texaspackerbacker
10 years ago

Definitely geologically. It's mostly a trick question because there are many varying opinions and evidence out there. Generally, however, one of them runs through parts of North Carolina, and some even try to argue another that runs through North Carolina as well, but I haven't been as convinced on that one.

Originally Posted by: DoddPower 



Interesting. Why are those considered so old?

On the subject of rivers, I know where the Canadian River is - my mother got me on that bit of trivia a long time ago. If you said Canada, you'd be wrong. Where then would the North Canadian River be? Still not Canada - they're both in Oklahoma.


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Wade
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10 years ago
Re: importance of rivers:

I can probably name about 20-25 of the Asian rivers without much trouble, but given that I teach a course that currently emphasizes the economic history of the "Indian Ocean Economy", I should know at least that many.

The reason they are important? The ability to produce and trade is very much a function of navigable water. The more miles one has the ability to move a boat up or a barge down, the more you can bring resources together to produce more valuable goods and the more goods you can sell profitably to buyers.

32 rivers at least 1000 miles long means a lot of cheaper production and trade.

Of course what I didn't ask, because I just realized I don't know the answer myself and I should, is how many of the miles of those 32 rivers are navigable. Damn. Another task to complete before term starts.


Oh, yes, re: fast food: If you think about it, the ability of McDonalds, et al to maintain a consistent quality across billions of burgers/fries is pretty darn amazing. IMO.

IMO, the McDonalds fry, when hot (not always, alas) and perfectly salted (virtually always) is one of the great comfort foods of all time, right up there with macaroni and cheese and KFC buckets of chicken.

I also like the new bacon habanero ranch quarter pounder and the McChicken, which IMO beats the crap out of all chicken breast sandwiches sold at fast food restaurants not called Chick-Fil-A. Which last we can't get in Iowa and it really POs me.
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dfosterf
10 years ago
You can catch 30 lb. rockfish (striped bass, to us sodbusters) under the Woodrow Wilson bridge when they are running, if you know the baits and techniques. Directly under all those millions of commuters, right there in D.C. , right under I -495.
DoddPower
10 years ago

Interesting. Why are those considered so old?


Originally Posted by: texaspackerbacker 



Well, the Appalachian Mountains are considered some of the oldest mountains in the world, so it makes sense. The New River and the French Broad River both apparently rose with the mountains.
texaspackerbacker
10 years ago

Re: importance of rivers:

I can probably name about 20-25 of the Asian rivers without much trouble, but given that I teach a course that currently emphasizes the economic history of the "Indian Ocean Economy", I should know at least that many.

The reason they are important? The ability to produce and trade is very much a function of navigable water. The more miles one has the ability to move a boat up or a barge down, the more you can bring resources together to produce more valuable goods and the more goods you can sell profitably to buyers.

32 rivers at least 1000 miles long means a lot of cheaper production and trade.

Of course what I didn't ask, because I just realized I don't know the answer myself and I should, is how many of the miles of those 32 rivers are navigable. Damn. Another task to complete before term starts.


Oh, yes, re: fast food: If you think about it, the ability of McDonalds, et al to maintain a consistent quality across billions of burgers/fries is pretty darn amazing. IMO.

IMO, the McDonalds fry, when hot (not always, alas) and perfectly salted (virtually always) is one of the great comfort foods of all time, right up there with macaroni and cheese and KFC buckets of chicken.

I also like the new bacon habanero ranch quarter pounder and the McChicken, which IMO beats the crap out of all chicken breast sandwiches sold at fast food restaurants not called Chick-Fil-A. Which last we can't get in Iowa and it really POs me.

Originally Posted by: Wade 



I went and looked at my globe, and I saw 8 or 10 others I used to know beyond the 12 rivers I wrote down earlier.

You had to bring up McDonalds fries hahahahaha. First of all, I remember when they first opened the McDonalds on Milton Avenue in Janesville - it must have been late 50s. I LOVED McDonalds fries back then. They were so saturated with grease that when they were served, they were actually moist - a hundred times better than the damn DRY things now. Then the God damned nutrition Nazis - the Michelle Obama/Michael Bloomberg idiots came along, and everything got worse.


