Solar Christmas Lights
Solar Christmas Lights questions and answers
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Q: Can I exchange or get a refund at Linens N Things?
I purchased some mini solar Christmas lights, the multi-coloured 50-lite one works, but the two 24-lite ones don't! They were $17 each! Anyone know if they'll let me exchange due to product defectiveness? Or refund?
A: Sales are final.. I saw the big sign by the check out last friday . They even had a table at this store so you could try appliances out that plug in .. GL
Q: Who wants to have street lights removed so we may look at the nights starry skies again?
Why have street lights on roads and roundabouts? You see there are these things called Headlights they often come in pairs and are on all vehicles, they light up the way for us and there are these things called reflectors which also assist when the the headlights hit these they bounce back and create even more light.
Then we could all watch the activities of the beautiful night sky and SAVE ENERGY, NUCLEAR WASTE and MONEY.
The street light Manufacturers could get more useful jobs instead such as, the Production of Solar Lanterns which aren't as bright but would be more harmonic and still guide the drunk drivers and people who don't look at the roads whist driving.
And limit the amount of offensive Christmas lights!
I know there are some potential loonies out there but most of them run your Country.
I think you may have early signs of Paranoid Schizophrenia yourselves.
PULL YOURSELVES TOGETHER GIRLS, you fantasize too much! Why not take along a grown up adult with you everywhere you go.
Better still don't go out on the street at all, then we can all enjoy the meteor showers. And when we see the NEO coming we won't bother letting you know.
I am not in the least surprised by the retarded answers.
A: Light pollution at night is a very serious issue with astronomers, especially of the backyard variety. I being one of them totally agree with what you're saying. The night sky is truly a wonder, but the other 99% of the suburban and urban denizens probably don't even look up at the night sky anymore and couldn't care less. Pity.
Q: Is there any kind of electrical outlet that is powered by either solar power or a batteries?
Because i want to hang Christmas light on the belcony of my apartment but I have no outside electrical outlets. So how can I hang them out there anyone with any ideas, Thanks.
A: There are solar and battery powered Christmas lights. Check the links below.
Q: I have an idea for my science fair project, I just need a question to test?
I want to make solar powered Christmas lights for my experiment. I will make little lights like this
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/lantern
string them up and paint the jars red and green so the light shines through teh paint. One problem, i need a question to test. Thank you
A: Can the sun light up a Christmas tree?
Or how do solar powered lights work?
Q: "Secret" hideaway outside. Decoration ideas?
OK, so the other day I was outside and I climbed into the woods and found, dun-ta-da, a log pile. It was one big log and then a pile of wood chips, and horizontaly another log, and another log ON THAT going verticle. I decided it was a pleasant place besides spiders, roaches and rattlesnakes (not too worried, its really cold out, spiders i'd kill and same with roaches) OK so anyway, I made it my little getaway.
So i stripped away some bark on the low log and put down a towel.
Then i put up solar lights and such, well, now I am really attached to it.
I have a bed (sorta, its a towel on the log) and a dart board I made and hung in the trees, I made cleaning supplies and newspapers for my friends who alll have houses outside. Now we play a town called, "Utopia" and we have news, mail and all sorts of REALLY cool things. Straight to the point. I need other ideas.
I have a main entry way, emergency exit and wood exit/entrance.
Either way, I need more Ideas. My "House, I call it" is really nice, well, besides being outside. So any ideas? its complete with:
A news room (Where I edit newspapers I make, called Utopia news, and mail called Daily mail)
A wooden a tv. (Im currently editing where I can have peices of paper over a wooden TV screen and flip through "Channels")
A table (A brick with a glass table top over it)
A bed (Barbie jeep cover folded up like pillow with towel over it)
solar lights
A christmas "tree" (A small little tree I found, not even the size of a hamper lol)
an entry way including my handmade dart board (I call it, "Log cabin games" Its kind of like my "company"
Cleaning supplies (Does a sea oat branch count??)
Etc, etc.
Well its sooooo cool.
Please dont talk me out of it Im attached to it.
But do you have other ideas? Anything snakes dislike? Anything spiders and roaches dislike?
Come on, help me!
