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Are there not Italian Americans in new York
the p word should be man part head, but that may well be wrong.. Anyways. I can't think of much atm..



Look at the size of that clock!

"Man part head"

There are many Italian Americans in New York.

How did you do that!


I spent like... almost ten minutes trying to post that image before I gave up!
You are awesome, Cornflake!

That's Cornflake for ya.. Kicking ass and taking names

The BBCode "img" tag implementation is a bear of little brain and works only when wrapping a link ending with an image file - and even then it occasionally carps about it.
There are various techniques of arriving at that happy state, in order to provide the fix I did, and as I have some street cred (or WP cred, since I rarely go out) to protect - let's just invoke ol' Arfur with: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Ah, so it is alleged and sometimes I'll not deny the possibility.

"Don't tell him your name, Pike!"

Ok more interesting facts about the Royal Liver Building, an iconic feature in the skyline of my city.



The clocks were originally named the George clocks, due to them starting at the precise time that King George V was crowned on 22 June 1911.

The Liver birds on it were designed by Carl Bernard Bartels who was imprisoned in an internment camp around the time of WW1.
Theres a few local legends about the birds, one being the bird looking over the Mersey is female and the bird looking over the city is male.

The building is on the site of George's Dock, a dock famous for the slave trade a few slaves were sold in that dock.
The Royal Liver was Europe's tallest building for over 20 years after its construction & was the tallest building in the UK for 50 years. It was the first building in the world to be built using reinforced concrete, & has architectural references to the Baroque and Byzantine styles. The Royal Liver and two other buildings (Oriel Chambers and 16 Cook Street) in city centre inspired the designs of American skyscrapers.

Burundi had one of the lowest minimum wages in the world at 160 Burundian francs per day. Based on a 5 day week for 52 weeks of the year that would give you 41,600. According to the exchange rate, that is less than £20 a year.

Spring Temple Buddha


Located in Lushan County, Henan, China. The Spring Temple Buddha is the tallest statue in the world, standing at 128m (420 ft). When taking into account the 25m (82 ft) pedestal it is placed on, the monument has a total height of 153m (502 ft)

Its become even taller over recent years due to reshaping of the hill it stands on to form two further pedestals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Temple_Buddha

If anyone's interested

Dear HammerHorror, That is truly beautiful, thank you for sharing it with us!

Sylkat

Thanks people making me look bad now lol
Qi fact of the day:
The world's oldest golf course is St.Andrews in Scotland. Founded in 1552.

Qi quote of the day:
"I could never believe in a game where the one who hits the ball least wins"
Sir Winston Churchill.

2.Chemistry traces its roots back to the ancient study of alchemy. Chemistry and alchemy are separate now, though alchemy still is practiced today.

Dear Fudo, Did you know what the word 'golf' means? It is actually an acronym for a sign at St. Andrews:

Gentlemen
Only,
Ladies
Forbidden

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Sylkat

That's kinda nasty. In a way you'd think by now they'd have changed it, but at the same time, it would seem petty to do it now, it's too late and everyone would still call it golf, women included.

Interesting though.

I was not aware, thanks Sylkat. I wouldn't be too put out... Is a dull game waste of a good walk, as they say.

they are now making xna(man made dna,rna)