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Comment on Donald Trump Invanka Trump Jeffrey Epstein (2019-07-19 12:15:06)
Epstein was photoshopped in. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/donald-trump-and-ivanka-trump-during-grand-opening-of-the-news-photo/104969172
Comment on SHOW SHINE (2019-06-21 08:05:03)
Did you read the sign in the mirror??? "If you enjoyed your shoeshine you may like to try our nude body rub. [Ask your] shoeshine girl for details."
Comment on nice dinner view (2019-04-13 00:10:59)
I remember a young Madonna! This pic is from early 1999. Ahhh, youth...
Comment on captain america statue (2019-03-30 20:11:28)
This is in Industry City, in Brooklyn, NY, on 36th Street off of 3rd Avenue. I've been there and have my own pics of the statue. It's pretty kickass!
Comment on 20 sided Egyption dice from 200 B.C (2019-02-12 20:58:06)
This is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Here's what they have to say about it: Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed with Greek letters. Dimensions: Height: 3.2 x L: 3.8 x W: 3.4 cm (1 1/4 x 1 1/2 x 1 5/16 in.). Date: 2nd century B.C.-4th century A.D.. A number of polyhedral dice made in various materials have survived from the Hellenistic and Roman periods, usually from ancient Egypt when known. Several are in the Egyptian or Greek and Roman collections at the Museum. The icosahedron - 20-sided polyhedron - is frequent. Most often each face of the die is inscribed with a number in Greek and/or Latin up to the number of faces on the polyhedron. Nothing specific about the use of these polyhedra is preserved, so theories are built on clues provided by some variant examples. One unusual example uses Greek words, a few of which resemble those associated with throws of the astragals (knucklebones), and this has led to suggestions they were used for games. Another remarkable example discovered in Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt in the 1980s records an Egyptian god's name in Demotic (the Egyptian script of these late periods) on each face. Divination - seeking advice about the unknown from the supernatural - seems to be the most likely purpose for the Dakhleh die: the polyhedron might have been thrown in order to determine a god who might assist the practitioner. Indeed, even the dice with simple letters might relate to divination: a Greek oracle book composed in in the 2nd or 3rd century AD refers to throwing lots to obtain a number that would, through certain algorithms, lead to ready-prepared oracle questions and responses.
Comment on 20 sided Egyption dice from 200 B.C (2019-02-12 20:56:56)
However much I disagree with it, the Oxford English Dictionary refers to "dice" as the singular unit. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/dice Further, more and more I am seeing "dice" being used in the singular and, as a gamer of forty years, it confuses the heck out of me.