If there's anyone looking for the perfect cult setting, this 1880 Manor is it. 11bds, 5.5ba, $7.5M. Yes, it's pricey, but it's a total of 85 acres spanning 2 states. The Main House is on the Sheffield, MA side of the property, (70+ acres), it has 11 buildings - an Auditorium, Group Meeting Areas, Offices, Fitness Center, Cottage, Dining Hall w/Commercial Kitchen, and over 56 Guest Rooms. The Salisbury, CT side is 11+ acres.
Pretty spectacular great room.
Library that looks like a meeting room.
One of the offices. Very nice.
There's a variety of places to hang out.
I don't know if this is the commercial kitchen they list in the description.
So many sitting rooms!
This must be the leader's bedroom.
I would imagine that the bedrooms in the main house would be for the "higher-ups."
Lovely buildings.
Now, this looks like a church. In the description is says that a stained glass window is not included in the sale- maybe it's that one?
The grounds are quite beautiful and include hiking trails.
Nice cabin.
According to the property map, all of the buildings have names.
And, look at this group of buildings. It looks like a street in a town.
Guest bedrooms. It looks like a hotel.
Inside the octagonal building.
I like the flags in the dining room.
Another church?
Where all the members gather.
The barn houses the gym.
Another residence.
Look at the beautiful waterfall on the property.
Wait- that one building says "llama barn." Very cool.
Hot stuff: A new thermal pathway for a high explosive
TATB (1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene) is an important explosive compound because of its extensive use in munitions and worldwide weapons systems. Despite its importance, researchers have been trying to understand its response to temperature extremes for the past 50 years.
A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) team has uncovered a new thermal decomposition pathway for TATB that has a significant bearing on computational models that predict the energy release and thermal behavior of TATB and possibly other insensitive high explosives (IHEs). The research appears in Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics.
TATB is widely viewed as the most stable IHE, as it is not easily detonated by external stimuli. It does not undergo the thermal sequence of deflagration-to-detonation (DDT), which is unique among explosives. It requires a proper detonation chain to initiate, so handling the material is relatively free from accidental initiation if proper safety methods are followed.
It's always really interesting to me seeing people fascinated by how German can hypothetically have infinitely long words (because of how compound nouns are written in German) when English has essentially the same feature but with spaces conventionally placed between most components of compounds in writing.
There's nothing significantly ungrammatical about "Railway Locomotive Insurance Providers Association headquarters building collapse investigation committee meeting minutes transcription error", but compounds over a certain length are unlikely to appear outside of technical contexts and even then once they become sufficiently unwieldy they will probably be broken up, or abbreviated to an acronym if repeated usage is necessary. This will apply in any language with compounds as a grammatical feature, as speaking a different language or being from a different cultural background doesn't negate the basic need for things to be easily legible and reasonably concise.
I do wonder what the longest compound one could actually create in English while still conveying a coherent and comprehensible meaning would be (although both points are inevitably subjective), and it would be interesting to see how different languages would compare in that regard.
PS: This is just a shower thought, not an academic essay, I might be talking out of my bum about several things here.
I don't know what to make of this weird house, built in 2003 in Round Top, New York. The description says it's a compound, and has 6bds, 8ba, $3.7M. It looks like it's built from metal sheets, but look at the heavy lanterns and columns, plus the etched glass above the door that says "Crows Nest." I don't know, it just strikes me as strange. Take a look at it.
It appears that the entrance hall is made to look like a vintage home, but they gave it an industrial cement floor and it's part of the living room.
The fireplace is lovely and looks vintage, but who hangs paper lanterns from medallions in the ceiling? The area next to it turns ultra modern w/large glass windows.
Above the vintage part is a railing that looks like a choir loft.
Rustic kitchen with black cabinetry.
Rustic hand-hewn wood in the kitchen.
Family room with a nice fireplace.
Old timey shower room with beadboard paneling and embossed wallpaper with simulated Victorian tin ceiling tiles.
Down the hall is a bar.
And, behind the bar is a wine room.
Kinda love this sink, but not against knotty pine walls.
The primary bedroom is modern and has an extremely ornate doorway.
In the modern en-suite is a medieval chandelier and statuary flanking the tub.
Secondary bedroom is like a little farmhouse room with bright yellow beadboard walls and ceiling, plus a farm light fixture.
Funky little bathroom.
This looks like a family/game room.
But, it must be for guests, b/c there's a dorm style bedroom, too. Although, it is described as a compound.
Researchers use nitrogen-based compounds as new high-performance energy storage materials
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have synthesized unique scandium polynitrides under extreme conditions, with exotic chemistry and potential applications as high-energy-density materials.
High-energy density materials (HEDMs) are pivotal in various applications due to their superior energetic performance, which includes high detonation velocity, detonation pressure, and energy storage capacity. Their application in space exploration as rocket propellants and in defense as explosives is of critical importance for modern society.
The unique chemical properties of these materials, such as the ability to store vast amounts of energy in a relatively small volume, make them indispensable for advancing technology in areas requiring high-power outputs and compact energy storage solutions.
Researchers in Mexico discovered that propolis from the Cuauhtémoc region in Chihuahua boasts high levels of beneficial compounds and strong antibacterial effects. This propolis rivals those used internationally, highlighting its potential for use in medicine and beauty products.
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