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Post by hellspawn . on Dec 18, 2007 17:39:46 GMT 7
Just post all the facts you know. And no spamming!!
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Okkkk... Start:
David Hasselhoff is a multi-platinum recording artist in what country? Germany!!!
Only 10% of the world is left - handed... O.O
31% of ppl who took the ------ test would rather win a billboard hit than a Nobel Prize Gle irrelevant...XD
The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the U.S. from: France!!
Walter Cronkite: Dead or alive? Alive!!
Aztechs used to flavor chocolate drinks with orchid pods.
David Livingstone, the Scottish missionary and explorer found Victoria falls. He traced the course of the Zambesi in Africa and discovered Lake Malawi and VF.
Mickey Mouse was first seen in the cartoon Steam Boat Willie in 1928. His creator, Walt Disney used his own voice for the mouse.
Elephants are not afraid of mice. Mice are often found in their cages in zoos and circuses. The two animals don't seem to notice each other.
The okapi is a shy animal realted to the giraffe. It lives in the dense rainforests of central Africa and eats a diet of leaves and shoots. It was completely unknown until 1900.
I think thats quite enough... I should get like...10 post count for this..XD
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Post by hellspawn . on Dec 18, 2007 22:18:44 GMT 7
Japan remained an almost closed country living in the past, until 1854 when a treaty was signed with the US. After that the samurai had no real place in Japan and ended in 1877.
The shodun was the military ruler of old Japan. Japan was always ruled by emperors who claimed to be descended from the gods. But as the samurai lords became more powerful,the emperors became more of a religious figurehead. the real power in the land was held by the strongest of the samurai leaders who took the tittle shogun!!
Go Samurai X!!!
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Post by <Max> on Dec 18, 2007 22:22:15 GMT 7
On December 18th 2007; I made this post =>
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Post by hellspawn . on Dec 18, 2007 22:33:05 GMT 7
Stupid...Stupidstupidstupidstupidstupidstupidstupidstupidstupidstupidstupid....... )=< But still a fact...
What was the samurais armor made of? suits of armor and great helmetswere mainly ceremonial. The fighting man wore lightweight armor made of metal plates fastened together with coloured cards
The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahi built a raft of balsa logs - the Kon Tiki. In 1947, together woth a crew of five, he crossed 6,900km (4,300miles) of open ocean form Callao in Peru to a coral reef east of Tahiti. It took 101 days, but he proved that Incas could have made the journey 1,500 years ago
C'mon ppl!!! More facts!!! Useful ones Max...
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Post by <Max> on Dec 21, 2007 0:47:10 GMT 7
Hmmm
Pluto ain't a planet! =D
And uhh
An ounce of platinum can be stretched like a couple of thousand feet
Yeah thats all I know ._.
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Post by wes44 on Dec 21, 2007 4:03:21 GMT 7
The moon is, in fact, not made of cheese.
I'm a genius.
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Post by <Max> on Dec 21, 2007 15:55:18 GMT 7
Damn. I gotta karma you for that lol
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Post by hellspawn . on Dec 25, 2007 0:56:15 GMT 7
I totally hate max. THats like sych a fact. =D
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Post by <Max> on Dec 26, 2007 12:53:23 GMT 7
Good =]
Bert used to be an addict. My tissue box is green I've got birds in my ears and a devil on my shoulders.
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Post by hellspawn . on Dec 31, 2007 9:44:20 GMT 7
Would it help if i said please?
One day in 1947 a Bedouin boy was looking for a lost goat along the cliffs by the Dead Sea. He threw a stone into the mouth of some caves and heard the sound of breaking pottery. Once in side he discovered several clay jars containing decayed parchment scrolls, on which were written Bible stories over 2,000 years old. these and many other manuscripts found in caves nearby, became known as the dead sea scrolls - one of the most important discoveries of all time. But i have no idea what they were used for...
Jhonny applesead's real name was John (XD) Chapman. All his lefe he roamed ohio Territory p;anting app;e seeds and trees. He walked barefoot, even in nwinter. His clothes were ragged, he wore an upturned pot on his head and kept a bible in his pocket.
1Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, and Sleeping beauty were all written in France by Charles Perrault in the 18th century
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Post by <Max> on Jan 3, 2008 1:13:41 GMT 7
Haha good stuff! Post more
#Karma
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Post by hellspawn . on Jan 7, 2008 1:35:22 GMT 7
=D With pleasure...
You CAN stay warm in an igloo!! The Eskimo igloo is a temporary home used on hunting trips. It is built by cutting large bllocks of hard packed snow and placing them one on top of the other to form a dome shaped hpuse. Fur rugs are spread on the floor. Light and warmth come from a small lamp that burns seal oil.
Food in tin cans was first produced in Brittain in 1812 by Donkin and Hail of London. they canned beef, mutton, vegetable stew, soups and carrots. Theese goods were very useful to the explorers of the day.
the zip fastener or zipper with small interlocking teeth was invented back in 1890 by American Whitecomb Judson. It took about 20 years before his invention was satisfactory. The zip was first used on snow boots.
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Post by <Max> on Jan 17, 2008 22:58:58 GMT 7
Keep it up mate ;]
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Post by wes44 on Jan 18, 2008 3:42:48 GMT 7
=D With pleasure... the zip fastener or zipper with small interlocking teeth was invented back in 1890 by American Whitecomb Judson. It took about 20 years before his invention was satisfactory. The zip was first used on snow boots. Um, where did you get this info? It's wrong. The zipper was invented by a Canadian...
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Post by hellspawn . on Jan 18, 2008 23:55:20 GMT 7
An early device superficially similar to the zipper, "an Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure", was patented in the United States by Elias Howe in 1851. Unlike the zipper, Howe's invention had no slider; instead a series of clasps slid freely along both edges to be joined, with each clasp holding the two sides together at whichever pair of points along them it was located. The clasps were joined together by a string, which, when pulled taut, caused the clasps to be evenly spaced along the closure, thus holding the two edges together. Pulling in the other direction caused the clasps to become bunched up at one end, by which means the device was opened.
The true zipper was the product of a series of incremental improvements over more than twenty years, by inventors and engineers associated with a sequence of companies that were the progenitors of Talon, Inc. This process began with a version called the "clasp locker", invented by Whitcomb L. Judson of Chicago (previously of Minneapolis and New York City), and for which a patent (No. 504,038) was first applied for on Nov. 7, 1891. It culminated in 1914 with the invention, by Gideon Sundback, of the "Hookless Fastener No. 2", which was the first version of the zipper without any major design flaws, and which was essentially indistinguishable from modern zippers. Initial versions of the zipper were based on the "hook and eye" principle, rather than on interlocking teeth, and tended to come apart easily. Some versions depended on constant pressure from one side of the joined fabric in order to hold together at all, which limited applications. In the 1891 version, the slider detached entirely from the zipper when not being used to open or close.
Judson, together with business partner Harry Earle, founded the first incarnation of what was to eventually become Talon Inc., in Chicago in 1894, as the Universal Fastener Company. The design deficiencies, combined with difficulties in getting the machinery needed for mass production to work, prevented the early devices from reaching market, which led to financial hardships for the company. This in turn led to a series of reorganizations and name changes, as well as relocations, first to Catasauqua, Pennsylvania; then to Elyria, Ohio; Hoboken, New Jersey; and finally Meadville, Pennsylvania.
Gideon Sundback, a Swedish-born immigrant, joined the company, then called the Automatic Hook and Eye Company, in Hoboken, in 1906. At that time the company's product, still based on hooks and eyes, was called the "C-curity Fastener". Sundback developed an improved version of the C-curity, called the "Plako", but it too had a strong tendency to pull apart, and wasn't any more successful than the previous versions. Sundback finally solved the pulling-apart problem in 1913, with his invention of the first version of the zipper based on interlocking teeth, the "Hookless Fastener No. 1".
