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1-4-115. State fruit and vegetable. It is found and determined by the General Assembly that the South Arkansas Vine Ripe Pink Tomato has a taste, texture, appearance, and aroma second to none and that the tomato is botanically a fruit and used as a vegetable. It is further determined by the General Assembly that Arkansas does not have a state fruit or a state vegetable. Therefore, the South Arkansas Vine Ripe Pink Tomato shall be the official state fruit and the official state vegetable. History. Acts 1987, No. 255, § 1. from Arkansas Code, Vol. 01A, Title 01-02, 1987
Silver Gull (adult) Image of bird with features labelled: red bill, grey back, red legs. Text beneath image reads: Silver Gull (adult) 1+ years: Mainly white with light grey back and wings, red bill and red legs (the most common of the gulls, also knowN as a seagull)
Derek Jacobi, John Hurt, George Baker in 'I, Claudius'.
Screencap image of a grinning Windsor Davies playing the Sergeant-Major on the sitcom 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum,' captioned with his catchphrase, "Oh dear, 'ow sad, never mind."
Old X-Ray Specs print ad showing cartoon of smiling perv and female silhouette. Text: X-RAY SPECS - An Hilarious Optical Illusion ONLY $1.00 Scientific optical principle really works. Imagine -you put on the "X-Ray" Specs and hold your hand in front of you. You seem to be able to look right through the flesh and see the bones underneath. Look at your friend. Is that really his body you "see" under his ciothes? Loads of laughs and fun at parties. Send only $1 plus 25¢ shipping charges or order COD and pay postman on delivery $1 plus shipping charges. Money Back Guarantee either way.
John Lee Hooker
Trump wearing an outsize medallion and being presented with the FIFA Peace Prize and what looks like a collectors' item certificate of authenticity by Infantino.
Detailed diagram of cricket fielding positions from Wikipedia.
Trump plus a gazillion burgers going stone cold on a White House dining table.
From https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/windmill (scroll down webpage to see this set of entries) windmill in American English (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/windmill (scroll down to see this set of entries) mıl ) noun 1. a mill operated by the wind's rotation of large, oblique vanes radiating from a shaft: the rotating vanes generate power for the mill in grinding grain, pumping water, etc. 2. wind turbine 3. anything like a windmill, as a propellerlike toy (pinwheel) revolved by wind verb transitive, verb intransitive 4. to rotate like a windmill Idioms: tilt at windmills
From https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/windmill (scroll down to see this set of entries) windmill in American English (wind mıl ) noun 1. a mill operated by the wind's rotation of large, oblique vanes radiating from a shaft: the rotating vanes generate power for the mill in grinding grain, pumping water, etc. 2. wind turbine 3. anything like a windmill, as a propellerlike toy (pinwheel) revolved by wind verb transitive, verb intransitive 4. to rotate like a windmill Idioms: tilt at windmills
From https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/windmill (scroll down to see this set of entries) windmill in American English (wind mıl ) noun 1. a mill operated by the wind's rotation of large, oblique vanes radiating from a shaft: the rotating vanes generate power for the mill in grinding grain, pumping water, etc. 2. wind turbine 3. anything like a windmill, as a propellerlike toy (pinwheel) revolved by wind verb transitive, verb intransitive 4. to rotate like a windmill Idioms: tilt at windmills
[Skeet:] Ben @burriscommaben.bsk... • 12h Yeah, Jesus ain't say to do that [embedded image of text:] Matthew 6:5-6 v New International Version v Prayer 5 "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. • 1.1K [Skeet:] CONTEXT RELA... @letm... • 12h since when has that stopped them
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, you were lucky. We lived for three months in a rolled up newspaper in a septic tank. Aye. Every morning we'd 'ave to get up at six, clean out t' rolled up newspaper, eat a crust of stale bread, then we'd 'ave to work fourteen 'ours at t' mill, day in, day out, for sixpence a week! Aye, and when we'd come home, Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt. SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: Luxury. We used to get up at three, clean the lake, eat a 'andful of 'ot gravel, then we'd work in t' mill for twenty hours for tuppence a month, then wed come home, and Dad would beat us about the head and neck with a broken bottle. If we were lucky! - from 'The Four Yorkshiremen' sketch, early version from 'At Last the 1948 Show', published in Jacobs & Peacock, 'Television Aesthetics and Style', Bloomsbury, 2013.
