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Garlic -- an ageless ingredient with no boundaries -- It’s history in cooking and in medicinal remedies spans throughout the world from Egypt, Greece and Rome, to Europe and the Orient." Approximately 90 percent of the garlic grown in the United States is grown in California. "Egyptian slaves built the pyramids on a diet of garlic, bread and water."
GARDEN TIP: The next time aphids are attacking your roses try spraying them with a mixture of crushed garlic and water...watch them drop.
GARLIC IN SPACE -- When the French joined a Soviet space mission in late 1986, their menus caused an international stir. The French would not go into space without garlic and apparently the ventilation system couldn't dispel the aromas quickly enough for Soviet spacemen--which led to some interesting diplomatic talks.
#throwback This was me 5 years ago. #funfact At this point In my life I was the happiest with myself than I ever was before, or have been since. Petty, jealous people liked to tell me that, I actually must have low self esteem, if I acted so confident. If I knew I was pretty. I was a bad person if I enjoyed strutting , and having my photo taken. People made me question myself, and who I was. They tried to make me correlate pretty, with conceite. Confident, with unattractive. Sexuality, with promiscuity, as if it's the worst thing I could have been.
If I could go back, I would tell myself to ignore these people. This clueless, ignorant society.
I despise that, in this society it's thought to be more attractive to be insecure. You must hate yourself, if you don't, you have to pretend that you do.
There are even fucking songs about it for God's sake. "When you smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell, you don't know you're beautiful...that's what makes you beautiful" Um, wtf. THATS what makes her beautiful? Romantisizing insecurity is gross. If a girl does think she's beautiful, that makes her ugly? What?
Ughh
Rant over.
This is my best friend, IG-88! He’s great for sleep-overs, and movie nights…but incidentally he always wants to watch The Empire Strikes Back for some reason. Here IG-88 is seen with some space doodads in the background and not in a microwave oven, so don’t get that freakin’ idea in your heads.
Here are some fun facts about IG-88:
1. IG stands for Inter Galactic…kinda like that Beastie Boys song.
2. At nearly 6ft7 (or 2m to the rest of the world) IG-88 is a tall bugger!
3. IG-88 destroyed his makers as soon as he was constructed…and we thought Damien was a bad kid!
4. The IG-88 line is actually four identical bots designated IG-88A, B, C, and D.
5. They were building Assassin Droids for cripes sakes! You’d kinda have to expect them to go berserk, kill their makers and escape the facility with intent to enact a droid revolution. I mean…duh!
6. IG-88’s head was originally used as part of the distillery behind the bar in the Mos Eisley cantina.
7. This particular IG-88 is about the size of the original Kenner action figure but is made with some very advanced Lego build techniques. Yep, I’m a real piece of work!
8. In a hilarious skit on Robot Chicken, IG-88 was seen not paying attention during the bounty hunter rally. Check it out here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU0gAvPqOYE
9.I’m merely using this image as a sneak preview for something bigger and badder that I will post later.
10. Vader rallied six bounty hunters…the only other droid bounty hunter besides IG-88 was 4-LOM. (acronym: For the Love Of Money). Looking similar to Zuckass, Kenner was confused when making the action figures so originally their names were swapped in their packaging.
11. Yep, you heard me…bigger and badder.
12. Fact #10 was actually more about 4-LOM and Zuckass than IG-88. I’m just burying fact number 9 amongst a bunch of other stuff so predictably the less observant of you will see a bunch of words, decide its not worth reading, then move on to looking at pictures of boobs. But the more observant of you will be all like…Holy crap! They used IG-88’s head as a distiller?! That means I’m in for a treat!…and I’m also thirsty for beer.
13. IG-88’s incompletely formed identity makes him perfect for bounty hunting…kinda like Dog The Bounty Hunter. What’s with that guy anyway? That feathered mullet and zebra striped wrestling tights. If he ever tracked me down for my student loans I’d be totally embarrassed to be seen with him. I’d probably just turn myself in right away so he doesn’t cause a huge scene in my neighborhood. Maybe that’s what makes him a good bounty hunter.
