Judging from the two knobs at the bottom corners and the grid of lights, it's an example of an extremely early attempt at making an electronic Etch-a-Sketch. Unfortunately, the low resolution of the 'screen' due to the size of the bulbs made it impossible to recognize any of the pictures drawn on it, and the inventor was never able to acquire relays small enough to allow him to use grain-of-wheat bulbs on the display; the smallest such a device could be was the size of an upright piano, which was impractical for a child's handheld toy.

For when you need to bait a really _big_ hook.

They're distance markers for snail races, specifically the one-meter dash.

It looks like a coal torpedo -- one of the fake lumps of coal that were used to sabotage trains and coal-fired boilers in the North during the Civil War; filled with explosives, they were added to the coal piles used for fuel, where they would explode in the heat when added to the fire, leaving no clues beyond the boiler explosion.

Ahh, the joys of timely, accurate, up-to-date reporting. Xu Xing described microraptor gui from fossil specimens back in 2003 (National Geographic article), but the LA Times article makes no mention of the fact that the four-winged body plan is not a new discovery. Sensationalism wins out over accuracy; "Archaeologists find other birds with four wings" just doesn't have the same impact.

There is another way for Brian to set his clocks correctly that does not involve him receiving anything but the time from Amy. Before he leaves, he sets one of his clocks to a fixed time, such as noon. He walks to Amy's home, gets the correct time, and walks back. The clock that he set will then show, in the time since noon, the time it took him to walk to Amy's and back, which is _twice_ the time since Amy told him what time it was. By adding half of the time since noon shown on that clock to the time Amy gave him, he can set all of his clocks to the correct time.

The local Whole Foods is selling bags of chocolate-covered kale... which appears to be ideal to keep around for an emergency backup chocolate supply, because from the way it tastes there's no way in hell you'd eat it if there were _any_ other chocolate available.

Seems more reminiscent of Neon Genesis Evangelion than Godzilla.

How could the _future_ president of the Confederacy be involved in a riot at West Point in _1926_, more than 60 years _after_ the Confederacy ceased to exist?

And clue #4 is the large casing length for a 4.5mm projectile, indicating that an increased amount of propellant is required, which would be the case for a bullet fired in a much denser medium, like water.

Waiting it out may not be a practical option; Mount Wingen in NSW, Australia has a coal seam under it that is estimated to have been burning for more than 5,000 years, the oil shales under the Smoking Hills in Canada's Northwest Territories have been burning for centuries, and a coal seam at Brennender Berg in Germany has been burning since it was accidentally ignited in 1688.

Looks like a surveyor's plumb

My response would be "If I gave you my account name and password, that act would be grounds for you not to hire me. If I would violate the terms of service for Facebook so readily, what reason would you have to believe that I would abide by the terms of an employment contract?"

The 1844 death of Josie must be a typo; the picture of the headstone shows her dates as 1861-1944. If she'd died in 1844, then she couldn't have been buried next to Wyatt, much less married to him, as he wasn't even _born_ until 1848.

From a piece on the news about him and the Halloween light show, he says he doesn't do anything for Christmas because of all the work he puts in for Halloween's display.