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Where in Europe does a sierra become a serra?
http://www.funimag.com/funimag14/montserrat01.htm
Or in Portugal. http://www.planetware.com/portugal/serra-da-estrela-p-vis-serest.htm (flem-ish) |
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#111069, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by flem-ish
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How can you say Isola Bella, Isola Madre and Isola dei Pescatori in just three words?
Well guessed anyway. Another solution might be le Isole Borromee, but that answer would have to be illustrated with a non-English reference such as this one:http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2620152190072324864ADFUcF (flem-ish) |
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#111070, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by flem-ish
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What towering structure was built entirely on the funding by pennies from children?
The Base of the Statue of Liberty.
I don't think that it was entirely funded by pennies collected by school children.
While Bartholdi was building and assembling the Statue of Liberty in Paris, a huge controversy broke out in America over the base for the statue. A design by Richard Morris Hunt had been selected, but there was the issue of money.
The publisher of the New York World newspaper, Joseph Pulitzer, spearheaded a drive to raise money to build the pedestal. Children across America sent pennies, others gave what they could afford, and $100,000 was raised.
Construction of the pedestal finally began in the summer of 1884, and a ceremony to lay the cornerstone was held on August 6, 1884.
http://history1800s.about.com/od/tothenewworld/ig/The-Statue-of-Liberty/The-Statue-s-Base-Rising.htm
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#111082, Posted Today by dj168 
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Is it required by United States law, for any government agency or entity to accept pennies as legal tender for all purchases?
I can't find the story, I just heard it from my teacher and it sounds true because it is a government run school and should accept all legal tender.
Also
But for private businesses, I think this answer sums it up.
They absolutely do have the right to refuse to accept too many pennies, just like stores have the right to say, for example, they won't accept any currency larger than a $20 bill. (dj168) |
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#111080, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by dj168
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After turkey, what is the most popular dish served on Thanksgiving?
Chicken.
http://www.ivillage.com/20-chicken-dinner-recipes/3-a-57517 (star_gazer) |
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#111060, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by star_gazer
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Is it required by United States law, for any government agency or entity to accept pennies as legal tender for all purchases?
They don't even have to take currency, although it seems to me to be a breach of the law.
"United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues. Foreign gold or silver coins are not legal tender for debts.
"There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services.
http://www.treas.gov/education/faq/currency/legal-tender.shtml#q1
I think the idea is that the government is standing behind the coins and currency, but not mandating their use or acceptance.
The last time I got a passport, only a check or money order made out to the US Dept of State was accepted. The contracted issuer would take any form of payment.
http://www.pwscc.edu/business-passports.shtml (queproblema) |
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#111080, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by dj168
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Is it required by United States law, for any government agency or entity to accept pennies as legal tender for all purchases?
Please see if you can find a link to that story dj168. If I was working in a college tution office and a student arrived with large sacks of pennies to pay his tution, I would say "I am sorry but we don't have the extra staff to count all those pennies and then put them into rolls. Please take those penny sacks to a bank and then return here to pay the tution with cash or a check". (star_gazer) |
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#111080, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by dj168
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Are goats omnivores?
Goats are reputed to be willing to eat almost anything, even tin cans. While goats do not in fact eat tin cans, goats are browsing animals, not grazers like cattle and sheep, and as such will attempt to consume just about any plant matter.[12]
A domestic goat feeding in a field of capeweed, a weed which is toxic to most stock animalsContrary to this reputation, they are quite fastidious in their habits, preferring to browse on the tips of woody shrubs and trees, as well as the occasional broad-leaved plant. However, it can fairly be said that their plant diet is extremely varied, and includes some species which are otherwise toxic.[13] They will seldom consume soiled food or contaminated water unless facing starvation. This is one of the reasons why goat rearing is most often free ranging, since stall-fed goat rearing involves extensive upkeep and is seldom commercially viable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat
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#111073, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by unclerick
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Is it required by United States law, for any government agency or entity to accept pennies as legal tender for all purchases?
In your instance, the government had a choice to sell it to the person or not. But what if they had no choice, for example paying a public college tuition. They pretty much either accept the money or they lose out on the money. They can not kick the person from the school for not paying the tuition because they are legally paying it.
