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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Everyone has a shadow and everyone`s shadow looks different. Even your own is not the same because it dislays a different image at each time of day, depending on the angle at which the light falls upon you. Have you ever been caught off guard by your own shadow?
A woman from Tacoma, Washington won the most expensive car to ever appear on the show – a Ferrari 458 spider which was priced at $285,716. A woman lost the chance to win the Ferrari but another woman won an Audi V-8 Spyder priced at $157,300.
The grandfather of modern computers was a mechanical analog computer system which weighed an incredible 27 tons and took up more than 1700 square feet! It was first put to work in 1945 and was capable of being programmed to solve large numerical math problems. Obviously the first research performed on this machine was for military purposes.
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Everyone has a shadow and everyone`s shadow looks different. Even your own is not the same because it dislays a different image at each time of day, depending on the angle at which the light falls upon you. Have you ever been caught off guard by your own shadow?
A woman from Tacoma, Washington won the most expensive car to ever appear on the show – a Ferrari 458 spider which was priced at $285,716. A woman lost the chance to win the Ferrari but another woman won an Audi V-8 Spyder priced at $157,300.
The grandfather of modern computers was a mechanical analog computer system which weighed an incredible 27 tons and took up more than 1700 square feet! It was first put to work in 1945 and was capable of being programmed to solve large numerical math problems. Obviously the first research performed on this machine was for military purposes.
Not all dogs bark. Take the Basenji, for example. This dog doesn't really bark but instead emits a sort of yodel. Sometimes this yodel can even sound like a scream or a whine. Imagine coming home to your Basenji yodeling. Could be charming, or maddening, or even frightening!
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