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Nuremberg Gardens Minnesota
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Minnesota, gardens
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The Danube Source (Donaueschingen)
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The source of the River Danube (German Donau) is a so-called "Karstaufstoßquelle". It has been as the historical source of the Danube ever since the Roman general Tiberius visited it in 15 BC. The source is framed in a romantic wrought iron basin, which lies in the palace grounds right next to the Prince of Fürstenberg's palace.
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Haint blue
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There are many older homes in the United States that have ceilings (especially of porches and decks) or shutters painted blue. The color is referred to as "haint" blue. The etymology of the word is unclear. Various websites say its of European derivation or simply a corruption of the more familiar word "haunt," referring to ghosts.
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Dymaxion map
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The Dymaxion map of the Earth is a projection of a global map onto the surface of a polyhedron, which can then be unfolded to a net in many different ways and flattened to form a two-dimensional map which retains most of the relative proportional integrity of the globe map. It was created by Buckminster Fuller, and patented by him in 1946, the patent application showing a projection onto a cuboctahedron. The 1954 version published by Fuller under the title The AirOcean World Map used a slightly modified but mostly regular icosahedron as the base for the projection, and this is the version most commonly referred to today. The name Dymaxion was applied by Fuller to several of his inventions.
Unlike most other projections, the Dymaxion is intended purely for representations of the entire globe. Each face of the polyhedron is a gnomonic projection, so zooming in on one such face renders the Dymaxion equivalent to such a projection.
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Know your Danish Silverware
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The Spider -- 45 RPM Record Adapter
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The former RCA Corporation tailored to the smaller spindle size of an LP record player with a plastic insert known as a "spider". These snap-in inserts allowed a 45 rpm record to be played on a 33 1/3 rpm record player. Commissioned by RCA president David Sarnoff and invented by Thomas Hutchison, "spiders" were prevalent in the 1960s and sold tens of millions per year.
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