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Discussion in 'Education & Learning' started by Steve North, Aug 18, 2016.

  1. Steve North

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    This is the fifth time Disney World has closed since opening in 1971 in anticipation of a hurricane. There were reports of Cinderella's castle being dismantled
     
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    Nitrogen is the most abundant element in the earth's atmosphere.
     
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    Middle Island, ON sits in Lake Erie as the southern most point in Canada.. It has latitude coordinates of 41°40′53″N.. Although there are no permanent residents and it's part of a conservation area, it serves as part of Ontario..
     
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    The US city with the largest population is New York City. It had 8,175,133 people in the 2010 census. The estimated population now is 8,537, 673.
     
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    This is several of the larger islands of the country of Seychelles. Ruled by British during 19th. Century, became an independent protectorate I think in 1976. Consist of over 100 islands! Located in Indian Ocean about 900 miles east of East Africa, all alone by themselves. Absolutely beautiful, favorite of 1970s Jet-Setters, tourist destination for high-class jaunts. But do you know.........

    Extremely high poverty level amongst inhabitants.
    Extreme disparity of distribution of wealth.
    HIGHEST incarceration rate in the world, 15% higher than US!
    Population is only approximately 100,000 total.
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    During the time that the American Civil War was being waged, it was known by many names, including:
    • The War for Constitutional Liberty
    • The War for Southern Independence
    • The Second American Revolution
    • The War for States' Rights
    • Mr. Lincoln's War
    • The Southern Rebellion
    • The War for Southern Rights
    • The War of the Southern Planters
    • The War of the Rebellion
    • The Second War for Independence
    • The War to Suppress Yankee Arrogance
    • The Brothers' War
    • The War of Secession
    • The Great Rebellion
    • The War for Nationality
    • The War for Southern Nationality
    • The War Against Slavery
    • The Civil War Between the States
    • The War of the Sixties
    • The War Against Northern Aggression
    • The Yankee Invasion
    • The War for Separation
    • The War for Abolition
    • The War for the Union
    • The Confederate War
    • The War of the Southrons
    • The War for Southern Freedom
    • The War of the North and South
    • The Lost Cause
     
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    @Ken Anderson , the correct name is The War For Southern Independence.

    A hummingbird breathes 250 times a minute.
     
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    And it's heart rate may approach 1200 a minute, something like 30 beats a second. Their survival rate is quite low. Though they may live several years under ideal conditions, the attrition rate in the wild is about 85% die during their first year if life.

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    @Frank Sanoica I also think they remember where the feeders are from one year to the next. If they get back here before I get my feeders up, they fly around the area where I put it; apparently looking for it.
     
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    I, too, have heard that, and we noted the little guys looking, too.

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    Lake Superior has a depth of 406 metres (1,333 feet) and is the deepest of the Great Lakes.. The shallowest, Lake Erie with a depth of only 19 metres (62 feet).....
     
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    There is a time capsule, which was buried in 1968 in Amarillo Texas containing the passbook to a bank account with a $10 deposit, expected to be worth $1 quadrillion when it is opened in 2968. –
     
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    The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is the oldest State University in the United States.
     
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    Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession passed down Broadway in New York on April 25, 1865. Two small boys watched the procession from a second floor window at Fourteenth Street. They were Theodore Roosevelt, age six and a half, and his younger brother, Elliott, the future father of Eleanor Roosevelt. The boys were nephews of James D. Bulloch, the Chief of the Secret Service in Europe for the Confederate States of America.
     
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    The US government is still paying one pension on behalf of a Civil War veteran (to his 85-year-old daughter).
     
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