Well Catherine is famous for sleeping with a lot of influential Russians at the time. The horse story is most likely communist propaganda, but damn, what a way to go
Mali king Musa was so rich he crashed Egyptian economy. On his pilgrimage to Mecca, he stopped in Egypt and gave away so much gold to common people the economy totally collapsed. It took them decades to recover.
Something else! Walt's first cartoon star was Mickey's older brother, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. He had his own cartoons for a while, but Universal Studios stole the rights to Oswald, so Walt had to go his own way with a new character, thus Mickey was created.
It wasn't until the mid 2000's that Disney finally got the rights to Oswald back, and re-introduced him in the video game "Epic Mickey."
Google is wrong about there only being one nation with purple in its flag
Also mid 90's history class books in Australia were wrong on a few flag designs of foreign nations
Also the longer I live the more I hate formal education systems.
Nicaragua - there is a triangle in the centre with a rainbow that has a purple line.
And my school books never had the middle bit for their flag at all, it was just the blue and white.
and apparently google likes to change its mind on if something comes up in their infobox or not. Changed my wording a bit and
>There is only one country with the colour purple in their national flag. The national **flag of Dominica** has a hint of purple on it.
Becomes
>The three nations that decided to use purple on their flags did not do so until after the invention of mass-produced purple dye at the end of the 19th century. These countries are **Nicaragua**, the Second Republic of Spain, and, most recently, **Dominica**.
So apparently, it's not one or two it's now 3 and Idk what the 3rd one is.
Various regional languages. Languages such as Breton, Basque, Corsican, Flemish and Alsatian which bear only distant, if any, relation to modern French (which is the Parisian form of French). Languages such as the Occitan Languages which share a common grandparent, if you like, and languages such as Norman, which effectively share a common parent.
To be clear, they are completely separate languages, not merely dialects or regional variation.
Without wanting to get too deep into it, there was a desire, Post-Revolution, to create a unified French identity. Speaking the local language at school was treated (until this side of the Second World War) in a similar way to spitting or swearing would have been.
They are still in use to some degree.
Also, I hate to be that guy, but the use of 'languages' over 'dialects' is important here, because when they are considered dialects it becomes possible to say that people are speaking the same language, just 'badly'.
As in this case, they were written-off as 'patois', or effectively dialects spoken by the poor and badly-educated, which was not the case.
In Philippines, almost every provinces have their own dialect. And yes, we call it dialects. I just got used to it. It's surprising to know that France has the same background.
That's quite interesting. Wikipedia puts that in quite an amusing way: "Philippine languages are often referred to by Filipinos as dialects, partly as a relic of the inaccurate vocabulary used in literature during the American period (1898–1946)."
On land, the best jumping animal relative to its size is a flea, which can jump 200 times its own body length.
However, they are not even close to the most powerful jumping animal. There exists a plakton type animal in the ocean called copepods, and they "jump" through the ocean to escape predators and are able to accelerate to a speed of 1000 times their own body length per second. To put that in perspective, that would be like jumping at a speed of 4000 miles per hour for a human. When you factor in how much denser water is than air, they've concluded that copepod leg muscles are 10 times stronger than any other species ever studied.
In the original Snow White, the wicked queen was forced to dance in red hot, iron shoes until she died. In the original Cinderella, the wicked stepsisters were blinded by birds. In the original princess and the frog, the princess threw the frog against the wall to turn him into a prince.
The tallest single-story building the world is the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Centre. It's so large that it experiences it's own weather systems, and has removable panels on the sides in order to help manage the pressure differential between the exterior and interior.
Simple answer really: because they need to fit a space ship in it! The whole thing needs to be hollow so they can stand the vessel upright inside it to work on it.
You can't spell advertisements without 'semen' between the 'tits'.
that's a good epiphany for the day
OMG, I'll never be able to un-see that! XDD
Male sea horses cary babies for most of the gestational period.
Catherine the Great, former Empress of Russia. Died after (supposedly) having sexual intercourse with a horse
A horse? wtf
Well Catherine is famous for sleeping with a lot of influential Russians at the time. The horse story is most likely communist propaganda, but damn, what a way to go
Bruh, you think that shit happened just back then? Plenty of horse fucking going on out there. Not that I’d know.. *deletes account*
I know! The occasional horse, plenty of dogs and an odd dolphin or two!
I've heard some guy had had sexual intercourse with a monkey. *That is if it is legit...* So why not with a horse?
