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We are so thankful for the 77 responses to "how do you like the newsletter?" We promise to keep delivering the things you like and to continue to find things that will peak your interest an bring a smile to your face.
Pretty eclectic content this month. Hope you enjoy.
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In 1942, homesick GI Carl K. Lindley was ordered to repair a local signpost in the Yukon. He decided to add an indicator pointing to his hometown: DANVILLE, ILL. 2835 MILES.
Others began adding their own signs, and today the “Sign Post Forest” holds 80,000 signs. It’s actively accepting more — you can bring your own or make one at the visitor information center.
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When things were simple. And we needed vinegar just to survive. | |
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These beauties, carried by delicate people of both sexes, carried vinegar soaked sponges inside. This was because urban living in the 18th and 19th centuries required being able to live amongst unspeakable filth and stench.
If you ever felt feint, you could hold up the vinegrette to your nose to block out the offending smells. Of course, you walked around all day smelling of vinegar but who am I to judge?
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A fancy little silver pincher made by Tiffany around 1900.
They fit like little gloves on your fingers, to protect your fingertips from the dangers of picking strawberries out of a bowl. Can’t imagine why they didn’t become a kitchen staple.
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You probably know what this was used for. And if you’re a calligrapher or a hipster you might still use one. But it’s rare to encounter one as beautiful as this 1825 example. | |
We might be stretching the definition of “beautiful” with this circa 1795 French denture holder. But we don’t dare call it anything else. It looks bitey. | |
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Chatelaines were worn around the waist of well-to-do housewives in the middle class, and head housekeepers of the upper classes, in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
From the belt chain would hang everything a woman might need in her day, from sewing kits to keys to coin purses. The quality of your or your servant’s chatelaine was an excellent indication of status.
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Skirts were huge and streets were disgusting in the Victorian Age. Plus there were all sorts of stairs a lady would have to climb. So she’d have to lift her skirt a bit, and these devices helped make it charmingly complicated to do so.
The tongs were connected to the hem, the loop at top connected to a belt (or chatelaine). There was a pulley system involved where the lady would pull one end of the chain to lift the skirt.
How this was superior to simply lifting your skirt with your hands, only a Victorian would know.
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March Quiz - The Hard One. | |
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City A contains 20,000 people.
One percent of these have one foot only and wear one shoe apiece. Half of the remaining people go barefoot, wearing no shoes at all, and the rest wear two shoes apiece.
In City B, 20 percent of the residents have one foot only and wear one shoe apiece. Of the remainder, half go barefoot and half wear two shoes apiece.
If 20,000 shoes are worn in City B, what is its population?
(You do not have to show your work.) Just tell us here and an opportunity will arise to win a $25 Amazon gift card.
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Couldn’t decide on a winter theme or a spring theme – so we decide to go with both! | |
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We’ve talked about how we are incorporating biofuels in some of our oil deliveries. Thought we might go a step further and give you a quick peek at the industry.
Biofuels are combustible fuels created from recently living plant matter as opposed to ancient plant matter in hydrocarbons. Think lettuce vs. oil. The term biofuel is usually used to reference liquid fuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel that are used as replacements for transportation fuels, like petroleum, diesel and jet fuel.
The simplest way to distinguish between the two is to remember ethanol is an alcohol and biodiesel is an oil.
Ethanol is an alcohol formed by fermentation and can be used as a replacement for, or additive to, gasoline whereas biodiesel is produced by extracting naturally occurring oils from plants and seeds. Biodiesel can be combusted in diesel engines.
Biofuels are grouped by categories –
- First generation biofuels are produced from food crops. For ethanol, feedstocks include sugar cane, corn, maize, etc. For biodiesel, feedstocks are naturally occurring vegetable oils such as soybean and canola.
- Second generation biofuels are produced from cellulosic material such as wood, grasses, and inedible parts of plants.
- Third generation biofuels are produced using the lipid production from algae.
In addition, the term “Advanced Biofuels” is used to describe production that uses waste such as garbage, animal fats, and spent cooking oil to produce liquid fuels.
