tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75249719313503666032024-03-13T12:24:54.046-07:00Crazy World For YouAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00962016969249403618noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524971931350366603.post-10338871697184206862012-04-10T02:15:00.000-07:002012-04-10T02:15:19.323-07:00World’s Ugliest Buildings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">Published by the Telegraph newspaper, the list mostly included European buildings, as well as a handful of US and Asian atrocities.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">In Japan, Christianity is still a novelty, so they’ve turned it into a theme-restaurant in Shinjuku. This place looks like a church and is full of religious imagery and statues, which makes it an unorthodox venue for knocking back cocktails. Worth a visit, (but you might feel compelled to behave yourself.) Christian Cafe is decorated with statues of saints, the Virgin Mary and thing mostly commonly found in Catholic churches.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div>The bustling New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmadabad is famous for its milky tea, its buttery rolls and the graves between the tables. Krishan Kutti Nair has helped run the restaurant built over a centuries-old Muslim cemetery for close to four decades, but he doesn’t know who is buried in the cafe floor. Customers seem to like the graves, which resemble small cement coffins. The graves are painted green, stand about shin-high, and every day the manager decorates each of them with a single dried flower. They’re scattered randomly across the restaurant. The waiters know the floor plan like a bus driver knows his route, and they’ve mastered the delicate dance of shimmying between graves with a tray of hot tea in each hand.<br />
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At Modern Toilet, a restaurant in Taiwan, every customer sits on a stylish acrylic toilet (lid down) designed with images of roses, seashells or Renaissance paintings. Everyone dines at a glass table with a sink underneath. The servers bring your meal atop a mini toilet bowl (quite convenient, as it brings the food closer to your mouth), you sip drinks from your own plastic urinal (a souvenir), and soft-swirl ice cream arrives for dessert atop a dish shaped like a squat toilet. According to the manager, “it’s supposed to shock and confuse the senses”.<br />
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Hitler’s cross a cafe in Mumbai, India, complete with swastika logo was the brainchild of Puneet Sabhlok, a novice restaurateur, who said he wanted a catchy café name to sell his $3 to $4 plates of crostini tonno, pear & ricotta salad and pannacotta. So he went with Hitler’s Cross. “Hitler is a catchy name. Everyone knows Hitler,” he explained in an interview. After intense pressure from the ADL, German & Israeli diplomats, and India’s Jewish community, the cafe’s name was changed to “The Cross”.<br />
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In Japan there are many restaurants that follow the Nyotaimori practice of serving food on human bodies – usually naked. Before becoming a living sushi platter, the person is trained to lie down for hours without moving. She or he must also be able to withstand the prolonged exposure to the cold food. Body hair, including pubic hair, would also be shaved, as a display of pubic hair may be seen as a sexual act. Before service, the individual would take a bath using a special fragrance-free soap and then finish off with a splash of cold water to cool the body down somewhat for the sushi.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat with other aircraft, as opposed to bombers and attack aircraft, which are designed primarily to attack ground targets. The hallmarks of a fighter are its speed, maneuverability, and small size relative to other combat aircraft. Now take a look at the top 5 fastest fighter aircraft of all time. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1. X 15</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
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</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b></b></div><b>Although X 15 is a rocket powered engine base aircraft, its counts as fastest manned plane. The X-15 was launched from under the wing of a B-52. Thrust from one engine is 70,400 lbs. The highest recorded speed of 4,520 mph and can reach a maximum altitude of 354,200 feet. </b><br />
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</b></div><div><b>F 22 Raptor called 21 century fighter aircraft, design by Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems USA. It is a twin engine; single seated and rated as fifth generation aircraft. It has additional capabilities like better ground attack, electronic warfare system and signal intelligence role.</b></div><div><b><br />
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</b></div><div><div><b>The Su-35S is a part of the Russian Air Force, was the result of a series of design studies for a deep modernization of the Su-27M design. This fighter plane was design against the F-15C & E during the 1980s. The new Su-35BM retained the basic aerodynamic design and much of the structural design of the late model Flanker, but consists of important aerodynamic enhancements and completely new engines and digital system of aviation.</b></div><div><b><br />
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</b></div><div><div><b>Joint Strike Fighter design in the early 1990s through the restructure and integration of several DoD tactical aircraft and technology. The DoD’s goal was to use the latest technology in a common family of aircraft to meet the future strike requirements of the Services and US Allies. In 2006 the F-35 fighter was officially named “Lightning II”. it is being devolved in three models (I) A conventional land based version model STOVL (short take-off vertical landing) for USAF. (II) Second model for the USMC, the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy designated the model (III) a carrier-based version for the U. S. Navy designated the model.</b></div><div><b><br />
</b></div><div><b>5. Dassault Rafale</b></div></div><div><b><br />
