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Singer-songwriters are the world's gift!
To assimilate a complex narrative with pretty words flowering together, textured with rhymes and music, is one of the greatest of talents
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Isadora Duncan, considered the mother of modern dance, lost her two children along with their governess when their car tragically went off a bridge just outside Paris and into the Seine in 1913.
 Later in 1927, she was riding in an Amilcar CGSS in Paris when her long scarf blew into the wind and got wrapped around a rear axle, pulling her out of the car and breaking her back. She was 50 years old. 
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 A damaged Japanese Showa/Nakajima L2D Transport photographed on Saipan - June/July 1944 The Showa/Nakajima L2D was a license-built version of the Douglas DC-3 and was the most important Japanese transport in WW2, the L2D was given the Allied code name “Tabby”. Nakajima Hikoki acquired the license rights to bulld the DC-3 from the Douglas Aircraft Company for $90,000 in February 1938. Originally powered by imported Pratt & Whitney radial engines, the first L2D prototype flew in October 1939 and entered production in 1940 with Mitsubishi radial engines, many different variants of the L2D were built during WW2, none survive today. I had never heard of the DC3 built under license by the Japanese. I had heard of the Russian version. LIFE Magazine Archives - Peter Stackpole Photographer
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Everyone you meet knows something you don't. - - - and a whole bunch of crap that is wrong. Disclaimer: the above was 2¢ worth. More information is available as my professional opinion, which is provided for an exorbitant fee. 
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Yup, that is what I have always said---chasing their tails.
Also, they are catalyzing the next ice age with all their BS and fixing .
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When loading grain into cargo holds in old sailing ships it's important to collapse any air pockets to maximize the grain in the hold. Longshoremen would load the grain into the hold. Prostitutes waiting on the dock for the longshoremen to finish their day would often be put to use walking around on the loaded grain to compact it. This is how they came to be called "Tramps".
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I did not know that.
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They were doing the "Tramp Stamp"
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John Tyler, the tenth president, born in 1790, has a living grandson (93).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ruffin_Tyler
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The torsion bar suspension was invented by Porsche GmbH, patented in 1931.
Used in Porsche cars, Battle Tanks, Chrysler products, Auto Union GP cars, lots of other applications.... 
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
Spades – King David Clubs – Alexander the Great Hearts – Charlemagne Diamonds – Julius Caesar |
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If a statue of a person in the park on a horse
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The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.
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Refrigerated rail cars were first used to transport beer. This invention enabled Budweiser to become the first national-known brand.
During the 1930s, about half the population of the US smoked cigarettes. Back in the day, Philip Morris added ethylene glycol to their cigarette tobacco in order to reduce the irritation of 'smoker's cough'. Yes, the same stuff that's found in antifreeze. The most common street name in the US is 2nd Street.
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Carrera
1980 Porsche 911 SC
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