Wanna Know?
1. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
2. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
3. Almonds are members of the peach family.
4. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
5. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
6. Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
7. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English
language.
8. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and
ends with the letters "und."
9. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
10. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford
English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
11. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosesl.
12. The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki maungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit
natahu, a New Zealand hill.
13. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los
Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A.
14. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
15. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
16. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he
was sewn up after surgery.
17. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
18. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
19. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same
pattern of whiskers.
20. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
21. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten
words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,there, he, in,
rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
22. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.
23. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
24. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
25. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened
cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
26. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
27. 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the
left hand.
28. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the
following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced,
thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after
falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
29. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter
is uncopyrightable.
30. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as
does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
31. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal
for that reason.
32. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
33. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat,"
which means "the king is dead."
34. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore
when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the
ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases
1. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
2. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
3. Almonds are members of the peach family.
4. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
5. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
6. Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
7. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English
language.
8. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and
ends with the letters "und."
9. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
10. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford
English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
11. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosesl.
12. The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki maungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit
natahu, a New Zealand hill.
13. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los
Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A.
14. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
15. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
16. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he
was sewn up after surgery.
17. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
18. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
19. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same
pattern of whiskers.
20. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
21. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten
words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,there, he, in,
rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
22. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.
23. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
24. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
25. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened
cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
26. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
27. 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the
left hand.
28. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the
following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced,
thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after
falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
29. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter
is uncopyrightable.
30. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as
does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
31. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal
for that reason.
32. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
33. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat,"
which means "the king is dead."
34. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore
when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the
ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases
May 27, 2017
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| Kushner made the proposal at a meeting in early December at Trump Tower in New York, the Washington Post said. |
Jared Kushner and Russia’s ambassador to Washington allegedly discussed setting up a secret communications channel to cloak contacts between Moscow and Donald Trump’s White House transition team, it was reported on Friday.
Ambassador Sergei Kislyak told his superiors in Moscow that he and Kushner discussed ways to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring, the Washington Post said, citing US officials briefed on intelligence reports.
Trump’s son-in-law made the proposal at a meeting in early December at Trump Tower in New York, weeks before Trump was sworn in, according to intercepts of Russian communications that were reviewed by the US officials, the paper said.
Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, also allegedly attended the meeting.
The report is likely to put Kushner, who is now a senior White House adviser, under heightened scrutiny in the investigations into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. Earlier this week it was reported that the FBI was investigating his contactswith Russian officials.
Kushner, who is married to the president’s daughter, Ivanka, has not commented on the claims but said in the past he would cooperate with any investigation. His lawyer said Kushner stood ready to talk to federal investigators and Congress about his role in Trump’s presidential campaign.
In a separate development, the Washington Post also reported that the Senate intelligence committee, which is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race, has asked Trump’s political organization to produce all documents, emails and phone records dating from his campaign’s launch in June 2015.
It would be the first time the Senate’s bipartisan investigation has made such a request to Trump’s official campaign organization.
The White House made no immediate response to requests for comment on either report. Trump is concluding his first foreign trip as president this week. He has repeatedly denied any collusion with Russia.
Two other outlets published related scoops on Friday. The first from the New York Times said that Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch once close to Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, offered to cooperate with congressional committees investigating Russian meddling in return for immunity. Lawmakers rejected his conditions, the Times reported.
And Reuters, citing seven current and former US officials, reported that Kushner had at least three contacts with Kislyak during and after the presidential campaign that were previously undisclosed. Those contacts allegedly included two phone calls between April and November 2016.
In response to the Reuters report, Kushner’s attorney, Jamie Gorelick, said Kushner did not remember any calls with Kislyak between April and November. “Mr Kushner participated in thousands of calls in this time period. He has no recollection of the calls as described. We have asked [Reuters] for the dates of such alleged calls so we may look into it and respond, but we have not received such information.”
The cascade of news showed that the multiple Russia inquiries are advancing and that leaks continue to spout from the government, giving administration officials no respite even as they trot the globe.
The White House disclosed Kushner’s meeting with Kislyak in March, four months after it happened, and played down its importance. But the Washington Post reported that the FBI now considers the encounter, plus another meeting Kushner had with a Russian banker, to be of investigative interest.
Current and former US intelligence officials were astonished that he would have requested a secret back channel, calling it “naive” or “crazy” given the FBI’s close tabs on Russian officials in the US, the Post reported.
Evan McMullin, an independent candidate in the 2016 presidential race, said the report raised the stakes for Kushner. “If true, this is treasonous activity, whether borne of malice or naïveté, or both,” he tweeted.
Maxine Waters, the Democratic congressional firebrand, expressed little surprise at the latest allegation. “Jared Kushner is under scrutiny in the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation.
