Snake mosaic from the 12th century, located in the Church of Sant'Adriano, Italy. Made with colored stone tesserae, the mosaic features a coiled serpent motif arranged in a striking geometric pattern. Credit: Stock Photo. pic.twitter.com/zwitNRn9u1
— Archaeology & Art (@archaeologyart) October 19, 2024
Also, @asymmetricinfo doesn't say it in-thread, but as more people are aging without spouses or children, the per-capita demand for paid care services is ballooning: kin are the main provider of these services, and without kin, costs absolutely explode. https://t.co/7pj4rV6v3i
— Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 (@lymanstoneky) October 15, 2024
While you were going about your daily life on Earth, a 'tornado' of plasma the size of our planet was spinning on the Sun. 🌪
— Curiosity (@MAstronomers) October 20, 2024
Video created from images captured by the SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) on October 20, 2024. pic.twitter.com/4mglPDSeXL
According to science, Airplane! (1980) is the funniest movie ever made. It has a hit rate of 3 jokes per sixty seconds. That's a whopping 261 gags packed into its 87 minutes running time.
— The Sting (@TheStingisBack) October 19, 2024
'Surely you can't be serious.'
... You know the rest. pic.twitter.com/Hr8QFMFT8c
The median-earning family pays an effective federal income tax rate of 2.6% after deductions/credits. More than 40% pay negative income taxes. We demand soaring govt benefits and then whine about even a small tax burden. No wonder deficits are nearly $2 trillion are rising. https://t.co/UdCLgLmmfM
— Brian Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 (@Brian_Riedl) October 18, 2024
The seal of Tutankhamun's tomb before it was opened in 1923, it was unbroken for over 3000 years. pic.twitter.com/LqBIH618g0
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) October 20, 2024
i subscribe to the theory of capitalism that 'incentives' don't matter nearly as much as the 'death operator' for killing failing organizations at all levels and reallocating their resources
— roon (@tszzl) October 15, 2024
Cabbage (aka Bai Cai) is a white French Bulldog who has mesmerized the Internet by skating like an absolute pro.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 20, 2024
No wonder that some are calling him “Tony Dawg”.
His owner, Zhao Chen, who is also a skater, began training him in 2020.pic.twitter.com/fN9XG2jO12
Collectivism is when the disaffected try to externalize the blame for problems onto a scapegoat. pic.twitter.com/CJuAlml7yP
— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole84) October 18, 2024
Earth could support multiples of our current population on a fraction of current farmland if the world embraced modern agriculture. https://t.co/8kUbGW1dyW
— Jesse Peltan (@JessePeltan) October 19, 2024
Crazy things from the past 🧵
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) October 20, 2024
1. Vampire killing kit pic.twitter.com/FbGctUUGFg
An observation from Theodore Dalrymple so relevant to so many segments of our society these days — where people go along with things they don’t believe and which are anyway false. pic.twitter.com/y5d1cjKN8f
— Nicholas A. Christakis (@NAChristakis) June 14, 2020
A rainbow, where you expect it less.pic.twitter.com/OBKr3G4Yji
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 20, 2024
TIL that outside of the Upper West Side, it is not customary for gentiles to use "mazel tov" as an all-purpose congratulatory remark.
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) October 15, 2024
I mean, it makes sense, but I guess it didn't occur to me that I sounded kind of strange.
This is wild: NYC is as safe as some of the wealthiest suburban areas on the planet. https://t.co/i2cf8iCsQV pic.twitter.com/fS6zpxmttg
— Charlie Petty (@incredutility) October 18, 2024
A woman with her possessions in the ruins of Cologne, Germany. 1945 pic.twitter.com/Q51qeEBmbB
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) October 19, 2024
Honestly speaking I'm wondering if most of Europe is in some sort of coma or what is going on - we have North Korean soldiers, Iranian ballistic missiles and Chinese drones pummeling European soil and the reaction is.... nothing? Do you really think this will stop here? https://t.co/U4C93cg0VL
— Erik Kannike (@erikkannike) October 15, 2024
The Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye - Scotland :
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) October 20, 2024
Largest island of Inner Hebrides, Isle of Skye is iconic for its history. Inhabited by Scots, who originally came over from Ireland, from 1st Century BC and later by Norse peoples between 800-1263 AD, human history of Skye is… pic.twitter.com/gsXZMAtMn5
This is Aspen. She’s visiting a friend’s house for dinner, but after seeing the rug she thinks it’s time to leave. 13/10 pic.twitter.com/KM2Q5VdXAC
— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) October 15, 2024
For all the folks talking about how you can't kill an idea, when was the last time you heard anyone mention the Tamil Tigers or Shining Path? Turns out if you make enough terrorists into slurry, people stop showing up at terror boot camps.
