weird laws, strange laws, and just plain crazy laws! Dumb Laws in Utah It is a felony to persistently tread on the cracks between paving stones on the sidewalk of a state highway. It’s legal for restaurants to serve wine with meals, but only if you ask for the wine list. It is considered an offense to hunt whales. No one may have sex in the back of an ambulance if it is responding to an emergency call.

List of common misconceptions From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This incomplete list is not intended to be exhaustive. This list corrects erroneous beliefs that are currently widely held about notable topics. Each misconception and the corresponding facts have been discussed in published literature. Note that each entry is formatted as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated.

The top 25 Bushisms of all time. I started gathering Bush's verbal slip-ups while covering his first presidential campaign. From the first one we published in Slate in October 1999—"The important question is, how many hands have I shaked?"—adding to the collection has been my main pleasure, perhaps my only pleasure, in watching the man. Since then, I've collected—with help from Slate readers—more than 500 Bushisms. What follows is a list of my 25 favorites. There were many to choose from, but in my opinion, the greatest Bushism of all was delivered on Aug. 5, 2004, when the president declared: "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.

Gift tax in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Waterfox When a taxable gift in the form of cash, stocks, real estate, or other tangible or intangible property is made, the tax is usually imposed on the donor (the giver) unless there is a retention of an interest which delays completion of the gift. A transfer is completely gratuitous, where the donor receives nothing of value in exchange for the given property. A transfer is gratuitous in part, where the donor receives some value but the value of the property received by the donor is substantially less than the value of the property given by the donor. In this case, the amount of the gift is the difference.

Misspelled Tattoos: Permanent And Hilarious (PHOTOS) An extreme tattoo can be totally badass. Unless you spell it "exreme." Then it's just hilarious. We've compiled some of the funniest tattoo misspellings we could find. Either these folks had no access to spell check or are simply oblivious to the mistake. Toponymy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Waterfox Toponymy is the study of place names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, use and typology. Etymology[edit] The word "toponymy" is derived from the Greek words tópos (τόπος) ("place") and ónoma (ὄνομα) ("name").

SCIENCE FICTION TECHNOLOGY TERMS The following items are found in science fiction literature as technologies useful in authoring a plausible setting for a sci-fi story: PROPULSION: Faster Than Light Drive (FTL) is required for stories about star based exploits. Twentieth century rocketry is limited to activities in the Solar System. At present spacecraft velocities, the nearest star would require voyages of thousands of years.

Weather woes: 20 signs you're on a British holiday When we asked for your underwhelming UK holiday pictures, we were inundated. The images poured in like rain on a crazy golf course. It seems everyone has been on an average holiday, taken a photo swaddled in layers of irony and disappointment, and shared it on the internet. As the person who has seen every single one of those sent in to the Guardian, I’ve learned a thing or two about underwhelming British holidays. Enough, in fact, to present the ultimate guide to a soggy British holiday, presented as two typically glorious days. But you never know: it might brighten up later.

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