Opposable Thumbs

We have thumbs. Animals don't. The rest is history.

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Phone Call

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Ben Frankin’s Inventions #86 - the glass Armonica “Of all my inventions, the glass armonica has given me the greatest personal satisfaction.” Benjamin Franklin was inspired to create his own version of the armonica after listening to a concert of Handel’s Water Music which was played on tuned wine glasses. Benjamin Franklin’s armonica, created in 1761, was smaller than the originals and did not require water tuning. Benjamin Franklin’s design used glasses that were blown in the proper size and thickness which created the proper pitch without having to be filled with water. The glasses were nested in each other which made the instrument more compact and playable. The glasses were mounted on a spindle which was turned by a foot treadle.

Ben Frankin’s Inventions #86 - the glass Armonica

“Of all my inventions, the glass armonica has given me the greatest personal satisfaction.”

Benjamin Franklin was inspired to create his own version of the armonica after listening to a concert of Handel’s Water Music which was played on tuned wine glasses.

Benjamin Franklin’s armonica, created in 1761, was smaller than the originals and did not require water tuning. Benjamin Franklin’s design used glasses that were blown in the proper size and thickness which created the proper pitch without having to be filled with water. The glasses were nested in each other which made the instrument more compact and playable. The glasses were mounted on a spindle which was turned by a foot treadle.

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Seventeen, Remastered

There are moments in Television sports history of which even the Aliens who find our primitive human time capsules will marvel at.

 This, my friends is one of them.

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Collinsworth: Tsunami of Sports Knowledge; Almost Swept Away With Emotion Cris Collinsworth, game analyst forSunday Night Football was among those rescued from a floating restaurant that tore loose from its moorings along the flood-swollen Ohio River, the Associated Press  reports.  Not surprised he dines at floating restaurants.

Collinsworth: Tsunami of Sports Knowledge; Almost Swept Away With Emotion

Cris Collinsworth, game analyst forSunday Night Football was among those rescued from a floating restaurant that tore loose from its moorings along the flood-swollen Ohio River, the Associated Press 

reports. 

Not surprised he dines at floating restaurants.

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Supersized Satellite Reveals New Planet Atmosphere Very Similar to Cover of Led Zeppelin Album The discovery of a new water based heavenly body outside the reaches of our Solar system promises discovery of new intelligent life just beyond our scienfic scopes. As new planet #4987564AZw was identified by a team of scientists, pictures gradually materialized of the surface of this first new planet, which has an average sunset of 47 hours and an average Spring Break of 19 days instead of Earth’s 14 (party) days.

Supersized Satellite Reveals New Planet Atmosphere Very Similar to Cover of Led Zeppelin Album

The discovery of a new water based heavenly body outside the reaches of our Solar system promises discovery of new intelligent life just beyond our scienfic scopes. As new planet #4987564AZw was identified by a team of scientists, pictures gradually materialized of the surface of this first new planet, which has an average sunset of 47 hours and an average Spring Break of 19 days instead of Earth’s 14 (party) days.