— Panda_Prime 📟 (@pandaagendaforu) October 17, 2024
Italian grocery store. NYC, 1943 pic.twitter.com/udXlxoSA0Y
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) October 20, 2024
🧛 Blah! Meet the Dracula Parrot aka the Vulturine Parrot! Unlike vultures—or vampires—this species’ diet consists mostly of figs. As in vultures, scientists think its bald head might prevent bits from sticking to the bird's face when diving into a meal. pic.twitter.com/MOoG3GZjol
— American Museum of Natural History (@AMNH) October 20, 2024
My doggo: "Since we moved to this neighborhood, there have been no squirrel-related fatalities of people or dogs. You're welcome."
— James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ (@JimPethokoukis) October 16, 2024
Me: What were the fatality rate before we moved here?
Doggo: I do not have that data. Good day, sir! pic.twitter.com/WR31sfxb05
Never been a better time to be human person on the 3rd planet from a certain medium sized star on a spiral stellar arm of the Milky Way Galaxy pic.twitter.com/qYoOtHFkTY
— James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ (@JimPethokoukis) October 18, 2024
12 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.14 For the body is not one member, but many.15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked.25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during Hellenistic period. Its exact dating is uncertain, but modern consensus places it in 2nd Century BC, perhaps between 160-110 BC.
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) October 20, 2024
It was rediscovered in 1820 on the island of… pic.twitter.com/xO1kC30aWE
Vance gives the answer he should give here but I’m stunned by the premise of this question - that the country should rely on nonunion, under-the-table labor to build houses? https://t.co/IN6YB3dw3M
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) October 13, 2024
More than 3,000 years ago, someone wore and treasured this pendant ~ perky gold moufflon with spectacular horns, about 4 cm high, from ancient Bactria, in Central Asia https://t.co/7fyzc8Zsxe pic.twitter.com/fYW6aphfjU
— Journal of Art in Society (@artinsociety) October 20, 2024
Back of envelope calculation suggests the Earth could reduce global land temperatures immediately by at least 0.5°C by moving thermometers away from airports and rapidly growing urban areas like Phoenix, Arizona.
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) October 15, 2024
AFAIK, one of the few outcomes that does not seem to be affected by family structure is offspring IQ. So if admissions requirements include a good standardized test and the college admits largely on the basis of academic ability, no need for affirmative action for single-parent… https://t.co/qLBkFDVqQz
— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) October 18, 2024
Like other Puritans of his era, Williams honed a rigid moral code based upon biblical teachings that informed how he chose to conduct his life. However, he never felt anyone else should be compelled to follow his faith journey.In particular, he disagreed vehemently with the Quakers about their beliefs and worship practices, like their tendency to “quake” at their meetings. Yet he extended a compassionate hand to Anne Hutchinson after she was also banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and gave her space to build her own meeting house in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.In defining his role in the public sphere, rather than creating Puritan enclaves designed to separate the saved from the damned or encouraging dialogue to “discuss” the rights of the “outsider,” Williams chose to live with people even though they disagreed with one another. Taking advantage of his skills as a gifted linguist, he embraced all, knowing people are not isolated individuals but part of a shared global humanity.Over the years, he paid dearly for his blunt and forcible language. Besides his exile, the House of Commons burned his masterpiece, “The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience,” published in 1644. In the book he details a host of vile acts committed by religious authorities at the behest of the Crown.That same year Williams’ colleague John Milton published the “Areopagitica,” his plea for religious toleration. The friends were cut from the same intellectual cloth, with Williams teaching Milton Dutch in exchange for Milton tutoring him in other languages. But Milton’s commentary was far more tempered, as he stressed the need for all to live together in harmony without demanding the individual right of soul liberty.
