The questions-not-worth-their-own-question-thread III

[Mirc]

They need animal product to eat/reproduce. Go vegan... no more flies (there's nothing that interests them in my house).

Only animal products? I thought rotting fruits can attract them too.

Of course there's something else that also attracts them that's pretty common but I doubt any of us has that in their homes for more than... a few seconds a day.

 

[Ecofarm]

As their savagery and evil increases, they seek a symbol, a god to worship. When Jack and his hunters kill a boar, they have their opportunity; they leave the pig's head impaled on a stake as an offering to the beast. The head is soon rotting and covered with flies. The head, referred to as the "Lord of the Flies" then serves as a symbol of the evil and savagery of Jack's tribe of hunters. At the end of the novel, Ralph, with disgust, knocks the boar's skull to the ground and seizes the stick to use as a spear. He understands the evil that surrounds him in the person of Jack, and he seeks to destroy it.

Be not the Lord of the Flies

 

[Cutlass]

where these methods known in europe?

Europe in the middle ages wasn't all that good at metallurgy. Where they stopped it from rusting, they did so by hand polishing the rust off. There's little iron and steel remains more than a few centuries old that don't show evidence of rust. Generally anything made of iron was used, polished, sharpened, until it was worn to nothing, broken or lost. Then any remaining parts would be hammered or melted into something new.

 

[Brighteye]

That wikipedia page didn't indicate to me that they were methods more than occurences.

 

[silver 2039]

Well when they got Damscus steels via Indians-->Persians-->Arabs I think they were able to make it on their own eventually around the 14th century. Better late than never.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

KILL THE PIG, DRINK HIS BLOOD!!

 

[CCRunner]

KILL THE PIG, DRINK HIS BLOOD!!

eh what?

 

[Bigfoot3814]

eh what?

Read/watch Lord Of The Flies one day and you'll understand.

 

[CCRunner]

Read/watch Lord Of The Flies one day and you'll understand.

Oh okay. I have read Lord of the Flies, I just didn't get the reference as it was kinda just thrown out there after a post referring to steel. Quote the post next time so you don't confuse me! Jerk

 

[Ansar]

Oh okay. I have read Lord of the Flies, I just didn't get the reference as it was kinda just thrown out there after a post referring to steel. Quote the post next time so you don't confuse me! Jerk

Pfft. I caught it instantly without even noticing the previous reference by Ecofarm.

 

[a_propagandist]

Eh, any good scholarships, sites, or institutions I should apply to for money? (American soon-to-be college student)

 

[Cutlass]

Well when they got Damscus steels via Indians-->Persians-->Arabs I think they were able to make it on their own eventually around the 14th century. Better late than never.

Damscus steel will rust away if not cared for properly. European swords were not known for being all that good until maybe Toledo in the Renaissance.

 

[downtown]

Eh, any good scholarships, sites, or institutions I should apply to for money? (American soon-to-be college student)

Fastweb.com is the best website.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

A question: Do prepaid credit cards work with PayPal?

I was wondering because we bought a MasterCard Gift Card (thinking it would work) but it didn't. We (meaning me and mom) want to get one to order things online.

 

[Ansar]

aimeeandbeatles: No.

 

[Taras Bulba]

two questions...

if I wanted to do a home-study program, where I take college courses at home for High school credit, or whatever its call, how would I go about establishing that?

and the other is completely different, but I was thinking about it today.

I've heard why Sweden, Switzerland, and Spain were all neutral, but why was Turkey (and I guess Ireland on the same subject) neutral during WWII?

 

[silver 2039]

Nothing to gain and too much too lose. Though they all eventually declared war by the end.

 

[Godwynn]

I've heard why Sweden, Switzerland, and Spain were all neutral, but why was Turkey (and I guess Ireland on the same subject) neutral during WWII?

I'm not sure Ireland was on good terms with the British then.

Also, if you were Turkey, would you join if you were surrounded by British/French colonies to the South and the Soviet Union to the East? [I assume you mean for the Axis.]

 

[PeteAtoms]

I've heard why Sweden, Switzerland, and Spain were all neutral, but why was Turkey (and I guess Ireland on the same subject) neutral during WWII?

Wikipedia:

Turkey was neutral until several months before the end of the war, at which point it joined the Allies. The president Ismet Inonu did his best to keep Turkey out of the war despite pressure from Nazi Germany and the Western Allies. During the War, Turkey helped the Jewish Community by protecting those who made it to Turkey. Later, most of the Jewish people who lived in Turkey during the War moved to Israel or USA.

and

Turkey entered World War II on the side of the Allies on February 23, 1945 as a ceremonial gesture and became a charter member of the United Nations in 1945

and

World War II broke out in the first year of his presidency, and both the Allies and the Axis pressured Inönü to bring Turkey into the war on their side. The Germans sent Franz von Papen to Ankara, while Winston Churchill secretly met with Inönü inside a train wagon near Adana on January 30, 1943. Inönü later met with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Second Cairo Conference on December 4-6, 1943. Until 1941, both Roosevelt and Churchill thought that Turkey's continuing neutrality would serve the interests of the Allies by blocking the Axis from reaching the strategic oil reserves of the Middle East. But the early victories of the Axis up to the end of 1942 caused Roosevelt and Churchill to re-evaluate a possible Turkish participation in the war on the side of the Allies. Turkey had maintained a decently-sized Army and Air Force throughout the war, and Churchill wanted the Turks to open a new front in the Balkans. Roosevelt, on the other hand, still believed that a Turkish attack would be too risky, and an eventual Turkish failure would have disastrous effects for the Allies. Inönü knew very well the hardships which his country had suffered during decades of incessant war between 1908 and 1922 and was determined to keep Turkey out of another war as long as he could. The young Turkish Republic was still re-building, recovering from the losses due to earlier wars, and lacked any modern weapons and the infrastructure to enter a war to be fought along and possibly within its borders. Inönü also wanted assurances on financial and military aid for Turkey, as well as a guarantee that the United States and the United Kingdom would stand beside Turkey in the event of a Soviet invasion of the Turkish Straits after the war. The fear of Soviet invasion and Stalin's unconcealed desire to control the Turkish Straits eventually caused Turkey to give up its principle of neutrality in foreign relations and join NATO in 1952.

 

[nonconformist]

Plenty of Irish volunteered to fight for Britain.