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joeguevara wrote: »

It says it is restricted...was he a freak or unique?

Freak, definitely.

KevRossi

Artificial Cranial Deformation (ACL) was practised amongst a number of cultures worldwide. It involves bandaging and strapping the heads of babies, when their skulls are still formable, to form oblong shapes.

The cultures where it was traditionally practiced are so widely dispersed that it is unlikely they had any previous contact and that each one developed the idea separately.

It is believed to have been done as a sign of beauty and a symbol of belonging to an upper caste as it made people look more intelligent. It may still be practiced in pacific island groups and it is believed that there are no negative health effects from doing this.

There's more reading here about skulls found in Peru.

joujoujou

Widely known helical spring washer, used to prevent bolts/nuts from becoming loose.



Well, NASA claims:

[...] In summary, a lockwasher of this type is useless for locking. [...]

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19900009424/downloads/19900009424.pdf

Cordell

Do we really need NASA to tell us that the clamping force of a properly torqued fastener is much, much greaten than the force exerted by the spring component of the washer? The only thing they can do is make it visually obvious that it came loose, and nothing else.

lmimmfn

KevRossi wrote: »

Artificial Cranial Deformation (ACL) was practised amongst a number of cultures worldwide. It involves bandaging and strapping the heads of babies, when their skulls are still formable, to form oblong shapes.

The cultures where it was traditionally practiced are so widely dispersed that it is unlikely they had any previous contact and that each one developed the idea separately.

It is believed to have been done as a sign of beauty and a symbol of belonging to an upper caste as it made people look more intelligent. It may still be practiced in pacific island groups and it is believed that there are no negative health effects from doing this.

There's more reading here about skulls found in Peru.

Thats obviously aliens

ohnonotgmail

watching a program about stolen art on BBC2. they mentioned the most expensive item ever stolen. It was a Vermeer stolen in boston in 1990 that was worth $200M

KevRossi

Momijigari in Japan is the act of leaf-spotting, or visiting areas with orange leaves in Autumn to enjoy the colours.

secondrowgal

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

watching a program about stolen art on BBC2. they mentioned the most expensive item ever stolen. It was a Vermeer stolen in boston in 1990 that was worth $200M

They were talking about this on Newstalk yesterday - think the lunchtime show. It's believed that this painting may be in Ireland :eek:

BaZmO*

KevRossi wrote: »

Momijigari in Japan is the act of leaf-spotting, or visiting areas with orange leaves in Autumn to enjoy the colours.

Cherry Blossom festivals are huge in Japan also. They actually give nightly forecasts following the weather segment of news programs that track the sakura zensen (cherry blossom front) as it moves northward up the archipelago with the approach of warmer weather.

They love their trees in Japan and spend an awful lot of protecting them from damage. One of the practices is crazy. They create intricate rope supports to prevent branch damage due to snow during the winter.

BaZmO*

secondrowgal wrote: »

They were talking about this on Newstalk yesterday - think the lunchtime show. It's believed that this painting may be in Ireland :eek:

Watched it last night too. Interesting enough but the host was a bit annoying.

By the looks of it, the place in Dublin is Crumlin.

Professor Moriarty

A morbid fear of Halloween is known as Samhainophobia.

Capt'n Midnight

Climate scientists fly more than other researchers.

StevenToast

Ryan Tubridy is paid €500,000 a year by RTE.

People still pay the licence fee.

The mind boggles.

castletownman

The fella above is Gregor MacGregor, and he was quite a character.

From the Clan Gregor, he was an officer in the British Army from 1803 to 1810, and served in the Peninsular War in South America. He joined the Simon Bolivar-led Republican side in the Venezuelan War of Independence in 1812, eventually working his way up to General.

In 1817, he captured an island called Amelia Island under orders to capture Florida on behalf of the Spanish, and proclaimed the Republic of the Floridas, which didn't last long. He then had a couple of disastrous campaigns in New Granada, where he basically abandoned his British volunteer troops twice, before returning to Britain in 1821.

Perhaps the most insane period of his life then followed, when he claimed that the King of the Mosquito Coast on the Gulf of Honduras had created a colony called Poyais that was ripe for British settlement. It was painted as a spa destination for sick colonists from the Caribbean, where the soil was so fertile that a farmer could have three harvests of maize a year, or grow cash crops such as sugar cane without hardship. Furthermore, fish and game were so plentiful that one day's fishing could yield a week's worth of food, and most importantly, the natives were pro-British. In reality, it was an inhospitable, humid strip of land infested by mosquitos for most of the year.



