15.02.09
The wooden bar locked the door. The hand-sized hole allowed anybody to grab the bar from outside, though, and get in. What did the ancient Egyptians do? Invent the key, of...
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15.02.09
A spear in his stomach, Ares has been wounded badly. Clearly Athena's machination. — There's no time to lose, though: Zeus himself, in spite of his hate for Ares, hurries...
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15.02.09
Nobody uses this word, but it's still useful: "eingedenk" is so archaic in German, you can employ it to translate Latin without changing the grammatical structure. To be "eingedenk" means to...
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15.02.09
This young nymph liked to talk: Echo would talk to herself, to Zeus and to Hera, of course, Zeus's wife. While Echo was entertaining Hera with never ending stories, Zeus had...
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15.02.09
Vienna's Zentralfriedhof, the central cemetery, is anything but: hearses got stuck in the snow on the long road to Simmering; people living on the road got depressed. For the better...
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15.02.09
The uniformed boy seems a bit shy, but a golden lock smirks from beneath the flat cap and his eyes are big. His arms move, too, and not in vain: out...
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15.02.09
A mantis shrimp boasts deep red fins; or fins in shallow red. All depends on whether you look at the red that spirals through the water in a right- or...
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15.02.09
Love O'clock, Valentine! (Every time) Writing an acrostic poem so bad was easy. Hopefully, it will help me remember that a poem is acrostic when its lines' first letters form a word or expression. Your...
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15.02.09
Gmail reaches out to those who like their email folders, and to those who like to take their actionable items on rail or road. It is now easier to use Gmail...
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15.02.09
Bous, the ox, what does he do with his plow at the field's end? Does he schlepp the tool back to the other side, working the soil only in one...
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29.12.08
If a clock becomes more accurate the faster its pendulum swings (because the less distracted it is by being moved) and quartz crystals oscillate really fast and the clocks inside...
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29.12.08
His happiness is dangerous: Jack Frost is always bubbly, and always playing pranks. He coats flowers and trees and lakes and whole towns and landscapes with ice, then blows to...
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29.12.08
It is white. It is bright. It is snow. You know that, but your camera doesn't. Your camera knows the world to be gray on average. Ruthlessly, gray is what it...
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29.12.08
Your inbox has more messages than, say, a day minutes? Yahoo! Mail offers a new way to get to the important emails faster: you can zoom each folder (including your...
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29.12.08
Denpasar is a bustling city. 353 days of the year. On the lunar year's 354th day, the streets are deserted. Offices are abandoned, shops closed and homes quiet. Life stands still. It's...
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