Everything You Didn’t Want To Know About Using The Toilet In The Medieval Period If you like extreme sports, hiking and rock climbing, we have a post dedicated to you! This post has the purpose to present the most important information about Pico da Tijuca. One of the best viewpoints in the whole city. Read […]
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taxi (n.) Short for “Taximeter Cab” an automatic meter to record the distance and fare (1898), coined from Medieval Latin taxa “tax, charge.” An earlier English form was taxameter (1894) used in horse-drawn cabs. My first ride in a NYC Cab was in a new 1953 Ford taxi with my father in NYC. It was
Woman passenger in a taxi cab, New York. 1910. Read Post »
But it’s not only known for that – Zakopane is home to the world’s biggest snow maze that would even make Stanley Kubrick proud. The giant maze is larger than ten tennis courts and was pieced together by using over 60,000 ice blocks. Snowlandia is a Snow land which also includes a Snow Castle, and
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The white house on Elliðaey Island, Iceland is often called the “world’s loneliest house” due to its remote location and lack of permanent residents. However, the house is actually a hunting lodge built in the 1950s by the Elliðaey Hunting Association as a base for puffin hunting. The island is uninhabited, with the exception of
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Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut is one of the most beautiful of all of the temples of Ancient Egypt. It is located at Deir el-Bahri (“the Northern Monastery”), at the head of the valley beneath the peak of the mountain (and natural pyramid) “Dehent” (now known by its Arabic name, el-Qurn –
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A fireman suit from the early 1900s that allowed firefighters to get closer to fires had a built-in sprinkler system in the helmet that connected to a hose nozzle. A hand lever on the helmet allowed the firefighter to control the amount of spray needed for the situation
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Most maps grossly misrepresent the size of countries and contribute to confusion. Let’s revise our tools to help us get better results. When talking about digital ethics I often begin with a run-through of how the tools, models and workflows we use are taken for granted, with rare concern for how they mislead. And the
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When we were staying in Kanab, UT, we kept seeing travel flyers for a tunnel called Belly of the Dragon. The Belly of the Dragon is a short but interesting-looking drainage tunnel that goes under Highway 89 near Mount Carmel Junction in Utah. After a quick research, it looked interesting but not enough for us
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House of the Dragon pumps the breaks after last week’s spectacular battle episode, yielding some interesting ruminations on sexism and a few baffling turns for the formerly fascinating Daemon Targaryen. The new episode of House of the Dragon, “Regent,” is a subdued affair. Perhaps that’s to be expected after last week’s explosive installment, where dragons fought in the sky
Rhaenyra Targaryen says she doesn’t know the difference between a “hilt” and a “foible” on a sword. Neither do I. Let’s learn! Every week on House of the Dragon seems to introduce some new word people are curious about. In one episode Rhaenyra Targaryen said she hoped people weren’t mistaking her temperance for “pliancy,” and everyone’s vocabulary expanded. This
House of the Dragon: What’s the difference between a hilt and a foible? Read Post »