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Post by lagatta on Nov 8, 2018 17:24:51 GMT
Of course the remarkable equality of Rwandan women was also an outcome of a genocide that seemed in that case to have targeted men more than women. Yes, a tragic shortage of men, but the more positive outcome, if one could say that, was attempting to find another approach to politics.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 8, 2018 18:44:41 GMT
After the Great War, men were sorely lacking in several European countries, but that did not advance the cause of women.
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Post by whatagain on Nov 8, 2018 20:24:05 GMT
You had to wait for WW2 for that. Men got the right to vote after WW1, women after WW2 when it was finally acknowledged all the things they did to replace men - on the front or in case of French or Walloons (not Flemsih mind you) men who spent 4 years in prison camps in Germany.
I learned what anisotropy means. I consider it as some kind of deformation of light through glass that makes it appear different. Anyway, it is bad for sales so I have to negotiate systems that measure it. Good for me. A word that gives me work.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 8, 2018 20:36:15 GMT
So then glass is an isotropic material. (Didn't that make me sound smart? I just looked up anisotropy )
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Post by questa on Nov 8, 2018 21:25:29 GMT
In South Australia women got the right to vote AND stand for Parliament in 1895
The whole country had to wait until 1902 for these rights.
However the percentage of the population of young men who died was immense.
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Post by Kimby on Nov 9, 2018 2:53:51 GMT
The first woman elected to the US House of Representatives was Montana’s Jeannette Rankin, in 1916, four years before national women’s suffrage. Out west, women worked alongside their menfolk and were just as gritty as them. Miss Rankin was born about a mile away from where I live. She was a “Progressive Republican”. Difficult to imagine such a thing today.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 14, 2018 6:29:39 GMT
The countries with the lowest birthrate in the world are Cyprus and Taiwan (1.0). South Korea, Andorra, Puerto Rico and Thailand are at 1.2. Bosnia-Herzegovina, Poland, Moldavia and Japan are at 1.3.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 14, 2018 14:21:50 GMT
Over my life, so far, I have produced 3,281kg of poop. Also, I farted 300,132 times producing 27,333 litres of fart gasses. Also 26,383 litres of wee. The best thing is that if I did nothing but rest all day I could still eat about 2.6 pizzas as that is the amount of calories I need to just run my body. I like that thought. I hope with anchovies, but definitely no pineapple. If you could strip me down and sell all of my chemical elements I'd be worth $2,919. My heart has beaten 2,300,000,000 (2.3 billion) times. By the way, I've also grown 4.0 metres of armpit hair. No idea where that all went though. www.bbc.com/earth/story/the-making-of-me-and-you
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 14, 2018 14:28:43 GMT
I have also read that women fart more than men, but there is a conspiracy to suppress that bit of information.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 14, 2018 14:59:18 GMT
I have also read that women fart more than men, but there is a conspiracy to suppress that bit of information. Too much information.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 14, 2018 15:55:09 GMT
Suppressing farts is not a good thing.
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Post by questa on Nov 14, 2018 22:48:30 GMT
If all of the US citizens released their farts at the same time you would get a Trump-etting sound.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 15, 2018 1:47:48 GMT
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Post by rikita on Nov 15, 2018 1:50:53 GMT
searching videos of a musician i like, i learned there is a jazz festival high up in the mountains. i think i'd like to go there some day ...
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Post by questa on Nov 15, 2018 10:30:48 GMT
Hey, rikita, looks more like a "rock" concert...take a cushion.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 15, 2018 12:35:52 GMT
There are more than 120 versions of sign language, to the extent that British deaf and American deaf cannot even understand each other. No change there from the hearing public!
A sign language Esperanto was invented in 1970, but it never caught on. No change there from the hearing public!
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Post by Kimby on Nov 15, 2018 13:33:26 GMT
:-)
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 17, 2018 18:40:13 GMT
K2 is a vitamin.
The main source is fermented soy beans rarely eaten outside Japan and never in Paris.
Apparently it’s an acquired taste.
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Post by questa on Nov 17, 2018 22:34:53 GMT
K2 - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2The mountain is believed by many to be the world's most difficult and dangerous climb, hence its nickname "the Savage Mountain". As of July 2010, only 302 people have completed the ascent, compared with over 2,700 who have ascended Everest. ... Thirteen climbers from several expeditions died in the 1986 K2 Disaster.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 17, 2018 22:50:07 GMT
Yes, I always think of K2 as a mountain. I suppose that I am a sort of internet monument.
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Post by questa on Nov 17, 2018 23:10:31 GMT
K is for Karakoram...the mountain range in Pakistan where it abuts the Pamirs and the Hindu Kush. 12 of the world's top 20 highest mountains rise from this tangled web of rock. The '2' is to show it is the 2nd highest peak after Everest, although some say that it is now higher.
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Post by rikita on Nov 18, 2018 1:00:40 GMT
yeah i also always have to think of the mountain when i read k2.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 18, 2018 6:31:28 GMT
And also part of that range is another killer mountain, Nanga Parbat of which I just so happen to have a photo of the sign on the Karokoram Highway in northern Pakistan telling you -
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Post by bjd on Nov 18, 2018 7:19:16 GMT
Don't they count in metres in Pakistan? What does "142 RMB FWO" mean?
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 18, 2018 8:24:31 GMT
Yes, I always think of K2 as a mountain. I suppose that I am a sort of internet monument. Indeed you are our rock Kerouac. (Pass the bucket)
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Post by rikita on Nov 18, 2018 8:25:26 GMT
the nazis called the nanga parbat "schicksalsberg" (fate mountain), because of various failed attempts to climb it in the 30s ...
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 18, 2018 8:26:38 GMT
Besides it being an old sign, mountain heights were usually given in feet, especially in ex-UK colonial countries. It also sounds more. That's why even now in the UK if it's going to be hot we mention, especially in the newspapers, the Farenheit figure, but if it's going to be cold, then in Celcius. Distance signs are now in kilometres but when I used to frequent the country there were still innumerable road marker posts still in miles. FWO = Frontier Works Organisation, comprising of military and civilian engineers as part of the Army and responsible for building the Karakoram Highway amongst many other things. 142 RMB is just the army group within the FWO. It could be RMB means Road Maintenance Brigade.
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Post by questa on Nov 18, 2018 11:33:23 GMT
Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), today’s most versatile and vibrant construction firm, was established on 31 October 1966 to wrought a miracle and carve out a modern highway, the Karakoram Highway, across crags and crevices of the highest mountain ranges of the world. It was towards the completion stage of KKH that the Government analyzed the tremendous potential of FWO in carrying out civil engineering projects in difficult and inhospitable areas and decided not only to keep FWO in existence, but also to expand its tentacles throughout the country.
I would hazard a guess that the 142 rmb is in acknowledgement of the particular team who undertook that section of road. Something like 142 Road Making Brigade FWO. When I went along this route in 2007 the Chinese were doing most of the work, ahead in costs and time. The locals were still fighting wars and were way behind in their project.The road before the chinese section was a narrow, steep goat track of a road, unpaved and unprotected from sharp corners or passing trucks. It is quite an adventure..wish I could see it again, and the giant mountains.
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Post by questa on Nov 18, 2018 11:38:26 GMT
Sorry folks, I didn't see Mark's post until after I'd posted. At least we agree.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 18, 2018 13:43:49 GMT
Fascinating stuff. It seems a Chinese thing going back to the American railroad.
They built the big cricket stadium in Grenada too.
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