He embarked on an aggressive advertising campaign, even writing a guidebook under the guise of Captain Thomas Strangeways, which included sketches of the coast of Poyais. Even the capital, St.Joseph, was said to be inhabited by 20,000 people, and was a flourishing seaside town with wide boulevards, mansions, an opera house, theatre and domed cathedral.

He devised up a fake honours system for this new "country", not to mention a coat of arms, currency and a flag (green, just like the flag for the erstwhile Republic of the Floridas). He managed to drum up financial support in Britain, and set up offices in London, Edinburgh and Glasgow to sell land certificates to prospective emigrants.

The first ship embarked with 70 emigrants in September 1822, with a second carrying 200 following in January. The first ship arrived anyway to find the area far removed from the descriptions, setting up camp on shore. They sent numerous search parties inland trying to make contact with the fictional Poyaisan authorities. The second ship arrived soon after only to discover that the first set of colonists had been abandoned by their captain, and that the whole thing was a ruse. Of the roughly 250 who had sailed across on the two ships, at least 180 ultimately perished, and fewer than 50 ever returned to Britain.

By now, MacGregor had fled to France to continue the scheme, but eventually got tried for fraud in 1826. Amazingly, he was acquitted, and returned to London, where he attempted variations of the same scam for the next ten years. He was welcomed back to Venezuela as a hero in 1838, and died in Caracas seven years later. He is buried in Caracas Cathedral with full military honours.

Interesting dude.

chosen1

castletownman wrote: »

He embarked on an aggressive advertising campaign, even writing a guidebook under the guise of Captain Thomas Strangeways, which included sketches of the coast of Poyais. Even the capital, St.Joseph, was said to be inhabited by 20,000 people, and was a flourishing seaside town with wide boulevards, mansions, an opera house, theatre and domed cathedral.

He devised up a fake honours system for this new "country", not to mention a coat of arms, currency and a flag (green, just like the flag for the erstwhile Republic of the Floridas). He managed to drum up financial support in Britain, and set up offices in London, Edinburgh and Glasgow to sell land certificates to prospective emigrants.

The first ship embarked with 70 emigrants in September 1822, with a second carrying 200 following in January. The first ship arrived anyway to find the area far removed from the descriptions, setting up camp on shore. They sent numerous search parties inland trying to make contact with the fictional Poyaisan authorities. The second ship arrived soon after only to discover that the first set of colonists had been abandoned by their captain, and that the whole thing was a ruse. Of the roughly 250 who had sailed across on the two ships, at least 180 ultimately perished, and fewer than 50 ever returned to Britain.


Interesting dude.

The original FYRE

LostinBlanch

castletownman wrote: »

The fella above is Gregor MacGregor, and he was quite a character.

From the Clan Gregor, he was an officer in the British Army from 1803 to 1810, and served in the Peninsular War in South America. He joined the Simon Bolivar-led Republican side in the Venezuelan War of Independence in 1812, eventually working his way up to General.

In 1817, he captured an island called Amelia Island under orders to capture Florida on behalf of the Spanish, and proclaimed the Republic of the Floridas, which didn't last long. He then had a couple of disastrous campaigns in New Granada, where he basically abandoned his British volunteer troops twice, before returning to Britain in 1821.

Perhaps the most insane period of his life then followed, when he claimed that the King of the Mosquito Coast on the Gulf of Honduras had created a colony called Poyais that was ripe for British settlement. It was painted as a spa destination for sick colonists from the Caribbean, where the soil was so fertile that a farmer could have three harvests of maize a year, or grow cash crops such as sugar cane without hardship. Furthermore, fish and game were so plentiful that one day's fishing could yield a week's worth of food, and most importantly, the natives were pro-British. In reality, it was an inhospitable, humid strip of land infested by mosquitos for most of the year.



He embarked on an aggressive advertising campaign, even writing a guidebook under the guise of Captain Thomas Strangeways, which included sketches of the coast of Poyais. Even the capital, St.Joseph, was said to be inhabited by 20,000 people, and was a flourishing seaside town with wide boulevards, mansions, an opera house, theatre and domed cathedral.

He devised up a fake honours system for this new "country", not to mention a coat of arms, currency and a flag (green, just like the flag for the erstwhile Republic of the Floridas). He managed to drum up financial support in Britain, and set up offices in London, Edinburgh and Glasgow to sell land certificates to prospective emigrants.

The first ship embarked with 70 emigrants in September 1822, with a second carrying 200 following in January. The first ship arrived anyway to find the area far removed from the descriptions, setting up camp on shore. They sent numerous search parties inland trying to make contact with the fictional Poyaisan authorities. The second ship arrived soon after only to discover that the first set of colonists had been abandoned by their captain, and that the whole thing was a ruse. Of the roughly 250 who had sailed across on the two ships, at least 180 ultimately perished, and fewer than 50 ever returned to Britain.

