I also remember when you had to double the price showing on the pump because the dials didn’t go above $1/gallon. If the price was, say $1.20 per gallon they would set the pump to 60¢. In the early 70s I remember paying 19¢ per gallon.
The equilux is the date that is closest to having exactly 12 hours of daylight. For areas north of about 37°N, today is the equilux. For most areas south of 37°N, it was yesterday. [Note, these lines are different every year.]
The FBI spent years investigating an anti-goth cult that didn’t even exist.
After a worried goth contacted the FBI about the ‘Church of the Hammer’ and their Yahoo group ‘GodHatesGoths,’ concerns grew and the Bureau launched an official investigation.
It continued for over 2 years before they realized the entire thing was completely fake and intended to be a joke - which had been written as a disclaimer on the website all along.
Hm, reminds me of the time that they thought that there was an elusive LGBTQ activist that was roaming America “sowing discord“, because evidently they heard a bunch of folks using the euphemism “friends of Dorothy“ and assumed it was an actual person and not… y’know… a Wizard of Oz reference.
In this gallery, we showcase 30 paintings by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), the Dutch post-impressionist painter whose use of form and colour changed the world of art forever. The selection here is presented in chronological sequence to show the artist’s progression in style from his early interest in capturing humble peasant life to his spell in Paris and on to the iconic works he produced in the unique light of southern France. The gallery shows van Gogh’s most celebrated works, the friends he made, his various haunts in Arles, and his love of painting still life and landscapes in a way that nobody had ever quite done before.
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