- Dec 2024
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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he earliest we've been able to get to a case of tukdam is 26 hours after a practitioner has died so we've missed the first full day and there is some reason to believe that that first 24-hour period is is going to be very very important
for - trivia - measuring tukdam after death - 24 hour period immediately following death is important but to date, no data captured - Youtube - Tukdam talk - An Overview Of CHM’s Work On “Well-Being And Tukdam” - Prof. Richard J. Davidson
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Pasqua Rosée opened the first coffee house in London in 1652, prompting a revolution in London society. “British culture was intensely hierarchical and structured. The idea that you could go and sit next to someone as an equal was radical,” says Markman Ellis, author of The Coffee House: A Cultural History.
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La Rotonde
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Paris's Café de Foy
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Where does so much mad agitation come from? From a crowd of minor clerks and lawyers, from unknown writers, starving scribblers, who go about rabble-rousing in clubs and cafés. These are the hotbeds that have forged the weapons with which the masses are armed today.
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quote - Where does so much mad agitation come from? - From a crowd of - minor clerks and lawyers, - from unknown writers, - starving scribblers, - who go about rabble-rousing in clubs and cafés. - These are the hotbeds that have forged the weapons with which the masses are armed today.
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Smyrna Coffee House in London
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the Green Dragon Tavern in Boston
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Grecian Coffee House near Fleet Street
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Jonathan’s Coffee House in Exchange Alley
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Lloyd’s Coffee House
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On June 12, 1672, Charles II issued a proclamation to “Restrain the Spreading of False News, and Licentious Talking of Matters of State and Government,”
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- trivia / history - coffee house - Smyrna Coffee House in London - Benjamin Franklin wrote his famous Open Letter to Lord North satirizing the King's power over the colonies.
- trivia / history - coffee house - Lloyd's coffee house - sailors and merchants conceived of Lloyd's of London Insurance here.
- trivia / history - coffee house - Grecian Coffee House - Isacc Newton and other members of Royal Society frequented - Newton dssected a dolphin on a table at this coffee house - another coffee house introduced the ballot box for voting
- trivia / history - coffee house - Jonathan's Coffee House - stockbrokers traded shares here after closing hours - gave birth to the London Stock Exchange
- trivia / history - Paris Cafes - La Rotonde cafe - Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F.Scott Fitzgerald and T.S. Eliot frequented
- trivia / history - coffee house - The Green Dragon Tavern in Boston - home of the American Revolution - due to many meetings by the Sons of Liberty
- trivia / history - Paris cafes - Cafe de Foy - The Storming of the Bastille was announced here
- trivia - first coffee house in London - opened in 1652 by - Pasqua Rosee - revolution in London society - broke through hierarchy of British society
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- Oct 2023
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harpers.org harpers.org
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tenniscourts are for sun-and-eye reasons al-ways laid lengthwise north-south
I never realized this! Makes perfect sense.
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- Apr 2023
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www.thedailybeast.com www.thedailybeast.com
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And there are some useful bits of trivia, like how the letters for the word TYPEWRITER are all on the top row of a QWERTY layout, presumably to make it easier for typewriter salesmen in their day to impress potential clients with their mastery of the keyboard.
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- Mar 2017
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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What was the first bill to pass through overriding presidential veto?
The Civil Rights Act
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- Feb 2017
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Who was the first chief justice of the United States?
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nixon succeeded ford while in the presidency and it happened to reagan
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Parties
DId You know? There were 5 whigs and 4 federalists to hold the seceratry of the treasury
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Millard Fillmore
Is Filmore the only President to serve without a vice president?
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