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When my great uncle died he left me a large collection of books, among them a very old collection of the poetical works of Byron, dated from 1833. The binding and cover are tattered and there is some writing on the prefacing pages (mostly past ownerships before my great uncle got his hands on it) but the pages containing the actual poems are intact and unmarked.

I plan on keeping it, but out of curiosity, how much would something like this be worth?

I'm working on a story where several Chinese submarines carry out a hit and run attack on an American aircraft carrier and end up hitting it three times with Yu-4 torpedoes, which have a warhead weight of 309 kg (or 681 lbs). The torpedoes hit the ship right along the stern and hit below the waterline. What sort of effect would this have on the aircraft carrier, and would this cause the ship serious damage?

My brother has a terrible case of dandruff and is refusing to do anything about it. Its getting to the point where I'm considering shaving his head in the middle of the night, would that get rid of his dandruff?

Aren't they basically the same thing?

I'm writing a manuscript about the First Crusade and now my Catholic stepmother is very angry at me because I wrote of the Catholic crusaders massacring the inhabitants of the cities and tones that they conquered. (Real historical fact by the way) and is refusing to let me work on what she calls 'falsehoods and liberal nonsense.' What should I do, because I'm 32,000 words in and it would kill me to stop right now?

I've been working non stop on a manuscript about the First Crusade and am typically writing between one and three thousand words a day every single day. Is this a rapid rate of writing?

Its September 1915, on Gallipoli, and a British biplane carrying several important officers crashes in a section of scrub wilderness that neither side has been able to claim. The Turks know that the officers have important information on them, and the Allies want to save them. So both sides start battling over these officers, and neither side will stop until they have them in their custody.

Who will win?

I've noticed a recent influx of videos on YouTube and other sites violently protesting against Freemasons. I don't know much about them, but the few that I've met are very nice people. Why do people think of them as evil and plotting to take over the earth?

I'm planning on joining the USMC at the end of 2014 once we pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, so how should I prepare until then? I am six foot three and weigh 147 pounds. I dont really think of myself as muscular, so what can I do to build up muscle, stamina, and overall toughness so that I don't break down during training?

He is dead serious about this and is a hardcore evangelical fanatic. I really want to make him see that he is wrong but I really don't know how to approach this situation. Here is his channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ShockofGawd?feature=mh...

Because it seems like with all of the interesting people you would meet there who were never Christians in their lives that it would be a pretty cool place to go. Besides, why would Satan do God's work for him by punishing people who either denied or hated god in the first place? It seems to me that he would raise an army of some sort against God.

Because for all we know there may be some sort of higher power out there that doesn't give a sh*t about us and we're just pretending it does to make ourselves feel better.

"The people of Samaria must bear the consequences of their guilt because they rebelled against their God. They will be killed by an invading army, their little ones dashed to death against the ground, their pregnant women ripped open by swords."

[Hosea 13:16]

I've heard again and again that God spares babies because they aren't at the age of reason yet, but he always seems to end up killing them anyways. Why?

Well? Are there?

Because a few people that I know are hypothesizing that some people have a certain gene that makes you more likely to become religious. What do you think of this?

I'm personally against any form of world government, but a friend asked me to put this up, so why would a world government be a bad thing?

After all, the USA is a country where church and state are supposed to be seperated.