Thats not a very good example, but what if something like that. Where the government either collects the money or is picky and refuses it.
Because I heard a story where a student attending a public university, UC Berkeley, came in with sacks of pennies to pay his tuition to protest the fee hikes a couple years ago. And the school was required to accept it.
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#111080, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by dj168
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Is it required by United States law, for any government agency or entity to accept pennies as legal tender for all purchases?
If a government agency is selling the expensive land of a former state hospital for 3 million dollars, they can refuse to sell it to a person who shows up with a truck filled with 3 million pennies. The govenment agent will insist that the pennies be transfered into a bank account and then a check be written for the sale of the property.
Scource: Common sense. (star_gazer) |
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#111080, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by dj168
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NFL Hall of Famer Mike Webster, who won a number of Superbowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers, spent the last years of his life where?
Even though most successful athletes can ended in the most tragic of living situations.
Webster was proven to have been disabled before retiring from the NFL. After retirement Webster suffered from amnesia, dementia, depression, and acute bone and muscle pain. He lived out of his pickup truck or train stations between Wisconsin and Pittsburgh, even though his friends and former teammates were willing to rent apartments for him. In his last years Webster lived with his youngest son, Garrett, who though only a teenager at the time, had to act as the parent to his own father. Webster's wife divorced him six months before his death in 2002. He was only 50 years old.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Webster (star_gazer) |
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#111076, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by star_gazer
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In the US, how many dead turkeys were sold this Thanksgiving?
Recent estimates are showing that the figure is approximately 45 million.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/2169 (star_gazer) |
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#111079, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by 29CoveRoad
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Which former Spurs star won 108 caps for his country, scored 47 international goals and won the world cup and European Championships?
Jurgen Klinsmann
1990 World Cup
1996 European Championship
1995-97 played for Tottenham Hotspur
http://www.footballdatabase.com/index.php?page=player&Id=7163&pn=J%FCrgen_Klinsmann
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#111066, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by iwa2 
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NFL Hall of Famer Mike Webster, who won a number of Superbowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers, spent the last years of his life where?
He lived in Pittsburgh, with his son Garrett.
In September 1999, Webster pleaded no contest to the forgery charges and was placed on probation for five years. Later, he was treated for depression and symptoms of congestive heart failure.
Two years ago, Webster's son Garrett moved from Wisconsin to live with him in Pittsburgh. The son, at 6 feet 9 inches and 340 pounds, is a high school senior and an offensive lineman on his football team. "I have to take care of my dad,' he said a week ago. 'There will be some mornings he can't get up from the couch because he feels so terrible."
The New York TImes
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/25/sports/mike-webster-50-dies-troubled-football-hall-of-famer.html (gtho4) |
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#111076, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by star_gazer
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What nation stole one of their Nobel Prize Winner's medals?
Iran, very wicked thing to do...attack!
http://news.aol.com/article/iran-seized-medal-of-nobel-peace-prize/787464 (star_gazer) |
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#111077, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by dj168
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Is it required by United States law, for any store to accept pennies as legal tender for all purchases?
Consider the gumball machines that are often seen in the front of food markets. They are very small automated stores and today a child must insert a quarter to get a gumball. In my day it was only a penny, but who cares. Hence if a person tried to use any other coin beside the quarter they would be out of luck. And all of this is perfectly legal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vending_machine (star_gazer) |
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#111078, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by dj168
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Has a human cyclops ever lived to adulthood?
"It is incompatible with life."
"Cyclopes are rare congenital abnormalities; a severe form of holoprosencephaly resulting in children being born with just one eye. It results from failure of the cerebral hemisphere to separate during fetal development. The incidence is 1 in 13,000 live births but present in 1 in 2500 pregnancies that end up as miscarriage. It is incompatible with life."
http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijn/vol10n1/cyclops.xml
The complication isn't just the presence of one central eye instead of two eyes in symmetry, but the malformation of the nose and breathing apparatus and of the brain. (queproblema) |
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#111075, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by unclerick
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Is it required by United States law, for any store to accept pennies as legal tender for all purchases?
