Only in America. And only in the 20th century. A mast is a vertical pole or structure. A staff is a handheld pole. We still have radio masts and masts on top of cranes. Flags fly from masts on land all the time. A ship’s mast is called a mast because it’s a big vertical pole. Somebody in U.S. got confused by this and insisted that flags fly on staffs (staves) on land.

eta: In American English, a flag flown halfway up its flagpole as a symbol of mourning is at half-staff, and a flag flown halfway up a ship’s mast to signal mourning or distress is at half-mast. The distinction does not run deep, though, as the terms are often mixed up, especially in unofficial contexts.

Outside North America, half-staff is not a widely used term, and half-mast is used in reference to half-raised flags both on land and at sea. Half-mast is also preferred in Canada for both uses, though half-staff appears more frequently there than it does outside North America.

Source: https://grammarist.com/usage/half-mast-half-staff/

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This is the answer I got over drinks with a senior military leader. It’s too well known to hold anything interesting. He contrasted it with Mount Weather and the Cheyenne Complex. Those are still the sites for continuity of government because there is too much infrastructure to move. The sites just got additional hardening as the locations became known.

That’s a rat.

The cunner is also a fish. That’s all.

Depends on your goals. Two things are magic: playing with other people and playing live Other than that focus on the basics - always practice with a metronome. You can instantly tell who is ready to play together and who is used to used to doing their own thing all over the time signature.

Aqualung by Jethro Tull may meet your needs. If you’re Will ng to flexible in your definitions the the Crane Wife cycle by the Decemberists might also fit .

Most drain cleaners are not acids but bases - same basic idea but the other end of the pH scale. Bleach is an example of a corrosive base you’re probably familiar with. Bases were used because they were more compatible with the solder that connected copper pipes in older homes. For non-corrosive cleaners they fall into a couple classes:

Fizzy things. These loosen clogs by bubbling them apart. They are typically made by mixing a weak acid with a base - hello vinegar and baking soda! The acid may help a bit with dissolving some clogs. These can take a while

Enzyme based cleaners. An active enzyme will digest some of the bonds in hair and other components of the clog. These can take hours to be effective so don’t be in a rush.

Temperature based. Fats often make up a big component of clogs. Something as simple as boiling water can do a lot to loosen up a clog. There are fancier mixtures that will warm up the pipe to try to get things flowing.

It never would have been charged if he wasn’t the President’s son. He paid everything and a penalty in top of it so there was no reason to seek a conviction.

This really about a definition of “working class”. What’s always interesting to me in these arguments is that it’s a Britishism originally tied to class consciousness more than economic circumstances.

Vicars, writers and such were examples of “genteel poverty” who were very well educated but still lived a hand-to-mouth existence. They were not considered part of the working class even though they very much had to work, and were often poorer than many tradespeople. Because of education and contact with the well-to-do, those workers had an expanded world view and thus not considered part of the “working class” who were focused on tawdry gossip, when they were going down to the pub, and what was for lunch.

Stout.

Should I know these people?

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Put 10% of your net pay into a low fee index fund.

I read the book decades ago and absolutely hated it. Just gross and depressing. I never saw the musical but friends tell me it takes basically nothing from the book - just the core idea of telling the story from the perspective of the wicked witch, who was bullied in her youth.

Meet the black market.

Goodbye

Captaincy and subcaptaincy.

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A few years ago there was an industrial design exhibition showing the evolution of the coffee cup lid since the 1970s. And yes there were a lot of gaps because it literally never occurred to anyone to save them. The display was largely dead stock that had been recovered.

Brayden, Brittany. Anything from Game of Thrones.