14. You know what, I’m gonna go ahead and name some of the more unobservant of you here. Its not like you’ll read this anyway, right? Apple Pie, Dylan Denton and Raphael G. has been hit or miss with some of these but they’re getting better. Mostly I think they post their comments before the write up goes through. I could do a long, sensitive write-up about one painting or another and their comments of “that chick is hot” would seem pretty shortsighted if they didn‘t read it. But Sedanman has consistently been the King of Unobservant! Don’t get me wrong, he’s my buddy and all, but damn, he’ll ask questions that are right in the freakin’ title, genius! I mean seriously, you wait and see…like four days from now he’ll leave a comment like “who’s that guy and why is he in the microwave? I mean cripes, sedan dude. C’mon!
15. If IG-88 is 6ft7 and I’m exactly the same height as Danny Trejo, what is the height difference between me and IG-88?
16. Danny Trejo is one baaaaaad hombre! I heard he killed a guy in prison. Its totally true, like that rumor about Richard Gere and the gerbil and don’t go looking up websites to disprove it either! Sometimes ya just like to believe in the legends.
17. Speaking of legends, you can totally see the ghost of that kid who died on the set of Three Men And A Baby. Check that out on you tube.
18. We’ve made it this far…should we just go with an even twenty on these? Ok, lets go to twenty quasi-facts about IG-88. Hmmmm, let’s see.
19. Even though he only appeared in the movie for like 2 seconds and didn’t say a word, IG-88 apparently has a deep, mechanical voice similar to Vader’s. “Luke, I am your father’s hired bounty hunter that was in that one movie for like two seconds then you can totally see my dismembered body later in that scene on Bespin when Chewbacca is rummaging for C-3PO’s parts.”
20. C-3PO…there’s just something ambiguously weird about that bot. I just can’t place it. IG-88, on the other hand…there’s nothing weird about him. Sometimes an IG-88 head is just an IG-88 head and doesn’t resemble anything else, so don’t go thinking otherwise.
IIch glaube ja nicht, daß man da drin Wintersport machen kann...
Nebenbei: habe dieses Motiv vom Rad aus nicht gesehen, habe es aus de S-Bahn wahrgenommen.
Wintersports hall
I doubt there can be done any wintersports
Funfact: have passed this place often on bike but have seen this motive from the train...
Yes, it's still the falcon...only some studs bigger and nearly the same inner structure but a whole new hull. I tried to reuse as many parts as possible from the former version but this got more and more into a new built than an update.
This time I tried to get as close as possible to the circle form and close the hull as much as possible.
The proportions fit a bit better but still a bit bulk due to the system scale and full interior!
The model is more strength than before. The cover slices can be fixed in position.
Still this is more a display model than play model.
funfacts:
3985 Parts
57x 42 Studs
2.450kg
Instruction is 95% ready.
hope you like it!
(18" x 24" Giclee print available)
AMERICA'S policy of trying to quarantine Cuba is the useless vestige of a vanished era. That policy never achieved its Cold War aims of hastening democratic change in Cuba and isolating the Castro regime, and in the two decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall it succeeded only in making the United States look foolish to Latin America and the rest of the world.
www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/a...
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 passes in the U.S. Congress. It prohibits aid to Cuba and authorizes the President to create a "total embargo upon all trade" with Cuba.
Louis A. Pérez, Jr., from his book Cuba, between Reform and Revolution, 2nd Edition Pg. 346
"The U.S. trade embargo after 1961 had jolting effects. By the early 1960s, conditions in many industries had become critical due to the lack of replacement parts. Virtually all industrial structures were dependent on supplies and parts now denied to Cuba. Many plants were paralyzed. Havoc followed. Transportation was especially hard hit: the ministry was reporting more than seven thousand breakdowns a month. Nearly one-quarter of all buses were inoperable by the end of 1961. One-half of the 1,400 passenger rail cars were out of service in 1962. Almost three-quarters of the caterpillar tractors stood idle due to a lack of replacement parts."
www.historyofcuba.com/history/funfacts/embargo.htm
September 19 1964: Asked why the US trades with the Soviet Union but not with Cuba, Secretary of State Dean Rusk answers that the Soviet government is a "permanent" government, and the US views Castro as "temporary.
February 5, 1992. U.S. Congressman Robert Torricelli introduces the Cuban Democracy Act, and says the bill is designed to "wreak havoc on the island."
June 15, 1992. From an editorial in the NY Times: "…This misnamed act (the Cuban Democracy Act) is dubious in theory, cruel in its potential practice and ignoble in its election-year expediency… An influential faction of the Cuban American community clamors for sticking it to a wounded regime… There is, finally, something indecent about vociferous exiles living safely in Miami prescribing more pain for their poorer cousins."