A: Sounds like a real cool pad. I bet your girlfriend really likes it too, huh? I would check out the local dump and pick up some tin cans to use for glasses, and maybe you can find some old carpet there as well. Steal some clear plastic from a building site, and make some windows. Are you near a water source? Consider building a moat around the place. As to the snakes and insects, it's a little known fact that neither of those critters can stand being around idiots, so I think you are quite safe. I have no snakes or roaches, so I know it works.
Q: what is something you grabbed for someone for christmas that you think they will like?
I got my boys a strobe light and a remote control solar system mobile with a sun that is the light cover!! They're gonna flip =)
the girls got a karaoke machine with 2 of their favorite sing along pop rock CDs and princess bed canopes!! I am so excited
A: My brother and I purchased a Laptop for my mother. And we got her a personalized mouse pad with our pictures on it. I think she is going to cry when she opens it. :) I can't wait for christmas.
Q: why do some misinformed people still relate Christmas to Paganism?
Why December 25?
According to conventional wisdom, Christmas had its origin in a pagan winter solstice festival, which the church co-opted to promote the new religion. In doing so, many of the old pagan customs crept into the Christian celebration. But this view is apparently a historical myth—like the stories of a church council debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, or that medieval folks believed the earth is flat—often repeated, even in classrooms, but not true.
William J. Tighe, a history professor at Muhlenberg College, gives a different account in his article "Calculating Christmas," published in the December 2003 Touchstone Magazine. He points out that the ancient Roman religions had no winter solstice festival.
True, the Emperor Aurelian, in the five short years of his reign, tried to start one, "The Birth of the Unconquered Sun," on Dec. 25, 274. This festival, marking the time of year when the length of daylight began to increase, was designed to breathe new life into a declining paganism. But Aurelian's new festival was instituted after Christians had already been associating that day with the birth of Christ. According to Mr. Tighe, the Birth of the Unconquered Sun "was almost certainly an attempt to create a pagan alternative to a date that was already of some significance to Roman Christians." Christians were not imitating the pagans. The pagans were imitating the Christians.
The early church tried to ascertain the actual time of Christ's birth. It was all tied up with the second-century controversies over setting the date of Easter, the commemoration of Christ's death and resurrection. That date should have been an easy one. Though Easter is also charged with having its origins in pagan equinox festivals, we know from Scripture that Christ's death was at the time of the Jewish Passover. That time of year is known with precision.
But differences in the Jewish, Greek, and Latin calendars and the inconsistency between lunar and solar date-keeping caused intense debate over when to observe Easter. Another question was whether to fix one date for the Feast of the Resurrection no matter what day it fell on or to ensure that it always fell on Sunday, "the first day of the week," as in the Gospels.
This discussion also had a bearing on fixing the day of Christ's birth. Mr. Tighe, drawing on the in-depth research of Thomas J. Talley's The Origins of the Liturgical Year, cites the ancient Jewish belief (not supported in Scripture) that God appointed for the great prophets an "integral age," meaning that they died on the same day as either their birth or their conception.
Jesus was certainly considered a great prophet, so those church fathers who wanted a Christmas holiday reasoned that He must have been either born or conceived on the same date as the first Easter. There are hints that some Christians originally celebrated the birth of Christ in March or April. But then a consensus arose to celebrate Christ's conception on March 25, as the Feast of the Annunciation, marking when the angel first appeared to Mary.
Note the pro-life point: According to both the ancient Jews and the early Christians, life begins at conception. So if Christ was conceived on March 25, nine months later, he would have been born on Dec. 25.
This celebrates Christ's birth in the darkest time of the year. The Celtic and Germanic tribes, who would be evangelized later, did mark this time in their "Yule" festivals, a frightening season when only the light from the Yule log kept the darkness at bay. Christianity swallowed up that season of depression with the opposite message of joy: "The light [Jesus] shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it" (John 1:5).
Regardless of whether this was Christ's actual birthday, the symbolism works. And Christ's birth is inextricably linked to His resurrection.
Really, this rumor was pretty much unpopular since about 1987...I wonder is it just the HATERS that try and make it something it clearly IS NOT?
