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I really love tea, it is the most popular drink after water in the world
I am such a huge tea fan. What kind of tea do you enjoy the most? black? green? etc. | Tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the "Camellia sinensis", an evergreen shrub (bush) native to East Asia. After water, it is the most widely consumed drink in the world. There are many different types of tea; some, like Darjeeling and Chinese greens, have a cooling, slightly bitter, and astringent flavour, while others have vastly different profiles that include sweet, nutty, floral or grassy notes.
Tea originated in Southwest China | . Turkish black tea is the most popular drink in Turkey, even more popular than Turkish coffee.
Global expansion United Kingdom.
The first record of tea in English came from a letter written by Richard Wickham, who ran an East India Company office in Japan, writing to a merchant in Macao requesting "the best sort of chaw" in 1615. Peter Mundy, a traveller and merchant who came across tea in Fujian in 1637, wrote, ""chaa"—only water with a kind of herb boiled in it". | 72,300 | wow-train |
hello there, | Historical fiction
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for the historical novel, it can also be applied to other types of narrative, including theatre, opera, cinema and television, as well as video games and graphic novels.
An essential element of historical fiction is that it is set in the past and pays attention to the manners, social conditions and other details of the period depicted. Authors also | hello' eq 'world' # returns False
'hello' eq 'hello' # returns True
1. Example in Windows PowerShell
"hello" -eq "world" # returns false
⍝ Example in APL
'hello' ≡ 'world' ⍝ returns 0
Common string functions (multi language reference) Find.
- Examples in Common Lisp
(search "e" "Hello mate") ; returns 1
1. Examples in Perl 6
"Hello, there!".index('e') # returns 1 | 72,301 | wow-train |
I have horrible allergies and I do not know a thing about it :(
I am allergic to cats. My eyes get red and itchy, I start sneezing and I can't breath. I had to go to the hospital a few times. Do you know what you are allergic to?
Pollen! What actually happens to out body when we get a reaction? | insect stings, and medications are common causes of severe reactions. Their development is due to both genetic and environmental factors. The underlying mechanism involves immunoglobulin E antibodies (IgE), part of the body's immune system, binding to an allergen and then to a receptor on mast cells or basophils where it triggers the release of inflammatory chemicals such as histamine. Diagnosis is typically based on a person's medical history. Further testing of the skin or blood may be useful in certain cases. Positive tests, however, may not | coffers. As such, he is sorry to disappoint me, I am not entitled to a pension. I get a handout and I have to thank nicely and shut up. In the sequence of the disgusting nonsense that came out of your mouth, you were right about one thing. There is no university in the world which could teach you what human compassion is. No, sir. You are just a lost cause. And do you know what? I do not need to get excited by you either. Who | 72,302 | wow-train |
Paddleboarding is a great exercise. It's when you propel yourself on a paddleboard using arms.
Wow! I've never been but I think it looks like fun. What else can you tell me about paddle boarding?
It's usually performed in the open ocean. The participant surfs and paddles unbroken swells to cross between island or travel between coastal areas.
That sounds fun.
Yep, you get a good workout. Champion paddlers are able to stroke for hours and races are just warm ups.
Interesting so there are paddle boarding competitions, I always thought it was just done for recreation and fun.
Oh yes definitely! And the creator of paddleboarding was Thomas Edward Blake.
I wonder how he invented it. I wonder if he planned on making it or if it was just a coincidence. Is he still alive? | well-trained paddlers.
History.
History Polynesia.
Ships Artist, John Webber, accompanied Captain James Cook to The Sandwich Islands in 1778, and in the lower left foreground of his 1781 engraving is depicted a Paddleboarder/Surfer Rider.
History Thomas Edward Blake.
Thomas Edward Blake is credited as the pioneer in paddleboard construction in the early 1930s.
While restoring historic Hawaiian boards in 1926 for the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Blake built a replica of the previously ignored "olo" surfboard ridden by ancient Hawaiian | Paddleboarding
Paddleboarding participants are propelled by a swimming motion using their arms while lying, kneeling, or standing on a paddleboard or surfboard in the ocean. This article refers to traditional prone or kneeling paddleboarding. A derivative of paddleboarding is stand up paddleboarding also called stand up paddle surfing. Paddleboarding is usually performed in the open ocean, with the participant paddling and surfing unbroken swells to cross between islands or journey from one coastal area to another. Champion paddlers can stroke for hours and a race is only a warm-up for | 72,303 | wow-train |
you know, i sure like cookies
Cookies may include a number of ingredients. Raisins, oats, chocolate chips, and nuts are very common. Which is your favorite?
my favorite is all but i do like a macadamian nut and white chocolate cookie | Chocolate chip cookie
A chocolate chip cookie is a drop cookie that originated in the United States and features chocolate chips or chocolate morsels as its distinguishing ingredient. Circa 1938, Ruth Graves Wakefield added chopped up bits from a Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate bar into a cookie.
The traditional recipe starts with a dough composed of butter and both brown and white sugar, semi-sweet chocolate chips and vanilla. Variations on the recipe may add other types of chocolate, as well as additional ingredients such as nuts or oatmeal. | Cookie
A cookie is a baked or cooked food that is typically small, flat and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar and some type of oil or fat. It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, nuts, etc.
In most English-speaking countries except for the United States and Canada, crisp cookies are called biscuits. Chewier biscuits are sometimes called "cookies" even in the United Kingdom. Some cookies may also be named by their shape, such as date squares | 72,304 | wow-train |
I can speak over 300 languages. | Multilingualism
Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. More than half of all Europeans claim to speak at least one language other than their mother tongue; but many read and write in one language. Always useful to traders, multilingualism is advantageous for people wanting to participate in globalization and cultural openness. Owing to the ease of access to information facilitated by the Internet, individuals | were attending private schools. Among the country's adult population, over 85 percent have completed high school and 27 percent have received a bachelor's degree or higher.
Language.
The primary, although not official, language of the United States is English. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, more than 93% of Americans can speak English well, and for 81% it is the only language spoken at home. Nearly 30 million native speakers of Spanish also reside in the US. There are more than 300 languages | 72,305 | wow-train |
how about we talk about History of vegetarianism
Sure! It was actually practiced during the Renaissance era. It's more common now though.
that is interesting how did it last that long lol | Modern period: the rise of humanistic thought; the recovery of the literary and artistic heritage of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; increased innovation and discovery; the growth of commercial enterprises; the rise of a bourgeois class; and the Protestant Reformation. From this changing society emerged a common, unifying musical language, in particular, the polyphonic style (this means music with multiple, independent melody lines performed simultaneously) of the Franco-Flemish school, whose greatest master was Josquin des Prez.
The invention of the printing press | Andrea Reiher of Zap2it said "It's interesting how Big Jim had never heard anyone talk about the pink stars during one of their seizures, hence his first time of hearing that in tonight's episode. We had never really thought about it. But he recognizes it as something his wife Pauline said in the months before she killed herself. Hopefully the show finds a way to explore that some more." Also, in regards to Big Jim's revelation, she said "this revelation about Pauline's sayings and paintings has | 72,306 | wow-train |
I just found out that you can make music using only electronics, is this true?
I'm not sure if that is true but I do know that electronic music employs electronic, digital and circuitry-based music technology and instruments.
oh, so what makes it electronic? | Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology. In general, a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means (electroacoustic music), and that produced using electronics only. Electromechanical instruments include mechanical elements, such as strings, hammers, and so on, and electric elements, such as magnetic pickups, power amplifiers and loudspeakers. Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, and the electric guitar, which are typically made | from that style of music, which is sample-based, J Dilla-esque, psychedelic hip hop, Wu-Tang influence. You know what I'm sayin? And now I do more so of a electronic, grime influence, Dizzee Rascal style. But it's like, I'm from Detroit, that was the both sides of it." In a September 2013, interview with "GQ", Brown explained there's a keen difference between artists from his hometown of Detroit and somewhere like New York, | 72,307 | wow-train |
I have three dogs, two are pets and one is a working dog
I have a dog I have heard that The dog and the extant gray wolf are sister taxa as modern wolves
Really? My working dog is a livestock guard dog, what else do you know about dogs? | was the first species to be domesticated and has been selectively bred over millennia for various behaviors, sensory capabilities, and physical attributes.
Their long association with humans has led dogs to be uniquely attuned to human behavior and they are able to thrive on a starch-rich diet that would be inadequate for other canid species. Dogs vary widely in shape, size and colors. They perform many roles for humans, such as hunting, herding, pulling loads, protection, assisting police and military, companionship and, more recently | Origin of the domestic dog
The origin of the domestic dog includes the dog's evolutionary divergence from the wolf, its domestication, and its development into dog types and dog breeds. The dog is a member of the genus "Canis", which forms part of the wolf-like canids, and was the first species and the only large carnivore to have been domesticated. The dog and the extant gray wolf are sister taxa, as modern wolves are not closely related to the population of wolves that was first domesticated. | 72,308 | wow-train |
I've been thinking about taking up painting, and was looking at starting with watercolors. Any advice for a beginner?
Well I think that before you actually start painting, you should understand the history to better educate yourself. The watercolor paint has pigments suspended in a water-based solution.
Aw man, I was never good at art history. What if I just watched some Bob Ross videos? I bet I could make something pretty great! | Watercolor painting
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (French, diminutive of Latin "aqua" "water"), is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution. "Watercolor" refers to both the medium and the resulting artwork. Aquarelles painted with water-soluble colored ink instead of modern water colors are called "aquarellum atramento" (Latin for "aquarelle made with ink") by experts. | Gallery, Montpelier, Vermont; Rockland Gallery, Maine; and the Ford Foundation and International Business Machine Collections.
On December 20, 1974 Sevens died at his home in the colonial Mexican Silver town of Alamos. Mexico.
Philosophy.
Stevens wrote in his published “Notes for a Painting Class.” In 1956 “Most of watercolor painting is done best before you start to paint, that may be true of any form of art, but I think it applies most to watercolor. It is what you do | 72,309 | wow-train |
Do you know much about autonomous cars? I'm not familiar with the concept very well.
I know some about them. They are driverless cars, basically sensing things around them and driving without help from humans
That sounds dangerous to me! lol I can't sharing the road with a driverless car.
They have some benefits. Reduced manufacturing costs, reduced collisions, and reduced injury.
Are there currently any of these vehicles in production or is it just a concept idea? | Audi
Audi AG () is a German automobile manufacturer that designs, engineers, produces, markets and distributes luxury vehicles. Audi is a member of the Volkswagen Group and has its roots at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. Audi-branded vehicles are produced in nine production facilities worldwide.
The origins of the company are complex, going back to the early 20th century and the initial enterprises (Horch and the "Audiwerke") founded by engineer August Horch; and two other manufacturers (DKW and Wanderer), leading | this song is about me basically saying that just because all of those things are there [it] doesn't mean that there is not sort of the same person underneath. And then, also that these veils, they are really just protecting me from the thing that I held the most sacred, which is my creativity ... My Aura is the way that I deal with my insanity and I feel quite insane, so this song sounds very insane ... Everyone thinks that everything I do is a statement but some times I'm | 72,310 | wow-train |
What is your favorite color? Mine is blue.
Its blue because of the spectrum of visible light.
I do not remember the science behind the light spectrum. My car is blue so that is why I like it.
Is well know that Blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments in painting and traditional colour theory
That is correct. I also like the color red.
You know that varieties of the color red may differ in hue, chroma or lightness.
Yes, The hue of a color is important. I like paining my house wall different colors of mostly shades of blue. | Hue
Hue is one of the main properties (called color appearance parameters) of a color, defined technically (in the CIECAM02 model), as "the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, green, blue, and yellow", (which in certain theories of color vision are called unique hues). Hue can typically be represented quantitatively by a single number, often corresponding to an angular position around a central or neutral point or axis on | Blue
Blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments in painting and traditional colour theory, as well as in the RGB colour model. It lies between violet and green on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres. Most blues contain a slight mixture of other colours; azure contains some green, while ultramarine contains some violet. The clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. | 72,311 | wow-train |
I recently got a new job at Walmart. Largest grocery store in the country, and I'm out there stocking shelves.
Congratulations. Is Walmart a very big store?
Oh, it's massive. There are almost 12,000 stores in the entire world. They're not all called "Walmart", but they're owned by the same people.
Is it a privately owned company or a public one?
It's privately owned, by publicly traded. The Walton family controls the company. That's why it's called "Wal"mart lol
Wow thats interesting. When did the company first start trading? | Walmart
Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962 and incorporated on October 31, 1969. It also owns and operates Sam's Club retail warehouses. Walmart has 11,368 stores and clubs in 27countries, operating under 55 differentnames. The company operates under the name Walmart in the United States and Canada, as Walmart de México | List of Walmart brands
Walmart, Inc., like many large retail and grocery chain stores, offers private brands (also called house brands, generic brands, or store brands), which are lower-priced alternatives to name brand products. Many products offered under Walmart brands are private label products, but in other cases, the production volume is enough for Walmart to operate an entire factory.
Apparel brands.
Apparel brands Major brands.
