Interesting reads
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You might find this interview interesting. A socialist "irony twitter" goofball (username: pisspiggranddad) from California (Canadian originally) who went to Syria to fight with the Kurds against ISIS. The Chapo podcast is pretty leftist.
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I heard about this guy and I wondered why yanks were unaware of the humble mince and cheese
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10716170
Well wonder no more
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@antipodean quite keen on direwolves though. I reckon they'll probably fund this with hunting safaris on old bull mammoths.
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@antipodean quite keen on direwolves though. I reckon they'll probably fund this with hunting safaris on old bull mammoths.
Didn't realise they hung on till 2000 bcThere's always some great stat I can never remember re the Pyramids were 1000 years old when the last Mammoths died
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
I heard about this guy and I wondered why yanks were unaware of the humble mince and cheese
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10716170
Well wonder no more
Visited a pie shop in East Boston last year.
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This is interesting, salmon farms here have been called "piggeries in the ocean" for the amount of waste they create and in Norway and Canada the farms have caused outbreaks of lice and diseases that have caused wild salmon to die off. Also if you read up on how prawns and shrimp are farmed in Thailand and India you'd probably never eat them again , particularly as unlike in the states we don't test for Rotonene which is known to cause cancer.
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Date: May 31, 1889
Location: South Fork, East Conemaugh, and Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Deaths: 2,209
Property damage: US$17 millionBefore hitting the main part of Johnstown, the flood surge hit the Cambria Iron Works at the town of Woodvale, sweeping up railroad cars and barbed wire in its moil. Of Woodvale's 1,100 residents, 314 died in the flood. Boilers exploded when the flood hit the Gautier Wire Works, causing black smoke seen by the Johnstown residents. Miles of its barbed wire became entangled in the debris in the flood waters.
Some 57 minutes after the South Fork Dam collapsed, the flood hit Johnstown. The residents were caught by surprise as the wall of water and debris bore down, traveling at 40 miles per hour (64 km/h) and reaching a height of 60 feet (18 m) in places. Some people, realizing the danger, tried to escape by running towards high ground but most people were hit by the surging floodwater. Many people were crushed by pieces of debris, and others became caught in barbed wire from the wire factory upstream and/or drowned. Those who reached attics, or managed to stay afloat on pieces of floating debris, waited hours for help to arrive.