Recency bias is not “uncanny”. Both designs are intentionally based on pre-existing contemporaneous US military insignia.

As far as convergent evolution, the rear-engined NSU Sport Prinz and the later NSU Spider based on it also have similarities in appearance. Again, Italy’s Bertone designed the hardtop, while the convertible seems to have been done by the Germans in-house.

Cotton grown in Turkey, like Egypt, has longer fibers than most varieties. The towels are flat-woven rather than looped or sheared, but are just as absorbent, if not more so. When wet, properly hung, they dry more quickly because of the weave.

Joan Collins, who guest starred on Batman as The Siren, has said on talk shows that Adam West told her this as well.

His mansion is pink. All your alternatives are closer to fuchsia.

No, similar things have been destroyed by earthquakes in Malta and the Big Island of Hawaii, just off the top of my head. But it’s a loss if you never had the chance to see it. I have a little regret I never took the cable car in Franconia Notch State Park several times when I was there before the Old Man collapsed; I…

It’s been around for at least 75 years, but “chemical castration” turned out to be a poor marketing campaign. Suppressing ovulation is physiologically simpler than suppressing sperm production.

For decades the production was more than adequately brought to life using makeup and costumes—I first saw the first nationwide tour at the then newly-renovated National Theatre in Washington, DC in the mid-80s. It didn’t need CGI to turn actors into cats; the critical thing is the movements, and the cast had to learn…

Like bezels, another illusory controversy primarily manufactured by tech reviewers.

It’s heart warming to see millenials are now becoming the ones behind the times, yelling at the kids to get the hell off their lawns.

#1 is based on the behavior of Lissajou or Bowditch curves, graphical representations of a system of parametric equations which used to be a popular physics/geometry class demo using an oscilloscope and a sine wave generator.

The Ford CD2 platform was an evolution of Mazda’s GF 626. This is most obvious at the rear, where the twin-trapezoidal links characteristic of previous Mazda products are visible from behind, rather than the “control blade” arms favored on Ford’s European-engineered FWD/AWD platforms. But the front parts were derived…

The lack of chrome, along with the dog dish hub caps, simply mark it as a low-line trim, possibly even an ex-police car or taxi given a respray. The driver ed car I learned on in 1976, a similar Valiant from a few years prior, had actually been both; it started with one of the local municipal police agencies, was…

The truth is that TRU was a dinosaur that was killed off by stronger competitors like Walmart, Target, and Amazon, et al. Going private was an act of desperation, just like Sears—and Sears had a better on-line operation that TRU ever did. During a period of relatively good economic growth, they lost money for 5 years…

To clarify, front loaders (and some newer top loaders) assess the load size automatically with sensors while the drum spins, and use only the amount of water needed, so you don’t have to select. I wouldn’t replace a working washing machine just because it’s old, but when I did need a new one I got a highly-rated front…

This year I think you’re really reaching for sinister criticisms. The worst I can say is that it looks like it was inspired by a trendy NYC store window dresser, and I’m sure I bought some of those folded paperboard stars at IKEA sometime in the past decade or so.

Unfortunately for Genius, its legal claim is apparently tenuous. Since Genius does not own the lyric copyrights, and Google is licensed by the copyright owners to publish the lyrics in search results, Genius’ cause of action seems to be that Google obtained the lyrics in violation of Genius’ web site’s terms of…

From ones I saw at the time, the provided inch-or-so-wide straps had a flat, not-too-thick v-shaped hook at one end that fit over the leading edge of the closed deck lid, while the other end had a cinch that tightened around the raised bar

GWU and even Georgetown medical centers are much closer to the White House than Walter Reed; the military hospital might might be more secure/easier to keep leaks under wraps but it can’t have been considered too much of an emergency.

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