Question: Why are the moon phases or cycles listed in newspapers around the country including the Herald-Leader? What practical purpose do they serve?
Answer: This practical and entertaining answer comes from Patrick Weeden, Customer Service Manager, Newspaper Services, Weather Central, Inc.:
(Note: Weather Central Inc. provides the daily weather forcasts and maps appearing on the back [...]

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Question: Is there a clearing house that I can apply to in order to rent out my home during the FEI 2010 World Equestrian Games?
Answer: The answer to your question comes from Amy Walker, Public Relations Coordinator for the World Games 2010 Foundation, Inc.:
“Our Travel Services Provider, Shorts Sports and Event Logistics, has partnered [...]

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Question: Why do the various branches of the military list their web sites as .com rather than .gov?
Answer: Here’s the main U.S. Department of Defense Web site:
http://www.defenselink.mil/
From there, click on the header “websites.” This will lead you to sites for the major branches of the military: Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Guard & Reserve, [...]

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Question: Can I plant any tree I want by the street?
Answer: The answer to your question can be found on the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Web site:
http://www.lfucg.com/
People can not plant any type of street tree that they chose.
Species type and planting guidelines are regulated according to several factors, i.e. easement width, utility obstruction, desirability of [...]

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Question: Question: Why does bad weather in the United States always come in from the west? Has a storm ever originated in the east and moved west?
Answer: The answer comes from Mark Jarvis, Meteorologist National Weather Service, Louisville, KY:
In our atmosphere, the sun is responsible for the wind patterns that we have on Earth. [...]

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Question: I recently noticed that I75/I64 through most, if not all, of Lexington has a different speed limit depending on which direction you are traveling. I75/I64 Northbound is 65mph, yet 10 feet away, across the median, on the southbound side its 55mph. Why is that? It’s the same road in the same location, different direction.
Answer: [...]

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Question: Which ad campaign came first on TV: the Aflac duck or the GEICO gecko?
Answer: Few people may realize that both the duck and the gecko have been around for almost a decade.
The GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) gecko made its TV advertising debut a few months ahead of the Aflac (American Family [...]

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Question: Can you explain the earthquake Richter scale and what kind of damage each of the magnitudes produce?
Answer: Your answer comes from the U.S. Geological Survey Web site:
http://www.usgs.gov/
* Earthquake is a term used to describe both sudden slip on a fault, and the resulting ground shaking and radiated seismic energy caused by the slip, or [...]

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Question: What is the difference between a hurricane, a cyclone, a typhoon and a tornado?
Answer: The answer to your questions comes from the National Weather Service Web site:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
1) What is a hurricane, typhoon, or tropical cyclone?
The terms “hurricane” and “typhoon” are regionally specific names for a strong “tropical cyclone”. A tropical cyclone is the generic [...]

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Question: Could you please write a story about the “Adopt a U.S. Soldier” program? Is this real or a scam? If real, what are the goals and how can people participate?

Answer: Charities and non-profits can be checked in several sources. An organization deemed to be “non-profit” by the Internal Revenue Service must meet very specific [...]

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