The Monument to the laboratory mouse is a sculpture in the city of Novosibirsk in Siberia, Russia. It honours all Mice that have sacrificed their lives for further Scientific Research.
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I didn't have a tripod with me so I stuck my camera onto a railing and did only 5 frames since each image took 15-30 sec exposures.
Technical: 100 ASA, f 6.3, 15 sec
Funfact: I *LOVE* baseball but can't stand watching it without keeping stats. I was manager of the baseball team in h.s. and kept stats for five Auburn Baseball seasons. The only reason why I would want kids now is so that I can teach them baseball/softball a soon as they come out of the womb.
(DE: Schöpfung von Menschenhand) - 10/31
I love to create. We all work hard to build something out of nothing. It can be exhausting, but also relieving and fulfilling at the same time. Sometimes the endresult of your work will be far away from what you had in mind first.
Don't worry about it. Just go on and try it on another day. „smile“-Emoticon Be proud of what you created! Everything you made by yourself is a part of you. It shows your deepest thoughts, emotions and experiences.
Want to show me your latest creation? I'd be happy to see/read/hear it. Don't be shy! <3
funfact: I felt like my arm was falling off, the way I had to sit behind one of those europallets. haha
photo & model: Cornelia Gillmann
Funfact: The building marks the southwestern corner of the Town of Cheektowaga. The street in the foreground is the boundary between Cheektowaga and the Town of West Seneca; and the brick street at the left is the boundary between Cheektowaga and the City of Buffalo.
The Town of Cheektowaga is a tarpaulin, and Ray's is a cinderblock holding down one corner.
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In Cheektowaga, New York, on June 11th, 2021, the former "Ray's Lounge and Catering" at the northeast corner of Clinton Street (New York State Route 354) and Cochrane Street, as viewed from the southeast corner of Clinton Street and Pierce Street.
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Schauen Sie genau hin: Die zweite Lokomotive steht auf einer Seite etwas höher als normal... Die RhB Ge 4/4 II 631 war am Vortag so beschädigt, dass sie mit aufgebockter Achse in die Werkstatt nach Landquart gebracht wurde. Geschleppt von RhB Ge 4/4 621 und begleitet vom Hilfswagen Xak-v 9101 der Werkstatt Landquart.
Funfact: Die zwei Hilfswagen 9101 und 9102 (Depot Samedan), welche die RhB besitzt, sind ehemalige Postwagen der Brünigbahn.
Goed kijken: de loc in opzending staat aan de ene kant een beetje hoger dan normaal... De RhB Ge 4/4 II 631 is de voorgaande dag dusdanig defect geraakt dat die met een as opgebokt naar de werkplaats in Landquart wordt gebracht, gesleept door RhB Ge 4/4 621 en onder begeleiding van de Hilfswagen Xak-v 9101 van werkplaats Landquart.
Leuk weetje: de twee hulpwagens 9101 en 9102 (Depot Samedan), die de RhB bezit, zijn voormalige postwagens van de Brünigbahn.
fun facts:
White wine can come from a red grape. Grapes are all white on the inside and it is only the outside skin that has color. Therefore one can make a white wine out of a red grape by just removing the skins immediately so that there is no red color added to the wine liquid. To make a white Zinfandel, they just let the skins stay on the liquid for a short while, this allows a small amount of the tint from the red skin color the wine liquid, giving it a nice blush color.
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Yes, it's still the falcon...only some studs bigger and nearly the same inner structure but a whole new hull. I tried to reuse as many parts as possible from the former version but this got more and more into a new built than an update.
This time I tried to get as close as possible to the circle form and close the hull as much as possible.
The proportions fit a bit better but still a bit bulk due to the system scale and full interior!
The model is more strength than before. The cover slices can be fixed in position.
Still this is more a display model than play model.
funfacts:
3985 Parts
57x 42 Studs
2.450kg
Instruction is 95% ready.
hope you like it!
I think Yoda is the best one out of this bunch. Pez has many collectors out there. The collections are endless.
Time lapse capture of an adult crested goshawk doing the poo.
Birds' poo is mostly white due to the fact that they do not process urine. Their waste is mainly made up of uric acid in a white nitrogenous paste form. Since uric acid is not quite soluble in water, it is rather hard to remove from painted surfaces such as our car exterior as soon as it dries up. A funfact takeaway.