NONE>>>>OF YOU people even looked up the meaning of PAGAN.....NONE NOT ONE...YOU GIVE IT YOUR OWN MEANING....it is a country dweller...as per the DICTIONARY...as far as the source this was written by a NON CHRISTIAN.....PAGANISM....? WHO cares? NO ONE....it doesn't have any roots to Christianity....IT was ROMANS>>>not modern day Christians...sad thing is that you tell this crap to children.....CHRISTMAS IS A MAN MADE HOLIDAY>..and I BET MY ASS ALL OF YOU ARE SUCKING IT UP.....
The amusing thing is that its the CHRISTIANS who are AGAINST Paganism, seems like you are all a bunch of hypocrites.....
YES.....Darwin fellow...BUT ask yourself WHAT is PAGANISM...A country dweller, someone who is "mis informed" in their beliefs or thinking according to Christians...IT is the IDIOTS that MADE PAGAN a BAD WORD...WHICH IT IS NOT>>>THAT IS MY ENTIRE POINT>..it is a basis for ancient customs??? WHY is that now a sword to use??? IT ISN'T..that is MY ARGUEMENT...that historically, PAGANISM was nothing EVIL or WITCHCRAFT OR SATANIC...all of these things YOU people try to make it...like a smart Wiccan lady said you people think Wiccans are Pagans..and they are NOT...its just a way to try and devalue Christian beliefs, AND Atheism has NOTHING to do with PAGANISM either...SO, I did NOTHING but reinforce the FACT that HISTORICALLY Christmas has nothing to do with the ancient YULE on Dec. 21, a Pagan celebration....
Arnon you are RIGHT PARROTING...their peers, I am sure I am arguing with a group of ninth graders who think they are metaphysicals....
Many of what you are quoting are anti religion, anti Christian propaganda...that is NOT fact....I researched HISTORICAL sites....NOT religious ones...as for this article it was reprinted from its original source which was academic in nature. NOT a site for the druds....
A: I am certainly not an expert,but many pagan/local celebrations and Hollidays were used by Catholic Missionaries to convert local tribespeople to Christianity . Many of the local celebrations just happened to fall on or near Christian Holy days and the result was that there were elements of both hollidays in the celebration.IE; The evergreen or Christmas tree at Christmas And the egg ,rabbit and other fertility symbols at Easter.. there are other examples..and this might lead some to believe that Dec 25th is a pagan holliday...
Q: Art / Science Project Help!!?
During the week, I work with a bunch of adorable little kids who are in grades K through 2nd and they've been learning about the Solar System! They plan to turn their own classroom into a solar system, using gym balls and golf balls to make planets and moons and Christmas lights to be stars! I thought it was a wonderful idea and wanted to add to the experience in my own way. So I thought I should build them a rocket ship big enough to fit two of the children at a time! I thought I could use some of the things I had around the house and I’m not a carpenter so I wouldn't be using wood and nails! Just a fun art project I thought I'd do for the little ones. (Mind you, I’m only 15 and the only help I have is from my 14 year old cousin!) I'd like some ideas on what I should make it out of because I didn't necessarily want to use cardboard seeing as though it could tear easily and I want them to be able to play in it for a while. (Continued in Details......)
Any other ideas on what it could look like and how the inside could be would be greatly appreciated! Colors, textures, anything! Thanks in Advance!
A: Hmmmm. I'm personally a fan of cardboard since it's cheap, not too hard to come by and is therefore easily replaceable if need be. You can check with trucking companies (sometimes they have leftover 'Gaylords'. These are those super heavy duty huge cardboard boxes that are so thick it takes a jigsaw to cut through them.) Some times furniture or appliance stores will have large boxes but you have to catch them ahead of time so they save one for you before it is crushed or burnt.
If you REALLY don't want to use cardboard, then perhaps you'll need to visit a lumber yard- that can get expensive though.
You might even consider using a corner of the room and blocking it off with something to form a triangular room.
Whatever you use for that wall, (bookcase, cardboard, wood panel, shower curtain) make sure it is well braced and can't fall over.
You'll probably find that as long as it is a small closed-in private area the kids will love it. You might set a couple chairs in it and fix up an 'instrument' panel. Something with knobs to turn and slide. Perhaps you could involve the kids in building a cheap periscope to see out of. The instructions could be found on line.
Why not have snack time with baggies of snacks (pre-packaged astronaut food)?
Have lotsa fun :)
Q: Electricity Question?
