pauldrye

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Misterspock.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

At least it's "Not American". The Quaker Oats listing is a bad joke: -- Quaker is owned by PepsiCo.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'd be more impressed if it was a 1970s car they discovered.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh, good lord. Have you met my 82-year old father?

 

The Ambrosian Iliad is a late 5th or early 6th century illustrated manuscript of Homer's Iliad, the only illustrated text from Antiquity (and in fact, illustrations at all) of that poem. This particular image is one of 52, and shows the Greek camp near Troy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

smiles and waves, boys

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Its Wikipedia article says that its bronze is mixed with some sulfur that prevented it from going green like copper alloys usually do.

 

This is a bronze sword found in southern Hubei province, China, in 1965. It is inscribed with bird-worm seal script characters reading "King Goujian of Yue made this sword for [his] personal use".

Picture by Wikipedia user Windmemories used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I signed up with lemm.ee a few months back and it was 4 weeks -- 28 days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's often under its Italian name, passata. I'm Canadian too and it's usually sold in glass bottles on the same shelves as spaghetti sauce. It's from Unico for the one I currently have in my fridge, but there's a few brands.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whoever the writer thinks should be faster, so as to serve the needs of the story being told.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Partly. Their largest shareholder is RBI, which is Brazilian-American-Canadian. Head office is in First Canadian Place in Toronto. The terms of the deal that RBI cut to buy them has the Canadian government requiring them to keep most of their office side of things in Canada.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

No, they're a big box store, not associated with a mall like a department store.

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