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Beaver castor sacs hold castoreum that is used in some perfumes, as a food additive, and flavor contributor to cigarettes. Bookkeeper and its derivatives are the only words in the English with three consecutive double letters. The oldest hotel in the world is Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan that was built in 705 in Hayakawa, Japan. It…
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As with everything in life, it goes in circles and sometimes stops where you get dumped on (whether it be natural like rain or not so natural smelling). I had my eyes tested the other day and my eye sight is getting worse and continue to be dry. I need to use eye drops more…
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I promise I have more in store besides colorings to post, but here are two of them I recently finished. One took a lot longer than the other one and had fun with repeating them as I call it Pete and Repeat.
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I have some negatives from black and whites I took a long time ago. I used to develop my own film and prints when I was in college. I was no Ansel Adams or Annie Leibovitz, but I had fun with it. I really would like to get back into photos at some point in…
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I‘ll probably eventually try to sell these along with my bookmarks, but in the meantime I’m all about filling tiny glass bottles with different colors of sand. Trust me, there’s no pressure to try to start an online business because as we all know that takes a lot of dedication, time, and money. Besides, I…
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With Grant Imahara dying, interview of Mary Trump, COVID not going away, paralyzing world economy, my car making sounds I don’t like, and personal things I wish were different, I have gravitated toward things that make me feel better or so I believe. Sometimes, I think I should be doing something else (read better and…
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Publication Date: April 9, 2013 Publisher: Scribner; Anniversary edition Page Number: 352 I had this urge to read more contemporary poetry. Therefore, I invested in this book as I also wanted to read poems by varied poets. This 25th edition serves as a change of times when it was published in 2013. Long gone are…
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Tiger shark embryos fight each other in their mother’s womb for survival because they are often fertilized by different males. A 150-pound adult would weigh 57 pounds on Mercury but 136.5 pounds on Venus and would weigh the most on Jupiter at 351 pounds. S.O.S is for MAYDAY and not Save Our Ship when people…
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The U.S. states and territories got their nicknames for several reasons. Some are from historical events, some from their crops, some due to weather, some due to plants and animals, and some based on sports teams. The countries operate in much the same manner. They get their nicknames due to their terrain shape and type,…








