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2007-02-05 03:39:21 · 13 answers · asked by Jennifer 1

2007-02-05 03:28:38 · 8 answers · asked by poison1 1

2007-02-05 03:15:53 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is part of a quiz with letters and numbers i.e. 24 H in a D - answer 24 hours in a day no theme to the quiz, no one seems to know the answer to this one question! Driving me nuts, any ideas?

2007-02-05 01:03:41 · 10 answers · asked by Sue W 1

Oooh well...

Just wanna know....

2007-02-04 23:56:31 · 10 answers · asked by Floramae Celine B 1

In the film Ghostbusters, it mentions a twinkie. Is it some kind of food?, we don't seem to get the same sort of stuff you do in the USA.

2007-02-04 21:24:22 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-04 20:36:17 · 6 answers · asked by Kharene P 1

2007-02-04 20:35:03 · 7 answers · asked by Kharene P 1

2007-02-04 20:32:20 · 9 answers · asked by Kharene P 1

i'd like to have....:)

2007-02-04 20:25:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

who want to go together? :)

2007-02-04 20:01:40 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Solve the puzzle " A thing which comes once in a year, twice in a month, four times a week and six times a day". Plz reply if u know the answer

2007-02-04 19:52:01 · 6 answers · asked by sunderr 1

why is pluto no longer considered as the smallest planet?

2007-02-04 19:12:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

The weekly salaries of musicains in orchestras ranged from $734-$1925. Orchestras have different season lengths ranging from 24-52 weeks. In one season, what is the positive difference between the most and least that could be earned in a year?

I want to make a bracelet with seven beads. Of the seven, one bead is unique and the other six are three distnct pairs of matching beads. If the bracelts beadpattern is symmetric when the bracelt is not clasped, how many distnictbracelets can she make?

A staircase is built by stacking rectangular railroad ties that measure 1 foot by 1 foot be 3 feet. Continuing the pattern how many ties must be used to make a staircase 10 feet high?

Each of four test scores in Connies class is to be weighted equally. On the first three tests Connis scored 79%, 87%, and 98%. What percent must she score on her fourth test to have an overall average of exactly 90%?

What is a mean of numbers?

2007-02-04 18:32:44 · 2 answers · asked by cfishot 2

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Where did it come from? And to what extent are things covered by Murphys Law?

2007-02-04 17:48:52 · 6 answers · asked by Mystee_Rain 5

Which of the Dutch India Trading Company shipwrecks was the most costly based on the cargo lost?

2007-02-04 15:45:48 · 2 answers · asked by kidjcadungog@sbcglobal.net 2

Abe Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
JFK was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abe was elected President in 1860.
JFK was elected President in 1960.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both their wives lost children while living in the House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both were shot in the head.
Both were shot from behind.
Both were in the presence of their wives.
The secretary of each President warned them not to go to the theatre and Dallas, respectively.

Lincoln's Secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southern Democrats
Both successors were named Johnson.
The names "Andrew Johnson" and Lyndon Johnson each contain 13 letters.
Both successors had held seats in the US Senate.
Both Johnsons were opposed for re-election by men whose names start with "G".

theres alot more that u can find but i cant fit

2007-02-04 15:32:59 · 7 answers · asked by hurley_natl 2

I just entered level 3 on YAHOO!ANSWERS. Hooray. So lets celbrate with a trivia question. First one to get it right will get 10 easy points.

How long does it take for light from the sun to reach Earth?

