Total Trivia

[rbijon]

According to medieval Christian theologians, the Angels are organized into several orders, or Angelic Choirs

From the comparative study of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament passages, including their etymology and semantics, the above mentioned theological works (which contain variations), and esoteric Christian teachings, the descending order of rank can be inferred as following:

First Sphere (Hebrew Bible sources)
Seraphim
Cherubim
Thrones (Gr. thronos) (New Testament sources)

Second Sphere (New Testament sources)
Dominions (Gr. Kyriotetes)
Virtues (Gr. Dynamais)
Powers (Gr. Exusiai)

Third Sphere
Principalities (Gr. Archai)
Archangels - Archangeloi
Angels - Angeloi

...thanks I may need this someday, I just copied and paste it into a word doc.
How shall I reference you,, Doctor?

 

[smotherman]

The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the amount of blood pumped per heartbeat.

 

[fire_breeze]

While demons are associated with sins (the princes), the same is not true for the seven heavenly virtues and angels. Why? Because in the Middle Ages, only four angels' names were known: Michael, Gabriel and Raphael (Biblical) and Uriel (or Ariel, not Biblical). Furthermore, in the late Middle Ages, naming an angel besides the four known ones was pretty much not done and in some places, forbidden.

That being said, the 7 heavenly virtues had it's corresponding deadly sin.

Chastity - Lust
Temperance - Gluttony
Charity - Greed
Diligence - Sloth
Patience - Wrath
Kindness - Envy
Humility - Pride.


Some add Justice as the eighth virtue, with Corruption as its corresponding sin, but that's not really broadly recognised.

 

[fire_breeze]

...thanks I may need this someday, I just copied and paste it into a word doc.
How shall I reference you,, Doctor?

Not yet, in a few years

As Breezy

 

[rbijon]

Not yet, in a few years

As Breezy

That would be Doctor Breezy to me.....

Triva?
How does Master's student kiss a PhD. silly?

 

[fire_breeze]

The chemical n-acetyl-cysteine found in raw eggs is proven to help hangovers.

You know, I've heard this one. My question is, why haven't they extracted it and sold it in tablet form? They would make a fortune!


And in case it's not done, I'm patenting it

 

[fire_breeze]

That would be Doctor Breezy to me.....

Triva?
How does Master's student kiss a PhD. silly?

By kissing of course!

 

[smotherman]

A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.

 

[smotherman]

You know, I've heard this one. My question is, why haven't they extracted it and sold it in tablet form? They would make a fortune!


And in case it's not done, I'm patenting it

Probably because they want you to buy other sorts of tablets etc and make a bigger fortune.

 

[smotherman]

The air we breathe is 78% nitrogen, 21.5% oxygen, .5% argon and other gases.

 

[smotherman]

The only rock that floats in water is pumice.

 

[smotherman]

The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the US Military Academy at West Point, NY.

 

[smotherman]

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

 

[LoopyR]

medicine men/doctors in the 15th century used to wear early gasmask like masks to prevent catching and spreading diseases

 

[call_me_Melody]

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury

 

[mulehead61]

Most people think zebras are white with black stripes, but the African tribes say they are black with white stripes.

 

[call_me_Melody]

Dalmation puppies have no spots.

 

[Casualencounter]

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury

Theres a difference?

Speaking of Money ... Article I,Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution "no state shall make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts".

In 1934 FDR confiscated gold then raised the price from $20.97 to $35 an ounce

Today 1 U.S. dollar is worth about 2 cents in 1933 gold backed dollars

 

[Casualencounter]

The United States first venture in printing money came on June 22,1775.Congress printed the first run ($2 million worth) of "Continentals" a piece of paper backed by faith alone. Sound familiar?
Since they weren't backed by gold or silver merchants demanded more continentals for the same amount of goods (Our first bout with inflation as a young nation).
By the end of the Revolutionary War in 1781 the continental was worthless, thus ending our first experiment with fiat money. Which lead to Article I, section 10 being written into the constitution. We didn't learn our lesson did we?

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

World's Worst Predictions -

Theoretically, television may be feasible, but I consider it an impossibility--a development which we should waste little time dreaming about.
- Lee de Forest, 1926, inventor of the cathode ray tube

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas J. Watson, 1943, Chairman of the Board of IBM

It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything.
- Albert Einstein's teacher to his father, 1895

It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister.
- Margaret Thatcher, 1974

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
- Western Union internal memo, 1876

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Bill Gates, 1981

Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.
- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.
- Hewlett-Packard's rejection of Steve Jobs, who went on to found Apple Computers

King George II said in 1773 that the American colonies had little stomach for revolution.

An official of the White Star Line, speaking of the firm's newly built flagship, the Titanic, launched in 1912, declared that the ship was unsinkable.

In 1939 The New York Times said the problem of TV was that people had to glue their eyes to a screen, and that the average American wouldn't have time for it.

Airplanes are interesting toys, but they have no military value.
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch in 1911

With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market.
- Business Week, 1958

Whatever happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.
- Frank Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, on December 4, 1941

 

[mulehead61]

Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

That's 50K a day...... geez, why do I always pick the wrong career field??
I'm passing a sign up sheet around; anyone want to join up? I figure in about a month or two we should have enough to retire on.....remember it's all tax free...



The human tongue consists of 16 muscles.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

That's 50K a day...... geez, why do I always pick the wrong career field??
I'm passing a sign up sheet around; anyone want to join up? I figure in about a month or two we should have enough to retire on.....remember it's all tax free...



The human tongue consists of 16 muscles.

Call me Bonnie and I'll call you Clyde

 

[mulehead61]

Call me Bonnie and I'll call you Clyde

Sounds good...question though - are banks easier to rob in the UK than here?? And has anyone figured out a way around those pesky exploding dye packets?


Other than humans, almost all mammals have a penis bone, or baculum. Other species that do not have this bone are horses, marsupials, rabbits, hyenas, and a few others. Most other primates are born with a penis bone.

Hence the term boner??

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Sounds good...question though - are banks easier to rob in the UK than here?? And has anyone figured out a way around those pesky exploding dye packets?


Other than humans, almost all mammals have a penis bone, or baculum. Other species that do not have this bone are horses, marsupials, rabbits, hyenas, and a few others. Most other primates are born with a penis bone.

Hence the term boner??

Sadly no, here in the UK the banks rob us

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!