In March 2018, to better compete with Amazon and Target, Walmart introduced three | 72,312 | wow-train |
My brother is great at skateboarding, he can perform many tricks.
That's awesome, I've always loved skateboarding. Tony Hawk was a big idol of mine as a child.
Skateboarding is actually considered an art form and a method of transportation as well!
Yes, I used to ride a skateboard to school. It's a very fun way to spend time.
The skateboarding market is worth $4.8 billion if you can believe it!
That sure seems expensive, I know it is very popular in certain parts of the world though. | Skateboarding
Skateboarding is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard, as well as a recreational activity, an art form, an entertainment industry job, and a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years. A 2009 report found that the skateboarding market is worth an estimated $4.8 billion in annual revenue with 11.08 million active skateboarders in the world. In 2016, it was announced that skateboarding will be represented at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Since | Skateboarding styles
A skateboard style refers to the way a skateboarder prefers to ride a skateboard. Skateboard styles can be broadly divided into two different categories: skateboarding to perform tricks and skateboarding as a means of transportation. Styles of skateboarding have evolved over time and are influenced by a number of factors including sociocultural evolution, mass media, music, technology, corporate influence and individual skill level.
The styles used by different skateboarders when riding skateboards should not be confused with skater style, the manner in which skateboarders dress or act | 72,313 | wow-train |
I can't tell my parents about my romantic/sexual attraction...
why is that? | other labels, such as "pansexual" or "polysexual", or none at all. According to the American Psychological Association, sexual orientation "also refers to a person's sense of identity based on those attractions, related behaviors, and membership in a community of others who share those attractions". "Androphilia" and "gynephilia" are terms used in behavioral science to describe sexual orientation as an alternative to a gender binary conceptualization. "Androphilia" describes sexual attraction to masculinity; "gynephilia" describes the sexual attraction | to wear my emotions on my sleeve, but I thought, 'What better way to tell my son I love him than to write a cartoon about it?'". He added that he pitched the storyline three years earlier, and got approval for his script from his son. Smithers' coming out is low-key, as was Johnny's; he told the "Post" that as he was "the gayest little kid", his parents were not surprised by his sexual orientation. The episode aired five | 72,314 | wow-train |
Taste, gustatory perception, or gustation the one sense that makes life worth living. Could you imagine if you could not taste food?
Oh you are so right! Taste is by far a wonderful sense to have!
That reaction that happens in the mouth chemically makes me happy daily. The taste of morning coffee, o' my god.
I like that bitter taste as well. What allows us to taste?
Taste is the sensation produced when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with taste receptor cells, amazing right? I need to write a book.
You should! Let's see, there's sweet, bitter, salty... what else? | and back of the mouth, and in the throat. Each taste bud contains 50 to 100 taste receptor cells.
The sensation of taste includes five established basic tastes: sweetness, sourness, saltiness, bitterness, and umami. Scientific experiments have demonstrated that these five tastes exist and are distinct from one another. Taste buds are able to distinguish between different tastes through detecting interaction with different molecules or ions. Sweet, savory, and bitter tastes are triggered by the binding of molecules to G protein-coupled receptors on the | Taste
Taste, gustatory perception, or gustation (Adjectival form: gustatory) is one of the five traditional senses that belongs to the gustatory system.
Taste is the sensation produced when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with taste receptor cells located on taste buds in the oral cavity, mostly on the tongue. Taste, along with smell (olfaction) and trigeminal nerve stimulation (registering texture, pain, and temperature), determines flavors of food and/or other substances. Humans have taste receptors on taste buds (gustatory | 72,315 | wow-train |
I like to sing random songs about things that are going on around me when I'm bored. Do you like singing? | perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument (as in art song or some jazz styles) up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi (film songs).
Singing can be formal or informal, arranged or improvised. It may be | video is me waking up in bed and singing the song. I'm thinking about that guy and then I'm going and doing stuff around the house, and everything in my house kind of portrays the way I'm feeling. There's an alarm clock that you see a smiley face on, and you see a hanger on the door and somehow the door knob and the hanger look like they're smiling. It's all these cool little things when I'm walking around my house. I play with my dog, | 72,316 | wow-train |
I am Vegetarian.Do you know you can adopted to be vegetarian for different reasons/?
Good that you are vegetarian!!! whats are the different reasons would be?
One important reason is to live longer, slow the aging process.Are you vegetarian?
No, am not a vegetarian. I eat eggs but i don't consume meat. Interesting hearing that veg foods slows the ageing process
Yes it does.Another reason I am a vegetarian is out respect for the the life of others creatures
Kindhearted person i would say!!.. Whats are other reasons are there? | aesthetic, economic, or personal preference. There are variations of the diet as well: an ovo-lacto vegetarian diet includes both eggs and dairy products, an ovo-vegetarian diet includes eggs but not dairy products, and a lacto-vegetarian diet includes dairy products but not eggs. A strict vegetarian diet – referred to as "vegan" – excludes all animal products, including eggs and dairy. Avoidance of animal products may require dietary supplements to prevent deficiencies such as vitamin B12 deficiency, which leads to pernicious anemia. | "I will always fight for equality!"
McDonald identifies as vegan and is passionate about animal rights. Tara became vegan in 2017 after meeting a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka who was vegan. Tara calls plant based food a "good karma diet". She is an ambassador for the worldwide vegan/vegetarian restaurant guide website HappyCow. In an interview with London Vegans, McDonald said: "I thought being vegetarian was good enough. But when you know better, you do better. There's no way I would | 72,317 | wow-train |
Donna Karan (or DK) is a famous fashion designer from New York City. You may remember seeing clothing with DKNY on them.
Yes, I have. A lot of famous Designers have their roots in NYC
She was a head designer at Anne Klein for 10 years before 1984.
Did you know her net worth is well over 500 MILLION ? Thats quite astounding for a woman :) | DKNY
DKNY is a New York-based fashion house specializing in fashion goods for men and women, founded in 1984 by Donna Karan.
History.
Karan worked for 15 years at Anne Klein, including 10 as its head designer. In 1984 Karan and her late husband Stephan Weiss were offered the opportunity to start their own business by the owner of Anne Klein, Takihyo LLC.
The company became a publicly traded venture in 1996.
In 2001 it was purchased by the French conglomerate corporation LVMH (Louis | Donna Karan
Donna Karan (born Donna Ivy Faske; October 2, 1948), also known as "DK", is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.
Early life.
Karan was born Donna Ivy Faske to mother Helen ("Queenie") and father Gabby Faske in the Forest Hills neighborhood of the Borough of Queens, New York City. Her family is Jewish. Karan's mother had been a model and had also worked in designer Chester | 72,318 | wow-train |
vegetariasim originated and is from root of india and greece
I see but why would anyone not eat meat?
some people dont like meat, and it irritates them and believe the animals are sacred
I see. But how will they get their protein and amino acids
some started it because of the idea of non violence to animal, protein can be obtained also from plant such as almond milk, soy milk and all others, they eat peas also
I see. but is it true vegan do not heal up fast once they get injured? | banned the consumption of meat for ascetic reasons, but none of them abstained from the consumption of fish; these monks were not vegetarians, but some were pescetarians. Vegetarianism was to reemerge somewhat in Europe during the Renaissance and became a more widespread practice during the 19th and 20th centuries. The figures for the percentage of the Western world which is vegetarian varies between 0.5% and 4% per Mintel data in September 2006.
Ancient.
Ancient Indian subcontinent.
Ancient Indian subcontinent Early Jainism and Buddhism.
Jain and Buddhist sources show | . Sometimes the consumer does not directly eat the producers but they are still classified as a consumers because it will get producer energy in another consumer level.
Consumers are typically viewed as predatory animals such as meat eaters. However, herbivorous animals and parasitic fungi are also consumers. To be a consumer, the organism does not necessarily need to be carnivorous, it can also only eat plants (producers) being located in the first level of the food chain above the producers. Some carnivorous plants, like the Venus flytrap, | 72,319 | wow-train |
When I go to the theatre, or to a game at a stadium, I like to get nachos. What is your favorite snack at such an event?
I like Nachos also due to the tortilla chips.
Yes, it seems like you get more for the money. Plus I like the jalapenos on them too!
Yes, they started in Piedras Negras. Hope I can visit there someday.
Interesting, I did not know that. Is that located in Mexico? | Nachos originated in the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, just over the border from Eagle Pass, Texas. In 1943, the wives of U.S. soldiers stationed at Fort Duncan in Eagle Pass were in Piedras Negras on a shopping trip for the day and arrived at the Victory Club restaurant after it had closed for the day. The "maître d'hôtel", Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya, created a new snack for them with what little he had available in the kitchen: tortillas and cheese. Anaya cut the | "Seems like the more money I make/ The more drama y'all try to create/ The more I try to move into the positive/ The more y'all don't want to let me live/ When will you realize that I don't owe you nothin?/ Need to get up off your butt and go make your own something"
Live performances.
Kelly has only occasionally performed the song at concerts.
Critical response.
The song has been getting a good reaction in Chicago. WGCI reports that within 90 minutes of adding | 72,320 | wow-train |
The ocean is a major division the World Ocean.
What is the World Ocean?
The World Ocean is the system of Earth's oceanic waters.
In my opinion the ocean is a very calm refreshing place to be around.. | partly or fully enclosed by land, though "the sea" refers also to the oceans.
Saline water covers approximately and is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas, with the ocean covering approximately 71% of Earth's surface and 90% of the Earth's biosphere. The ocean contains 97% of Earth's water, and oceanographers have stated that less than 5% of the World Ocean has been explored. The total volume is approximately 1.35 billion cubic kilometers (320 million cu mi) with an average | World Ocean
The World Ocean or Global Ocean (colloquially the sea or the ocean) is the interconnected system of Earth's oceanic waters, and comprises the bulk of the hydrosphere, covering (70.8%) of Earth's surface, with a total volume of roughly .
Organization.
The unity and continuity of the World Ocean, with relatively free interchange among its parts, is of fundamental importance to oceanography. It is divided into a number of principal oceanic areas that are delimited by the continents and various oceanographic features | 72,321 | wow-train |
I would love to visit the Egyptian Pyramids. Have you ever been? | Egyptian pyramids
The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures located in Egypt. As of November 2008, sources cite either 118 or 138 as the number of identified Egyptian pyramids. Most were built as tombs for the country's pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods.
The earliest known Egyptian pyramids are found at Saqqara, northwest of Memphis. The earliest among these is the Pyramid of Djoser, which was built 2630–2610 BC during the Third Dynasty. This pyramid and its surrounding complex | Paris, broke down as she told the crowd, "I just want to say, ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine ... and I just want to say I love him... so much." Marlon Jackson said, "Maybe now, Michael, they will leave you alone."
Services Burial.
According to reports, Jackson's burial was originally scheduled for August 29, 2009 (which would have been his 51st birthday). His service and burial were held | 72,322 | wow-train |
Do you know anything about the designer Donna Karen?
Yes, I do. She is an american fasion designer and creator the DKNY clothing labels. She's quite famous.
Where do they sell her clothing items - in malls or more upscale places?
She sold the company in 2001 to Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy. Her clothing was typically found in malls
So does she still design or is she out of the business? | LVMH
LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton SE (), also known as LVMH, is a French multinational luxury goods conglomerate headquartered in Paris. The company was formed in 1987 under the merger of fashion house Louis Vuitton with Moët Hennessy, a company formed after the 1971 merger between the champagne producer Moët & Chandon and Hennessy, the cognac manufacturer. It controls around 60 subsidiaries that each manage a small number of prestigious brands. The subsidiaries are often managed independently. The oldest of the LVMH brands is wine producer Château d'Yquem | Vuitton Moët Hennessy). In 2015 Donna Karan left as chief designer at Donna Karan International, to focus on her Urban Zen brand and Urban Zen Foundation philanthropy. LVMH sold Donna Karan International, with the 'Donna Karan' and 'DKNY' brands, to the G-III Apparel Group in 2016 for $650 million. G-III, based in New York City, is a manufacturer and distributor of clothing and accessories under their owned brands, licensed brands, and private label brands.
Donna Karan New York | 72,323 | wow-train |
Playing the guitar is one of my favorite hobbies.
Modern guitar type instruments were not made until the Renaissance.
They are still pretty old. That's very interesting.
The classical guitar has 12 frets. The strings are made of nylon instead of metal.
I wonder if it sounded any better than modern guitars?
Probably. Classical guitar is very hard to master.
I bet. I only play the modern guitar. | Fingerstyle guitar
Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking (plucking individual notes with a single plectrum, commonly called a "pick"). The term "fingerstyle" is something of a misnomer, since it is present in several different genres and styles of music—but mostly, because it involves a completely different technique, not just a "style" of playing, especially for the guitarist's picking | Classical guitar strings
Classical guitar strings are strings manufactured for use on classical guitars. While steel-string acoustic guitar strings and electric guitar strings are made of metal, modern classical guitar strings are made of nylon and nylon wound with wire, which produces a different sound to the metal strings. Classical guitar strings were originally made with animal intestine and silk wound with animal intestine up until World War II, when war restrictions led Albert Augustine Ltd. to develop nylon strings. Nylon guitar strings were put into production in 1948. Strings | 72,324 | wow-train |
I love me some Sprite, it's always the soda that I go for when I'm really really thirsty.
