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Let me be outraged and annihilated, but may Thy enormous Library be justified, for one instant, in one being.

Personal life [edit] Oatway's full name is Anthony Philip David Terry Frank Donald Stanley Gerry Gordon Stephen James Oatway. The reason behind this rather unusual name is the fact that both his parents were Queens Park Rangers fans, and decided to give their son the names of QPR's entire 1973 team. When his parents told his aunt the proposed name, she said "he'd look a right Charlie", and the name stuck. His son, also called Charlie, spent
a bench with a sign that says “bench temporarily closed”
DID YOU KNOW? The mound is covered in slippery clay which would have been hard to climb. The Castle motte is known locally as 'hangman's hill' but no one was actually hanged there. 300,000 people have visited the mound since it was opened to the public in 2006. Oxford Preservation Trust received a grant of ÂŁ4 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund which has allowed St. George's Tower and the Mound to open to the public.
a brunch/coffee shop named “aran”
Bing's parents intended to name him after his father, which would have made him Rupert Henry Bing Jr., but his mother felt this was "too British for Texas" and compromised by abbreviating it to R. H. Consequently, R. H. does not stand for any first or middle name. When Bing applied for a visa, he was told that initials would not be accepted. He explained that his name was "R-only H-only Bing", and received a visa made out to "Ronly Honly Bing". A similar incident occurred when Bing became a professor at Wisconsin; asked what name to put on his nameplate, he answered "R only H only Bing" and later found his door read "Ronly Honly Bing".
^ Reception The United States Patent Office has issued more than 4,400 mousetrap patents.The gun-powered mousetrap proved inferior to spring-powered mousetraps descending from William C. Hooker's 1894 patent. However, the 1882 patent has continued to draw interest-including efforts to reconstruct a version of it-due to its unconventional design. In 2015, Vox listed Williams' device as Number 5 on its list of "7 horrifying attempts at building a better mousetrap", and in 2012 Business Insider called it "the best mousetrap ever" While entirely impractical by today's standards, it is still insightful as it gives us a glimpse of an early form of what would become "Redneck Engineering"
A Jack Russell named Bothie made history in 1982 as part of the Transglobe Expedition. Owned by explorers Ranulph and Ginny Fiennes, he became the first dog to travel to both the North and South Poles. (62] [631 This feat is unlikely to be repeated, as all dogs have been banned from Antarctica by the Antarctic Treaty nations since 1994, due to fears that they could transmit diseases to the native seal population.
a line on a chart that shows a sloping increase in value from $0 to just over $1k when you add $5/month to the account
A prompt asking ChatGPT Pro to complete an ASCII art letter S.
Harry Grindell Matthews (17 March 1880 – 11 September 1941) was an English inventor who claimed to have invented a death ray in the 1920s.
12 plots of data points in different shapes: a blob, five horizontal lines, five vertical lines, an X, a star, two horizontal lines, nine dots, a circle, a bullseye, five lines slanting up, five lines slanting down, two vertical lines
Me: Can you tell me a short story about a killer whale named Oliver who lives under the ocean at a coral reef?
Photo of the voting guide with the candidate statement of Don J. Grundmann, with a disclaimer that reads “The views and opinions expressed by the candidates are their own and do not represent the views and opinions of the Secretary of State's office.” Followed by two paragraphs of absolutely deranged antisemitic white nationalist garbage
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Most monoclonal antibodies are generated using Chinese hamster ovary, or CHO, cells, which initially descended from cells taken from a hamster’s ovary and were later immortalized.8 Robert Briggs Watson, a Rockefeller Foundation field staff member based in China, smuggled these hamsters out of the country on one of the last Pan Am flights from Shanghai, just before Mao Zedong and the Communists took over. Today, CHO cells make about 70 percent of all therapeutic proteins sold on the market.
Scouting America maintains that the Order of the Arrow is not a secret organization. It instead utilizes the “attractiveness of the unknown” in its ceremonies to create a perception of mystery among non-members.