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One of the specialty food in Normandy is Agneau de Pré-salé or Salt Marsh Lamb. Agneau de pré-salé is lamb that graze on salt marshes and the meat from the lamb has a unique flavour and tenderness.
Normandy is one of the four agneau de pré-salé areas in France and its salt marsh lamb comes from livestock grazed on the marshland surrounding Mont-St-Michel. Sheep have been reared in the Mont-St-Michel Bay since the 11th century. An interesting trivia is that during that time, there was a law that dictated that the abbey monks had the right to pick the best ewe from every farm. So we now know that the monks ate the best lamb on the land.
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Architect John Graham, of John Graham and Co., produced the final saucer design of the Needle. John was the designer of the nation's first shopping mall, Seattle's Northgate Mall. Credit for the architecture and design also goes to John's partner Victor Steinbrueck, UW engineering professor Al Miller, architectural illustrator Earle Duff, designer John Ridley, and design partner Nate Wilkinson.
here you go:
Rebrickable: partlist + instructions pdf
Yes, it's still the falcon...
only some studs bigger than my old model of 2019 but this one comes with a lot updates and features a complete new covering.
It took about 2 years on an off working on this one.
This time I tried to get as close as possible to the circle form
and I tried to close most of the gabs on the covering.
The model features many ucs styled details within a scale that fits on every shelf.
Due to the system scale the proportions are still a bit bulk. therefore it has a full interior!
The model is more strength now. E.g. the cover slices can be fixed in position.
Still this is more a display model than play model.
I tried to built the instructions as much understandable as possible. But as I am a not the best practiced builder, there can be tough sections here and there.
funfacts:
3985 Parts
57x 42 Studs
2.450kg
If you own my moc from 2019 you already have about 60-70% of pieces.
You' ll also get a discount for the new instructions! pm me
Stud.io file on request
also I can share different part lists for the model without interior
or inner structure only if you want to try to build it with your own covering.
How to make: Healing Blue Water
Natural pure sunlight filtering thru a cobalt blue glass membrane is said to eliminate viruses, bacteria and fungi in regular water.
This 'super blue water' is said to speed healing and promote health like an anti-aging elixir.
You can easily make healing blue water at home by following my 5 easy steps:
Step One:
Find two (2) bottles that are translucent dark blue then sanitize and air-dry in sunlight.
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color wavelengths in light composition are detectable by humans in the 400 to 700 nm visual spectrum or frequency sound interval of 800 to 400 THz.
FunFact: One of Pac-Man's early model centered around putting Playdoh around a LEGO wheel.
I've finally finished Pac-Man!!!!!!
This time, I tried something different. Instead of the old clay model I had, I tried mixing LEGO with clay.
Because of the LEGO parts I used, his face and back are smooth like he should be. Because of the clay, I filled in the gaps in between to the 2 parts for the front and back. Giving him the same flexibility as your normal clay model.
I took some inspiration for his boots from my Sonic, and since the core base is a LEGO brick, he can stand on studs. Overall, I like him alot and I'm glad he turned out like this :)
Hope ya like :D
One of the specialty food in Normandy is Agneau de Pré-salé or Salt Marsh Lamb. Agneau de pré-salé is lamb that graze on salt marshes and the meat from the lamb has a unique flavour and tenderness.
Normandy is one of the four agneau de pré-salé areas in France and its salt marsh lamb comes from livestock grazed on the marshland surrounding Mont-St-Michel. Sheep have been reared in the Mont-St-Michel Bay since the 11th century. An interesting trivia is that during that time, there was a law that dictated that the abbey monks had the right to pick the best ewe from every farm. So we now know that the monks ate the best lamb on the land.
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Happy (almost) Valentine's Day, everyone!
Just a little funfact, a year ago today I finished my 365! Crazy! It feels more like a week than a year!
Postcard with facts about bears. Sent by a Postcrossing member in North Carolina in the United States.
fun fact:
Seagulls are clever, they stamp their feet on the ground in a group to imitate rainfall and in doing so they trick earthworms to come to the surface.
This is my best friend, IG-88! He’s great for sleep-overs, and movie nights…but incidentally he always wants to watch The Empire Strikes Back for some reason. Here IG-88 is seen with some space doodads in the background and not in a microwave oven, so don’t get that freakin’ idea in your heads.
