Washington, D.C. is home to a lot of impressive architecture. Did you know that one of the gargoyles of the National Cathedral is Darth Vader?
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The word ‘bankrupt’ comes the Italian ‘banca rotta’, which literally means ‘broken bench’. This refers to the early days of banking in Italy, where the public marketplace would take place literally at the bench. If the banker ran out of money or behaved badly, his bench would be smashed to smithereens.
The iris is a part of the eye found in most mammals and birds. The iris works as the eye's aperture, which is similar to a camera’s own aperture! It does this by adjusting the size of the pupil to make sure the correct amount of light reaches the retina.
Natural light is the lifeblood of living things: the amount that reaches us has a direct impact on our physical and mental well-being. In addition to genetic factors, the sunlight is what regulates the sleep cycles of all living things. Several adverse consequences of cycle failure have been identified.
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The word ‘bankrupt’ comes the Italian ‘banca rotta’, which literally means ‘broken bench’. This refers to the early days of banking in Italy, where the public marketplace would take place literally at the bench. If the banker ran out of money or behaved badly, his bench would be smashed to smithereens.
The iris is a part of the eye found in most mammals and birds. The iris works as the eye's aperture, which is similar to a camera’s own aperture! It does this by adjusting the size of the pupil to make sure the correct amount of light reaches the retina.
Natural light is the lifeblood of living things: the amount that reaches us has a direct impact on our physical and mental well-being. In addition to genetic factors, the sunlight is what regulates the sleep cycles of all living things. Several adverse consequences of cycle failure have been identified.
The marketing web pages for films Space Jam and You've Got Mail are also still up at their original URLs.
The 1996 Michael Jordan/Bugs Bunny vehicle Space Jam and 1998's You've Got Mail were released at the dawn of the Internet marketing age, and so it's great for future historians that both websites are still available and more or less unchanged.
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