In 1910, while excavating the site for the concrete foundation of London's County Hall, workers uncovered a Roman boat, offering a glimpse into the city's ancient history.
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) October 20, 2024
The discovery revealed that the Thames had long been a vital artery of trade and transportation, even in… pic.twitter.com/7JAWxEVSlI
How it started v/s How its going pic.twitter.com/MRfWrhyJoL
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) October 13, 2024
Banded rocks of Hosta Beach, Isle Of North Uist, Outer Hebrides. pic.twitter.com/Iu3JnMx7Uj
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 20, 2024
“Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return."
A map tracking the evolution of China's metro system, from 7 lines in 1990 in 3 cities to hundreds in tens of cities 2020.
— François Valentin (@Valen10Francois) October 10, 2024
The scale and pace of transformation of urban China is unmatched in global history. pic.twitter.com/LNPiKK7f2t
Wow!
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) October 19, 2024
The Dark Ages are actually even visible in items hung up in the Louvre. https://t.co/uMIWTPIcpO pic.twitter.com/CLM0s9fnob
Whoever wants to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.
— Niccolò Machiavelli | The Prince ⚔️ (@NiccoloDaily) October 13, 2024
An erupting Volcán de Fuego surrounded by a sea of clouds in Guatemala.pic.twitter.com/j7Xh7IxdZ7
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) October 20, 2024
I’ll take a flanged mace (and a bec de Corbin because it sounds cool). pic.twitter.com/tzRy7MR5t4
— Judianna (@Judianna) October 14, 2024
“The mystery is what they find to talk about in the country.”“There are two subjects of conversation in the country: Servants, and Can fowls be made to pay? The first, I believe, is compulsory, the second optional.”
The US economy has an insane ability to reinvent itself again and again. Source: https://t.co/jMoM7PuGvi pic.twitter.com/KHqJKiLYqg
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) October 16, 2024
Gianni Berengo Gardin - Venise, 1955 pic.twitter.com/4Md3oGVeZc
— CameraLab (@cameralab21) October 19, 2024
The public sector vs the private sector: pic.twitter.com/JpAEsU5sNq
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 13, 2024
"It is a great gift to be able to bear loneliness and to derive pleasure from it."
— Cursive Entelechia (@Pergament_F) November 1, 2024
Bernard Shaw
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Good night pic.twitter.com/nTWEFON4zF
Canada being 1/3rd foreign-born is pretty remarkable.
— Charles Fain Lehman (@CharlesFLehman) October 15, 2024
U.S. by contrast is about 1/7th. https://t.co/ki3iswFkUd
One facet of infrastructure that doesn’t get all that much attention is roads, despite the fact that they’re crucial transportation infrastructure, and probably the infrastructure that Americans interact with most directly and consistently. The US has the largest road network in the world, about 4.3 million miles of road, and Americans drive much more than residents in most other countries. Good-quality roads are important for a functioning economy, and rough roads inflict costs in the form of reduced vehicle speeds.
How good is American road infrastructure? How does it compare with roads built in other countries?Overall, the quality of US interstates is very high, while the quality of roads in major cities is quite poor. And while there’s some anecdotal evidence that US roads are worse than European roads, I wasn’t able to find much international road quality data to compare. The limited data I found points to the US not being a huge outlier in road quality. But more data is needed to compare accurately.
[snip]With non-interstates, we see more variation. Broadly, highly rural states tend to have higher quality roads than more urbanized states, though there’s a decent amount of variation. California, which is reasonably rural, nevertheless comes in third from the bottom. Interestingly, I expected cold places to have lower road quality in general due to things like freeze-thaw cycles and the impact of road salting, but there doesn’t seem to be much correlation. Plenty of cold places (North Dakota, Wyoming, Minnesota) have good-quality roads, while plenty of warm places (Louisiana, New Mexico, California) have poor-quality roads.[snip]While urban roads are poor in general, there’s a large amount of variation. Cities like Atlanta and Minneapolis have less than 10% of their roads are poor quality or worse, while more than 60% of the roads in San Francisco and Los Angeles are poor. But in general, most major cities aren’t doing great: in 13 of the 19 largest US cities, more than 1/3rd of the roads are poor quality. And here again we see that cold climate doesn’t seem to have much impact on road quality, with cold places like Minneapolis and New York near the top, while warm cities like Los Angeles, San Diego and Dallas are near the bottom.