The famous Far Side "Cow tools" comic
I don't think it is an accident that very young children have a very high familiarity-dependent aesthetic, while adults have a higher surprise-dependent aesthetic. That children want to repeatedly listen to Cocomelon at an age where they still get sad every time mom or dad leave, and want to eat spaghetti and meatballs every time they go to the diner, has to be a feature of cognitive development. Part of maturity is to move out of familiarity-dependent aesthetic toward surprise-dependent ones. One of the things to lament about the dominance of pop and short-form is that it is a kind of arrested development. The transition to surprise-dependent aesthetics is not easy. I know people who are in their 30s and refuse to touch Indian food (their loss) and I knew people in their 60s in my family who refused to eat raw lettuce (because in China, they always cooked their lettuce.)
Analyst Insight: The consumer purchasing a non-certified Mexican avocado in a U.S. supermarket is participating in a supply chain that is functionally identical to the drug trade. The profits from these "blood avocados" are commingled with fentanyl revenue, purchasing the same weapons and bribing the same officials. The U.S. demand for year-round guacamole is, in effect, a subsidy for the CJNG.
According to historian Susan Pedersen, colonial administration in the mandates did not differ substantially from colonial administration elsewhere. Even though the Covenant of the League committed the great powers to govern the mandates differently, the main difference appeared to be that the colonial powers spoke differently about the mandates than their other colonial possessions.
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An impressionistic watercolor of a zebra skeleton on the ground. “The smooth bones shine white under the setting African sun. They will lie there on the Serengeti Plain until they slowly turn to dust.”
a Jeep Rubicon from one side
Contents (Top) Phoenix Central Avenue Corridor Cemeteries Historic structures related to “The Trunk Murderess” Landmarks Museums
William H. Brunsen Abraham Lingdin Rutherpord G. Haves James A. Garpald Thebdore Rogsevest Henbert Bowen
three delicious birria tacos in a to-go box
The panel from Bea Wolf pointing at the thing I'm asking about.
a hen wearing yellow trousers, on a red field
There are substantial regional differences in the use of hydroelectric power, and therefore a thorough understanding of local conditions is necessary to properly interpret these data. There are river basins where evaporation is a substantial percentage of the total river flow, and this evaporation reduces the available supply both for downstream human consumption as well as having environmental consequences for coastal ecosystems that depend on fresh water supply. On the other hand, consider the case of a hydroelectric project on a relatively small river, which provides the fresh water supply to a major metropolitan area. In this case, the reservoir may be a valuable fresh water resource, especially if evaporation as a percentage of the river flow rate is low. If the downstream consequences for human consumption and coastal ecosystems are low, then the water consumption from hydroelectric projects would be irrelevant-whether or not electric generation occurs, the evaporation will still happen as a necessary consequence of providing fresh water supply to the region. These issues are beyond the scope of this paper, but must be considered when interpreting these results.
Movie poster for THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN with the caption: “UNWITTINGLY, HE TRAINED A DOLPHIN TO KILL THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.”
Jamie Lee Curtis helps a spy in this movie, but she was married to a spy, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, in 1994's "True Lies.' 1C Helpful • 0 90 4
2000 day streak for the NYTimes crossword
Calvin: Hi Susie! Guess what I brought for lunch Susie: No! Go sit by someone else, OK? You always say your lunch is something revolting, and I don’t want to hear it! Calvin: Gee whiz, what’s wrong with you? My lunch is peanut butter. What’s so disgusting about that?! Susie: Hmph. I’m glad that one day out of the year you can be civil. Calvin: It’s my DESSERT that’s gross! Look, a thermos full of phlegm!
San Francisco skyline from a departing ferry at sunset
Sign at the airport that reads: “On October 29, 2024 a TSA Officer Prevented this handgun and loaded magazine with 6 rounds from getting onto your flight at PVD” with a picture of a handgun
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a screenshot from Wikipedia with a heading that says “Looted Cranachs”
Sports. It is interesting to note that President Richard Nixon (an armchair coach) once "recommended" the team run an end-around play by wide receiver Roy Jefferson. Allen agreed, choosing to run the play against the San Francisco 49ers in the 1971 NFC Divisional playoff game. Jefferson was tackled by the 49ers' Cedrick Hardman for a 13-yard loss on the play, a game the Redskins lost by four points.