That version, however, had a tendency to wear out quickly, and again was not a commercial success. Finally, in 1914 Sundback developed another version based on interlocking teeth, the "Hookless No. 2", which solved the last remaining major design defect, and opened the way to commercial success. The principle is, each tooth is punched to have a dimple on its bottom and a nib or conical projection on its top. The nib atop one tooth engages in the matching dimple in the bottom of the tooth that follows it on the other side as the two strips of teeth are brought together through the two Y channels of the slider. The teeth are crimped tightly to a strong fabric cord that is the selvage edge of the cloth tape that attaches the zipper to the garment, with the teeth on one side offset by half a tooth's height from those on the other side's tape. They are held so tightly to the cord and tape that once meshed there is not enough play to let them pull apart - - a tooth can't rise up off the nib below it enough to break free, and its nib on top can't drop out of the dimple in the tooth above it. The classic zipper was made of a brass alloy, a metal that has low friction and is long-wearing.
Sundback's invention of the Hookless No. 2 took place while he was working for the Hookless Fastener Company in Meadville, which had previously been set up to manufacture the Hookless No. 1. Depending on which improvement one wants to consider to constitute the "invention" of the zipper, the zipper was invented either in Meadville, Chicago, or one of the other previously mentioned cities. The B. F. Goodrich Company coined the name Zipper in 1923 for the line of rubber overshoes that it made using the fastener. The name slowly came to be associated with the fastener itself, and eventually acquired generic status.
The zipper slowly became popular for children's clothing and men's trousers in the 1920s and 1930s. In the early 1930s the haute couture designer Elsa Schiaparelli featured zippers in her avant-garde gowns, helping it to become acceptable in women's clothing. In 1934, Tadao Yoshida founded a company called San-S Shokai in downtown Tokyo. Later, this company would change its name to YKK and become the world's largest manufacturer of zippers and fastening products. By World War II, the zipper had become widely used in Europe and North America, and after the war quickly spread through the rest of the world.
Clergy in the 1920s and 1930s described zippers as allowing one to take one's clothes off too quickly, thus hastening illicit sexual activity. Clothing with zippers was seen as inappropriate to be worn by women because of this fact, and was not fully adopted until the late 1950s.[citation needed]
Today, such leading global companies as YKK, Opti, TALON, Ideal, NEO, KCC Group, and Tex Corp, make various types of zippers including "invisible" zippers, metallic zippers, and plastic zippers.
On a CBC-produced miniseries aired in January 2007, The Greatest Canadian Invention; the Zipper placed at No. 8 on the list. It qualified because Sundback had been president of a Canadian-based company that was one of the earliest manufacturers of the zipper.
Taken from Wiki pedia But just to give you the whole story.
New Fact! New fact!!! =) Did you know that the Union Jack was really 3 flags in 1? The english red cross of St. George was combined with the scottish flag of St. Andrew in 1606. The Irish flag of St. Patrick was included in 1800. Union Jack is the name given to the flag after the 3 flags were unified =)
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Post by hellspawn . on Feb 5, 2008 13:23:06 GMT 7
Fine. dont post. See if i care.
On December 27th 1904, a new play for chiln opened in London.It was J.M Barrie's Peter Pan, the boy from Never Never Land who woulndt grow up, together with Wendy, the Lost boys and the evil Captain Hook.It became the most famous play ever written for children.
Was Sherlock Holmes a real detective? No, he wasnt a real person, but he was probably the most famous fictional detective of all time! in 60 stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr Watson lived in London at 221B Baker Street, Amazing powers if observation and deduction helped Holmes solve the most bizzare of crimes.
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Post by <Max> on Feb 5, 2008 20:36:34 GMT 7
Sherlock Holmes is the greatest person ever o.o'' He will always be real in my book
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Post by hellspawn . on Feb 8, 2008 2:03:17 GMT 7
Read his books? Yeah, i've got the whole collection. Envy me Max =>
The Bactrian camel from central Asia has 2 humps. The Arabian camel bred in S.E. Asiaahas one. The arabian is taller and faster, and when bred for racing is known as dromedary. The Bactrian is much sturdier and can carrie heavy loads.
Do they store water in their humps? A camel can extract some water from the food reserve of fat in the hump. It does not need to sweat to keep cool until its body temprature reaches 46 C (115 F) Haha...Ko ni macam unta la babi. xD (Note: Its a joke.)
The Venus fly trap closes, traps, then digests any insect that lands on its hair-covered leaves. The Pitcher plant captures insects that venture over the rim then fall to the bottom. A few plants grow large enough to trap small reptiles and animals. Some pitcher plants can open their lids and let rain water in to drown their prey.
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