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Oil spills have occurred ever since we began to harvest it for various uses, as a result of human error, laziness, or pure ignorance. Most recently, the devastating Deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been all over the news- oil was pouring out of the blown rig for almost 100 [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 12:01 am
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From gentle lessons and polite admonitions on the level of a Dr. Seuss to violent and fiery anti-everybody rhetoric pounded out by vicious haters, the satire’s sarcastic and ironic writing style encompasses a wide range of authors, eras, social milieus, and styles. Today, publications such as The Onion and television productions like The Colbert Report [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 12:01 am
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When most people think about animals, they imagine furry little cow-eyed creatures innocently plucking leaves from trees or bugs from the ground for nourishment. However, many people are shocked to learn that, just as in human life, there’s an incredible, dark and even lascivious underbelly to the animal world. If you thought you new a [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 9:00 am
Filed under Animals, Bizarre · Tagged 20 pecks every second, adult elephant, Animal, Animal facts, Animals, baby elephant, clams, Cockroach, Cow, cows, cows kill people, creatures, dangerous deer, deer, deer kill more people every year, echo, elephant, elephant poo, elephant poop, elephants, fractured bones, Frog, frog stomach, frog vomit, frogs, great white shark, headless roach, lions, male lions, mating season, orangutan fall, orangutans, Sex, sharks, soft-headed, sponge-like mass, top 10 animal facts, top ten list, TopTenz, transgendered, unbelievable animal facts, wolf, wolf howl, woodpeckers, world
Alcohol is almost ubiquitous and used for a variety of occasions. Although the customs and the rituals with which alcohol is consumed are as varied as the places they come from, the appeal of alcohol still remains universal. So, if you think Jim Beam is too soft for your palette or have grown sick of [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, October 5, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under Food, Travel · Tagged alcohol, alcoholic content, ashanti, breweries, cachaca, caipirinha, culture, distillation, dongdongju, drink, drunk, food, Ireland, irish pub, izakaya, jim beam, Lao Khao, mezcal, ouzo, palinka, palm wine, poitin, pulque, sake, shochu, soju, tej, Thailand, tradition, tsikoudia, tsipouro, whiskey, wine, world
We all love a good conspiracy theory. And here you will find 10 of the best conspiracy theories from the last few decades. From the death of an American icon (Marilyn Monroe) to the fall of another American icon (Twin Towers), you may read this list and have your own doubts about these event. Prepare [...]
Posted by Katherine Watt on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 3:06 am
Filed under History, Misc · Tagged 9/11, aliens, Beatles, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, conspiracy theory, death, jfk, john kennedy, Kennedy, loch ness monster nessie, Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, Microsoft, monroe marilyn, moon, moon landing, mysteries, mysterious, mysterious deaths, mystery, New York City, plesiosaur, president, princes, roswell, scientologists, scientology, secret societies, suicide, twin towers, USA, world
Most of the time when thinking of language, people will automatically think about English, German, French, Spanish, and maybe others like Japanese, Arabic, Russian, and possibly Latin. Language is something that many people today take for granted. Without it, there’d be no communication, and no way to connect with others in the world. Imagine a [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at 5:11 am
Filed under Bizarre · Tagged arabic, bek, birale, Bizarre, Books, caixana, chamekolo, chamicuro, chemehuevi, culture, dumi, french, german, japanese, kaixana, language, languages, latin, lemerig, Life, liki, linguist, moar, njerep, ongota, pak, pinche, russian, sotmali, spanish, speaking, tanema, tanima, taushiro, top 10 list, world
If you haven’t used Google Maps before I suggest you take about 15 minutes and start playing. Enter your home address, work address, a place you would like to visit. You will be amazed at the technology and probably a little paranoid too. The detail that can be achieved is truly astounding and from the [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, June 2, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Filed under Internet, Photos · Tagged artesina, colonel sanders, Earth, environment, firefox logo, geography, geoscience, google map, google maps, luecke, pink rabbit, planet earth, satellite photos, sutton poyntz, vitruvian man, world