I love Sprite, its my favorite drink by The Coca Cola Company.
For a while I never even knew it was made by Coke. I wonder what else I should probably know about it by now haha.
It was first developed in 1959 as Clear Lemon Fanta.
Oh really? I never knew it was supposed to be a form of Fanta or that it was that new compared to Coke. | Fanta
Fanta is a brand of fruit-flavored carbonated drinks marketed globally by The Coca-Cola Company. There are more than 100 flavors worldwide. Fanta originated as a Coca-Cola substitute during the American trade embargo of Nazi Germany which affected the availability of Coca-Cola ingredients in 1940.
History.
During WWII, a trade embargo was established against Germany—making the import of Coca-Cola syrup difficult. To circumvent this, Max Keith, the head of Coca-Cola Deutschland (Coca-Cola | whether I'm just overwhelmed with some emotion. Whether it be I'm happy, I'm sad, I've fallen in love, I've fallen out of love. I'm lonely, I'm scared. Whatever it be that day. If I'm like a volcano and I'm about to explode, I better run to an instrument because it's about to come out. For me, I don't really go back. I probably should. I have a bajillion pieces of songs. But I seem to | 72,325 | wow-train |
I have a garden full of roses. That's my favorite flower. They smell so good!
I agree that they are impressive red flowers. They are considered woody perennial flowering plants.
Yes they are quite woody and unfortunately thorny too. Wish they didn't have thorns.
I think it is fascinating for something so pretty to have sharp protrusions. There are over 100 species and 1000s of cultivars..
Wow! I bet they have almost every color you could think of.
I would wager that you are right. The flowers vary in size and shape, but they are usually showy with colors as you mentioned.
Yes, I have a few different shape and sizes in my garden. Was thinking of starting a business during valentines day. Do roses make much money? | Garden roses
Garden roses are predominantly hybrid roses that are grown as ornamental plants in private or public gardens. They are one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants, especially in temperate climates. Numerous cultivars have been produced, especially over the last two centuries, though roses have been known in the garden for millennia beforehand. While most garden roses are grown for their flowers, some are also valued for other reasons, such as having ornamental fruit, providing ground cover, or for hedging.
History | going on, share my laughter and tell them about the wonderful experience I've been having on "Voyager". The feedback is just so positive. The fans seem to "really" like the show, and that's good. If they have any negative feedback, they give it to me, too, which is fine. They're usually pretty respectful, and they come up with things that are very interesting – positive and negative – and I get sucked into it.
Personal life.
Lien is married | 72,326 | wow-train |
I recently heard about top chef which premiered march 8 2006
Oh? What is it about?
it has chefs competeing against each other in cooking challenges
Do you like to cook, or just watch other people cook? | Iron Chef America
Iron Chef America is an American cooking show based on Fuji Television's "Iron Chef", and is the second American adaptation of the series, following the failed "Iron Chef USA" that aired in 2001. The show is produced by Food Network, which also carried a dubbed version of the original "Iron Chef". Like the original Japanese program, the program is a culinary game show. In each episode, a new challenger chef competes against one of the resident "Iron Chefs" in | Top Chef
Top Chef is an American reality competition television series which premiered on March 8, 2006, on Bravo. The show features chefs competing against each other in various culinary challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants eliminated in each episode. The show is produced by Magical Elves Productions, the same company that created "Project Runway".
The show has spawned multiple spin-off series, including "Top Chef Masters" | 72,327 | wow-train |
Do you like to surf? Waves are perfect for surfing, usually done in the ocean but some people do it in lakes or rivers
I have never surfed but I would love to give it a shot one day
Its really fun to try. Some surfers can use the artificial waves from a boat or a wave pool to surf on.
I have tried on one of those little fake wave makers but I got wiped out almost immediately haha
well the word surfing actually breaks down to riding a wave. wether your on a baord or not.
Oh, so you can swim but still technically be surfing? That is interesting! | refers to the act of riding a wave with a board, regardless of the stance used. There are several types of boards. The native peoples of the Pacific, for instance, surfed waves on alaia, paipo, and other such craft, and did so on their belly and knees. The modern-day definition of surfing, however, most often refers to a surfer riding a wave standing up on a surfboard; this is also referred to as stand-up surfing.
Another prominent form of surfing is body | Surfing
Surfing is a surface water sport in which the wave rider, referred to as a surfer, rides on the forward or face of a moving wave, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Waves suitable for surfing are primarily found in the ocean, but can also be found in lakes or rivers in the form of a standing wave or tidal bore. However, surfers can also utilize artificial waves such as those from boat wakes and the waves created in artificial wave pools.
The term "surfing" | 72,328 | wow-train |
I am taking a class in sculpture, which is visual 3 dimension art.
oohhh that sounds really interesting, what types of things have you made? | Sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or molded or cast | piss off his father? He's an iconic and legacy character attached to a number of cool things in the Marvel Universe, but he really hasn't had a lot of face time with it. So we can really roll up our sleeves and see what we've got there and help create a character. I'm not taking anything away from Daniel Way, his creator, but I am saying once a character gets rolling it's interesting to see him interacting with different types of characters. You take him out of the | 72,329 | wow-train |
I would like to be an artist but I am not very good
Artists can engage in many forms of art and activity
What is your favorite type of art | Artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only. The term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (less often for actors). "Artiste" (the French for artist) is a variant used in English only in this context; this use is becoming rare. Use of | wanted to do is to find a way to paint. I have painted. I have worked. I have given myself to my art. That is what I have wanted since my very early age... to be an artist, good or bad... that is what I am." His prolific output of works in many media attest to his lifelong commitment to his art.
Although the main body of Daura's work was strongly rooted in representation and the celebration of nature, he returned to abstract themes throughout his life | 72,330 | wow-train |
You know what is my greatest fear? Being stuck in a desert on a hot sunny day!
You are right, living conditions are really hostile in a desert. It would be dangerous.
I don't know how people who live in deserts do it. It's hot, there's a constant fear of dust storms and lack of water.
Yeah, it is also dangerous when it rains because it can create flash floods.
Have you seen the situation where people sleep in camels when there are flash floods or sand storms?
I have never heard of people sleeping in camels, in Somalia flash occurs annually and cause causalties.
I've seen it a few times on TV. It looks terribly uncomfortable. | camel
in the separate genus "Camelops", known as "C. hesternus", lived in western North America until humans entered the continent at the end of the Pleistocene.
Biology.
The average life expectancy of a camel is 40 to 50 years. A full-grown adult camel stands at the shoulder and at the hump. Camels can run at up to in short bursts and sustain speeds of up to . Bactrian camels weigh and dromedaries . The widening toes on a camel's hoof provide supplemental grip for | the morning of 3 November Allenby ordered the XX and the Desert Mounted Corps to prepare for an attack to be launched against the Ottoman defences on 4 November when Sheria and Nejil would be the objectives. He reported to the War Office: "To–day has been a day of dust and haze, driven by a strong and hot south wind; and reconnaissance has been difficult. I don't really know what the Turks are doing on either flank; but they appear to be moving troops about, freely, in the | 72,331 | wow-train |
I just moved to Los Angeles from Tokyo!
That is so cool Los Angeles has around 3 million people! The second most populated city in the US.
Wow - what that compared to Tokyo?
Tokyo has around 9 million people.
Wow so LA will feel small-time for me = ha ha ha. Have you lived there?
No have never lived in LA. I am from the south eastern US
Where" I've been to Florida before but loved LA when I visited, which is why I moved here. | Florida
Florida () is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States. The state is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida. Florida is the 22nd-most extensive (), the 3rd-most populous (21,312,211 inhabitants), and the 8th-most densely populated () of the U.S. states. Jacksonville is the most populous municipality in the | Don't Know What Love Is"; and was being played in the Down Beat Club in Los Angeles as far back as 1945. According to Mingus, "people thought we were crazy, and I only did it when there weren't too many around. They wanted to hear the beat all the time, but it always seemed to me that so long as you could "feel" the beat you didn't have to keep emphasizing it. Moreover, you can speed it up or make it slower, as happens | 72,332 | wow-train |
Blue is a color that lies between violet and green on the spectrum of visible light.
Tell me more about the spectrum of visible light | Light
Light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The word usually refers to visible light, which is the visible spectrum that is visible to the human eye and is responsible for the sense of sight. Visible light is usually defined as having wavelengths in the range of 400–700 nanometres (nm), or 4.00 × 10 to 7.00 × 10 m, between the infrared (with longer wavelengths) and the ultraviolet (with shorter wavelengths). This wavelength means a frequency range of roughly 430–750 terahertz | Blue
Blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments in painting and traditional colour theory, as well as in the RGB colour model. It lies between violet and green on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres. Most blues contain a slight mixture of other colours; azure contains some green, while ultramarine contains some violet. The clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. | 72,333 | wow-train |
My daughter wanted a book of poetry by Emily Dickinson for Christmas.
Emily Dickenson is one of my favorits. I cannot say how many times I have read her stuff.
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, MASS, and lived in the mid to late 1800's
She was quite a woman, and I look up to her in my life for being who she was.
She was a hermit who lived by herself and wrote poetry. The best art comes from pain, apparently.
I can see where that may be true. She battled through and eventually her works make a mark on the world | and was known for her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, to even leave her bedroom. Dickinson never married, and most friendships between her and others depended entirely upon correspondence.
While Dickinson was a prolific poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime. The poems published then were usually edited significantly to fit conventional poetic rules. Her poems were unique to her era. They contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional | Sendak described Mickey as a source of joy and pleasure while growing up. He has been quoted as saying, "My gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart." Elaborating further, he has explained that reading Emily Dickinson's works helps him to remain calm in an otherwise hectic world: "And I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She | 72,334 | wow-train |
iceland is wonderful! it is a nordic island country of europe located in the north atlantic oean
I have heard Iceland is really fun to visit. What can I see there?
you would probably want to start with reykjavik, which is the capital and largest city
Nice. Does Iceland have a large population? | Iceland
Iceland (; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of 360,390 and an area of , making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Reykjavík, with Reykjavík and the surrounding areas in the southwest of the country being home to over two-thirds of the population. Iceland is volcanically and geologically active. The interior consists of a plateau characterised by sand and lava fields, mountains, and glaciers, and many glacial rivers flow to the sea through | List of airports in Iceland
This is a list of airports in Iceland, sorted by location.
Iceland () is a European island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It has a population of about 320,000 and a total area of . The capital and largest city is Reykjavík.
Airports.
Airport names shown in bold have scheduled passenger service on commercial airlines.
See also.
- Transport in Iceland
- List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries | 72,335 | wow-train |
My wife is a teacher, i have no idea how she does it
I respect teachers, they have to deal with tons of children all day which must be exhausting!
yes! and she also brings some papers home so she works after work too
Cool, is she an art teacher?
no she isn't, she teaches science | .
Teachers may provide instruction in literacy and numeracy, craftsmanship or vocational training, the arts, religion, civics, community roles, or life skills.
Formal teaching tasks include preparing lessons according to agreed curricula, giving lessons, and assessing pupil progress.
A teacher's professional duties may extend beyond formal teaching. Outside of the classroom teachers may accompany students on field trips, supervise study halls, help with the organization of school functions, and serve as supervisors for extracurricular activities.
In some education systems, | also a teacher at Downe School and Bedford School. She returned to Oxford in 1947 to do graduate work with Gilbert Murray. She began research on Plotinus's view of the soul, which she has described as "so unfashionable and so vast that I never finished my thesis". In retrospect Midgley has written of her belief that she is "lucky" to have missed out in having a doctorate. She argues that one of the main flaws in doctoral training is that, while it "shows you how to deal with | 72,336 | wow-train |
I love playing sports and being athletic.
i bet you have a good stamina. do you participate in physical competition?
I dont compete. Im more into recreational athletics with friends.
that's good too! I've read Athletic contests were a significant part of the Ancient Olympic games
Oh I bet. Are there benefits to participating in athletics? | Athletics (physical culture)
Athletics is a term encompassing the human competitive sports and games requiring physical skill, and the systems of training that prepare athletes for competition performance. Athletic sports or contests are competitions which are primarily based on human physical competition, demanding the qualities of stamina, fitness, and skill. Athletic sports form the bulk of popular sporting activities, with other major forms including motorsports, , extreme sports and animal sports.
Athletic contests, as one of the earliest types of sport, are prehistoric and comprised | , her acting career had been largely inactive, and Hendricks' agent urged her not to participate in the project. "They said to me, 'AMC [...] doesn't have any other big shows—why would you do this instead of taking something that's a better bet?' I said, 'Look, I've gone with the one that's the better bet in the past—let's go with the really good script this time.'"
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" features | 72,337 | wow-train |
I really have always wanted to go hitchhiking across the US. Do you know anything about hitchhiking? | Hitchhiking
Hitchhiking (also known as thumbing or hitching) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking individuals, usually strangers, for a ride in their automobile or other vehicle. A ride is usually, but not always, free.
