Safety Pins

Be it known that I, WALTER HUNT, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Make or Form of Dress-Pins, of which the following is a faithful and accurate description.

A “Safety Pin” is a regular pin that includes a simple spring mechanism and a clasp. The clasp closes the loop at keeps the material being pinned from coming apart and protects the user from the sharp end.

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Poké

Pronounced POH-KAY

Poké is Hawaiian for “to slice” or “cut crosswise into pieces”. It is diced fish served as an appetizer or the main course and is a staple of Native Hawaiian cuisine. Traditionally skipjack tuna (aku) and octopus (he’e) are used. Poké began with fishermen seasoning the cut-offs from their catch to serve as a snack.

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Medium Cindy Kaza

Some of her favorite films are “Pulp Fiction”, the trilogy “Kill Bill” and “Grand Torino”, and a couple of her favorite actors and actresses are Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis and Uma Thurman.

Cindy Kaza is a clairvoyant (clear seeing), clairaudient (clear hearing), and clairsentient (clear feeling) who works across the country as an evidential medium. Evidential mediumship is a style of mediumship practiced around the world that puts heavy weight on the medium’s ability to bring through extremely specific evidence to the sitter. This evidence can include but is certainly not limited to, names, personality traits, physical ailments, favorite past times, and phrases often used by loved ones in spirit.

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Max Q – Band of Astronauts

Rock and rollers from space!

After the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986, in an effort to raise the spirits of the astronauts, technicians, crew, etc., Dan Brandenstein, Chief of the Astronaut Office, suggested that they hold a party. Brewster Shaw then approached Hoot Gibson, who he had performed a few songs with at astronaut parties, with the idea of forming a four-piece group to play at this party.

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Jumping Spiders

What has eight legs, jumps, and dances?

Jumping spiders have over 6,200 described species making up 13% of all spiders. They have the best vision of all spiders having four pairs of eyes, with the anterior median pair (pertaining to or toward the head or forward end of the body) being particularly large.

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What is Occam’s Razor?

Occam’s razor, Ockham’s razor, or Ocham’s razor also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony.

Occam’s razor, Ockham’s razor, or Ocham’s razor also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony, is the problem-solving principle that “entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity”. if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one.

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