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30 Sep 2019, 5:16 pm

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RED AND BLACK. TO THE TRACK.
ORANGE AND GREY THE OTHER WAY!

what are you talking about?

I get that its something to do with railroads.

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30 Sep 2019, 5:37 pm

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Referring to the post about Bob Marley; I really do not understand how someone surrounded by people all the time could have basically died from neglect; wouldn’t SOMEONE have made him see a doctor?

It was Marley's own choice. As a Rastafari, he considered much of modern medicine and the amputation that he was told he needed as unholy, against the will of God, so he insisted on only using only natural, herbal medicines.

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02 Oct 2019, 10:19 am

The origin of the word "paradise" is from "pardess," an ancient Persian word, which is also the hebrew word for "citrus orchard." The word for "paradise" in hebrew though is "Gan Eden," which is of course "The Garden of Eden."

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02 Oct 2019, 10:36 am

naturalplastic wrote:

Mountain Goat wrote:

RED AND BLACK. TO THE TRACK.
ORANGE AND GREY THE OTHER WAY!

what are you talking about?

I get that its something to do with railroads.

Yes. The rhyme is needed for hard wiring in DCC decoders into model locomotives.

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04 Oct 2019, 2:47 pm

Bonnie and Clyde are not buried together, as some believe; Bonnie’s family hated him and blamed him for her dangerous lifestyle and horrible death.

So they had her buried in a different cemetery altogether.

She was only twenty-three years old.

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18 Oct 2019, 11:25 pm

For my 1534th post, The first French settlers under Jacques Cartier landed in North America in 1534.

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21 Oct 2019, 9:00 am

Joseph Stalin's mistress was named Valentina Istomina.

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23 Oct 2019, 8:00 pm

Capybaras are the world’s largest rodents.

The heaviest capybara on record weighed 201 pounds.

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24 Oct 2019, 12:51 am

Dogs have puppies, cats have kittens and rabbits have... kittens.

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24 Oct 2019, 8:06 am

The guy who invented Wonder Woman also invented the Lie Detector.

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02 Nov 2019, 12:56 am

Coco Chanel was a hateful racist who turned Jews in to the Nazis.

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03 Nov 2019, 1:43 am

Sylkat wrote:

Coco Chanel was a hateful racist who turned Jews in to the Nazis.

i know, the other cosmetic houses are the same

In his youth, Bettencourt was a member of La Cagoule (The Hood), a violent French fascist-leaning and anti-communist group. Eugène Schueller, founder of L'Oréal, provided financial support and held meetings for La Cagoule at the company's headquarter.

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03 Nov 2019, 3:24 am

i've found that evil tends to be about superficial beauty.

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03 Nov 2019, 4:12 am

auntblabby wrote:

i've found that evil tends to be about superficial beauty.

and the money,
or say.... putting on lipstick containg placenta :eew:

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03 Nov 2019, 4:57 am

^^^ :pig: pig placenta? :huh:

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23 Dec 2019, 2:02 pm

James K Polk the 11th US president was the only US president to officially fulfill all of his campaign promises such as running for only one term, recreating and reforming the US treasury, cut tariffs, and to Annex California, Texas, and Oregon.

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