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For three days in August 1969, which town became the 5th biggest city in the U.S.A?

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Originally posted by PBE6
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Is that them?
forgot all the brackets

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Originally posted by Freddie2006
For three days in August 1969, which town became the 5th biggest city in the U.S.A?
woodstock

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Originally posted by uzless
forgot all the brackets

{}
[]
According to Wikipedia, there are a bunch more:

apostrophe ( ' ' )
brackets ( ), [ ], { }, < >
colon ( : )
comma ( , )
dashes ( &#8210;, –, —, &#8213; )
ellipsis ( …, ... )
exclamation mark ( ! )
full stop/period ( . )
guillemets ( « » )
hyphen ( -, &#8208; )
question mark ( ? )
quotation marks ( ' ', " " )
semicolon ( ; )
slash/stroke ( / )
solidus ( &#8725; )

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

Of course, how many times have you used a "solidus" in polite letter writing? 🙄

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the average human eats about 8 spiders a year while they sleep

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In May 2005, the Greek inventor Panagiotis Verdes constructed a 6×6×6 Rubik's Cube; on May 23, 2006, Frank Morris, a world champion Rubik's Cube solver, tested this version. He had previously solved the 3×3×3 in 15 seconds, the 4×4×4 in 1 minute and 10 seconds, and the 5×5×5 in 1 minute and 46.1 seconds. The 6×6×6 took him 5 minutes and 37 seconds to solve. Morris himself thanked the inventor for making it and purportedly stated that the bigger the Cube is, the greater the pleasure. In July 2006, Mr. Verdes successfully constructed the 7×7×7 cube; on October 27, 2006, a video of Morris testing the cube was released. He solved this cube in 6 minutes and 29.31 seconds. Videos of these tests can be viewed at http://www.olympicube.com.

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Originally posted by uzless
World's tallest Freestanding building


CN Tower (Toronto) - 553 meters
I thought it was Taipei 101 😛

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Originally posted by huckleberryhound
I thought it was Taipei 101 😛
Petronas Towers?

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Originally posted by huckleberryhound
I thought it was Taipei 101 😛
CN Tower still hold the record!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_tallest_structures

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Another uninteresting cocktail ban:

"May 17, 1974: Glenda Kemp, South Africa's teacher-turned-stripper, has offered to entertain the British Lions to "something special" in Cape Town because of the cocktail ban imposed on local British diplomats by their government The offer of a "bare-all" show was enthusiastically received by the team."

http://www.dispatch.co.za/2004/05/17/Editoria/chiel.html

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Originally posted by Nordlys
Another uninteresting cocktail ban:

"May 17, 1974: Glenda Kemp, South Africa's teacher-turned-stripper, has offered to entertain the British Lions to "something special" in Cape Town because of the cocktail ban imposed on local British diplomats by their government The offer of a "bare-all" show was enthusiastically received by the team."

http://www.dispatch.co.za/2004/05/17/Editoria/chiel.html
Her snake would have freaked me out.

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chongqing, 32.7 million.

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Originally posted by zeeblebot
chongqing, 32.7 million.
What? Is that a Chinese city? According to Wikipedia, Shanghai is China's biggest city with a population of about 14.5 million.

EDIT: Ah, found it...but its population is only 6.4 million. You're now in charge of coats at the cocktail party.

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Originally posted by PBE6
Hmm, let's see...

1. .
2. ,
3. ?
4. !
5. "
6. " (open and closed double quotes)
7. `
8. ' (open and closed single quotes)
9. (
10. )
11. ;
12. :
13. ...
14. -

Is that them?
[] is used in paraphrasing quotes.

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The natives of the Pacific Northwest had a settled civilization without agriculture.