Sunday, November 19, 2017

OPEN A LOCK AND LEARN SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT YOUR PERSONALITY!

Do not hesitate to choose the lock that attracts you most, and find out what kind of person you are.

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1. YOU HAVE A STRONG CHARACTER

You are not afraid of difficulties and conflicts. Problems, tasks, and difficult situations, on the contrary, motivate you. You are a strong person!
At the same time, you are too pushy and bossy, firmly convinced that everything you do will be better for everyone, though. Learn to listen to other people and, believe me, you need an extraordinary strength and courage to strike a happy medium in any relations.

2. YOU ARE AN OPTIMIST

People love you for your positive outlook. You are a cheerful and kind person who will always support, listen and cheer. You can be shy in a new company, but in a circle of “your own” you will make jokes and emit fun. You are a creative and slightly eccentric person. And only when you are alone, you can feel down and even depressed. For you, this is a kind of reboot.

3. YOU ARE AN ENERGETIC AND CHEERFUL PERSON

You are able to inspire and cheer up the people around you. Sometimes your impulsiveness frightens others, though. You are full of youthful maximalism, and you always crave for new emotions. If you do not turn your emotional excitement in the right direction, it can end up with nervous breakdowns and scandals. Don’t let this happen! Turn to sports or meditation!

4. YOU HAVE AN ANALYTICAL MIND

You know how to organize yourself. You are responsible, punctual and others know that you are the person they can rely on. You can achieve much in life. However, sometimes it is hard to relax for you. Try to avoid pressure, remember: you can do more when you had a great rest before.

5. YOU ARE A SPIRITUAL PERSON

Sometimes you amaze others with your intuition and inner instinct. You always look deeper inside! You are interested in the issues of being, the meaning of existence and finding inner harmony. You would have made a great philosopher or spiritual leader. You are attracted by mysticism, religion and the secrets of art. You have a passionate nature and sometimes people find difficult to understand you. But anyway, do not hide your essence under the mask, if you manage to meet like-minded people, you can achieve very much.

Friday, November 17, 2017

Interesting Facts About Motorcycles:

Harley Davidson motorcycles have a failure rate over twice that of the top three motorcycle manufacturers in the world. 

In 2003 Dodge built and sold nine motorcycles with a viper V-10 engine called the Dodge Tomahawk.

Keanu Reeves used his % profit from The Matrix to buy a motorcycle for all of the movie’s stuntmen.

The rarest motorcycle in the world was found behind a brick wall in Chicago and has engine technologies well ahead of its time. The “Traub” is still running.

Motorcyclists are almost 30X more likely to die than other motorists.

The first responders to accidents in high-speed motorcycle races in Northern Ireland are motorcycle doctors. They travel at speeds upwards of 180mph to get to the scene.

It is legal in California to drive a motorcycle between two cars in their lane (lane splitting) and only 53% of state residents know that it is legal.

The city of Medellin, Colombia reduced motorcycle assassinations by 39% when it banned male passengers from riding on the back of motorbikes.

In 2000 the major motorcycle companies of the world reached a gentlemen’s agreement to end a speed war of one-upmanship to try to make the worlds fastest production bike, as they feared speeds would escalate to extremely dangerous speeds before it would end. A limit of 186 mph was agreed.

In 1935 German engineers created a streamlined motorcycle with the engine in the front wheel. There was likely only one made and its current location is unknown.

A guy stranded in the desert dismantled his broken down car and made a working motorcycle out of it.

Thursday, November 16, 2017

The Top 4 Spelling Rules (With Exceptions):

Spelling rules are a bit like weather forecasts: we may pay attention to them, but we really can't depend on them to be right 100% of the time. In fact, the only foolproof rule is that all spelling rules in English have exceptions. Still, many writers find that certain rules help them remember how to spell particular types of words, especially those formed by adding suffixes (or word endings). Here we'll look at four popular spelling rules that may be helpful to you.

