Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

The practice of using different voltage levels on electrified railway lines in the UK is known as "multi-system electrification" and was introduced in the mid-20th century to allow trains to operate across different parts of the network that were electrified using different technologies.

The use of multiple voltage levels on electrified railway lines in the UK gradually declined over the years, and by the 1980s, most of the multi-system electrification had been replaced by a standard voltage of

The process of switching between voltage levels was done using on-board electrical equipment known as "multi-system locomotives" or "dual-voltage trains". These trains were designed to be able to operate on both 25kV and 6.25kV overhead lines and were equipped with transformers and other electrical equipment that allowed them to switch between the two voltage levels as they travelled along the track.

The reliability of multi-system electrification was generally good, although there were occasional issues with the switching equipment on-board the trains, which could cause delays and disruptions to services. Over time, improvements in technology and the gradual phasing out of multi-system electrification has resulted in a more reliable and efficient railway network in the UK.

Actually common colds are caused by one of several viruses. They reason that they are more common in cold weather is because people spend more time in close indoor quarters during cold weather and thus virus transmittal is more common.

Thameslink still uses 25kV on the northern section and third-rail DC south of Kentish Town. The arc when the pantograph drops is usually quite impressive.

Neither does the UK.

And they don't have the US no go black ghettos.

Soon governments will be bribing women to have kids. Or mandating.

(mandate was not an intentional pun)

Have you been there? I just got back from Sugar Bowl. It was wonderful. Decent snow and zero lift lines. Everybody was happy.

Interesting, but skiing used to be an all-white sport. No longer. There are all sorts of people up there now, all shapes and colors and accents.

Back around 1985 or so. It was snowing so hard we only spent half a day on the slopes before it got to white-out conditions.

Yeah, when I ski I hate it when it snows.

BIPOC ghettos?

No, they were supper...

"Nazi policy reinforced this demand for Germany to produce more babies. New laws banned women from terminating pregnancies if the resulting child would be “of good blood.” The government incentivized young people to get married and start families by offering “marriage loans” to newlyweds — a quarter of the debt was forgiven with each child they had, so if they had four children, the debt was erased. A new medal, the “Mother Cross,” was awarded to women who produced many children: bronze for four children, silver for six, and gold for eight. With each new arrival, a German family received “Kindergeld,” or “child money,” as a monthly stipend from the government, a practice so popular that it continues in Germany today."

Of course the US distributes Kindergeld to baby mommas.

Just because some fool journo in the most stupid s*it rag in the UK claims something...

Nope, black ghettos, like I said.

Ah, the Daily Mail, where all published stories are false, until they are also printed in some other newspaper, at which point they become retrospectively true...

Anything linked to from Brietbart becomes instantly false.

Literature, and perhaps the popular imagination will have it that you can die from a "chill":

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsmen came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea.

There's no confusion. The pattern looks similar to the surroundings. Colour blindness won't help there.

I watched 'Rabbit Proof Fence' the other night. The background of the story was Australia's attempt to breed the abo out of half-breeds by kidnapping suitable appearing children. There was a lot of interest in eugenics in the 1920s and '30s. Germany was not unique.

Von Braun and the rest of the German scientists must have gotten a laugh out of Huntsville AL in the '50s. I visited my brother who was working there in '58. I was disappointed that the colored drinking fountain didn't have colored water.