Question 77133, which I have just updated, deals with this question in Canada.
http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question77133.html
In the US, Snopes says they don't have to. Their site can't be copied, so here's part of one sentence:
"...the Federal Reserve System must honor U.S. currency and coins, [but] not necessarily anyone else."
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/pennies.asp#add
This is better, and at the bottom has an "update" link to click:
"For the definitive legal answer, a link to the U.S. Treasury's web site was posted in CalPundit's comments:
The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 102. This is now found in section 392 of Title 31 of the United States Code. The law says that: "All coins and currencies of the United States, regardless of when coined or issued, shall be legal-tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties and dues."
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.
Bottom line: Even though currency is labeled as 'legal tender for all debts, public and private', it is not mandatory that any particular denomination of currency be accepted as payment of a good or service."
http://tweezersedge.com/archives/2003/08/000077.html (queproblema) |
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#111078, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by dj168
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Can you pay a dollar only using pennies in Canada? I know you can't pay 50 cents.
That site has changed; here's an excerpt from the new link:
Limitation
(2) A payment in coins referred to in subsection (1) is a legal tender for no more than the following amounts for the following denominations of coins:
(a) forty dollars if the denomination is two dollars or greater but does not exceed ten dollars;
(b) twenty-five dollars if the denomination is one dollar;
(c) ten dollars if the denomination is ten cents or greater but less than one dollar;
(d) five dollars if the denomination is five cents; and
(e) twenty-five cents if the denomination is one cent.
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/showdoc/cs/c-52/bo-ga:l_I//en (queproblema) |
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#77133, Posted on
Mar 12 07 by JLG13
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Is it required by United States law, for any store to accept pennies as legal tender for all purchases?
yes any currency minted or printed by the US Government is completely lagal and must appected by merchant...even though the merchant my not be pleased (29CoveRoad) |
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#111078, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by dj168
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Are goats omnivores?
Goats are herbivores.
"Good-quality forages are the cornerstone of goat nutrition. Supplement grain based on the body condition and reproductive and growth stage of the animal. Most goats should be able to thrive on pasture and hay."
http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/412/412-501/412-501.html
However, like people, goats will eat stuff they shouldn't.
"I have heard outrageous things people feed to goats. Just because a goat will eat something does not mean you should feed it to them."
There follows a list of foods and non-foods goats will eat but shouldn't: paper, cigarettes, dog food, cat food.
http://fiascofarm.com/goats/feeding.htm#dontfeed (queproblema) |
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#111073, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by unclerick
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Is it true that if involved in a serious auto crash, you have less chance of major injury if you are in a large car rather than a compact or subcompact?
And on the make and model of the car, the nature of the accident, and a number of other factors... (Arpeggionist) |
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#111072, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by unclerick
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Why is a 'county' in Alaska called a 'borough'?
We're definitely under the purview of the law! We have state troopers and a courtroom.
How civilized we may be is open to debate. ;)
Alaska's urban population may well resent the fact we pay no taxes yet receive state services, but I wouldn't say they envy our lack of, um, civilization.
Yes, education is a source of contention. A high school gym costs the same whether used by 25 students or 3000. But you see how different the cost per student is.
Yesterday the New York Times looked at one school very distant from me that is part of the same unorganized borough.
"A court settlement in the 1970s required the state to build high schools in most villages, prompting an expensive construction boom. But by 1998, with oil revenues no longer soaring, the State Legislature decided that schools with fewer than 10 students would face severe cuts in financing."
Much more here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/us/26alaska.html (queproblema) |
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#111050, Posted on
Nov 25 09 by author
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Is it true that if involved in a serious auto crash, you have less chance of major injury if you are in a large car rather than a compact or subcompact?
Depends if you are wearing your seat belt and if the car has airbags.
http://kidshealth.org/kid/watch/out/car_safety.html (star_gazer) |
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#111072, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by unclerick
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Is it an unsafe driving practice to shut an automobile off without shifting it into "park" first?
Yes, it will certainly damage your car's performance. People who try to pull these "stunts" are often intoxicated and should not be driving in the first place.
