Carl Barât

Rehearsing for his starring role in Fool For Love, London, 6 January, 2010

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Trivia fact for Friday, Jan. 1: Approximately how many bubbles are there in the average bottle of bubbly, according to champagne maker Moët and Chandon? 250 million.

Trivia fact for Saturday, Jan. 2: What part of the human anatomy has more sweat glands than any other? The sole of the foot. Each foot has about 3000 sweat glands per square inch, for a total of approximately 250,000. The palms of our hands also have about 3000 sweat glands per square inch, but cover a smaller surface area.

Trivia fact for Sunday, Jan. 3: What did basketball great Michael Jordan always wear under his Chicago Bulls uniform for good luck? His basketball uniform shorts from the University of North Carolina. To cover his college shorts, Jordan started wearing longer, baggier Bulls shorts - inadvertently launching a basketball fashion trend.

Trivia fact for Monday, Jan. 4: In the world of whales and dolphins, what is spyhopping? Rising vertically out of the water to check the surroundings.

Trivia fact for Tuesday, Jan. 5: What state holds an annual three-day mosquito festival? Texas, in the town of Clute. The Great Texas Mosquito Festival is held on the last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of July. The 30th annual festival will be held this year.

Trivia fact for Wednesday, Jan. 6: What name was originally proposed for the TV show that gained fame as Judge Judy? Hot Bench. Producer Larry Lyttle proposed the name, but was overruled by Judge Judy Sheindlin. The show first aired in September 1996.

Trivia fact for Thursday, Jan. 7: Which continent is the flattest? Australia. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the reason is "its position near the centre of a tectonic plate, where there are no volcanic or other geologic forces of the type that raise the topography of other continents."

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If you have a spare calendar for this year, don't throw it away. If you save it until 2021 the days of the week will match up with the months etc again and it will finally be able to realise its calendrical potential. Similarly, if you have an unused calendar for 2009, you'll be able to utilise it in 2015. A 2005 calendar will be useable next year. A 2008 calendar will have to wait until 2038 until it lines up correctly however. (In case you wondered - 2006 = 2017, 2007 = 2018)

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Lisa put up a pic of herself and Peter on New Year's on her Twitter:

Hello! I'm your new maintainer/moderator/overlord.

skybluekookie has generously given up the reins, so I'll be taking care of this place from now on.

The obvious change will be a new layout, because of image hosting problems. Does anybody have preferences or requests re: the new one? I'll probably just find something plain and practical.

I'm also going to revamp the userinfo, though I'll save the old content for posterity's sake.

So, yes. Hi and stuff.

 Hello!

Yesterday I read something about Carl & Adam on Zading & Voltaire....so I looked for....and I found this:

www.misspandora.fr/louise-pour-zadig-voltaire/


Oh...I almost forget this another one.....

www.jalougallery.com/images/divers/600-600_30-image.jpg

 

Cookie-like hard wafers have existed for as long as baking is documented, in part because they deal with travel very well, but they were usually not sweet enough to be considered cookies, by modern standards.

Cookies appear to have their origins in 7th century AD Persia, shortly after the use of sugar became relatively common in the region. They spread to Europe through the Muslim conquest of Spain. By the 14th century, they were common in all levels of society, throughout Europe, from royal cuisine to street vendors.

With global travel becoming widespread at that time, cookies made a natural travel companion, a modernized equivalent of the travel cakes used throughout history. One of the most popular early cookies, which traveled especially well and became known on every continent by similar names, was the jumble, a relatively hard cookie made largely from nuts, sweetener, and water.

Cookies came to America in the early English settlement (the 1600s), although the name "koekje" arrived with the Dutch. This became Anglicized to "cookie" or cooky. Among the popular early American cookies were the macaroon, gingerbread cookies, and of course jumbles of various types.

The most common modern cookie, given its style by the creaming of butter and sugar, was not common until the 18th century.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie

On January 5th, 1592, Khurram Jahan was born. He would assume the Mughal throne at age 35, fall deeply in love with the woman he married, and mourn her passing as no other ruler did (or could): by commissioning the stunning mausoleum that is known as the Taj Mahal.

1943: George Washington Carver dies, leaving a legacy of a revived and diversified Southern agriculture and hundreds of new and improved food products. Think of him whenever you’re enjoying peanut butter.

 

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The Recreation and Amusement Association (特殊慰安施設協会, tokushu-ian-shisetsu-kyōkai), or more literally Special Comfort Facility Association, was the official euphemism for the prostitution centers arranged for occupying U.S. armed forces by the Japanese Government after World War II.

The RAA was created on August 28, 1945 by the Japanese Home Ministry and a civilian organization through joint capital investment (50 million yen each), officially to contain the sexual urges of the occupation forces, protect the main Japanese populace from rape and preserve the purity of the Japanese race. The official declaration of 19 August 1945 stated that "Through the sacrifice of thousands of 'Okichis' of the Shōwa era, we shall construct a dike to hold back the mad frenzy of the occupation troops and cultivate and preserve the purity of our race long into the future..." The RAA's own slogan was "For the country, a sexual breakwater to protect Japanese women" (お国のために日本女性を守る性の防波堤).

