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Yes we are 146 yrs old. I remember quite vividly when Canada turned 100. I was still in elementary school and we all got flags and certificates handed out. Lots of celebrations.
Which country gives the largest financial reward to its athletes for bringing an Olympic Gold medal home?
The answer is.......Kazakstan.....awarding $250,000!! followed by Latvia and India!
I guess...
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For years I thought they were all supposed to be amateur too. I think most get around it by endorsing products, not taking a salary and having some other entity manage their money.
Glass takes one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the...
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Back in the day many bananas had quite large seeds, I still remember eating them with large black seeds in the centre, but as you say modern cultivars cannot reproduce that way.
I adopted a new slogan today My weakness is my strength in another post. After thinking about it for a while it sounded too familiar to be my own. thanks to Google I discovered this:-
I came across this puzzle painted on a 17th century jug, while watching an antiques program (to which I am addicted :lol: ) yesterday.
I think it is probably an old well known puzzle but it was...
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Totally agree, did you see the recent one when JP who hadn't been doing very well bought and sold at a loss a small table. Next day, at first shop, there was the table at an even higher price!
I just came from a meeting of Canadian Blood Services. This is Volunteer week here so CBS hosted a pizza dinner by way of a treat for us volunteers plus took the opportunity to read out stats on...
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Probably something do with 'sickle cell' disease which certainly in the UK seems to be endemic in the Afro/Caribbean community, maybe it is one of those diseases that is inherited and transmitted by...