On this Oxfordshire Day, enjoy these beautiful 19th-century @UniofOxford views captured by JMW Turner.
— Ashmolean Museum (@AshmoleanMuseum) October 19, 2024
Turner knew Oxford extremely well and, from childhood, made numerous drawings of the streets and colleges and the picturesque views surrounding the city.
🖼 Christ Church… pic.twitter.com/HRiHvkd1Pf
Note how many media outlets repeat that this event was full of "undecided Latino voters" -- simply repeating Univision's corporate press release -- when it turns out the event actually full of avowed Kamala-supporting voters who were recruited through a "fan" casting company! https://t.co/eO8f1EpIoP pic.twitter.com/7fjhVUVMgw
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) October 12, 2024
So very British. A roadside picnic with cups and saucers and even a teapot. You can tell this couple is on holiday as formal shoes have been replaced with socks and sandals. pic.twitter.com/mxIctoux9D
— Bobbie (@bo66ie29) October 19, 2024
Brazil: 5 areas of equal population pic.twitter.com/U1GsrWwBlf
— Amazing Maps (@amazingmap) October 14, 2024
Personally, I can’t see where the difficulty in choosing suitable presents lies. No boy who had brought himself up properly could fail to appreciate one of those decorative bottles of liqueurs that are so reverently staged in Morel’s window—and it wouldn't in the least matter if one did get duplicates. And there would always be the supreme moment of dreadful uncertainty whether it was créme de menthe or Chartreuse—like the expectant thrill on seeing your partner's hand turned up at bridge. People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity; the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
Heretofore, the technological advance that most altered the course of modern history was the invention of the printing press in the 15th century, which allowed the search for empirical knowledge to supplant liturgical doctrine, and the Age of Reason to gradually supersede the Age of Religion. Individual insight and scientific knowledge replaced faith as the principal criterion of human consciousness. Information was stored and systematized in expanding libraries. The Age of Reason originated the thoughts and actions that shaped the contemporary world order.But that order is now in upheaval amid a new, even more sweeping technological revolution whose consequences we have failed to fully reckon with, and whose culmination may be a world relying on machines powered by data and algorithms and ungoverned by ethical or philosophical norms.The internet age in which we already live prefigures some of the questions and issues that AI will only make more acute. The Enlightenment sought to submit traditional verities to a liberated, analytic human reason. The internet’s purpose is to ratify knowledge through the accumulation and manipulation of ever expanding data. Human cognition loses its personal character. Individuals turn into data, and data become regnant.Users of the internet emphasize retrieving and manipulating information over contextualizing or conceptualizing its meaning. They rarely interrogate history or philosophy; as a rule, they demand information relevant to their immediate practical needs. In the process, search-engine algorithms acquire the capacity to predict the preferences of individual clients, enabling the algorithms to personalize results and make them available to other parties for political or commercial purposes. Truth becomes relative. Information threatens to overwhelm wisdom.Inundated via social media with the opinions of multitudes, users are diverted from introspection; in truth many technophiles use the internet to avoid the solitude they dread. All of these pressures weaken the fortitude required to develop and sustain convictions that can be implemented only by traveling a lonely road, which is the essence of creativity.The impact of internet technology on politics is particularly pronounced. The ability to target micro-groups has broken up the previous consensus on priorities by permitting a focus on specialized purposes or grievances. Political leaders, overwhelmed by niche pressures, are deprived of time to think or reflect on context, contracting the space available for them to develop vision.The digital world’s emphasis on speed inhibits reflection; its incentive empowers the radical over the thoughtful; its values are shaped by subgroup consensus, not by introspection. For all its achievements, it runs the risk of turning on itself as its impositions overwhelm its conveniences.
