April 2009
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Portal:Fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Did you know…
…that fire-maintained pre-Columbian savanna once covered much of North America?
…that the first known American female firefighter Molly Williams took her place with the men on the dragropes during the blizzard of 1818 and pulled the pumper to the fire through the deep snow?
…that Lightning fires represent 35% of all fires?
…that every year...
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The Golden Institute | Sascha Pohflepp →
A replica of Douglas Arnd’s office when he was a senior strategist at the Golden Institute for Energy in an alternative reality where Jimmy Carter had defeated Ronald Reagan in the US election of 1981.
H-Net Reviews →
“H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences is an online scholarly review resource…Each H-Net discussion network has its own review editor. Once posted to individual H-Net networks, reviews are posted to H-Review and archived on this site.”
Zero-player game - Wikipedia, the free... →
The popular childhood games Candy Land and War can also be considered zero-player games, as their outcomes are determined completely based on the way the deck of cards in each is shuffled, and do not depend on any sort of strategy on the part of the players.
Space opera in Scientology scripture - Wikipedia,... →
“Your mind is completely UNPREPARED for what is about to HAPPEN to your REALITY …
Do YOU have a body in pawn?
Read Volume 10, for once you know ALL about it, you won’t have to worry about nightmares, inexplicable somatics, disturbing visio images of cylindrical tanks, bodies floating in green fluid …”
Kobaïan-English Dictionary →
“Martin told us how the original group had come to a stunning and savage conclusion in Spain after a wild magic battle between Magma’s leader, the percussionist Christian Vander, and the epically named bass player, Jannik Top. Vander had rented a hilltop castle for his own uses, which had annoyed Top’s ego. He had rented a similar place within sight of Vander and the two...
Ranally city rating system - Wikipedia, the free... →
The Ranally city rating system is a tool developed by Rand McNally & Co. to classify U.S. cities based on their economic function. The system is designed to reflect an underlying hierarchy whereby consumers and businesses go to a city of a certain size for a certain function; some functions are widely available and others are only available in the largest cities.