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1. #628 To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. 119 1 1.206 35.95Trinity (trintrintrinity2011) 35.95 35.95 January 29, 2024
2. #1971761 Archaeopteryx is among the most famous of all fossils. 54 1 1.195 31.68Shushant (shushant_07) 31.68 31.68 March 2, 2024
3. #1971781 Nearly half the dinosaurs ever named turn out to be mistakes. 61 1 1.165 29.8228Leaf (28leaf) 29.82 29.82 January 16, 2024
4. #407 The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and find its optimum solution. Hence, intelligence is effectiveness. 121 2 1.163 31.83udoh endurance (udohenduran... 31.06 31.06 December 14, 2023
5. #1971655 Dinosaurs lived on every continent and ranged in size from a small sparrow to a house. 86 7 1.158 83.74notkinruyuu (notkinruyuu) 44.27 44.27 February 25, 2016
6. #241 For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it. 247 48 1.142 146.94police (styrofoam) 70.56 70.56 February 25, 2016
7. #249 Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation marks when they apply to the quoted material only. They go outside when they apply to the entire sentence. 164 1 1.135 29.97Zopheak (zopheak) 29.97 29.97 June 9, 2024
8. #238 All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings. 294 17 1.128 103.55urmumsbf (praxuu) 69.15 69.15 February 18, 2016
9. #1971674 Over the years, scientists have had some inaccurate ideas about dinosaurs. 74 2 1.125 37.38cassidy (cassidyromine) 32.63 32.63 February 25, 2016
10. #437 Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every action and decision, seems to aim at some good; hence the good has been well described as that at which everything aims. However, there is an apparent difference among the ends aimed at. For the end is sometimes an activity, sometimes a product beyond the activity; and when there is an end beyond the action, the product is by nature better than the activity. 416 6 1.119 127.81Miss Stitch (staities) 90.91 90.91 December 15, 2023
11. #319 Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you first find the cliche you want to work on, then build a story around it. 129 48 1.112 128.90Dal (astronerd) 55.49 55.49 February 24, 2016
12. #259 The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fast as you can think so your thoughts can flow onto the screen. 121 4 1.109 39.38udoh endurance (udohenduran... 29.93 29.93 March 14, 2017
13. #263 Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by putting them in all capital letters. The only problem is that when all capital letters are used, the ability to read the words is reduced dramatically because all the letters are rectangles. A more effective way to emphasize words is sparingly to use bold, italics, underline, and combinations of these styles. 369 11 1.109 106.26swipy (swipy1) 78.35 78.35 March 29, 2016
14. #311 When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. 237 21 1.108 78.58Heper (hepersopon) 51.75 51.75 February 18, 2016
15. #1971675 On average, a new kind of dinosaur is found every two weeks. 60 12 1.103 177.53 (zambricks) 144.07 144.07 January 7, 2024
16. #557 This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, and he picked up the shrimp and scallops one after another and swallowed them as if they did not require chewing. 172 3 1.103 125.04hehe (furryunicorn69) 61.70 61.70 May 27, 2016
17. #1971677 So far, about 1,000 different kinds of dinosaurs have been discovered. 70 2 1.102 30.60Iqboljon (iqboljon2002) 26.01 26.01 December 23, 2023
18. #1970848 The end of the Revolutionary War in America did not guarantee that the states would unite under one government. 111 19 1.095 95.29Eric (tshirt_typa) 50.27 50.27 February 4, 2016
19. #204 Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination. 341 24 1.094 112.64KiddieX (emyrr) 65.21 65.21 February 18, 2016
20. #1971662 Without fossils, we would never know about all the amazing animals of the past. 79 6 1.094 90.62Bliss (jericho2) 58.97 58.97 February 18, 2016
21. #1971763 Dinosaur planteaters evolved a wide variety of different teeth for their different diets and habitats. 102 6 1.091 70.39harry (harry123idk) 49.08 49.08 February 25, 2016
22. #354 I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. 212 37 1.091 147.36police (styrofoam) 65.94 65.94 February 24, 2016
23. #264 Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to control. You will notice that when you move your ring finger your other fingers will move involuntarily as well. This is something that will become less of a problem as you perfect your keyboarding skills. 262 21 1.087 90.65Eddie (eddosxd) 51.93 51.93 February 25, 2016
24. #439 The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest hope. His soil is still rich enough. But one day this soil will be poor and domesticated, and no tall tree will be able to grow in it. Alas, the time is coming when man will no longer shoot the arrow of his longing beyond man, and the string of his bow will have forgotten how to whir. 393 18 1.087 160.08 (keegant) 93.52 93.52 February 12, 2020
25. #1971660 Fossils are the tracks or traces of parts of plants and animals. Without them, we would never know about all the amazing animals of the past. 141 26 1.086 97.04Nim (nimrodpaz) 58.00 58.00 January 22, 2016
26. #320 One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible thought, and don't add other words to the sentence after the joke. If you do, the audience will think that your take-off was only a setup for a bigger laugh coming up. 227 40 1.085 98.62hojillion (hojillion) 61.38 61.38 February 25, 2016
27. #537 Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. 258 37 1.085 137.78KiddieX (emyrr) 60.65 60.65 February 25, 2016
28. #1970840 In the early days in America, the colonials were proud to be British subjects, and for years they had been left alone to manage their own affairs. 146 32 1.084 97.37sukhi (sukh23) 62.27 62.27 February 25, 2016
29. #1971672 Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent. 52 22 1.083 173.81 (zambricks) 140.71 140.71 December 23, 2023
30. #367 Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocative first lines that grab the listener's attention. Often thinking of a good first line can make the rest of the lyric flow. 182 32 1.082 92.34sukhi (sukh23) 58.62 58.62 May 22, 2016
31. #225 It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting, he thought, as he looked again at the position of the sun, and hurried his pace. 158 2 1.081 33.59Trinity (trintrintrinity2011) 32.16 32.16 January 29, 2024
32. #1971846 It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives. 176 34 1.079 95.20sukhi (sukh23) 54.21 54.21 February 25, 2016
33. #633 However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world. 162 24 1.078 143.57Morticia3328 (morticia3328) 61.68 61.68 February 5, 2016
34. #1971661 Fossils are the tracks or traces of parts of plants and animals. 64 1 1.074 34.83Kam (imjust_kam) 34.83 34.83 December 14, 2023
35. #258 The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fast as you can think. This is not easy to do, but your goal should be at least to develop the ability to think of the word and have the appropriate fingers tap the appropriate keys without interrupting the thinking process so your thoughts can flow onto the screen. 323 43 1.074 135.24rawr? (cloudjumper) 62.12 62.12 February 25, 2016
36. #1971652 Dinosaurs and many other animals roamed the Earth more than 65 million years ago. 81 20 1.074 86.52ghostway (ghostway) 49.13 49.13 February 18, 2016
