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veefer800canuck:
Oldest operating lightbulb still on after 110 years:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/good-news/world-oldest-light-bulb-still-burning-bright-110-174107117.html

veefer800canuck:
According to the account given by the crew of the Dei Gratia, they approached to 400 yards from the Mary Celeste and cautiously observed her for two hours. She was under sail, yet sailing erratically on a starboard tack, and slowly heading toward the Strait of Gibraltar. They concluded she was drifting after seeing no one at the helm or even on deck, though the ship was flying no distress signal.

Oliver Deveau, chief mate of the Dei Gratia, boarded the Mary Celeste. He reported he did not find anyone on board, and said that "the whole ship was a thoroughly wet mess". There was only one operational pump, two apparently having been disassembled, with a lot of water between decks and three and a half feet (1.1 m) of water in the hold. However, the ship was not sinking and was still seaworthy.

http://www.maryceleste.net/part2.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste

satxbonneville:
This aerial photograph shows the remains of a Nike missile battery in Hampton, VA. It's a couple of miles from Langley, AFB and just about 1/2 mile from where I attended grades 7-9 (69-72). The school is in the lower right portion of the picture and is easy to pick out because of the track/football field. The missile site is about 1/3 of the way down from the top on the left hand side of the picture - there is what looks like an open parenthesis about 1 inch in the the edge of the picture (it's kinda faint) which is pretty much all that remains of the site and is the berm around the assembly and service area. Back then the area around the battery was all woods and farmers fields and the road that runs E-W through the middle of the picture stopped at the school yard.

http://msrmaps.com/image.aspx?S=10&T=1&X=1883&Y=20507&Z=18&W=2

Here is a list, with GPS coordinates of all of the Nike missile battery sites in the US. How close were you and never knew?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nike_missile_locations

mxvet57:
Quote from: The Reaper on April 12, 2011, 08:22:30 AM

The state of Wisconsin rates #1 for binge drinking and has three times more taverns than most other states in the country.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/30903834.html

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/31237904.html

No new news here.

All the Harley's need a place to park.

veefer800canuck:
Quote from: mxvet57 on August 27, 2011, 07:02:11 PM

No new news here.

All the Harley's need a place to park.

:facepalm:

No random 411, no link. Fail.

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Just outside Butte, Montana lies a pit of greenish poison a mile and a half wide and over a third of a mile deep. It hasn’t always been so – it was once a thriving copper mine appropriately dubbed “The Richest Hill in the World.” Over a billion tons of copper ore, silver, gold, and other metals were extracted from the rock of southwestern Montana, making the mining town of Butte one of the richest communities in the country, as well as feeding America’s industrial might for nearly a hundred years.

By 1983, the hill was so exhausted that the Anaconda Mining Company was no longer able to extract minerals in profitable amounts. They packed up all the equipment that they could move, shut down the water pumps, and moved on to more lucrative scraps of Earth. Without the pumps, rain and groundwater gradually began to collect in the pit, leaching out the metals and minerals in the surrounding rock. The water became as acidic as lemon juice, creating a toxic brew of heavy metal poisons including arsenic, lead, and zinc. No fish live there, and no plants line the shores. There aren’t even any insects buzzing about. The Berkeley Pit had become one of the deadliest places on earth, too toxic even for microorganisms. Or so it was thought.

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-pit-of-life-and-death/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Pit

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