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Winner Announced; Next Drawing Aug 10th: Win a Pair of PRIME HD binoculars (1 Viewer)
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winwinbino
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Still raining everyday.
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DadraFromFrance
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29/07/2014...
Bob A (SD)
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Just fly away 
stereotruckdriver
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Red Crossbills been hanging around longer than usual.
Gioia Tauro
THUS SPEAKS TURACO:
The writing-zombie Garra-de-Loro is temporarily out of order. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
TURACO
Mr. Brock, Sir, we thank you heartily for the good wishes. We too wish you good luck: If your honourable Computer should in the near future emit so called spam-mail in Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Gujrati, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit or any other of the approximately 850 Indian languages and dialects, at least you know where you can direct your complaints to. (Garra-de-Loro, unfortunately, is not a possessed computer. The problem here goes much deeper.)
Good evening, Mr. Brock, regards to Mr. Nietzsche, regards to Mr. Kubrick
TURACO
Mr. Samandag, Sir, with all due respect: In the year 1588 no optical devices in the modern sense were used. Eye-glasses were invented in the 13th century (you may remember William of Baskerville in Il nome della rosa, and all the trouble that was caused by the disappearance of his glasses), and soon it was found out that the combination of two biconvex lenses permitted magnified viewing of distant objects. Although many uses for a telescope would have suggested themselves at these times (orientation at sea, astronomy/astrology, medium-distance-communication, land surveying, hunting, military defence and aggression, etc.), it was not before the beginning of the 17th century that Dutch eye-glasses-makers would invent the telescope. Galileo Galilei, though not the inventor, built a model with the magnification of 9x for celestial observation, that helped to make the design universally known.
"Optical" devices before that time were simple instruments that helped measuring angles (e.g. between celestial bodies), but they did not provide any magnification.
Kind regards,
TURACO
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Please note: Master Raffaele has lost control of all things here. He has travelled to the mountains of Aspromonte in Reggio Calabria, heartland of the 'ndràngheta. Today he has sent word that he has reached the Port of Gioia Tauro, where he hopes to meet a certain person, whose identity he would not reveal. Whish him luck.TRC
THUS SPEAKS TURACO:
The writing-zombie Garra-de-Loro is temporarily out of order. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
TURACO
Mr. Brock, Sir, we thank you heartily for the good wishes. We too wish you good luck: If your honourable Computer should in the near future emit so called spam-mail in Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Gujrati, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit or any other of the approximately 850 Indian languages and dialects, at least you know where you can direct your complaints to. (Garra-de-Loro, unfortunately, is not a possessed computer. The problem here goes much deeper.)
Good evening, Mr. Brock, regards to Mr. Nietzsche, regards to Mr. Kubrick
TURACO
Mr. Samandag, Sir, with all due respect: In the year 1588 no optical devices in the modern sense were used. Eye-glasses were invented in the 13th century (you may remember William of Baskerville in Il nome della rosa, and all the trouble that was caused by the disappearance of his glasses), and soon it was found out that the combination of two biconvex lenses permitted magnified viewing of distant objects. Although many uses for a telescope would have suggested themselves at these times (orientation at sea, astronomy/astrology, medium-distance-communication, land surveying, hunting, military defence and aggression, etc.), it was not before the beginning of the 17th century that Dutch eye-glasses-makers would invent the telescope. Galileo Galilei, though not the inventor, built a model with the magnification of 9x for celestial observation, that helped to make the design universally known.
"Optical" devices before that time were simple instruments that helped measuring angles (e.g. between celestial bodies), but they did not provide any magnification.
Kind regards,
TURACO
_________________________________________
Please note: Master Raffaele has lost control of all things here. He has travelled to the mountains of Aspromonte in Reggio Calabria, heartland of the 'ndràngheta. Today he has sent word that he has reached the Port of Gioia Tauro, where he hopes to meet a certain person, whose identity he would not reveal. Whish him luck.TRC
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LeadLenses
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Thanks for the chance, Charles!
Here's mine today
brownpelican1
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Good afternoon Zen-Ray.
Larry Lade
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