Similar map of the "western half of the world", but for Greek-speaking schoolkids. With New Zealand! Ähnliche Karte dem „westlichen Erdhälfte“, aber für die griechischsprachigen Schuler*innen. Mit Neuseeland!
Screencap of the top of the page in a book: 46 DIARY OF Feb. 21-22 So home to prayers and to bed. My wife called up the people to washing by four o'clock in the morning; and our little girl Susan is a most admirable Slut and pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the others and deserves wages better. [NB although this is often reported as Feb 1664, in Pepys' time the new year started on Lady Day, March 25, so this was from Feb near the end of 1663.] image from: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=f1snpwD2Oj0C&pg=PA46#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Minister for Mines in Queensland, Australia won my heart with his remarks to the Press when there was controversy over the proposal to drill for oil on the Great Barrier Reef. First of all, he said, there was no such thing as an oil slick. He then added that if by some billion-to-one chance oil should escape, there was no problem for (and here I quote him verbatim) 'as every schoolboy knows, oil floats on the surface of the water and coral lives underneath the surface, so no harm could be done'. - quotation from 'The Ark's Anniversary' by Gerald Durrell https://books.google.com.au/books?id=J099CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT85#v=onepage&q&f=false
Map of the Commonwealth of Nations, still sometimes called the British Commonwealth.
Thelma Ritter
Bahnhofsschild (station sign) Lübeck-Travemünde Skandinavienkai
Jan 6 shaman in the Capitol.
Trump trying to share the limelight with the winning team at the World Cup. Only with the Arizona desert instead of the Spanish team.
"The speech of J.V. Stalin on XIXth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 14 October 1952", by Dmitri A Nalbandyan, with Trump added. Not actually a great occasion, but executing enemies and exiling peoples? Donny's up for it.
Sign above a shop in Northcote: ➡️YOGA ⬇️WINE
Ben Stiller as Zoolander pretending to be a coalminer.
Screenshot from an ASIC name search: Organisations & Business Names 3 results found for "good trouble" GOOD TROUBLE Business Name Registered THE GOOD TROUBLE GROUP PTY LTD ACN 680 792 956 Australian Propr.... Registered Adelaide SA 5000 GOOD TROUBLE PROJECTS Businees Name Registered
RFK Jr with mouth open (image from HuffPost).
Großherzogin Elisabeth.
Rubber band ball.
Missy the fox terrier. Who's a good dog?
The meme "How do you do, fellow kids?" from 30 Rock, but instead of Steve Buscemi being too old to wear that gear and carry two skateboards, it's Albo. https://www.mediaweek.com.au/albo-bush-deep-podcast-kylie-minogue/
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
Snoopy.
COLLOQUOIUM
Randolph Churchill, son of Winston, was as ill-read as he was talkative. Evelyn Waugh and Lord Birkenhead were stuck with him on a mission in wartime Yugoslavia. They each 'bet him fro that he will not read the Bible right through in a fortnight. He has set to work but not as quietly as we hoped. He sits bouncing about on his chair, chortling and saying, "I say, did you know this came in the Bible, 'bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to the grave'?" [Gen. 42: 38, 44: 29]. Or simply, "God, isn't God a shit."' - excerpt from 'A History of the Bible as Literature' by David Norton, Cambridge University Press https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tLPbcfRQ0WMC&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q&f=false
Image of the top of the relevant post showing the first entry on the list was Canada.
Old money face Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor slumped in the backseat of a car after having helped police with their inquiries.