For school i have to build a house that has 5 working electric parts to it, i can power it any way i want and i have a couple solar cells left from science fair and i thought it would be cool if i made a "green" home for the project. I was wondering what kind of things run off of DC power and use very little power becuase like i said, i only have a few cells so all wired together under very bright light i MIGHT get 6 watts so you can see how im limited. and im not buying a 1000 dollar converter to change the power to AC either (for obvious reasons). So if you can think of any DC powered small electrical objects. Also i was wondering if LED christmas lights can run off DC? I can strip wires and cut and minipulate things to make them work to my needs soooooo.... thats it, thanks in advance, will pick best
A: I think Christmas lites will work and be safer..I 'm no expert
hope this answer helps :)
Q: Forbidden Holiday Gifts (any addittions?)?
Toy Soldier Nutcraker
Chia Pet Sets (of any kind)
Block Calendars
Office desk-top Christmas Light w/no ornaments
Fruit Cakes
GA Lottery Tickets
Discounted Perfume/Cologne Sets (unknown names of fragrances I wouldn’t put on a domestic pet)
Leopard Pattern Cummerbund
Homemade dubbed CDs of mixed holiday musicals
Solar Powered Calculators
Porcelain Figurines
Rabbit Ear Television Antenna (why?)
Fruity Flavored Candy Canes
Scented Candle Sets
“Yes We Can” 40-piece Dishware Set
Soap/Bath/Lotion Gift Baskets
Cheese/Sausage Gift Sets
Coffee/Latte Mug Sets
Holiday Designed Sweaters
Near real-like Poinsettias
Audio Cassette Tape of Christmas Music sung by Bing Crosby
Boxed Chocolates (unless it’s Godiva’s)
Holiday Lapel pins
Mini-light (battery operated) Key Chains
A pair of open Toe-Cowboy Boots
Gift Certificates to McDonalds
Imported (foreign) Crackers
Jane Fonda Exercise Tapes (VHS or Beta format)
Pet Rocks
Christmas Socks
Salt/Pepper or Spice Rack Set
BMW Windshield Wiper Blades
A: those necklace/earring sets they sell at places like Wal-Mart for $10 and brooches, in general
Q: Wasted electricity?
John Howard has just banned traditional lightbulbs - which I think is an excellent idea. What gets on my nerves is when you drive around any town or city in the UK in the evening and you see these massive office buildings lit up light Christmas trees. Surely the government should ask the relevant building managers to switch of all their lights in the evening, this would help save money and wastage. Also, when you see massive warehouse all over the country, would'nt it be a good idea for them to have solar panels on the roof, this would make them alot more efficent and also take some pressure of the national grid, or i am misunderstanding something?
A: I used to work in a call centre and we had a similar problem. Every evening when we closed the amount of pc monitors left on was amazing.
The cost to the company and the environment must have been massive.
Q: How do you feel about Al Gore's improvements to his home?
Global warming 'skeptics' often criticize Al Gore for having a high energy consumption home.
"Gore has gotten LEED gold certification from the Green Building Council - the 10,000-square-foot home is one of only 14 in the U.S. to achieve this rating, and the only home in Tennessee that's gotten any certification at all, according to the Associated Press. (There is also a platinum standard) Solar panels, solar roof fans, a rainwater collection system, and geothermal heating were all installed at the house. All incandescent lights - including those on the Christmas tree! - were replaced with either compact fluorescents or light-emitting diodes. And according to AP, energy use at the home decreased 11 percent during Tennessee's sultriest months, when the area was also hit by a heat wave."
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/12/al_gore_gets_go.php
Gore's solar roof:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/06/al_gore_gets_a.php
Should those who gave Gore so much flak for his house now give him some credit for these many environmentally friendly improvements?
A: Jealousy
Q: some more bizarre facts?
happy reading lol.
*According to sales, 17,000 individual 'smarties' are eaten every minute in the UK
*The life of an eyelash is about 5 months.
*Iceland, Europe's second largest island following Great Britain, boasts of having the world's oldest 'active' parliamentary body, Althing, which first met in 930AD.
*The Turkish football club, Galatasaray, has an A for every other letter.
*The tongue of a mature Blue Whale has approximately the same mass as that of an entire adult elephant.