By now, MacGregor had fled to France to continue the scheme, but eventually got tried for fraud in 1826. Amazingly, he was acquitted, and returned to London, where he attempted variations of the same scam for the next ten years. He was welcomed back to Venezuela as a hero in 1838, and died in Caracas seven years later. He is buried in Caracas Cathedral with full military honours.

Interesting dude.

Ha, I just read about this today, and then come on here to see this!

LostinBlanch

The Nigerian Prince Scam is older than you think. It first happened about a hundred years ago in the US. Prince Bil Morrison took out ads in papers across the country looking for American penpals. He got hundreds of letters and replied to them all.

After a while, and more letters to and fro, he asked people who were corresponding with him for four dollars and an old pair of pants. In return he would send them some worthless baubles - ivory tusks, emeralds, diamonds etc. He got his donations and the pairs of pants, but nothing was sent in return so people complained to the authorities who investigated and found that Bil Morrison was a fourteen year old boy. He escaped prosecution due to his age. Nobody knows what happened to the pants.

Buford T. Justice XIX

https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1319599964708810752?s=19

Captain_Crash

LostinBlanch wrote: »

The Nigerian Prince Scam is older than you think. It first happened about a hundred years ago in the US. Prince Bil Morrison took out ads in papers across the country looking for American penpals. He got hundreds of letters and replied to them all.

After a while, and more letters to and fro, he asked people who were corresponding with him for four dollars and an old pair of pants. In return he would send them some worthless baubles - ivory tusks, emeralds, diamonds etc. He got his donations and the pairs of pants, but nothing was sent in return so people complained to the authorities who investigated and found that Bil Morrison was a fourteen year old boy. He escaped prosecution due to his age. Nobody knows what happened to the pants.

When I worked in fraud years ago, one of the things we had to investigate was stuff like this! Have you ever noticed those Nigerian Prince emails are so badly worded that their obviously fake??? That’s done on purpose, they know most people will cop on and delete it... but for the few who are dumb enough to reply... the fraudster knows they have em hook, line and sinker

New Home

cdeb

That is brilliant.

Joke's on them though if it has Hershey's in it. Everyone outside America knows Hershey's chocolate bars taste horrible - like vomit, specifically. It's thought (Hershey's won't comment) that it's because Hershey's use a process called lipolysis in making their bars. A byproduct of that process is butyric acid, which gives vomit its distinctive taste.

Capt'n Midnight

cdeb wrote: »

That is brilliant.

Joke's on them though if it has Hershey's in it. Everyone outside America knows Hershey's chocolate bars taste horrible - like vomit, specifically. It's thought (Hershey's won't comment) that it's because Hershey's use a process called lipolysis in making their bars. A byproduct of that process is butyric acid, which gives vomit its distinctive taste.

Wasn't that because it milk in the US had to travel further so was more likely to go off and so yanks got used to the tastes.

Back in the day the Cadbury's chocolate made here was the nicest because of the Irish milk.

cdeb

Now all I can think of is Father Dougal driving the milk cart.

"Milk gets sour you know...unless it's UHT milk, but there's no demand for that because it's ****e"

LostinBlanch

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Wasn't that because it milk in the US had to travel further so was more likely to go off and so yanks got used to the tastes.

Back in the day the Cadbury's chocolate made here was the nicest because of the Irish milk.

I think it was more the fact that Cadburys had patented the recipe and Hershey’s had to find an alternative. Hence the vomit chocolate.:)

As for the Irish milk making good chocolate, I read that Belgian chocolate is made from Irish milk.

Ash.J.Williams

On the subject of our superior dairy ....Diageo would love to build a Baileys factory somewhere foreign and cheap but the furthest they could go was Belfast because Irish cream is of a uniquely high quality

Capt'n Midnight

The travelling salesman problem is to find the shortest round trip if you have to visit lot of different cities. It's a age old maths problem.

Up till now the best algorithm in a sane time could only get you a route that would be no more than 50% longer than the best possible one.


But the newest algorithm beats this by 0.2 billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a percent. :cool:

joeguevara

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

On the subject of our superior dairy ....Diageo would love to build a Baileys factory somewhere foreign and cheap but the furthest they could go was Belfast because Irish cream is of a uniquely high quality

Be interesting to see if increased dairy tariffs effects Northern Ireland being a viable option. Baileys is the best selling liqueur in the world and is an Irish cream liqueur. It cannot be manufactured outside of the island of Ireland with foreign cows and still label itself as an Irish cream liqueur. It would be the same as bratislava making scotch whisky or Venezuela making champagne.

