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The Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 cups of cacao a day from a golden chalice.
 
Over the past 100 years, the number of Catholics around the world as tripled from 291 million in 1910 to 1.1 billion in 2010. Percentage wise, the population has remained relatively stable, constituting 17% of the world population in 1910 and 16% in 2010.
 
I’m not sure I would want to test that out on a real live Kangaroo, however.
 
I think that’s gotten common everywhere. California has advanced to the next step… turn right on red even when traffic IS coming.
 
I wonder who took time to research that? Must have been government funded.
 
Champagne and sparkling wines are too acidic to pair well with milk or dark chocolate. Try pairing a sweet bubbly with white chocolate and red wine with dark. In general you want to match the sweetness level of the wine with the sweetness level of the chocolate.
 
GEddie said:
Cats do not meow to each other, but only to human beings.
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That’s adult cats.

juvenile cats meow to their mothers.
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California has advanced to the next step… turn right on red even when traffic IS coming.
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We’ve gone worse next door in Nevada. (and, yes, this is “I’m not making this up” territory . . .) . . . we now have some blinking left arrows that can occur during a red light, permitting a left turn if safe! 😱 🤯
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The sad thing is that it’s among the least of our driving worries here . . .

odd fact: the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Las Vegas
a) is on the strip, and
b) was built by the casinos (they offered to built it if the bishop would staff it with a 4:30 AM Mass for workers going off shift)
 
The night I learned to drive, my father took me along the aptly named “Blood Alley” in the dark, and told me afterwards that as I’d now driven the most dangerous place, others should not be a problem.

I’ve driven in NYC, Boston, Chicago, and through LA during the freeway shootings (but I was in a '71 Fury III wagon, they only would have got one shot).

There is only one place that I’m now scared to drive: a Roman Catholic parking lot after Mass! 😱
 
If you haven’t driven in Naples, Italy, you haven’t experienced the worst.
 
We will jump in our Chevies;
we will jump in our Fords!
We will run down the Christiansm
as se sing, “Praise the Lord”
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If you haven’t driven in Naples, Italy, you haven’t experienced the worst.
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We have them, here, too! 😱

The real problem here isn’t simply the bad driving, but that we have bad drivers from all over the world, and you can’t adjust to accommodated them . . .

In Ames, IA for my PhD, I quickly noticed that the american students and locals drove almost entirely american cars, where the foreign students generally had Japanese cars. This was a quite useful warning, as most of them had learned to drive rather recently . . .
 
I disagree.

If you haven’t driven in Cairo Egypt you haven’t experienced the worst.
 
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