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  • Georgian townhouse in Bath where Jane Austen's Persuasion was filmed for the BBC is on the market for £4.5 million - boasting 11 bedrooms, a ballroom and a library

    11/11/2022 2:24:33 PM PST · by C19fan · 14 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | November 11, 2022 | Elmira Tanatavora
    A stunning Georgian townhouse, once used to film a 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion, is now on the market for £4.5 million. The Grade II listed property in Bath was used in the 1995 BBC recreation of the infamous period author's novel, starring Ciaran Hinds and Amanda Root. It flaunts its own ballroom, library and ornate dining room, perfect for entertaining guests with Regency-era grandeur.
  • The Wreck of the Schooner "WYOMING", the Largest Wooden Ship in History

    01/24/2022 1:51:05 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 81 replies
    YouTube ^ | January 22, 2022 | Part-Time Explorer
    The monstrous coal-hauling Schooner "Wyoming", built by Percy and Small in Bath, Maine, was the biggest wooden ship to sail the seas. On a routine voyage bringing coal to Saint John, New Brunswick, she disappeared.The Maine Maritime Museum has an excellent exhibit on the vessel, showing artifacts, models, and photographs of her.The Wreck of the Schooner "WYOMING", the Largest Wooden Ship in History | January 22, 2022 | Part-Time Explorer
  • Bed Bath & Beyond stock sinks 17% after profit and sales miss, weak guidance

    09/30/2021 7:38:11 AM PDT · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 35 replies
    Marketwatch ^ | 30 September 2021 | Tonya Garcia
    Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY, -26.80% shares sank 17.1% in Thursday premarket trading after the retailer reported fiscal second-quarter profit and sales that missed expectations and gave guidance below Street consensus. Net loss totaled $73.2 million, or 72 cents per share, after net income of $217.9 million, or $1.75 per share, last year. Adjusted EPS of 4 cents was well below the FactSet consensus for 52 cents. Sales of $1.985 billion was down from $2.688 billion in 2020 and below the Factset consensus for $2.059 billion. Comparable sales fell 1%, which the company attributed to a decline in August...
  • Unvaccinated Students Told to Wear Different Coloured Wristbands So They Can be Identified

    09/29/2021 6:20:09 AM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 47 replies
    Summit News ^ | 09/29/21 | Paul Joseph Watson
    Segregation is progressive.First year students at the University of Bath have been given armbands by authorities to signal whether they’ve been double-vaccinated, with unvaxxed students having to wear a different colour.“Freshers have been given wristbands to signal whether they are vaccinated against coronavirus amid anger at emerging “two-tier” university campuses,” reports the Telegraph.“Students arriving this week at the University of Bath have been given a different coloured wristband on club nights if they can prove in advance they are double jabbed, or have Covid-19 immunity.”Those who cannot prove they’ve been vaccinated are forced to enter a different queue in a...
  • Beau Street Hoard [Roman Aquae Sulis, Bath England]

    04/20/2021 3:38:36 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 26 replies
    The Roman Baths website ^ | updated 2021 | unattributed, Bath & North East Somerset Council
    The Beau Street Hoard was excavated by archaeologists on the site of the Gainsborough Hotel in Beau Street, Bath in 2007 and is one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries to have been made in Bath.The Beau Street Hoard is on permanent public display in an interactive exhibit within the People of Aquae Sulis Gallery. The 17,577 Roman coins span the period from 32BC – 274AD and were found in eight separate money bags, which were fused together. In March 2014 Bath & North East Somerset Council was awarded a grant of £372,500 from The Heritage Lottery Fund to purchase...
  • Rules eased for water from showerheads, a Trump pet peeve

    12/17/2020 7:31:04 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 63 replies
    ABC News / Disney ^ | December 17, 2020 | By DEB RIECHMANN
    The Trump administration has relaxed a regulation restricting water flow from showerheads, a pet peeve of President Donald Trump, who complained that he wanted more water to make his hair “perfect.” Since 1992, federal law has dictated that showerheads shouldn’t spew more than 2.5 gallons (9.5 liters) of water a minute. As newer shower fixtures came out with multiple nozzles, the Obama administration updated the ruling, stating that 2.5 gallons was still the limit regardless of how many nozzles were running. The new ruling, issued on Tuesday, now says each showerhead can emit 2.5 gallons a minute. “So showerheads -...
  • How Often People in Various Countries Shower

