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  1. Bahrain detains dozens over suspected links to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

    DUBAI — A tenuous ceasefire appeared to be holding Saturday after the United States struck two Iranian oil tankers. Meanwhile,…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Attack #bahrain #breakingnews #commercialship #country #DefenseMinistry #dozen #friday #hormuz #Iran #month-oldceasefire #revolutionaryguard #saturday #strait #U.S.Navy #War
    newsbeep.com/529273/

  2. Filmmagie: Van Oude Dozen tot Gouden Oscars!

    Hallo, lieve kinderen! Ik ben Schildje de Schildpad, jullie rustige gids door de wondere wereld van de geschiedenis. Vandaag ga ik jullie vertellen over iets heel bijzonders: de magie van films! 🌟...

    🌞 Leer verder: leeralles.nl/filmmagie-van-oud

    #DOZEN #FILMMAGIE #GOUDEN #OSCARS #OUDE #TOT #VAN

  3. @ruari

    Ever wonder why we sometimes #count things by the #dozen, or why there are 60 minutes in an hour? We may have the ancient Babylonians (or earlier societies) to thank. They came up with this ingenious way to keep track of large numbers using only their two hands. There are variations on this theme, but it becomes pretty obvious if you have a hand with four fingers, with three bones each, and a thumb.

    mdpaths.com/rrr/history/counti

    #history #time #useful

  4. I like #doughnuts.

    When I moved here ~19 years ago, my favourite place would sell me a #dozen for $5.99.

    Today, that same dozen is $24.99.

    That works out to an 8% increase, #compounded, every year. It isn't much different for other #food items. You may notice this figure is much higher than any #official #inflation numbers from the #Canadian government.

    That's #deliberate. Out-of-control #government #spending and money-printing (#monetary inflation) causes price inflation.

    Remember.

  5. [17:56] Israel expands its bombardment in Lebanon as tens of thousands flee

    Israel expanded its bombardment in Lebanon on Saturday, hitting Beirut’s southern suburbs with a dozen airstrikes and striking a Palestinian refugee camp deep in the north for the first time as it targeted both Hezbollah and Hamas fighters.

    independent.ie/world-news/midd

    #Israel #Lebanon #Saturday #Beirut #dozen #Palestinian #first #Hezbollah #Hamas

  6. Out from the ash and flames of the wildfires that scorched Canada’s Jasper National Park comes the story of a #heroic 18-year-old who #saved over a #dozen #people.
    Working as a volunteer firefighter and kitchen aide at a lodge, #Colleen #Knull received an evacuation order on a Monday in late July.
    Stepping outside she saw smoke rising up the mountainsides, and knew that there were people still camping in the area.
    Alerting everyone at the lodge, she went out to gather the campers until 16 people were ready to evacuate.
    Darkness was falling, and getting out of the area meant a 4-hour hike across treacherous terrain.
    Knull used her knowledge of the area and tracking skills to help navigate the 16 people down the trail. The group used head torches and phone flashlights to see in the darkness.
    🔶“I had previously rode up a horse up to that lodge on that same trail and throughout the way me and my employer, we had cut logs on the way up,” Knull told CTV News.
    🔶“There were 67 logs, so there would be be 67 cut logs on the way down … So I used my tracking skills – following horse tracks, horse manure.”
    “There was more intense smoke, my eyes were burning, there was ash falling constantly,” said Rebecca Tocher, a hiker who was in Knull’s group
    “She was an amazing leader and was just making sure that everyone was working together.”
    Incredibly, all 16 hikers made it out ahead of the fires and successfully evacuated in the back of Knull’s pickup truck.
    goodnewsnetwork.org/18-year-ol

  7. Why is it that we have so many #counting concepts up to 12 or 60 like hours/minutes/12 pence in a shilling?

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecim gives a speculatively explanation: it's based on a different way of using our fingers to count.

    One thumb is an indicator that goes through all the 12 knuckle bones of the four larger fingers.

    The other hand uses all 5 #fingers to count the number of dozens which enables you to count up to 60.

    Seems a reasonable explanation to me.

    #Duodecimal #time #dozen

  8. A Baker’s Dozen is 13 in number as a safeguard against penalties for short changing.

    It started in the United Kingdom in the 16th century. Quality control meant bakers sold in lots of 12, then threw in an extra to cover inconsistencies across bakes/ingredients.

    #food #foodfacts #delexicon #bakers #dozen #tradition