Total Trivia

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Giggling.....did I post something wrong for trivia? Yes, it's correct. I've witnessed it myself.

Wrong? Hell no!
Your single post has taught me something I never knew

 

[SirJeffAk]

Giggling.....did I post something wrong for trivia? Yes, it's correct. I've witnessed it myself.

She is right. I concur!

 

[Chaingun]

Aquagal is infallible. And the lady don't lie.

 

[lakesailer_mi]

Aquagal is infallible. And the lady don't lie.

I don't know about infallible, but I have read that, although never experienced it.
I've seen the northern lights. My most memorable time was from the deck of a boat after a long storm in the middle of norther lake huron. It was, to say the least, a moving experience.

Trivia: after the battle of Fredricksburg, on December 14, 1862, the northern lights were visible as far south as Virginia (Fredricksburg). Many took it as an important omen, but both sides interpreted it to mean "they were going to win."

 

[Sienna]

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Sienna's Music Lounge:

Totally Jazz session 1 starts at this post

Totally Jazz session 2 starts at this post
(Includes Music from the Musicals by Gaia_Lorraine)

The Golden 8o's A -Z starts at this post

The Magic 9o's A -Z starts at this post
(Includes Music from the Musicals by Gaia_Lorraine)

Late Lounge Chill Vol 1 - starts at this post
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[RUlookingup]

Immigration anyone?

By 1932, the U.S. was in the grasp of the Great Depression, and for the first time more immigrants left the country than arrived

The S.S. Baltic arrived at Ellis Island in 1907, carrying 1,000 single women looking for a spouse. Many of the women picked out a new husband and exchanged wedding vows right in the Great Hall.

Between one third and one half of today’s U.S. population can claim at least one ancestor who came through Ellis Island.

The last person to pass through Ellis Island was a Norwegian merchant seaman by the name of Arne Peterssen in 1954.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

So, scientists have found evidence of the Higgs-Boson or 'God Particle'.
Is there anyone out there on LIT who can enlighten what this is?

 

[OzoneRed]

So, scientists have found evidence of the Higgs-Boson or 'God Particle'.
Is there anyone out there on LIT who can enlighten what this is?

From the Cool Science Stuff thread on the GB:

Long-sought 'God Particle' cornered, scientists say
News is not the final answer some were hoping for, but progress is significant step


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45653534/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.TueVCUqyxIs

The biggest story in science since Watson and Crick:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16158374

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

From the Cool Science Stuff thread on the GB:

Thank You OzoneRed

 

[fire_breeze]

Today, we have a tendency to view the Mediaeval time in Western Europe as a period where people where absolutely ignorant, the vile Church tried to suppress them and people only had sex for procreation.

Yeah... not really.

Although adultery (for BOTH parties) and extreme fornication was punishable by death - and might I add the latter was rarely if ever prosecuted - prostitution was legal. Fornication was frowned upon because of inheritance issues and adultery was considered to be treason against the king, the family and God.

If fornication (sex outside of marriage) was discovered, and made public, people were encouraged to enter a union and all was forgiven. The union could be civil or religious, so most people opted for the former.

Certain positions were believed to have produced certain offspring. Missionary was favourable because it was thought to produce wise rulers. Doggy, due to the animalistic nature, was used to produce fierce warriors. Woman on top - powerful bishops.

Orgasms for both parties was considered to be necessary. It was believed that if a woman did NOT orgasm, she wouldn't able to conceive because her womb was not open. The Catholic Church, Jewish and Muslim communities throughout Europe published sex manuals on various positions and ways of pleasing the partners, all the while maximising the chances of procreation.

Although there were conflicting attitudes about sex, and conflicting scholarship, it goes to show that like today, there was not a general view about the most basic of human instincts.

Pretty cool, huh?

 

[fathom7]

The reason manhole covers are round is that it is the only shape that cannot fall through the hole from which it is removed.

 

[OzoneRed]

The reason manhole covers are round is that it is the only shape that cannot fall through the hole from which it is removed.

