In the Line of Duty: Dangers, Disasters and Good Deeds

'Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.'

"The history of America's postal service is filled with stories of those who risked their lives for the mail. The events of September and October 2001 have brought the courage and strength of these workers to light again.

'In the Line of Duty: Dangers, Disasters and Good Deeds' is an exhibition dedicated to America's postal workers. The exhibition opened at the National Postal Museum on October 8th, 2003."

View the exhibition: In the Line of Duty: Dangers, Disasters and Good Deeds

In the Line of Duty: Dangers, Disasters and Good Deeds

'Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.'

"The history of America's postal service is filled with stories of those who risked their lives for the mail. The events of September and October 2001 have brought the courage and strength of these workers to light again.

'In the Line of Duty: Dangers, Disasters and Good Deeds' is an exhibition dedicated to America's postal workers. The exhibition opened at the National Postal Museum on October 8th, 2003."

View the exhibition: In the Line of Duty: Dangers, Disasters and Good Deeds

Internet Sacred Text Archive

"This is a quiet place in cyberspace devoted to religious tolerance and scholarship. Open Source for the Human Soul.

This site is a freely available archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language.

This site has no particular agenda other than promoting religious tolerance and scholarship.

The texts presented here are either original scans from books and articles clearly in the public domain, material which has been presented elsewhere on the Internet, or material included under fair use conditions in printed anthologies."


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Sushi Images

"Home-made sushi, good sushi, bad sushi, ugly sushi... let's see it all. Send your sushi images to: sushi.now@tamw.com"

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Modern Tails Luxury Pet Boutique

ModernTails: Are you having trouble finding the purrfect gift for fido or fluffy?

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Cameraman Details Marine's Role in Mosque Shooting

Kevin Sites is a freelance solo journalist currently on assignment for NBC News in Iraq. He is the journalist that filmed a marine who appears to shoot and kill an unarmed and wounded Iraqi prisoner in an NBC News video. Read the first public description of the events by the cameraman, Kevin Sites, since his brief and somewhat ambiguous initial report. On his blog site look for "Sunday, November 21, 2004, Open Letter to Devil Dogs of the 3.1"

Visit: Kevin Sites Blog

Emily Post—Holiday Tipping

"The holiday season is the perfect time to say “thank you” to those who have provided service to you throughout the year—to let them know you’re pleased with what they do for you. Don’t forget that one of the best ways to express your appreciation is a hand-written note, which should accompany any holiday tip."

Emily Post—Holiday Tipping

Cenoté

"East of the major Chichén Itzá ruins is a dark underground world the Mayans called Cenoté. They are deep water filled sinkholes formed by water percolating through the soft limestone above. Since the porous soil held little water, these underground bodies were extremely important to the city. A visit to one is a spine chilling experience. Entry is through a vertical hole with narrow stair steps carved by the Mayan's themselves. The air is thick and musty. One misstep on the slimy ledges threatens to send you falling over 20 feet."

Visit the dark underground world of a Cenoté

THE LEONIDS: King of the Meteor Showers!

"LATE EVERY AUTUMN around November 18th, in the still, silent hours before dawn, dedicated meteor watchers have long kept a vigil.  In the cold, early morning darkness the sky glimmers with a preview of early spring constellations. The Leonid meteors at their peak are capable of producing the grandest display of celestial fireworks known to man.  For about an hour or so the heavens seem to burst open and pour forth a deluge of shooting stars.  The spectator stands agape, his mind numbed, his eyes dazzled, and his soul thrilled by the sight of shooting stars appearing by the hundreds . . . perhaps even thousands per hour.  The Leonids historically are active between November 14th and 21st.  The source of the Leonids was first identified in 1866 by the Italian astronomer, Giovanni Schiaparelli (of Martian canali fame)."

THE LEONIDS: King of the Meteor Showers!

White Earth Land Recovery Project

"The mission of the White Earth Land Recovery Project is to facilitate recovery of the original land base of the White Earth Indian Reservation, while preserving and restoring traditional practices of sound land stewardship, language fluency, community development, and strengthening our spiritual and cultural heritage."

