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Steals and deals
Need to shop? Who doesn’t this time of year? I got some cool links to help the needy on your list. Passwird.com Great deals. Jump on them quick, they tend to die quickly. passwird.com Woot.com If you haven’t wooted, you haven’t lived. One deal, one day. That’s all. They post the new daily deal at [...]
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354.8 ml of beer
The metric system was devised to provide a uniform standard of measurement worldwide. It is based on the decimal system rather than fractions. The International System of Units, established by the Treaty of Meter (1875), provides the base units of the metric system. The United States is a charter member of this international organization having [...]
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Star-spangled and mangled
Hearing the national anthem so much in the last few years got me to thinking. I have sung and heard it so many times but never really broken it down. A bit of background first. Francis Scott Key wrote it on September 13, 1814 while he was stuck aboard a British ship. The Brits detained [...]
