It bugs me that Superman wrote "The last time Robin asked me" instead of "The last time you asked me". Why would Superman be talking to Robin in the third person?
Crick's prize sold at auction last year, for about $2 million. See http://www.livescience.com/28651-crick-dna-nobel-medal-sold.html . Chadwick's medal, which he sold to a private collector, went up for auction earlier this year for 329,000. According to the Nobel Prize site, "Niels Bohr's Nobel medal, as well as the Nobel medal of the 1920 Danish Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, August Krogh, [were] donated to an auction held on March 12, 1940 for the benefit of the Fund for Finnish Relief".
"The racial diversity found in the group reveals the progressive nature of the Spanish regarding citizens of African descent, in a time when the United States had only recently abolished slavery."
The US didn't abolish slavery until 1865, at which time California was already part of the US.
From my own knowledge of New Mexico history (Santa Fe was founded in 1610), the presence of people with African descent doesn't mean equality in Spanish society of the time. There was a strong social ranking based on how "pure" your blood is, the limpieza de sangre. Those of African descent were lower in the ranking than those of American Indian descent, which were lower than those of Spanish descent. See http://www.shmoop.com/spanish-colonization/race.html for a summary.
The article describes that. Switzerland has no blood bank, so he goes to France (which is a short bus trip away) to donate blood. He has a personal reserve, and the blood bank is required to get his permission before using it for someone else. He can only donate blood twice a year, and he limits his travels because of the difficulties should he need a transfusion.
I guess I just don't laugh about harassment. I don't find jokes about how women walking down the street need to be told to smile more, or be given wolf whistles as compliments, to be funny either. Perhaps I'm wrong - do you have other funny jokes encouraging random street harassment that you want to share?
"don't worry about how they feel- they live for that junk!" -- What? How can you believe that after showing pictures of celebrities who clearly lack enthusiasm for that junk? Look at the backgrounds - the ones where the celebrities were most engaged with their fans, or, you know, smiling, appear mostly to be at places set up for photo ops. As you wrote, the ones on the street, with "a celeb walking around trying to act like a normal person", are in the photo op "out of reflex, or as a way to avoid bad publicity" - not because they live for that moment.
Also, that Tom Selleck one appears to be of a cutout.
Yes, some information is missing. If we use the assumption that there is a definite answer then it's possible to resolve the ambiguities. The problem doesn't specify the capture rate. The only reasonable guess is that the bounty hunters capture 2 spies per day. (Otherwise they might capture only 1 during the first year, then 600 on a single day.) If the capture of a spy results in 50 credits to a single bounty hunter, then the maximum average daily payout is 100 credits. This equals the speeder bike rental, which means there is no solution. Instead, the only reasonable guess is that each bounty hunter gets 50 credits, giving a payout of 250 credits per day. The cost equation is 200 + 250*t = 500 + 100*t which has an answer of exactly t=2 days. Problems for this grade level love to have integer solutions, which helps support the conclusion that this is the expected answer.
I learned about the eyeball theory when I was in jr. high and of course had to test it. The answer is yes, I can sneeze with my eyes open ... and my eyeballs never left their sockets.
It's also in Project Gutenburg, at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1329 . And on my bookshelves. I tried reading it once. I couldn't get past the first few pages.
They say a pita is a sandwich under this definition. How does that work? A pita only has one exterior piece, and the filling goes into the pocket. And would a McDLT from the 1980s, served as two open-faced sandwiches that you put together yourself ("keep the hot side hot and the cool side cool"), mean that McDonald's wasn't actually selling a sandwich?
I agree. The parts with the most damage were the garage, where the wide open door meant the winds could really push it over, and the dormer of the roof of the house, which again is easy for the winds to catch.
Crick's prize sold at auction last year, for about $2 million. See http://www.livescience.com/28651-crick-dna-nobel-medal-sold.html . Chadwick's medal, which he sold to a private collector, went up for auction earlier this year for 329,000. According to the Nobel Prize site, "Niels Bohr's Nobel medal, as well as the Nobel medal of the 1920 Danish Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, August Krogh, [were] donated to an auction held on March 12, 1940 for the benefit of the Fund for Finnish Relief".
The US didn't abolish slavery until 1865, at which time California was already part of the US.
From my own knowledge of New Mexico history (Santa Fe was founded in 1610), the presence of people with African descent doesn't mean equality in Spanish society of the time. There was a strong social ranking based on how "pure" your blood is, the limpieza de sangre. Those of African descent were lower in the ranking than those of American Indian descent, which were lower than those of Spanish descent. See http://www.shmoop.com/spanish-colonization/race.html for a summary.
Also, that Tom Selleck one appears to be of a cutout.