37. #9 But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were content to eat and drink, and Singer would talk with his hands eagerly to his friend about all that was in his mind. So the years passed in this quiet way until Singer reached the age of thirty-two. 256 32 1.073 105.95king (fawmen) 58.31 58.31 March 26, 2016
38. #102 The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then to work outward from there. Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value. 288 36 1.072 148.10police (styrofoam) 66.28 66.28 February 18, 2016
39. #502 Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his hands seemed to doubt the existence of things, it was evident that he came from the world where men could still sleep and remember. 189 37 1.070 110.05SledgeHammer (wrinkleflute) 56.03 56.03 February 25, 2016
40. #1971671 Scientists have only been identifing dinosaurs in the last 200 years. 69 6 1.070 37.80vaint (vaint) 31.90 31.90 February 25, 2016
41. #1971768 Stegosaurus was the largest of all the plate-backed plant eaters. 65 5 1.065 80.71Laura (flutegirl98) 36.53 36.53 January 28, 2016
42. #100 As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself, I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. 266 35 1.064 104.78JR251 (jr251) 69.60 69.60 July 9, 2016
43. #620 Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to follow the intricate and increasingly obscure lines of connection linking the Twinkie, or the nondairy creamer, to a plant growing in the earth some place, but it can be done. 272 26 1.062 99.19penguin (penguinhacker) 67.15 67.15 December 29, 2016
44. #261 Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important to be able to make it look professional. Presenting text is more than just placing one letter after another. Making the text readable involves positioning, style, and size. 231 36 1.061 142.27Hot Dog (thewastedwizard) 64.33 64.33 July 6, 2016
45. #158 The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve math puzzles, or create poetry. In this way, it works for the rest of the body, like a tractor. But when you can't stop thinking of that math problem or phone number, or when troubling thoughts and memories arise without your intent, it's not your brain working, but your mind wandering. Then the mind controls you; then the tractor has run wild. 406 16 1.061 104.10Cube (abdullah67) 62.17 62.17 February 18, 2016
46. #632 Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost. We would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world. 407 15 1.060 129.52rawr? (cloudjumper) 80.95 80.95 February 25, 2023
47. #205 A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show its head. Go hence to have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned and some punished. For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. 247 25 1.059 141.31police (styrofoam) 67.47 67.47 March 2, 2016
48. #1971770 The smallest and oldest armored dinosaur known was the Scutellosaurus with more than 300 armored plates running all the way from its neck to its tail. 150 29 1.059 85.21Nicole (njprunty) 57.31 57.31 February 24, 2016
49. #1971840 That every man may receive at least a moderate education, and thereby be enabled to read the histories of his own and other countries, by which he may duly appreciate the value of our free institutions, appears to be an object of vital importance... 249 36 1.058 105.02taylor (dirkdiggler34) 63.69 63.69 February 25, 2016
50. #577 To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot day and into San Francisco is to feel like you're landing on another planet. Over our two-hour drive, the temperature went from nearly a hundred to the middle sixties. The visual disparity was as dramatic. On one side of the bay was a day so bright you'd have to squint with the visor down and your sunglasses on. As we crossed into the fog, it didn't seem possible that two such environments could exist side by side. 476 10 1.057 89.30 (zak389) 74.45 74.45 July 15, 2023
51. #408 There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white. When an athlete trains for long distance running, he or she builds more red muscle fibers than white muscle fibers in his calf muscles. A sprinter has more white muscles. If you retrain a marathon runner to be a sprinter, most of the muscle fibers will convert to white muscles. 339 28 1.057 135.29⛧🦇🎃💀🎃🦇⛧ ... 59.71 59.71 January 22, 2016
52. #1971658 Where scientists find fossils of dinosaurs, they often find the remains of plants and pollen that tell about those dinosaurs' habitats. 135 19 1.054 92.44Tamelnv (tamelnv) 44.70 44.70 February 25, 2016
53. #1971780 Nearly half the dinosaurs ever named turn out to be mistakes as scientists have so litle fossil remains, teeth or bones to work with. 133 18 1.053 66.49TheintSandi (theint_sandi98) 50.47 50.47 March 26, 2016
54. #247 Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons and semicolons always go outside quotation marks. Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation marks when they apply to the quoted material only. They go outside when they apply to the entire sentence. 274 18 1.053 102.81sRChicken (srchicken) 67.69 67.69 February 18, 2016
55. #301 All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber. 205 37 1.052 114.80frankiehyung (frankiehyung) 62.81 62.81 February 18, 2016
56. #1971831 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation... 94 15 1.052 112.22penguin (penguinhacker) 40.76 40.76 February 24, 2016
57. #551 We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy literally everything. And the majority of us live lifestyles undreamed of only a generation or two ago. One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the average household in Europe or North America has so many devices and such a variety of food and clothing that to produce the same lifestyle in Roman times would have required six thousand slaves. 413 13 1.052 99.70pip (pancake_eater) 77.95 77.95 May 10, 2016
58. #348 My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start with Logic. Days will be spent to let you know that what you once did at one blow, like eating and drinking so easy and free, can only be done with One, Two, Three. 224 37 1.051 110.34taylor (dirkdiggler34) 63.95 63.95 May 22, 2016
59. #1971659 The Gobi Desert in Mongolia is one of the few places on Earth that has nearly the same habitat now as it did in dinosaur time. 126 24 1.050 60.53Rick (rko2) 45.27 45.27 February 24, 2016
60. #211 But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, and at about five thousand leagues distance, in another reign, be applied to any of the Yahoos, who now are said to govern the herd; especially at a time when I little thought, or feared, the unhappiness of living under them? 283 34 1.049 106.15KiddieX (emyrr) 70.75 70.75 March 26, 2016
61. #237 All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them. 243 7 1.047 84.51Solars (solars1) 46.31 46.31 January 11, 2024
62. #466 Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human language. Much as language has words, sentences, and stories, music has tones, melodies, and songs. 153 38 1.046 133.39rawr? (cloudjumper) 59.75 59.75 February 24, 2016
63. #234 For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to apply it well. The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues. And those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater progress, provided they always follow the right path, than those who hurry and stray from it. 318 25 1.045 115.64de_pressed (imsl0w_pepehands) 66.40 66.40 February 24, 2016