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10 years ago

Re: importance of rivers:

I can probably name about 20-25 of the Asian rivers without much trouble, but given that I teach a course that currently emphasizes the economic history of the "Indian Ocean Economy", I should know at least that many.

The reason they are important? The ability to produce and trade is very much a function of navigable water. The more miles one has the ability to move a boat up or a barge down, the more you can bring resources together to produce more valuable goods and the more goods you can sell profitably to buyers.

32 rivers at least 1000 miles long means a lot of cheaper production and trade.

Of course what I didn't ask, because I just realized I don't know the answer myself and I should, is how many of the miles of those 32 rivers are navigable. Damn. Another task to complete before term starts.


Oh, yes, re: fast food: If you think about it, the ability of McDonalds, et al to maintain a consistent quality across billions of burgers/fries is pretty darn amazing. IMO.

IMO, the McDonalds fry, when hot (not always, alas) and perfectly salted (virtually always) is one of the great comfort foods of all time, right up there with macaroni and cheese and KFC buckets of chicken.

I also like the new bacon habanero ranch quarter pounder and the McChicken, which IMO beats the crap out of all chicken breast sandwiches sold at fast food restaurants not called Chick-Fil-A. Which last we can't get in Iowa and it really POs me.

Originally Posted by: Wade 



Some may be "navigable" but that is a misnomer at best. Many of the rivers in the heart of Russia flow north. They of course freeze like many other rivers. Like the others the ice melts in the south first. So you have water flowing north into frozen areas. It over flows the banks and creates a giant marsh. It is only late in the summer that the rivers thaw completely. By then the water level drops and they are still not reliable.

because of this I really don't pay much attention to many of the rivers as they add little economic value.

Some of the other major rivers had their own flooding problems like the Ganges, Yellow and Yangtze.

I remember reading about problems with western Russian rivers but I don't remember what the problems were or if it was the Don, Ob or Volga or some other one.
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OlHoss1884
10 years ago
The 1884 Providence Grays featured the first player to use a glove in the field regularly (Jack Farrell) the last player to play regularly without one (Ambidextrous Jerry Denny), the first player to use sunglasses in the field (Paul Hines) and two of the longest single season record holders for pitching (Charley Sweeney was the first ever to strike out 19, a mark which stood until Roger Clemons whiffed 20 in 1986) and Charley Radbourn's recognized record of 60 wins still stands. (59-12 with 1 save by modern scorekeeping.)

At the end of the year, in an exhibition series against the New York Metropolitans of the American Association, the Grays were also the first winner of the "World Series" before the modern version of it began in 1903.

1884 also saw the first black player in the Major Leagues (Fleet Walker of Toledo) and the single season HR record (Ned Williamson's 27 for Chicago) which stood before it was eventually broken by Babe Ruth. Incidentally, the Career Home Run record before Ruth was held by Roger Conner who played for the Giants in 1884, who slugged 138. As it was the first year overhand pitching was allowed, something like 4 of the top six single season strikeout totals ever occurred that year. (Radbourn was second in the league with 441).
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Rockmolder
10 years ago
Tell this to any mother and they'll throw a right fit.

The sugar buzz is nothing more than a fable. The mental part, where the parents tell the children that they'll get too zappy if they'll drink too much coke, makes for them fulfilling that role. The sugar itsself has absolutely nothing to do with it. Or at least, that's what quite a few studies suggest.

Not really a face you where searching for in true statistics and years, I reckon, but interesting nontheless.
texaspackerbacker
10 years ago

Tell this to any mother and they'll throw a right fit.

The sugar buzz is nothing more than a fable. The mental part, where the parents tell the children that they'll get too zappy if they'll drink too much coke, makes for them fulfilling that role. The sugar itsself has absolutely nothing to do with it. Or at least, that's what quite a few studies suggest.

Not really a face you where searching for in true statistics and years, I reckon, but interesting nontheless.

Originally Posted by: Rockmolder 



hahahaha I always suspected that. The nutrition Nazis just trying to make us miserable.


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dfosterf
10 years ago
Just for you, Texas, even though you probably already know it.



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

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