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Actually, it's Wolfville. I moved! The town has about 3000 full time residents, and about 3000 students who live there September - April while studying at the university.

So imagine my surprise when I saw this in my conservative little Nova Scotia town's main street....I had to get a picture! (for better resolution, right click and select "view image")

The Chernobyl exclusion zone, as the article notes, is a great (and creepy) place! Ecologically, it's one of the best habitats in Europe for endangered species of all sorts. The wolves and bears abound there due to the lack of humans interfering with them. The town itself reminds one of...

If you could meet one person from the past (recent or distant), who would it be and why? I'd like to have dinner with Alexander the Great. He's one of those people whose impact on world history has dominoed as time progressed, and yet we have nothing in the way of primary sources actually...

Something about a "last stand" is coming to mind with this guy. I have two possibilities: 1. He was the guy who led the last group of Japanese Christians against Tokugawa's forces? They were, to a man, killed but were the first (and perhaps only) Japanese martyrs recognized by the Vatican. 2...

Let's not be too hastey to dismiss this out of hand...it might be fun, man

This conversation has become just a tad too disturbing.

You hate me because I'm black.

First of all, AWESOME for you thinking up that snappy reply on the spot. Well done! Second, it's been my experience that nobody really wants equality - black, white, men, women - they want to be treated BETTER than other people.

The topic says it all. Are Atheism or Agnosticism religions? The question is as old as atheist beliefs themselves, I think. I had to ask myself that a while back when I was filling out a survey. One of the questions was about religion, and I had to write in what I was. I was about to write...

Indeed this was a post I wrote for my blog. And yes, Perun, I do often write a bit more formally when I submit papers to my academic colleagues. This isn't supposed to be for publication, dude; it's a short little quip I wrote at 2:00am about a man I found admirable. There's a big difference...

Who’s the greatest person who ever lived? Alexander? Jesus? Mohammad? Churchill? Napoleon? We can disagree on the answer, I suppose, but I think it is “none of the above.” The greatest human being who ever lived was born in Iowa in 1914, five months before the First World War began. His name is...

I find it interesting that some of the greatest discoveries (I won't call them "inventions" per se) were made when the discoverer was looking for something completely unrelated (known as serendipity): Quinine Newton's laws North & South America (By Vikings AND by Spaniards) Discovery or Uranus...

The point about racism vs. religonism is wellt aken but it was early in the morning for me when I wrote this. Now I've had too much to drink and am not entirely sure why I'm posting on this forum. Meow

I'm in graduate school. To save expenses, I'm living with three other grad students in an apartment close to campus. We're basically the United Nations scaled down: There's me, the Canadian (Masters in Environmental History) The Nepalese Med student (he's actually already a doctor, but he needs...

That's what we're here for, my dear. Perun and I don't hate each other...we just get off on seeing who can annoy the other more. :lol:

I would guess that it's one of the lesser-known comets, but I don't know which it would be.

Listen, you sarcastic wanker, I wasn't talking about supernatural karma. I meant to imply that those who are untrustworthy eventually get it thrown back at them. The person will eventually get caught for stealing someday, or he'll steal from the wrong person and get the crap beat out of him...

We have a winner! I have a feeling you looked it up somewhere, but that's alright  :P

Damn...sorry to hear about this Nat. Having stuff taken from you is one of the worst possible things - you feel so helpless and impotent to do anything about it, and the more you think about the person with your stuff the more pissed off you become (I'm speaking from experience here!) You can...