@pauldrye@spacey.space : Unbuilt crewed space projects, phantom islands, alternate history, Muppets, Atomic Age design, weird-looking galaxies, temporary moons of Earth, languages, cartography, the Ediacaran biota, old cutaway diagrams. Canadian with malice aforethought. Baggage Books on DriveThruRPG.
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I was gonna say, yeah.
Well, those horses should not be driving anyway.
Cat.
Organic enemas?
At least it's "Not American". The Quaker Oats listing is a bad joke: -- Quaker is owned by PepsiCo.
Moomins have no bones and just squish like rubber balls.
Why Was a 1940s Car Discovered in the Wreck of an American Naval Ship That Sank During World War II?
I'd be more impressed if it was a 1970s car they discovered.
Goodyear METEOR
Post Sputnik in 1957, Goodyear pushed an integrated set of rocket, spaceship, and space station designs, and continued to do so through the early 1960s until it became clear that NASA was going ahead with their own approach.
This image was printed in Missiles & Rockets magazine's March 1960 issue, so slightly outside our group timeframe. But the design itself is a bit earlier; this picture would have been by Goodyear themselves, sometime in 1958 or '59.
Oh, good lord. Have you met my 82-year old father?
The Ambrosian Iliad, c.500 CE, Byzantine Egypt
The Ambrosian Iliad is a late 5th or early 6th century illustrated manuscript of Homer's Iliad, the only illustrated text from Antiquity (and in fact, illustrations at all) of that poem. This particular image is one of 52, and shows the Greek camp near Troy.
Albert Stevens - Man secretly injected with plutonium as an experiment because he was dying anyway -- except he wasn't dying
2015 TB145 - An asteroid that looked like a skull in radar images which passed Earth on Halloween 2015
smiles and waves, boys
www.bbc.com Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa
Pilot lost control after bird in cardboard box slid off a passenger's knee and knocked controls, aviation authority finds.
The Mysterious Poop Chuckers is definitely going to be my next band's name.
Inscribed Bronze Sword, Zhou China, ~5th Century BCE
This is a bronze sword found in southern Hubei province, China, in 1965. It is inscribed with bird-worm seal script characters reading "King Goujian of Yue made this sword for [his] personal use".
Picture by Wikipedia user Windmemories used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International
I signed up with lemm.ee a few months back and it was 4 weeks -- 28 days.
It's often under its Italian name, passata. I'm Canadian too and it's usually sold in glass bottles on the same shelves as spaghetti sauce. It's from Unico for the one I currently have in my fridge, but there's a few brands.
Hooray, but this was two weeks ago?
Whoever the writer thinks should be faster, so as to serve the needs of the story being told.
Partly. Their largest shareholder is RBI, which is Brazilian-American-Canadian. Head office is in First Canadian Place in Toronto. The terms of the deal that RBI cut to buy them has the Canadian government requiring them to keep most of their office side of things in Canada.
No, they're a big box store, not associated with a mall like a department store.
It's been a long time coming. Department stores in Canada have been dying off one by one, and they were the last. It's a business model that just doesn't work here anymore.
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I'd say try reviving the group by posting there yourself for a while. There's probably a few people who are still subscribed to it, so you'll get more eyeballs right out of the box than you would starting a fresh one.
Mary Goodwill - Coal
I don't know much about this one, a pick-up at the local used CD shop. I thought it was a Christmas album but it turned out to be one of those 90s solo alterna-chicks like Liz Phair, PJ Harvey, or Chris Cornell.
George Forster (murderer) - After being executed in 1803, his body was "reanimated" with electricity by a scientist
The Lectroids - The Lectroids
Springing from the otherwise non-existent Australian prog rock scene, the Lectroids released their self-titled debut album in 1971. The band members went their separate ways after selling only one copy, to electric flute player Gavin Whetstone's mother. Whetstone later formed the seminal punk band The Wankers.
Solid Star - So Far Away
An EDM band from the 1990s that released two albums. This is the second, shortly after which they lost two members to stampeding cows at an outdoor rave and then disbanded.
The EU already has a land border in the Americas. French Guiana is part of the union and it touches Brazil and Suriname. So the gate is already open to work it from the south up instead of the north down.
I read somewhere -- great source, I know -- that the existing rule is that the country has to be in Europe, though, not that it has a border. Otherwise Malta, Ireland, and Cyprus would not qualify, and the UK too back when they were in.
Oddly enough, the Canadian/Danish border is a questionable one for this purpose anyway -- Hans Island (where the border is) is part of Greenland and Greenland is not in the EU. It left in 1985 and is now one of the "Overseas countries and territories" that have special rights in relation to the EU but are not actually in it.
Malaria therapy - Deliberately infecting patients with malaria to cure mental illness
So far so good, though I haven't really stressed it out with anything complicated yet. I write game books and things, but that's been in Office 365 and (lately) LibreOffice.
Third man factor - Psychological phenomenon where a person having a long traumatic experience feels the presence of an unseen "other" encouraging them to make it through
Murder of Bridget Cleary - A woman is murdered when her husband and neighbours think she's been taken by spirits and replaced by a changeling
Wait 'til you see what you get for being judgmental
Roopkund - Icy lake in the Himalayas with hundreds of skeletons below its surface
Thiess of Kaltenbrun - A 17th century man claims to be a part of a shadowy group of Devil-fighting werewolves
SS Baychimo - Arctic trading ship trapped in pack ice north of Alaska, abandoned but seen repeatedly in different locations over the next 40 years