*The study, which tested telephones, desks, water coolers, doorknobs, and toilet seats, compiled 7,000 samples from major centers across the country. What they found, was that while phones ranked highest in bacteria levels, the office desk was a close second.
*In England during World War I, many German names and titles were changed and given more English-sounding names, including the royal family's from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. Kaiser Wilhelm II countered this by jokingly saying that he was off to see a performance of 'The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.'
*Both turdoid and turdine mean "belonging to the family turdus," Turdus musicus is the song thrush & Turdus viscivorus is the mistletoe thrush
*Nearly a quarter of all mammals can fly; with a huge 985 known species, bats make up 23.1% of all known mammals by species
*January is National Soup Month in the United States, January is the seasonal equivalent to July in the Southern Hemisphere; & on Jan 14th, 90% of New Year resolutions will be broken!
*You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown and you use an average of 17 muscles for a smile, and they say every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle
*Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms in the first 14 nestling days of their life and that is not even their main food on the menu (14 feet a day is wrong) But parent robins make around 100 food visits to the nest every day!
*The first man to die during planning & construction of the Hoover Dam was the father of the last man to die during its construction. December 20, 1922 with J.G. Tierney a Bureau of Reclamation employee who was part of a geological survey and drowned when he fell from a barge. Exactly 13 years later, in 1935, his son Patrick W. Tierney, fell to his death from an intake tower.
* You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily
*The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification back in 700
*Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than it does through the air
*A greenfly born on a Tuesday can be a grandparent by Friday
*There are more mobile phones in UK than there are people
*Termites are affected by music; the termites will eat your house twice as fast if you play them loud music
*Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the extreme fear of Friday the 13th
*One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
*Christopher Trace, the first presenter of Blue Peter, was the body double for Charlton Heston in the film Ben-Hur
*Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever
*A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water
*If you think of the Milky Way as being the size of the continent of Asia, our solar system would be the size of a penny.
*The chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex Myth or fact??
*The average driver will be locked out of their car nine times during their life time (yes, men are in the stats)
*A Boeing 767 airliner contains 3,100,000 parts
* Belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable under Church law
* Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain
*An owl can see a mouse moving from over 150ft away by a light no brighter than candlelight
*The average person has walked 100,000 miles by the time they reach the age of 85.
*Your hearing is less sharp after eating too much
*In the course of a lifetime, the average person spends 2 years on the phone (I bet cell phones/mobiles were not taken into consideration when that fact was worked out!!)
* Henry VIII was once served a loin of beef while visiting the house of a noble. He was so impressed with the beef that he asked for a sword and knighted it! Ever since, that particular cut of beef has been known as sirloin. ("Sir Loin").. This is a MYTH
*In a lifetime, the average clean-shaven man will spend five months shaving and will remove 28ft of hair.
*Beethoven was extremely particular about his coffee , he always counted 60 beans per cup.
*In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper had to fix a computer glitch caused by a moth, hence the term 'computer bug'.
*Jupiter is large enough to contain the other major 7 planets in our solar system.
*The water pressure inside every onion cell would be sufficient to explode a steam engine.
*Sunglasses were first worn by film stars, not to look mysterious, but to relieve there eyes from the dazzling glare of the early studio lights
*If you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number, the answer will always be 5.
*Over a 12 day period your body generates a whole new set of taste buds. (This process continues until you are in your 70's.)
*Greyhounds can reach their top speed of 45 mph in just 3 strides
*There is more sugar in 1kg of lemons than in 1kg of strawberries.
*Paraskevidekatriaphobia, is a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th. Therapist Dr. Donald Dossey, whose specialty is treating people with irrational fears, coined the term. He claims, when you can pronounce the word you are cured. Friggatriskaidekaphobia has the same meaning.
*American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class
*Titan arum is probably the world's smelliest flower. Originating in the tropical rain forests of Sumatra, this huge, extremely rare flower is a giant lily. It seldom blooms, but when it does the smell is described as something like the dead carcass of an animal
*A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer
*Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
*Turtles can breath through their bottoms.
*Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
*The buzz generated by an electric razor in America is in the key of B flat. In the UK, it is in the key of G.
*Some of the most popular lipstick shades in Renaissance England were named, Rat, Horseflesh, Turkey, Blood and Puke.
*When Thomas Eddison died in 1941, Henry Ford captured his dying breath in a bottle.
*Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" was the first Hollywood film that showed a toilet flushing - thereby generating many complaints.
*The first flying-trapeze circus act was performed by Frenchman Jules Leotard at the Circus Napoleon on Nov 12th 1859. He invented the garment now known as the leotard.
*In 1972 when Gordon Brown (British Chancellor of the Excheque) was 21, he won a Daily Express competition for "A Vision of Britain In The Year 2000."
*It is said, grapefruit scent makes middle age women seem six years younger to men (but it does not work the other way round).
*The average elephant produces 50lb of dung a day.
*The dinosaur noises in Jurassic Park came from slowing down the sounds of elephants, geese and horses.
*The French invented the pop of the Christmas Cracker in the 19th century (Tom Smith bought the idea back to UK after holidaying in France)
*The chances of hitting 2 holes-in-one during the same round of golf is one in 8 million
*Victorian ladies tried to enlarge their boobs by bathing in strawberries
*Until the 18th century, India produced almost all the world's diamonds
*The ancient Egyptians thought it was good luck to enter a house left foot first
*During their marriage, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton bought an electric chair for their dining room
* The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man
*Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet of which 80% are in-cloud flashes and 20% are cloud-to-ground flashes.
*When screen lover Rudolph Valentino married Jean Acker (on Bonfire Day), she locked him out of their bedroom, the marriage lasted only six hours
*160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road. On paper they can, as the road (actually it's an avenue) is 865 feet wide, but in reality they can't.
*When a female horse and a male donkey mate, the off-spring is called a mule; but when a male horse and a female donkey mate, the off spring is called a HINNY
*On average women speak 7000 words per day, where as men speak just over 2000
*Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
*While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate No.85
*Disney World is bigger than the world's 5 smallest countries
*A house fly hums in the middle octave key of F
*Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor
*In one gram of soil, about ten million bacteria live in it
*A single ounce of gold can be beaten into a thin film covering 100 square feet
*Before the 1800, there were no separately designed shoes for left and right feet
*Paper was invented early in the second century by Chinese eunuch
*The first person to receive a singing telegram was singer Rudy Vallee, in honour of his 32nd birthday, July 28th 1933.
* The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched
*In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase, "Goodnight, sleep tight."
*There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
*A 75-year-old male driver received ten traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road four times, committed four hit-and-run offenses and caused six accidents, all within 20 minutes, in McKinney, TX on 15 Oct 1966 [Worst driver: G. B. of Records]
*The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
*Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Shaghoopal
*The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters. Also in medieval universities, the trivium comprised the three subjects taught first, grammar, logic, and rhetoric, AND the Roman Goddess, Trivia, is the goddess of crossroads, witchcraft and the harvest moon.
*In 1935, the police in Atlantic City, New Jersey, arrested 42 men on the beach. They were cracking down on topless bathing suits worn by men.
*During lunch breaks in Carlsbad, New Mexico no couple should engage in a sexual act while parked in their vehicle, unless their car has curtains.
*The distance between cities are actually the distances between city halls. When you see a sign "Sheffield - 40 miles" it means it is 40 miles to the city hall of that city sign
*The name of Canada is believed to come from the Iroquois Indian word "Kanata", meaning "village" or "community". The word Canada was first used in a 1534 text written by Jacques Cartier describing the Indian village of Stadacona.
*The longest non-medical word in the English language is floccipausinihilipilification (29 letters), which means "the act of estimating as worthless."
*Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags.
*Bees visit over 2,000 flowers and fly over 55,000 miles to produce just 1lb. of honey
*Four out of every ten people who come to a party in your home will look in your bathroom cabinet
*The taboo against whistling backstage comes from the pre-electricity era when a whistle was the signal for the curtains and the scenery to drop. An unexpected whistle could cause an unexpected scene change!
*The sound you hear when macho people crack their knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
*Francis Bacon died of hypothermia while trying to freeze a chicken by stuffing it with snow
*Captain Jean-Luc Picard's (Star Trek) fish was named Livingston
*The WD in WD40 means "water displacement." The 40 in WD40 comes from the 40 attempts at creating this product.
*Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
*Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.
* The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator,
Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
*American car horns beep in the tone of F.