The image is a complicated diagram of the Habsburg family tree including portraits of family members. The text beneath the diagram reads: Hapsburg family tree: inheritance of the "Hapsburg Lip" Mandibular prognathism is the name of a heritable genetic conditions where growth of the maxilla (upper jaw) is retarded with respect to the the mandible (lower jaw), which results in a projecting chin, rolled-out lower lip, and a crossbite of the incisors. The phenomenon is known as the 'Hapsburg Lip' because of its occurrence in multiple generations of members of the European royal House of Hapsburg, as documented in their portraits over 200 years [above]. The trait is inherited as a single-gene autosomal dominant with incomplete penetrance (~ 0.90), and shows up frequently because of extensive intermarriage between different branches of the family. extensive inbreeding. Queen Isabella I and King Ferdinand II of Castile & Aragon, Columbus' patrons on his voyages to America, are early case. Kings Charles II and Philip IV of Spain, and Leopold of Austria, have particularly prominent cases. It may be assumed that portrait artists 'improved' the appearance of their subjects in some cases. HOMEWORK: Redraw the portrait gallery above as a pedigree. Show that inheritance is consistent with an autosomal recessive. (Note that only affected persons are shown: this causes an ascertainment bias). Text material © 2021 by Steven M. Carr [Chart from Prof Steve Carr, Memorial University of Newfoundland, website below]
35. If þi loverd is neufangel, Ne be þou nout forþi outgangel Mid illore iwon;
Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, built to host the 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition (the eighth world's fair as recognised by the BIE). Exterior view.
Highlighted text on the image of a webpage from the Newscorp website: "The regional titles to cease publication are: Queensland - Buderim Chronicle, Caloundra Weekly, Capricorn Coast Mirror, Coolum News, Nambour Weekly, Ipswich Advertiser, Kawana/Maroochy Weekly, Gold Coast Sun, Hervey Bay Independent, Maryborough Herald, Balonne Beacon, Surat Basin News, Herbert River Express, Innisfail Advocate, Central Telegraph; NSW - Coastal Views, Northern Rivers Echo, Richmond River Express Examiner; Tasmania - Tasmanian Country; Specialist - Big Rigs, Rural Weekly, Seniors" "The community titles which will cease publication are: Leader titles in Victoria - Manningham, Preston, Diamond Valley, Heidelberg, Sunbury Macedon, Progress and Northcote; NewsLocal in NSW - Rouse Hill Times; Quest in Queensland - Northside Chronicle/Bayside Star, North-West News, South-East Advertiser, Southern Star, Bribie Weekly; and South Australia - Messenger Coast Plus." Image from https://www.newscorpaustralia.com/news-corp-australia-announces-portfolio-changes/
Hyacinth Bucket from 'Keeping Up Appearances'.
A photo of Missy the fox terrier sitting in lush grass with a cartoon talk-bubble that reads: "Rats? I'm happy to help."
1842 The same really contemptible feeling of class-ism, the curse of England and Englishmen, and of women also. S. Bamford, Passages in Life of Radical vol. II. xviii. 89 Oxford English Dictionary (online: www.oed.com )
Home-made sign on a Melbourne suburban nature strip: PICK UP YOUR DOG SHIT OR HOME DELIV.D
Sign in Russian: "Today you go by foot." Still of a Crimean petrol station sign (from a video-skeet giving evidence of Ukrainian logistical success but also arguably relevant to your MOT).
