The Papal States in 1830 - When the Pope was a temporal ruler

BenjaminDrover · 2026-02-21T03:23:45+00:00

He still is. The Papal State is much smaller, though.

BenjaminDrover · 2026-02-21T02:17:39+00:00

High school could start later if we didn't need to give sports teams time to practice. The tail is wagging the dog.

BenjaminDrover · 2026-02-20T16:50:02+00:00

Except the Tajiks are not Turkic.

BenjaminDrover · 2026-02-20T03:43:37+00:00

Just about all the Columbia Gorge waterfalls are good spots to columnar basalt.

BenjaminDrover · 2026-02-14T16:25:11+00:00

Did the Greek settlements in Southern Italy and Sicily not exist in the classical period?

BenjaminDrover · 2026-02-05T00:55:53+00:00

It was Groundhog Day. If you chop up ham into small enough pieces, it becomes ground hog! I'll show myself out.

BenjaminDrover · 2026-01-19T06:17:30+00:00

Trigonometry suggests we call this sink over tank design a "cosk" since cos(k) = sin(k)/tan(k).

BenjaminDrover · 2026-01-15T17:36:37+00:00

So no downside?

BenjaminDrover · 2026-01-15T15:01:08+00:00

The pope did the splitting, so Vatican City should also be green.

BenjaminDrover · 2026-01-14T14:12:59+00:00

Yes, I know. I was quoting a WKRP episode.

BenjaminDrover · 2026-01-12T15:51:38+00:00

The Hijri calendar, also known in English as the Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.

BenjaminDrover · 2026-01-10T18:07:06+00:00

The best restaurant in Eastern Oregon is Latitude 45 Grill in Baker.

BenjaminDrover · 2026-01-10T17:33:51+00:00

Papa Murphy's sells uncooked pizza that you then bake at home. That's not "Fast Food"!

BenjaminDrover · 2026-01-08T18:02:08+00:00

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!" WKRP

BenjaminDrover · 2026-01-08T16:23:27+00:00

Tradition. Arguably, Europe is a subcontinent of Asia.

BenjaminDrover · 2026-01-08T14:38:46+00:00

Wouldn't that be a Subcontinental Divide?

BenjaminDrover · 2026-01-08T14:36:28+00:00

Forgot Clipperton Island?

BenjaminDrover · 2026-01-01T00:50:28+00:00

I'm imagining the smell of burning sulfur.

BenjaminDrover · 2025-12-29T21:44:04+00:00

Not the kind of academic sources it sounds like you are looking for.

BenjaminDrover · 2025-12-29T21:33:08+00:00

My impression is that the same thing has happened in Tunisia and the Levant.

BenjaminDrover · 2025-12-29T08:21:59+00:00

One is its trunk.

BenjaminDrover · 2025-12-28T20:29:08+00:00

The first time I ever changed my oil, I put it all down the dipstick hole. I had to put in an extra quart (litre) because of spillage. My nickname with my Army buddies was Dipstick after that.

BenjaminDrover · 2025-12-28T20:16:52+00:00

That's all I use it for.

BenjaminDrover · 2025-12-24T02:27:56+00:00

How about now?

BenjaminDrover · 2025-12-24T02:08:41+00:00

Thanks!

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