Category: Omnibit

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-31-16

The last spots on Earth to move on to 2017 will be Baker Island and Howland Island in the middle of the Pacific.  They are the only named places in the time zone UTC 12:00.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-31-16 Baker Island

 

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-30-16

Oil spread on water can stop small waves. Benjamin Franklin knew this. His walking stick had a special compartment in which he would keep cooking oil. He would wave it over ponds in Philadelphia, calm the waters and mess with people’s heads.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-30-16

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 12-29-16

Most Americans will get cancer, research indicates. Chalk it up to the benefit of living to an old age. Autopsy studies suggest that 80 percent of American men in their 80s have small amounts of cancer in their prostate. Most of this went undiagnosed, though, because it never caused any problems.

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 12-29-16 Most Americans will get cancer Most Americans will get cancer

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-28-16

Gaza, as in that place of controversy in the Mideast, was founded by people from Crete — called  Philistines in the Bible — more than 1,100 years before Christ. Palestine is a word first used by the Ancient Greeks,

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-28-16 Gaza

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-26-16

What happens to an ant dropped from the top of the Empire State Building? It falls at at about 4 mph, lands on the ground and crawls away. Even a mouse would survive. Anything bigger, not so much.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-26-16