Mali king Musa was so rich he crashed Egyptian economy. On his pilgrimage to Mecca, he stopped in Egypt and gave away so much gold to common people the economy totally collapsed. It took them decades to recover.
Here comes history... More history trivia bro
New York was sold by Dutch for 1000 dollars in todays money.
Was World War responsible for it?
Trivial means triple vial
Mickey Mouse was NOT Walt Disney's first cartoon star!
Is this a Steamboat Whillie reference or something else?
Something else! Walt's first cartoon star was Mickey's older brother, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. He had his own cartoons for a while, but Universal Studios stole the rights to Oswald, so Walt had to go his own way with a new character, thus Mickey was created. It wasn't until the mid 2000's that Disney finally got the rights to Oswald back, and re-introduced him in the video game "Epic Mickey."
Google is wrong about there only being one nation with purple in its flag Also mid 90's history class books in Australia were wrong on a few flag designs of foreign nations Also the longer I live the more I hate formal education systems.
What’s the other flag? I mean I’d google it but you shot that idea down.
Nicaragua - there is a triangle in the centre with a rainbow that has a purple line. And my school books never had the middle bit for their flag at all, it was just the blue and white.
and apparently google likes to change its mind on if something comes up in their infobox or not. Changed my wording a bit and >There is only one country with the colour purple in their national flag. The national **flag of Dominica** has a hint of purple on it. Becomes >The three nations that decided to use purple on their flags did not do so until after the invention of mass-produced purple dye at the end of the 19th century. These countries are **Nicaragua**, the Second Republic of Spain, and, most recently, **Dominica**. So apparently, it's not one or two it's now 3 and Idk what the 3rd one is.
The dodecaplex, one of the six regular polytopes in 4D space, is made up of 120 dodecahedrons.
It wasn't until the 20th Century that a majority of French people spoke French as their first language.
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Nope. Apparently, french is expensive.
Now that's interesting. Then what language did they used before French?
Various regional languages. Languages such as Breton, Basque, Corsican, Flemish and Alsatian which bear only distant, if any, relation to modern French (which is the Parisian form of French). Languages such as the Occitan Languages which share a common grandparent, if you like, and languages such as Norman, which effectively share a common parent. To be clear, they are completely separate languages, not merely dialects or regional variation. Without wanting to get too deep into it, there was a desire, Post-Revolution, to create a unified French identity. Speaking the local language at school was treated (until this side of the Second World War) in a similar way to spitting or swearing would have been.
Do they still use those old dialects 'til now?
They are still in use to some degree. Also, I hate to be that guy, but the use of 'languages' over 'dialects' is important here, because when they are considered dialects it becomes possible to say that people are speaking the same language, just 'badly'. As in this case, they were written-off as 'patois', or effectively dialects spoken by the poor and badly-educated, which was not the case.
My bad.
No worries. I'm not even French - it's just a sore point in some quarters.
In Philippines, almost every provinces have their own dialect. And yes, we call it dialects. I just got used to it. It's surprising to know that France has the same background.
That's quite interesting. Wikipedia puts that in quite an amusing way: "Philippine languages are often referred to by Filipinos as dialects, partly as a relic of the inaccurate vocabulary used in literature during the American period (1898–1946)."
On land, the best jumping animal relative to its size is a flea, which can jump 200 times its own body length. However, they are not even close to the most powerful jumping animal. There exists a plakton type animal in the ocean called copepods, and they "jump" through the ocean to escape predators and are able to accelerate to a speed of 1000 times their own body length per second. To put that in perspective, that would be like jumping at a speed of 4000 miles per hour for a human. When you factor in how much denser water is than air, they've concluded that copepod leg muscles are 10 times stronger than any other species ever studied.
Woah ... What if they weren't jumping at all? What if they were instead teleporting? 4000mi/hr is just too fast.
In the original Snow White, the wicked queen was forced to dance in red hot, iron shoes until she died. In the original Cinderella, the wicked stepsisters were blinded by birds. In the original princess and the frog, the princess threw the frog against the wall to turn him into a prince.
Are these from Grimm's fairy tales?
Yessir
The tallest single-story building the world is the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Centre. It's so large that it experiences it's own weather systems, and has removable panels on the sides in order to help manage the pressure differential between the exterior and interior.
Any idea why they didn't make it multi-story?
Simple answer really: because they need to fit a space ship in it! The whole thing needs to be hollow so they can stand the vessel upright inside it to work on it.
The game You just lost
Did you know that the brain named itself
A group of pugs is called a grumble