    06/25/2019 2:25:28 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 95 replies
    www.theatlantic.com ^ | Feb 17, 2015 | Olga Khazan
    Amidst the no-shampoo revolution, a look at global hygiene habits Cleanliness, it turns out, has been one dirty trick. One reason early-20th-century Americans ramped up their weekly baths to daily showers is that marketing companies capitalized on the insecurities of a new class of office drones working in close quarters. As Gizmodo wrote last week, to sell products like "toilet soap" and Listerine to Americans, "the advertising industry had to create pseudoscientific maladies like 'bad breath' and 'body odor.'" Take, for instance, Gizmodo's description of the philosophy of the Cleanliness Institute, which was founded by the Association of American Soap...
  • Couple Kicked Off Airplane Because Of Bad Body Odor (Something Reeks Captain)

    01/27/2019 1:12:44 PM PST · by CaliforniaCraftBeer · 45 replies
    Click On Detroit ^ | January 24, 2019 | Jason Colthorp
    [Mr.] Adler was then told other people had complained about his family's body odor, and that his family would have to leave. They think it was less about their hygiene and more about them being Jewish. Yossi Adler tried to remain calm as his family picked up its luggage, but he's furious about what happened. “They take me off and say we've gotten complaints about you having body odor and we have to take you off the plane," he said. "I'm, like, 'Seriously? Body odor? What does that mean? We take showers every day. Do you want me to go...
  • A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise

    12/04/2018 7:41:38 AM PST · by aMorePerfectUnion · 18 replies
    The Conversation ^ | March 20, 2017 8.09am EDT | Steve Faulkner
    How'd we miss this in 2017?? ... Many cultures swear by the benefits of a hot bath. But only recently has science began to understand how passive heating (as opposed to getting hot and sweaty from exercise) improves health. At Loughborough University we investigated the effect of a hot bath on blood sugar control (an important measure of metabolic fitness) and on energy expended (number of calories burned). We recruited 14 men to take part in the study. They were assigned to an hour-long soak in a hot bath (40ËšC) or an hour of cycling. The activities were designed to...
  • Who's pulled the plug on the Roman Baths?

    11/18/2008 6:20:13 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 14 replies · 617+ views
    Daily Mail ^ | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 | Cher Thornhill
    They are one of Britain's foremost ancient monuments and attract as many people as Stone Henge. But visitors who choose to drop in to Bath's Roman Baths today will find them empty. The Great Bath at the city's Roman Baths is being drained of natural thermae spa water for its quarterly clean-up... Modern-day items recovered in previous cleans include umbrellas, traffic cones and even a moped. Once the Roman sluice-gates were re-opened, the Great Bath refilled from the spring at the rate of 13 litres per second. The plug was pulled on the Great Bath at 11am yesterday morning and...
  • Cute English bulldog plays dead as owner drags him across the grass towards hose

    07/22/2016 9:43:08 PM PDT · by CorporateStepsister · 9 replies
    DailyMail ^ | 22 July 2016 | Gaby Bissett For Mailonline
    This hefty hound really did not want to have a bath - so his owner had to drag him across the grass to get him to the hose. The English bulldog, named Doughnut, was not expecting a wash at his home in Orange County, California. He spotted the coils of the hose from afar and decided to resist - by playing dead.
  • Jerusalem family finds 2,000-year old mikveh underneath living room

    07/01/2015 4:11:41 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 20 replies
    Ha'aretz ^ | Tammuz 14, 5775 (July 1, 2015) | Nir Hasson
    A Jerusalem family ripping up its living room floor found a staircase lost for 2,000 years, leading to a large ritual bath carved out of bedrock. It took the family some years to call in the authorities and show them the discovery beneath their house, in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ein Kerem. Throughout the interim, the family blocked off the entrance to the mikveh with wooden doors, and simply continued to live over it. When they did call in the Israel Antiquities Authority, beneath the doors, the archaeologists found the carved stone staircase leaving to a big mikveh, 3.5 meters...
  • Brain Bath: A Clever Design Solution

    10/20/2014 7:52:42 AM PDT · by fishtank · 5 replies
    Institute for Creation Research ^ | 10-17-2014 | Brian Thomas
    Brain Bath: A Clever Design Solution by Brian Thomas, M.S. * What makes sleep so mentally refreshing? University of Rochester neuroscientist Jeff Iliff addressed the crowd gathered at a September 2014 TEDMED event and explained his amazing new discoveries.1 The words he used perfectly match what one would expect while describing the works of an ingenious designer.2 Other organs rely on the lymphatic system to remove metabolic waste that builds up in the spaces outside cells, but no lymph vessels exist behind the skull. Since the brain uses a fourth of all the body’s energy, there must be some other...
  • Rancid Iranian Coot (80) Sets New World Record- Hasn't Touched a Bath in 60 Years!