64. #157 The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of that math problem or phone number, or when troubling thoughts and memories arise without your intent, it's not your brain working, but your mind wandering. Then the mind controls you. 244 14 1.043 74.84Kygim (kygim) 39.61 39.61 February 25, 2016
65. #552 One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the average household in Europe or North America has so many devices and such a variety of food and clothing that to produce the same lifestyle in Roman times would have required six thousand slaves. 253 17 1.042 53.37Shardulsenpai@ (shardulsenpai) 41.55 41.55 January 28, 2016
66. #536 When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. 105 2 1.042 76.95Keri (kjustpeachy) 55.24 55.24 January 17, 2024
67. #1971841 That every man may receive at least a moderate education, and thereby be enabled to read the histories of his own and other countries... 136 17 1.041 73.20haoyuanboss (haoyuanboss) 45.39 45.39 January 28, 2016
68. #181 I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders. 392 6 1.041 101.66Nim (nimrodpaz) 80.40 80.40 December 4, 2023
69. #535 Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. 253 33 1.040 137.97police (styrofoam) 57.52 57.52 February 25, 2016
70. #1971665 Many dinosaurs lived in herds and it is thought that perhaps they migrated seasonally in search of food. 104 9 1.039 99.22de_pressed (imsl0w_pepehands) 45.94 45.94 February 24, 2016
71. #1971774 Ankylosaurs were as large as tanks and nearly as hard to attack. 64 2 1.038 30.98Sourav (sourav_polali) 23.87 23.87 January 12, 2024
72. #1971836 ...that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 158 22 1.037 100.60kalis (kalischalis) 57.30 57.30 July 18, 2016
73. #1971844 Our government rests in public opinion. 39 31 1.036 143.40 (zambricks) 128.73 128.73 December 30, 2023
74. #556 This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, and he picked up the shrimp and scallops one after another and swallowed them as if they did not require chewing. The snow peas were crisp, the bamboo shoots crunchy, and the portabella mushrooms succulent, perfectly done. 281 26 1.036 133.40rawr? (cloudjumper) 60.43 60.43 July 6, 2016
75. #421 After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated quickly in a flat cardboard box, which is immediately closed and often taped shut. There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that edge can be ignored and we can treat the pizza, for thermal purposes, as an infinite plane. 293 33 1.036 109.40Oshino (skrix) 65.02 65.02 February 14, 2016
76. #1971837 ...and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 106 22 1.035 128.58Mr. Peace. (WiththeSlowestI... 52.74 52.74 February 5, 2016
77. #1971834 ...a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 103 6 1.035 82.00taylor (dirkdiggler34) 52.65 52.65 February 25, 2016
78. #622 The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn. 273 31 1.035 106.93asdf (athrium) 63.89 63.89 February 25, 2016
79. #99 As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. 177 8 1.035 93.21imrileyok (imzercz) 53.54 53.54 February 24, 2016
80. #2 But speculations on the structure of the universe also move in quite another direction. The development of non-Euclidean geometry led to the recognition of the fact, that we can cast doubt on the infiniteness of our space without coming into conflict with the laws of thought or with experience. 295 30 1.035 136.43⛧🦇🎃💀🎃🦇⛧ ... 69.16 69.16 February 25, 2016
81. #623 And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great many miles, at the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I invariably found myself in almost exactly the same place: a farm field in the American Corn Belt. 269 22 1.035 117.87rawr? (cloudjumper) 65.45 65.45 July 11, 2016
82. #1971847 Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. 169 26 1.035 84.22sukhi (sukh23) 48.74 48.74 February 25, 2016
83. #1520000 The need for food creates a relationship of fundamental importance between people and the environment. If we do not understand this relationship, we remain unaware of the critical dynamics that exist among human populations, culture, and nature. 245 36 1.034 117.34rawr? (cloudjumper) 61.67 61.67 February 25, 2016
84. #435 By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows. 154 23 1.034 124.76bjonk (sojho) 53.54 53.54 February 4, 2016
85. #154 The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. 296 2 1.034 59.51Crazed Amalgam (rs11659) 49.63 49.63 January 2, 2024
86. #1971670 People have been finding dinosaur bones for thousands of years. 63 2 1.032 31.56Mica (micaganda22) 30.82 30.82 January 17, 2024
87. #627 To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup. 263 25 1.032 89.57Basit Ali (thebasitali) 51.85 51.85 February 24, 2016
88. #429 The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, is the obvious source of trauma to the roof of the mouth and from the point of view of medical physics is clearly the key agent in the etiology of pizza burn. 217 35 1.031 109.73Morticia3328 (morticia3328) 64.62 64.62 February 24, 2016
89. #1970851 Congress adopted a new flag with a field of stars on blue to represent each of the states. 90 9 1.031 39.91Andrew (brandonkoyama6) 33.32 33.32 February 24, 2016
90. #266 On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp stroke - not a hard stroke, but a fast one. The sound should be sharp and quick. If you are pushing your keys rather than striking them, the sound will be mushy. 218 28 1.030 105.90DJSMOKEY (djsmokey) 62.69 62.69 March 2, 2016
91. #467 The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony. 297 33 1.029 106.33de_pressed (imsl0w_pepehands) 60.93 60.93 February 24, 2016
92. #1971845 Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them. 124 34 1.029 81.51ahmed (killko44) 47.20 47.20 February 25, 2016
93. #6 The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the sweet earth. Only the sky, widest of the wide, goes on, flatness against flatness. The sky appears so close that, with a long-enough extension ladder, you think you could touch it, and sometimes you do, when clouds descend in the night to set a fine pelt of dew on the grasses, leaving behind white trails of fog and mist. 382 22 1.029 94.52jeffbezos77 (annalobmeyer) 65.37 65.37 March 26, 2016
94. #317 The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience. 308 20 1.029 100.96JulianEdwards (julianedwards) 80.48 80.48 July 18, 2015
95. #200 In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of forms, took a multiple choice personality test, underwent two interviews and a drug test. The first interview was general, designed to eliminate obvious sociopaths. During the second interview we were asked why we wanted to be elves. 292 21 1.028 85.85Basit Ali (thebasitali) 65.07 65.07 February 18, 2016
96. #253 Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to type without looking at your fingers. If you turn your head back and forth between the keyboard and the copy, you will not only give yourself a stiff neck but will also slow down, make errors, and lose your place. 273 21 1.027 90.66Darius (dariuss54) 49.82 49.82 February 18, 2016
97. #156 Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. 396 26 1.026 123.22rawr? (cloudjumper) 67.14 67.14 July 5, 2016
98. #1971683 Only animals whose eyes face in the same direction have depth perception. 73 2 1.026 38.00Deepesh (deepspeedy001) 34.21 34.21 February 25, 2016
99. #1971682 At this time, the oldest known dinosaur fossils are from a not-yet-named dinosaur recently found in Madagascar. 111 13 1.026 65.24Hamiz (popega) 47.97 47.97 March 26, 2016