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| Drug abuse is directly linked to escaping pain, and is usually rooted in child hood trauma / Artist: Paweł Kuczyński |
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| Preaching peace, when the ruling class profit from war, ultimately makes you a target/Artist credit: Banksy |
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| The illusion of choice / Artist unknown |
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| Athletes have turned into walking advertisements / Artist: Luis Quiles |
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| Go to school, study hard, get a good / Artist unknown |
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| “Here fishy fishy” / Artist: Paweł Kuczyński |
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| It’s all about business / Artist: John Holcroft |
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| Man has allowed the system to become his god / Artist: Unknown |
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| Most girls are attracted to the worst guys / Artist: Luis Quiles |
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| Our apathy has allowed homeless people to practically become invisible / Artist: Paweł Kuczyński |
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| There is no water crisis, there is only a crisis of greed and apathy / Artist: Paweł Kuczyńskii |
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| Slavery comes in many form / Artist: Paweł Kuczyński |
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| Stop looking for temporary solutions and quick fixes to your problems. Artist: Paweł Kuczyński |
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| The zombie apocalypse is already here / Artist: Steve Cutts |
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| Time waits for no on / Artist: Paweł Kuczyński |
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| We were born to change this cruel world, but then we get brainwashed to serve it / Artist: Anthony Clarkson |
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| There is nothing glorious or praiseworthy about war, except the day it ceases to exist / Artist: Paweł Kuczyński |
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| It’s all just a game to them, and the people are the one’s that always lose / Artist: Luis Quiles |
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| “The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” — Paul Farmer / Artist: Paweł Kuczyński |
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| “When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are ruled by criminals.” / Artist unknown |
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| What an ignorant society thinks freedom i / Artist: Steve Cutts |
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| Rebellion is not what most people think it is; rebellion is when you turn off the TV and start educating yourself and thinking for yourself / Artist: luthyen1 If you know of other artists worth sharing, or if you know who the artists for the images listed as “unknown” are, please comment below |
May 26, 2017
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His mother, Samia Tabbal, had been deeply worried about changes in her son over the past few years. She had expressed fears to friends and family members that he had become radicalized and even became so concerned about the threat that he posed to the public that she contacted the authorities. It is alleged by a US intelligence official that she told relevant authorities that he was potentially ‘dangerous.' It has transpired that Mrs. Tabbal has ample experience in identifying potential Islamic terrorists. For many years, Tabbal has been a close friend of the wife of a former Al Qaeda commander who was once included on the FBI’s World’s Most Wanted Terrorist listings. He has long been suspected of helping to plan the horrific bombings of the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya which killed 224 people and left 4500 people with injuries. In a twist of fate, the former commander of the terrorist organization spent five years living in the city of Manchester where he was housed after receiving political asylum in 1995. Despite all of this, the authorities have not suggested that any suspicion has fallen on Tabbal, who has been described as an extremely talented nuclear scientist. Friends of the family have been very clear that she had no role in her son’s radicalisation or crime and that Tabbal and the rest of the family are shocked and saddened about what has happened.
May 26, 2017
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Does the Full Moon Affect People's Behavior?
Many people say it does. If you go by Hollywood's offerings, every sort of mythical beast comes out to prowl and attack on the full moon, the most popular of these offerings being werewolves.
It would be a challenge to keep count of how many werewolf movies have been produced over the years.
However, there may be a bit of science fact behind all the fictional drama and horror flicks. Let's explore.
Can the full moon affect our behavior? | Master's Hands
The Moon's Gravity Affects Much
While many people will pooh-pooh the notion that the moon has anything to do with human behavior, I'm not so sure.
Just ask emergency room doctors and nurses, or cops, all of whom report an upswing in incidents during the full moon.
It was none other than Sir Isaac Newton, of the falling apple fame, who worked out the law of gravity, and also, it turns out, figured out that it was the gravity of the moon responsible for creating the tides.
The moon's gravity affects us far more than that of the sun, given that it is so much closer to us.
Sir Isaac Newton
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Do You Believe in Werewolves?
The moon pulls the tides of the oceans around, making them ebb and flow. Since the oceans weigh a combined total of approximately 1.5 quintillion tons, then it should come as no surprise that the pull of the moon should be able to effect our human bodies, which are puny by comparison!
After all, our bodies are, on average, about 60% water. The weight of water naturally will vary by individual, but, for example a man weighing in at 195 pounds will have a body that is approximately 117 pounds worth of water.
If the gravity of the far away moon is strong enough to influence the tides of all the waters of Earth, then we humans and other animals, by comparison, are mere ‘pushovers,’ hardly a blip on the moon’s radar.
All That Water Weighs a Lot!
- How much does all the water in the earth's oceans weigh
This link shows the calculations that were done to arrive at the figure quoted in the article.
A Real Eye-Opener
- This Is Exactly How Much Weight Humans Take Up on Earth, Compared to Other Animals - Mic
When you include their livestock and pets, it's a heck of a whole lot compared to other mammals. Note that this chart does not take into account ocean-dwelling animals.
Now, of course, when you factor in all the animals on earth, as well as other species, you come up with a lot more weight, but if you then divide out the percentage of water weight for all those beings, I’m pretty sure it would not add up to the weight of water in the oceans. I don’t know. It might. I don’t think that study has been attempted.
Planting Cycles
For centuries, the planting of crops and their harvest was tied to the lunar cycles. People believed that planting at just the right time insured a bountiful harvest, while ignoring the planting schedule could mean disaster.
There are still many parts of the world, and even some small enclaves of earth-centric groups here where such cycles are still observed and used.
Of course, there are other cycles of planting having to do with seasons, and length of summer in any given area. It's not always about the moon, but I found the website referenced above to be quite interesting concerning the moon and planting.
May 26, 2017
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| I'm fascinated with water and boats. I credits this interest to my seafaring friends. |
The swoosh of the tides upon the sand,
The roar of the breaking surf upon a stormy day.
The freshening breeze and salty spray
Run deep within my blood.
Seafaring men of old passed down to me
A feeling of unity, of being one with the sea.
Let me stand in the bow of a fast-speeding boat;
Let me feel the wind in my face along with the spray.
Let me feel the chatter and bounce as we roar across the tides.
Let me relish the curl of the receding wake
As we leave our cares behind.
And when we reach our chosen port, and tie up to the dock,
Let me nap in peace beneath the sun
And feel the rocking, lapping tides as they lull me off to sleep.
For I am child of the children of seafaring men
And boats and the water run deep in my blood.
So when I die, pay a golden coin
To the boatman on the Styx;
And have him ferry me for one last ride
Until I rest, rocked in the arms of the sea.
Photos by Pixabay© 2017 Gerrishon Sirere
May 26, 2017
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