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back in the day, it was worse to be an indian than it was to be a negro. so routinely those who could would go and pass for negroes to get jobs.*
both my grandfathers did this. it was a big family secret.


*period language used for emphasis and accuracy...

this may be more subjective impression than fact, but has anyone noticed the number of ads about dating and the equally interesting number of ads about "curing" AS?

Star Trek employs "universal translators" to get around language problems, as does Farscape, while Stagate SG1 and Atlantis simply have everyone speak english (the writers say so ther first ten minutes of each show isn't dedicated to learning language). Star Wars technically speaks a similar language to English (Galactic basic) but the written component (Aurebesh) is very different.

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V=D/T V=Velocity D=Distance T=Time
But in the case of the speed of light (C)
C=D/T
Distance and Time are relative because the speed of light cannot change.

Just because the sky is blue, doesn't mean that all blue things are made up of sky.[/quote]

In 2005, the CDC recommended a 28-day HIV drug regimen for those who have been exposed to HIV. The drugs have demonstrated effectiveness in preventing the virus nearly 100% of the time in those who received treatment within the initial 24 hours of exposure. This means that if you were definitely exposed to HIV, if you start taking meds within 24 hours, you are almost 100% guaranteed you will not get infected with the HIV virus.

there are 200 calories in 1/4 cup maple syrup

Bela Bartok wrote music rooted in Magyar peasant music. Magyars, which make up the largest enthic group in Hungray, are a branch of the larger Finnic ethnic group (called the Finnic-Urgo or Urgic-Finno group) and are not Gypsies, as some think. Likewise Magyar folk music differs from Gypsy music by having its own musical vocabulary of odd or changing time signatures, unique scales and asymmetrical melodic phrases that is more like other Finnic folk music than Gypsy music.

Decalcomania is an art technique that involves using a viscous medium (paint, ink, etc.), and squishing it against a support (paper, canvas, wood, etc.) with a another flat item (paper, glass, metal plate, etc.). The result is random, fractual-like patterns.

Decalcomania was first used by George Sands in the early 1900's, but was rediscoverd and named by Dadaists/Surrealists like Max Ernst, Hans Bellmer and Marcel Jean around 1935. Ernst is the most famous artist to use this technique, and his inventive way of using decalcomania to create bizarre and dream-like images, from lsureeal andscapes to part-human, part-animal figures largely inspired the Surrealist movement.

Palm trees thrive in Ireland, thanks to the warm waters of the gulf stream.

My grandfather was half scot, half indian
in scotland, the tradition was to name a child after his or her father. If the child was female, she was named with the father's name plus "ina" (pronounced "eye-nah")
I talked to a fellow today whose grandmother's name was Andrewina. They called her Ina, of course.

In the Emergency Responce Guide, or as we call it the ERG, the chemical placard number for liquid nitrogen is 1977. it is carried in pressurised containers such as the MC338.

This guide is given, free of charge, to all public safety (ems, police, fire, dispatch etc) divisions and is kept most often on the responding trucks. it is updated every 4 years and gets thicker every update.

Truckers also are known to carry these, they are not classified, or "secret". they describe the response procedures for the first responders in the event of a HAZ-MAT incident. They are one of the most important books we use.

We have come a LONG long way from the days of the "cop-o-meter". (police officers used to be known for getting too close to haz-mat spills and some even going as far as tasting the substance in an effort to identify it. we call a "cop-o-meter" the process of finding the dead police officer furthest from the scene and setting a perimeter 50 yards out from that. It is said in jest, but I have seen videos where fire chiefs and police officers have been killed because they got too close toa toxic substance, or, they accually tasted it.)

If a kitten is raised in an artificial environment which contains no vertical objects. It will not develop the ability to percieve vertical objects in adult life.

Cats can get acne.