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Alaska is a big state; or is it a tiny state?

Sarah Palin can't see Russia from her house.

The "A" is Wasilla, where she lived as mayor. Juneau is in the lower right corner, is where she lives(d) as governor.

From which residence could she see Russia? (Upper left corner)

Also if I remember my geography right isn't the horizon three miles away?

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The Dollar Shirt

When I first did this I left a couple of these "shirts" and a "ring" in a "box" (all made out of origami folded dollar bills) as a tip for our waitress at one of those quick food neighborhood restaurants. My wife wouldn't have any part of it unless I left a couple of regular unfolded bills too. She thought the waitress would think they were bits of junk left on the table.

I first came across this a few years ago when I was searching for unusual origami using money. At that time there was only one link to be found for it. I searched for it today for my granddaughter and found two pages of links for making a shirt out of a dollar bill.

When making one of these use a fresh crisp bill. It makes doing the folds a lot easier.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Shirt-out-of-a-One-Dollar-Bill

Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain

Darwinic pilgrims claim the image fills them with an overwhelming feeling of logic

DAYTON, TN—A steady stream of devoted evolutionists continued to gather in this small Tennessee town today to witness what many believe is an image of Charles Darwin—author of The Origin Of Species and founder of the modern evolutionary movement—made manifest on a concrete wall in downtown Dayton.

"I brought my baby to touch the wall, so that the power of Darwin can purify her genetic makeup of undesirable inherited traits," said Darlene Freiberg, one among a growing crowd assembled here to see the mysterious stain, which appeared last Monday on one side of the Rhea County Courthouse. The building was also the location of the famed "Scopes Monkey Trial" and is widely considered one of Darwinism's holiest sites. "Forgive me, O Charles, for ever doubting your Divine Evolution. After seeing this miracle of limestone pigmentation with my own eyes, my faith in empirical reasoning will never again be tested."

Added Freiberg, "Behold the power and glory of the scientific method!"

Since witnesses first reported the unexplained marking—which appears to resemble a 19th-century male figure with a high forehead and large beard—this normally quiet town has become a hotbed of biological zealotry. Thousands of pilgrims from as far away as Berkeley's paleoanthropology department have flocked to the site to lay wreaths of flowers, light devotional candles, read aloud from Darwin's works, and otherwise pay homage to the mysterious blue-green stain.

Capitalizing on the influx of empirical believers, street vendors have sprung up across Dayton, selling evolutionary relics and artwork to the thousands of pilgrims waiting to catch a glimpse of the image. Available for sale are everything from small wooden shards alleged to be fragments of the "One True Beagle"—the research vessel on which Darwin made his legendary voyage to the Galapagos Islands—to lecture notes purportedly touched by English evolutionist Alfred Russel Wallace.

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One year's oil drilled off shore will last how long?

Question:
At peak production, how long will it take the US to consume a year's supply of oil from expanded off-shore drilling in the outer continental shelf?

Answer: