Life is Just…..: Just Stuff
Array The largest islands are Spitsbergen, Nordaustlandet, Barentsøya, Edgeøya and Prins Karls Forland.Norway is given sovereignty over SvalbardCities on Svalbard Longyearbyen (Norwegian administrative centre) 1 700 inhabitants. international research centre) 40 inhabitantsSveagruva (Norwegian mining community) 210 commuters.Hornsund (Polish research station) 8 inhabitantsInfrastructureThere is no regular boat transportation between the mainland of Norway and Svalbard.
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-ne Things You Might Not Have Known 1) Money isn’t made out of paper. 11) A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2. 20) Chocolate kills dogs. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog. 24) Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode. 33) Upper and lower case letters are named upper and lower because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters. 36) The numbers 172 can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. 38) The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. 39) There are 4 cars and 11 lightposts on the back on the US 10 dollar bill. 43) If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes and 4 pennies, you’d have .19. 60) The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. 62) Back in the mid to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn’t considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.
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THE GODFATHER (1972)4. THE GODFATHER PART II (1974)33. WEST SIDE STORY (1961)42. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)52. THE THIRD MAN (1949)58. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)65. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)66. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)68. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)69. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)71. FORREST GUMP (1994)72. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)74. THE GOLD RUSH (1925)75. DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)76. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)78. GUESS WHOâS COMING TO DINNER (1967)100. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)
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they tried to take her off yesterday, but her heart rate skyrocketed so they had to turn it back on. she did open her eyes while we were there and we got to tell her happy birthday (she turned 63). So she eventually fell back to sleep and we left for fear of waking her again. I’ll either go back today or tomorrow.It’s still so ungodly hot here.
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Array The largest islands are Spitsbergen, Nordaustlandet, Barentsøya, Edgeøya and Prins Karls Forland.Norway is given sovereignty over SvalbardCities on Svalbard Longyearbyen (Norwegian administrative centre) 1 700 inhabitants. international research centre) 40 inhabitantsSveagruva (Norwegian mining community) 210 commuters.Hornsund (Polish research station) 8 inhabitantsInfrastructureThere is no regular boat transportation between the mainland of Norway and Svalbard.
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-ne Things You Might Not Have Known 1) Money isn’t made out of paper. 11) A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2. 20) Chocolate kills dogs. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog. 24) Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode. 33) Upper and lower case letters are named upper and lower because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters. 36) The numbers 172 can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. 38) The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. 39) There are 4 cars and 11 lightposts on the back on the US 10 dollar bill. 43) If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes and 4 pennies, you’d have .19. 60) The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. 62) Back in the mid to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn’t considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.
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THE GODFATHER (1972)4. THE GODFATHER PART II (1974)33. WEST SIDE STORY (1961)42. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)52. THE THIRD MAN (1949)58. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)65. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)66. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)68. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)69. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)71. FORREST GUMP (1994)72. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)74. THE GOLD RUSH (1925)75. DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)76. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)78. GUESS WHOâS COMING TO DINNER (1967)100. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)
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they tried to take her off yesterday, but her heart rate skyrocketed so they had to turn it back on. she did open her eyes while we were there and we got to tell her happy birthday (she turned 63). So she eventually fell back to sleep and we left for fear of waking her again. I’ll either go back today or tomorrow.It’s still so ungodly hot here.
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