Saturday,
June 15, 2002
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Most
People Don't Know What Chocolate is. The taste most people associate
with chocolate springs from the vanilla and other spices mixed with it.
Milk chocolate is less than 30% chocolate; few, if any milk chocolate
bars ever exceed 20%. http://www.mrkland.com/fun/xocoatl/flavor.htm#candy |
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American's Guide to Canada Most Americans know next to nothing
about their neighbo(u)r to the north, except that Canadians play a
lot of hockey, drink beer, and end sentences with "eh?" These pages,
written by an American who has been living in Canada since 1992, are
intended to give Americans a better idea just what goes on in the
Great White North. http://www.icomm.ca/emily/
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The
Signifigance of Monopoly Tokens? With the tokens serving
as such an important part of Monopoly, it's hard to imagine
the game without them. However, the first game produced in 1935
did not include tokens. Charles Darrow, who originally brought
the game to Parker Brothers, recommended that players use household
items like buttons and pennies to move around the board.
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmonopoly.html
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The Clifford Pickover ESP experiment. The Grovel builder. The History of Bowling Want to know when a spacecraft is flying over your city? Kodak Film Picture of the Day. The U.S. Scavenger Hunt Company. |
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Robert
Crumb - This website is dedicated to the great underground comic
artist Robert Crumb (*1943) who first became famous in 1968. Crumb created
some popular comic characters back then - like Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural,
and Tommy Toilet. http://mitglied.lycos.de/crumbcomics/home.htm |
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Monkeywire, the premier source of monkey and apes news, culls articles
from traditional news services. The list is low-traffic, usually 0-5 news
items per week. Monkeywire subscribers are encouraged to contribute articles.
Once a month (or so), Monkeywire publishes a "monkeys in the media" column,
which includes reviews of monkey books, films, web sites, and travel destinations,
as well as personal ruminations pertaining to monkey and apes. http://www.monkeywire.org/ |
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"Change
is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy
there." |