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Sep 24 25 by chabenao1
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Aug 24 25 by pehinhota
After the death of her husband in 2018, which woman became the president and sole resident of which "independent nation"?
The micronation of 'Akhzivland' was declared by Eli Avivi in 1971. It occupies an area that was once a Palestinian fishing village, but which was abandoned when it was conquered by Israel in 1948. It is located on the Mediterranean coast just north of the Israeli town of Nahariya near the Lebanese border. Avivi created the state in protest of Israeli government plans to demolish the dilapidated buildings he had taken residence in some two decades earlier.
Avivi led Achzivland along with his wife Rina until his death from pneumonia in 2018. They were the only two residents of the micronation. Though not gaining recognition from other nation states, Achzivland has its own economy, a National Museum, a flag, anthem, political system and foreign relations policy (albeit rather tongue-in-cheek in most of these respects). It attracts tourists, celebrities and has been branded a 'hippy' establishment. It is not clear what will happen to the micronation now, though his wife and sole-remaining resident has expressed her plans to preserve Achzivland as a permanent memorial to her late husband.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-44142794
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31800580
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhzivland (patrickk)
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Sep 26 25 by pehinhota
What world record did Ivan Cervantes break in 2023? Here's a hint: he broke it with a motorcycle.
Iván Cervantes recently achieved a Guinness World Record for "the greatest distance on a motorcycle in 24 hours (individual)." Cervantes broke the previous record of 2,116.39 miles with a new record of 2,493.28 miles on a Triumph Tiger 1200 GT Explorer. Cervantes made this attempt on the 7.8-mile long High-Speed Ring at the Nardò Technical Center in Italy on April 29, 2023.
ridermagazine.com/2023/06/13/ivan-cervantes-breaks-guinness-world-record-on-triumph-tiger-1200-gt-explorer/
(pehinhota)
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Sep 26 25 by Thesuperyoshi
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Sep 26 25 by serpa
In which US state is a driver least likely to have a collision with a deer?
Hawaii and Arizona are tied according to this source. Only .01% of drivers filed a claim for car-deer collisions in those two states in the 12 months ending June 30, 2016. By contrast West Virginia is the state in which a car-deer collision is likely to occur with a 2.44% probability.
https://www.bestdeerfences.com/blog/deer-vehicle-collisions-statistics-by-state/ (Sweeper11)
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Sep 25 25 by serpa
When were the phrases "white collar" and "blue collar" first used in reference to the workforce and who coined them?
"White Collar" appeared first in 1910 followed by "Blue Collar" in 1924, both seemed to have originated from News Papers
[quote]Interestingly, white collar was the first to appear, in 1910. A Nebraska newspaper used the term to contrast office workers and farmworkers in the Midwest. Men would often wear clean, starched white-collared shirts to church on Sundays. Who wouldn't, the paper wondered, choose a job where they could wear a white collar to work and remain clean over the dirty, grimy, sweaty physical work of the farmer?
Once white collar entered the language, it didn't take long for its workplace corollary to emerge. Blue collar first appeared in 1924 in a newspaper in Iowa to refer to men working in the trades, such as carpentry. These men didn't really wear blue-collared shirts all that often, but they did wear blue-dyed jeans and overalls to do their jobs. The shirts they wore were usually darker colors to help hide the stains that came with doing their work.[/quote]
https://people.howstuffworks.com/white-collar-and-blue-collar.htm (elburcher)
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Sep 24 25 by elvislennon
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