Itinerants have also used hitchhiking as a primary mode of travel for the better part of the last century, and continue to do so today.
Signaling methods.
- Signals used by hitchhikers
Hitchhikers use a variety of signals to indicate they need a ride. Indicators | saying 'thank you' to the fans. Then to go not only full circle in terms of a myth/legend/fairy tale but actually go out to the future and have a guy say, 'What you've been seeing is all true. I know it happened because my father told me,' that always struck me as really strong, kind of an oral history and written history of these kinds of tales." Regarding a spin-off or anything related to the scenes, Kouf said, "We | 72,338 | wow-train |
I'm thinking about becoming a vegetarian! | Veganism
Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products, particularly in diet, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals. A follower of the diet or the philosophy is known as a vegan. Distinctions may be made between several categories of veganism. "Dietary vegans" (also known as strict vegetarians) refrain from consuming animal products, not only meat but also eggs, dairy products and other animal-derived substances. The term "ethical vegan" is often applied to those who | Healy honoured Paul McCartney by becoming a vegetarian. "My wife and I were sitting at the table, thinking of a way to thank Paul, and I suggested becoming a vegetarian. As our son is already a vegetarian, all it required was jumping onto the same boat. When I met Paul at one of his gigs in Berlin, I told him and he was visibly flabbergasted. Three days later the FedEx man delivered three Linda McCartney cookbooks."
In August 2010, Healy announced that the first single from the | 72,339 | wow-train |
Do you liek the Hindu language? | Hindus
Hindus () are persons who regard themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism. Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for people living in the "Hind" (Indian subcontinent).
The historical meaning of the term "Hindu" has evolved with time. Starting with the Persian and Greek references to the land of the Indus in the 1st millennium BCE through the texts of the medieval era, the term Hindu implied a | "bring their culture, their country and any problems they might have, with them" and that this was not a problem within the black community "because we’ve shared a religion and in many cases a language". In the pamphlet, Bailey had confused the Hindu religion and the Hindi language: "You don’t know what to do. You bring your children to school and they learn far more about Diwali than Christmas. I speak to the people who are from Brent and they’ve been having Muslim and Hindi | 72,340 | wow-train |
I live in Texas and I love my corn tortilla tacos
They sound delicious, what kind of toppings do you put on them?
You can put all sorts of fillings in them like beef or chicken, but I personally prefer cheese and shrimp tacos
Sounds great, what kind of cheese do you like? There's so many kinds, American, Swiss, etc.
Mexican queso is typically a white cheese that melts really easy
Oh that does sound good. Do you know where the taco originated by any chance? | Taco
A taco (, , ) is a traditional Mexican dish consisting of a corn or wheat tortilla folded or rolled around a filling. A taco can be made with a variety of fillings, including beef, pork, chicken, seafood, vegetables, and cheese, allowing great versatility and variety. Tacos are generally eaten without utensils, often garnished with salsa, chili pepper, avocado, guacamole, cilantro (coriander), tomatoes, onions, and lettuce.
Etymology.
The origins of the taco are not | super dubby and old sounding, like Motown or Buddy Holly just a little bit." He acknowledged the Beach Boys as a partial influence on his vocals, but stated that "I feel like if you do multi-part vocal harmonies you're gonna get that no matter what, especially if you put a bunch of reverb on it or make it sound kind of spacey. [...] I certainly don't want to sound like anybody else if I can." He invoked his time in a high school chamber | 72,341 | wow-train |
Hello! Do you happen to like Rock music?
I do like rock music. I like how it drew it's roots from rhythm and blues.
Yeah! Rock does definitely have a very cool background. Who would you say your favorite rock band is?
I think Metallica is one of my favorites.
Awesome! Have you ever seen them live? | Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles, California, by drummer Lars Ulrich and vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield, and has been based in San Francisco, California for most of its career. The group's fast tempos, instrumentals and aggressive musicianship made them one of the founding "big four" bands of thrash metal, alongside Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer. Metallica's current lineup comprises founding members Hetfield and Ulrich, longtime lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo | the rhythm section. One unique aspect of the band is the wide difference in ages. At 37, Allman is the youngest while 63-year-old Cyril Neville is the eldest. Said Allman of the group:""It's like it was meant to be. We're not really reinventing the wheel here. We're just making sure it keeps rolling. I think certain fans out there really have an affinity for music based in soul and blues and rock, classic rock, so you really get that with this band."" The | 72,342 | wow-train |
Are you a big fan of taking baths? I prefer them over showers. | Bathing
Bathing is the washing of the body with a liquid, usually water or an aqueous solution, or the immersion of the body in water. It may be practiced for personal hygiene, religious ritual or therapeutic purposes. By analogy, especially as a recreational activity, the term is also applied to sun bathing and sea bathing.
Bathing can take place in any situation where there is water, ranging from warm to cold. It can take place in a bathtub or shower, or it can be in a river | price of power and America's place as a force in the world are all viewed through the lens of the DC Universe. Even if fans aren't paying close attention to these issues, they're all over the media. You can't escape them. So with the state of affairs being what it is, I can't think of a better time to see Superman confront these themes...I'm a big fan of taking real world issues and working them out through our "superhero" stories—but this one goes beyond | 72,343 | wow-train |
Hello. Have you ever watched Top Chef on Bravo?
Hi no I haven't but I love cooking shows what is it about? | , featuring established award-winning chefs; and "", featuring pastry chefs. Another show, "Top Chef Junior", featuring contestants in their early teens, premiered in October 2017 on Universal Kids. Numerous international adaptations of "Top Chef" have also been produced.
Show format.
Show format Basic format.
"Top Chef" is a cooking show that uses a progressive elimination format. The beginning of each season starts with twelve to nineteen professional chefs selected through auditions. The chefs are brought to the | the DVD's contents.
Bostaph's departure.
Bostaph gave the band prior knowledge of his willingness to leave before recording the DVD. "You gotta understand that the taping of that; the "Warfield" show was two shows before my last show with the band. I haven't watched it because you kinda go back with your scene... for the fans, they see a show; for me, I see my second to last show with the band, you know what I mean? I have it | 72,344 | wow-train |
Hi I want to be a tiger. Why you ask? Because tigers are apex predators and the kings of their domain. What animal would you be?
Oh, tigers are really cool. I actually have tattoos of tigers. Does it have to be a real world animal? If so... maybe a horse, since that's my Chinese zodiac sign. But if I can be really whatever, I'd pick a dragon. They're really cool and powerful.
Nice! I know.....kind of random - but I love the,. What determines your Chinese Zodiac sign: the month of birth or the year? I was born in june of 1990
Both, kind of! Some people only do the year. So for example, you're born in the year 1990 so you're also a horse! But month effects the elemental sub-class of your zodiac. So you're a metal horse! We're both 27, happy birthday! (: Did you do anything fun? | Astrology
Astrology is a pseudoscience that claims to divine information about human affairs and terrestrial events by studying the movements and relative positions of celestial objects. Astrology has been dated to at least the 2nd millennium BCE, and has its roots in calendrical systems used to predict seasonal shifts and to interpret celestial cycles as signs of divine communications. Many cultures have attached importance to astronomical events, and some—such as the Hindus, Chinese, and the Maya—developed elaborate systems for predicting terrestrial events from celestial observations. Western astrology, | which is what you hear in the piano. It's something I, personally, have never heard in rock music. What's interesting is the song sounds like it's in four, but it's in three. The harmonies and the way I'm playing the piano music are actually incredibly simple – sort of like "Chopsticks" simple – with this really weird rhythm. At the end we said, 'Oh, wouldn't it be cool if we had a horn fanfare?' so Padma [Newsome] wrote | 72,345 | wow-train |
i read sci fi space adventures with a passion. I love dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology
I am not much of a fan, but what is your favorite book or any type of media in the genre?
I love Stargate SG-1. It is a kind of military science fiction adventure television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Stargate" franchise
Oh I have heard of that show, it ran for a really long time right? I remember it being on the channel sci fi | Stargate fandom
Stargate fandom is a community of people actively interested in the military science fiction film "Stargate" and the television shows "Stargate SG-1" (SG1), "Stargate Infinity" (SGI), "Stargate Atlantis" (SGA), "Stargate Universe" (SGU) and their spin offs. The first franchise release, "Stargate" (1994) spawned four television series successors, four movies (two in production), a plethora of merchandise, and a massive franchise collectively known as the " | Science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes called Sci-Fi or simply SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that has been called the "literature of ideas". It typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, time travel, parallel universes, fictional worlds, space exploration, and extraterrestrial life. It often explores the potential consequences of scientific innovations.
Science fiction, whose roots go back to ancient times, is related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction, and includes many subgenres | 72,346 | wow-train |
I'm not very good at singing, I certainly woudn't call myself a person who sings, or a singer/vocalist.
Same here. I like to listen to others sing but don't like the sound of my voice trying to do it. | perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument (as in art song or some jazz styles) up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi (film songs).
Singing can be formal or informal, arranged or improvised. It may be | to her own voice, she replies,
Yes, but I don't like it. I have to do it, but I don't like it at all because I don't like the kind of voice I have. I really hate listening to myself! The first time I listened to a recording of my singing was when we were recording "San Giovanni Battista" by Stradella in a church in Perugia in 1949. They made me listen to the tape and I cried my eyes out. I wanted to stop | 72,347 | wow-train |
I am a pharmacist. It is an interesting career. | Pharmacist
Pharmacists, also known as chemists (Commonwealth English) or druggists (North American and, archaically, Commonwealth English), are health professionals who practice in pharmacy, the field of health sciences focusing on safe and effective medication use. Pharmacists undergo university-level education to understand the biochemical mechanisms and actions of drugs, drug uses, therapeutic roles, side effects, potential drug interactions, and monitoring parameters. This is mated to anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology. Pharmacists interpret and communicate this specialized knowledge to patients, | "Built over doomy, gothic arpeggios, rumbling bass, and church bells, Eminem lays down one of the most perfectly formed lyrics of his career, weaving in and out of a tight rhyme scheme that echoes the loping piano motif. Interesting aside: this is one of the first Eminem songs that gives him 100% of the writing credits." IGN praised the song: "Eminem is an angry ass white boy and the vitriol continues on "I Way I Am," in which he soundly states "I am | 72,348 | wow-train |
I hate it when I get a cold! As soon as I get the sniffles I take Vitamin C to fight it.
That's a good idea. There is some evidence that regular use may shorten how long a cold lasts.
I just take whatever amount is in a vitamin. How much should you take? | , however, some evidence that regular use may shorten the length of colds. It is unclear whether supplementation affects the risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, or dementia. It may be taken by mouth or by injection.
Vitamin C is generally well tolerated. Large doses may cause gastrointestinal discomfort, headache, trouble sleeping, and flushing of the skin. Normal doses are safe during pregnancy. The United States Institute of Medicine recommends against taking large doses.
Vitamin C was discovered in 1912, isolated in 1928, and | to try it by his friend John Frankenheimer. "He said I should do some TV, that it could be fun as long as you take the same care as you do with feature films--get good actors, do something that's going to be special. It was good advice."
He discovered a friend of his, John Mortimer, had just written a script of "Don Quixote" and offered it to Yates to read. "I did, and I really liked it," said Yates. | 72,349 | wow-train |
I often find myself listening to Linkin Park...way too much. | Linkin Park
Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. The band's current lineup comprises vocalist/rhythm guitarist Mike Shinoda, lead guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave Farrell, DJ/keyboardist Joe Hahn, and drummer Rob Bourdon, all of whom are founding members. Vocalists Mark Wakefield and Chester Bennington and bassist Kyle Christner are former members of the band.
Formed in 1996, Linkin Park rose to international fame with its debut studio album, "Hybrid Theory" (2000), which was | Pale Emperor" (2015)
- "Heaven Upside Down" (2017)
Special features.
- 1997 Rasputina"Transylvanian Regurgitations""Transylvanian Concubine (The Manson Mix)"
- 1998 DMX"Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood""The Omen (Damien II)"
- 2000 Eminem"The Way I Am""The Way I Am (Danny Lohner & Marilyn Manson Remix)"
- 2001 Godhead"2000 Years of Human Error""Break You Down"
- 2002 Linkin Park"Reanimation""Buy Myself [Manson Remix] (Remix of "By Myself")
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i have been held hostage in a store robbery situation. Do you know anyone who's had this happen to them?
not personally but i know that they are usually held by belligerent parties or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement
Yeah. The guy who had me was trying to get $10,000 cash. The vault was locked so he couldn't get at it.
oh wow.. well in contemporary usage, someone is seized by a criminal abductor which sounds like what happened to you
Yeah, he had a gun so I didn't really want to try to get away. Do you know what's the earliest recorded hostage in history?
there is a long history of political and military use where generals would legally agree to hand over one or usually several hostaes in the custody of the other side as a sign of good faith
Wow that's interesting. I heard it happens a lot in Somalia. | Somalia
Somalia ( ; ; ), officially the Federal Republic of Somalia (; ), is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, the Gulf of Aden to the north, the Guardafui Channel and Somali Sea to the east, and Kenya to the southwest. Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland, and its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands. Climatically, hot conditions prevail year-round, with periodic monsoon winds and irregular rainfall. | All events that happen in Ukraine, starting from Maidan, are directed by those, who want to make our countries weak and make them quarrel. I hope you have not any doubts about this. They are successful in this — there is actually a civil war in/on (whatever you want) Ukraine, power is seized by oligarchs, who are ready to hit everyone disagreeing by tanks, hatred to Russians artificially incited. And, as you know, peaceful people become victims of war first. And if trying to | 72,351 | wow-train |
Hey! I'm Mary and I am from Colorado. How's it going?