In an NBC exit poll, Trump won 57 per cent of white and 55 per cent of male voters, retaining his hold on these groups. In an AP exit poll, he won 20 per cent of the black vote, up from 8 in 2016 and 13 in 2020. Harris’s 80 per cent black vote is a ten-point drop from Joe Biden’s four years ago. In addition, he also won the support of 46 per cent of Latinos, 39 per cent of Asian-Americans, 54 per cent of ‘Other,’ 45 per cent of women, and 43 per cent of 18–to-29-year-olds. Hence the prospect of a major new realignment of American politics. There are important lessons in all this for centre-right parties across the West: authentic conservatism attracts more voters than it repels.Trump’s success in creating a multi-ethnic winning coalition indicates that voting trends may be coalescing, with previously segmented cohorts normalising and starting to vote more as Americans and less as ethnics. Thus in an AP analysis, the economy and jobs rated as the top issues for voters overall, for blacks and Latinos, and for the youth. Phrases such as the Latino, black or Asian-American vote are increasingly meaningless. What once were voting blocs are fragmenting into individuals with agency. This can only be good for the long-term health of American democracy, contrary to the hysterical warnings of its imminent collapse should Trump win.
"Kaikilianos’ victory!"
— Stone Age Herbalist (@Paracelsus1092) October 19, 2024
This statue base is inscribed with a commemoration of a champion wrestler called Kaikilianos, who won a wrestling competition organized every five years by a local notable named Flavianus in the Hellenistic city of Anemurium. pic.twitter.com/yZnJb2XNFO
The irony of the person who is in charge of the country’s finances {Rachel Reeves} claiming £1,225 on taxpayer funded expenses to pay someone else to help file her tax return…https://t.co/5RKHEMmZUf
— James Melville 🚜 (@JamesMelville) October 13, 2024
The many varieties of tomatoes
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) October 20, 2024
📹 Jose Ponce pic.twitter.com/VuYKH3sgdg
Can't believe @elonmusk parks his rocket better than I park my car. Bloody show-off.
— Mark Collard (@profmarkcollard) October 13, 2024
There ought (he continued) to be technical education classes on the science of present-giving. No one seems to have the faintest notion of what any one else wants, and the prevalent ideas on the subject are not creditable to a civilized community.
Half of US immigrants fall into the leftmost (net negative) bucket. Seems like it would be really easy to just… not take those ones but still take the others. pic.twitter.com/OWmLifx9NT
— Hunter Ash (@ArtemisConsort) October 13, 2024
Most of what the federal government does is subsidize consumption. The federal budget is just a big machine that takes money from saving and investment and transforms it into consumption. And the only way economies grow successfully is to defer consumption, save and invest for the future. So, it is stacked to make things perform worse. I want to stack it the other way.
Facial reconstruction of an Early Neolithic Farmer from Agiorgitika, Peloponnese. pic.twitter.com/vscs4jSDII
— Ancestral Whispers (@Sulkalmakh) October 18, 2024
One of the most cited and esteemed Alzheimer's and Parkinson's researchers, Eliezer Masliah, has turned out to be a fraud.
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) October 11, 2024
He headed the National Institute of Aging's neuroscience division and might have set back the field by years or even decades. pic.twitter.com/wzsMkHsq5u
EXTREMELY RARE PIEBALD MOOSE SPOTTED IN MAN'S BACKYARD IN NORWAY pic.twitter.com/PNaFqYGKUs
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) October 20, 2024
“Hey SpaceX, whatcha up to?”
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) October 13, 2024
“Oh just catching giant rockets out of the air with a FREAKING TOWER”
“Oh cool, how bout you, NASA?”
“We’re….studying how racist the air is….” https://t.co/UeJV8njSp4
In a large genomic database of over 6500 people from Central and South America, 23% had Sephardic Jewish ancestry exceeding 5%. (averaged 7.3% in those people). https://t.co/syNzcPjjqb
— LiorLefineder (@lefineder) October 13, 2024
At that particular moment the croquet players finished their game, which had been going on without a symptom of finality during the whole afternoon. Why, I ask, should it have stopped precisely when a counter-attraction was so necessary? Every one seemed to drift towards the area of disturbance, of which the chairs of the Archdeacon’s wife and Reginald formed the storm-centre. Conversation flagged, and there settled upon the company that expectant hush that precedes the dawn—when your neighbours don't happen to keep poultry.“What did the Caspian Sea?” asked Reginald, with appalling suddenness.There were symptoms of a stampede. The Archdeacon’s wife looked at me. Kipling or some one has described somewhere the look a foundered camel gives when the caravan moves on and leaves it to its fate. The peptonized reproach in the good lady's eyes brought the passage vividly to my mind.