Learn more about the White Earth Land Recovery Project

chratychica.com

"Glittery ideas to brighten up the vida loca..."

crafts - Drama - Glitter

Numbers Stations

"For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the worlds intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of “Numbers Stations”.

Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication. Spies located anywhere in the world can be communicated to by their masters via small, locally available, and unmodified Shortwave receivers. The encryption system used by Numbers Stations, known as a “one time pad” is unbreakable. Combine this with the fact that it is almost impossible to track down the message recipients once they are inserted into the enemy country, it becomes clear just how powerful the Numbers Station system is."

Tune in and learn more about The Conet Project

Famous quotes, quotations, and proverbs

"Large collection of famous quotations that will amuse, motivate, and inspire you. Also contains photographic gallery of famous people, online games, shopping, and classic books.

Quotable online - Famous quotes, famous quotations, quotable quotes and quotable proverbs

Paint by Numbers

"Welcome to SegPlay™..the neatest way to play with Photographs on the Web!! We've taken our Segmation Technology and come up with a fun and interactive experience to allow to you color in detailed patterns of photographs and well known art images, without lifting a paint brush or crayon.  You'll see the amazing detail and beauty that we've revealed in these pictures.  No artistic skill or technical ability is needed here.  Of course, we've included a "beat the clock" coloring mode, for those of you who like to be challenged!"

SegPlay

Odd jobs

Jobs to most mean 9-to-5 drudgery. But as professionals like the contorotionist and odor judge reveal, there's always and alternative to the pedestrian world of action items, cubicles and voicemail.

View: Odd Jobs

Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site

"The sport where YOU are the search engine. A GPS device and a hunger for adventure are all you need for high tech treasure hunting. Here you can find the latest caches in this fun and exciting sport. Geocaches can now be found in over 200 countries!

Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache."

Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site

Abandoned Subway Stations in New York City

Abandoned Stations: Interesting look at New York's subway system. And remember this: "Please don't wander into non public parts of railroad tunnels. It is against the law, and it is dangerous."

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Longest Burning Light Bulb in History

"Welcome to the homepage devoted to the Longest burning Light Bulb in history. The average light bulb lasts for 750 to 1,000 hours. The carbon filament bulb burning in the fire department in Livermore, California has been burning since 1901."

Learn more about this long-life bulb at: Livermore's Centennial Light

View the BulbCam at: BulbCam Updates every 30 seconds.

Roman Numeral and Date Conversion

Ever find yourself wondering as the credits roll on a movie when that movie was made? You wait right to the end for the copyright date and what do you see? © MCMLXXXVII

Help is just a web site away. This site includes a handy Arabic number and Roman numeral convertor. Just enter MCMLXXXVII and press the button, all will be revealed.

Visit: Roman Numeral and Date Conversion with Roman Calculator & Test

Music, links, and related artists .

Frederic Vavrille, who lives in Paris, sat down with a sheet of paper and drew a graph of 200 artists, linking similar styles. Colorful bubbles that link related artists and groups to one another.

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ACT, GRE, SAT, Free Test Prep

"Number2.com was founded by professors and graduate students who wanted to make high quality test preparation universally accessible. Vin Crespi, now a professor of physics at Penn State, launched a preliminary version of the site in 1995, but it was in 2000 that Vin joined forces with Eric Loken and Josh Millet to form a company and undertake a comprehensive site redesign. Eric and Josh, who were at that time pursuing doctorates at Harvard, had taught free SAT courses in inner-city Boston and seen first hand the demand for test prep from students who couldn't afford to pay the fees charged by traditional test prep companies. Delivering test prep over the internet, at no charge to students, was the best way to reach as many students as possible. Number2.com is able to provide its courses for free because of the generous support of its sponsors: mostly Universities and student loan companies."

ACT, GRE, SAT, Free Test Prep from Number2.com.