Its going well, Colorado is a cool state, its one of the nicest in the United States.
I agree! I like hiking in Colorado. Have you been?
No but I imagine its a good state for hiking since Colorado has such a large portion of the rocky mountains running through it.
Yes. The only downside is that it can get pretty hot, so you always have to have water on you. Have you been to Colorado at all? | Colorado
Colorado (, other variants) is a state of the Western United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. It is the 8th most extensive and 21st most populous U.S. state. The estimated population of Colorado was 5,695,564 on July 1, 2018, an increase of 13.25% since the 2010 United States Census.
The state was named for the Colorado River, which early Spanish explorers named the "Río Colorado" | in southern Oklahoma, heading northwest to Colorado. It has no relation to today's Colorado Trail, which is a hiking trail completely within the state of Colorado.
The song got its widest attention from its 1960 recording by The Kingston Trio. It has also been recorded by Burl Ives, The Weavers, the Norman Luboff Choir, Tex Ritter, Johnny Cash, the Bar D Wranglers, and many others. The "American Songbag" version included only a single short verse; most who have recorded it since have added | 72,352 | wow-train |
Do you like cinematography? I once shot a home movie with my friends. It was not very well acted but we had a lot of fun doing it!
How did you do that. What i know is that Typically, a lens is used to repeatedly focus the light reflected from objects into real images on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera
I had a handheld digital camcorder. I never worked with real film before. I am not very technically gifted!
Why not get yourself on. It is just an electronic device originally combining a video camera and a videocassette recorder. I am sure it is not difficult to operate
It does interest me. I know people really like using 8 millimeter film to record movies. I guess I could try it sometime.
We are grateful for the digital world. Now everything is digital including the camcorder. We do not have to use tape any more but storage media such as mini-HD, microDVD, internal flash memory and SD cards.
That is true, but many film enthusiasts prefer film over digital. Apparently the two different mediums give a different appearance on the big screen.
I never think the film is better over digital. Although film had served us in the past as it moves from a novelty to an established mass entertainment industry.
Yes there is no doubt we would not have such a big movie industry today if we never had film. | History of film
Although the start of the history of film is not clearly defined, the commercial, public screening of ten of Lumière brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895 can be regarded as the breakthrough of projected cinematographic motion pictures. There had been earlier cinematographic results and screenings but these lacked either the quality or the momentum that propelled the cinématographe Lumière into a worldwide success.
Soon film production companies and studios were established all over the world. The first decade of motion picture saw film moving from a | busy doing it and getting it out and touring and playing it. Over a matter of three years it was gone and we were doing something else. But when you draw this into the present, it’s like, 'Oh my God, what the f— is this?!? How did we do that?' We've been very fortunate, Ray and I and the Kinks. We’ve had such a wealth of materials, ideas, and observations. We’ve been very good at following our intuition. | 72,353 | wow-train |
I was born and raised in Alabama. I love it here.
Alabama has a lost of inland waterways. I bet that is beautiful
Yes, it really is a beautiful state. I wouldn't want to grow up anywhere else.
Do you like Mobile? It is old and founded by French. Is the city nice?
Yes there is so much fun stuff to do there.
It is also called the Yellowhammer State after a bird. I have never heard of a yellowhammer
I did not know that. I don't even know what a Yellowhammer looks like. | known as the "Heart of Dixie" and the "Cotton State". The state tree is the longleaf pine, and the state flower is the camellia. Alabama's capital is Montgomery. The largest city by population is Birmingham, which has long been the most industrialized city; the largest city by land area is Huntsville. The oldest city is Mobile, founded by French colonists in 1702 as the capital of French Louisiana.
From the American Civil War until World War II, Alabama, like many states in the | na Do; All My Love; Hot & Wet; Everyday; Right Here For You; Knock U Down; Give It To Me; Say Yes; My Mistakes; Closing The Club; Cupid ; I Will Be There; Anywhere; Love You Like I Did; Crazy Over You; The Only One; Its Over Now; Dance With Me; Missing You; Player; I Think; Still In Love; All I Want Is You; Sweet Love; Na Na Na Na; Its Going Down 2nite; Unbelievable | 72,354 | wow-train |
Have you ever used a juicer? I got one for Christmas.
Yes I have one I have used. So juicing is how we extract juices from plants and vegetables, basically.
Basically. I like sweet potato and carrot juices. What about you?
I like apple juices and orange juice. You can use your hands to extract juice or an industrial machine (for wide scale production)./
Oh you like the more traditional juices. I like those, too - but I am trying to drink healthier juices. Celery juice is awful.
Evidently, there's a big difference between store bought juices and home made juices because home made juice comes from fresh fruits and vegetables.
Yeah, people don't usually add sugar to home-made juice. | the act of extracting and then drinking juice or those who extract the juice.
Juicing is different from buying juice in the supermarket because it focuses on fresh pressed fruits and vegetables. Residential juicing is often practiced for dietary reasons or as a form of alternative medicine. Becoming first popular in the early 1970s, interest in juicing has since increased. Films such as "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead", "Food Matters", and "Hungry for Change" have increased the sales of juicers.
Methods. | . So, therefore, I just stand strong and continue to tell you, your audience, and the world that I am innocent and, yes, I have been a wretched person, but I have redeemed myself. And I say to you and all those who can listen and will listen that redemption is tailor-made for the wretched, and that's what I used to be…That's what I would like the world to remember me. That's how I would like my legacy to be remembered as: | 72,355 | wow-train |
Do you like heavy metal? Metallica is my favorite heavy metal band.
I grew up in the 1980's so I heard a lot of heavy metal growing up! | most famous pioneers, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple were founded. Though they came to attract wide audiences, they were often derided by critics. Following the blueprint laid down by Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, several American bands modified heavy metal into more accessible forms during the 1970s: the raw, sleazy sound and outrageous stage shows of Alice Cooper and Kiss; the blues-rooted rock of Aerosmith; and the flashy guitar leads and wild party rock of Van Halen. During the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur | being certified Silver in the United Kingdom.
In 2015, Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis stated "My favorite Faith No More record is "The Real Thing". That's when Mike Patton took over. That's the one. [Although] I do like "We Care a Lot". We got a lot of our influences from "The Real Thing". It showed everybody you could do heavy music and not be "metal". It was something completely different."
Legacy.
"Epic" | 72,356 | wow-train |
I love vacationing at the beach. Hawaii is the only US state composed of islands
I love Hawaii, is is my favorite state in the USA.
I have never been, but want to go. It is the only state located outside of North America.
I did not know that. How many islands are there?
There are eight main islands that make up Hawaii.
What is the biggest island? | the southeastern end of the archipelago, the eight main islands are—in order from northwest to southeast: Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lānai, Kahoolawe, Maui, and Hawaii. The last is the largest island in the group; it is often called the "Big Island" or "Hawaii Island" to avoid confusion with the state or archipelago. The archipelago is physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania.
Hawaii's diverse natural scenery, warm tropical climate, abundance of public beaches, | Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; ) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959. Hawaii is the only U.S. state geographically located in Oceania, although it is governed as a part of North America, and the only one composed entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean.
The state encompasses nearly the entire volcanic Hawaiian archipelago, which comprises hundreds of islands spread over . At | 72,357 | wow-train |
I'm currently traveling in Japan, it's an island off the eastern coast of the Pacific Ocean
I have always been intrigued by the country. What are the big attractions there?
It has a deep history, archaeologists estimate it was inhabited in the Upper Paleolithic period
How long ago was the Paleolithic period?
The Paleolithic period goes back to the earliest use of stone tools, around 2.6 million years ago up until 10,000 BP
That is amazing! How many languages are spoken in Japan? | Japan
Japan (; "Nippon" or "Nihon" ; formally "" or "Nihon-koku", ) is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asian continent and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea in the south.
The kanji that make up Japan's name mean 'sun origin', and it is often called the "Land of the Rising Sun". Japan | .
Wales is known to have been inhabited since at least the Upper Paleolithic period, and the Gower Peninsula has been the scene of several important archaeological discoveries. In 1823, archaeologists discovered a fairly complete Upper Paleolithic human male skeleton in Paviland Cave. They named their find the Red Lady of Paviland because the skeleton is dyed in red ochre, though later investigators determined it was actually a male. This was the first human fossil to have been found anywhere in the world, and is still the oldest ceremonial burial anywhere in | 72,358 | wow-train |
a farmer is aperson engaged in agriculture
Interesting. Are you a farmer yourself?
no but many people around me are farmers who deal with agriculture
Ah. I bet its hard work. My desk job seems much easier! | Farmer
A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer might own the farmed land or might work as a laborer on land owned by others, but in advanced economies, a farmer is usually a farm owner, while employees of the farm are known as farm workers, or farmhands. However, in | as many or more people ahead of you in the economic hierarchy. For example, if you are the first in your family to get a college degree, you are doing better. But if you were at the bottom of your class at a weak school, you may find yourself less eligible for a job than your grandfather, who was only a high school graduate. "The value to me of my education - the satisfaction I derive from it - depends upon how much education the man ahead of me in the job | 72,359 | wow-train |
I used to be a little overweight when I was a few years younger. It is not very healthy.
No, I would imagine that it's not. What is the best way to lose weight? | Overweight
Being overweight or fat is having more body fat than is optimally healthy. Being overweight is especially common where food supplies are plentiful and lifestyles are sedentary.
, excess weight reached epidemic proportions globally, with more than 1 billion adults being either overweight or obese. In 2013 this increased to more than 2 billion. Increases have been observed across all age groups.
A healthy body requires a minimum amount of fat for proper functioning of the hormonal, reproductive, and immune systems, as thermal insulation, as shock | a little disappointed to lose baseball, but that's the way the business is. And it's not nearly as disappointing as it was when we lost it at the end of the '80s. Because then it was like baseball was the birthright for NBC. ... (Baseball is) not going to affect any decision that I have in the future. It's nowhere near as devastating as a decade ago. Different circumstances, different time. I miss it a little bit but not a lot. I am very philosophical | 72,360 | wow-train |
Of all of the colors, why is blue so special?
It is one of three primary colors along with red and green. These form the RGB color model
What is it good for painting?
Arists used it to paint windows of churches and cathedrals in Middle Age Europe
Why is the sky blue?
This is based on an optical phenomenon scientists refer to as Rayleigh scattering
Is there enough blue in the world? | Blue
Blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments in painting and traditional colour theory, as well as in the RGB colour model. It lies between violet and green on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres. Most blues contain a slight mixture of other colours; azure contains some green, while ultramarine contains some violet. The clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. | Green
Green is the color between blue and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combination of yellow and blue, or yellow and cyan; in the RGB color model, used on television and computer screens, it is one of the additive primary colors, along with red and blue, which are mixed in different combinations to create all other colors. By far | 72,361 | wow-train |
I honestly love it when you first jump into the pool on a hot summer day do you enjoy the pool?
I do enjoy swimming. I especially loved it as a child. I felt so free in the water. I should get back in the water, as I live in Florida. The water felt natural to me since I was a baby.
I feel the same way about when I was younger and we still travel to the beach with the family and walk in the water.
Yes, walking is very enjoyable. Walking is the coordinated movement of the limbs, the body, or both. I find it very engaging and enjoyable to do this activity as well!
Do you know anymore about swimming I preferably jog rather than walk but on the beach its a different situation.
Sure, I can provide more information about swimming. Swimming is among the top public recreational activities. Some countries even make swimming a compulsory part of their educational systems! I would not have enjoyed that in school as my hair is quite long and hard to manage.
I never liked the idea of competitive swimming but do you know anymore about competitive? | local, national, and international competitions, including every modern Summer Olympics.
Science.
Swimming relies on the nearly neutral buoyancy of the human body. On average, the body has a relative density of 0.98 compared to water, which causes the body to float. However, buoyancy varies on the basis of body composition, lung inflation, and the salinity of the water. Higher levels of body fat and saltier water both lower the relative density of the body and increase its buoyancy.
Since the human body is | . You should allow yourself to be scared. It’s one of the prime emotions. You might almost enjoy it, funny as it sounds, and find that you can get over it and deal with it. If you ignore these things, you miss so much. But when you want to enjoy something, especially when it’s something you’ve just been introduced to, you’ve got to have a lot of courage to do it. I don’t think I’m more courageous than most people. I’m an | 72,362 | wow-train |
my favorite flower is a lily
LIlies are beautiful flowers! They are important in culture and literature in much of the world.
Oh yes. Do you know in which climate they thrive much better?
They like the temperate northern hemisphere, though their range extends into the northern subtropics.
to which country are they native to?
