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Originally Posted by Latindancer

To no avail, Tusko died one hour after his LSD dose

Originally Posted by Latindancer

“may prove valuable in elephant control work in Africa.”

about the same as an elephant gun then

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Dr. Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West

A menace to mankind...and elephants.

Fascists in White Coats: The CIA's Dr. Louis Jolyon West & the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Instititute - The Constantine Report

Did you know ... ?

The Scottish kilt was invented by an Englishman ... Thomas Rawlinson.

Fact: bears have 42 teeth.

100 million pieces of “space junk” currently orbit our planet at 17,500 miles per hour.

www.theatlantic.com/video/index/542175/adrift-short-film-space-junk/?utm_source=facebook&utm_term=2018-10-03T22%3A06%3A46&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_med

Originally Posted by SKkin

Fascists in White Coats: The CIA's Dr. Louis Jolyon West & the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Instititute - The Constantine Report

Joe Kennedy Had A Lobotomy Performed On His Daughter Rosemary, Because She Was A Potential Embarrassment To The Family



Rosemary Kennedy was the third child born to Joseph Sr. and Rose Kennedy. She was the younger sister of former President John F. Kennedy, and, due to a possible brain injury that she received at birth (a nurse reportedly held her in the birth canal for two hours while waiting for a doctor to arrive), Rosemary was the mentally slowest person in the entire family. This seemed fine when she was a child, but once she became an adult, her outbursts led her father to seek treatments.

Rosemary's sister, Kathleen, looked into the newest treatment at the time - the lobotomy. She rejected it as an option, but Joseph Sr. secretly took Rosemary to have it performed. It had drastic consequences, leaving her unable to walk properly or speak properly. As a result, she spent the rest of her life hidden away in a residential care facility and her plight inspired one of her sisters, Eunice, to create the Special Olympics.
https://www.ranker.com/list/history-...asedlakhevener






Rosemary wheelchair bound after her lobotomy.
https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion...edy-jfk-sister

A lobotomy, or leucotomy, is a form of psychosurgery, a neurosurgical treatment of a mental disorder that involves severing connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex.[2] Most of the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain are severed. It was used for psychiatric and occasionally other conditions as a mainstream procedure in some Western countries for more than two decades.

In the United States, approximately 40,000 people were lobotomized. In England, 17,000 lobotomies were performed, and the three Nordic countries of Finland, Norway, and Sweden had a combined figure of approximately 9,300 lobotomies.[138] Scandinavian hospitals lobotomized 2.5 times as many people per capita as hospitals in the US.[139] Sweden lobotomized at least 4,500 people between 1944 and 1966, mainly women. This figure includes young children.[140] In Norway, there were 2,005 known lobotomies.[141] In Denmark, there were 4,500 known lobotomies.[142] In Japan, the majority of lobotomies were performed on children with behavior problems. The Soviet Union banned the practice in 1950 on moral grounds, and Japan and Germany soon followed suit. By the late 1970s, the practice of lobotomy had generally ceased.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy

Ancient Egyptian dental work, now c4000 years old.

Would that be copper? Seems to have aged well.

Done well in 60 years!

Originally Posted by jabir

Would that be copper? Seems to have aged well.

Or maybe gold??

Originally Posted by SKkin

Or maybe gold??

Yes, more likely.

Originally Posted by uncle junior

100 million pieces of “space junk” currently orbit our planet at 17,500 miles per hour.

This is a very cool real-time interactive map/model.

Stuff in Space

Originally Posted by Luigi

This is a very cool real-time interactive map/model.

Stuff in Space

Is it more stuff than this stuff in space?
https://www.flightradar24.com/3.37,-1.74/2

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Is it more stuff than this stuff in space?

Less potential casualties to be sure.

...in honour of the discoverer's patron, King George III.

The frequency of cricket chirps varies according to temperature.

To get a rough estimate of the temperature in degrees fahrenheit, count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and then add 37.

Adam Rainer, born in Austria 1899, is the only man in history to be classified as both a dwarf and a giant in the same lifetime.

When World War I broke out, he enlisted in the army at age 15 and height 4' 6", prompting doctors to administer tests which resulted in classifying him as a dwarf and too small and too weak to be an effective soldier. But his hands and feet were exceptionally big for his small size.

At age 21, the typical age a person stops growing, he started growing at some 2" a year to reach 7' 1" 10 years later, at which point doctors stepped in to try and stall his growth rate, with mild success as he died at age 51 and 7' 8".

Beside the quite banal plots in Dan Brown books I have learned few interesting things from history and mathematics, e.g.

FIBONACCI SEQUENCE and GOLDEN RATIO

The Fibonacci Sequence is the series of numbers:

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ...

The next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it.

The 2 is found by adding the two numbers before it (1+1)
The 3 is found by adding the two numbers before it (1+2),
And the 5 is (2+3),
and so on!

And here is a surprise. When we take any two successive (one after the other) Fibonacci Numbers, their ratio is very close to the Golden Ratio "φ" which is approximately 1.618034...
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/f...-sequence.html


And this Golden Ratio number is present around us, see e.g.:

https://www.creativebloq.com/design/...ratio-12121546

Originally Posted by jabir

The frequency of cricket chirps varies according to temperature.

To get a rough estimate of the temperature in degrees fahrenheit, count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and then add 37.

Dolbear's law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolbear%27s_law

Originally Posted by Klondyke

FIBONACCI SEQUENCE

You'd be surprised how many traded instruments use these ratios to "rest" prior to moving up and down in price.

This is what you are.



All the rest is parts and casing.