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I'm a tad poorly today, so have been lying in bed reading up on some uni stuffs for things I have coming up. Among them was the wiki page for a certain solution that I don't care to handle anytime soon but probably will have to. Anyway, it has quite a cool story that goes with it.

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When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of the German physicists Max von Laue (1914) and James Franck (1925) in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from confiscating them. The German government had prohibited Germans from accepting or keeping any Nobel Prize after the jailed peace activist Carl von Ossietzky had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935. De Hevesy placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was subsequently ignored by the Nazis who thought the jar—one of perhaps hundreds on the shelving—contained common chemicals. After the war, de Hevesy returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The gold was returned to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation who recast the medals and again presented them to Laue and Franck.[5][6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_regia

Isn't that just the coolest thing ever? Probably not, but it's close I'm sure.

Anyway Biggies, feed me with useless cool knowledge that I can bore people with next time I'm in the pub! Very Happy
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_surrounding_the_papacy#Pope_Joan
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After two or five years of reign, 'Pope Joan' became pregnant, and during an Easter procession, she gave birth to the child on the streets when she fell off a horse. She was publicly stoned to death by the astonished crowd, and according to the legend, removed from the Vatican archives.

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I've just read that Feelers one! Laughing
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Laughing That is the best thing ever
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LOVE the regulate wiki Laughing
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I'm now stuck in the Regulate discussion page trying to argue for it's reinstatement Sad
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Nate displays his bravado by claiming that individuals with equivalent knowledge could not even attempt to approach his level of lyrical mastery. Nate goes on to note that if any third party smokes as he does, they would find themselves in a state of intoxication almost daily.


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