100. #368 Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A word like "fire" is a good example. Before you know it you're reaching for desire, or to get higher, or calling someone a liar, or putting them on a pyre, even if that wasn't what you were going to say. 262 26 1.024 98.30Nicole (njprunty) 60.48 60.48 January 28, 2016
101. #630 It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produce a calorie of food. From the standpoint of industrial efficiency, it's too bad we can't simply drink the petroleum directly, because there's a lot less energy in a bushel of corn (measured in calories) than there is in the half gallon or so of oil required to produce it. Ecologically this is a fabulously expensive way to produce food. 397 12 1.023 122.95Oshino (skrix) 71.91 71.91 January 1, 2024
102. #1971772 Ankylosaurs were as large as tanks and nearly as hard to attack, even though they were slow moving. 99 7 1.023 72.35Jan kirby (lanz08) 44.59 44.59 January 22, 2016
103. #1971689 The brain of Tyrannosaurus rex was twice the size of other giant meat eaters. It was also faster and had better vision than than others. 136 18 1.023 92.76justin (jycauret12) 51.15 51.15 February 5, 2016
104. #422 There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that edge can be ignored and we can treat the pizza, for thermal purposes, as an infinite plane. The procedure reduces the heat-transfer problem to one dimension represented by a vector normal to the pizza surface. 268 31 1.022 106.65JulianEdwards (julianedwards) 64.00 64.00 July 5, 2016
105. #318 The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, rewrites, discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience. 209 31 1.021 130.00Pretty Epic (zimbaycoleo) 62.65 62.65 December 29, 2016
106. #578 To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot day and into San Francisco is to feel like you're landing on another planet. Over our two-hour drive, the temperature went from nearly a hundred to the middle sixties. 225 14 1.021 57.94Vinod (vinod_cup) 47.36 47.36 February 18, 2016
107. #428 From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be expected to have a relatively high heat capacity and low conductance. It thus serves as a buffer between the mozzarella and the baked dough. 200 31 1.021 87.84timothy (timothytran) 62.03 62.03 May 22, 2016
108. #631 It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produce a calorie of food. From the standpoint of industrial efficiency, it's too bad we can't simply drink the petroleum directly. 185 9 1.020 51.37Courtney (courtss) 39.97 39.97 March 16, 2016
109. #1970839 There was little industry in the colonial days in America, so manufactured goods, such as textiles, hats and ironware, were imported from Britain. 146 23 1.020 85.70Anuj (smasher640) 57.07 57.07 July 23, 2016
110. #1971680 Theropods, or meat-eating dinosaurs, developed early on and lasted until the end of dinosaur time. 98 9 1.018 128.62baconman (baconman42) 50.45 50.45 February 25, 2016
111. #316 Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the audience's patience developing a new setup. Once you've got the audience laughing or on a roll, it's better to stay with toppers - a series of punch lines, each related to the previous one. 249 18 1.018 93.79de_pressed (imsl0w_pepehands) 57.21 57.21 July 12, 2016
112. #501 O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I beg you to observe these girls: one has just now lost her mind; the other, it seems, has never had a mind at all. 174 25 1.018 122.81N (natejam) 62.16 62.16 February 25, 2016
113. #262 Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important to be able to make it look professional. Making the text readable involves positioning, style, and size. 163 33 1.017 131.30police (styrofoam) 61.77 61.77 July 11, 2016
114. #621 You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to follow the intricate and increasingly obscure lines of connection linking the Twinkie to a plant growing in the earth some place. 188 13 1.016 124.32Miss Stitch (staities) 40.81 40.81 February 25, 2016
115. #240 There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. 207 13 1.016 81.70Andrei (skydot) 43.80 43.80 February 25, 2016
116. #153 Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and warmer air holds more moisture. When storm conditions trigger a downpour, more of it falls in the form of big, one-time rainfalls and snowfalls. Partly as a result, the number of large flood events has increased decade by decade, on every continent. 308 31 1.014 100.22taylor (dirkdiggler34) 58.87 58.87 February 25, 2016
117. #626 The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy cows that grazed on grass, now typically come from cows that spend their working lives indoors tethered to machines, eating corn. 188 14 1.014 65.08Shahriar (mahi975) 46.41 46.41 February 24, 2016
118. #251 A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, just as a company needs a manager. And that is what DOS is. A manager. 127 5 1.012 40.17Slow-Mo (genjester) 33.54 33.54 February 25, 2016
119. #1970853 Medicines in early America ranged from herbal remedies to prepared mixtures of powdered drugs and chemicals. 108 19 1.011 57.06Michael (mwalter32123) 42.67 42.67 February 25, 2016
120. #174 I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Christmas. But the grey face still followed me. It murmured, and I understood that it desired to confess something. I felt my soul receding into some pleasant and vicious region; and there again I found it waiting for me. 276 33 1.010 114.51Hot Dog (thewastedwizard) 59.42 59.42 February 25, 2016
121. #554 Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still in circulation, the gold on my finger could have been mined in Persia six thousand years ago, or worn by Cleopatra. 176 28 1.010 76.81Jeff (jeff_mcgee) 50.44 50.44 January 22, 2016
122. #426 First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-content material with a large number of nonconnecting small air spaces. Second, the tomato paste dehydrates, and third, the mozzarella undergoes a complex series of transitions involving protein denaturation and lipid rearrangement from regular liquid crystal to more disordered states. 342 23 1.009 92.03Paul (jungps) 56.20 56.20 March 26, 2016
123. #252 A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, just as a company needs a manager. And that is what DOS is. A manager. It manages the operations in your computer. 171 23 1.008 118.95rawr? (cloudjumper) 64.41 64.41 July 29, 2016
124. #334 Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races home aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy. 176 3 1.008 31.88k.d (msdhoni12) 23.36 23.36 January 7, 2024
125. #1971830 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 179 33 1.008 83.46matt8221 (matt8221) 53.07 53.07 February 25, 2016
126. #629 Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup. Grab a beer for your beverage instead and you'd still be drinking corn, in the form of alcohol fermented from glucose refined from corn. Read the ingredients on the label of any processed food and, provided you know the chemical names it travels under, corn is what you will find. 424 13 1.006 99.10Crystal (cutelittlecupcake101) 77.92 77.92 June 18, 2016
127. #245 When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears directly on paper. When you are typing on a computer, your input appears on a screen and is transferred to paper after the proper command has been given. 209 26 1.005 124.72police (styrofoam) 61.10 61.10 July 6, 2016
128. #533 Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. 213 39 1.004 116.54de_pressed (imsl0w_pepehands) 62.75 62.75 May 22, 2016
129. #469 Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." If he'd been alive during ancient times, he might have uttered these same words when facing a play from Euripides. Reflecting the interesting (and often) tragic parts of "life" on the stage was an important part of the ancient world, and helped to shape our modern culture. 345 16 1.003 100.34JulianEdwards (julianedwards) 65.51 65.51 July 8, 2016
130. #625 Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the turkey and the lamb, the catfish and the tilapia and, increasingly, even the salmon, a carnivore by nature that the fish farmers are reengineering to tolerate corn. The eggs are made of corn. The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy cows that grazed on grass, now typically come from cows that spend their working lives indoors tethered to machines, eating corn. 473 10 1.003 94.91kalis (kalischalis) 74.28 74.28 December 29, 2016
131. #173 Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. 258 39 1.002 126.17police (styrofoam) 64.61 64.61 February 4, 2016
132. #243 Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, manager, computer programmer, or engineer, typing is an invaluable skill. It's a skill that can open doors and enhance your career opportunities. 204 30 1.001 103.91timothy (timothytran) 54.98 54.98 February 18, 2016
133. #182 I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. 266 27 1.001 55.28Vinod (vinod_cup) 39.71 39.71 February 25, 2016
134. #226 He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries of the world, and had purchased all the rarest and most important volumes on alchemy. In one he had read that, many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europe. It was said that he had discovered the Philosopher's Stone and the Elixir of Life. 317 23 1.001 91.59noobiee (solpadate) 62.71 62.71 July 12, 2016
135. #616 When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce section, or a half dozen different kinds of mushrooms, or kiwis and passion fruit and durians and mangoes. Indeed, in the last few years a whole catalog of exotic species from the tropics has colonized, and considerably enlivened, the produce department. 311 28 1.000 124.40Morticia3328 (morticia3328) 61.66 61.66 March 26, 2016
136. #0 This is a placeholder text. You are seeing it because there are no other texts available for your skill level. Please tell your system administrator to add some texts! 167 19 1.000 66.07Russell (rfair404) 32.34 32.34 May 15, 2015
137. #1971653 Dinosaurs belonged to one of two groups according to the design of their hips. They were either lizard-hipped or bird-hipped. 125 25 1.000 57.88Vinod (vinod_cup) 39.37 39.37 February 14, 2016
138. #365 Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a bridge, where the bridge offers a contrast to the verse but is not the place where the song is summarized. 165 9 1.000 79.19darsh0106 (mynamekaa) 41.27 41.27 February 25, 2016
139. #227 Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europe. It was said that he had discovered the Philosopher's Stone and the Elixir of Life. 145 1 0.998 24.19Iqboljon (iqboljon2002) 24.19 24.19 December 23, 2023
140. #350 Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like a weaver's masterpieces; one step, a thousand threads arise, hither and thither shoots each shuttle, the threads flow on, unseen and subtle, each blow effects a thousand ties. 235 32 0.995 101.76pip (pancake_eater) 63.25 63.25 March 26, 2016
141. #1970852 America desperately needed military supplies, cash and a navy to fight of the British. That meant finding allies. 113 14 0.995 107.31CC (artsekey) 50.90 50.90 December 14, 2023
142. #366 A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as the music's energy. In the chorus you declare what the song is really about. 134 11 0.995 118.79JR251 (jr251) 61.42 61.42 February 24, 2016
143. #539 Always do your best - your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. 237 24 0.994 89.43Basit Ali (thebasitali) 62.12 62.12 February 18, 2016
144. #459 The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state and ultimately an empire was their remarkable system of agriculture, which featured intensive cultivation of all available land, as well as elaborate systems of irrigation and reclamation of swampland. The high productivity gained by these methods made for a rich and populous state. 342 27 0.994 99.81jeffbezos77 (annalobmeyer) 61.79 61.79 June 18, 2016
145. #115 A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its point. Any movement of the pyramid will cause it to topple over. Underneath the pyramid is a hundred dollar bill. How do you remove the bill without disturbing the pyramid? The only way you can get the answer is if it comes to you suddenly in the blink of an eye. 323 27 0.994 103.30timothy (timothytran) 63.39 63.39 July 29, 2016
146. #1970844 In 1776 the colonies were ready for independence, but an official document was needed to set out the reasons for separating from England. 137 27 0.993 72.18noobiee (solpadate) 45.24 45.24 March 26, 2016
147. #1971843 Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much. 127 21 0.992 55.22Rick (rko2) 43.77 43.77 February 25, 2016
148. #260 The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine. 285 41 0.992 84.98sukhi (sukh23) 54.43 54.43 February 25, 2016
149. #462 Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over the surrounding peoples; every year, they were forced to pay the Aztecs money, goods, and a supply of captives to be sacrificed on the altar. Taking advantage of this resentment of their Aztec overlords, the tiny Spanish force was able to attract a massive army of some 30,000 Mesoamericans of many different tribes. 376 15 0.991 116.51Hot Dog (thewastedwizard) 61.48 61.48 March 2, 2016
150. #312 Parisian French is different from Provincial French and German is spoken a little differently in northern and southern Germany. Sound complicated? Welcome to international business and politics. 194 26 0.991 99.14swipy (swipy1) 56.12 56.12 February 24, 2016
151. #3 No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. 389 20 0.991 83.74Crystal (cutelittlecupcake101) 59.07 59.07 July 18, 2015
152. #275 Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyboard. These competitions are somewhat underplayed in the conventional history. In fact, typing contests and demonstrations of speed were fairly common during this period. They involved many different machines, with various manufacturers claiming to hold the speed record. 331 19 0.989 112.60rawr? (cloudjumper) 74.99 74.99 June 18, 2016
153. #152 Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and warmer air holds more moisture. When storm conditions trigger a downpour, more of it falls in the form of big, one-time rainfalls and snowfalls. 203 1 0.987 36.03cassidy (cassidyromine) 36.03 36.03 February 25, 2016
154. #364 Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a bridge, where the bridge offers a contrast to the verse but is not the place where the song is summarized - or a verse and a chorus. A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as the music's energy. 269 26 0.987 108.48Sarah (sarahneutron) 63.81 63.81 July 18, 2016
155. #7 The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil. 398 22 0.987 87.90jeffbezos77 (annalobmeyer) 63.82 63.82 February 14, 2016
156. #1971760 Archaeopteryx is among the most famous of all fossils and is considered the closest link we have found between dinosaurs and birds. 131 20 0.987 63.71Jellycode (jellycode) 44.94 44.94 February 24, 2016
157. #335 During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon. Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races home aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy. 270 16 0.986 98.61Matt (mattalic) 47.82 47.82 February 24, 2016
158. #1970843 In 1775 the British Army was one of the best in the world. 58 2 0.985 30.81Iqboljon (iqboljon2002) 21.08 21.08 December 23, 2023
159. #609 As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity. 353 17 0.985 94.78de_pressed (imsl0w_pepehands) 69.79 69.79 November 16, 2023
160. #604 Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Movement without the overt violent conflict that haunted some of its southern neighbors, the Atlanta of the 1970s was a city obsessed with economic progress, and it would undergo tremendous expansion in the last decades of the twentieth century. 299 5 0.984 65.98jun fai (momocafe527) 50.91 50.91 July 6, 2016
161. #267 All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch from top to bottom. You should leave a top margin of one and a half inches (9 lines). 142 4 0.984 35.49vaint (vaint) 25.31 25.31 December 23, 2023
162. #310 When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. We drew in deep breaths of it as we walked back from dinner through the cold vestibules, unutterably aware of our identity with this country for one strange hour, before we melted indistinguishably into it again. 450 10 0.984 104.70de_pressed (imsl0w_pepehands) 67.40 67.40 August 24, 2016
163. #460 The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state and ultimately an empire was their remarkable system of agriculture, which featured intensive cultivation of all available land, as well as elaborate systems of irrigation and reclamation of swampland. 260 6 0.983 120.33Pretty Epic (zimbaycoleo) 49.46 49.46 February 25, 2016
164. #1970856 After leading the Patriots in battle against the British, George Washington served as the first President of the United States. 127 13 0.982 69.26Vlathmir (vlathmir) 49.00 49.00 July 8, 2016
165. #151 There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth. 347 37 0.981 104.63de_pressed (imsl0w_pepehands) 60.23 60.23 April 21, 2016
166. #235 For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to apply it well. The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues. 163 3 0.980 31.29dejendeede (dejendeede) 26.91 26.91 December 14, 2023
167. #1971654 Dinosaurs lived on every continent and ranged in size from a small sparrow to a house. Dinosaurs ruled the planet Earth for almost 165 million years. 149 27 0.976 87.96 (zak389) 49.34 49.34 February 25, 2016
168. #1971776 Dracorex was name it after Draco Malfoy, the evil character in the Harry Potter books. 86 4 0.976 72.77I type slow (alejandro_1) 41.14 41.14 February 18, 2016
169. #1971673 Over the years, scientists have had some inaccurate ideas about dinosaurs. For example, not all dinosaurs were gigantic in size. 128 19 0.974 83.22puck (thejungpuck) 47.43 47.43 July 18, 2015
170. #610 In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity. 167 13 0.973 62.66Rainy (rainydust) 45.56 45.56 May 27, 2016
171. #333 It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon. 232 15 0.973 65.26Kyle Hussain (kharadigm) 42.06 42.06 July 23, 2016
172. #1971669 People have been finding dinosaur bones for thousands of years, but only in the last 200 years have scientists identified dinosaurs. 132 28 0.972 57.17keski6 (keski6) 40.28 40.28 February 25, 2016
173. #1971686 Everybody knows Tyrannosaurus rex, and it's the most popular of dinosaurs. It was not the largest meat eater, but perhaps one of the scariest. 142 25 0.971 78.99Jeff (jeff_mcgee) 51.53 51.53 February 18, 2016
174. #1971664 Dinosaurs laid hard-shelled eggs in nests, just as birds do today. 66 2 0.971 49.95Samrey (samrey_cps) 39.02 39.02 March 4, 2016
175. #180 I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the whole city rose and left for the summer. Whether I went to Nevsky Avenue, to the park, or wandered along the embankments, I never came across the people I was accustomed to meet in certain spots at certain hours all year round. They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right. 348 14 0.971 58.61Vinod (vinod_cup) 52.18 52.18 July 5, 2016
176. #246 Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. Bad posture is the root of many physical problems. So sit upright and don't slouch. Your back should be straight to support the upper part of your body. 212 24 0.970 110.41Danielle (fruitypuddles) 65.55 65.55 June 18, 2016
177. #1970846 The early flag of the United States had 13 stripes to represent each of the states, and it displayed the Union Jack to honor the colonies' British heritage. 156 27 0.970 74.74Lottie (log__) 55.69 55.69 August 17, 2016
178. #159 If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. 217 5 0.969 46.74wajahat (raiwajahat) 33.96 33.96 February 24, 2016
179. #458 The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was originally used to denote any foreigner. Since then it has gained a more negative connotation, and it is commonly applied to civilizations deemed "inferior" to one's own. 225 27 0.968 94.18de_pressed (imsl0w_pepehands) 52.71 52.71 January 28, 2016
180. #276 Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyboard. These competitions are somewhat underplayed in the conventional history. They involved many different machines, with various manufacturers claiming to hold the speed record. 239 15 0.965 90.59Cube (abdullah67) 38.83 38.83 February 25, 2016
181. #1970838 In the colonial days in America, seaports in New York, Boston, and Charleston were booming, but most people in the late 1700's lived on family farms, and agricultural products were the main export. 197 30 0.964 107.81Hot Dog (thewastedwizard) 55.49 55.49 July 18, 2015
182. #1971777 Iguanodon was the first dinosaur identified by a scientist more than 180 years ago. 83 7 0.963 42.00madi (madishek) 35.83 35.83 February 24, 2016
183. #461 For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerabilities that the Spanish were able to exploit. The tiny Spanish force was able to attract a massive army of some 30,000 Mesoamericans of many different tribes. 219 5 0.962 46.07Jonathan (jonathansg) 36.93 36.93 January 4, 2024
184. #1971764 Dinosaur planteaters evolved different teeth for their varied diets and habitats. 81 2 0.962 72.03Astrid (astridspeckles) 69.45 69.45 May 10, 2016
185. #1971663 Other creatures lived on Earth for more than 3 billion years before dinosaurs evolved. 86 5 0.960 116.14JoeSoBad (faminop) 54.26 54.26 July 5, 2016
186. #1971832 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty... 116 13 0.960 54.64Rick (rko2) 40.64 40.64 February 24, 2016
187. #468 Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." Reflecting the interesting (and often) tragic parts of "life" on the stage was an important part of the ancient world, and helped to shape our modern culture. 230 8 0.960 88.01yuu (katyuu) 47.36 47.36 March 2, 2016
188. #1971848 Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. 79 6 0.959 110.00Bucky (buhcky) 64.27 64.27 September 30, 2023
189. #1970849 Several years of labor, debate, and negotiations were required before a US Constitution was drafted that all the states in the unions could accept. It finally went into effect in 1789, as the fundamental law of a new nation. 224 34 0.958 84.50swipy (swipy1) 52.85 52.85 January 28, 2016
190. #463 The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous orbit is connected by cable to a stationary or mobile platform somewhere on Earth's equator. An elevator would ride up and down the cable at a fraction of present costs. Many sane and sober people believe that a space elevator will be constructed within this century. 326 28 0.958 89.27matt8221 (matt8221) 49.54 49.54 February 25, 2016
191. #353 Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was born on the road, when his parents were passing through Salt Lake City. 132 1 0.958 26.54dejendeede (dejendeede) 26.54 26.54 December 14, 2023
192. #1971685 Giganotosaurus was discovered in the Argentine desert by a garage mechanic riding on a dune buggy. The skeleton was more than 80% complete. 139 22 0.956 82.29Paul (jungps) 49.25 49.25 February 25, 2016
193. #603 Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Movement without the overt violent conflict that haunted some of its southern neighbors, Atlanta was a city obsessed with economic progress. Just as editor Henry Grady had looked north for investment and support in the wake of the Civil War, the city's newest generation of boosters saw international dollars as the future for Atlanta. 389 14 0.956 83.47JulianEdwards (julianedwards) 72.28 72.28 January 11, 2024
194. #254 Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to type without looking at your fingers. 97 1 0.954 15.48supa (supamadi12) 15.48 15.48 January 12, 2024
195. #1971765 Huayangosaurus had two big spikes over its hips. Perhaps those spikes prevented meat eaters from attacking it from above. 121 15 0.953 53.07Vinod (vinod_cup) 35.66 35.66 February 24, 2016
196. #256 Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of two single-finger movements: Thus, whenever you saw the word "if" you would immediately start twitching your right forefinger and left forefinger (preferably in the correct order). This would definitely increase your response time and speed up your keyboarding. 322 17 0.952 122.67rawr? (cloudjumper) 69.44 69.44 March 26, 2016
197. #1971766 Huayangosaurus had two big spikes over its hips. 48 21 0.951 156.71 (zambricks) 118.65 118.65 December 23, 2023
198. #1970847 During the Revolutionary War, Americans lacked warships to challenge the powerful British Navy, but soon tried a new invention - the submarine. Although, in the end, it proved not very successful. 196 24 0.950 90.61humid (hotandhumid) 55.00 55.00 February 18, 2016
199. #308 Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness. 248 22 0.950 108.64rawr? (cloudjumper) 63.31 63.31 July 6, 2016
200. #1971779 Iguanodon was the first dinosaur identified by a scientist more than 180 years ago. 83 8 0.950 38.22lakshay (lakshay_learner) 31.00 31.00 February 25, 2016
201. #617 When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce section, or a half dozen different kinds of mushrooms, or kiwis and passion fruit and durians and mangoes. 163 7 0.949 48.27Jonathan (jonathansg) 33.99 33.99 February 25, 2016
202. #1971676 On average, a new kind of dinosaur is found every two weeks. So far, about 1,000 different kinds of dinosaurs have been discovered. 131 16 0.948 92.47Alex (hawkeralex2233) 45.74 45.74 April 21, 2016
203. #618 As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that onion came from a farm in Texas. Move over to Meat, though, and the chain grows longer and less comprehensible: The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from a steer born in South Dakota and fattened in a Kansas feedlot on grain grown in Iowa. 318 23 0.947 105.54asdf (athrium) 60.17 60.17 July 6, 2016
204. #425 Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilibrates with the high-temperature oven. First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-content material with a large number of nonconnecting small air spaces. Second, the tomato paste dehydrates, and third, the mozzarella undergoes a complex series of transitions involving protein denaturation and lipid rearrangement from regular liquid crystal to more disordered states. 440 6 0.946 102.27Hot Dog (thewastedwizard) 86.53 86.53 December 29, 2016
205. #1970854 Conditions in hospitals during the American Revolution were quite primitive: surgical tools for removing bullets, amputating limbs, and drawing blood were not sterilized or even washed. 185 25 0.944 80.37sukhi (sukh23) 46.87 46.87 February 24, 2016
206. #406 Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend interrelationships of the perceived facts (and situations) in order to appropriately guide actions toward desired goals." In other words, the intelligent person is able to identify a problem and find its optimum solution. Hence, intelligence is effectiveness. 318 18 0.943 80.05Basit Ali (thebasitali) 47.17 47.17 February 25, 2016
207. #624 At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I invariably found myself in almost exactly the same place: a farm field in the American Corn Belt. 178 9 0.942 47.67Devious (gtodell) 33.96 33.96 December 14, 2023
208. #212 Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, in the cauldron boil and bake, eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog, adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, lizard's leg and owlet's wing, for a charm of powerful trouble, like a hell-broth boil and bubble. 317 18 0.941 88.68JulianEdwards (julianedwards) 60.21 60.21 July 5, 2016
209. #206 Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where we lay our scene), from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; whose misadventured piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents' strife. 346 22 0.940 117.15rawr? (cloudjumper) 59.14 59.14 February 5, 2016
210. #236 Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater progress, provided they always follow the right path, than those who hurry and stray from it. 150 1 0.937 22.71Iqboljon (iqboljon2002) 22.71 22.71 December 23, 2023
211. #1971687 Everybody knows Tyrannosaurus rex, and it's the most popular of dinosaurs. 74 3 0.934 21.21Akash sharma (akash499) 20.57 20.57 December 14, 2023
212. #1971657 Dinosaurs survived in widely different climates, from the cool Artic to the hot tropics. 88 4 0.932 43.84Vinod (vinod_cup) 29.62 29.62 January 28, 2016
213. #207 Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face, nor any other part belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? That, which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. 284 29 0.931 91.61de_pressed (imsl0w_pepehands) 49.28 49.28 February 18, 2016
214. #1970841 In the 1760's, the British Parliament placed new taxes on the American colonies. Many Americans objected to these taxes on sugar, tea and printed documents, claiming that only their colonial legislatures had the right to tax them. 230 28 0.930 106.82asdf (athrium) 54.14 54.14 July 17, 2016
215. #242 Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, manager, computer programmer, or engineer; whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an invaluable skill. It's a skill that can open doors and enhance your career opportunities. In this high-tech world of computer-generated communications, anyone who can't type runs the risk of being excluded from many business transactions. 399 9 0.930 108.60rawr? (cloudjumper) 76.12 76.12 April 3, 2023
216. #607 Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future southerners will enjoy them with a side of rice noodles or enchilada sauce. 135 21 0.930 61.40tstats[rajendra_thakur] (ra... 42.91 42.91 January 22, 2016