Plum juice
Денег нет, а работать лень. Пришлите мне полки для положения зубов. Но я сдержу слово: проленюсь май, а с 1-го июня засяду работать. Погода у нас роскошна. Дни ясные, тихие, а ночи чорт знает как хороши! Мужики жалуются, что дождя нет, и ходят по полю с иконами. Погода подозрительно хороша: очевидно перед длинным и скучным ненастьем... У меня много больных. Рахитические дети и старухи с сыпями... Есть 75-летняя старуха с рожей руки; боюсь, что придется иметь дело с рожистым воспалением клетчатки. Будут абсцессы, а резать старуху страшно... Да, без писем скучно. На даче интересно получать пись-ма. Скажите И. Грэку, что ему давно уже пора написать мне что-нибудь. Ведь я почти в ссылке, а la Юша, и живу пером, à la Джок. Май хорош, но как скучно будет в августе! Предвкушаю осень, которая неизбежна. Насчет Валаама решит судьба: если буду много печа-таться, то приеду, если же буду лениться, то путешествие не состоится. Во всяком случае могу приехать не раньше июля. Если приеду, то с сестрой. «Зашевелились», очевидно, материал для будущей книги. «Стукин и Хр'устальников]» мне так нравятся, что я даю их всем читать. Книга тем хороша, что в ней трактуется не об одном каком-нибудь банке, а вообще о банковских порядках на Руси. Это самая лучшая из всех Ваших книг. Впрочем, она в своем роде и сравнивать ее с другими книгами нельзя. Как у Вас сошло 9-е мая? Кланяюсь Прасковье Никифоровне и Феде. А за сим, как водится это у порядочных людей, нужно дать вам отдых и, перестав надоедать, пребыть уважающим А. Чеховым. 167 Ф. О. ШЕХТЕЛЮ 27 мая 1886, Бабкино 2Х?=1 Вчера я причинил Вам вред... Я послал Вам посылку, за доставку которой Вы запла- тите четвертак. 219
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Still from GoldenEye credits (1995): M Judi Dench (no mention of the title she was awarded in 1988).
Still from the end credits to Goldeneye with "M Judi Dench" crudely circled in red.
whereas these terms have been lost, the First World War produced a number of major Australian cultural icons, especially the terms Anzac, digger, and Aussie. The term digger in the military sense is a transferred use of the meaning 'a miner on the Australian goldfields'. Throughout the twentieth century it retained the military associations established in the First World War (it was widely used during the Second World War, and during the Vietnam War the Americans still knew the Australians as 'diggers'). The term has also undergone a widening of meaning: in many contexts 'digger' and its abbreviated form 'dig' are used devoid of their military connotations (as a synonym for 'cobber' or 'mate'). - excerpt from 'The Anzacs and Their Words', Bruce Moore, Ozwords, April 2000, Australian National Dictionary Centre, ANU
Sign: Fanny Street Reserve
Beschilderung: Auf Wiedersehen und gute Fahrt!
Actor, singer, playwright and composer Sir Noel Chicken flavour.
"President Lee Jae Myung criticized Starbucks Korea on the 23rd over its controversial "Tank Day" event, which allegedly downplayed the 1980 Gwangju Democratic Uprising. He referenced the company’s release of a "Siren Mug" two years ago on the 10th anniversary of the Sewol Ferry disaster, calling it "beastly behavior mocking disaster victims" and "an immoral act by a wicked merchant." - This screenshot is from a story by Kim Dong-ha in The Chosun Ilbo, via MSN at the link provided.
Dame Edith Evans as Lady Bracknell.
Margaret Rutherford looking concerned.
Abstract When studying French prices between 1938 and 1949, economists and historians face a paradox: whilst a vast black market shaped daily life, official indices recorded only state-controlled prices. This article addresses the issue by introducing a new consumer price index that incorporates both official and black market prices. Drawing on extensive new data, it quantifies black market activity and estimates household reliance on it. As a result, the price dynamics have been considerably under-evaluated between 1940 and 1944, and equally considerably over-evaluated between 1944 and 1948. The index reshapes our understanding of price dynamics by challenging the common narrative that the Vichy regime successfully tamed wartime inflation whilst the postwar democratic regime failed to control it. Instead, the apparent postwar acceleration of inflation is revealed as a statistical illusion. Consequently, we show that real wages dropped dramatically during the German Occupation of France, which proves much more consistent with contemporary testimonies.
Harlan Coben and piles of his books.