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Who owns the fish?

Here's a riddle I found, supposedly attributed to Albert Einstein. There is a solution! There are 5 houses in a row, and in five different colors. In each house lives a person from a different country. Each person drinks a certain drink, plays a certain game, and keeps a certain pet. No two people drink the same drink, play the same game or have the same pet. The British lives in a red house. The Swedish keeps dogs. The Danish drinks tea. The green house is on the left of the white house. The green house owner drinks coffee. The person who plays tennis rears birds. The owner of the yellow house plays chess. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk. The Norwegian lives in the first house. The man who plays poker lives next to the man who keeps cats. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who plays chess. The man who plays billiards drinks lemonade. The German plays golf. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. The man who plays poke...
Amazing video showing last year's weather. I am completely mesmerized. This is perhaps where big data analysis is going to help us understand our home a lot better!

this guy is good!

And the song it's based on!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major-General's_Song I am the very model of a modern  Major-General , I've information  vegetable, animal, and mineral , I know the  kings of England , and I quote the  fights historical From  Marathon  to  Waterloo , in order categorical; a I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the  simple  and  quadratical , About  binomial theorem  I'm teeming with a lot o' news, With many cheerful facts about  the square of the hypotenuse . I'm very good at  integral  and  differential  calculus; I know the  scientific names  of beings  animalculous : In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. I know our mythic history,  King Arthur 's and Sir  Caradoc 's; I answer hard  acrostics , I've a pretty taste for  paradox , I quote in  elegiacs  all the crimes of  Heliogabalus , In  conics  I can floor peculiarities  p...

Hear the Sun

This is how our Sun sounds...Awesome!