    01/13/2014 3:19:05 AM PST · by Reaganite Republican · 13 replies
    Reaganite Republican ^ | 13 January 2014 | Reaganite Republican
    This dubious achievement smashes the previous record of 38-years-without-washing held by 'The World's Smelliest Man', Indian farm worker Kailash Sigh... and you thought the French were bad! Our proud new record-holder is a homeless drifter in the Iranian village of Dejgah, a fetid character who took his last bath in 1954- 'Amou Hadji'. He is said to have suffered some psychological trauma in his youth, the reaction to which being a vow to live the rest of his life in solitude. He consistently refuses offers of help from others, and won't even take clean drinking water. Amou -which is a term of affection...
  • Sen. Creigh Deeds Stabbed, Son Shot Dead

    11/19/2013 7:27:25 AM PST · by Raebie · 124 replies
    WRIC.com ^ | November 19, 2013 | WRIC
    MIILLBORO, Va. (WRIC)—Former gubernatorial candidate and Democratic State Senator Creigh Deeds is in critical condition after being stabbed in his home Tuesday morning. At 7:25 a.m. on Nov. 19, Virginia State Police responded to Deeds' home in Bath County, where Deeds had been stabbed. The senator's son, Gus, was found fatally shot at the scene. Deeds was flown to the University of Virginia Medical Center, where he remains in critical condition. The Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation's Salem Field Office is conducting an investigation into the assault. 8News crews are headed to both Deeds' Millboro home and the...
  • Creigh Deeds critically wounded; son dead from gunshot

    Former Dem nominee for VA-Gov in serious condition. Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Bath, is in critical condition after being stabbed in his home and his son Gus is dead from a gunshot wound, law enforcement sources told the Richmond Times-Dispatch this morning. Deeds is being treated at the University of Virginia Medical Center. Authorities said they are trying to determine the sequence of events at the Deeds home in Bath County early today. Further details were not immediately available.
  • Texas Deputy Suing Woman Who Called 911 (failed to mention perp on bath salts)

    08/19/2013 1:46:21 PM PDT · by Libloather · 46 replies
    KEYE TV ^ | 8/16/13
    A Texas woman who's 911 call led to a police shooting is now facing a lawsuit from one of the responding officers. **SNIP** Deputy Pullen is now suing the homeowner who called 911 for alleging that she did not adequately warn others of how dangerous the man was. Pullen's attorney says he suffered injuries because of the homeowner's negligence and failure to inform emergency workers of the man's potential for violence.
  • Pepe Le Pew! France: One in 29 Don't Shower Even Once a WEEK - 13% Don't Wash After Using Toilet

    10/17/2012 3:18:02 PM PDT · by DogByte6RER · 44 replies
    Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | 17 October 2012 | David Harding
    One in 29 French people don't take a shower even once a WEEK - while 13% do not wash their hands after using the toilet One in 29 people in France only take a shower once a week, according to a new survey. The study into French washing habits also found that one in five do not shower every day. On the other end of the scale, 11.5 per cent of French men and women shower several times daily. Hand washing, too, is ‘not always a priority for the French,’ said pollster BVA, which was commissioned to carry out the...
  • Florida bans 'bath salt' drugs after violent outbursts

    01/26/2011 8:01:28 PM PST · by Libloather · 25 replies
    Sun Sentinel ^ | 1/26/11 | Alexia Campbell and Aaron Deslatte
    Florida bans 'bath salt' drugs after violent outburstsBy Alexia Campbell and Aaron Deslatte, Sun Sentinel 7:26 p.m. EST, January 26, 2011 TALLAHASSEE — Disturbing reports of violent drug users "with superhuman strength," pushed Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday to ban drugs sold as "bath salts." Florida is the second state, after Louisiana, to outlaw the so-called fake cocaine. The white powder, sold at gas stations and specialty shops around the state, has sent dozens of users to emergency rooms and mental hospitals in recent months, according to authorities. **SNIP** "To put it in perspective, that's right up there...
  • Bath salts misused as 'fake cocaine' send Florida users to hospitals

    01/17/2011 11:01:29 AM PST · by greatdefender · 11 replies
    Orlando Sentinel ^ | Alexia Campbell, Sun Sentinel
    The half-gram bottle of bath salts promises an "invigorating" and "energizing" experience. But to local and federal authorities, it's another dangerous product misused as fake cocaine that's sending youths to emergency rooms and mental hospitals in Florida and across the country. As federal officials prepare to ban synthetic marijuana, specialty shops and convenience stores across Florida have started stocking up on bottles of bath salts. Louisiana and Florida authorities have linked these bath salts to at least two suicides in Louisiana, 21 calls to Florida poison control centers and dozens of hospital visits in Central and South Florida in the...