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My first thought was, "But goldfish don't have hair!"...
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Fuller explanations https://imgur.com/gallery/2UjVeLM
Apparently there are only about 20 paintings that are accepted as being painted by Leonardo da Vinci, and none of them are signed.
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Size comparison...
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Something that makes me curious about is Irish priests who go to America
Do they have to apply do interviews etc or simply just travel over and join a parish
Can imagine a lot of parishes around the globe are full of politics
Nice! I'm in the market for some drop bear deterence.
Our last Parish Priest was headhunted by a recruiter. A Fr. Buzz Cagney if memory serves me correct. He was supposed to go to Beverly Hills. Or Compton or somewhere like that.
Be careful, as far as I know drop bears adore vegemite!
We’ve had a family friend a priest out in Pasadena, California for a number of years…. Before that for around 20 years he was in Peru….
you need to receive a job offer before heading there , you can’t go hang around and then get lucky with a job..
he literally went from one of the poorest parishes on the planet to one of the most affluent….
he has his own bungalow, garden, pool, they lease a nice car for him etc… he was living in a monastery type deal before that with SFA.
Clever.
There's this guy....
...And then there's this lad here.... worth a watch.
So a misogynist?
Nauru is the only country in the world without an official capital. Once known as Pleasant Island, it is the third smallest country by area and second smallest by population. The 21-square-kilometre island country, located in the Central Pacific, houses a little over 10,000 residents. Interestingly, Nauru has no armed force and Australia is responsible for its defence. It was once the richest country in the world, due to deposits of phosphates that were formed by bird faeces. However, once the bird faeces finished, the economy of the country also collapsed.
Air Nauru used to have enough airline capacity for 10% of its population, and regularly ran flights with no passengers (though there may have been cargo). An average flight was 20% full. The phosphate mining subsidised it; when that ran out, the airline effectively collapsed. It used to operate between Nauru and 30 other locations in the Pacific; now it only flies to Brisbane.
In ancient Rome, 25th of December was a celebration of the Unconquered Sun, marking the return of longer days. It followed Saturnalia, a festival where people feasted and exchanged gifts. The church in Rome began celebrating Christmas on December 25 in the 4th century during the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor, possibly to weaken pagan traditions.
There's a lot of guff about Christmas and other festivals at the same time. The rest is history podcast has a good recent episode on it.
Switzerland hasn't an official capital. Bern acts as a de-facto capital.
The US government had a statement prepared in case Aldrin and Armstrong didn’t return safely from Appolo 11
https://www.archives.gov/files/presidential-libraries/events/centennials/nixon/images/exhibit/rn100-6-1-2.pdf
Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, who was executed aged 80 in 1747 at the Tower of London for high treason.
The execution was considered so significant by King George II that the monarch put up additional stands for the extra spectators who wished to witness the event. But one of these platforms is said to have collapsed moments before the execution, killing about nine people. Legend has it that this caused Fraser – nicknamed the Old Fox for his devious reputation – to laugh while the axe fell, coining the phrase “laughing his head off”.
The RTÉ show Operation: Transformation has never quite taken off internationally... but there have been Belgian and Welsh editions of the show, Let's Get Fit and Ffit Cymru, respectively.
La Dolce Vita
