Mark Frauenfelder:
Enrique Mora, a recently retired man in Montclair CA, dug a 60-foot pit in his front yard because he was convinced he'd eventually strike gold. Neighbors complained and the fire department shut down the operation and ordered him to hire an engineer to fill the pit.
When firefighters pulled up at the home, workers were dumping paint cans brimming with dirt scraped from the bottom of the hole with a shovel and a pick ax. To pull the dirt out, Mora had devised a rope-and-pulley contraption with a plastic wheel and a metal rod.
The worker at the bottom of the crater had shimmied down, a rope tethered to a belt, and was sucking on a garden hose for oxygen, neighbors told the emergency responders.
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The
Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme
legislative institution in the
United Kingdom and
British overseas territories. At its head is the
Sovereign; it is
bicameral, including an
Upper House, called the
House of Lords, and a
Lower House, called the
House of Commons. The House of Lords includes two different types of members—the
Lords Spiritual (the senior
clergy of the
Church of England) and the
Lords Temporal (members of the
Peerage); it is a wholly unelected body. The House of Commons, on the other hand, is a
democratically elected chamber. The House of Lords and the House of Commons meet in separate chambers in the
Palace of Westminster, in the British capital,
London. By
constitutional convention, all
government ministers, including the
Prime Minister are drawn exclusively from the House of Commons or House of Lords.
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