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POPSUnusual facts Eskimos use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing. *Birmingham(UK) has 22 more miles of canals than Venice. *If an Amish man has a beard,hes married. *Mexico once had three presidents in one day. *The Coca-Cola company is the largest consumer of vanilla in the world. *Millions of trees are accidentaly planted by squirrels that bury their nuts and then forget where they left them. *9 out of every 10 living thing lives in the ocean. *Lipstick contains fish scales. *Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. *Cows give more milk when they listen to music. *'Puffs' tissues didnt sell well in Germany because 'Puff' in German means brothel. *Parsley is the most widely used herb in the world. *There is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has ever been mined. *The Wright brother's first flight was shorter than the wingspan of a 747. *The Sanskrit word for 'War' means 'Desire for more cows'. *Monaco's national orchestra is bi
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POPSSocial engineers are bad bankers Why do we have to go elsewhere to hear the truth about this? Common sense people knew that you don't loan money to people who can't afford to pay it back, let alone don't have a job! Same goes with credit cards. Free credit cards everywhere...and then the personal fall-out when the chickens come home to roost. I blame both sides; the Credit Card Companies and the irresponsible users of them.
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POPSIt Beats Jesus on Toast! I'm astounded too. Not by the "Allah meat" but by the gullibility of people. And they even found a vet who gave credence by claiming it "defied scientific explanation". As far as no explanation this shows an astounding lack of imagination. I'm no vet but can readily come with an explanation as could any rational person. But then, who ever claimed that the Allah beef followers were rational? There is a name for this phenomenon: pareidolia: "The tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the viewer; such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals or seeing shapes in clouds." I'm off to McD now and fully expect to find a holy patty. Ha!
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POPSOfficials May Evacuate New Orleans as Gustav Nears If a Category 3 or stronger hurricane comes within 60 hours of the city, New Orleans plans to institute a mandatory evacuation order. Unlike Katrina, there will be no massive shelter at the Superdome, a plan designed to encourage residents to leave. Instead, the state has arranged for buses and trains to take people to safety. Since the storm (Katrina), the Army Corps of Engineers has spent billions of dollars to improve the levee system, but because of two quiet hurricane seasons, the flood walls have never been tested. Floodgates have been installed on drainage canals to stop any storm surge from entering the city, and levees have been raised and in many places strengthened with concrete. Scientists cautioned that the storm's track and intensity were difficult to predict several days in advance. The Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals planned to move animals to shelters elsewhere in the state and in Texas.
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POPSAny one is interested??? The Seven Continents: An Around-the-world Expedition by Private Jet... More details on the site... impressed...wish I had funds...
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POPSThe Frisian Solar Challenge A famous skating competition tour held in Fryslan, one of the northern provinces of The Netherlands. is The Eleven-cities Tour. This is a tour of almost 200 km in length, on frozen canals, rivers and lakes between eleven Frisian cities. That tour is not held each year, mostly because the Dutch winters do not permit skating on natural ice every year. Moreover, a result of the climate change we see more warm winters nowadays and many people already believe we will not experience the Tour again because of global warming. There is, however, an fascinating alternative, which is taking place along the same historical 200 kilometres right now: the world’s largest race of solar vessels, The Frisian Solar Challenge Around 50 teams of mainly universities and specialist companies from Europe participate in the event. There are teams from Brazil, England, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Italy and Poland, and - of course - The Netherlands.
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POPSPhoenix hunt for Mars life-support systems It's incredible that even only 60 years ago we were certain that life existed on Mars. Slightly earlier, and we were convinced the 'canals' on Mars were a product of their industry. Now we continue to question whether life has ever existed on Mars.
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POPSThe man who invented Mars It is Lowell's vision of Mars that has enthralled and inspired earthlings ever since.In 1895, Lowell published a book about what he believed he saw.He became famous and immensely popular.Lowell was born at 131 Tremont Street in Boston on March 13,1855,into a family at the pinnacle of what passed for American aristocracy. The appearance of Lowell's book about Mars in 1895 came at a time of canal-building on earth. The Suez had recently been constructed; the Panama was in the works. For both Lowell and his adoring public, the prospect of canals on a neighboring planet was too captivating to dismiss. He published his second book about the Red Planet, Mars and Its Canals, in 1906.In 1908, he published his third and final book on the planet, Mars as the Abode of Life. Back at his observatory on Mars Hill, Lowell renewed his attention to another matter: the possibility of a ninth planet beyond Neptune, which he called "Planet X."
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POPS24 hours in pictures - April 23rd 14 Dunkirk, France: Hugues Dubosc before the 200m breastroke of the French Swimming Championships 13 Suphan-Buri, Thailand: Workers dry rice grains at a factory 12 London, UK: Rubbish floats on the river Lea near Hackney Marsh. The disused and neglected system of canals in the east of the capital will be regenerated to transport building materials to the 2012 Olympics site 11 Sichuan province, China: Pandas play in the Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda in Wolong Nature Reserve 10 Beijing, China: Workers repair tiles on the roof of Cining Palace in the Forbidden City
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POPSUnderground City? The Future of Amsterdam Dutch engineers have proposed building an underground city 6 floors under Amsterdam's picturesque canals, which would be drained section by section during construction. It is both feasible and sustainable, creating a city beneath the city is not futuristic, it may be a necessity in this day and age. And what will this city hold? Parking, shopping and "leisure". Should they be digging up Amsterdam for parking and shopping, OR should they have added public transit and bike lanes instead? Construction could last up to 20 years.
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POPSBig Bang or Big Goof? In other words, astronomers who mistook the "seeds" for objects on the edge of the universe are like someone who looks outdoors through a window and mistakes smudges on the glass for clouds in the sky.
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POPSCow-like dinosaur sucked up plants They found the 'backup teeth, by CT (Computed Tomography) Scan of the skull. The dinosaur's posture was determined, by studying the canals of it's brain's balancing organs. They also say that the vertebrae were paper thin, and while it was difficult to imagine them coping with stresses of every day use, they have the 'grinning face' of the specimen to prove it was possible.
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POPSMallory Swamp being restored Story by By Nathan Crabbe Sun staff writer 5:33 pm, November 6, 2007 This restoration is one of the largest projects of its kind in Florida and the largest in the Suwannee River Basin. In ten years it will show whether or not the state's environmental protection policy is catching up to science, yet.
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POPSLow-Tech Guide to Pyramid Building A canal to haul construction materials! This must be the work of Aliens! Honestly, I'm very confused by all the people who are convinced there is something mysterious about the Pyramids. Sure they are big buildings, although if you are going to build a giant monument, the shape of a pyramid is painfully simple and represents virtually no engineering challenge. It is impressive that they were built, without doubt, but why is it so unimaginable to so many people that it could have been made by normal people in the ancient world? A canal? A ramp? Rolling logs for wheels? These technologies are simple, even crude. If anything, they argue against the possibility of external guidance by an advanced civilization. So why is it that we are so enamored with the mystic wisdom we imagine as residing in the mundane past?
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POPSDambusters Remade Peter Jackson who directed lord of the rings is in the process of remaking this amazing movie..there is a degree of political correctness creeping in, guy gibsons dog was called "nigger" obviously not acceptable in the the peoples republic of england ......
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POPSSwastika on ancient Native American pottery This is a photograph I took of a Hohokam pot in the Phoenix Pueblo Grande Museum. Since I seem to have a swastika theme going here, I just had to add this. The history of this symbol is fascinating to me, since it appears in many different places in the ancient world.
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