Using I Before E

Use i before e, except after c, or when sounded as "a" as in "neighbor" and "weigh."
Examples: believe, chief, piece, and thief; deceive, receive, weigh, and freight
Common exceptions: efficient, weird, height, neither, ancient, caffeine, foreign.


Dropping the Final E

Drop the final e before a suffix beginning with a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) but not before a suffix beginning with a consonant.
Examples: 
ride + ing = riding
guide + ance = guidance
hope + ing = hoping
entire + ly = entirely
like + ness = likeness
arrange + ment = arrangement
Exceptions: truly, noticeable


Changing a Final Y to I

Change a final y to i before a suffix, unless the suffix begins with i.
Examples:
defy + ance = defiance
party + es = parties
pity + ful = pitiful
try + es = tries
try + ing = trying
copy + ing = copying
occupy + ing = occupying
Common exceptions: journeying, memorize


Doubling a Final Consonant

Double a final single consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel when both of these conditions exist:
(a) a single vowel precedes the consonant;
(b) the consonant ends an accented syllable or a one-syllable word.

Examples: 
stop + ing = stopping
admit + ed = admitted
occur + ence = occurrence
stoop + ing = stooping
benefit + ed = benefited
delight + ful = delightful

Monday, November 13, 2017

Interesting Facts About Titanic:

Even when adjusted for inflation, the movie Titanic directed by James Cameroon cost more to make than the original Titanic ship.

Game of Thrones is filmed in the same studio the Titanic was built in, not the movie but the actual RMS Titanic.

Not a single engineer made it off the Titanic. They stayed till their last breath and kept the power on, so others could escape.

A priest on board the Titanic refused a place on a lifeboat twice and stayed behind to hear confessions and give absolution to the people left on the ship.

In 1943, the Nazis also made a film called “Titanic”. It was an anti-British propaganda piece about the famous shipwreck. Royal Air Force bombed the theater it was to be premiered in.

On April 15, 1912 (a day later), a steward, who hadn’t yet heard about the Titanic sinking spotted an iceberg smeared with red paint and snapped a photo of it.

In 1945, the Royal Air Force accidentally sunk a ship full of Holocaust victims. The ship had been used in the Nazi Propaganda film “Titanic”. About 3x more people died in that ship sink than in the actual Titanic. 

Two years after Titanic sank, the ship Empress Of Ireland sank in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and lost 68.5% of all its passengers (0.5% more than Titanic). The event was buried in the papers because of WWI.

During the filming of the movie Titanic, an angry crew member put PCP in James Cameron’s soup, sending him and 50 others to the hospital.

James Cameron made the movie Titanic just to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make a movie.

A first-class ticket on the Titanic cost $4,375 in 1912 (almost $100,000 today).

A woman named Violet Constance Jessop survived the sinking of the Titanic. Interestingly, she also survived the sinking of its sister ship, the Britannic, and a collision with its third sister ship, the Olympic.

An Australian billionaire has taken efforts to fund the building of a new Titanic cruise ship, which will set out from England in a mere four years; advance ticket sales are soon to follow.

The character in movie Titanic, who drinks from a flask and rides the ship down into the ocean with Jack and Rose, is based on a real person who did that. He survived and thanked the alcohol.

The original founders/owners of Macy’s died on the Titanic and were the old couple in the movie, who went to sleep as the ship went down. 

Sunday, November 12, 2017

Mark Twain's Top 10 Writing Tips:

Widely regarded as the greatest American writer of his time, Mark Twain was often asked for advice on the art and craft of writing. Sometimes the famous humorist would respond seriously, and sometimes not. Here, in remarks drawn from his letters, essays, novels, and speeches are 10 of Twain's most memorable observations on the writer's craft.

10 TIPS FROM TWAIN


Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Use the right word, not its second cousin.

As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

Substitute damn every time you're inclined to write very; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Use good grammar.

Damnation (if you will allow the expression), get up & take a turn around the block & let the sentiment blow off you. The sentiment is for girls. . . . There is one thing I can't stand and won't stand, from many people. That is sham sentimentality.

Use plain, simple language, short words, and brief sentences. That is the way to write English--it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is that you really want to say.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

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