If you try to cut the car off while it is in drive, your keys won't come out...The ignition lock keeps them in. However, if you switch it to neutral, you can cut the car off...I wouldn't advise taking the keys out (if its possible then, a lot of cars have ignition lock that prevents the removal of keys unless the vehicle is stopped, or brakes are applied.) If you were able to remove the keys, your steering wheel would lock, and you would be screwed royally should you have to curve or turn.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071030151013AAfXZAW (star_gazer) |
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#111074, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by unclerick
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Has a human cyclops ever lived to adulthood?
It is extremely rare that is does happen in humans; and they are never known to live to be adults.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holoprosencephaly (star_gazer) |
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#111075, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by unclerick
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What famous battle, some 30 miles north of Rome, qualifies as one of the greatest ambushes in military history and who was the victorious commander?
Battle of Lake Trasimene, 24th June, 217 BC.
Roman Commander: Gaius Flaminius
Carthaginian Commander: Hannibal
Hannibal victorious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Trasimene (JaneofGaunt) |
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#111068, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by flem-ish
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Are goats omnivores?
No.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_goat_a_herbivore_or_a_omnivore (author) |
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#111073, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by unclerick
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Has a human cyclops ever lived to adulthood?
As they are mythological figures I would say "no" (not in the real world).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclops (author) |
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#111075, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by unclerick
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How can you say Isola Bella, Isola Madre and Isola dei Pescatori in just three words?
I guess the same (and don't understand the question either).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borromean_Islands (author) |
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#111070, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by flem-ish
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Is Hrad as in Prazsky Hrad (Prague Castle) the same Slavic word as grad in Volgograd, Beograd, Visegrad?
"Hrad" in Russian is "hail".
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/onldict.php (author) |
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#111067, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by flem-ish
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Is Hrad as in Prazsky Hrad (Prague Castle) the same Slavic word as grad in Volgograd, Beograd, Visegrad?
"Grad" in Slavic languages menas "city" (reference: Croatian Wiki).
http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grad (author) |
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#111067, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by flem-ish
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Is Hrad as in Prazsky Hrad (Prague Castle) the same Slavic word as grad in Volgograd, Beograd, Visegrad?
In Czech it means "castle".
http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrad (author) |
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#111067, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by flem-ish
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Where in Europe does a sierra become a serra?
Catalonia.
http://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/sierra (author) |
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#111069, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by flem-ish
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Why is a 'county' in Alaska called a 'borough'?
A quote from this reference:
"The unorganized status of this vast area is not without controversy. Many Alaskans residing in organized boroughs feel that they unfairly subsidize residents of the unorganized borough, especially for education."
Does this mean that the rest of the population of Alaska envy you? (author) |
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#111050, Posted on
Nov 25 09 by author
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Why is a 'county' in Alaska called a 'borough'?
Really? That's interesting. So there are still areas outside of law and civilization? I found this one on Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unorganized_borough (author) |
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#111050, Posted on
Nov 25 09 by author
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How can you say Isola Bella, Isola Madre and Isola dei Pescatori in just three words?
The Borromean Islands?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola_Bella_(Lago_Maggiore)
Not sure if I understand the question though. (great2beme) |
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#111070, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by flem-ish
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What racial origin were the indiginous people of the Canary Islands?
They are known as Guanches and it looks like they are Africans(Berbers).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanches (great2beme) |
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#111071, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by unclerick
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Where in Europe does a sierra become a serra?
perhaps in Greece?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serra_(dance) (great2beme) |
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#111069, Posted on
Nov 26 09 by flem-ish
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Is it true that the city of Moscow rises and falls daily by 50cm (20 inches) due to a particularly responsive piece of earth it's residing on? And if so, where is this Moscow located?
If the Russian capital did this, I think we (and the editors of the Wikipedia article) would know more about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow
Likewise, there is no mention of what must be quite an unusual happening for the Canadian, Indian and Scottish Moscows. I haven't gone through the 18 listed for the USA. They're listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_%28disambiguation%29 (Baloo55th) |
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#111013, Posted on
Nov 24 09 by knightmyst
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