I'm not sure, but there is a North American species in which the base of the bulb develops into rhizomes
I have a couple of the species in my garden | Lilium
Lilium (members of which are true lilies) is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants growing from bulbs, all with large prominent flowers. Lilies are a group of flowering plants which are important in culture and literature in much of the world. Most species are native to the temperate northern hemisphere, though their range extends into the northern subtropics. Many other plants have "lily" in their common name but are not related to true lilies.
Description.
Lilies are tall perennials ranging in height from . They | black.
Range.
"B. ternarius" mainly ranges in the northern parts of the US and much of Canada. Their range extends from the Yukon to Nova Scotia and British Columbia. Their United States territory extends from New York and Pennsylvania to Michigan, Washington, Wyoming, Utah and Montana. The bumblebees are most successful in the northern, temperate climate, but they can rarely be found farther south.
"B. ternarius", like most members of its genus, are seasonal, meaning the queen comes out | 72,363 | wow-train |
I'm going to the beach tomorrow! It's a great beach with lifeguard posts, changing rooms, and showers - but I have to bring my own beach chair!
Thats awesome, I love the beach and I also love to boogeyboard haha. What do you like to do on the beach?
I love to swim in the body of water and also walk through the loose particles of sand in my bare feet!
That sounds awesome, I sometimes make sand castles and build giant holes in the sand and build forts and just goof off, What beaches are your favorite? | Beach
A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles composing a beach are typically made from rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles. The particles can also be biological in origin, such as mollusc shells or coralline algae.
Some beaches have man-made infrastructure, such as lifeguard posts, changing rooms, showers, shacks and bars. They may also have hospitality venues (such as resorts, camps, hotels, and restaurants) nearby. Wild | has been the steadying influence for the last thirty years. In his own words, "I just did not get it into my head that I was getting paid to do something I love."
Barker attributes the band's long success to the ongoing popularity of beach music and the great tunes that the band has composed and recorded over the years. Some of their classics include, "You Haven't The Right," "Facts Of Love," "Dancin'-Romancin'," "Hey Little Girl (aka Rainy | 72,364 | wow-train |
I was just listening to my favorite band of all times! The beatles, do you like beatles music?
I do! I used to have teir 8th album, Sgt Pepper
Wao one of their best selling one, its amazing how a 1960 liverpool band still can be heard nowadays, wich one is your favorite beatle? | George Harrison
George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and music and film producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music through his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned spirituality in the Beatles' work. Although the majority of the band's songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965 | and cut them apart and put it together again in a different order it still would make one piece of music you can listen to. Then I could take that razor blade and cut it apart and reassemble it a different way, and it still would make sense. I could do this twenty ways. The material is definitely related."
As the recording sessions continued, The Beatles released their acclaimed album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". In response to the album's release, Zappa decided to | 72,365 | wow-train |
Dogs are so interesting, especially how the dog and the extant gray wolf are related.
Yep, they are awesome for helping you as well as like guide dogs | was the first species to be domesticated and has been selectively bred over millennia for various behaviors, sensory capabilities, and physical attributes.
Their long association with humans has led dogs to be uniquely attuned to human behavior and they are able to thrive on a starch-rich diet that would be inadequate for other canid species. Dogs vary widely in shape, size and colors. They perform many roles for humans, such as hunting, herding, pulling loads, protection, assisting police and military, companionship and, more recently | 1929, and is the oldest existing school for guide dogs in the world. Here dogs are instructed in helping individuals that are blind so that they can be more mobile. The dogs are taught when and where something is dangerous or is an obstacle and people are instructed in how to get the best from their dog. The Seeing Eye gives tours of its facilities to schools in the surrounding area.
References.
- Some historic images of The Morristown Green from The North Jersey History and Genealogy Center/Morristown & Morris | 72,366 | wow-train |
I work in sales. What do you do?
I create, keep and satisfy the customer's of Hilton for a living, sales manager in other words.
That sounds like a fun job.
The original meaning which referred literally to going to market with goods for sale. Which is what it feels like what I do. Sales calls all day.
Yes, I am on the phone a lot also. | referred literally to going to market with goods for sale. From a sales process engineering perspective, marketing is "a set of processes that are interconnected and interdependent with other functions" of a business aimed at achieving customer interest and satisfaction"."
Philip Kotler defines marketing as "Satisfying needs and wants through an exchange process".
The Chartered Institute of Marketing defines marketing as "the management process responsible for identifying, anticipating and satisfying customer requirements profitably". A similar concept is the value-based marketing which states | in Ireland by Barry Mahon and in the USA by Garrett O'Rourke. Teddy Grimthorpe is Racing Manager.
Prince Khalid was responsible for the allocation of horses to trainers and for approval of mating lists. In a rare interview in 2010 he told "The Racing Post": "When I was at the sales I realised that it would be easier to buy horses and race them, but I got the feeling that this was not enough, that it would be more fun to do what people like the Aga Khan and Lord | 72,367 | wow-train |
Do you like Italian cuisine?
Love it. But I suppose there is a lot of regional diversity in Italian cuisine and I'm not sure when region's food I like the best.
I have never been to Italy. How many regions are there?
Well I don't know all of Italy's regions, but there seems to be some major differences in the food between the north (alps) and the south of the Italian peninsula.
I see. Can you ski in the north alps?
There is a pretty extensive range of the Alps in northern Italy, so I assume there are opportunities for skiing.
Thats cool. What time of the year is a good time to go? | Alps
The Alps (; ; ; ; ; ) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, separating Southern from Central and Western Europe and stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, and Slovenia. The mountains were formed over tens of millions of years as the African and Eurasian tectonic plates collided. Extreme shortening caused by the event resulted in marine sedimentary rocks rising by thrusting and folding into high | on the record, that's ridiculous. What happens is you got a lot of people taking subliminal shots, but nobody ever says my name. I'm not for sure, so that record is like my way of taking subliminal shots right back. Don't get it misquoted, don't get it messed up. That's basically what it is man. It's like, you know, like I said I do devote a lot of information about myself on there. I started to wreck it up by saying I | 72,368 | wow-train |
I love a good hamburger, I even a not so good once in a while.
The modern hamburger was created because of rapidly changing society due to industrialization. They needed mass produced food once a middle class emerged.
Interesting, do you mean like McDonald's? | Airport in the Los Angeles County city of Monrovia, California with hot dogs being one of the first items sold. Hamburgers were later added to the menu at a cost of ten cents with all-you-can-drink orange juice at five cents. In 1940, Maurice and Richard moved the entire building east, to West 14th and 1398 North E Streets in San Bernardino, California. The restaurant was renamed "McDonald's Bar-B-Que" and had 25 menu items, mostly barbecue.
In October | History of the hamburger
The hamburger (commonly known as a “burger”) most likely first appeared in the 19th or early 20th century. The modern hamburger was a product of the culinary needs of a society rapidly changing due to industrialization, the emergence of the working class and middle class and the demand for mass-produced, affordable food that could be consumed outside of the home.
Considerable evidence suggests the USA was the first country where two slices of bread and a ground beef steak were combined into a " | 72,369 | wow-train |
The brewery business has always fascinated me, you know something about it?
I do know know a bit about them. I do know they make and sell beer.
It's a good business I guess, lots of customers!
It's funny to think that beer use to be made at home and it was women's work.
Really, that's fascinating, I would have thought it was a man's job, when was beer first brewed? | it can be traced back almost 5000 years to Mesopotamian writings describing daily rations of beer and bread to workers. Before the rise of production breweries, the production of beer took place at home and was the domain of women, as baking and brewing were seen as "women's work".
History Industrialization.
Breweries, as production facilities reserved for making beer, did not emerge until monasteries and other Christian institutions started producing beer not only for their own consumption but also to use as payment. This industrialization of brewing shifted | Talking about Audrey and Claudia's relationship, Nicholls said, "Yes, she's a little bit like the wicked witch, isn't she? It's great fun. In my head, Claudia is that friend you know is always going to be a pain. She's the one who says the wrong thing, is always trying to out do you and has a habit of saying really horrid things even though she thinks they're a joke. But I think in a funny way they really do get on. She | 72,370 | wow-train |
I enjoy swimming. Do you like it?
I love swimming! I can hold my breath for a while too!
Wow, that's pretty cool. How long?
Long enough to free underwater dive below the water's surface for a few minutes. Do you like to snorkel?
I've tried it a few times! I'm afraid of sharks though! | Snorkeling
Snorkeling (British and Commonwealth English spelling: snorkelling) is the practice of swimming on or through a body of water while equipped with a diving mask, a shaped breathing tube called a snorkel, and usually swimfins. In cooler waters, a wetsuit may also be worn. Use of this equipment allows the snorkeler to observe underwater attractions for extended periods with relatively little effort and to breathe while face-down at the surface.
Snorkeling is a popular recreational activity, particularly at tropical resort locations. The primary appeal | a "Billboard" interview, Norwood further commented about the track, saying:
"I just felt like, [when] being gone for such a long time, you need to come back with something strong and shock people. Make them go, 'Wow, who is that? Oh my God, that's Brandy? I didn't' even know she can sound like that. Didn't know she would do a song like that?' Because It's completely different than anything I've ever done. | 72,371 | wow-train |
do you enjoy eating broccoli?
I do. I prefer to eat it roasted or raw, but I'm aware many prefer it boiled or raw.
I actually eat it steamed. I eat it everyday as a part of my anti-inflammatory diet I am on | Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, and the flesh of any other animal), and may also include abstention from by-products of animals processed for food.
Vegetarianism may be adopted for various reasons. Many people object to eating meat out of respect for sentient life. Such ethical motivations have been codified under various religious beliefs, as well as animal rights advocacy. Other motivations for vegetarianism are health-related, political, environmental, cultural, | while protesting against Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant in Iceland.
Jónsi is a vegetarian. He states that he "didn’t go vegetarian because of the animals" but became gradually more concerned for their welfare. Jónsi elaborated that he would find it difficult to date someone who eats meat, saying "I just love animals and I do not want to kill them, cook them or eat them so it’d be hard for me to watch anyone do that." He briefly followed a raw food diet, although he no longer practices | 72,372 | wow-train |
What is your favorite food?
I love fresh fruits -- all kinds of berries, especially.
That's great. Fruits account for a significant amount of agriculture output. Where there demand there is supply. I don't think you are alone in your preference.
Especially this time a year, there are so many fresh fruits. What's your favorite food? | continent. The various styles of cuisine continued expanding well into the 19th and 20th centuries, proportional to the influx of immigrants from many different nations; this influx nurtured a rich diversity in food preparation throughout the country.
When the colonists came to the colonies, they farmed animals for clothing and meat in a similar fashion to what they had done in Europe. They had cuisine similar to their previous Dutch, Swedish, French and British cuisines. The American colonial diet varied depending on the region settled. Commonly hunted game included | located in the area where you can do your banking. Again, it is only limited to small amounts since it is small. You are better of to convert any foreign currency while in Honiara.
There is no grocery shop in this area. There is a small market where people come and sell fresh vegetables and fruits every day other than Sunday. There are areas that sell fresh fish, such as Kolofaga Fishery.
This town is close to Fera Island, about 15 minutes boat ride. The airfield is on | 72,373 | wow-train |
I am thinking about getting a corvette.
I TOO WISH.. IT S SOME THING AMAZING, A CAR THAT HAVE BEEN PRODUCED SINCE SEVEN GENERATIONS
Yeah its definitely a classic that has been around for a long time.
I EQUALLY LOVE TOYOTA THAT HAS ALMOST THREE GENERATIONS.. ARE YOU ON IT
I have never had a toyota. I only have a honda, but its reliable. | Toyota
Toyota is the world's market leader in sales of hybrid electric vehicles, and one of the largest companies to encourage the mass-market adoption of hybrid vehicles across the globe. Toyota is also a market leader in hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles. Cumulative global sales of Toyota and Lexus hybrid passenger car models achieved the 10 million milestone in January 2017. Its Prius family is the world's top selling hybrid nameplate with over 6 million units sold worldwide .
The company was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937 | my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone | 72,374 | wow-train |
My father helps manufacture cars in the automotive industry.
Oh wow. What does that entail? My dad is a body man. | Automotive industry
The automotive industry comprises a wide range of companies and organizations involved in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, and selling of motor vehicles. It is one of the world's largest economic sectors by revenue. The automotive industry does not include industries dedicated to the maintenance of automobiles following delivery to the end-user, such as automobile repair shops and motor fuel filling stations.
The word "automotive" comes from the Greek "autos" (self), and Latin "motivus" (of | Appearances "A Goofy Movie".
In "A Goofy Movie", P.J is a high school-aged teenager and helps Max to try and impress Roxanne by videotaping him dance along to Powerline's new song, even though he was terrified of doing so in case his dad found out (which he did). While leaving the principal's office after they are caught he drones, "Oh man, my dad is gonna smash me like a bug."
After school is let out, he later appears | 72,375 | wow-train |
Microsoft is such a big company at this point.
Yea, in 2016 it was one of the worlds most valuable companies.