A .ai domain can be suspended or revoked, if the domain is involved in illegal activity such as violating trademarks or copyrights. Usage must not violate the laws of Anguilla.
The point is, the scale of your world and the problems it addresses are key predictors of adoption and commercial potential. Think of the difference between Lord of the Rings and A Wizard of Earthsea. Both have much in common, but LotR focuses on a larger-than-life struggle between good and evil, while Earthsea is a personal psychological journey. Saving the universe from an evil overlord will always outshine overcoming childhood trauma in Boring, Oregon.
Wikipedia title card showing a picture of a car and the title “Lagonda Taraf” and the subtitle “British luxury saloon”
I’m user #33,078 on bluesky
Aaron died in 2013. He took his own life, having been hounded by the Department of Justice for years over the crime of (literally) downloading too many articles from JSTOR. Upon his death, the entire internet mourned. Books have been written about him, documentaries have been produced. It felt back then as though there was this massive, Aaron-shaped hole. There kind of still is, even today. Sam Altman and OpenAI have scraped practically the entire Internet. JSTOR, YouTube, Reddit... so long as the content is publicly accessible, OpenAl's stance appears to be that copyright law is only for little people.
A memory from 17 fucking years ago? Fucking FUCK I’m fucking old
Screenshot of betting market results indicating that Trump has a 51% chance of winning, despite the state map predicting Democrats will win on electoral votes 270-268.
Werner Herzog Quotes page from Goodreads “What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.” Tags: dreams, monsters, ocean, sleep “Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.” Tags: academia, film, movies, passion, scholars, scholarship “Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.” Tags: inspirational
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Text from a plaque from the V&A Museum, with the phrase “Locke’s views were complex” manually highlighted by me: 5. John Michael Rysbrack (1694-1770) Model for a portrait of John Locke (1632-1704) Signed and dated 1755 Rysbrack copied an existing portrait of the philosopher John Locke to make this sculpture after his death. Considered to be one of the most important thinkers of his time, Locke shaped modern liberalism, influencing the French philosophers of the Enlightenment and the American revolutionaries. Although he wrote against slavery, Locke's views were complex, and he was an investor and beneficiary in the Royal African Company, which traded enslaved people. London Terracotta Completed marble figure erected in the library of Christ Church College, Oxford Museum no. 33-1867
An Amazon page for a book titled A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO THE END: PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR LIVING LIFE AND FACING DEATH, categorized under “Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Home Improvement & Design”
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Sir John Soane's Museum is a house museum, located next to Lincoln's Inn Fields in Holborn, London, which was formerly the home of neo-classical architect John Soane. It holds many drawings and architectural models of Soane's projects and a large collection of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and antiquities that he acquired over many years. The museum was established during Soane's own lifetime by a private Act of Parliament in 833, which took effect on his death in 1837. Soane engaged in this lengthy parliamentary campaign in order to disinherit his son, whom he disliked intensely. The act stipulated that on Soane's death, his house and collections would pass into the care of a board of trustees acting on behalf of the nation, and that they would be preserved as nearly as possible exactly in the state they were at his death. The museum's trustees remained completely independent, relying only on Soane's original endowment, until 1947. Since then, the museum has received an annual Gran
Noether's mathematical work has been divided into three "epochs". In the first (1908-1919), she made contributions to the theories of
Highlighted quote: “Why should a second-year management consultant at every major consulting firm make more than every single writer I have ever known?”
I go to bed and before falling asleep I talk to Lucas in my head the way I have for many years. What I tell him is just about what I usually do. I tell him that if he's dead he's lucky and I'd very much like to be in his place. I tell him that he got the better deal, that it is I who is pulling the greater weight. I tell him that life is totally useless, that it's nonsense, an aberration, infinite suffering, the invention of a non-God whose evil surpasses understanding.
a eukaryotic cell but with a picture of drew carey in the nucleus. a drewcareyote