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[quote]Genghis Khan. He had the largest empire in terms of square mileage and total land[/quote] His navy did poorly against the Japanese. But I'll agree with the Mongols at #1, what they did was incredible. And it's amazing that they could have conceivably taken Japan without poor luck wit...

[quote]This was from a home that just missed a direct hit from the Smithville, MS tornado, it still took some damage. The curtains were visible outside the home, tattered, but flapping in the breeze.[/quote] That happened to the house we had just moved from in Tulsa. Tornado lifted the roof, suc...

Cryptonomicon - for probably my fourth time. Amazingly relevant still for a somewhat high tech nerd book from 1999. But funny as hell, something I didn't pick up on during the first, and maybe really the second read. Because the technology ideas are just so dense, and it jumps around so fast (a ...

A fairly quick (hopefully) top 10 favorite: Brazil Cool Hand Luke One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest Breaking Away The Man Who Would Be King Monty Python and the Holy Grail Princess Bride Rushmore No Country for Old Men In Bruge [u]Runners Up[/u] Blade Runner Dark City No Country for O...

[quote]Bird watching is fun. Y'all must have been doing it for a while to ID all those birds... Y'all using the old Sibley's book or the Cornell app?[/quote] The Merlin App (Cornell) is great, as is the Sibley App, and the Audubon App is pretty good as well. eBird (Cornell) is indispensable i...

Have to add one more - Pictures at an Exhibition - ELP This thread lead me down the rabbit hole of ELP again. Damn, they have held up well. Pictures especially. Video isn't even ELP, it's the Oslo Philharmonic playing Mussorsky and it's the most I've ever enjoyed classical. Of course it's...

[quote]Russophobia exists, but it’s an Eastern European phenomenon. You see it especially with the Poles and with Eastern European Jews.[/quote] Awesome. Kind of like Nicole Simpson had OJophobia after he slit her throat. ...

[quote]you can go see the Hollywood sign for the photo op as you meander through someone's neighborhood and they can tell you where the best view is[/quote] "Look away down Gower Avenue" - Warren Zevon...

Quadrophenia - The Who Tommy - The Who Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull We're Only in it for the Money -Zappa Joe's Garage - Zappa Billy Breathes - Phish Aqualung - Jethro Tull (borderline on being concept) Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John (borderline on being concept) Sweetheart of the R...

[quote]Next up: plants that don't need fertilizer.[/quote] Yeah, soybeans and clover, and others. And have been around way longer than humans. I'm surprised that gene splicing hasn't been used to create nitrogen fixing corn, wheat, etc. People in the fertilizer business have worried about that...