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</b></div><div><b>The Dassault Rafale is a generation 4.5 fighter currently operated by the French Air Force and French Navy. It is a successor to the highly acclaimed Mirage series, the Rafale is meant to replace almost every other combat airframe design currently in French military service.</b></div><div><b><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>An estimated 211 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are working around the world, according to the International Labor Organization. Of these, 120 million children are working full time to help support their impoverished families.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>There are millions of children whose labor can be considered forced, not only because they are too young to choose to work, but also because they are, in fact, actively coerced into working. These include child bonded laborers — children whose labor is pledged by parents as payment or collateral on a debt — as well as children who are kidnapped or otherwise lured away from their families and imprisoned in sweatshops or brothels. In addition, millions of children around the world work unseen in domestic service — given or sold at a very early age to another family.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Forced child laborers work in conditions that have no resemblance to a free employment relationship. They receive little or no pay and have no control over their daily lives. They are often forced to work beyond their physical capacity and under conditions that seriously threaten their health, safety and development. In many cases their most basic rights, such as freedom of movement and expression, are suppressed. They are subject to physical and verbal abuse. Even in cases where they are not physically confined to their workplace, their situation may be so emotionally traumatizing and isolating that once drawn into forced labor they are unable to conceive of a way to escape.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">In Thailand, NGOs have estimated that up to a third of prostitutes are children under 18. A study by the International Labor Organization on child prostitution in Vietnam reported that incidence of children in prostitution is steadily increasing and children under 18 make up between 5 percent and 20 percent of prostitution depending on the geographical area. In the Philippines, UNICEF estimated that there are 60,000 child prostitutes and many of the 200 brothels in the notorious Angeles City offer children for sex. In India as many as 200,000 Nepali girls, many under the age of 14, have been sold into red-light districts. Nepalese girls, especially virgins, are favored in India because of their fair skin and young looks. Every year about 10,000 Nepalese girls, most between the age of nine and 16, are sold to brothels in India. In El Salvador, one-third of the sexually exploited children between 14 and 17 years of age are boys. The median age for entering into prostitution among all children interviewed was 13 years.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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On a show that aired September 2, 2008, Oprah Winfrey showed a map that clearly conveyed how fast one pornographic image of a child being molested can spread. From a computer in Washington, DC, the image spread within 24 hours, all across the United States. The demand for new images and videos is so high that authorities report they are tracking increasingly brutal pornography with younger and younger victims.<br />
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Trafficking is the fastest growing means by which people are forced into slavery. It affects every continent and most countries. Currently, children are trafficked from countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sudan and Yemen to be used as camel jockeys in the UAE. Furthermore, Anti-Slavery International also has evidence that children are also being trafficked to be used as camel jockeys in other Gulf states including Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and also internally in Sudan. The use of children as jockeys in camel racing is itself extremely dangerous and can result in serious injury and even death. Some children are also abused by the traffickers and employers, for example by depriving them of food and beating them. The children’s separation from their families and their transportation to a country where the people, culture and usually the language are completely unknown leaves them dependent on their employers and de facto forced laborers.<br />
According to UNICEF, over 200,000 children work as slaves in West and Central Africa. Boys are usually sold to work on cotton and cocoa plantations while girls are used as domestic servants and prostitutes. In some cases, children are kidnapped outright and sold into slavery while in others, families sell their children, mostly girls, for as little as $14.<br />
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Around the world, children are singled out for recruitment by both armed forces and armed opposition groups, and exploited as combatants. Approximately 250,000 children under the age of 18 are thought to be fighting in conflicts around the world, and hundreds of thousands more are members of armed forces who could be sent into combat at any time. Although most child soldiers are between 15 and 18 years old, significant recruitment starts at the age of 10 and the use of even younger children has been recorded.<br />
Easily manipulated, children are sometimes coerced to commit grave atrocities, including rape and murder of civilians using assault rifles such as AK-47s and G4s. Some are forced to injure or kill members of their own families or other child soldiers. Others serve as porters, cooks, guards, messengers, spies, and sex slaves.<br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00962016969249403618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524971931350366603.post-89350881561275530642012-04-02T09:41:00.000-07:002012-04-02T09:41:10.368-07:00The Amazing Imperial Train<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">The train was built in 1894-96, respectively. The composition of cars has changed several times, old cars were changed to new, changing and interior . In 1902 train consisted of ten cars. Some of them are meant for the royal family and retinue emperors .Another held baggage wagons, serving and kitchen. Later was added the eleventh car to be used as a church.<br />
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Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and Tsarevich Alexei</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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An employee of a Charitable Organization with the help of photographs of rotting HIS Corpse iPad Cows during the Drought in Africa. Eruption Puyehu (Puyehue), Chile.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00962016969249403618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524971931350366603.post-66244476115660302382012-04-02T09:28:00.000-07:002012-04-02T09:28:22.256-07:00Top 5 Mammals You Probably Didn’t Know Exist<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>5. Hairy Saki</b><br />
Pithecia monachus<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This monkey from the Amazon Basin lives almost entirely in the trees. It is also known as the monk saki, because its head fur curves forward like a monk’s cowl. Hairy sakis are seldom seen in captivity because of an unfortunate character trait: they tend to panic and die of shock at the smallest fright.<br />