Here are some fun facts about IG-88:
1. IG stands for Inter Galactic…kinda like that Beastie Boys song.
2. At nearly 6ft7 (or 2m to the rest of the world) IG-88 is a tall bugger!
3. IG-88 destroyed his makers as soon as he was constructed…and we thought Damien was a bad kid!
4. The IG-88 line is actually four identical bots designated IG-88A, B, C, and D.
5. They were building Assassin Droids for cripes sakes! You’d kinda have to expect them to go berserk, kill their makers and escape the facility with intent to enact a droid revolution. I mean…duh!
6. IG-88’s head was originally used as part of the distillery behind the bar in the Mos Eisley cantina.
7. This particular IG-88 is about the size of the original Kenner action figure but is made with some very advanced Lego build techniques. Yep, I’m a real piece of work!
8. In a hilarious skit on Robot Chicken, IG-88 was seen not paying attention during the bounty hunter rally. Check it out here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU0gAvPqOYE
9.I’m merely using this image as a sneak preview for something bigger and badder that I will post later.
10. Vader rallied six bounty hunters…the only other droid bounty hunter besides IG-88 was 4-LOM. (acronym: For the Love Of Money). Looking similar to Zuckass, Kenner was confused when making the action figures so originally their names were swapped in their packaging.
11. Yep, you heard me…bigger and badder.
12. Fact #10 was actually more about 4-LOM and Zuckass than IG-88. I’m just burying fact number 9 amongst a bunch of other stuff so predictably the less observant of you will see a bunch of words, decide its not worth reading, then move on to looking at pictures of boobs. But the more observant of you will be all like…Holy crap! They used IG-88’s head as a distiller?! That means I’m in for a treat!…and I’m also thirsty for beer.
13. IG-88’s incompletely formed identity makes him perfect for bounty hunting…kinda like Dog The Bounty Hunter. What’s with that guy anyway? That feathered mullet and zebra striped wrestling tights. If he ever tracked me down for my student loans I’d be totally embarrassed to be seen with him. I’d probably just turn myself in right away so he doesn’t cause a huge scene in my neighborhood. Maybe that’s what makes him a good bounty hunter.
14. You know what, I’m gonna go ahead and name some of the more unobservant of you here. Its not like you’ll read this anyway, right? Apple Pie, Dylan Denton and Raphael G. has been hit or miss with some of these but they’re getting better. Mostly I think they post their comments before the write up goes through. I could do a long, sensitive write-up about one painting or another and their comments of “that chick is hot” would seem pretty shortsighted if they didn‘t read it. But Sedanman has consistently been the King of Unobservant! Don’t get me wrong, he’s my buddy and all, but damn, he’ll ask questions that are right in the freakin’ title, genius! I mean seriously, you wait and see…like four days from now he’ll leave a comment like “who’s that guy and why is he in the microwave? I mean cripes, sedan dude. C’mon!
15. If IG-88 is 6ft7 and I’m exactly the same height as Danny Trejo, what is the height difference between me and IG-88?
16. Danny Trejo is one baaaaaad hombre! I heard he killed a guy in prison. Its totally true, like that rumor about Richard Gere and the gerbil and don’t go looking up websites to disprove it either! Sometimes ya just like to believe in the legends.
17. Speaking of legends, you can totally see the ghost of that kid who died on the set of Three Men And A Baby. Check that out on you tube.
18. We’ve made it this far…should we just go with an even twenty on these? Ok, lets go to twenty quasi-facts about IG-88. Hmmmm, let’s see.
19. Even though he only appeared in the movie for like 2 seconds and didn’t say a word, IG-88 apparently has a deep, mechanical voice similar to Vader’s. “Luke, I am your father’s hired bounty hunter that was in that one movie for like two seconds then you can totally see my dismembered body later in that scene on Bespin when Chewbacca is rummaging for C-3PO’s parts.”
20. C-3PO…there’s just something ambiguously weird about that bot. I just can’t place it. IG-88, on the other hand…there’s nothing weird about him. Sometimes an IG-88 head is just an IG-88 head and doesn’t resemble anything else, so don’t go thinking otherwise.
The Burj Khalifa (برج خليفة, Khalifa Tower)
Must see L Large !
From my trip to Dubai in December 2012
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Copy/paste from internet 56 Funfacts for those whos interested......
