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Whats possibly better than cookies shaped like smartly dressed humans in candy couture? Skeleton cookies with white chocolate bones. I always make gingerbread cookies in December, and as cute as they look, theyre no simple task. All you need is abasic chocolate cut-out cookierecipeand a little melted white chocolate. Part of the reason these are so easy is because they capitalize on theabsenceof color. Its just a chocolate backdrop and bones, which means no mixing colors or carefully applying gumdrop buttons....

Messaging in the US is a complicated conversation. For iPhone users, its overwhelmingly iMessage. For Android users, its a toss-up. WhatsApp is king of the third-party options, followed by others like Facebook Messenger, Telegram, and Signal. Lately, Google wants to change that. Many of these changeshinge on RCS, SMS successor. The transition isnt perfect, especially since Apple wont budge. With this bulletin, its wipe the company is aggressively selling its messaging solution to the Android community....

Why, then, does aMinecraftclone exist in 4D? At first glance,4D Minerseems just likeMinecraft. So far, soMinecraft. Whenever you scroll in4D Miner, your world changes dramatically. Elements that are right in front of you disappear, while other reveal themselves. The thing is, none of these things are really changing. From a 4D perspective, everything you see while scrolling is actually there at all times. We just cant see it, because were limited to our 3D world view....

They were in pursuit of a coal seam that seemed to angle upwards towards the riverbed. But the company owners kept pushing the miners to dig closer and closer to the river bottom. In reality, less than six feet of rock remained between the mine and the river bed. Some say, the rocks separating the miners from the Susquehanna River was lesser stillonly 19 inches. The whirlpool formed by the draining of the Susquehanna river into the underground mine....

Only an icy heart is unsentimental about the last summer tomato. Ive spent the summer making these tarts in every variation I could think of. Pie crust, puff pastry, different cheeses. Did I mention its also vegetarian? With a salad, its a whole meal; on its own, its the perfect first course. I have made 12 of them this summer. Youll need a tart pan, which comes in two parts....

Ann Moore was in her late 40s when she became famous as the fasting woman of Tutbury. She also testified that had she no desire for either food or drink. Moores story appeared in many newspapers around England and in books and medical journals. Photo:Wikimedia Ann Moore was born in Rosliston, Derbyshire, in 1761. Her father was a day labourer and her mother was a midwife. When Mr. Moore discovered the deception, he deserted her soon after the marriage....

Notifications have gotten out of control. You might needsomebut you dont need as many as you have right now. Which notifications do youreallyneed? Sure, we all joke that a smartphone is used for everythingbutphone calls, but its not true. Youd probably regret sending all these people to voicemail. But software features such as Silence Unknown Callers have improved the situation. You dont need to disable phone alerts altogether to keep most spam at bay....

With the glass bowls a rock crystal lens was discovered, with opposite flat and convex faces. Austen Henry Layard,Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon Nimrud lens. It has a maximum diameter of 4.20 centimeters, and a thickness of between 4.10 and 6.20 millimeters. It has a focal length of about 12 centimeters, which makes it equivalent to a 3x magnifying glass. Since it is made from natural rock crystal, it has not deteriorated significantly over time....

But on the bright side, that same alienation can provide entertainment that previous generations could never have imagined. LikeDont Hug Me Im Scared, and TikTok videos about dental procedures. Its not like anything youve ever seen, I promise. Horizon Worlds official accountbreathlessly tweeted: Legs are coming soon! I can barely contain myself, Mark! So check it out. Im sure usingHorizon Worldswill become compulsory soon enough. Theyre nothing if not passionate, and they arenotinto this movie....

For years, Netflix was an ad-free paradise. No matter how much you streamed, commercials were never around the corner. Well, that ad-plan is nearly here, and you should think about subscribing to it. Whats new with Netflixs Basic with Ads plan? Netflix officially announcedthe details of its new ad tier in a press release Thursday. Thats a bump from Netflixs current Basic subscription, which caps video resolution at 480p. One big drawback to the plan is the inability to download content....

Uxbridge spent the rest of the battle leading a series of charges against the French. He was reported to have lost eight or nine horses that were shot from under him. The Duke of Wellington meets Lord Uxbridge after the amputation of his leg. This meeting reportedly never happened. The doctor informed Lord Uxbridge that his leg will have to be amputated. Henry William Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge. Oil on canvas, by Peter Edward Stroehling, 1826....

John Harvey Kellogg is one name you might know; he ran the Battle Creek sanitarium in Michigan. And those bland foods were the original source of breakfast cereals as we know them today. Granola, originally marketed asgranula, from James Caleb Jackson. Corn flakes, from the Kelloggs, which werereportedlyinvented when a batch of the above went bad. John Harveys brother, Will Kellogg, founded a company to mass produce the flakes. (Fun fact: it was Kellogg whochanged the spellingof granula to granola, after Jackson sued....

The bite of the slow loris is toxic, if they want it to be. Loris poison is delivered via noxious glands in their armpits. The poison is of the flesh-eating variety, so some slow lorises walk around with half melted faces. (Nature is so fucking gross.) The fastest lava flow ever officially recorded was only six miles-per-hour, a slow jog or brisk walk. But theres a catch. No one can outrun that....