<b>4. Lesser Grison</b><br />
Galictis cuja</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A little-known carnivore found in Patagonia and neighbouring South American countries. About 30 cm long, with black and grey fur, they look a bit like otters but are more like stoats or martens. In Peru they were once domesticated like ferrets, where they were used to hunt chinchillas.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>3. Moon Rat</b><br />
Echinosorex gymnurus</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also known as the Hairy hedgehog, this odd-looking animal is native to south east Asia. Its black or dark brown fur contrasts with a white face that ends in a long, whiffly nose. Around 25 cm long, the moon rat is the largest creature in the order Insectivora. Its other claim to fame is the extremely strong smell produced by its musk glands.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>2. North American Cacomistle</b><br />
Bassariscus sumichrasti and B. astutus</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Native to the southern USA, the cacomistle is a small, shy, raccoon-like creature, sometimes called the cat squirrel or ringtailed cat because of its long, stripy tail. The name comes from the Nahuatl word meaning ‘half-cat’ or ‘half mountain lion’. It is not highly endangered but is regarded as a species under threat.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>1. Lesser pichiciego</b><br />
Chlamyphorus truncatus</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the fairy armadillo (or pink fairy armadillo), an unlikely Argentinian creature that is only about 115 mm long. It lives largely in underground burrows and is seldom seen, almost never in captivity. Fairy armadillos are great escape<br />
artists, that can rapidly dig themselves into the ground and hide.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://top5s.net/index.php/2012/03/top-5-mammals-you-probably-didnt-know-exist/" target="_blank"><b>Source</b></a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00962016969249403618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524971931350366603.post-54389826421863161542012-04-02T09:19:00.000-07:002012-04-02T09:19:54.892-07:005 Most Ugliest Monuments In The World<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">Modern sculptors adorn the city is very strange creatures whose meaning completely incomprehensible townsfolk, and artistic merit raise many questions. Today, we have selected the ten most ugly monuments of the world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Monument to Abbot Faria <br />
Goa, India <br />
Abbe Faria remember sitting in prison with the future Count of Monte Cristo? This man – not the imagination of Alexandre Dumas. He was a descendant of Indian priests, and in fact first introduced to Europe from the hypnosis. Jose Custodio de Faria was born in Goa, with 15 years living in Europe, took part in the French Revolution, advocated the liberation of Goa. Being 17 years in prison in the Chateau d’If, he practiced yoga. When released from prison (and not dead, as in the novel!), Engaged in healing and hypnosis. At home honored the memory of compatriot and in 1945 he found it awkward monument, which depicts Faria at the time of the hypnotic effect on the patient. Metronome New York, U.S. It turns out that this strange design should evoke images of a metronome: seven digits to the left shows the real time and seven digits to the right report, so many hours left to live before the end of the day. From the hole in the center of flowing stream of steam, noon and midnight, marked his powerful release. Under the gold leaf fragment of rock on which was erected Manhattan – this boulder is a symbol of geological time. The authors of this “art”, created in 1999, tried to say that the time may be considered differently, that it is, in general, with respect, and remind him of transience.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A statue of Michael Jackson’s <br />
London, UK <br />
Londoners are still wondering why the owner of Fulham Football Club, Mohamed Al-Fayed (father of a friend of Princess Diana – Dodi) has ordered such a terrible statue of his friend Michael Jackson and even placed it near the stadium (despite the fact that the singer had never football is not fond of). Sculptor captures a celebrity, dressed in black pants and a silver jacket, one hand in a glove Jackson and the other he holds a microphone. At the opening of this masterpiece Al-Fayed said that all those who do not like it, can “go to hell.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Monument to Peter the Great <br />
, Moscow, Russia <br />
When not called him this gigantic figure appeared on the waterfront of Peter Muscovites, no matter how much discussed rumors that actually created the Columbus Zurab Tsereteli, but could not find anyone to sell it and make up it under the Russian emperor, and may say that it is an urgent need to dismantle, but in the end no one dared to rid our city of the terrible creatures of the Georgian sculptor. It turned out that the cost of removal is incredibly high, and cheaper to live with this eyesore.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Amabel,” <br />
Seoul, South Korea <br />
This strange metal structure, vaguely reminiscent of a rose, rolled from the warped the airframe, located in Seoul at the headquarters of a major steel company. Its creator – a famous sculptor and designer, Frank Stella, named it in honor of his friend’s daughter, who died in a plane crash. The townspeople wanted to move the creepy creature in a museum, but realized that it would cost quite expensive, and then tried to hide it with a small group of trees.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Pee Men” <br />
Prague, Czech Republic <br />
Subject Brussels Manneken Pis is haunted by modern sculptors. So, David Cerny has created an unusual fountain for Prague: two men, more than a couple feet tall, selflessly urinate in the pool, resembling the Czech Republic. But unlike the Belgian baby modern art high-tech: you can send an SMS to a special number, and the two representatives of the stronger sex naked … “write” anything you want.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00962016969249403618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524971931350366603.post-48430637870262211662012-03-27T20:38:00.000-07:002012-03-27T20:38:48.666-07:00Top 5 More Questions to Make You Wonder<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>5. Hands of Perón</b><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Q: Who took the hands of Perón?<br />
Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer and politician. During his lifetime, Perón was elected the President of Argentina on three separate occasions. He and his second wife, Eva Duarte, are immensely popular among many Argentines and are considered icons by the Peronists. After Juan Perón’s death in July, 1974, of heart failure, his body was embalmed and placed in a coffin in the Perón family tomb in Chacarita Cemetery, Buenos Aires. In July 1987, the Peronist Justicialist Party received an anonymous letter that claimed that Juan Perón’s hands had been removed from his body, along with his army cap and sword. The letter demanded that the party pay a US$8 million ransom for the items return.<br />
After an investigation, it was confirmed that Juan Perón’s tomb had in fact been broken into and his hands were removed with a surgical instrument or electric saw. The perpetrators also took a poem from the tomb that was written by Perón to his last wife, Isabel. Following Argentina’s policy, the head of the Justicialist Party, Vicente Saadi, refused to allow the ransom to be paid. A criminal investigation was launched, but nobody was ever charged in the case and the hands of Perón remain lost to this day. In an interesting twist, many of the people involved with the case have since died under mysterious circumstances.<br />
It has been suggested that the theft had some official support because the robbers used a key to enter the tomb. Some journalists feel that Perón’s hands were taken because they were seen as a symbol of his power and had a great cultural meaning in Argentina. People who have examined the case have written that the act may be an attempt to promote democracy in Argentina, as Juan Perón was seen as a dictator by some. In their book Unveiling the Enigma, Damian Nabot and David Cox wrote that the P2, also known as the Propaganda Due, were involved in the theft, and that they used a ritual ceremony to remove Perón’s hands.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>4. Salton Sea</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Q: What is the deal with the Salton Sea, Meteor Crater, lost ships in the desert, and the San Andreas Fault?<br />
This entry will examine some bizarre geological occurrences in southern California and the Four Corners region of the United States. The Salton Sea is one of the strangest places in the world. The sea was formed accidentally between 1905 and 1907, when the Colorado River burst through poorly built irrigation controls. The resulting flood destroyed farms and communities. Currently, the Salton Sea sits directly on the San Andreas Fault in California’s Imperial Valley. It is the largest lake in California and occupies the lowest elevations of the Salton Sink.<br />
In the middle of the 20th century, the Salton Sea turned from a freshwater lake to a sea. The Salton Sea’s salinity, about 44 g/L, is greater than that of the waters of the Pacific Ocean (35 g/L), but less than that of the Great Salt Lake, which ranges from 50 to 270 g/L. The salt is thought to have come from a prehistoric ocean. The Salton Sea is also home to a large amount of toxic run-off and industrial waste. The greater part of the Salton Sink is submerged under highly polluted water. The adjacent land is under military control and the habitat of the area has resulted in the death of millions of birds and fish.<br />
The San Andreas Fault is a fault that runs for 810 miles (1,300 km) through California. In the past, the southern part of the fault has been the site for a large number of earthquakes. On average one every 180 years. However, such an event has not been recorded for 300 years. For this reason, researchers have become concerned that the current dams on the Colorado River are contributing to the quiet streak. If so, a large amount of pressure could be building up in the fault, which could ultimately cause an enormous earthquake.<br />
The Lost Ship of the Desert is a legend about ancient ships found in California’s Colorado Desert. Since after the U.S. Civil War, stories have been told about buried ships hidden in the desert north of the Gulf of California. The most famous example is the Lost Galleon. The Galleon stories started shortly after the Colorado River flood of 1862. In the Los Angeles Daily News of August 1870, the ship was described as “a half buried hulk west of Dos Palmas, California, and 40 miles north of Yuma, Arizona.”<br />
Finally, we need to discuss the Meteor Crater and its possible impact on the geological landscape of this region of the United States. Meteor Crater is an enormous hole and impact crater located approximately 43 miles (69 km) east of Flagstaff, Arizona. It is said to be “the first proven, best-preserved meteorite crater on earth.” It has been estimated that the crater was formed about 50,000 years ago, but others argue for a more recent date. The diameter of the hole is 1.186 kilometers (0.737 mi) and the impact is known to have devastated the area. Most studies on the crater examine the fact that it is an impact crater, but little is written about the predicted effect the object had on the geological landscape of America.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>3. Oakville Blobs</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Q: What was the gelatinous substance that fell on Oakville, Washington in 1994?<br />
On August 7, 1994, a bizarre gelatinous substance fell on the town of Oakville, which is a small logging community on the western edge of Washington State. Over a period of three weeks, the rain was spotted a total of six times, mostly in the middle of the night. By the afternoon of August 7, the residents of Oakville began to complain of a mysterious illness. They described having difficulty breathing, extreme vertigo, blurred vision, and an increased sense of nausea. One of the town’s residence Beverly Roberts was quoted as saying that everyone in town contracted a flu-like illness that lasted two to three months. Additionally, several cats and dogs that came into contact with the substance fell ill and died.<br />
A sample of the substance was taken to a hospital and found to contain a large amount of human white blood cells, but nobody could identify how it came from the sky. The sample was then sent to the Washington State Department of Health for further study and determined to have two species of bacteria, one of which lives in the human digestive system. Because of the findings, the substance was initially speculated to be human waste from an airplane, but that was disproven. Evidence from the sample has supported the fact that the substance was alive.<br />
Some people have linked the strange rain with a series of U.S. bombing runs that were carried out over the Pacific in August of 1994, while others are convinced that the town was used for a U.S. military experiment designed to test a new form of biological weapon. During the event, Oakville residents reported a significant, almost daily increase in the amount of slow-moving military aircraft in the skies over their town, but not much ground traffic was observed. Before the first rain was reported, a series of black helicopters were spotted in the area.<br />
