Your new horns are handmade from durable Neoprene rubber and strung on a strong acrylic polymer jewelry cord. WEARING: It should be as easy as wearing a headband. Place the stretch cord behind your neck, and position the horns at the top of your forehead. Do not place the cord in front of your neck and wear the horns like a party hat–it both looks and feels uncomfortable!
Source: www.goblinart.com
Add comment September 17th, 2007
The item most frequently encountered in MSW landfills is plain old paper—on average, it accounts for more than 40 percent of a landfill’s contents. This proportion has held steady for decades and in some landfills has actually risen. Newspapers alone can take up as much as 13 percent of the space in US landfills.
Organic materials, including paper, do not easily biodegrade once they are disposed of in a landfill. Paper is many times more resistant to deterioration when compacted in a landfill than when it is in open contact with the atmosphere. Research by William Rathje, who runs the Garbage Project , has shown that, when excavated from a landfill, newspapers from the 1960s can be intact and readable.
Source: www.epa.gov
3 comments September 4th, 2007
On Sept. 5, 1882, when about 20,000 working people marched in New York City to demand an eight-hour workday and other labor law reforms. In a parade up Broadway, sponsored by New York’s Central Labor Union, they carried banners reading, “Labor Creates All Wealth” and “Eight Hours for Work, Eight Hours for Rest, Eight Hours for Recreation.” About a quarter million New Yorkers turned out to watch. The fight to preserve overtime pay for more than eight hours of work a day marks this Labor Day 122 years later.
Source: www.aflcio.org/aboutus/laborday/faq.cfm
Add comment September 4th, 2007
Currently this record* is 102,800 feet (around 20 miles). These days it seems there’s always a few teams preparing to beat the record. So keep googling around the internet to see if any of them finally beat it. One day, somebody will. Anyway…
This successful 102,800 foot Air Force test jump was made, from a special high altitude balloon, on August 16, 1960 by Capt. Joseph Kittenger. He was in freefall** for nearly five minutes. Because of the extreme altitudes involved, Joe had to wear an astronaut-style pressure-suit. Keep in mind: the world’s first human astronaut, Yuri Gargarin, had not yet flown into space. Only military test pilots had exceeded 100,000 feet of altitude in experimental rocket aircraft. Joe was making a parachute jump from the edge of space.
Also, at those altitudes the air was so thin, and the resultant aerodynamic drag so small, that Joe approached the speed of sound in freefall (he was clocked at around 614mph — there is some debate that he might have even surpassed the speed of sound. Last I checked, there seems to be wide-spread popular assumption that he did in fact go supersonic, but I don’t know the final scientific data on that claim). An automated camera in the balloon’s gondola took several photos of Joe falling away. One of those photos made the cover of Life magazine, and is truly spellbinding; he looks like an astronaut falling out of a spacecraft in earth orbit.
Source: www.fabulousrocketeers.com
2 comments August 16th, 2007
First you need to have a unit. That means at least two people. You have to portray French or French/Allied troops, or coalition forces ( Russians, Austrians,Prussians, English, Spanish et al) from the period. You have to e-mail us at: info@brigade-napoleon.org and say, “My unit is such and such.” You do NOT have to be a member of the Brigade. You do NOT have to pay or contribute anything except information about your unit at that time. But if you wish to take the field at an event, you must have at least 2 dues paying BN members and have re-eanctors insurance coverage either through the BN or another organization.
Source: www.brigade-napoleon.org
2 comments August 13th, 2007
Couples who introduce vibrators, dildos and other sex toys into their bedrooms have found a easy way to re-introduce the kind of sexy explorations they enjoyed in the beginning of their relationship. Using a vibrator on your partner can increase arousal and maximize pleasure before and during sex.
Persuading a partner to try a vibrator is similar to coaxing them into trying anything new, any type of change. Change can be unsettling. Sexual changes can be even more so because they are so intimate and loaded with emotion.
Some people fear that sex toys might “replace” them. You can reassure your lover that he or she is irreplaceable, that toys are just enhancements that introduce some variety and spice to sex. Do sexy movies replace you for your partner? Of course not. They probably turn your lover on so that he or she enjoys sex with you even more. Tell your partner that you feel the same way about sex toys. More>
Source: www.fantasygifts.com
3 comments August 13th, 2007
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Source: www.bethelacademy.org/faqs.html
1 comment August 13th, 2007
When asking questions of the people on stage, please be courteous. For example, please don’t ask for a kiss, a hug, an autograph, a baby, a prom date, or to give them a copy of your script, résumé or movie. Such requests stop a program in its tracks. These celebrities are taking time out of their busy schedules to see you. Please treat them with respect. Because of time constraints, sometimes not everyone who gets in line will be able to ask a question.
Source: www.comic-con.org
1 comment July 16th, 2007
Good question! There are many tours available which say that the train included in their tours is the “Hogwarts Express” and may even state that theirs is the train which is used in the movies.
At this time, HP Fan Trips are the only tours which include the actual train used as the Hogwarts Express in the filming of the Harry Potter movies. Don’t be fooled by these other claims – the Olton Hall #5972 (the real name of the locomotive) does not run on a regular schedule, it is not on display and thus cannot even be visited by fans unless a company charters the entire locomotive. At HP Fan Trips and Beyond Boundaries Travel, we are proud to be able to bring fans so much joy by riding on the actual, the real, the authentic train used in the movies!
Source: www.hpfantrips.com
2 comments July 9th, 2007
Yes, ingestion of poppy seed bagels or poppyseed cake can indeed cause a false positive on a urine test for opiates. Ingestion of poppy seeds can result in a positive drug test as long as two days after ingestion. According to the myth-busting website snopes, “as little as a single bagel covered with poppy seeds could produce a false positive test for these drugs“.
Source: www.poppies.org/faq/
Add comment July 9th, 2007
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