*The only food cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers.
*China has more English speakers than the U.S.
*Hong Kong has the world's largest double-decker tram fleet in the world
*The words silent and listen have the same letters. Santa and Satan do too
*You can tell the sex of a turtle by the sound it makes, A male grunts, A female hisses.
*There are no public toilets in Peru.
*Samuel Clemens [aka Mark Twain] was born in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again
*The pound sign is called a 'octothorp.'
*In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on
the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run
*"Dreamt" is the only word in the English language to end in "mt."
*The Queen termite can live up to 50 years and have 30,000 children every day
*The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging," eveything else was allowed.
*A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout
*The male gypsy moth can smell the virgin female up to 1.8 miles away
*A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away
*The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet out of the body.
*A puff of smoke, such as when someone is smoking a cigarette or a pipe
is called " a lunt "
*The name "Pinocchio" is from Tuscany, Italy and means "pine nut" or "kernel".
*Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy
*It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. It was originally the right, but the translator messed up again.
*Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600's by a translator.
*Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour & if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee
*For 47 days in 1961, the painting "Matisse's Le Bateau (The Boat)" was hanging upside down in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. None of the over 116,000 visitors seem to have noticed.
*Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated.
*Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Animal Kingdom."
*The magic word 'Abracadabra' was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
*The phrase "rule of thumb" was popularized by an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb top to first joint. (a thumb measurement is an inch)
*More redheads are born in Scotland UK than in any other part of the world
*The Sanskrit word for 'war' means - "desire for more cows".
*The average bed is home to over 5 billion dust mites.
*Only female wasps, bees, and mosquitoes sting.
*Las Vegas means "The Meadows" in Spanish.
*Born on November 2, 1718, British politician, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is credited with naming the 'sandwich.' He developed a habit of eating beef between slice of toast so he could continue to play cards uninterrupted.
*Ice hockey was first played in 1885 by British soldiers stationed in Canada
*Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
*Your fingernails grow 4 times faster than your toe nails
*Pain travels faster than 3000 feet per second
*A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person
*About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you
*The snail mates only once in it's entire life, also a snail has 4 noses
*The Coca-Cola company is the biggest consumer of sugar in the world
*The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
*All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split)
*Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott"
*The word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to
exercise naked
*Everyone thought Albert Einstein suffered from dyslexia, because he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old.
*Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots
*The nation of Monaco on the French Riviera, is smaller than Central Park in New York. Monaco is 370 acres and Central Park is 840 acres
*Gweneth Paltrow's nickname for Steven Speilberg is "Uncle Morty." Steven Speilberg calls Gweneth Paltrow "Gwynnie the pooh."
*You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
*The sorcerer's name in Disney's Fantasia is Yensid, which happens to be Disney backwards.
*Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy
*The world's longest name is: Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Shermasn Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Sr.
*Shirly Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday.
* When Christopher Columbus and crew landed in the New World they observed the natives using a nose pipe to smoke a strange new herb. The pipe was called a "tabaka" by the locals, hence our word tobacco.
*Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
*The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
*Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.
*Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
*In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
*Queen Victoria [UK 1837-1901] eased the discomfort of her monthly cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.
*The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. [usually in our sleep] ~ this is a MYTH
*If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough energy is produced to create an atomic bomb
*Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist (William Semple). One way to assure business!!
*The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
*The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
*The Spanish word esposa means "wife." The plural, esposas, means "wives," but also "handcuffs."
*23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
* There was one U.S. state that no longer exists? In 1784 the U.S. had a state called Franklin, named after Benjamin Franklin. But four years later, it was incorporated into Tennessee.
*The clinical term for a hairy buttocks is "daysypgal."
*A duck's quack doesn't echo, and ... no one knows why.~ MYTH everything echoes. University students have recorded a ducks echo. It is usually so quiet we cannot hear it.
*"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. ??? Maybe if said fast.
*Clans many many years ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them, burnt their houses down - hence the expression " to get fired." !!
A: A baby elephant weighs less than a blue whale's tongue
sharks can sense the heartbeat of other fish
donald duck was banned in finland because he doesn't wear pants
the ant is proportionally the strongest animal
cockroaches chew on your eyebrows and lashes
Q: plz read i need to know if you like it cuz i gotta turn it in at school?
