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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 23, 2023 17:47:48 GMT
The Republican calendar after the French revolution was also popular but very briefly. It was used in France from 1793 to 1805. There are still a few laws in effect in France that use the Republican calendar dates.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 23, 2023 20:51:27 GMT
The Celts were something I knew very little about other than they were quite widespread in western Europe at one time but eventually retreated to virtually just the west and north of the UK. I didn't know much of their history or that there were various groups of them. This is apparently a map of where they were just before the Roman Empire expanded into their lands. Stretched a lot further than I realised -
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Post by patricklondon on Dec 24, 2023 6:28:37 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 24, 2023 6:47:24 GMT
Makes sense that does.
It's said - "It is believed that the Celts were a collection of tribes which originated in central Europe. Although separate tribes, they had similar culture, traditions, religious beliefs and language in common." And - "The ancient Celts were never a single kingdom or an empire, but a collection of hundreds of tribal chiefdoms with a shared culture and distinctive language."
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 30, 2023 19:31:33 GMT
I knew that the video game industry had become bigger than the film industry, but it is now bigger than the film industry and the music industry COMBINED.
70% of the population now plays video games. I confess that I spend more time playing video games than I spend at the movies or listening to music. However, the average age of gamers is 40;
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 7, 2024 8:49:53 GMT
European drag queens (and other users) are stocking up on glitter, because it is going to be banned in the EU in the battle against microplastic pollution.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 18, 2024 17:15:21 GMT
The majority of TikTok users are girls. The majority of Instagram users are boys.
Until the schools start seriously working on this, neither can spot fake news before about the age of 13.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 20, 2024 17:34:33 GMT
Rhode Island is a state not an island.
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Post by whatagain on Jan 23, 2024 18:36:57 GMT
I learned how to use the lever to lower or to put higher the seat of my car. Now I feel like 10 years younger not having to actuall pull myself out of my sunken seat.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 23, 2024 18:51:45 GMT
70% of the population now plays video games. I confess that I spend more time playing video games than I spend at the movies or listening to music. However, the average age of gamers is 40; I don’t play video games and know almost no one who does. Unless they are all in the closet about it…
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 23, 2024 20:57:46 GMT
I spend enough time on the web...video games don't appeal to me much.
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Post by onlyMark on Jan 23, 2024 21:36:26 GMT
I tried with video games early on like you do but all I've ended up with is a word game using anagrams.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 23, 2024 22:03:39 GMT
Something I learned a few minutes ago:
The official name of the Mercado de Abastos in the city of Oaxaca is "Mercado Margarita Maza de Juárez".
I lived in Oaxaca from October 1997 until March of 2023 and never knew this.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 23, 2024 22:26:59 GMT
I tried with video games early on like you do but all I've ended up with is a word game using anagrams. Anything you play on a screen counts as a video game, including the games at Anyport.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 23, 2024 22:31:53 GMT
I beg to disagree, K2. “Video” plays no part in the word games and the Any Port games, like 8 songs or connections.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 24, 2024 3:36:38 GMT
Wordle is a video game, which supplies computer statistics and coloured graphics.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 24, 2024 6:01:11 GMT
No, anything you play on a screen is NOT a video game. Statistics, graphics, clicking to enter things or get reactions or whatever are all feedback supplied by the game's software, not by a video. Wordle and other online games such as the NYT crossword puzzle or Tiles are interactive games. In a vdeo game, the player in effect "enters" the video and alters its course.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 24, 2024 7:09:43 GMT
You think video games are just for racing and shooting aliens? I don't live in that world.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 24, 2024 7:31:33 GMT
You are living in some kind of alternate reality, anyway.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 24, 2024 12:21:33 GMT
I think some people are in denial.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 24, 2024 16:13:59 GMT
I agree with Bixa. There are NO VIDEO COMPONENTS to the word games I play on NYT or APIAS.
Unless you are counting ads that I have no control over.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 24, 2024 16:53:33 GMT
Maybe if we call it a computer game, you will understand. Does your game appear on a computer or telephone screen? Do you take out a sheet of paper to copy down the elements of your game before playing? Or maybe just maybe it is done by video.
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Post by lugg on Jan 24, 2024 20:22:02 GMT
Dr Who is causing huge excitement in Herefordshire as they are filming in one of the county's market towns, at a ( odd) Leominster diner tonight / tomorrow . Huge numbers of people camped out even though it is supposed to be a secret live.staticflickr.com/65535/53485486320_e6985bc24f_c.jpgApparently it will be blown up at some point. ( Lots of thoughts on that too )
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 24, 2024 21:49:26 GMT
Freshly done blonde hairstyle? *check* Bright red lipstick? *check* Tightest sweater? *check* Okay ~~ get on out there and get discovered, Lugg! Had you eaten in that diner before it got discovered?
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 24, 2024 21:59:39 GMT
Freshly done blonde hairstyle? *check* Bright red lipstick? *check* Tightest sweater? *check* Okay ~~ get on out there and get discovered, Lugg! Had you eaten in that diner before it got discovered? Tightest sweater? Oh no! Cold shower time..
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 5, 2024 8:07:42 GMT
A sad statistic.
In Northern Ireland only 8% of schools are catholic/protestant integrated.
Good old religion.
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Post by fumobici on Feb 5, 2024 16:59:25 GMT
A sad statistic. In Northern Ireland only 8% of schools are catholic/protestant integrated. Good old religion. It's like a little slice of the Middle East plopped down into the British Isles isn't it?
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 5, 2024 17:40:16 GMT
A sad statistic. In Northern Ireland only 8% of schools are catholic/protestant integrated. Good old religion. It's like a little slice of the Middle East plopped down into the British Isles isn't it? Probably been going as long.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 5, 2024 17:50:51 GMT
That is a shocking statistic. Guess I'm naive, but I would not have thought the C/P divide still to be so persistent by this time.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 28, 2024 20:12:01 GMT
In WW2 London had the biggest Muslim population in Europe.
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