I'm sure it is still one of the most valuable. | Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge Web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. As of 2016, it is the world's largest software maker | publication with the December 2016/January 2017 issue.
"Complex" has been named by "Business Insider" as one of the Most Valuable Startups in New York, and Most Valuable Private Companies in the World. "Complex" CEO Rich Antoniello was named among the Silicon Alley 100. In 2012, the company launched Complex TV, an online broadcasting platform; in 2016, it became a joint-venture subsidiary of Verizon and Hearst.
History.
"Complex" was established in 2002 by the founder of | 72,376 | wow-train |
Do you have anxiety? I do, it makes me feel uneasy, and worry a lot, usually just a generalized feeling
I have ADHD which causes axeity if I do not take my medicine, because I literally can't do anything right or finish anything. So yes at times. | Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a mental disorder of the neurodevelopmental type. It is characterized by difficulty paying attention, excessive activity, and behavior without regards to consequences, which are otherwise not appropriate for a person's age. There are also often problems with regulation of emotions. The symptoms appear before a person is twelve years old, are present for more than six months, and cause problems in at least two settings (such as school, home, or recreational activities). In | artists and others, as you are now hearing on Symphobia. We will still do music together in the future for me, for others, for anything because we both love making music.
"So yes I am still here, still singing, still writing, and still listening and reading what you have to say! Don't worry I am not done yet! Thanks for all the years of support you given me. I don't ever take it for granted, and there isn't a day that goes by | 72,377 | wow-train |
Do you have a moustache? I can grow one easily but I hate it so much
Yes, not all can grow moustaches. Moustache is a French word
Is it really? I suppose that makes sense. What are the names of different types of moustaches>
over the centuries they called moustaches as mostaccio, moustaccium,moustakion,etc...
That is interesting, but none of those sound particularly appealing to me, matches the aesthetic I suppose
moustaches are generally show cased that only powerful man can have it. Again it is tradition in some religion.
Huh, that is interesting, to base masculinity off of something so arbitrary such as the ability to grow a mustache | secular tendencies. In Islam, trimming the moustache is considered to be a sunnah and mustahabb, that is, a way of life that is recommended, especially among Sunni Muslims.
The moustache is also a religious symbol for the male followers of the Yarsan religion.
Shaving with stone razors was technologically possible from Neolithic times. A mustache is depicted on a statue of the 4th Dynasty Egyptian prince Rahotep (c. 2550 BC). Another ancient portrait showing a shaved man with a moustache is an ancient Iranian (Scythian) | . He developed it in 1974, spending the summer seeing what kind of beard he could grow. Knowing that the Maple Leafs did not allow players to maintain beards at the time, he settled on what he described as a "normal moustache" once he returned to Toronto. Some time later, he was inspired by baseball player Sparky Lyle's moustache and chose to grow one in a similar style. It became a symbol for the Flames as some fans took to wearing fake red moustaches during playoff runs. Razor manufacturers offered | 72,378 | wow-train |
Pugs were brought in from China to Europe in the sixteenth century.
so that is where they are from, China
Yes, they were. Pug is also a compiler and interpreter for the Perl 6 programming language that stared on Feb 1, 2005.
hmm, so is there a connection between that and the dog or they just liked the name
No, I do not think there is a connection. I think they just used the name for the free software because they liked the name and the abbreviations work with it.
what is Pug a abbreviation for | GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL) is a widely-used free software license, which guarantees end users the freedom to run, study, share and modify the software. The license was originally written by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU Project, and grants the recipients of a computer program the rights of the Free Software Definition. The GPL is a copyleft license, which means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms | Pug
The pug is a breed of dog with physically distinctive features of a wrinkly, short-muzzled face, and curled tail. The breed has a fine, glossy coat that comes in a variety of colours, most often fawn or black, and a compact square body with well-developed muscles.
Pugs were brought from China to Europe in the sixteenth century and were popularized in Western Europe by the House of Orange of the Netherlands, and the House of Stuart. In the United Kingdom, in the nineteenth | 72,379 | wow-train |
A mystery film is a genre that revolves around a crime or the solution of a crime. Do you watch these?
Sometimes I do. I like to see if I can solve the mystery myself.
Yeah I don't mind them I just don't like jump scares and things and I feel like they use them a lot. That and heavy shadows and surprising plot twist. I do like to play the board game Clue though.
I'm actually never played it. Is it fun?
I love the board game its fun to play with your family because you have to be secretive. They actually released a mobile game but it was removed from sale in 2014
Cool did you ever try it? | Mystery film
A mystery film is a genre of film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime. It focuses on the efforts of the detective, private investigator or amateur sleuth to solve the mysterious circumstances of an issue by means of clues, investigation, and clever deduction.
The plot often centers on the deductive ability, prowess, confidence, or diligence of the detective as they attempt to unravel the crime or situation by piecing together clues and circumstances, seeking evidence, interrogating witnesses, and tracking down | liked to work from my imagination. I like to work from a fact, and I will try to make something out of the fact. I enjoy that most. And I do my best work when I do that. I don't know whether it's just because I put it out of my mind that I don't like to make things up. Some artists are marvelous at just fantastic inventions. But I love the smell and the feel of life. You have to follow your appetites. You don't choose | 72,380 | wow-train |
Thinking of buying and I Phone from Apple Inc. do you have one? | Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four tech companies along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
The company's hardware products include the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet computer, the Mac personal computer, the iPod portable media player, the Apple Watch smartwatch, the Apple TV digital media player, the AirPods wireless earbuds and the HomePod smart | shares. “One of the fellows in the office that manage money ... bought some Amazon so it will show up in the 13F," Buffett told CNBC. Buffett continued; “Yeah, I’ve been a fan, and I’ve been an idiot for not buying. But I want you to know it’s no personality changes taking place.”
Businesses and investments Investments Investment in Apple Inc..
In May 2016, it was revealed in a regulatory filing that Berkshire had acquired a stake in Apple Inc. The initial position | 72,381 | wow-train |
Do you like the NBA? I'm a big fan of the Washington Wizards from Washington D.C.
I do like the NBA! My favorite teams are Golden State and the Mavericks.
Not the Mavericks. It's hard to get behind any team from Dallas.
Haha I can understand the sentiment behind that. Why do you like the Washington Wizards?
I grew up in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown and the home of the Wizards Capital One Arena was just down the street.
Nice! How do you feel about the Lakers signing LeBron James? | Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bean Bryant (born August 23, 1978), often known mononymously as Kobe, is an American former professional basketball player. He played his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He entered the NBA directly from high school and won five NBA championships. Bryant is an 18-time All-Star, 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, and 12-time member of the All-Defensive team. He led the NBA in scoring during two seasons and ranks | really well and there's not one thing I would do differently on any song. The album is absolutely the best I can do at this point in my life. I feel like I'm singing better than I ever have. There's a lot of maturity and strength in my voice."
Walker told "The Dallas Morning News", "I love soul music, one of my favorite songs of all time is Earl Thomas Conley's 'Holding Her and Loving You.' I recorded that on my Live | 72,382 | wow-train |
Corvettes are sports cars made by Chevrolet
Is it your favorite sport car? | year. Originally designed as a show car for the 1953 Motorama display at the New York Auto Show, it generated enough interest to induce GM to make a production version to sell to the public. First production was on June 30, 1953.
This generation was often referred to as the "solid-axle" models (the independent rear suspension was not introduced until the second generation). Three hundred hand-built polo white Corvette convertibles were produced for the 1953 model year.
The 1954 model year vehicles could | Since then, it has also been used for standalone sports car models and cars imported from Europe and Asia.
The European equivalent is a hot hatch, however sport compacts are not restricted to just hatchback body styles.
Examples of sport compact cars:
- Chevrolet Cavalier Z24
- Ford Probe
- Honda Civic Si
European market segments.
Several other segment descriptions, listed below, are used in Europe. Cars from these segments may also be sold in other countries, however usage of the terms is | 72,383 | wow-train |
I like to listen to classic rock. Do you like rock music?
I enjoy many types of music, including classic rock
What are your favorite bands of classic rock?
I like The Eagles and the Rolling Stones.
Mick Jagger has been going for five decades now. He is a true rocker.
He is in excellent physical shape for his age.
What are your favorite Eagles albums?
Hotel California is a very good album. | Hotel California (Eagles album)
Hotel California is the fifth studio album by American rock band the Eagles, and is one of the best-selling albums of all time. Three singles were released from the album, each reaching high in the "Billboard" Hot 100: "New Kid in Town" (number 1), "Hotel California" (number 1), and "Life in the Fast Lane" (number 11). The album became the band's best-selling album after "Their Greatest | .
Music.
For the music, vocalist/guitarist Patrick Stump undertook his usual role as the band's primary composer.
"I remember reading an interview with David Bowie where he said, "One day I decided to write a song that sounded like the Rolling Stones"─you know, where the riff is the entire song? And that's how he wrote "Rebel Rebel." I wanted to do the same with "The Take Over.” Classic Rock? Yeah, sure, I guess it | 72,384 | wow-train |
Do you know anything about translation and translaters? i was shocked to find out they actually attend concerts and translate music!
I know that it seems to be a particularly difficult craft, being that it's changing one language into another. I have difficulty learning different languages.
agreed agree. do you know when translation first became a thing?
I'm not sure when it began - probably when ancient man started speaking to one another. Translation was made a bit easier in the 1940's when they started to automate the process.
you know when thinking about translation i was strictly thinking about sign language lol. can you tell me the exact definition of translation cuz i think i am a bit confused
Translation is typically known as the communication of the meaning of a language by means of a target language...so turning one language into another with the same meaning.
right right. my brain is so scrambled from the nap. ah weekends. do you know the most popular translated languages?
I imagine it would be English...more than half of all the folks in Europe claim to know at least another language. I can't imagine living over there with so many people speaking so many languages.
yeah crazy. especially since they can just drive on over for like two hours and be in a different country. im kind of jealous now that i think about it. any other facts about translation i can learn about? | the target-language rendering. On the other hand, such "spill-overs" have sometimes imported useful source-language calques and loanwords that have enriched target languages. Translators, including early translators of sacred texts, have helped shape the very languages into which they have translated.
Because of the laboriousness of the translation process, since the 1940s efforts have been made, with varying degrees of success, to automate translation or to mechanically aid the human translator. More recently, the rise of the Internet has fostered a | said. Another retired closer, Troy Percival, concurred about the difficulty in transforming from a power pitching style. "It's not easy to do. Guys who throw 95, 96 [mph] have an ego about being able to do that. [Hoffman] just went right into, 'Hey, you know, I throw 87 now. This is what I've got.' And he goes out there and gets it done just as well as he ever did."
During the time Hoffman held the | 72,385 | wow-train |
Hey! I love to hike. i usually go on day hikes that can be finished in a day
I would love to know if there are any restrictions as to the limit of hiking?
for longer hiking trips, it's important to plan for potential hazards, so you need to bring the right equipment. therefore, a hike could be limited by the amount of weight you're carrying
That makes sense. I am sometimes scared when asked to sign indemnity for as there are no insurance covers for hiking in danger zones. What do you think about this?
i suppose that's the risk you have to take when hiking in more dangerous area, which is why it's important know the area and plan your trip beforehand.
Do you know about the recommended hight limit for hiking? | Cecil Hight
Pilot Officer Cecil Henry Hight (6 September 1917 – 15 August 1940) was a New Zealand born fighter pilot who served with the Royal Air Force during World War II. He was killed in action during the Battle of Britain.
Early life.
Hight was born on 6 September 1917 to Herbert Edward Hight and Emma Hight (née Anderson), of East Road, Stratford, Taranaki, New Zealand. In his teens he was educated at Stratford Technical High School. As a youngster he helped with | Hiking equipment
Hiking equipment is the equipment taken on outdoor walking trips. Hiking is usually divided into day-hikes and multiple-day hikes, called backpacking, trekking, and walking tours.
The equipment selected varies according to the duration, distance, planned activities, and the environment. Additional factors include weight and preparedness for unplanned events. The level of preparedness can relate to remoteness and potential hazards; for example, a short day hike across farmland or trekking in the Himalayas. The length and duration of a walk | 72,386 | wow-train |
i sleep 10 hours every day because my work is tiring. It's an altered state of consciousness, with inhibited sensory activity. I love it.
WOW that is a lot of time i usually sleep between 5-8 hours
That's okay. Some people need less. We alternate between non-REM and REM sleep throughout the night. Maybe you just have less cycles.
Maybe , that is really interesting i find the state that sleep puts you in really amazing
Yeah, I love to dream. It's experiences recounted in a narrative form that resembles real life somehow. Sometimes you think it's real.
Yeah dreams can sometimes seem real to the point you wake up really confused, it has happen to me
Yeah, it's super weird sometimes. Our sleep is promoted by the internal circadian rhythm.
do you happen to know what is the longest time someone has spent without sleep? | are vital processes that maintain mood, memory, and cognitive function, and play a large role in the function of the endocrine and immune systems. The internal circadian clock promotes sleep daily at night. The diverse purposes and mechanisms of sleep are the subject of substantial ongoing research.
Sleep is a highly conserved behavior across animal evolution.
