Interesting fact you probably didn't know

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[rdb3]

Tigers are cool. But my wife won't let me have one.

She won't let me have a pet wolf, either. :-(

The tyrant!

[crystalk]

The correct plural of "moose" is "moose." There is no change. This is just like "deer" or "elk," who also have no alteration: the plural is just like the singular.

[UberVernunft]

So, ummmm, we are supposed to believe the "government" is building "coliseums" in order to feed the Christians to the lions?

Don't be ridiculous -- those "coliseums" will used as cheese distribution centers.

Think about it!

[It'salmosttolate]

Sorry I thought you said you had the book.

There was a thread 3 to 4 months ago about the movie (tape) that was made but I haven't seen it.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

As long as we're talking about little known facts. How about this one.

Percentage of crimes committed with weapons bought at gun shows...7/10ths of 1%, that's 0.7%.

Quite a loophole huh?

Oh and by the way, you Futurist folks missed it, the signs you are looking for occured in the first century, prior to the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. The Second Coming is a signless event, like a thief in the night.

[NeonKnight]

Good point. There were virtually no trees in most of Kansas as recently as 150 years ago (With a few exceptions in the East) Prairie fires frequently encompassed the entire state, as well. There was one Oak tree between Wichita and Kingman (about 50 miles), and it was known to residents for 100's of miles around as "The Tree", and everyone knew just where you were refering to.

[Thumper1960]

"Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!!"--Dorothy.

[NeonKnight]

James, I would believe that there are more trees now than when the pilgrims landed(sorry, no references) Read post 46.

[NeonKnight]

LOL...Sat photos from the 1800's!!!!

[James Lewis]

When the farms were abandoned the trees grew back.

There is very little "abandoned" land today. And, it depends on what we mean by "agriculture." Tree farming is a major industry in our country. Even the publicly owned parks and forests are managed to produced wood products. When tree farming, private and public, is added to traditional farming, I'd expect to see something near 90 percent of the land in the Eastern US in agriculture. Even the mountains are managed for tree production. But even still, I'd have a hard time accepting the idea that we have more "trees" today than when the Pilgrims landed. I've seen the stumps left from the harvest of virgin trees in Souther Swamps. We can only imagine what a forest of 175 foot tall yellow pines stretching from Texas to Virginia was like. The number of trees may be greater today. But, can we compare the 40 to 60 foot typically harvested tree of today to the giants of that time. I don't think so.

[James Lewis]

I can accept that the number of trees may be greater. But look at what we are counting. Almost every day I see log trucks going down the road with those scrawny little tree trunks on their way to the paper mills. I'm have trouble equating the count of one those things to what I know was here when the Pilgrims landed. There were just a few virgin yellow pines left in the Swamps down south when I was a kid. There was enough wood in one of those things to build a neighborhood.

[TomB]

I can accept that the number of trees may be greater. But look at what we are counting.

Wood.

Next question.

[xp38]

Is this another recount for Al Gore? :)

[aculeus]

The really decadent Romans favored a small private coliseum on the west side of Rome where midget Christians were pecked to death by chickens.
Orson Bean, circa 1955.

[TomB]

The correct plural of "moose" is "moose." There is no change. This is just like "deer" or "elk," who also have no alteration: the plural is just like the singular.

NO! NO! NO!

It's MEESE, damnit, MEESE!!!

(just think of "chEESE")

[TomB]

The really decadent Romans favored a small private coliseum on the west side of Rome where midget Christians were pecked to death by chickens.

ummmmmm, midget christians, tenderized.

[Romulus]

There is no coliseum in Rome. There is, however, a Colosseum.

[Romulus]

Despite the undeniably bloody history of Rome's Flavian Amphitheatre (popularly known as the "Colosseum" -- so spelt), there's surprisingly little evidence of Christian martyrdoms having taken place there. We know that Ignatius of Antioch was martyred in Rome, and though the Colosseum is the most likely venue, we have no account to support that theory. The Neronian persecutions (including the martyrdoms of Peter and Paul) antedate the Colosseum (in fact it was probably the colossal statue adjoining Nero's Domus Aurea, demolished when the Flavians restored political stability after the extinction of the Julio-Claudian line, that gave its name to Rome's first permanent stone amphitheatre, begun by Vespasian and completed by his son Titus, the despoiler of Jerusalem). The most ancient and complete accounts of Christian martyrdoms "ad bestias" are those of Perpetua (North Africa) and Polycarp (Smyrna).