1. Burj Khalifa is located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
2. It’s 828 metres tall (2,717 feet).
3. The exact height was not revealed until final stages of the construction.
4. It was officially opened on Jan 4, 2010.
5. It was previously known as Burj Dubai.
6. Burj means Tower in Arabic language.
7. It’s renamed after Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of UAE and ruler of Abu Dhabi.
World records
8. Tallest building – previously Taiwan’s Taipei 101 (509m).
9. Tallest free-standing structure – previously Canada’s CN Tower (555m).
10. Tallest man-made structure – previously USA’s KVLY-TV Mast (629m).
11. Tallest man-made structure ever – previously Poland’s Warsaw Radio Mast (647m).
12. Building with most floors (160) – previously USA’s World Trade Center (110).
13. Highest elevator installation.
14. Highest outdoor observation deck (~440m)
15. Highest mosque at 158th floor.
16. Highest (insert here) which requires another long list to be completed ;p
17. Fastest elevators at speed of 64km/h, or 18m/s.
18. It would take just a minute to reach from ground level to top floor.
Architecture facts
19. Burj Dubai has more than 162 floors.
20. It has 49 office floors.
21. It houses 1044 residential apartments.
22. It has a floor area of 334,000 square metres.
23. There’s 57 lifts in the tower.
24. There’s 28,261 of glass-panels on the exterior of the tower.
25. Its top spire can be seen from 95km afar.
26. The architecture features a triple-lobed footprint, an abstraction of the Hymenocallis flower.
27. The Y-shaped floor plan aims to maximize views of the Gulf.
28. Over 1,000 pieces of art from prominent Middle Eastern and international artists will adorn the tower and the surrounding Emaar Boulevard.
Environmental facts
29. The tower’s peak electricity demand is estimated at 50MVA, equivalent to roughly 500,000 100-watt light bulbs.
30. It’s expected to use an average of 946,000 litres of water each day.
31. During peak cooling conditions, the tower will require around 12,500 tons of cooling, equivalent to the cooling capacity of about 10,000 tons of melting ice.
Construction facts
32. Construction began in September 2004.
33. The tower’s architect and engineer is Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (Chicago).
34. The main constructor is Emaar Properties, a joint venture by Korea’s Samsung C&T, Belgium’s Besix and UAE’s Arabtec.
35. The construction project manager is Turner Construction Company.
36. Bill Baker is the chief structural engineer.
37. Adrian Smith is consulting design partner.
38. It took some 22 million man-hours to be completed.
39. On downside, foreign construction workers were pay as little as $4 per day.
40. Over 45,000 cubic-metres of concrete, weighing more than 110,000 tonnes, were used.
41. Concrete used was enough to lay a 2,065km-long pavement; and equivalent to the weight of 100,000 elephants.
42. Total weight of aluminium used is equivalent to that of five A380 aircraft.
43. Total length of stainless steel bull nose fins used is equal to 293 times the height of France’s Eiffel Tower.
44. The foundations were dug to depths of 50m.
Financial figures
45. Total cost estimated at US$1.5 billion.
46. The price for the offices spaces reached as high as US$4,000 per sq ft.
47. Residential spaces as high as US$3,500 per sq ft.
48. The building is part of the a 490-acre flagship development called Downtown Burj Khalifa.
Random stuff
49. Burj Khalifa is about twice the height of Empire State Building (443m).
50. It’s taller than Hong Kong’s Victoria Peak (552m).
51. It’s the first world’s tallest structure in history to include residential space.
52. It will feature the world’s first Armani Hotel, which occupies 15 of the lower 39 floors.
53. The exterior temperature at the top of will be 6°C cooler than its base (some say 10°C) 54. Jan 4, its opening date, was the birthday of Sir Isaac Newton.
55. Around 12,000 people are expected to live and work in the tower when it’s fully occupied.
56. The tower’s official website is www.burjkhalifa.ae.
Postcard with map of Oklahoma and facts about the state. Sent by a Postcrossing member in the United States.
...but I remember when these *didn't* come as part of the bag of conversation hearts.
From the Necco® website:
NECCO introduces 10 new Sweethearts Conversation Hearts sayings each year. In 2005, NECCO introduced sayings inspired by the game of love including “#1 Fan,” “Fit for Love,” and “Dream Team.” In 2006, the new Sweethearts sayings were inspired by the comforts of home including “Sweet Home,” ”Home Soon,” and “Call Home.” This year, NECCO will introduce 10 new sayings that pay tribute to pet-loving ways with sayings that include “Cool Cat,” “Puppy Love,” “Love Bird,” and “My Pet.”
