If you can find one.
Be good against the Cold.
COLD DARK ROOM
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Be good against the Cold.
In 1908 American insurance companies tried to ban real candles being used on Christmas trees.
Fires from Christmas tree lights had burned down a Chicago hospital in 1885, there had been many house fires and three separate Father Christmases died by bending down to pick up presents and their beards catching fire.
Fires from Christmas tree lights had burned down a Chicago hospital in 1885, there had been many house fires and three separate Father Christmases died by bending down to pick up presents and their beards catching fire.
Blimey!
The first life insurance policy was taken out in 1583 by alderman Richard Martin in London on a salter called William Gibbons.
He paid £383 which was a fortune, but stood to gain about £4,800 if Gibbons died within the year..
At the time the average weekly wage was 10 pennies so the insurance policy was 300 years of the average salary.
Gibbons died, well within the year, but the insurance company said it wasn't for a year it was for 12 months.
"So ?" said Martin.
"A year is 12 months and as the shortest month is February, a year is 12 times 28 days so 336 days. Gibbons died after 345 days, so we're not paying. "
Court ensued and the money was eventually paid in 1587, four years later.
And many insurance companies have continued in this fine old tradition.
He paid £383 which was a fortune, but stood to gain about £4,800 if Gibbons died within the year..
At the time the average weekly wage was 10 pennies so the insurance policy was 300 years of the average salary.
Gibbons died, well within the year, but the insurance company said it wasn't for a year it was for 12 months.
"So ?" said Martin.
"A year is 12 months and as the shortest month is February, a year is 12 times 28 days so 336 days. Gibbons died after 345 days, so we're not paying. "
Court ensued and the money was eventually paid in 1587, four years later.
And many insurance companies have continued in this fine old tradition.
I had no idea there were three.
I think it might have happened last update. But I'm not sure.
I've finished my book 
Rather satisfying!
Rather satisfying!
Don't let any children read that!
Will you have assignments about it to do now?I've finished my book
Crushing dreams since 2015
If your parents let you belive, how did you find out that a strange old man wasn't watching you in your sleep?
Or that fairies didn't take your teeth?
I stopped believing in the tooth fairy after I found all my teeth in a jar in my mom's dresser
It's actually in order of last activity. I think that this is the default for the software and that Josh had changed it to be alphabetical after Yvonne asked him to.
Yes!
Very exciting. I'm writing an essay about whichever part I choose (there are 10. My favorite is part 6, text in 'Media and Designs'. It discusses how the text tone and how the average reader may interpret a certain design, which texts are suggested in different themes... etc. It was very interesting!
jaizei, will you watch AKA Jessica Jones this fall?
Yes - sounds like something you can really get your teeth into.Yes!
Very exciting. I'm writing an essay about whichever part I choose (there are 10. My favorite is part 6, text in 'Media and Designs'. It discusses how the text tone and how the average reader may interpret a certain design, which texts are suggested in different themes... etc. It was very interesting!
Good luck with that.
Aww - growing up is tough!Crushing dreams since 2015
If your parents let you belive, how did you find out that a strange old man wasn't watching you in your sleep?
Or that fairies didn't take your teeth?
I stopped believing in the tooth fairy after I found all my teeth in a jar in my mom's dresser
Yep, I noticed that, too.
Probably a side effect of Josh's fixing the photo problems.
A little irritating, but nothing to complain about.
Mystery explained - thanks.
I think two of them were impostors.
Well obviously!!