How to Fold a Shirt

View this riveting how-to-fold-a-shirt video from Japan and be amazed at how fast you can fold a shirt. Stop wasting time folding shirts the normal way! How to Fold a Shirt shows you the latest techniques and tricks to fold t-shirts, sweaters, dress shirts and more; the RIGHT way!


Fold Like a Pro

Paper Toys - Paper Cut-Outs

Paper toys, models, cut-outs and more. Here's a small list of the items you find at this site:

Wrigley Field
U.S. Capitol Building
Mississippi Queen Riverboat
Tyrannosaurus Rex
'Old Glory' Desktop Animated Flag
Frank Lloyd Wright House
Neuschwanstein Castle
Sydney Opera House
Bruce Lee Paper Doll
White House
World Trade Center Complex
'If You Ever' Card
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Angkor Wat
Bill Gates' House
Chrysler PT Cruiser
Taj Mahal

Visit: Paper Toys - Paper Cut-Outs - Custom Paper Models at
PaperToys.com

Amusing Flanedotes

"Amusing Flanecdotes

In El Salvador, flan is called flan de horchata because it is made with a milk-based almond drink sold across the country.

The Mexicali Blues Cafe in Teaneck, New Jersey makes flan flavored with kahlua and laced with pomegranate seeds.

On April 11, 1994, Taste It Presents, a company in Kenilworth, New Jersey that makes prepackaged foods sold at gourmet shops, released four frozen confections including flan in its 'Desserts Espanol' series.

Attention travellers. Dining out and eating flan? In Sacramento, California, flan will cost you $3.50 at Tortola's or Bull Market. Paella's in Washington D.C. will charge you $2.75."

Learn more: Mr. Smarty Pants Amusing Flanedotes

Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders

"This site provides a web-based method of easing the proofreading work associated with the digitization of Public Domain books into Project Gutenberg e-books. By breaking the work into individual pages many proofreaders can be working on the same book at the same time. This significantly speeds up the proofreading/e-book creation process.

When a proofer elects to proofread a page of a particular book, the text and image file are displayed on a single web page. This allows the page text to be easily reviewed and compared to the image file, thus assisting the proofreading of the page text. The edited text is then submitted back to the site via the same web page that it was edited on. A second proofreader is then presented with the work of the first proofreader and the page image. Once they have verified the work of the first proofreader and corrected any additional errors the page text is again submitted back to the site.

Once all pages for a particular book have been processed, a post-processor joins the pieces, properly formats them into a Project Gutenberg e-book and submits it to the Project Gutenberg archive."

Visit: Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders

Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004

"Welcome to Electoral Vote Predictor 2004, which tracks the electoral vote (EV) state by state. In 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote by over half a million votes but George Bush won the electoral vote by 5 votes and became president. Thus watching the electoral vote is more important than watching the national polls. This website is dedicated to tracking the electoral vote by examining the state-by-state polls. As new state polls are released, the maps, spreadsheets, tables, graphs, and movies will be updated. In the maps, the white states are essentially tossups and are subject to rapid fluctuations. The magic number needed to be elected is 270."

Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004

The Electoral College

"The current workings of the Electoral College are the result of both design and experience. As it now operates:

Each State is allocated a number of Electors equal to the number of its U.S. Senators (always 2) plus the number of its U.S. Representatives (which may change each decade according to the size of each State's population as determined in the Census).

The political parties (or independent candidates) in each State submit to the State's chief election official a list of individuals pledged to their candidate for president and equal in number to the State's electoral vote. Usually, the major political parties select these individuals either in their State party conventions or through appointment by their State party leaders while third parties and independent candidates merely designate theirs."

The Electoral College

About Daylight Saving Time - History, rationale, laws & dates

"Come learn the history of daylight saving, from Benjamin Franklin to the present...

Just as sunflowers turn their heads to catch every sunbeam, so too have we discovered a simple way to get more from our sun.

We've learned to save energy and enjoy sunny summer evenings by switching our clocks an hour forward in the summer."

About Daylight Saving Time - History, rationale, laws & dates