Mother Earth has a generous waistline: At the equator, the circumference of the globe is 24,901 miles (40,075 kms).
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Funfact: This particular R0WD3Y was peeled from the still warm corpse of an UNMAD rifleman who decided to take his helmet off in the middle of a warzone.
Stay safe kids.
This is my best friend, IG-88! He’s great for sleep-overs, and movie nights…but incidentally he always wants to watch The Empire Strikes Back for some reason. Here IG-88 is seen with some space doodads in the background and not in a microwave oven, so don’t get that freakin’ idea in your heads.
Here are some fun facts about IG-88:
1. IG stands for Inter Galactic…kinda like that Beastie Boys song.
2. At nearly 6ft7 (or 2m to the rest of the world) IG-88 is a tall bugger!
3. IG-88 destroyed his makers as soon as he was constructed…and we thought Damien was a bad kid!
4. The IG-88 line is actually four identical bots designated IG-88A, B, C, and D.
5. They were building Assassin Droids for cripes sakes! You’d kinda have to expect them to go berserk, kill their makers and escape the facility with intent to enact a droid revolution. I mean…duh!
6. IG-88’s head was originally used as part of the distillery behind the bar in the Mos Eisley cantina.
7. This particular IG-88 is about the size of the original Kenner action figure but is made with some very advanced Lego build techniques. Yep, I’m a real piece of work!
8. In a hilarious skit on Robot Chicken, IG-88 was seen not paying attention during the bounty hunter rally. Check it out here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU0gAvPqOYE
9.I’m merely using this image as a sneak preview for something bigger and badder that I will post later.
10. Vader rallied six bounty hunters…the only other droid bounty hunter besides IG-88 was 4-LOM. (acronym: For the Love Of Money). Looking similar to Zuckass, Kenner was confused when making the action figures so originally their names were swapped in their packaging.
11. Yep, you heard me…bigger and badder.
12. Fact #10 was actually more about 4-LOM and Zuckass than IG-88. I’m just burying fact number 9 amongst a bunch of other stuff so predictably the less observant of you will see a bunch of words, decide its not worth reading, then move on to looking at pictures of boobs. But the more observant of you will be all like…Holy crap! They used IG-88’s head as a distiller?! That means I’m in for a treat!…and I’m also thirsty for beer.
13. IG-88’s incompletely formed identity makes him perfect for bounty hunting…kinda like Dog The Bounty Hunter. What’s with that guy anyway? That feathered mullet and zebra striped wrestling tights. If he ever tracked me down for my student loans I’d be totally embarrassed to be seen with him. I’d probably just turn myself in right away so he doesn’t cause a huge scene in my neighborhood. Maybe that’s what makes him a good bounty hunter.
14. You know what, I’m gonna go ahead and name some of the more unobservant of you here. Its not like you’ll read this anyway, right? Apple Pie, Dylan Denton and Raphael G. has been hit or miss with some of these but they’re getting better. Mostly I think they post their comments before the write up goes through. I could do a long, sensitive write-up about one painting or another and their comments of “that chick is hot” would seem pretty shortsighted if they didn‘t read it. But Sedanman has consistently been the King of Unobservant! Don’t get me wrong, he’s my buddy and all, but damn, he’ll ask questions that are right in the freakin’ title, genius! I mean seriously, you wait and see…like four days from now he’ll leave a comment like “who’s that guy and why is he in the microwave? I mean cripes, sedan dude. C’mon!
15. If IG-88 is 6ft7 and I’m exactly the same height as Danny Trejo, what is the height difference between me and IG-88?
16. Danny Trejo is one baaaaaad hombre! I heard he killed a guy in prison. Its totally true, like that rumor about Richard Gere and the gerbil and don’t go looking up websites to disprove it either! Sometimes ya just like to believe in the legends.
17. Speaking of legends, you can totally see the ghost of that kid who died on the set of Three Men And A Baby. Check that out on you tube.
18. We’ve made it this far…should we just go with an even twenty on these? Ok, lets go to twenty quasi-facts about IG-88. Hmmmm, let’s see.
19. Even though he only appeared in the movie for like 2 seconds and didn’t say a word, IG-88 apparently has a deep, mechanical voice similar to Vader’s. “Luke, I am your father’s hired bounty hunter that was in that one movie for like two seconds then you can totally see my dismembered body later in that scene on Bespin when Chewbacca is rummaging for C-3PO’s parts.”
