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[Aklyon]

Edit: It appears what I translated as "pharmaceutical book" is called "Pharmacopoeia" in English.

Never heard of that word before either.

[Cthulhu]

The seventh issue of the book is 1964 so the bottle must be from between 1959 and 1964.  Is there still anything in it?  Zinc dust doesn't seem like a perishable.

[Comrade P.]

Thank you guys for clarification. I have lots of old chemical compounds at my lab, the oldest one is a jar of acetylsalicylic acid, produced in 1949. Most of them are soviet though, a few are eastern european. The new ones are, well, new - those are mostly purchased from those international companies that are around.

The seventh issue of the book is 1964 so the bottle must be from between 1959 and 1964.  Is there still anything in it?  Zinc dust doesn't seem like a perishable.

Yes, there was indeed a small amount of it inside, it was quite usable, but I had no applications for it in my work.

[freeformschooler]

Are there any real wind mills left? I know of an active water mill nearby but have never heard of an active wind mill.

EDIT: It seems there is a "Red Lion Mill" that remains active in the Netherlands. I wonder if there are any in the US.

[Frumple]

Uh, yes? They're fairly rare nowadays, but you still have a fair handful puttering around. Y'can order the things online, heh.

Most that I'm aware of look rather different than those old iconic stone ones, though. Some are still used to do the same thing, just, y'know, modern engineering.

E: And yeah, there's farms and stuff over here in the states that use 'em. There's a few of the newer, smaller, metal-y ones, like, within an hour's drive of my place. Not very many or heavily used, but they're around.

[Arx]

Are there any real wind mills left? I know of an active water mill nearby but have never heard of an active wind mill.

EDIT: It seems there is a "Red Lion Mill" that remains active in the Netherlands. I wonder if there are any in the US.

For actual milling of grain? If not, they're a dime a dozen as water pumps in the Karoo.

[GiglameshDespair]

Would a milling machine (or whatever they're called) powered electrically by wind turbines count?

[Graknorke]

Are there any real wind mills left?

Yes. I went to have a look at one one time. Turns out that it is exactly the thing you would expect it to be. Also they get to sell various baked products at exorbitant prices to people who value old-fashioned shit.

[Tawa]

They were probably all built by proletariat horses on the verge of both death and retirement, anyway.

[Graknorke]

They were probably all built by proletariat horses on the verge of both death and retirement, anyway.

Today I learned that there is Animal Farm shipping and I presume fanfiction.

[Frumple]

109 animal farm fics on FF.n. 15 crossovers beyond those.

Amazingly, none of the Xover fics are M rated, and only four of the plain animal farm ones are. And only half of those appear to be porn! Apparently animal farm has a very low smut production rate, which is kinda' impressive.

Not going to check sites that don't even give the facsimile of cutting down on the lemon, though. I don't want to know.

[freeformschooler]

Are there any real wind mills left?

Yes. I went to have a look at one one time. Turns out that it is exactly the thing you would expect it to be. Also they get to sell various baked products at exorbitant prices to people who value old-fashioned shit.

Awesome. Where at? They did that too at the water mill I visited, only they were receiving a state subsidy for living history projects, so they definitely weren't making a living on the grain.

Uh, yes? They're fairly rare nowadays, but you still have a fair handful puttering around. Y'can order the things online, heh.

Most that I'm aware of look rather different than those old iconic stone ones, though. Some are still used to do the same thing, just, y'know, modern engineering.

E: And yeah, there's farms and stuff over here in the states that use 'em. There's a few of the newer, smaller, metal-y ones, like, within an hour's drive of my place. Not very many or heavily used, but they're around.

Rad. I could be wrong, but isn't "wind turbine" the right word for the electricity generating ones?

edit: 'Nother one. England this time.

[Frumple]

Yeah, more or less. There actually are still ones of the more modern design that just use wind power alone to grind stuff, though. Most do use turbines in conjunction with modern equipment to do the same thing, better, but you have the occasional holdout/inherited bit or eccentric.

Still, seeing the spinny wind things doing whatever is common enough to not really be notable in state-side farmland, at least from what I've seen. One of those big ol' european monstrosities would be, but folks 'round here generally don't go that far ham, heh.

[Yoink]

Edit: It appears what I translated as "pharmaceutical book" is called "Pharmacopoeia" in English.

Never heard of that word before either.

Argh. I know I heard that word in something I was watching just the other day, but I can't remember quite where. Now it's bugging me.
So that's my small random question: Where did I recently encounter the word "pharmacopoeia"?

[hops]

Pharmacopoeia sounds like the name of a drug that mimic its sound.

I don't know what drugs sound like.