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TIL there are less Irish in Ireland today than before the Irish Potato Famine
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"The brilliance in Wattersonโs writing was to avoid turning her into simply a straight character or an annoying shrew, but creating a real foil the reader can also sympathize with. Girls like Susie can be wonderful additions to a society, and can also create the most repressive longhouse known to man when surrounded with like-minded people, where it becomes a battle to who can conform to authority the most for a pat on the head."
"Susie has more of the qualities modern culture desires. She is an obsessive rule-follower, academic, follows all the social mores, and has aspirations to enter a respectable profession. Her only wish is to fit into the current mold of wider society. In the future, she will be a useful, though unimaginative cog in the wider culture. In itself, there is nothing wrong with this, and people like this often act like the glue that makes a community function. She's a genuinely caring person who simply wants to fit into the society she finds herself in. If she lived in a bizarro world where children got accolades in creating the perfect snowball, having the most overactive imagination, or knowing all there is to know about dinosaurs, she would spend her time trying to out-Calvin Calvin. She would never surpass Calvin, of course, since Susie relies on outside accolades to find her way, while for Calvin itโs in his veins."
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"Susie has more of the qualities modern culture desires. She is an obsessive rule-follower, academic, follows all the social mores, and has aspirations to enter a respectable profession. Her only wish is to fit into the current mold of wider society. In the future, she will be a useful, though unimaginative cog in the wider culture. In itself, there is nothing wrong with this, and people like this often act like the glue that makes a community function. She's a genuinely caring person who simply wants to fit into the society she finds herself in. If she lived in a bizarro world where children got accolades in creating the perfect snowball, having the most overactive imagination, or knowing all there is to know about dinosaurs, she would spend her time trying to out-Calvin Calvin. She would never surpass Calvin, of course, since Susie relies on outside accolades to find her way, while for Calvin itโs in his veins."
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Calvin vs. Susie
My boys love Calvin and Hobbes, and throughout the day the household is inundated with dialogue lifted from the pages of the complete collection they ravenously read.
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They were planning sabotage attacks on strategic targets and assassinations of Iranian military personnel, according to the Iranian state television and radio company.
They were planning sabotage attacks on strategic targets and assassinations of Iranian military personnel, according to the Iranian state television and radio company.
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The Iran war is effectively over for the damaged USS Gerald R. Ford, the worldโs largest aircraft carrier, retired Indian Major General Gagan Deep Bakshi said.
๐ช The warship is โout of the combat areaโ and will soon head back to the US, he added โ meaning the carrierโs 70 deck-based fighter jets are effectively sidelined.
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TIL that there is an article in the British tabloid "The Daily Mail" from December 2000 titled "The Internet may just be a passing fad, as millions give up on it."
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The Payne Institute estimates that the war has consumed about a third of the THAAD missile stockpile, whose annual production rate does not exceed about 100
A new US Congress study published last week on the THAAD ballistic missile interception system shed worrying light on the inventory of interceptors available to the US in the near future.
The document says, "There is concern that the rate of use of THAAD interceptors during Operation Epic Fury has further reduced the limited stock of interceptors."
Despite the problematic reputation that the THAAD system has acquired for itself over the past few years, during which it was deployed in the Middle East, Congress claims that the interception rate of the US system reaches about 90% of all Iranian ballistic missiles and drones, with an emphasis on the UAE, a comparable rate to the Arrow 3, the Israel-US jointly developed system, used exclusively by the IDF.
The study also found that half of all interceptions used to defend Israeli skies in the operation against Iran in June were made by the THAAD system - ninety-two interceptions in total out of an estimated supply of 632 interceptors, and added it would take many years before the stockpile of interceptors could be fully replenished.
"It could take three to eight years to replenish the THAAD missile stockpile, each of which costs an estimated $12.7 million." The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), which provided some of the materials to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), found that the first days of the current US Operation Epic Fury were more intensive than the opening of any other air campaign in the history of the US military, with 5,197 munitions across 35 types carrying a munitions-only replacement bill of $10 - $16 billion in four days.
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Are there sufficient interceptors for the Iran war?
The Payne Institute estimates that the war has consumed about a third of the THAAD missile stockpile, whose annual production rate does not exceed about 100
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If this ring belongs to Gilgamesh, it would suggest that figures described in the Epic of Gilgamesh were remembered as far larger than life rulers.
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If this is a true representation of his size, then I can see that ring easily fitting him.
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Every mobile phone has an average of 36 mg of gold and to extract this small portion, through traditional mining, 3 kg of earth have to be removed.
This is the process used for extracting it.
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This is the process used for extracting it.
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TIL Future president Grover Cleveland paid $150 for an immigrant, George Brinski, to serve in his place during the Civil War. An injury suffered in the service made it difficult for Brinski to work. In 1885 he appealed to Cleveland for help, but he refused. Brinski died penniless two years later.
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TIL that a 7-year-old discovered he could make free long-distance phone calls in the 1950s by whistling at certain frequencies. Born blind and with perfect pitch, Joe Engressia a.k.a. Joybubbles was an early "phreaker" whose exploits inspired Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak during his college years.
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