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For you to be alive you need to have an unbroken chain of ancestors, so your forefathers survived plagues, wars, illnesses, accidents, wars, starvation and so on. You had an ancestor alive at the same time as Jesus, you had an ancestor who walked out of Africa, an ancestor who first fashioned a stone tool.
Seems miraculous and yet mathematically it has no significance as the same is true for every other human alive today.
The Battle of Hürtgen Forest (German: Schlacht im Hürtgenwald) is the name given to the series of fierce battles fought between U.S. and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest, which became the longest battle on German ground during World War II, and the longest single battle the U.S. Army has ever fought in its history.
The Hürtgen Forest cost the U.S. First Army at least 33,000 killed and incapacitated, including both combat and noncombat losses; Germans casualties were between 12,000 and 16,000.
This battle was completely over-shadowed by the Battle of the Bulge, many of those that died here in the most miserable conditions were heroes from D-Day and they should not be forgotten.
I’d never heard of this until just recently learn much more here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hurtgen_Forest
Clair Patterson developed a Lead-dating technique which allowed him to calculate the first ever accurate age for the Earth to be 4.55 billion years.
During these studies he became aware of Lead Pollution emanating from Lead anti-knocking additives in gasoline, namely that we had a 1000 times more lead contamination in our bodies than our ancestors.
This lead to lead being banned in gasoline but not before an arduous battle with the Ethyl Corporation where amongst other things they offered a massive amount of money to Patterson’s University to get rid of him.
Bill Bryson in his marvelous book A Short History of Nearly Everything
I actually mean English spelling mistakes that you mustn’t make if you are a native English speaker, some of them are what I call “CV straight in the bin” mistakes.
Avoid the above as they imply that you did not complete formal education hence usually they cause your CV to be rejected immediately.
By the way for your amusement a sentence containing the exceptions to the i before e except after c rule.
Neither financier seized either weird species of leisure.
(BTW if you’re wondering why I target native speakers it’s because foreigners usually make completely different mistakes but not necessarily those above)
Going to School with the 101st Airborne Little Rock
Photo Wikicommons US Government Public Domain
Mother Maybelle Carter playing Wildwood Flower at the Johnny Cash show. Also featuring the Carter sisters Anita Carter & Helen Carter. June was not there because she was pregnant of John Carter Cash.
There is no reference in the Bible to what Jesus did between the ages of 12 when he was discussing religious matters with the elders and 30 or so when he appeared as a prophet, this is a recognized fact. All we know is that when Jesus came to preach in his home town Nazareth that while the people were not exactly welcoming they were amazed by the change, surely that is just Joseph the Carpenter’s son but how come he has all this knowledge? Jesus wryly remarked that “The only place a prophet isn’t honored is in his hometown and in his own house“.
So what happened in between we shall probably never know but there are wild theories ranging from going to India, to England (William Blake : And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon England’s mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On England’s pleasant pastures seen), to even North America!
The Waterloo & City line is a short underground railway line in London, which was formally opened on 11 July 1898. It has only two stations, Waterloo and Bank (formerly called “City”, as it is within the City of London). Between its stations, the line passes under the River Thames.
see more at Wikipedia.
I just love whacky stuff like that! By the way Bank must be London’s most complex and confusing Tube Stations.
Bank and Monument are interlinked stations, officially one station known operationally as the “Bank-Monument complex”, although the separate names are used on station entrances, platforms and the tube map. The complex spans the length of King William Street in the City of London. Together they form the eighth busiest station on the network, being served by five London Underground lines and the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) (Wikipedia).
Don’t arrange to meet a date at Bank, you’ll never find each other!
I met up with Tom Butler-Bowdon author of the well known Top 50 Success Classics today in the Coffee shop of Blackwell’s Book Shop for a brainstorming session and chin wag. Tom is now recognized as an expert in personal development literature.
We discussed SEO, LSI, idea-generation, the importance of keeping your website continuously updated, what we had recently read and upcoming projects. One conclusion we came to is that in the end Google seems to reward GENUINENESS ie if you have real original interesting content on your website that is of interest to other people in your NICHE then Google will eventually reward you with traffic. Obviously you can maximize with chances with good SEO but in the end as usual CONTENT IS KING. So Blog about things that are passionate and enthusiastic about and eventually you will get visitors.
Tom Butler Bowdon of Top 50 Success Classics
Learn more about Tom’s Top 50 Success Books here
An Astonishing Number Of Everyday Expressions Come From The Bible
Of course you know the well known ones An eye for an eye and Turn the Other Cheek but did you know that Sign of the times or Twinkling of an eye or Drop in the Bucket and many other apparently modern phrases also originate from the Bible?
See more here