[QUOTE=Xyzzy;427335][URL]https://vimeo.com/76684408[/URL][/QUOTE]
Pretty slick!

[YOUTUBE]P2fXTf2hcoA[/YOUTUBE]

LOL! I didn't get it at first. It sounded like a semi or firetruck.

Ukrainian man, 23, poses as US high school student for four years
 

[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35662211"]A Ukrainian man has been arrested[/URL] after he was found to be posing as a high school student in the US state of Pennsylvania for four years.

[QUOTE]Artur Samarin, 23, enrolled at Harrisburg High under the name "Asher Potts" after his visa expired in 2012.

Police say he now faces charges of theft, identity theft and tampering with public records.

Mr Samarin, who was pretending to be 18, was said to be an active member of the school community.
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This is pretty good WTF material, as well.

[url]http://xkcd.com/1040/large/[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;427489][URL]http://xkcd.com/1040/large/[/URL][/QUOTE]
This is a great visualization aid.

We saw a historical marker today but so far we haven't been able to find out much about it.

We also saw our first E-85 fuel pump.

:mike:

I suppose it relate to this
[URL]http://msgw.org/tishomingo/ChiefTishomingoChickasawWarriorandChieftain.pdf[/URL]
[quote="pdf"][FONT=serif]Tishomingo, a renowned warrior and chieftain of [/FONT][FONT=serif]the Chickasaws, lived in what is now the [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]Bethany Community, in the northwestern part of Lee County, but at the time of Tishomingo's [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]residence was a part of Pontotoc County. He[/FONT][FONT=serif]re Tishomingo owned two sections of land. These [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]lands are described in an old record book in th[/FONT][FONT=serif]e Chancery Clerk's office at Pontotoc as "Sections [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]13 and 24, township 7, range 5, east of the basis meridian, Pontotoc County." These lands were [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]allotted Tishomingo under the Treaty of Pontotoc, [/FONT][FONT=serif]in 1832. Section 78 of the same treaty also [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]made the further provision for Tishomingo: [/FONT][FONT=serif]“The Chickasaws feel grateful to their old ch[/FONT][FONT=serif]iefs
for their long and faithful services in attending [/FONT][FONT=serif]to the business of the Nation. They believe it a [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]dutty to keep them from want in their declining [/FONT][FONT=serif]age. With these feelings, they have looked upon[/FONT]
[FONT=serif]their old and beloved chief Tishomingo, who is [/FONT][FONT=serif]now grown old, and is poor and is not able to [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]live in that comfort which his valuable life and [/FONT][FONT=serif]great merit deserve. It is therefore determined[/FONT]
[FONT=serif] to give him out of national funds one hundred [/FONT][FONT=serif]dollars [sic] a year during the balance of his life,
and the Nation requests him to receive it as a [/FONT][FONT=serif]token of their feelings for him, on account of his
long and valuable services." [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]
Cushman, the historian of the Chickasaws, says of Tishomingo: [/FONT][FONT=serif]"He was a wise counselor and
brave warrior among [/FONT][FONT=serif]the Chickasaws, which is about all that has [/FONT][FONT=serif]escaped oblivion; little has
been preserved of his life [/FONT][FONT=serif]by tradition or otherwise. He was the acting [/FONT][FONT=serif]Tishu Miko of
[B]Ishtehotopah[/B] (the king) at the time of the removal of his people to the west. He [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]died in 1839, a year before his royal master. He was appointed during life as one of the chief [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]counselors of Tshtehotopah, and when he advised [/FONT][FONT=serif]the king, upon any mooted question, so great [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]was his influence over the other counselors, as [/FONT][FONT=serif]Governor Harris stated, that they at once [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]unanimously acquiesced in his propos[/FONT][FONT=serif]ition, but invariably with the [/FONT][FONT=serif]reiterated exclamation, “That's [/FONT]
[FONT=serif]just what I thought!” "That's just what I t[/FONT][FONT=serif]hought!" While the king said little, he generally [/FONT]
acquiesced to Tishomingo's suggestion
[/quote]

Santorini Eruption Radiocarbon Dated to 1627-1600 B.C.
 

Article is [URL="http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/santorini/minoan_eruption/1613bc_olive-tree-date.html"]here[/URL]. Not at all new news, but I was previously unaware of the details.
[QUOTE] by Walter L. Friedrich, Bernd Kromer, Michael Friedrich, Jan Heinemeier, Tom Pfeiffer, and Sahra Talamo
[B]Science[/B], 28 April 2006: 548 [URL="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;312/5773/548"]Abstract[/URL] [URL="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;312/5773/548"]Full Text[/URL] [URL="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/sci;312/5773/548"]PDF[/URL] [URL="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;312/5773/548/DC1"]Supporting Online Material[/URL]

This article published the results of our recent study to provide the most precise absolute date for great Plinian "Minoan" eruption on Santorini about 4000 years ago available so far, to 1613 +-7 years BC. It made the cover of Science in 2006, but the story behind starts 4000 years ago, or on a personal scale, in late 2002. The following is a short, mostly personal addendum to the story, from the point of view of the finder of the olive branch (Tom Pfeiffer).[/QUOTE]

:mike:

I had a teacher whose married name was 'Hockersmith'.