Ichthypresbyter

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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
The Mona Lisa, of course, was completed in France. In terms of French art, the hall of 19th century French paintings is impressive, and interesting as you can clearly see which paintings are in the guidebook as "must see"- there i
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
When this story first appeared, it was noted that the woman who owned the painting had lived in Compiègne. Compiègne was the site of a royal residence from 1374 until the Revolution, and the site of a Carmelite convent (which received signi
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
Clarification for those not familiar with the area: if that bridge is out, your options are a 20-mile detour that involves driving through downtown DC, or a detour of over 100 miles to the next crossing downstream.
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
Does she let her kids eat sweet potatoes? While there is AFAIK no genetically engineered variety of sweet potato being cultivated, every cultivated variety of sweet potato bears genetic traces of having been modified by Agrobacterium tum
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
>As a matter of fact, Quebec already has one. So does Colorado [0], though only on certain roads. It's always in effect from September to May on I-70 west of Denver, and the state police can put it into effect on other roads when ne
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
I think that every Department of the US Government (and AFAIK most if not all of the independent agencies) has at least one armed law enforcement agency, though in many cases all it does is ensure the security of the department's bui
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
There was a discussion about this on another HN thread today. [0] As you've said, the contact is with the police force not with the individual officers, who get paid the same as they would for any other duties. There was a whole court
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
AFAIK the club only pay for the police inside the stadium.
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
I remember a story a few years ago where EasyJet had to take some passengers off a flight because it was overweight. In that case, it was because the passengers included a much higher than typical proportion of adult men and, as it was a fl
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
The famous story is Philippa Fawcett, who took the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams at a time when women weren't officially placed on the ranked list of successful candidates. Her official exam result was listed as "above the S
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
Mormons are still required by their religion to keep a year's supply of non-perishable food.
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The rumour was that there was an organised gang who would load a van up with stolen bikes in Oxford, drive to Cambridge, sell them to students there, then steal a load of bikes in Cambridge to sell in Oxford. At one point IIRC Peas Hill in
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
Those two services are subsidized by state governments- Vermont for both, plus AIUI Connecticut for the Vermonter and New York for the Ethan Allen Express. This also means that there are very cheap fares on those trains within Vermont, and
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
The big difference is the continuous nature of the game- rather than a serious of short plays, there are two 40-minute halves, during which the ball is in play, and in motion, continuously until it either leaves the field (whether by someon
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
There was a recent incident with the first printing of the Book of Common Prayer (the Church of England's official prayer book) after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The BCP includes both references to the current monarch, and to Quee
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
In general in the US I think high schools start and finish earliest, then middle schools, then elementary schools. The reason is purely practical- start times need to be staggered to allow schools to share buses, and having high school stud
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
To add to this, you pay to park at DC Metro station parking lots (though you pay less if you're taking the Metro than if you're not).
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
Which apparently was partly responsible for the current bottleneck in airline pilots- a lot of pilots got their first flying jobs working for airlines that flew checks around the country, and were able to earn money doing this while getting
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
Thalidomide is actually a weird example where American exceptionalism is accurate- the FDA refused to approve it for morning sickness, despite the manufacturer's pressure on the reviewer, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey. It was approved basi
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
It's entirely legal to design and build your own boat and put it in the water pretty much anywhere in the world. If you want to carry paying passengers then things are different, but that's why they were officially crew. (Crew mem
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
No they aren't (or at least that's not what your link says). They are banning sales of new gas-powered passenger vehicles but for the foreseeable future you will still be able to buy gas for your old beater, '67 Mustang, or
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
There's the ongoing meme that the best Chinese restaurants have 3.5 stars on Yelp- from the combination of 5 star reviews from people who love the food, and 1 star from people who didn't like the brusque service or didn't get
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
Having universal healthcare 100% free at the point of use is unusual. French people, like most Europeans, do pay out of pocket for healthcare, it's just heavily subsidized and regulated.
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
And not just that- 10% of Dutch traffic deaths are by drowning. I did notice when I lived there that people found swimming lessons very important, to the extent that cards to congratulate children on passing their swimming test are commonly
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
To add to the many find and replace issues that have shown up, at one point TSR's style guide for D&D material said that "wizard" had to be used to the exclusion of "mage". So when proofs of a book arrived where
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
In the UK, traffic cops used to have "Black Rat" stickers [0] on their personal vehicles (for various reasons they are nicknamed Black Rats- this started out as a derogatory nickname from other police, but they adopted it as a poi
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It's also a species of bird ( Corvus frugilegus ) but the two senses are unrelated.
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
Snowboarder's left is either up or down the slope depending on the snowboarder...
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To add to the list, strike (as in to refuse to work as a protest). In nautical terminology, to "strike" something is to lower it- sailors demanding better conditions or higher pay would lower their ship's sails and refuse t
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
Flour was originally only the highest quality grade- the "flower"- of ground grain.

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