January 2010
38 posts
Homecoming
Occasionally, students at various high schools or colleges have engaged in violent or destructive riots.[10] Common rioting activities include the burning of furniture or cars, rallying noisily in the streets, hazing(throwing pennies/attacking freshmen) and/or vandalizing the school of the opponents. Schools generally denounce these activities.
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May Day
Jumping from the bridge has resulted in serious injury in the past yet there are still people who insist on climbing the barriers and leaping into the water, causing injury.
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Zorse
In Roald Dahl’s book Going Solo, he and several other characters speculate on how nice it would be to own a zorse, although they admit it would be difficult to train.
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Zebroid
Zebra (stallion) + horse (mare): zorse, zebra mule, zebrule or golden zebra
Zebra (stallion) + pony (mare): zony
Zebra (stallion) + Shetland pony (mare): zetland
Zebra (stallion) + any ass species (jenny): zebrass
Zebra (stallion) + donkey (jenny): zedonk, zeedonk, zonkey, zebronkey, zebadonk
Zebra (mare) + donkey (jack): zebret, zebrinny
Zebra (mare) + horse (stallion): hebra, horbra
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Codpiece
Codpieces figure prominently in the six Star Wars movies.
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Catherine I of Russia
She died just two years after Peter, at age 43, in St. Petersburg, where she was buried at St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress. It is not known what caused her early demise. Though many postulate twenty years of relentless child bearing, hard drinking, venereal disease, and consumption took their toll on Russia’s first sovereign empress.
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A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
Selected themes and content
Jean
The Thistle
Robert Burns
1926 General Strike
Sexual Reproduction (Science)
Undersea Life
Bannockburn and Flodden
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Dingo
On 19 August 1980 a nine-week-old girl named Azaria Chamberlain was captured by a dingo near the Uluru and killed. Her mother was suspected and convicted of murder. Four years later she was released from prison when the jacket of the baby was found in a dingo den and the mother was therefore found innocent. This incident caused much outcry for and against the dingoes.
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Da Vinci's Notebook
Enormous Penis is often wrongly assumed to be a Frank Zappa song.
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Hushpuppy
They are a hearty, heavy food that can be eaten while active or mobile.
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Doug Ross
During Season 2, Ray, Doug’s father, tries to reconcile with his estranged son. Doug has difficulty reconnecting with the man who abandoned him and his mother. Ray has made something of himself by owning a very ritzy hotel in Chicago, and Doug lets his guard down a little, but is disappointed yet again when his father offers to take him to a Bulls game and then stands him up. Doug later...
Togolese hip hop
Teenagers have their own hip hop communities governed by talented designers who impose the hip hop style in the cities. The two main designers are EFA DK who is Orcyno’s brother and personal designer and WELFON. EFA DK created a sports wear universe since 1999 added by a special Togolese touch with traditional clothing. WELFON is more based on maintaining the unity with the idea he got in 2005 to...
List of helicopter prison escapes
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The Get Along Gang
Leland Lizard (David A. Thomas) (Nicky Katt) - Catchum’s dopey sidekick, who was sometimes not as dumb as he looked[citation needed].
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Siege of Pueblo de Taos
On February 3, Price entered Taos where he found the rebels well entrenched at the frotified native Pueblo “next to the opposite side of town” (what does this mean?).
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Premier of Quebec
The Premiers of Quebec are elected since the application of the ministry responsibility principle. This principle exists from the convention, since the ‘Loi Constitutionelle de 1867’ (Constitutional Law of 1867) doesn’t mention it.
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Wawa (convenience store)
In the summer of 2008, Wawa introduced a special on their hoagie line called “Hoagiefest”, which offered a price reduction on four selected varieties of their “Shorti” size hoagies, each variety on sale for a two-week period in an eight-week rotation. The Hoagiefest ad campaign relied on a style very reminiscent of The Beatles, using 1960s psychedelic imagery and songs....
Jessica Yellin
During the conversation, Yellin explained that she was enclosed in a special tent with 35 high-definition cameras that were filming her in a 360-degree fashion. However, her appearance of standing in the room was merely added for television audiences much like a blue screen projection, with Blitzer simply looking at a monitor showing her presence.[citation needed] Calling this technique...
Joanna of Castile
The early stages of Joanna and Philip’s relationship were quite passionate, and the feeling was mutual. However, as time passed, the two began to realize how different their personalities were.[citation needed] Philip was threatened by his wife’s loyalty to all things Spanish - especially her parents’ politics. Juana did not like the way Philip bossed her around, and his...
Moose Milk
One Russian moose researcher had also previously tried to make moose cheese, but he stated that, due to the milk’s high protein content, the cheese became hard far too quickly. He was not aware of any attempts to make moose ice cream.
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