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Intrigue and Unsolved Mysteries
Confounding issues in society such as unidentified flying objects (UFOs), conspiracy theories and urban legends
1,773 Questions
What is the meaning of Wednesday?
The word 'wednesday' comes from the the Old English 'Wodnes daeg' or 'Woden's day'.
To what extent should you embrace internationalism?
we should strongly embrace internationalism for global cooperation
What should you do about people that starve everyday?
You should go vegan.
You might be surprised to learn that it takes almost 20 times less land to feed a vegan than it does to feed someone a diet that includes animal flesh and secretions. That’s because vegans consume crops such as grains directly, instead of inefficiently feeding them to animals who will be killed and eaten.
According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, (quoting the National Corn Growers Association), about 80% of all corn grown in the U.S. is consumed by farmed animals. Humans consume only about 12% of the U.S. corn crop. Quoting the United Soybean Board, the EPA tells us that over 30 million tons of soybean meal are consumed as livestock feed in a year. Worldwide, approximately 75% of soybeans are used for animal feed. Imagine how many more people could be fed with all that food!
According to the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification, it takes up to 10 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of meat, and in the United States alone, 56 million acres of land are used to grow feed for animals, while only 4 million acres are producing food for humans to eat.Of the world’s more than seven billion people, more than 840 million are counted as suffering from chronic hunger. It is estimated that a person dies of hunger or hunger-related causes every ten seconds, most of them children. That’s 3,153,600 people who die of hunger every year.
EarthSave, quoting a 1994 study, states that 10 billion people could be sustained from present croplands if all ate a vegetarian diet. David Pimentel, professor of ecology in Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, reported in July 2007, “If all the grain currently fed to livestock in the United States [alone] were consumed directly by people, the number of people who could be fed would be nearly 800 million.”
So we have all the land we need to feed a vegan world, but over 3 million people will die this year if humans who can afford to, continue to consume animal flesh and secretions.
What status did women have during the 18th century?
Unless they were born into a royal family, their status was somewhere between a man's favorite horse and his best hunting dog. Most places women were treated as possessions of a father, husband or other male family member. They could not own real estate, vote or own a business.
What is a bill that uses federal money for a special project in the legislators home district?
Such bills have been known as "earmarks" and also "pork barrells".
What you call them who people make fun of others?
Thoughtless, immature bullies. A secure, mentally heathy person would not ridicule others.
Why is the peacekeeping color blue?
Why should it not be??? NO the answer is because it is so settling and calming.
What are some known and true secret societies of the past?
The Illuminati, Freemasons, Skull and Bones, The Knights Templar are just a few of past and present secret societies.
When was the bar code introduced?
The barcode was introduced in the early 1970s, with the first successful implementation occurring on June 26, 1974, when a pack of Wrigley's gum was scanned at a supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The technology was developed by Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver in the late 1940s, but it took several years for it to be adopted commercially. The Universal Product Code (UPC) became the standard barcode format, revolutionizing inventory management and retail.
Where can crop circles be found the most?
Crop circles are most commonly found in the United Kingdom, particularly in areas like Wiltshire and Hampshire. These regions have a high number of reported crop circles due to the relatively large amount of farmland and open spaces.
Why is it considered bad luck to open an umbrella indoors?
Umbrellas were first used by African royalty to shield themselves from the hot rays of the sun god. To open one in the shade insulted the god. To open one indoors must have been worse, probably punishable by the god. Today, we think of it as just plain unlucky.
When was the bar code invented?
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Why is pale considered unattractive?
Pale is only considered unattractive by some. The attitude is encouraged and perpetuated by marketers of commercial products. Those of us who are not as easily influenced by commercial messages see beauty in a variety of 'looks' and demographics.
Who developed the theory of 'Permanent Revolution'?
Permanent Revolution is a term within Marxist Theory first used by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels between 1845 and 1850.
Nowadays it is more likely to be attributed to Leon Trotsky.
See the link below for more information.
There was no set religion or deities for the druids as Celtic druidism was never a unified religion. What is probable is that the druids believed in whatever local gods they grew up hearing about or the gods that they had been taught to worship by more senior druids. In short a druid in eastern England may have believed in a god which a druid in western England had never heard of. What is certain is that no matter what the names or faces that these gods or goddesses had, they all represented a different part of nature from the perspective of the Celtic people. The druidic religions were all very compatible and a sea god in the western part of England would just be taken as another name for the eastern Celtic druids gods.
An electoral map is a map of the 50 states of the United States which shows: 1. the number of electoral votes each state has 2. an estimate of how each state is expected to vote for president. Except for Maine and Nebraska, in each state the winner of the popular vote gets all of that state's electoral votes. By estimating which candidate is expected to win the popular vote in each state, it is possible to make an educated guess as to how many electoral votes each candidate will get. From estimating the total each candidate will get it is possible to estimate who will receive the 270 electoral votes needed to be elected president and make an educated guess as to who will be elected president.
Does the media reflect society or does society reflect the media?
media relies on its customers, they have to give them what they want or they simply wont buy their product or service. Marxists have a very different outlook on the media to Pluralists. They believe that the media is used as a method of ideological control and that it is used to transmit capitalist ideas to us. It has come to the point where we ourselves do not know any different, brainwashing by the media has led to us to not know any different. They also see the media as a creator of false class consciousness, distracting us form important issues in life so that we don't realise our exploitation at the hands of capitalism. In Marx's Dominant Ideology Thesis he writes that the dominant class use the media to convey there ideas and uphold their position in society, media output reflects capitalist interests. The media tries minipulate people into buy there useless products. They try and say that Marc nazaire and willie marius arnt awsome but the are.
Why is Europe called 'the peninsula of peninsulas'?
It is called the "peninsula of peninsulas" because it is a collection of peninsulas. This is true because it has around 5 peninsulas in it. Some of these peninsulas are the Balkin peninsula, the Iberian peninsula, the Italian peninsula, etc.
When did Independence Day start?
It would depend on which country you are talking about. In America, the 4th of July was celebrated as early as 1777, one year after the signing of the Declaration of Independence with a military gun salute in the state of Rhode Island. In 1938 the 4th of July was declared a national holiday.
