According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes. |
The typewriter was invented in 1829, and the automatic dishwasher in 1889. |
The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier. |
When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour. |
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. |
Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world. |
Most gemstones contain several elements. The exception? The diamond. It's all carbon. |
Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man. |
Which of the 50 states has never had an earthquake? North Dakota. |
When hydrogen burns in the air, water is formed.
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Monday, November 3, 2008
Did you know what the hardest know substance know to man is?
Did you know who's birthday is today, Nov 3?
1960 James Prime - keyboardist (Deacon Blue)
1959 Dolph Lundgren - actor
1956 Phil Simms - NFL quarterback, sportscaster
1954 Adam Ant - singer
1953 Dennis Miller - comedian, actor
1953 Kate Capshaw - actress
1953 Roseanne Barr - actress, comedienne
1949 Larry Holmes - WBC heavyweight boxing champ (1978-85)
1949 Mike Evans - actor
1948 Lulu - singer
1934 John Barry - film score composer
1933 Michael Dukakis - Massachusetts Governor
1933 Ken Berry - actor
1921 Charles Bronson - actor
1918 Bob Feller - baseball pitcher
1908 Bronko Nagurski - football running back
1845 Edward White - US Supreme Court Chief Justice (1894-1921)
1794 William Cullen Bryant - poet
1793 Stephen Austin - Texas patriot; state capital is named for him
1718 John Montague (Earl of Sandwich) - sandwich inventor
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Did you know these Presidential campaign facts?
Did you know these Campaign facts for 2008 Presidental Race?
Did you know that for the first time ever in U.S. history, the candidates for president have raised more than $1 billion campaign dollars?
Did you know that Obama raised $10 million dollars to pay down Hillary Clintons Clinton's campaign debt?
Did you know that Barack Obama's campaign spent nearly $3 million on online advertising related purchases between January and April?
Did you know that the biggest recipient of the Democratic Presidential online ad dollars was Google?
Did you know that Obama mastered new technology, turning the Internet into an incredible political networking tool and attracting record numbers of donors giving less than $200?
Did you know as much as $3 billion could be spent by political campaigns leading up to the November election?
Did you know that Sen. Barack Obama has raised $7.8 million for his campaign in one day?
Did you know that the candidates have traveled more miles, employed more workers and advertised more than ever in this presidential campaign?
Did you know that Obama has raised $641 million dollars and had over3.2 million donors?
Did you know that neither Obama nor McCain participated in public financing during the primaries?
Did you know because Obama abandoned the public financing system, and because he did has rewritten the rules for financing campaigns?
Obama outspent Republican nominee John McCain in all of the most competitive states, save for Iowa and Minnesota, where he has a comfortable lead in recent polls.
Did you know that Obama has used his financial edge to turn once-reliable GOP states into hard-fought battlegrounds? In that same week, according to an independent study, Obama outspent McCain by more than 8 to 1 in North Carolina and 3 to 1 in Indiana. Did you know that no Democrat has won either state in more than three decades?
Did you know that Obama was the first candidate to forgo public funding since the federal system was adopted in 1976 after the Watergate scandal? McCain accepted $84.1 million from Washington, and that is all he can spend. Sen. McCain is making very tough decisions where to spend his money."
Did you know that Obama had more than $77 million in the bank on Aug. 31, 2008?
Did you know that Obama is on pace to raise at least $100 million more by Election Day. That would mean a cash advantage over McCain of better than 2 to 1.
Did you know that Obama half-hour prime-time broadcast on CBS and NBC on Oct. 29 was the first time in years that a presidential candidate has made such a substantial investment in national TV?
Did you know that Ross Perot, a billionaire who bankrolled much of his own campaign, drew an audience of 26 million to his 1992 simulcast on ABC and CBS?
Did you know that Senator Barack Obama’s infomercial drew 33.5 million U.S. viewers Wednesday night, according to Nielsen?
Did you know that 2008 boosted Obama into the position of the most successful presidential fundraiser ever?
Friday, October 31, 2008
Did you know Senator Stevens had been found guilty.
Did you know that Senator Ted Stevens tor has been found guilty of corruption? Okay congress and the senate is one of the few jobs that you can run for and hold a office after you have been in jail! The nice thing that even if he does resigns his office he still gets $120,000 a year. Now thats the life...
Did you know who's birthday is today, Oct 31
1981 Eddie Kaye Thomas - actor
1970 Linn Berggren - singer (Ace of Base)
1967 Vanilla Ice - rapper
1965 Rob Schneider - actor
1965 Annabella Lwin - singer (Bow Wow Wow)
1964 Mikkey Dee - rock drummer (Motorhead)
1963 Johnny Marr - guitarist (The Smiths)
1963 Fred McGriff - baseball player
1961 Larry Mullen - drummer (U2)
1956 Tony Bowers - bassist (Simply Red)
1955 Xavier Roberts - Cabbage Patch doll creator
1952 Bernard Edwards - disco bassist (Chic)
1950 Jane Pauley - TV host, news anchor, married to Doonesbury cartoonist Gary Trudeau
1950 John Candy - comedian, actor
1948 Deidre Hall - actress
1948 Mickey Rivers - baseball player
1947 Russ Ballard - singer, guitarist (Argent)
1947 Frank Shorter - Olympic track and field gold medalist, sportscaster
1944 Sally Kirkland - actress
1943 Brian Piccolo - football player (his battle with cancer is portrayed in movie Brian's Song)
1942 David Ogden Stiers - actor
1937 Tom Paxton - singer, songwriter, guitarist
1936 Michael Landon - actor
1931 Dan Rather - CBS-TV news anchor
1931 Michael Collins - Apollo 11 astronaut, author
1927 Lee Grant - actress (Oscar® winner, 1975)
1922 Barbara Bel Geddes - actress
1920 Dick Francis - author
1912 Dale Evans - singer-songwriter, wife of Roy Rogers
1902 Wilbur Shaw - auto racer (three-time Indy 500 winner)
1896 Ethel Waters - actress
1887 Chiang Kai-shek - Republic of China President
1795 John Keats - poet
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Noose around Palin manikin is not a hate crime
Do you know what a hate crime is? A hate occur when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her membership in a certain social group, usually defined by racial group, religion, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender, gender identity, or political affiliation.[1] The reason that I choose to write this article is because they considered a noose around a Palin manikin as a hate crime…I think that the only crime that the young jerks that hung that manikin up is ‘ignorance’! Now on the other hand I can understand why the noose around a black manikin head indicating that it’s Obama would be considered a hate crime. How quickly conservative’s memory has lapsed… How did they forget about all the lynching committed in the southern states against black people? Are you all that insensitive, did you really forget? Did you know that thousands of black men, women and children have been lynched? Did you know that the racial hatred that was thrust upon the black men and women of the world was done to them simply because some white guys got a royal hair up his ass and wanted to go out and make a point? It disturbs me that a white manikin hanging in the air is considered to be a hate crime. If you reviewed history I don’t think you could find a single case of white men getting drunk then going out and stringing up a white woman for kicks! Some how I just can not imagine that happening. But if we were to look back in time I do believe history could repeat itself with someone attempting a hate crime on Obama… Hint, hint the black manikin hanging in the air! Let’s be realistic, if you had a sure hand which one would you bet your last dollar on? Hatred on Palin or Obama?