Humans may suffer from various sleep disorders, including dyssomnias such as insomnia, hypersomnia, narcolepsy, and sleep apnea; parasomnias such as sleepwalking and REM behavior disorder; bruxism; and circadian | Sleep
Sleep is a naturally recurring state of mind and body, characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, reduced muscle activity and inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and reduced interactions with surroundings. It is distinguished from wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, but more reactive than coma or disorders of consciousness, sleep displaying very different and active brain patterns.
Sleep occurs in repeating periods, in which the body alternates between two distinct modes: REM sleep | 72,387 | wow-train |
Over 250 million people play association football or soccer.
wow what exactly is association football?
Association football is just another name for Soccer, the game with a goal at either end of the field.
Oh ok. I don't know alot about soccer. Do you play?
I used to, but I was not so good with my feet on striking.
You mean striking the ball to make a goal? | of football codes, which emerged from various ball games played worldwide since antiquity. The modern game traces its origins to 1863 when the Laws of the Game were originally codified in England by The Football Association.
Players are not allowed to touch the ball with hands or arms while it is in play, except for the goalkeepers within the penalty area. Other players mainly use their feet to strike or pass the ball, but may also use any other part of their body except the hands and the arms. The team that | Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.
Association football is one of a family | 72,388 | wow-train |
I really enjoy swimming! I especially love doing laps in the pool for exercise! Do you enjoy it?
Me too! I really enjoy recreation, exercise, and sport swimming! How often do you swim?
I try to swim a couple days a week, especially when it is hot like it is here in Florida. | only slightly less dense than water, water supports the weight of the body during swimming. As a result, swimming is “low-impact” compared to land activities such as running. The density and viscosity of water also create resistance for objects moving through the water. Swimming strokes use this resistance to create propulsion, but this same resistance also generates drag on the body.
Hydrodynamics is important to stroke technique for swimming faster, and swimmers who want to swim faster or exhaust less try to reduce the drag of the | “See how the fish swim as they please. That’s what fish really enjoy.” When Huizi asked, “How do you know what fish enjoy?” Zhuangzi replied, “You’re not I, so how do you know I don’t know what fish enjoy?”
Acquisition.
The jar was given to the IMA in by Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lilly in 1960. It has the accession numbers 60.88A-B, and is currently on view in the Valeria J. Medveckis Gallery.
See also | 72,389 | wow-train |
I work in Finance, it is the study of investments.
Interesting...How long have you bee in the Finance business?
3 years, With finance aims to price assets based on their risk level
Do you enjoy it?
I do, I shoulds say it is also the science of money management..
I always like the study of money management but never cared much for the investments side of things. | Finance
Finance is a field that is concerned with the allocation (investment) of assets and liabilities over space and time, often under conditions of risk or uncertainty. Finance can also be defined as the art of money management. Participants in the market aim to price assets based on their risk level, fundamental value, and their expected rate of return. Finance can be split into three sub-categories: public finance, corporate finance and personal finance.
Areas of finance.
Areas of finance Personal finance.
Matters | Finance is a field that deals with the study of investments. It includes the dynamics of assets and liabilities over time under conditions of different degrees of uncertainty and risk. Finance can also be defined as the science of money management. Finance aims to price assets based on their risk level and their expected rate of return. Finance can be broken into three different sub categories: public finance, corporate finance, and personal finance.
Activities Manufacturing.
Manufacturing is the production of merchandise for use or sale using labour and machines, | 72,390 | wow-train |
Hi! I just got back from a tennis match and I'm beat! It's a sport that is played at all levels of society and at all ages
I love tennis. I wonder how long it has existed as a sport?
The way it is played today originated in the late 19th century and was called lawn tennis! Isn't that hilarious! Lawn tennis!
It makes sense, a lot of tennis courts are still grass courts. I wonder when they began to use clay and pavement for courts. | Tennis court
A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the center. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles matches. A variety of surfaces can be used to create a tennis court, each with its own characteristics which affect the playing style of the game.
Dimensions.
The dimensions of a tennis court are defined and regulated by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) governing body and are written | gain a point, while the opposite player will.
Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections both to various field (lawn) games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport today called real tennis. During most of the | 72,391 | wow-train |
Hello, what do you think of veganism?
Well i dont thing abstaining from the use of animal is that bad
I agree, I think eating foods naturally sourced like vegetables and fruits and grains could sustain us and help animal rights.
Maybe you should try fasting, a willing abstinence or reduction from some or all food
Hmm, I probably would only practice that for religious reasons, but not to lose weight or anything like that.
If you have to do that for religion it should be fasting and abstinence
What about ethical reasons for veganism? I think it would be possible to not use leather goods or makeup made with animals products. | Leather
Leather is a durable and flexible material created by tanning animal rawhides and skins. The most common raw material is cattle hide. It can be produced at manufacturing scales ranging from artisan to modern industrial scale.
Leather is used to make a variety of articles, including footwear, automobile seats, clothing, bags, book bindings, fashion accessories, and furniture. It is produced in a wide variety of types and styles and decorated by a wide range of techniques. The earliest record of leather artifacts dates back to | use of the Spaniard's Method, and hunt them with English Dogs. Supported by Rangers, and some Light Horse, who would I think effectively extirpate or remove that Vermine.
Amherst replied:
P.S. You will Do well to try to Innoculate the Indians by means of Blankets, as well as to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race. I should be very glad your Scheme for Hunting them Down by Dogs could take Effect, but England is at too great a Distance to think of | 72,392 | wow-train |
spongebob square pants is an american animated tv series. it was created by marine biologist and animator stephen hillenburg for nickoledeon. are you a fan?
Yes, I love spongebob. What else do you like about it?
patrick. also as of late 2017 its generated 13 BILLION in merchandising revenue for nickelodeon. it is widely popular
Wow, that is incredible! Do you know when it first came out?
well a preview of it was held in 1999 after the 1999 kids choice awards so either that year or the year after.
Interesting. Who created the show? | 13 billion in merchandising revenue for Nickelodeon.
Many of the ideas for the series originated in an unpublished educational comic book titled "The Intertidal Zone", which Hillenburg created in 1989. He began developing "SpongeBob SquarePants" into a television series in 1996 upon the cancellation of "Rocko's Modern Life", and turned to Tom Kenny, who had worked with him on that series, to voice the title character. SpongeBob was originally going to be named SpongeBoy, and the series was to be called "SpongeBoy Ahoy | SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. The series chronicles the adventures and endeavors of the title character and his various friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The fifth-longest-running American animated series, its popularity has made it a media franchise, as well as the highest rated series to ever air on Nickelodeon, and the most distributed property of Viacom Media Networks. As of late 2017, the media franchise has generated $ | 72,393 | wow-train |
Its not good to be lazy,especially at work
No, it's not. Although Bill Agtes once said that it would be alright to give a lazy man a tough job, because he would find an easy way to do it.
disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to act or exert oneself.
Yes a lazy person would be disinclined to give maximum effort. So he would find a way to complete a task with minimal effort. This would actually help others. | modern psychology that more is understood about the motivation of thirsty rats and hungry pecking pigeons as they press levers than about the way in which poets make themselves write poems or scientists force themselves into the laboratory when the good golfing days of spring arrive." A 1931 survey found high-school students more likely to attribute their failing performance to laziness, while teachers ranked "lack of ability" as the major cause, with laziness coming in second. Laziness is not to be confused with avolition, a negative symptom of certain mental | Laziness
Laziness (also known as indolence) is disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to act or to
exert oneself. It is often used as a pejorative; terms for a person seen to be lazy
include "couch potato", "slacker", and "bludger".
Despite Sigmund Freud's discussion of the pleasure principle, Leonard Carmichael notes that "laziness is not a word that appears in the table of contents of most technical books on psychology... It is a guilty secret of | 72,394 | wow-train |
Have you heard the Avett Brothers the American folk rock band?
no. but i love rock and folk. tell me more?
Its two brothers Scott & Seth Avett
oh i do know this! was "no hard feelings" a hit?
Yes and Scott and Seth have practiced music togehter since they were children
really? that's cool. are their parents famous? | 2002).
Scott and Seth Avett have played music together since childhood, as their grandmother was a concert pianist and their father Jim Avett was a guitarist. Their collaborative partnership began in the late 1990s with the merger of Seth's Mount Pleasant High School rock band Margo and Scott's college group Nemo. Margo had released a song "Dumbfight" on a compilation album before merging with Nemo. After releasing three albums with Nemo, the Avetts started experimenting with acoustic music with some friends at night. After a few street | The Avett Brothers
The Avett Brothers are an American folk rock band from Concord, North Carolina. The band is made up of two brothers, Scott Avett (banjo, lead vocals, guitar, piano, kick-drum) and Seth Avett (guitar, lead vocals, piano, hi-hat) along with Bob Crawford (double bass, electric bass, violin, backing vocals) and Joe Kwon (cello, backing vocals). Mike Marsh (drums) and Bonnie Avett-Rini (piano) are touring | 72,395 | wow-train |
I just heard an old metallica song on the radio, you know anything about them?
Yup! They're an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California.
I am trying to remember what year they formed and started playing? | Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles, California, by drummer Lars Ulrich and vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield, and has been based in San Francisco, California for most of its career. The group's fast tempos, instrumentals and aggressive musicianship made them one of the founding "big four" bands of thrash metal, alongside Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer. Metallica's current lineup comprises founding members Hetfield and Ulrich, longtime lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo | , they're not about blasting you with blast beats and kind of froggy vocals you know, they've got a bit of melody and have an old school kind of groove to them as well. Think Pantera mixed with Machine Head with a bit of Metallica as well!"" - Johnny Doom - Kerrang Radio
""Formed in London as recently as December 2007, Dragnerve are out to fly their flag against the forces of metal-gone-pop they see much of the present day metal scene to be devolving | 72,396 | wow-train |
I love Stephen King's books! Do you?
Yes I do, he's a great writer. His books have sold over 350 million copies and many have become shows and movies!
Yes, the stand always creeps me out. He sure knows how to scare people.
I am a big fan of the Shawshank Redemption, which is based off of a book by him.
Oh really, I didn't know that. It is one of my favorite movies. I wonder what his first book was? It would be interesting to see how his work has changed from then until now.
I'm not sure what his first book was but he has published 54 novels under a pen name. That a lot of writing!
Yeah, it is a lot! Wasn't his real last name Polluck? | for the Arts for his contributions to literature. He has been described as the "King of Horror".
Early life.
King was born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Edwin King, was a merchant seaman. Donald was born under the surname Pollock, but as an adult, used the surname King. King's mother was Nellie Ruth (née Pillsbury).
When Stephen King was two years old, his father left the family. King's mother raised Stephen | this much but my own dear Charley we now do belong to each other & I cannot help being open with you. Will you do me a favour? yes I am sure you will, it is to read our Saviours farewell discourse to his disciples which begins at the end of the 13th Chap of John. It is so full of love to them & devotion & every beautiful feeling. It is the part of the New Testament I love best. This is a whim of mine it would give me great pleasure | 72,397 | wow-train |
I grew up in London where my mom danced for the Royal Ballet. | The Royal Ballet
The Royal Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England. The largest of the four major ballet companies in Great Britain, the Royal Ballet was founded in 1931 by Dame Ninette de Valois, it became the resident ballet company of the Royal Opera House in 1946 and was granted a royal charter in 1956, becoming recognised as Britain's flagship ballet company.
The Royal Ballet was one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century | Iain Webb
Iain Webb (born c. 1960) is an English ballet dancer and choreographer who formerly danced for the Royal Ballet in London. He is currently artistic director of Florida's Sarasota Ballet where he has staged many of Frederick Ashton's ballets.
Biography.
The son of a fireman and plumber, Webb grew up in Yorkshire in the north of England. From the age of 16, he trained at the Rambert School of Ballet and at the Royal Ballet School. By 1989, he was a principal dancer | 72,398 | wow-train |
I love Roses because they represent true love
They do. And they come in all shapes, sizes, and colors ranging from white, red, yellow etc.
wow i never imagined there was yello roses, could you tell me more about roses
More so than just colors, there are over a hundred thousand different species of rose. You could get a new one for valentine's day every year and you still wouldn't get them all!
incredible who would have imagined there was so many types of roses, other than love roses are really have a interesting history | from Oscan, from Greek ρόδον "rhódon" (Aeolic βρόδον "wródon"), itself borrowed from Old Persian "wrd-" ("wurdi"), related to Avestan "varəδa", Sogdian "ward", Parthian "wâr".
Botany.
The leaves are borne alternately on the stem. In most species they are long, pinnate, with (3–) 5–9 (–13) leaflets and basal stipules; the leaflets usually have a serrated margin, and often a few small prickles on | Blue rose
A blue rose is a flower of the genus "Rosa" (family Rosaceae) that presents blue-to-violet pigmentation instead of the more common red, white, or yellow. Blue roses are often used to symbolise secret or unattainable love. However, because of genetic limitations, they do not exist in nature. In 2004, researchers used genetic modification to create roses that contain the blue pigment delphinidin.
So-called "blue roses" have been bred by conventional hybridization methods, but the | 72,399 | wow-train |
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