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She is Mary Ann Bevan who was known as the "ugliest woman in the world", but when you learn about her life you'll call her the "most beautiful person in the world."

Marry Ann suffered from acromegaly due to which she had abnormal growth and facial distortion. After the death of her husband, with no breadwinner in the house, accumulating debts and financial needs of her 4 children she decided to enter the humiliating contest and won the offensive title of "ugliest woman in the world".
Later she was hired by a circus and toured different cities where people came to laugh nd humiliate her. She endured the ridicule of others in order to raise her children and give them a better quality of life. She died in 1933.

To this day, society judges people on their physical appearance, if our eyes could see souls instead of bodies, Mary Ann would have been the most beautiful woman in the world.

 

Thought for the day .
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

 

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"Fortified" Mailbox Owner NOT Liable for Driver's Injuries

A very good decision by the court.

 

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Not in theUK, though!

 

Yup, we once recieved a letter from an English friend that they were coming to the states and would visit us around 11/5/75. We were a bit surprised when they showed up in May instead of November!

 

Yup, we once recieved a letter from an English friend that they were coming to the states and would visit us around 11/5/75. We were a bit surprised when they showed up in May instead of November!

Down here we use the same date format order as the Brits ... it makes more sense, if you're into STEM stuff

 

I'd have to agree the the UK/MX format and a lot of the rest of the world is more aligned with the metric system than what we use. It's about what you're used to. Kids today cannot tell time on an analog clock face or write in cursive. It's no longer being taught to them. I have terrible handwriting and made F's in handwriting in primary school. So, the best thing I ever did was take typing in High School and bought a typewriter. Lugged a big, heavy, and old rebuilt Royal manual typewriter around with me until personal computers and printers came along and the kids hammered on it's keys playing with it and ruined it, or I'd still have it. Not much of a perfect touch typist and can't do 30wpm but it's much better than my scribbling. Kids today aren't learning to touch type since they've been keyboarding since childhood and aren't being taught to do touch typing. Even keyboards made today still have pips on the home keys to register your hands for touch typing. Most people don't even know why they are there! My only problem is that I've lost sensitivity in my fingertips and can't feel the pips most of the time, so I have to look.

 

These days I just spell or our abbreviate the month. Makes life a lot simpler in the long run.

 

For me, I would write 20211202, still a palindrome.
I number all my files this way.

 

211203A in my case.

 

https://revelstokerampage.ca/2021/1...urgent-address-to-the-snowboarding-community/

Got my tickets for the snowhill!

 

This tech could result in the extinction of entire species if used irresponsibly!

Gene Editing Can Create Single-Sex Mice Litters With 100 Percent Efficiency



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Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and the University of Kent have employed gene-editing technology to create single-sex litters of mice with 100 percent efficiency, a breakthrough that could lead to the dramatic reduction of culling in both medical and agricultural settings.

 

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Been watching the Nova series, "Secrets of the Universe"
Just can't help that feeling of how Very Insignificant we are, in the grander scale of things.

 

Been watching the Nova series, "Secrets of the Universe"
Just can't help that feeling of how Very Insignificant we are, in the grander scale of things.

And yet, we're the only intelligent beings that we know of, (so far) that can appreciate the truth of what you've said...

 

And yet, we're the only intelligent beings that we know of, (so far) that can appreciate the truth of what you've said...

I am a little skeptical.
Over Billions of years, nothing like it ever happened before?

 

I am a little skeptical.
Over Billions of years, nothing like it ever happened before?

So am I... I very, very much doubt we're the only intelligent beings in the universe, or even in the galaxy ... but we're the only thing we've got.

 

Also proof that very different organisms can evolve is to look at the octopus.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-octopus-could-be-the-next-model-organism/
Any life form may have existed and gone extinct millions of years ago and we will never know.