Category: eggs

  • Egg Castle

    Around the year 492, a monastery was founded in the Bay of Naples on the island of Megaride. This tiny speck of land was the site where Greek colonists from Cumae first settled. In the first century BC a magnificent Roman villa was built there by Lucius Licinius Lucullus (118-57/56 BC), a Roman consul and…

  • What does the Bible say about eggs

      Isaiah 10:14 ESV My hand has found like a nest the wealth of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken, so I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved a wing or opened the mouth or chirped. Deuteronomy 22:6-7 ESV If you come across a bird’s…

  • Ogg Couple

    Egghead and Olga, Queen of the Cossacks, steal the golden Egg of Ogg, and the Silver Scimitar of Toras Bulbul to boot. The caper goes awry and Egghead begs for Batgirl’s mercy, only to lead her into a trap. Olga trips Batgirl up with caviar and sabers and then tosses her into a giant ice…

  • Take an egg and smite it with a fiery sword

    Accipe ovum & igneo percute gladio. Epigram 8   There are many & diverse kinds of Birds whose number is uncertain & their Names unknown to Us. Story tells us of a very great Bird named Ruc, that appears at certain seasons of the Year in a small Island of the Ocean, which can bear…

  • Tattle Tales

  • The egg of my eye

  • If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half

    If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will five hens lay in 6 days? 5 hens would lay 5 eggs in a day and a half. In 6 days, there are 4 day-and-a-half 5 x 4 = 20 (each hen lays…

  • Take an egg and pierce it with a sword

    Michael Maier [1568 –1622] Atalanta Fugiens Oppenheim: Johann Theodor de Bry, 1617 Alchemy web site

  • Russia’s domestic Internet traffic mysteriously passes through Chinese routers

    Russia’s domestic Internet traffic mysteriously passes through Chinese routers | Ars Technica.

  • The Chemical History of a Candle

    I saw the other day an experiment which pleased me much, as I thought it would serve our purpose here. (I ought to have held my tongue for four or five minutes before beginning this experiment, because it depends upon my lungs for success.) By the proper application of air, I expect to be able to…