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Category Archives: Video
Why Do People Paint Tress and Posts Purple?
Whether you’ve been camping, hiking, or simply driving among forested roads, you might have noticed purple paint on trees. A thick swatch might be seen painted along the bark, but why? A purple-painted tree is a sign warning people against … Continue reading
Posted in Did You Know?, Local pictures, Observations, photography, Re-blog, Video
Tagged country, hunting, in, indiana, no, paint, post, purple, reblog, traspassing, tree
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Did You Know?
Have you ever considered the origin of the word “Nerd”? It has an unusual background, it was initially coined by Dr. Seuss in his 1950 book, “If I Ran the Zoo”. In the book, the narrator states he’ll collect “ … Continue reading
Posted in Did You Know?, Observations, Pictures from the Web, Re-blog, Today I Learned, Video
Tagged 1950, did, dr, history, know, nerd, origin, seuss, word, you
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Today I Learned
Posted in Did You Know?, Pictures from the Web, Re-blog, Today I Learned, Transport, Video
Tagged bus, i, learned, lines, reblog, school, today, transport, usa
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Quote of the day
The future is much brighter than the past. You just have to find the light switch. Debasish Mridha American physician, philosopher, and poet
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The song “Eye of the Tiger” came about because Sylvester Stallone couldn’t get the publishing rights to Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust”, so he contacted Jim Peterik of the band Survivor (based on the positive impression he had of … Continue reading
Why Is The Oxford Comma Called The Oxford Comma?
If you didn’t know about the Oxford comma before the band Vampire Weekend arrived on the music scene in the mid-2000s, you probably did afterward; their third single was centered around the hotly debated piece of punctuation. But have you … Continue reading
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Tagged comma, debate, definition, is, oxford, reblog, the, UK, what, words
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Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke (1976)
“Music is a world within itself, With a language we all understand.” Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke (1976).
Brief Encounter movie (1974)
I was looking to watch the 1946 movie Brief Encounter, on a streaming service, but instead came across a 1974 remake, starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren. It is a great time capsule of life in Britain in the early … Continue reading
Todays random memory
Driving to work today, suddenly thought of a song from my teens, in the early 1970’s in the UK. Nice One Cyril by the Cockerel Chorus This could only be a British thing, making a record about a game of … Continue reading
Heatwave – Always And Forever (1977)
Released on December 3rd, 1977, this was the second hit single from their 1976 album, Too Hot To Handle.
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