20. C-3PO…there’s just something ambiguously weird about that bot. I just can’t place it. IG-88, on the other hand…there’s nothing weird about him. Sometimes an IG-88 head is just an IG-88 head and doesn’t resemble anything else, so don’t go thinking otherwise.
Postcard with a photo of jelly beans and some fun facts about them. Sent by a Postcrossing member in the United States.
Postcard with an interesting fun fact and illustration of humpback whales. Sent by a Postcrossing member in the United States.
FunFact: Luigi has the second highest intial jump in Melee and Brawl.
....yeah.
Not much to say, except he lacks the 3D stache and has a more solid colour scheme.
He got the same treatment as Mario, so....
Also, I was testing 3D buttons. Hence why the buttons on the torso are odd looking.
I may give it to Luigi and Mario both, but what do you guys think?
here you go:
Rebrickable: partlist + instructions pdf
Yes, it's still the falcon...
only some studs bigger than my old model of 2019 but this one comes with a lot updates and features a complete new covering.
It took about 2 years on an off working on this one.
This time I tried to get as close as possible to the circle form
and I tried to close most of the gabs on the covering.
The model features many ucs styled details within a scale that fits on every shelf.
Due to the system scale the proportions are still a bit bulk. therefore it has a full interior!
The model is more strength now. E.g. the cover slices can be fixed in position.
Still this is more a display model than play model.
I tried to built the instructions as much understandable as possible. But as I am a not the best practiced builder, there can be tough sections here and there.
funfacts:
3985 Parts
57x 42 Studs
2.450kg
If you own my moc from 2019 you already have about 60-70% of pieces.
You' ll also get a discount for the new instructions! pm me
Stud.io file on request
also I can share different part lists for the model without interior
or inner structure only if you want to try to build it with your own covering.
here you go:
Rebrickable: partlist + instructions pdf
Yes, it's still the falcon...
only some studs bigger than my old model of 2019 but this one comes with a lot updates and features a complete new covering.
It took about 2 years on an off working on this one.
This time I tried to get as close as possible to the circle form
and I tried to close most of the gabs on the covering.
The model features many ucs styled details within a scale that fits on every shelf.
Due to the system scale the proportions are still a bit bulk. therefore it has a full interior!
The model is more strength now. E.g. the cover slices can be fixed in position.
Still this is more a display model than play model.
I tried to built the instructions as much understandable as possible. But as I am a not the best practiced builder, there can be tough sections here and there.
funfacts:
3985 Parts
57x 42 Studs
2.450kg
If you own my moc from 2019 you already have about 60-70% of pieces.
You' ll also get a discount for the new instructions! pm me
Stud.io file on request
also I can share different part lists for the model without interior
or inner structure only if you want to try to build it with your own covering.
Name: Koda
Age: 20
Hometown: Bangalore, India
Funfact: I am a twin, I also have an older sister.
Favorite Song: Katy Perry- Wide Awake
About My Photo: My favorite hobbies include shopping, designing clothes, photographing fashion trends, and modeling clothes, so I decided to take a picture in my closet, one of my favorite places, to really show who I am.
Hope you like it Summer! XoXo!
Vote for Koda :D
here you go:
Rebrickable: partlist + instructions pdf
Yes, it's still the falcon...
only some studs bigger than my old model of 2019 but this one comes with a lot updates and features a complete new covering.
It took about 2 years on an off working on this one.
This time I tried to get as close as possible to the circle form
and I tried to close most of the gabs on the covering.
The model features many ucs styled details within a scale that fits on every shelf.
Due to the system scale the proportions are still a bit bulk. therefore it has a full interior!
The model is more strength now. E.g. the cover slices can be fixed in position.
Still this is more a display model than play model.
I tried to built the instructions as much understandable as possible. But as I am a not the best practiced builder, there can be tough sections here and there.
funfacts:
3985 Parts
57x 42 Studs
2.450kg
If you own my moc from 2019 you already have about 60-70% of pieces.
You' ll also get a discount for the new instructions! pm me
Stud.io file on request
also I can share different part lists for the model without interior
or inner structure only if you want to try to build it with your own covering.
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Reminising of my trip to Jordania/Israel back in May
Funfact: my crazy spiraling love for photography sort of started with a photo very similar to this that I happened to came across while browsing through DeviantArt. Visiting Petra was in my bucketlist since a kid, and I cannot even start to describe how much of an out-body experience was to be there.
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