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On 8 January 1992, at about 20:20 JST, while attending a banquet hosted by the Prime Minister of Japan, Kiichi Miyazawa, U.S. President George H. W. Bush fainted after vomiting in Miyazawa's lap. Doctors later attributed the incident to a case of acute gastroenteritis.
George H.W. Bush rang in the New Year of 1992 with a 12-day trade-focused trip to Asia and the Pacific to discuss America's post-Cold War readjustment of economic relations and policies. On 8 January 1992, Bush played a doubles...
Also, very good See Also section on this page
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6 September 2023 22:21
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Have never heard of them either. And, reading through that page, I was waiting for a reference to Haw Par Villa’s Ten Courts of Hell as a predecessor. Which never came.
Haw Par Villa (Chinese: 虎豹別墅; pinyin: Hǔ Bào Biéshù) is a theme park located along Pasir Panjang Road in Singapore. The park contains over 1,000 statues and 150 giant dioramas depicting scenes from Chinese mythology, folklore, legends, history, and illustrations of various aspects of Confucianism. During the 1970s and 1980s, the park was a major local attraction; it is estimated that the park then welcomed at least 1 million annual visitors, and is considered as part of Singapore's cultural he...
There was something else I was currently studying but I’ve forgotten what it was
Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation (FIDO) (which was sometimes referred to as "Fog Intense Dispersal Operation" or "Fog, Intense Dispersal Of") was a system used for dispersing fog and pea soup fog (dense smog) from an airfield so that aircraft could land safely. The device was developed by Arthur Hartley for British RAF bomber stations, allowing the landing of aircraft returning from raids over Germany in poor visibility by burning fuel in rows on either side of the runway.
The FIDO sy...
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Absolutely WTF.
FIDO used huge quantities of fuel, as much as 100,000 imperial gallons (120,000 US gal; 450,000 L) per hour. Over twice this amount was used by airfields with longer runways such as RAF Carnaby .
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Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist. (Latin: Bernardus Claraevallensis; 1090 – 20 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, and a major leader in the reformation of the Benedictine Order through the nascent Cistercian Order.
He was sent to found Clairvaux Abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the Val d'Absinthe, about 15 kilometres (9 mi) southeast of Bar-sur-Aube. In the year 1128, Bernard attended the Council of Troyes, at which h...
(I’m reading The Name of the Rose atm, got intrigued by the 12 Degrees of Humility)
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Oooh, I quoted him in an essay on Cistercianism when I did a single course of Mediaeval History at uni (partly inspired by reading Name Of The Rose)
(Kinda bizarre how I remember that so clearly)
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