Some people have also connected the history of gelatinous rain with chemtrails in the United States. The chemtrail conspiracy holds that some trails left by streaking jets are actually chemical or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes for purposes undisclosed to the general public. There actually is a patent (United States Patent 6,315,213) which describes a method for artificially modifying the weather by seeding rain clouds of a storm with suitable cross-linked aqueous polymer. However, the current benefit of such a process in unknown. Others have connected the Oakville blobs with the historic accounts of star jelly.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>2. Hungarian Gold Train</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Q: What happened to the paintings, gold, diamonds, and precious jewels stolen from the Hungarian Gold Train?<br />
On March 7, 1944, as the Soviet Army was approaching Hungary, Hitler launched Operation Margarethe (the invasion of Hungary). At the time, the fascist government of Hungary, led by Ferenc Szálasi, was collaborating with the Third Reich, and forced over 800,000 Jewish citizens of Hungary to concentration camps. The government also took the people’s belongings, including gems, gold, jewelry, wedding rings, and anything else considered of high monetary value. In the spring of 1944, the Red Army was almost to Budapest, so Hungarian officials put together a plan to evacuate the Jewish loot by train to avoid Soviet capture.<br />
A large collection of the valuables were placed on a 42 car freight train and sent to Germany. According to various reports, the contents included gold, gold jewelry, gems, diamonds, pearls, watches, about 200 paintings, Persian and Oriental rugs, silverware, chinaware, furniture, fine clothing, linens, porcelains, cameras, stamp-collections, and currency. In 1945, the estimated total value of the train’s contents was $350 million or almost $4 billion in 2007. In May of 1945, the train was seized in Austria by Allied troops, first the French Army and then the United States. The majority of the assets were sold through U.S. Army exchange stores in Europe in 1946 or auctioned off in New York City in 1948 with the proceeds going to the International Refugee Organization (IRO). The auction receipts totaled $152,850 or approximately $1.3 million in 2007.<br />
In the end of the 1940s, notable objects from the train kept showing up in the possession of high ranking U.S. Army officers who were stationed in Central Europe, most notably chinaware, silverware, glassware, rugs, and bed linen. The fate of approximately 200 paintings seized from the train remains unknown. The art was deemed a “cultural assets” under U.S. restitution policy, so it should have been returned to the country of origin, but instead found its way to Austria and was lost. A huge amount of gold has also been unaccounted for.<br />
Most of the details of the Hungarian Gold Train were kept secret from the public by the United States government until 1998. In that year, United States President Bill Clinton prepared a report which detailed the handling of the train’s assets by the United States, including a multitude of “shortcomings” of the restitution effort. In 2001, a lawsuit against the United States government was filed by Hungarian Holocaust survivors in Florida over the mishandling of assets on the Hungarian Gold Train. In 2005, the government reached a settlement worth $25.5 million. The money was allocated for distribution to various Jewish social service agencies for the benefit of Holocaust survivors.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>1. Transhumanism</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Q: How close are humans to achieving transhumanism?<br />
As we move into the 21st century, people have begun to question the degree of scientific advancement in the world. There is no doubt that a large discrepancy exists in the proportion of money spent to discoveries made in the field of neurological science. In many countries, a large number of experiments are kept secret from the public in hopes of gaining a military edge. This is understandable, but it makes you wonder exactly what the human population has discovered. Could we have found a way to enhance human strength or intellectual ability? Is it possible that people could map a human’s brain and control bodily movements? Is it possible that we could eliminate aging?<br />
Transhumanism is an intellectual and cultural movement that assumes scientists are trying to find a way to alter the human condition by developing a wide range of techniques to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities. People who follow transhumanism predict that humans may eventually be able to transform themselves to have greatly expanded abilities. If this happens, it will cause a shift in the food chain, which will brand certain human genes superior. The theory states that the current version of humanity is not at an endpoint of evolution, but rather in an early phase.<br />
Many transhumanist theorists seek to apply technology for the purposes of reducing poverty, disease, disability, and malnutrition around the globe, rather than the improvement of humans at the individual level. Basically, what makes you better than me? The theory states that humanity may eventually enter a state of existence where natural evolution is going to be replaced with deliberate change, either purposefully or not. Transhumanists who foresee this massive change generally maintain that it is a good thing, but should be handled responsibility. The theory has been condemned by one critic, Francis Fukuyama, as the world’s most dangerous idea. One proponent, Ronald Bailey, says the “movement epitomizes the most daring, courageous, imaginative, and idealistic aspirations of humanity.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://top5s.net/index.php/2012/03/top-5-more-questions-to-make-you-wonder-2/" target="_blank"><b>Source</b></a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00962016969249403618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524971931350366603.post-84695280784908419002012-03-27T20:32:00.000-07:002012-03-27T20:32:09.753-07:00Top 5 Human Cannibals by Country<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>5. Yoo Young-chul<br />
South Korea</b><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Yoo Young-chul is a South Korean serial killer and self-confessed cannibal. As a child, Young-chul was an animal mutilator and was convicted of killed dogs. He was an unexpected, unwanted baby, who lived in poverty with his father, a Vietnamese War veteran. Between 2003 and 2004, Yoo Young-chul murdered 21 people, mostly prostitutes and wealthy old men. He would assault the victims and murder them with a hammer. Young-chul would then decapitate the person and dump their head at a construction site. He mutilated at least 11 of his victims and ate their flesh and raw livers.<br />
