How To Of The Day: Avoid Static Shock When Exiting Your Car

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Jan 022016
 

Avoid Static Shock When Exiting Your Car
As the weather gets colder and dryer, you are more likely to get shocked when getting out of a car, touching a door knob, or doing laundry. Is there a way to prevent getting shocked on the car door? You bet there is!

Enjoy!

If you’ve ever wondered why your car will sometimes give you a painful shock when you climb out, this video explains the science behind it, and how to prevent it.

In this video from the Physics Girl YouTube channel, host Dianna Cowern explains exactly why exiting your car can cause a nasty static shock when you touch the outside of it. When you get out of the car, you slide your body across the seat, and that can leave both the seat and your body statically charged. If the air is cold and dry enough, the charge will quickly and violently transfer from your body into the car’s metal and shock you. Cowern suggests the easiest way to avoid this is by touching the metalwhile you exit the vehicle. Even if charge builds up, it will slowly flow from your body to the metal without creating the violent “shocking” event.

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United States Marine Corps – Winter Survival Course Handbook

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Dec 302015
 

United States Marine Corps – Winter Survival Course Handbook

Knowing how to survive is a hard task on a nice sunny day, imagine if it were the middle of winter or you were in a place where the nights get below freezing… Knowing skills that are taught to the marines could give you the edge and get you through the freezing night or cold weather.

Obviously training and doing the things in this manual will get you the skills needed to survive but at the very minimum you should have this downloaded and on a device where you can get to it.

With electronics I know an EMP will take them out but in realistic terms they are pretty unlikely. So I would suggest having a solar charger to charge your device so you can have this valuable information to hand anytime you need it. Thats why I download all of my PDF’s, books etc to my phone. Get the United States Marine Corps – Winter Survival Course Handbook free….

United States Marine Corps – Winter Survival Course Handbook

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American History: A Map Of American Slavery

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Dec 302015
 

A Map of American Slavery

A Map of American Slavery

One of the most important maps of the Civil War was also one of the most visually striking: the United States Coast Survey’s map of the slaveholding states, which clearly illustrates the varying concentrations of slaves across the South. Abraham Lincoln loved the map and consulted it often; it even appears in a famous 1864 painting of the president and his cabinet.

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PDF of the Map

 

The Death Of The Red Baron

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Dec 292015
 

A brilliant reconstitution of the last fight of Manfred Albrecht Freiherr “The Red Baron”.

Richthofen’s last flight – Cinematic Historical documentary (In game footage from the flight sim “Rise of Flight”).

The story is as factual as I can make it. The only known historical inaccuracies are:

1. Mellersh does claim a Triplane shot down that day, but it was in fact Wolff, and he didn’t “explode”, but returned home and landed safely after spinning towards the ground under Mellersh’s fire.

2. The two seaters depicted in game are not Albatros (as they should be) But DFW’s, not represented in game (yet!) The story should really have RE8’s too…

3. A few of the Jasta colours are incorrectly shown – they are “mixed and matched” to a degree to represent the “Flying Circus”.

The rest is, as it should be, as far as possible, but comments, suggestions towards the much disputed legend of Richthofen’s death are welcome! He was reported to have been pulled alive from the aircraft saying “Kaput”.. But this seems unlikely due to the nature of his wound.

The Red Baron - Manfred von Richthofen

Richthofen wears the Pour le Mérite, the “Blue Max”, Prussia’s highest military order, in this official portrait, c. 1917

 

Forgotten French Castle

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Dec 282015
 

Located in the midst of a large wood stands the Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers a former stronghold of the illustrious Bauçay family, lords of Loudun.

The stronghold dates to the thirteenth century and was originally called Motte Bauçay (or Baussay). The Motte Baussay was taken twice by the English in the middle ages and devastated during the French Revolution.

It was bought in 1809 by François Hennecart, a wealthy businessman who undertook to restore its former glory. But it passed in 1857 to Baron Joseph Lejeune.

In 1932, a major fire destroyed most of the buildings in the castle. It has been abandoned ever since.

She’s a sleeping beauty situated in the midst of a large wood, surrounded by a medieval moat in the town of Les Trois-Moutiers in the Poitou-Charentes region of France. There’s something distinctly magical about it, not its size or grandeur, because there are bigger and bolder chateau designs out there, but this place has that ability to inspire a thousand stories, to feed the imagination and ignite the flames of an inexplicable nostalgia…

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These days it seems like castles only exist in storybooks and Disney movies. What happened to the foreboding dwellings of our wealthiest ancestors? The truth of the matter is, while there are still many castles in Europe and a few in the United States, many have fallen into disrepair and ruin over time. However, in the Poitou-Charentes region of France, a group of preservationists are trying to save a 13th century castle that is slowly being reclaimed by nature. The story behind the abandoned property is just as fascinating as what’s left standing today.

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