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Nonsense charms William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 6-12-18
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Nonsense charms the multitude; plain sense is despised.
John Quigg
Is the MD-80 dangerous? The McDonnell Douglas jetliner has been involved in crashes causing 1,1446 deaths since it first flew in 1979. Pretty scary, until you realize it’s competitors the Boeing 737 and the Airbus A320 had crashes involving 4,862 and 1,393 deaths respectively. The 737 first flew in 1966 and the A320 in 1987. Did you know that there is a half-million people in the air at any one time?
Was Reggie Up In Polls Before Pro Life Fed Backstab? — John Haenn’s June 4 interview with Dr. John Huyette regarding the 165th Pennsylvania House District Republican Primary is available as a podcast and can be accessed below.
Haenn hosts WFYL’s Our Time radio show. Huyette reveals to him that non-endorsed challenger Regina Scheerer was likely ahead in the polls until incumbent Alex Charlton radically changed his position regarding abortion — or claimed to anyway — and received an opportune endorsement from the opportunistic Pennsylvania Pro Life Federation.
Huyette also reveals that Mrs. Scheerer had campaigned with Charlton in 2016.
Thousand years William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 6-11-18
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting thou art God. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
Psalms
Destroy democracy William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 6-10-18
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Hitler did not have to destroy democracy; he merely took advantage of the decay of democracy and at the critical moment obtained the support of many to whom, though they detested Hitler, he yet seemed the only man strong enough to get things done.
FA Hayek
How hot are LED bulbs? You won’t burn your fingers on most of them. The tip of a 13W one is about 110F. Your fingers don’t burn until the temp hits 131F.
For what it’s worth, the tip of a 60W incandescent bulb is 357 F and the tip of an 24W CF bulb is 183 F.
Fastest Computer Again American — Summit, the newest supercomputer at US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, has been deemed the world’s fastest, supplanting Sunway TaihuLight.
It can do 200 petaflops, or 200 million billion calculations a second.
Winning is great.
Being ignorant William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 6-9-18
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin
Contradictions William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 6-8-18
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God’s mercy to me.
Thomas Merton
A male gray wolf can eat 20 pounds in a sitting. This is especially remarkable as he only weights between 70 and 145 pounds.