NDIC Site Still Compromised -- Unable To Post Wells Coming Off Confidential List -- May 22, 2022

Perhaps nothing about the Bakken today. 

So, we start off with something about horses. This popped up on my Hulu news stream.

The headline is quite misleading. After reading the article, see if you can answer the question posed by the headline writer: exactly when and where was the horse domesticated?

The answers:

• when: exactly somewhere between 5,000 and 2,000 BCE;
• where: exactly somewhere between Spain and Asia

Close enough for government-funded research.

However, this does lead to the very next question which I have never seen asked anywhere. Why did the Greeks use a wooden horse to sneak warriors inside Troy? 

Of all the "things" they could have used, the Greeks chose a horse. Let's google: Trojan War why a horse? Ah, here it is. I never knew this or had long forgotten it: the horse was the symbol of the city of Troy.

It is interesting that the linked article did not mention that. However, I did learn a lot about the Sintashta culture about which I had never read.

Moving on.

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Dylan

Covers. 

Link here.  

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The Hollywood Diner and Drive-In Theater

This is incredibly cool if true. I assume it is and can easily be fact-checked.

Tesla has filed plans for "the Hollywood Diner and Drive-In Theater" at 7001 Santa Monica Boulevard.

Link here with sketch. 

The Santa Monica Boulevard is the last "leg" of the famed "Route 66." 

If I could live my life over I would have been born in west Los Angeles and gone into real estate in 1960. 

Santa Monica's Mel's Drive-In is just down the road, "located at the end of famous Route 66!"

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Watch For Ripple Ads

Not the wine, the "new" plant-based dairy-free "milk."

Made from yellow split peas. From December 21, 2017:

Yellow peas continues to be a popular alternative crop in western Nebraska, and more farmers are now growing yellow peas in the eastern part of the state, too.

"Yellow peas are a cool season legume crop," Extension Educator Strahinja Stepanovic said. "Many people think they are a garden plant, but they are grown for seed, and it's a staple crop in northern states like Montana and North Dakota, and even Canada," Stepanovic said.

The reason yellow pea acres have expanded in the last five years from many 10,000 to 70,000 acres primarily in western Nebraska is because the crop is good to rotate to help with soil health.