Once upon a time in a low populated neighborhood in Antarctica it was a very quiet and safe place.
All the people were friendly. There were hardly any crimes ever but they’re was sheriffs patrolling the neighborhoods and around it was late December. It was very cold it was always cold snow covered the ground all the time everyone knew each other. It was just like any other place but hidden in the most unexpecting place the roads there are un seeable because of the snow.It was a very peacefull town it was almost like the town was too perfect there weren’t that many places to work but you didn’t have to pay bills, or house payments no house markets their elactricy was powered by solar energy and oil from a generator their was plenty of oil so they never run out ever. They weren’t trapped in this place the people their visited their family’s every year once a year for a month all at the same time. Because their was a time in the year where the sun goes out and its dark for a full month.
4 days till darkness month. Anne says’’ I cant believe it this year went by so quick’’ yes it did go bye quick but hey cant wait to see grandma and grandpa right says Marie (Anne’s mom.) ya I cant wait to see them but why cant we have Christmas at our house this year and have them come down here to see us say ann. Mary says consciously ‘‘that is nonsense its to cold here ‘’. Well I’m off to work ma says tom ‘’son wait before you go can you pick up some groceries for me on your way back from work says Maria sure mom says tom and before Maria says goodbye the door is closed and Hes off he gets into his red Chevy pick up and he drives down to the police station to greet his friends and puts on his police uniform and his badge and hat from his locker. Tom is 22 a son of Maria and a brother to Anne. What inspired Tom to become a police officer is the disappearance of his father.
He stays on the case and act secretly as both a cop and a detective by going through the police reports files when everyone leaves the police station. Today he was caught going through the files without permission and was asked to leave why would they make me leave tom says’’ Ive been working as a police officer for 10 years I should at least be able to know what happened to my father’’
1 days till darkness month. Tom walks in the house a day later quietly and then stumbles into his mom where have you been Have you been lurking around the files again like I told you before we don’t know what happened to your father says Maria. How did you know where I was and please mother if you no anything about it tell me I know you are lying you know what happened!!
Ok I should have told you along time ago Tom but you were to young and you wouldn’t understand
But now your getting older I got to tell you someday well ……do you know how we leave every time of the month of December before darkness month we sent you and your sisters to your grandparent’s house and we stayed here to raise money for charity to send to the children in need. That day when the sun went down and these white paled people took your father and drag him off a cliff and he was buried in the snow and we never saw him again. Tom sighed and said’’ im staying here tomorrow hurry board a plane before they’re booked. Toms mother was shocked and broke out in tears she was worried for her son but believed he would make it and trusted him. The next day Toms mothers and sister Anne left to said goodbye to Tom and wished him luck and left to the airport They were the first their they grabbed their tickets and got into a plane a plane to California
Many others in Antartica were fleeing their homes to the airport. Its 6;30 pm the sun is going down.
Tom knew what he was going up against was not going to be easy to be defeat so he waited patiently he still saw some people left behind cooking in their houses or shoveling snow or fixing their trucks.
The sun is going down slowly Tom is ready for anything it is dark he goes inside and try to turn on the lights but they are not working know ones electricity was working. It seems like every second its getting darker and darker. Tom goes outside and then he sees a person on a roof with a black and red cape and he yells out to the person ‘’ does your power work if so can you fix mine the figure turns around and glares at tom with its big red glowing eyes t swiftly fly’s towards Tom grabs him and Swings him into the air and he falls on his back he tries to get up but then a boot hits Tom in the head and he is defenseless he is carried away to castle into the far hills of Admiralty Hills he is putting in a jail cell. Lator on he escapes and runs into vampires which his mother was talking about
They’re are two of them he fights them. He first charges into one of them and it blocks his attacks quickly . he keeps fighting he doesn’t give up and so on loll
Extend
So he finds a map in one of their pockets and goes to the cliff his father was pushed over. After 2 hours of frustrating looking he finds a cave and he walks through and he sees a man with a bear coat on he turns around and its his dad. They survive in the cave for a month and head back to the house and every1 is happy and this stories moral is that If you believe you can do it do it and you fail keep trying and trying to you do it .
A: Creative at least! Honestly it REALLY needs "alittle" work... Sounds like a weird sci-fi movie though.