I would probably have to starve myself for a week before attempting it!
Mind you, with my current health in mind (you know about that), my appetite has been virtually non existent for quite some time now so the very thought of it, makes me cringe.
..that the last soldier who was killed in WW 1, was killed at around 10:59 on the 11.of November 2018. It was one minute before the armistice that eventually ended WW 1. Talk about bad timing.
Just to get us back on topic after this burger extravaganza
…that Harrison Ruffin Tyler, who passed away about 6 months ago at the age of 96, was the last surviving grandchild of the 10th US president John Tyler, who was born in 1790.
…that something that looks like a good deal isn’t always a good deal…
Andre-Francois Raffray thought he had a great deal 30 years ago: He would pay a 90-year-old woman 2,500 francs (about $500) a month until she died, then move into her grand apartment in a town Vincent van Gogh once roamed.
In 1927 Professor Parnell heated a sample of pitch and poured it into a glass funnel with a sealed stem. He allowed the pitch to cool and settle for three years, and then in 1930 he cut the funnel’s stem.
Since then, the pitch has slowly dripped out of the funnel - so slowly that it took eight years for the first drop to fall, and more than 40 years for another five to follow.
Now, 87 years after the funnel was cut, only nine drops have fallen - the last drop fell in April 2014 and we expect the next one to fall sometime in the 2020s.
The experiment was set up as a demonstration and is not kept under special environmental conditions - it’s kept in a display cabinet - so the rate of flow of the pitch varies with seasonal changes in temperature.
The late Professor John Mainstone became the experiment’s second custodian in 1961. He looked after the experiment for 52 years but, like his predecessor Professor Parnell, he passed away before seeing a drop fall.
In the 86 years that the pitch has been dripping, various glitches have prevented anyone from seeing a drop fall.
Just be patient.. only 8 years untill the next drop
The pendulum master starts it in the morning at a marker on the ground.
If you come back in the afternoon, you’ll see that the pendulum is no longer swinging in the same direction.
But that’s wrong. It’s still swinging in the same direction. The ground has rotated…and with it, the entire Earth.
That means…Of everything that exists, the whole earth revolves around this thin string in that tower.
…that Jethro Tull is not only an important name in rock history. It is also a most important name in the shaping of modern agriculture.
The English agriculturalist Jethro Tull lived from 1674 to 1741. Taken from Wikipedia: "He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1701 that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows and later developed a horse-drawn hoe. Tull’s methods were adopted by many landowners and helped to provide the basis for modern agriculture.