BaZmO*

Great article on the history of Baileys in the Irish Times from a few years back.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/in-1973-i-invented-a-girly-drink-called-baileys-1.3240945%3Fmode%3Damp

New Home

Capt'n Midnight

Production of Baileys requires crossing the border six times.

Eleven Benevolent Elephants

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Production of Baileys requires crossing the border six times.

Interesting. What's the specific route?
Can you screen shot it?

Capt'n Midnight

Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »

Interesting. What's the specific route?
Can you screen shot it?

It's made from milk and alcohol.

Trucks with alcohol have been hijacked in the past. (near Carbury ?)

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/spilt-milk-how-brexit-threatens-baileys-and-dubliner-cheese-1.3242752

Every day thousands more litres of milk are collected from dairy farms north and south of the Border and brought to a Glanbia processing facility in Virginia, Co Cavan. There the cream is taken off the milk and then transported south to Dublin, or north to Mallusk, Co Antrim. In Mallusk the cream is blended with whiskey to produce the world’s most famous cream liqueur Baileys Irish Cream.

Add in the routes the milk collection tankers take, and delivery of the cream, and same again on the whiskery side too, and warehouses.

Ash.J.Williams

joeguevara wrote: »

Be interesting to see if increased dairy tariffs effects Northern Ireland being a viable option. Baileys is the best selling liqueur in the world and is an Irish cream liqueur. It cannot be manufactured outside of the island of Ireland with foreign cows and still label itself as an Irish cream liqueur. It would be the same as bratislava making scotch whisky or Venezuela making champagne.

They have a bottling plant there already I’m sure some Nordy cows chip in too

Capt'n Midnight

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

They have a bottling plant there already I’m sure some Nordy cows chip in too

How does it go "I'm British but my cows are Irish"

Quazzie

So Bailey's Irish Cream isn't even Irish.

Is nothing sacred anymore?

ohnonotgmail

New Home wrote: »

Also with Disney the american flags that fly in disney world are not actually american flags. If they were they would have to meet all the regulations around flying the flag.

Ash.J.Williams

Quazzie wrote: »

So Bailey's Irish Cream isn't even Irish.

Is nothing sacred anymore?

it's made in nangor road in dublin, but there's second bottling plant in mallusk.

However yes all our sacred beers are international.

James' gate is now all production and the business parts are now budapest prague belfast etc.

Murphys are heinekin

ohnonotgmail

The best shuttlecocks are made from the left wing of a goose.

joujoujou

Interesting postal code in Delta, BC, Canada:

https://604now.com/neighbourhood-delta-awkward-postal-code/

V4G 1NA

New Home

^^^ Thanked by Mike Litoris!:D:D:D:D:D

BonnieSituation

joujoujou wrote: »

Interesting postal code in Delta, BC, Canada:

https://604now.com/neighbourhood-delta-awkward-postal-code/

V4G 1NA

And Santa's is H0H 0HO

Badly Drunk Boy

BonnieSituation wrote: »

And Santa's is H0H 0HO

And in the UK, it's XM4 5HQ.

sammyjo90

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

The best shuttlecocks are made from the left wing of a goose.

Someone's a bake off fan

ohnonotgmail

sammyjo90 wrote: »

Someone's a bake off fan

well actually he said that shuttlecocks are ONLY made from the left wing of a goose which is not correct

bonzodog2

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

well actually he said that shuttlecocks are ONLY made from the left wing of a goose which is not correct

I think there may a bit of cork involved?

ohnonotgmail

bonzodog2 wrote: »

I think there may a bit of cork involved?

referring to the feathers

sammyjo90

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

well actually he said that shuttlecocks are ONLY made from the left wing of a goose which is not correct

Peter is fallible so!
I will say you unknowingly wrecked my head by trying to figure out where I had heard this recently

KevRossi

The Euthanasia Coaster is a hypothetical steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers.] it was designed by Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas in 2010. Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives "with elegance and euphoria".

The coaster rises to a height of 510m, then drops at a speed of 360 km/h into 7 spirals. Each spiral is smaller than the previous to keep the 10g force constant. The 10g forces will kill almost everyone through prolonged cerebal hypoxia, or lack of oxygen to the brain, but the plan would be to run it a couple of times with everyone in it, to make sure. There would be an option to get out at the top if you changed your mind.

It was displayed at an exhibition in the Science Gallery on Pearse St. in 2011.
510m tall,
Total distance 7.5 Km,
Max force 10g
Max Speed 360 Km/h

This is a diagram of it.

Capt'n Midnight

retalivity

El Paso, TX is 50 miles closer to Los Angeles, than it is to the most eastern settlement in Texas, Orange TX.
Bit mad for me as I always assume Texas to be the middle of the US