Unlike wartime "comfort women" forced to serve Japanese forces, most employees of the RAA were Japanese women, mostly prostitutes and others recruited by advertisement as well as through agents. However, there are testimonies from some women saying that they were coerced into service as bonded labor, and some Japanese sources even assert that the centers were in fact set up by GHQ's demand.

The price for a sex act was 15¥ (US $1 in 1945, US$ 8.94 in 2010); soldiers paid beforehand and received a ticket and a condom in return.

In January 1946, the RAA was terminated by an order to cease all "public" prostitution. The ban is traditionally attributed to the efforts of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. General Douglas MacArthur declared all places of prostitution off limits in an attempt to counter the spread of sexually transmitted diseases on March 25, 1946 as by then more than a quarter of all American GIs in the Japanese occupation forces had a sexually transmitted disease.

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Clinophobia is an intense, irrational fear of going to bed. The clinophobic individual may actually fear sleeping or what happens when one sleeps. Some individuals may fear nightmares, for example, or cope with actual medical conditions such as sleep apnea. Other clinophobic individuals may be intensely fearful that they will die when they sleep. People coping with Clinophobia may avoid going to bed or will wake frequently during the night.

Clinophobia derives from the Greek word “klinein”, meaning to incline and “phobos” meaning fear.

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Do you know where can I find nice Paul avatars that are small enough to use on a forum.

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but does anyone have an mp3 of when Paul was on loveline oh so long ago, I think October of 07

I've looked all over and IMB links are all dead, would greatly appreciate it, thanks.


also Paul lately, looking a little less beard-y?

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also does anyone know what happened to that 2002 interpol interview with all of them in matador offices or something discussing what actors would play them in a movie? I can't find it on youtube anymore.

In 1945, the first Volkswagen Beetles were made in a factory in Germany. It was not until 1967 that the name "Beetle" or "Bug" was used for the car; before that, the car was referred to as the "Type 1", "1200", "1300", or "1500", with the numbers representing the engine size in cubic centimeters. The Beetle was first imported into the United States in 1949 with very little success. Then a second attempt to import them began in the early 1950s and in 1953 sales began to improve. In 1972, the Beetle overtook the Ford Model T as the most popular car ever made. In 1981, the 20,000,000th Beetle rolled off the production line in Mexico. The last new original Beetle was sold in the United States in 1978, but it continued to be produced in Mexico up to the 2004 model. In 1998, an updated model called the "New Beetle" appeared in the United States. Volkswagen means "people's car" in German.

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Should I try to find another 2010 calendar and do the same thing? Why or why not?

The most commonly-sung song for English-speakers on New Year's Eve, Auld Lang Syne is an old Scottish song that was first published by the poet Robert Burns in the 1796 edition of the book Scots Musical Museum. Auld Lang Syne literally translates as "old long since," and means "times gone by."

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It was bandleader Guy Lombardo who popularized Auld Lang Syne and turned it into a New Year's tradition. Lombardo played the song at midnight at a New Year's Eve party at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City in 1929, and a tradition was born. After that, Lombardo's version of the song was played every New Year's Eve from the 1930s until 1976 at the Waldorf Astoria.

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Scotland is home to a rousing New Year's celebration known as Hogmanay. One of the traditions is "first-footing." Shortly after midnight on New Year's Eve, neighbors pay visits to each other and impart New Year's wishes. Traditionally, First foots used to bring along a gift of coal for the fire, or shortbread. The new year is the most important holiday in Japan, and is a symbol of renewal. In December, various Bonenkai or "forget-the-year parties" are held to bid farewell to the problems and concerns of the past year and prepare for a new beginning. At midnight on Dec. 31, Buddhist temples strike their gongs 108 times, in a effort to expel 108 types of human weakness.

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It is believed that the Babylonians were the first to make New Year's resolutions, and people all over the world have been breaking them ever since. The early Christians believed the first day of the new year should be spent reflecting on past mistakes and resolving to improve oneself in the new year.

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Noisemaking and fireworks on New Year's eve is believed to have originated in ancient times, when noise and fire were thought to dispel evil spirits and bring good luck. The Chinese are credited with inventing fireworks and use them to spectacular effect in their New Year's celebrations.

Source: My Trivia Today newsletter.

Heyyy guys! I'm assuming it's cool to post fan art here, so I thought I'd share this mixed media piece I did a while ago. It's inspired by the Julian Plenti song "Only If You Run" and features Paul :)


Morning Coffee by ~WalkingGraffiti on deviantART


I'm working on more stuff to do with Interpol/Paul, so if I come up with anything new, I'll post =) I hope you guys dig it!

Yeah, so we knew a new album was coming out, BUT, this is official confirmation that changes to the website are on the way. Squee!