217. #1971775 Dracorex's scary head inspired scientists to name it after Draco Malfoy, the evil character in the Harry Potter books. 118 24 0.929 58.09Seman (semantan06) 42.14 42.14 July 5, 2016
218. #1970837 After the French War ended in 1763, peace and prosperity came to the Thirteen Colonies, which had profited from supplying the empire's military efforts. 152 23 0.921 71.23Tayler Jay Zimmerman (jeukt1) 43.38 43.38 February 18, 2016
219. #409 There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white. Red muscle fibers enable us to maintain long-term, low stress activity. White muscle fibers are specialized for fast, rapid movements. 195 1 0.919 27.53udoh endurance (udohenduran... 27.53 27.53 January 27, 2024
220. #1971668 The word dinosaur means "terrible lizard." 42 22 0.915 146.65 (zambricks) 114.68 114.68 January 11, 2024
221. #605 Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a city that had yet to be transformed by the proliferation of ethnic food: only ninety-two out of approximately fifteen hundred restaurants could be classified as non-American. 231 23 0.910 95.15de_pressed (imsl0w_pepehands) 55.90 55.90 March 26, 2016
222. #1971678 Dinosaurs survived more than 500 times longer than humans have been on the Earth. 81 3 0.909 75.03Arun (pyinjector) 41.54 41.54 February 24, 2016
223. #1971839 The Constitution of the United States consists of the original, framed in 1787, and twelve subsequently framed amendments. 122 17 0.907 55.88ladysparta (ladysparta) 39.84 39.84 February 25, 2016
224. #1971849 To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. 89 7 0.905 86.62king (fawmen) 50.05 50.05 July 2, 2023
225. #1971690 If cars had been around in T. rex's day, its bite could have dented the metal. 78 11 0.904 55.07Rick (rko2) 42.18 42.18 February 25, 2016
226. #619 The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from a steer born in South Dakota and fattened in a Kansas feedlot on grain grown in Iowa. 145 4 0.903 96.04Daddy (daddycoco) 53.73 53.73 February 11, 2017
227. #1970845 On July 4, 1776, the 56 delegates of the Second Continental Congress approved and signed what we now know as the Declaration of Independence. 141 20 0.903 61.10Lottie (log__) 44.26 44.26 February 25, 2016
228. #465 In 1969 four computers located around the country were in communication with each other through ARPANET. By the mid-1980s, the core of the network was in place, the communications protocols had been determined, and the Internet was live. By the early 1990s the first Internet language (http) was written and the first browser was published. The World Wide Web was born. 369 29 0.901 75.20Nicole (njprunty) 49.94 49.94 January 28, 2016
229. #1970842 In 1773, to dispute the taxes levied on the colonists from Britain, Samuel Adams organized a group of men to board a merchant ship and dump its tea cargo into Boston Harbor. In US history books this is known as "The Boston Tea Party." 234 20 0.898 106.15rawr? (cloudjumper) 58.22 58.22 July 25, 2016
230. #1971762 Archaeopteryx is considered the closest link we have found between dinosaurs and birds. 87 8 0.895 85.83EasyPeasy12 (easypeasy12) 45.76 45.76 February 18, 2016
231. #1971838 What is the frame of government under which we live? The answer must be: "The Constitution of the United States." That Constitution consists of the original, framed in 1787, (and under which the present government first went into operation,) and twelve subsequently framed amendments, the first ten of which were framed in 1789. 328 16 0.893 104.45Morticia3328 (morticia3328) 61.79 61.79 June 18, 2016
232. #1971681 Killer dinosaurs had two main weapons for attacking prey - claws and teeth. 75 2 0.892 34.40Rhishabh (rrp16395) 25.74 25.74 March 4, 2016
233. #615 Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescent tubes, the American supermarket doesn't present itself as having very much to do with Nature. And yet what is this place if not a landscape (manmade, it's true) teeming with plants and animals? 255 25 0.890 110.91rawr? (cloudjumper) 52.63 52.63 February 25, 2016
234. #1971679 Three theories about how dinosaurs disappeared from Earth include - asteroid impact, volcanic activity, and slow climate change. 128 13 0.888 49.77 (kiryos) 40.09 40.09 July 17, 2016
235. #250 Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, meaning "work," and the English word economics. Simply stated, it is "the study and management of the relationship between the worker and the environment." 212 19 0.877 84.78Stevie Wunderbar (steviewun... 52.59 52.59 February 24, 2016
236. #10 Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate but equal" schools built throughout the South as a result of the 1954 Supreme Court decision. It had been under construction on a fifty-two-acre plot in Woodville for almost a year, when I graduated in 1959. 268 18 0.877 83.41de_pressed (imsl0w_pepehands) 50.50 50.50 March 16, 2016
237. #349 My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start with Logic. Even eating and drinking, so easy and free, can only be done with One, Two, Three. 154 2 0.877 27.68Deepesh (deepspeedy001) 24.34 24.34 December 23, 2023
238. #1971778 Iguanodon was the first dinosaur identified by a scientist more than 180 years ago and was a heavy plant eater that ran on two legs. 132 14 0.876 52.12Rick (rko2) 45.07 45.07 March 26, 2016
239. #1970855 Many soldiers in the American Revolution died from minor wounds that became infected and did not heal. 102 1 0.866 74.58Stevie Wunderbar (steviewun... 74.58 74.58 January 16, 2024
240. #606 With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican, and only two Thai restaurants, Atlanta was a city still characterized by "all-American" food. 154 13 0.857 64.90Basit Ali (thebasitali) 41.65 41.65 July 6, 2016
241. #608 Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "not a story of continuity versus change, but continuity within change." Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future southerners will enjoy them with a side of rice noodles or enchilada sauce. 267 2 0.854 58.76Kygim (kygim) 56.86 56.86 March 29, 2016
242. #1971667 In 1842, a British scientist, Richard Owen first created the word dinosaur, which means "terrible lizard." 106 20 0.848 73.23Arjun Balaji Srinivasan (jo... 39.97 39.97 February 25, 2016
243. #1970850 Philadelphia's "Liberty Bell," which rang out to celebrate the Declaration of Independence, became a symbol of the American Revolution. 135 14 0.836 45.56Pramod Adhikari (justpramod) 36.28 36.28 February 4, 2016
244. #1971771 The smallest and oldest armored dinosaur known was the Scutellosaurus. 70 2 0.825 27.94vaint (vaint) 25.14 25.14 January 25, 2024
245. #424 After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated quickly in a flat cardboard box, which is immediately closed and often taped shut. 142 1 0.811 24.33Mica (micaganda22) 24.33 24.33 January 17, 2024
246. #423 There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that edge can be ignored and we can treat the pizza, for thermal purposes, as an infinite plane. 150 1 0.785 23.56Mica (micaganda22) 23.56 23.56 January 17, 2024
247. #553 We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy literally everything. And the majority of us live lifestyles undreamed of only a generation or two ago. 159 0 0.000 0.00 () 0.00 0.00 January 1, 1970
248. #1971684 Chickens aid their digestion by swallowing little bits of grit. 63 0 0.000 0.00 () 0.00 0.00 January 1, 1970