For the Lillet, is it correct to assume that you mean Lillet Blanc, since the photo shows a non-red drink?

Not broken: That’s an “equation of time” or “annalemma” hand. It shows the difference between Local Apparent Solar Time and Mean Time.

I think your calculations are off: Ever since the World Trade Center was built, elevator shafts have not extended the full height of the building. In the most tall buildings, the banks of elevators are split into local shafts, which are re-used every 15 floors or so, and express shafts. Only the express shafts service…

Mets 'n Beans! It's Knoxville's specialty: A big, white Mettwurst smothered in richly-stewed Navy Beans.

The reason Wales isn't represented is that it's legally part of England. Only the actual sovereign realms are represented. The structure looks something like this:

I wouldn't get too excited about this: The paper suggests that a non-working model was also demonstrated to produce thrust. When the test article and the control behave in the same way, something fishy is going on.

And, just for posterity sake, "SCRAM" stands for "Safety Control-Rod Axe Man." It's a relic from the days when Enrico Fermi generated the first self-sustaining reaction in a graphite-pile reactor underneath a disused squash court at the University of Chicago. The "SCRAM" was literally a man with an axe, in place to…

Leslie: Perhaps a headline change is in order? Fewer than 200 of the nation's ~6,500 Public Safety Answering Points (9-1-1 Centers) will be accepting text as of today. This is just the first day that most of them can request service from the carriers: Implementation can take up to 6 months, once a request is received,…

My CHEESE SANDWICH and COFFEE!!!

The title and conclusion of this post are very misleading: Piracy on the high seas is a crime of universal jurisdiction, which any nation may pursue, prosecute, and punish (harshly), regardless of where it is committed. Territorial waters are zones of exclusive operations for national forces, and the EEZs extend far…

Thorin, much of the information in this post is NOT correct: "Warm line" service is actually very rare, and only short-term when it is required at all. Most customers will not have access to 9-1-1 (or central office battery current) after service is disconnected at a location. In some cases, that disconnect may take…