2007-02-04 10:07:44 · 8 answers · asked by Average Joe 3

San Francisco: The Great Quake
The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 was an occurrence of mostly pure tragedy in history. It was one of the most significant earthquakes of all time. Happening at precisely 5:12 AM on April 18, 1906, this was a devastating event that definitely would not be forgotten for many years to come. In the following paragraphs you will hear about some of the many horrible events of this time, and even a few of the good things that happened because of it.
But, what is an earthquake? An earthquake is a tremor, or shaking, of the Earths surface. The tremor is caused by movement of the fault lines located in the Earths crust. The tremors send out seismic waves, or shock waves, which are what we usually feel and call an earthquake.
In 1935, Charles Richter, a seismologist from America, developed a scale that measures the moment magnitude of seismic waves. This device is called the Richter scale. It records data on a scale from one through nine, the strength of the number being ten times more powerful than the one right before it. Most seismologists say that anything over a seven point magnitude is thought of as a pretty severe earthquake. According to the measurements of this scale the San Francisco earthquake came in as a seven point eight.
A foreshock, or a smaller earthquake that comes before a larger one, had occurred about twenty to twenty five seconds before the actual earthquake. Violent shocks and strong shaking lasted forty five to sixty seconds during the actual earthquake. When the earth started to move the shaking was so extravagant it was felt as far north as southern Oregon, as far south as south Los Angeles, and even as far inland as central Nevada.
The earthquake was caused by a rupture on the San Andreas fault which runs from the Salton Sea to Cape Mendocino, a distance of about eight hundred miles (one thousand two hundred eighty seven kilometers). The earthquake had ruptured along the fault for two hundred ninety six miles. The main shock epicenter was located offshore about two miles, or three kilometers, from the city.
The earthquake had not caused damage just by the strong shaking it had also started fires. It was estimated that up to ninety percent of the total destruction and damage was caused by fires. The fires were caused by things such as broken gas lines somehow catching fire, forest fires caused by campfires set by refugees, and quite a few of them were arson. Some people were even that desperate that they would set fire to their own homes so they could collect more money from insurance companies that did not cover earthquake damage but actually did cover fires. This also led to millions of dollars in debt for the insurance companies, but the insurance companies were not the only ones in debt the entire city was in debt! We’ll see to that later.
Some of the smaller fires in the downtown area actually combined to make one inferno, or a very big fire. To make things even worse in many parts of the city water mains had been destroyed and broken from the effects of the earthquake giving firefighters limited resources to put out the fires. As a result the fires lasted for four days and four nights. Over five hundred blocks of the downtown area of the city were destroyed from the fire.
Troops were immediately put into action and had arrived by seven o‘clock AM. But by the time they had got there, the fires caused by the quake had grown much larger than what they were just a few hours before. In order to put out the fire the San Francisco Fire Department, General Fredrick Funston (the leader of the troops), and the troops themselves came up with and idea that called for dynamite. This idea was that all of them would blow up and bomb buildings in a way that was creating more fires but also creating a ring of ruins around the fires. Sometimes it worked, other times it did not. But eventually those three groups got to putting out the fires once and for all.
Mayor Schmitz later allowed police, vigilante patrols, and military troops to shoot any looters that they saw raiding homes and/or businesses. Because of this outrageous event about five hundred people were shot and killed.
Due to the poor building standards of the time, many homes had been completely destroyed by both the fire and the earthquake. Some people say that the greatest losses of the earthquake were the ones in which some scientific laboratories were completely destroyed by the fire. In fact Alice Eastwood, the Curator of Botany at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, had been known for discovering fifteen hundred rare species of molecules and atoms, but sadly a very large percentage of her studies and specimens were lost in the great quake and fire. The rebuilding of the town had cost over five hundred million dollars in 1906 money, which is equal to five billion ten million dollars in today’s money.
Between two hundred twenty five thousand and three hundred thousand of the four hundred ten thousand people living in San Francisco at the time were left homeless. These people were told to stay in camps in the bay area. The army had built five thousand six hundred ten wooden houses to hold twenty thousand people. The houses were spread across eleven camps. Displaced people would pay two dollars per month to stay in these houses until their homes were rebuilt. The people that did not stay in the camps were better off to live with family members who were nearby until their homes were finished.
The city’s rebuilding took a period of about ten years. By that time the city had been almost completely rebuilt. The people of the highest power in the city wanted to rebuild the city as quick and soon as possible so they would be able to start selling newly built houses and open more new businesses to bring in more money to the city, but since the city was in such a rush to rebuild itself the cities building standards had actually been lowered instead of being raised. Because of this poorly planned rebuild, if another earthquake happened the damage and expense would be worse and higher than the what it was for the 1906 earthquake.
One question commonly asked is, Can it Happen Again? I did some of research and came up with these facts, the answer is yes, it definitely could happen again because San Francisco is very close to the San Andreas Fault, and also because the main epicenter of the 1906 earthquake was located only 2 miles off shore from the city itself. Many scientists have estimated that if another earthquake between a level of six point magnitude to a level of eight point magnitude had occurred the epicenter would very close to the one from the 1906 quake.

2007-02-04 09:36:50 · 8 answers · asked by IM GOOD WITH LYRICS! 2

Hehehe, seriously. Is it one or three or a hundred...? Or like is there an equation to solve? How many licks would it take before you got P'O'd and just bit it?

2007-02-04 09:09:54 · 8 answers · asked by Dani M 2

There are "puzzles" that are sort of ackronyms, such as
3 feet to a yard being 3 f to a Y
8 s on a SS being 8 sides on a stop sign.

Anyone know what these "games" are called?

2007-02-04 08:48:03 · 3 answers · asked by fiftypercentrick 2

-Shot in BW in the 1950s;
- plot: successful, but self-absorbed Broadway composer clashes with his son, who is not "into" music; embittered son joins the air force and finds much-sought anonymity and acceptance. Eventually reconciles with that.

2007-02-04 07:54:28 · 3 answers · asked by Willster 5

What attitudes might be developed in a civilization that was georaphically isolated? Consider more than one possibility!

Hints: hebrew's and others!

2007-02-04 07:03:24 · 10 answers · asked by Abdul S 3

2007-02-04 06:50:45 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

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