WEB BOHEMIAN
(Monday, August 13, 2012)
(1)- ISLAND SALE
-- L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt (at the center of a tax evasion case)
has sold a Seychelles island for $60 million, having bought it in 1998 for $18
million, says an island official.
(2)- RUSSIA FLEXES -- The Russian government intends to restore
the military-technical support of their ships on three occeans: at the former
military base in Cam Ranh (Vietnam), Lourdes (Cuba) and the Seychelles.
(3)- WHY?
-- We've been sitting on the same kind of crapper for centuries. As far as the
toilets themselves go, hundreds of years after they were invented, they're
still largely porcelain. Wonder why?
(4)- L.A. RIVER – Despite decades of engineering to put the river and its tributaries
into concrete channels, ditches, and pipes, there remain surprising unlikely
patches, where the wild Los Angeles River survives.
(5)- EXTRA MARS INFO
-- Mars is the second smallest planet in the solar system; only Mercury is
smaller. Mars is about half (53 percent) the size of Earth, but Mars has the
same amount of dry land as Earth.
(6)- MARKETING PUZZLE -- The longer technology is around, the
cheaper products are priced. Consider a 32-inch flat-panel television. Even so,
the overall average price paid for a new TV has actually risen lately.
(7)- STARS AND CONSTELLATIONS -- This site has a wealth of info such as listing the 26
brightest stars in our solar system. There are interactive star charts, listing
of constellations and much more…
(8)- ELEPHANT TALK -- African elephants are known as some of
the greatest communicators in the animal kingdom. They can converse over a
distance of miles with “extremely low-pitched vocalizations,” (known as infrasounds).
(9)- WINE CRITIC -- With his stubborn disregard for the hierarchy of wines, this
straight-talking American wine critic is revolutionizing the industry; teaching
the French wine establishment lessons it would rather not learn.
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