Coffee is the hot beverage of choice in Europe, the Americas, and the Arabic world, with tea occupying that position in Britain, China, and India. In Arabia, the oily coffee berries were used as a medicine and fermented to make wine almost 2,000 years ago. There are many legends about how the stimulating properties of coffee came to be recognized. One legend traces coffee’s first use as a beverage...
Kamis, 30 Desember 2010
Top 5 Reasons NOT to Drink Soda
1. Soda is one more cause of the climate crisis. We have exported our carbon dioxide addiction all around the world. Just think of the costs in fuel to ship it—and the emissions produced. Maybe if we stop drinking so much of it, the appeal of American sodas will decline elsewhere. And at least in most other countries, the local soda is still made with real sugar!2. Yeah, yeah, yeah…high-fructose corn...
Skip Milk? 5 Reasons Why
1. Dairy cows are fed the wrong food, which not only changes the nature of the milk but causes health problems for the cows. They are fed soy, corn, cottonseed meal or other commercial feeds, which contain all sorts of things including chicken manure and citrus peel cake, laced with pesticides. These foods are not appropriate for cows, who are ruminants and should be feeding on green grass in the...
Protect Yourself From the Top 10 Frauds and Scams
Unscrupulous schemers and scammers have become trickier and harder to spot than ever, thanks to more sophisticated marketing and the availability of online information. But don’t worry: Your pocket can’t be picked without some participation by you. If you know what to watch out for and how to protect yourself, you can keep your hard-earned money safe. Here, the top ten financial fleecing tricks...
Porsche tractor gallery
see the whole gallery at http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/2010/11/porsche-tractors.h...
Something new in the world of 3 wheelers
No information, just a gallery of photos on http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/2010/11/pak-rak.html...
president of the Packard Motorcar Company in a 1913 Packard doing a trailblazer journey across the USA scouting a route for the Lincoln Highway
photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=930...
1933, 5:54pm, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Long Beach. Imagine what the result of that catastrophe would be today in LA rush hour?
for a photo gallery, or to read about it: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-longbeach_1933earthquake-pg,0,3546233.photogall...
The Big Boy, used coal so fast that shovels couldn't feed it fast enough, so they built a conveyor belt direct from the coal to the firebox
photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=927...
1910's to 1950's fire engines
1910 Peerless 1928 Seldon and I noticed that this and the 1910 Peerless are moth barked Ft Washington 1941 Ames Iowa photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=927...
The High and Mighty, mopar engineers and (street racers by night) used it to develop intakes and engines
above photo via http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/ photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=927...
In the woods of Maine are the neglected remains of two locomotives
The Eagle Lake and West Branch (ELWB) Railroad Locomotive #1, was built in June 1897 at Schenectady Locomotive Works (4-6-0 stamped #4552), it was originally a steam locomotive but later converted to burn crude oil to eliminate the forest fire threat caused by cinders. Number 1 was purchased by Great Northern in 1926 and used to haul pulpwood...
Don't let them get caught in the floods, keep them high and dry
Novel solution!photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=927...
For an easy going enjoyable older movie, DC Cab. Its rated R, so send the kids to the other room, but Mr T, Gary Busey, Max Gail, and Bill Maher star
Sounds like a Richard Pryor swearfest, but it's got Checker cabs throughout, car chases, good guys becoming a team and facing the bad guys, solving a kidnapping, and overcoming adversi...
1 of 3 existing BMW R51 RS factory race bikes in unrestored condition getting auctioned
Read about the sad true story of how the first owner was ruined by the US Govt because he was German immigrant businessman at the beginning of WW2, just like many Japanese Americans were. He was the BMW importer in New York, and managed to finagle one of these seventeen R51RS racers from the factory. In truth, BMW sold very few motorcycles...
Real Burgers vs Ad Burgers
The Wendy's Double Baconatorpromotional picturerealityThe McDonald's Double Quarter-Pounder with Cheesepromotional picturerealityThe Whataburger 5-3-1promotional picturerealityThe BK Stackerpromotional picturerealityBurger King's Texas (Double) Whopperpromotional picturerealityBelieve it or not, though, they look a lot better piled one on...
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