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Old 07-20-2024, 09:36 AM   #2941
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Today is the 55th Anniversary of the first lunar landing, Apollo 11.
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Old 07-20-2024, 09:51 AM   #2942
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Today is the 45th Anniversary of the first lunar landing, Apollo 11.
55th :)

45th would mean I could have seen / remembered it ...
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Old 07-22-2024, 08:30 AM   #2943
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Apparently the Hoover Dam is full with dead people. What if they decided to burrow out?

http://www.northofreality.com/tales/...knows-no-sound
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Old 07-22-2024, 08:58 AM   #2944
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55th :)

45th would mean I could have seen / remembered it ...
I made that mistake a lot Saturday.
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Old 07-23-2024, 04:41 PM   #2945
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I just had my 50th birthday. As an Oregonian, I vaguely remember Mt. St. Helens erupting, but I do not remember the moon landing.
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Old 07-24-2024, 03:02 AM   #2946
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I just had my 50th birthday. As an Oregonian, I vaguely remember Mt. St. Helens erupting, but I do not remember the moon landing.
I've got almost 5 years on you. I remember the last moon landing (was lucky enough that my local TV stations carried it).
While an Alaskan at the time of it, the St Helens eruption is firm in my memories. Shut down air travel in much of Alaska, too... And stranded a buddy from Adak in Anchorage; he couldn't fly home, couldn't fly to USAF Basic, and couldn't hop a ferry, either...
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Old 08-10-2024, 12:17 PM   #2947
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"like finding a Ferrari in a junkyard": The Przewalski's horse is a short, stocky equine with a stiff black mane. It's possible for the non-expert to confuse it with a mule - which seems to be exactly what happened with a livestock auction, where one of the rare and endangered Mongolian wild horses was up for sale, and eventually bought for just $1375 by a rehabilitation ranch. Another was surrendered to a Utah sanctuary.

If this was a resaleable object, it gives a plausible way a character with an expert skill could suddenly come in to money - or a place to launder or hide loot. That weird painting hanging on Grandma's wall? Oh, that handsome painter gave it to her after their fling in Spain that one summer. Or that rich boy with the bad vibes left it here before she broke it off and the young man disappeared. Mamá, that's an original Dalí...

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Old 09-12-2024, 11:49 AM   #2948
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Loot hiding in plain sight. https://www.yahoo.com/news/rock-used...062801329.html
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Old 09-13-2024, 09:27 AM   #2949
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The Reed Gold Mine in NC was discovered after a jeweler recognized Conrad Reed's doorstop as a 17 pound gold nugget.
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Old 09-22-2024, 11:22 AM   #2950
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Wake up babe new Mozart just dropped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_YFaoJo8Go

"Ganz kleine Nachtmusik" was composed in the 1760s. It consists of seven small movements for string trio, lasting about 10-12 minutes. It was held in the Music Library of the Leipzig Municipal Libraries, and is a copy or transcription, not in Mozart's hand, and was therefore overlooked by previous cataloguers, but is described as itself being composed by Mozart. It has been added to his catalog as KV 648. The Libraries have released a statement with just a bit of detail, the actual discovery process being conveniently mysterious for dropping players upon. The piece was first performed (at least, with its Mozart attribution) just a couple of days ago.

Fans of Ken Hite will perhaps recall that Mozart's "The Magic Flute" is famous for its Masonic imagery. An undiscovered musical formula - seven of them, in fact! - by a great composer known for his magical connections could have all sorts of interesting properties, perhaps as seven elements serving as the lost keys for some Lodge's long-incomplete structure. The catalog number itself is 666-6-6-6: perhaps the piece was forced to hide this long so that it could acquire an auspicious number protective against evil influences by causing them to devour themselves on approach?
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