Yoo Young-chul’s acts have been deemed the worst serial killings in the history of Korea. When asked to explain his motives, Yoo said in front of a TV camera “Women shouldn’t be sluts, and the rich should know what they’ve done.” Young-chul was sentenced to death on June 19, 2005, by the Supreme Court and remains on death row in South Korea. His case fueled the debate on capital punishment in South Korea. It appeared that capital punishment might be abolished prior to his arrest, but support for the death penalty has grown since. South Korea is one of only four developed industrialized democracies that still have the death penalty (the others are the United States, Japan, and Taiwan).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
4. Alexander Spesivtsev<br />
Russia</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1970, Alexander Spesivtsev was born in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. He was raised in an abusive home and had a violent father. As an adult, Spesivtsev was convicted of murdering his girlfriend and committed to a psychiatric institution, but later released. In 1991, he began a deadly murder spree. Spesivtsev killed children he saw unfit or detrimental to society and was responsible for the murders of at least 19 street kids. He took the bodies back to his house, cooked them, and ate the meat with the help of his mother, Lyudmila. After news of the horrible crimes reached the Russian media they named Spesivtsev “The Cannibal of Siberia.”<br />
Alexander Spesivtsev was captured in 1996 after a pipe broke near his home and forced neighbors to call a plumber. The problem was determined to be coming from Spesivtsev apartment. When nobody answered his door, the suspicious plumber opened it by force. He saw blood covering the walls and called the police. In his kitchen police discovered bowls with pieces of human flesh. In the bathtub they found a mutilated, headless body. A woman was found mutilated, but still alive on the sofa. She was taken to a hospital, where she was able to tell the public prosecutor about what had happened, but died seventeen hours later.<br />
In the house, police discovered a diary which detailed the murder of nineteen girls, but Spesivtsev is generally suspected of having killed 80 people (because 80 different pieces of bloody clothing were found). On October 5, 1999, Spesivtsev was ruled insane by a Russian court and committed to a psychiatric hospital. He remains at the psychiatric hospital to this day. Lyudmila Spesivtsev denied any involvement in the murders, but was convicted as an accomplice and given thirteen years in prison. The case remains one of the worst examples of human cannibalism in Russian history.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
3. Fritz Haarmann<br />
Germany</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1879, Fritz Haarmann was born in Hanover, Germany. He was a quiet child and shunned by many boys’ activities. Between 1918 and 1924, Haarmann committed at least 24 murders, although he is suspected of murdering a minimum of 27 people. Haarmann’s victims largely consisted of young male commuters, runaways and, occasionally, male prostitutes. Haarmann would lure the men back to his apartment for sex and then kill them by biting through their throats. For this reason, he has been labeled the “Vampire of Hanover.”<br />
All of Haarmann’s victims were dismembered, partially eaten, and cut into sections before being discarded, usually in the Leine River. The meat of several victims was sold on the black market as canned pork. At the time, Haarmann was an active trader in the contraband meat market. On the night June 22, 1924, Fritz Haarmann was placed under surveillance by the police after they found numerous skeletal remains in the Leine River. He was observed trying to lure a young boy to his apartment and was arrested.<br />
Fritz Haarmann quickly confessed to raping, killing, butchering, and cannibalizing young men since 1918. When asked how many he had killed, Haarmann claimed “somewhere between 50 and 70.” The trial of Haarmann was spectacular and one of the first major media events in Germany. The term “serial killer” had not yet been coined, and the public was at a loss for words to describe him. Haarmann was referred to as the “werewolf,” a “vampire,” and “The Wolf Man.” His trial lasted barely two weeks and Fritz Haarmann was found guilty of mass murder and sentenced to death. He was beheaded by guillotine on April 15, 1925. Haarmann’s last words were: “I repent, but I do not fear death.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
2. Ottis Toole<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ottis Toole was an American serial killer, arsonist, and cannibal. He was an accomplice of the convicted serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. Toole and Lucas admitted to hundreds of unsolved murders over the span of several decades. Unlike Henry Lee Lucas, Ottis Toole confessed to cannibalism and went into extreme detail about the act. From a young age, Ottis Toole was a serial arsonist who was sexually aroused by fire. In 1976, Toole met Henry Lee Lucas at a Jacksonville soup kitchen and the two developed a sexual relationship. Toole later claimed to have accompanied Lucas in 108 murders. In reality, Ottis Toole and Henry Lee Lucas helped police recover the bodies of 246 missing people and confessed to or implicated themselves in a further 430 murders.<br />
Boiled Angel was an independent comic book by artist Mike Diana that contained graphic depictions of a variety of taboo and gory subject matters. In 1993, a copy of Boiled Angel #8 (or Ate) found its way into the hands of Florida Assistant State’s Attorney Stuart Baggish. Diana was subsequently charged with several counts of obscenity and convicted. Boiled Angel #8 included a tabloid article that is said to contain a graphic interview on cannibalism with Ottis Toole. The material is too obscene to discuss, but Toole goes into detail about cooking and eating humans with his homemade barbeque sauce. On September 15, 1996, at the age of 49, Ottis Toole died in his prison cell from liver failure. Twenty-seven years after the murder of Adam Walsh (son of John Walsh), authorities officially named Ottis Toole as the likely killer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>1. Ratu Udre Udre<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">During the 19th century, the Fijian people were known around the world for ritualistic cannibalism. Udre Udre was a Fijian commoner. He holds the Guinness World Record for “most prolific cannibal.” Udre Udre reportedly ate between 872 and 999 people. He kept a stone for each body and the stones were placed alongside his tomb in Rakiraki, in northern Viti Levu after his death. According to Udre Udre’s son, the chiefs of Rakiraki would go to the battlefield along with Udre Udre and they would each give him every body part of their victims, especially the head. Udre Udre preserved the human remains and ate them. He believed that after he consumed the 1000th body, he would become immortal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1829175021"><b><br />