The other reason that manhole covers are round is that manholes are round.

 

[fathom7]

The other reason that manhole covers are round is that manholes are round.

OK Let's try again.

The two words in the English language that you cannot rhyme are both colors:

Orange and Purple.

 

[RUlookingup]

Robert Moses: “New York’s master builder”. Moses was a visionary and is considered by
many as the greatest and most influential single builder in the world, ever. During his 44 years
of power, between 1924 and 1968, he built 658 playgrounds, 36.000 acres of parks, 416 miles
of parkways, 13 bridges and 15 expressways. Besides that, he also built housing, tunnels,
beaches, zoos, civic centers and exhibition halls for the public. The skyline and
shoreline of New York changed drastically. Moses was not only limited to New York City
and its suburbs, but had also projects far out from the city. His vision was to provide the city of New York with bridges and a modern road system for higher accessibility and open and spacious recreational areas for a more attractive and livable environment. He also built public works with the intention to draw visitors to the city. Even though he fought for his visions, his methods were criticized.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

OK Let's try again.

The two words in the English language that you cannot rhyme are both colors:

Orange and Purple.

Make that three

Silver

 

[bullus]

Make that three

Silver

Would PILFER count as a rhyme?

 

[fire_breeze]

OK Let's try again.

The two words in the English language that you cannot rhyme are both colors:

Orange and Purple.

What is like urple?

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

A - Almond, Angry, Angst, Anxious, Aspirin

B - Bachelor, Breadth, Bulb, Bulbous

C - Calumny, Cannabis, Caveat, Chaos, Chimney, Chocolate, Circus, Citrus, Citizen, Condom

D - Denizen, Depth, Diamond, Different

E - Eighth, Elbow, Else, Empty, Engine

F - Fift, Film, Foible, Fugue

G - Galaxy, Glimpsed, Golf, Gulf

H - Hostage, Husband

I - Iron

J - Justice

K - ...

L - Laundry, Luggage

M - Monster, Month, Mulcts

N - Ninth, Neutron

O - Obvious, Of, Office, Olive, Orange

P - Pint, Pedant, Penguin, Pizza, Plankton, Plinth, Promise, Purple

Q - ...

R - Reptile

S - Sanction, Sandwich, Shadow, Silver

T - Transfer, Twelfth

U - ...

V - Vacuum

W - Width, Wolf

X - ...

Y - ...

Z - ...

So there ya go... all the known word in the English language that do not rhyme with any word in the dictionary (all 70 of 'em)...

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Would PILFER count as a rhyme?

I believe that is called assonance...

"The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words. Adjective: assonant."

If you come right off the bat and just say "orange", not much comes to mind...but split the word up and pronounce it like "oar-inge" then there are at least 50 words that rhyme with orange

For Example:
I put my large underscoring ignoring snoring adoring boring post-mortem orange war tinge four inch door hinge loz-enge drawings from my flooring voyage in 2 story soaring alluring orange storage for restoring and went to have more fringe orange porridge with war roaring george while horse minge sourced his orange mortgage and got a cold war syringe stuck in his sore boring orange chore sling sausage.

Don't blame me, I got it from the net

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Kangaroos outnumber people in Australia by 6:1

 

[someoneyouknow]

Charles Darwin was not the official naturalist aboard H.M.S. Beagle

 

[someoneyouknow]

Given enough time, water can erode any substance on the planet.

 

[someoneyouknow]

Two related items:

It is called Grand Central Terminal because trains terminate their runs there. They do not pass through the station.

Outside the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Terminal, there is an archway. If you stand in one corner facing the wall and a friend stands in the opposite corner doing the same, you can hear each other by talking as if you are standing next to each other.

 

[someoneyouknow]

The now extinct Irish Elk was neither strictly Irish nor an elk.

 

[someoneyouknow]

Just north of the capital of Pennsylvania is the longest stone arch bridge in the world.