What the Butler Saw is a mutoscope reel and an early example of erotic films dating from the early 1900s. It depicted a scene of a woman partially undressing in her bedroom, as if some voyeuristic "butler" were watching her through a keyhole. The film was seen by depositing a coin in a freestanding viewing machine, which then freed a hand-crank on the side which was turned by the viewer. Social standards are subject to change, and by the 1950s this and similar films were considered harmless when compared to contemporary erotica.The title of this feature became widely used in Britain as a generic term for devices and films of this type. The phrase had entered British popular culture after the 1886 divorce case of Lord Colin Campbell and Gertrude Elizabeth Blood. The trial hinged on whether their butler could have seen Lady Colin in flagrante with Captain Shaw of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, through the keyhole of their dining room at 79 Cadogan Place, London.
Delawareby Perry ComoOh what did Del-a-ware boy, what did DelawareWhat did Del-a-ware boy, what did DelawareShe wore a brand New Jersey,She wore a brand New Jersey,She wore a brand New Jersey,That's what she did wearOne, two, three, fourOh, why did Cali-fon-iaWhy did Cali-fonWhy did Cali-fon-iaWas she all aloneShe called to say Ha-wa-yaShe called to say Ha-wa-yaShe called to say Ha-wa-yaThat's why she did callUno, due, tre, quattroOh what did Missi sip boyWhat did Missi sipWhat did Missi sip boyThrough her pretty lipsShe sipped a Minne sotaShe sipped a Minne sotaShe sipped a Minne sotaThat's what she did sipUn deux trois quatreWhere has Oregon, boyWhere has OregonIf you wan Al-ask-aAl-ask-a where she's goneShe went to pay her TexasShe went to pay her TexasShe went to pay her TexasThat's where she has goneEins zwei drei vierOh how did Wis-con-sin boyShe stole a New-brass-keyToo bad that Arkan saw, boyAnd so did Tenne-seeIt made poor Flori-di, boyIt made poor Flori-di, you seeShe died in Miss-our-I, boyShe died in Miss-our-IOh what did Del-a-ware boy, what did DelawareWhat did Del-a-ware boy, what did Delaware
How do you make a Maltese cross? (Stick a finger in his eye.)How do you make a Swiss roll? (Push him down a mountain.)
What did the Caspian See? He saw the Persian Golf.
What did the Caspian See? He saw the Queue Wait.
What did the Caspian See? He saw the Arabian Dessert.
What did the Caspian See? He saw the Kazakh Stand.
What did the Caspian see?She saw the Kazakh's stand.
Extract from the definition of stand (noun 1) in the OED:5d. = erection (n. 4). slang.1867 Rosa Fielding in S. Marcus Other Victorians (1966) v. 227 He had a tremendous cock-stand, and felt that if it was not allayed pretty quickly that he must burst.1868 tr. Martial Index Expuratorius 88 Maevius who while sleeping only gets A piss-proud stand that melts away on waking.1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. 346/1 Stand,‥(venery).—1. An erectio penis.
From the model’s standpoint, though, the race is literally closer than a coin flip: empirically, heads wins 50.5 percent of the time, more than Harris’s 50.015 percent.
Given a real coin, what percentage of the time will it land Heads? And the answer according to him is 50.5%
For any coin that is tossed vigorously and high, and caught in midair (rather than bouncing on the ground), what is the probability that it will land with the same face as it was launched? The answer is that there is a 50.8% chance that such a coin will be caught with the same face showing as launched.
For day-to-day decisions, coin tosses are as good as random because a 1 percent bias isn't perceptible with just a few coin flips, says statistician Amelia McNamara of the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, who wasn't involved in the new research. Still, the study's conclusions should dispel any lingering doubt regarding the coin flip's slender bias. “This is great empirical evidence backing that up,” she says.
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