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</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00962016969249403618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524971931350366603.post-51349246032726888342012-03-27T20:07:00.000-07:002012-03-27T20:07:15.212-07:00Castles on the Water<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Actually These are the almost Heritage Pictures...But really Amazing Just Watch & Enjoy...Castles on the Water<br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00962016969249403618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524971931350366603.post-25915052367860565152012-03-23T23:06:00.000-07:002012-03-23T23:06:55.437-07:00Top 10 Websites that Changed Everyday Life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">The quote truly says it all. When it comes to the Internet, there is nothing that you can’t do. In today’s world, we are run by technology and the flow of updates to already existing technology seems to be never-ending. With that said, it is really no surprise that the Internet has definitely become a true part of everyday life. In the U.S. alone there are 266,224,500 Internet users; in Asia there are 825,094,396. Throughout the entire world there is said to be 1,966,514,816 people who use the Internet and the number continues to grow each day. Along with the Internet came the millions of websites that we all use. While some don’t become as popular as others, many have become so common that they seem like an everyday must have.<br />
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Below are 10 websites that have clearly changed how we function both online as well as offline. Even though the Internet has been available for public use since 1992, it’s only been in the last few years that some websites really became giants. The websites below can easily be called a part of everyday life for many.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>10. Craigslist– Changed classified ads</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before the Internet if you ever had interest in a classified ad, you’d probably go straight to the local newspaper and see what you can find. Of course then the Internet came along and while you could find classified ads online, most of the websites were filled with spam posts or people looking to set you up while others were just unorganized and most of the time classified ads for smaller locations were nonexistent. However, today, if you’re ever looking for anything, and I mean anything, all you need to do is go to Craigslist.<br />
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You can find plenty of things on the classified ads website; from cars, to pets, to jobs, homes, and even a place to discuss anything you have on your mind. Despite recently coming under fire for its “personals” section of the website, Craigslist continues to be extremely popular among people all around the world. You can find ads in your state and then narrow down to a city which makes finding what you need much easier.<br />
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<b>9. Geocities – Changed internet accessibility</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even though nowadays anyone and everyone can access the Internet, from your 3rd cousin to your great-grandmother, when the Internet was first created, those who used it were mainly those involved in the technology or scientific fields and many times these people were looking for bugs, fixes, and ways to improve the technology that existed. As crazy as it seems, at one point in time, the Internet was pretty boring and bare. However, as websites began to pop up, more and more everyday people started to use the Internet. To continue this growth, websites such as GeoCities were created, which opened a whole new world to those people who weren’t the most tech-savvy as others. GeoCities allowed people to easily create their own website.<br />
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The website was started in 1994 and was first known as BHI (Beverly Hills Internet), which at the time was a small web-hosting company based out of Southern California. The company offered free service to people within various locations in California and years later became a country-wide service and then world-wide.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<b>8. Blogger– Changed the blogging scene</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-llyGW4hniWY/T21iIWzXWrI/AAAAAAAAXog/aSFJEr8SMcI/s1600/Blogger-560x283.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="322" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-llyGW4hniWY/T21iIWzXWrI/AAAAAAAAXog/aSFJEr8SMcI/s640/Blogger-560x283.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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Blogging is the way of the world now. Who needs to scribble in a personal diary or to write random things on ripped pieces of notebook paper when you can hop on your computer, log in, and type all of your thoughts onto your computer screen, press upload, and have the opportunity to have the entire world read what you’ve got to say. Blogger was launched in 1999 and since then has allowed the blogging world to flourish.<br />
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While many want to credit LiveJournal or some other blogging site with raising the bar in the blogging world, Blogger most definitely came first and is often credited for setting the stage for the format of a common blog. The website has been designed and redesigned and most recently has begun to work closely with Google to include some of their most popular features.<br />
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The website on the Alexa scale is ranked #8 and each day over 388 million words are published on the website. Even though competitor websites such as WordPress, LiveJournal, and TypePad have come about, Blogger is easily credited with starting the blogging revolution.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<b>7. Pandora – Changed how we listen to music</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ribc59ikWOM/T21ibWiiTkI/AAAAAAAAXoo/-3wA54Pl41s/s1600/Pandora-560x312.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="356" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ribc59ikWOM/T21ibWiiTkI/AAAAAAAAXoo/-3wA54Pl41s/s640/Pandora-560x312.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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The way we listen to music has drastically changed over time. Today MP3s and MP4s are the way of the world, but let’s not forget records, music cassettes, and of course, the radio. However, even though MP3s and digital music seem to be the latest fad, Pandora has stepped up and offered a way to listen to music online while you surf.<br />
