Read what you have time for below & save the residuum for a stormy/ blustery/dilatory interval while the charming/exquisite/vernal/ aestival season is bursting out all over. Our goal is to promote a non- threatening and productive office & university environment and to establish language that is gender- neutral, ethnic-neutral, and age- neutral while celebrating our spirit of diversity.
A guy was trying to teach his UNC girlfriend how to play golf and figured that the best place to start was the driving range. Upon arrival, the UNC coed sees a sign that says the golf balls rent by the bucket..large $4.50, medium $3.00 and small $1.50. She turned to her boyfriend and said "How can you tell the large balls from the small balls, they all look the same size to me".
Grover Cleveland is the only United States president to have been married in the White House.
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There is a house in Rockport Massachusetts, built entirely of newspaper. The Paper House at Pigeon Cove, as it is called, is made of 215 thicknesses of newspaper.
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The distance from Honolulu to New York is greater than the distance from Honolulu to Japan.
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The Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia, has nearly 68,000 miles of telephone lines.
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Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa on a piece of pinewood, 77 cm x 53 cm (30 in. x 20 7/8 in.) in the year 1506.
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Roses
The Romans were enamored with the smell of roses. According to historians, Nero had pipes installed under banquet plates to allow his guests to be spritzed with rose scent between dinner courses.
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Butterfly
The monarch butterfly can discern tastes 12,000 times more subtle than those perceivable by human taste buds.
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"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy."
Kite aerial photography (KAP) has arrived! It is a whole new way of capturing images. By launching a camera on a kite, you get a topsy- turvy view of the world.
Familiar subjects appear drastically different when shot from above. A palm tree becomes a fireworks display. A fountain becomes a meteor. Just wait until you view the clip of Bryce Canyon...
This is really dramatic -- almost addictive! http://thehaefners.com/kap/gallery/
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