This week: a history of grain silos, etymologies, and what'll happen when California runs out of license plate combinations. Also on this episode, shorts and a list of cool stuff seized by United States Customs and Border Protection officers.
Sources: grain silos at bit.ly/liugrains and bit.ly/grains2; license plate article at bit.ly/liuplates; forfeiture lists at forfeiture.gov.
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On this episode of Look It Up: were there marches in the 1500s? How do you type on a Japanese or Chinese keyboard? Is there a correlation between geographic location or political party and whether you say "an -" or "a historic?"
This, and more. Check it out.
Links:
bit.ly/anhistoricspreadsheet: the data and results for an v. a historic
bit.ly/liu1500march: the YouTube video of the march we listened to
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On this week's episode of Look It Up: what kinds of jobs do former Presidents of the United States have? What and where is the heroin highway? Can I leave a house unfinished and not pay property taxes on it?
This, and more. Check it out.
Links:
bit.ly/liuhistoric: "an historic" v. "a historic" survey
bit.ly/liupresjobsabc: ABC news article about post-presidential life
bit.ly/liupresjobschart: chart of former US Presidents' occupations
bit.ly/liuillsurvey: Illinois Youth Survey
bit.ly/liutaxesallegheny: Allegheny County tax abatement codes
bit.ly/liuconstructiontx: Texas construction definitions
bit.ly/liuconstructionca: California construction definitions
bit.ly/liuconstructionwa: Washington State construction definitions.
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This week's episode of Look It Up deals with whether or not it's safe to refrigerate guns, a survey looking to see whether Republicans say "an historic" disproportionately more than Democrats, and what would happen if Equity name rules applied to politicians.
Links:
bit.ly/liusenturia: gun study
bit.ly/liukennedy: Huffington Post article about Kennedy
bit.ly/liuhistoric: "an historic" v. "a historic" survey
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This week on Look It Up: World's Fairs and how they're surprisingly still a thing, how different generations make furniture-purchasing decisions, and whether or not animals can be ambidextrous.
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