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Chilly? Have some chilis!
I need to figure out which peppers rate where on the heat scale, specifically for a recipe I've been tweaking. I really love my base combination of bell peppers (one sweet, one green), an onion, pineapple, and zucchini, but I have had a hard time finding the right hot pepper for the job. I have tried a jalapeño, which worked pretty well but was a ( Read more... ) -
&spades &hearts Playing Card Players &diams &clubs
I wanted to know who each of the face cards in a deck were supposed to represent. It turns out there are two major types of card designs: the French and the Anglo-American.
The French deck characters are as follows:- The King of Spades is King David, second king of Israel.
- The Queen of Spades is Pallas Athena, of ancient Greek myth
- The Jack of Spades ( Read more... )
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Temporary Posts
I just want to start posts about various topics so I don't forget things I think of and want to research. I don't want to miss the forest for the trees, as it were. Right now my list is:
- spiderwebs - what are they made of and what is the mechanism of the spiders' glands that excrete the stuff?
- crickets - I know they chirp differently based on ( Read more... )
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Sundials
Since this idea started with a question of mine about sundials, that'll be the first entry. I was thinking about sundials one day, and I wondered if an hour measured with a sundial in the summer would be the same length as one measured on a clear day in the winter.
First of all, a sundial's style, or the thing that casts the shadow on the correct ( Read more... )
