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so I took  French as a kid in school, and our teacher used to order us these little cahiers for our classwork--she liked that they were 'authentic' or whatever. she also gave us blank dictionaries, which we filled in with all the words we learned over the course of however long we took the french. probably a long shot, but i want to find out what ( Read more... )

I hope this is an okay question to ask here, otherwise just tell me!

I wonder what this thin paper material is called that you often use when you make cards or decos. It looks like this:


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Hello, all! I hope someone can help me. On (probably) Law and Order SVU, once, when the police went to bust into someone's apartment who was suspected of having child porn on his computer, they were foiled by a homemade device consisting of some kind of wiring around his door that would be tripped or engaged and would wipe all data from his hard ( Read more... )

What is the actual name for those paddles used to shock a heart back into beating?

Edit: Defibrillators!

(also sorry for forgetting to tag)

What do you call that thing that people hold when they're sun tanning?  The shiny thing.  I'm aware I sound silly.  Please help!

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Does anyone know what stone is in Meryl Streep's necklace in the film It's Complicated? It's a large, purplish-iridescent stone.

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I was watching the movie Teenage Dirtbag this weekend and one of the characters takes something (some sort of drug I guess...) in the middle of class. He then started seizing and foaming at the mouth. I'd never heard of/seen anything like the drugs he took and I was wondering what they were supposed to be. They're black, shaped like squares, ( Read more... )