Biofuels are not as energy dense as conventional transportation fuels. 1 gallon of biodiesel has 93% of the energy of 1 gallon of diesel and 1 gallon of ethanol (E85) has 73% of the energy of 1 gallon of gasoline.
Biofuels are currently the only viable replacement to hydrocarbon transportation fuels. Because biofuels can be used in existing combustion engines, minimal changes to infrastructure are required for their implementation.
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But, Ya Gotta Just Love Idaho | |
Origin of States names. 27 states took inspiration from the Native Americans. And then there's Idaho. | |
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From Pete Eats. https://www.pete-eats.com
Soy Garlic Scallion Noodles
INGREDIENTS
- 1 pack Knife cut noodles
- 5 Garlic cloves
- 4 Scallion
- 1/2 Tbsp Sweetener
- 1 Tbsp Soy sauce
- 1/2 Tbsp Sesame oil
- 1/2 Tbsp Rice vinegar
- Toasted sesame seeds to taste
- 4-5 Tbsp Neutral oil (veggie oil or olive)
- 1/2 Tbsp Chili powder to taste
- 1/2 Tbsp Chili flakes to taste
INSTRUCTIONS
- Chop your garlic and scallion
- Heat your neutral oil and to a heat proof bowl add your scallion, garlic, chili, sesame seeds with the hot oil on top. Let it sizzle and pop.
- Add the remaining sauce ingredients
- Cook your noodles, drain and remove
- Add the noodles to the sauce
- Garnish with scallion and more sesame seeds, enjoy!
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Bird Fetish or Guy With Too Much Wood On His (or Her) Hands? | |
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Shneel Malik Creates Indus Tiles to
Purify Rainwater Using Algae
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“The Bio-Integrated Design Lab at the Bartlett School of Architecture has created a modular system of tiles inlaid with algae that can filter toxic chemical dyes and heavy metals out of water.
Each tile is made simply by pressing clay – or a similar low-cost, local material – into fan-shaped moulds with a series of ‘vein-like channels’. These mimic the structure of leaves and their ability to distribute water evenly to every part of a plant.
The ravines are then filled with micro-algae which are suspended within the ‘biological scaffold’ of a seaweed-derived hydrogel. This keeps the algae alive while also being completely recyclable and biodegradable.
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“’Through our site visits, we realized that the artisan workers had no space available for westernized high-tech water treatment solutions,’ said Malik.
Neither did they have the economic capacity to get additional support. So we needed a system that was spatially compatible and could be constructed and maintained by them.’ Brilliant.
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New York, New York, It’s a Wonderful Town…. | |
New York City, 1974 by Dirk Reinartz (How great is this?) | |
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The form lb. is actually an abbreviation of the Latin word libra, which could mean a pound, itself a shortened form of the full expression, libra pondo, “pound weight”. The second word of this phrase, by the way, is the origin of the English pound.
Libra for a pound is first found in English in the late fourteenth century, almost at the same time as lb. started to be used. Strictly speaking again, this was the Roman pound of 12 ounces, not the more modern one of 16.
Incidentally, another abbreviation for libra became the standard symbol for the British pound in the monetary sense. The link between the two senses of pound, weight and money, is that in England a thousand years ago a pound in money was equivalent to the value of a pound of silver. You knew that though, right?
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We tried to keep it simple. Tell us who this is here – and you may win one of the coveted $25 Amazon gift cards you hear so much about.
Last month Trudy B and Barbara P recognized Star Gate hunk Michael Shanks. And...Jane C and Marcia W - and 106 women and 19 guys - knew those red-heeled shoes were the work of Christian Louboutin. Not JImmy C and Manolo B. Gotcha!!!
Hint: “I’m…Batman.” And yet, is he, really?
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The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternative meanings for common words.
The winners are:
1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavoured mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.), emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n.), a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.) The belief that, when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
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Google the astonishingly successful launch of the new Lucid Electric car. It's only $149,000. | |
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