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10 Short Videos #6234

10 Short Videos #6234

1. A CARTEL Went BROKE Trying To KILL Him - Bromine & DOW Chemical
2. The Fold And Cut Theorem
3. I Absolutely Need to Buy These Awesome Tools
4. The First Of MANY - Fl 282 - First production helicopter
5. 5 parts in 1?! - Complicated machining operation
6. Do you remember the legendary masterpiece from the All Japan Costume Contest? 🎭✨.
7. Optical Position Sensor - Chris Boden
8. Eric Ries on company structures, - Insulin
9. I love big brother - How to cut aluminum tubing - not be used to cut down Flock cameras
10. The best fly control might not come in a bottle. Sometimes it starts with better grazing.

Hyundai Ioniq 6

Colour Demonstration - Ultimate Red - Hyundai Ioniq 6
Brian Doolan at Fitzpatricks Garage Kildare

I saw one of these on the freeway the other day and the way it looked was like something from, I dunno, the 30s or the 50s. Nothing much happening in the 40s, so there was some wild stuff in the 30s and then they kind of went nuts in the 50s. Maybe because I saw some old car at the car wash earlier that day. We got a video 'cause we get to see the car from several angles. And the car I saw was red.

10 Short Videos #6233

10 Short Videos #6233

1. These Farmers Know How To Call Them Back 😂🐓
2. Scientists Spot Microscopic Light Flash the Second Life Begins!
3. This Mental Math Competition Looks Unreal 🧠😳
4. Do you remember the legendary masterpiece from the All Japan Costume Contest? 🎭✨.
5. Automated Police Drone Station 🚁
6. Day 68 - jumping rope
7. From Outlaw to Inventor | Carbine Williams
8. TOYAN V8 micro engine fitting
9. Forging a Shovel 🔥
10. Why the U.S. Military Blows up Its Own Ammo 💥🤯

Funnies

White Linen

View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds - Jacob van Ruisdael 1665

The painting's title takes me to Wikipedia which leads to asking Google about linen bleaching which gets me this:

In 1670, the linen bleaching process was a slow, multi-step photochemical method. Centered in places like Haarlem in the Dutch Republic, it required weeks of washing, boiling in alkaline lye, soaking in massive amounts of sour buttermilk, and prolonged exposure to sunlight on open grass fields (bleachfields).

More from Wikipedia:

The success of the linen-bleaching industry in Haarlem had reached its climax at the time that Ruisdael painted this work. There were other linen-bleaching centers in the Netherlands; however, none of these locations were endowed with the perfect mixture of natural resources that Haarlem had. During the seventeenth century, linen bleached in Haarlem was highly sought after and quite expensive; this was the cause of the economic prosperity in Haarlem and the wealth of Haarlem linen merchants. All linen bleached in Haarlem received the name toiles de Hollande, or "Haarlemmer Bleek," which means Haarlem bleach. Regardless of where the linen was woven, if it was bleached in Haarlem it was called toiles de Hollande.

I thought for sure 'wrapped in white linen' is a line in the song Lucky Man by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, but it's not. The line is from The Streets of Laredo by a host or artists.

Construction Physics got me started.

Union Jack

The Union Jack, the national flag of the United Kingdom, combines the Crosses of
St. George (England), St. Andrew (Scotland), and St. Patrick (Ireland).

Stu's post about the Union Jack got me started. The flag arose in 1606.