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Pandora is an online radio station that basically lets you create your own station based on the music like you like to listen to. Of course, listening to music on the Internet isn’t something new, but being able to create your own music station is. Anyone can tune into music that is played on Yahoo or listen to your favorite radio station online, but the fact is that most of those songs are played every hour (or so it seems) and sometimes the song playing isn’t one that you particularly care for.<br />
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But, when it comes to Pandora, website will play a song and based on whether you like the band or not, the website will play similar music. The great thing is that Pandora often throws in new bands that are on the rise. You can easily type in a band on the website, listen to a song, and then have the chance to listen to a new band that is similar to your tastes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<b>6. Facebook – Changed how we interact</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b> </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8I5dc3UfIqU/T21ite6v1UI/AAAAAAAAXow/AX_HeBi8JxE/s1600/Facebook-560x271.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="308" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8I5dc3UfIqU/T21ite6v1UI/AAAAAAAAXow/AX_HeBi8JxE/s640/Facebook-560x271.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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First there was the telephone, then pagers, then cell phones, then along came the internet with instant messaging services and chatrooms, and before all of this when people wanted to communicate, there was conversational speaking and letters. Today, we have Facebook, and this one social networking site has seriously taken the world by storm. Though technically not the first social networking site created, many will argue that it is the most useful and is the one that has made the largest impact on our society.<br />
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It seems like everything we do is based on Facebook these days. Pictures, friends, relationships, gossip; it all ties into Facebook in some way of another, and wherever you go, you’ll usually find something Facebook-esque. Musicians are asking fans to add them on Facebook as are authors, political candidates, businesses, and anything and everything between.<br />
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The website was launched in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg six years later the website has exploded, attracting more than 500 million users, ranging from your average Joe, to celebrities, and even political world leaders.<br />
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<b>5. Wikipedia – Changed how we research/learn</b><br />
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Before Wikipedia came along, high school and college students had to do their own research the hard way. In all seriousness, before Wikipedia became one big booming e-encyclopedia, many of those that were offered online either required a paid membership to have access to information or the encyclopedia altogether lacked a lot of information. It was either go to the library to find the research you needed or dish out some money to get it.<br />
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However, Wikipedia changed all of this and really made research a breeze. The website became the first of its kind: a free e-encyclopedia that has grown and will probably continue to do so as long as the Internet is available. On April 16, 2010, the website had its 1 billionth edit and today it is ranked the #7 most visited website by Alexa. In the U.S. it is the 6th most visited website in the country.<br />
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The amazing thing about Wikipedia is that you can literally fin anything and almost everything on Wikipedia. With 3,410,052 articles and growing, there isn’t much you can’t find. If you can’t you can easily edit and add information yourself. The website appeals to Internet users from all over the world, offering information in various languages such as Spanish, Russian, French, German, Italian, and many others. And yes, Wikipedia has a Wikipedia page.<br />
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<b>4. Amazon – Changed the face of retail shopping</b><br />
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When you need food, you go to the grocery store. When you need clothes, you go to the mall or your favorite retail store. If you need pet supplies, you go to the pet store. If you want to listen to music, you go purchase a CD at a store. All of this is common sense, and generally when people need things, they visit a brick and mortar store. However, when Amazon was launched in 1995, the company, based out of Seattle, changed the entire face of retail shopping. Their name says it all; Amazon is the largest river in the world and Amazon.com is the largest online store on could imagine. Where else can you buy jewelry, MP3s, clothing, vitamins, dog toys, and anything else from the same location?<br />
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Most recently Amazon even began selling food products that can be delivered to your door. With the creation of Amazon, it’s safe to say that less and less people are visiting brick and mortar stores to purchase certain items. The website offers free shipping with a $25 purchase as well as a Prime account which promises free 2-day shipping or $3.99 next day shipping. The point is, anyone can count on Amazon to have what they need. It’s truly amazing how an e-shop can stock and supply such a wide array of items.<br />
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<b>3. YouTube – Changed daily entertainment</b><br />
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When it came time to looking or watching videos online, there wasn’t a wide variety of options. At times people would upload videos for people to watch, but many times due to bandwidth and other factors, those who owned websites just opted to stay away from the videos and other high bandwidth features. However, an easy fix to this problem came about in February 2005. YouTube, which has been successfully running for 5 years now, solved any and all problems when it came to entertainment on the Internet. Not only can you watch videos but you can also listen to music and even blog through videos.<br />
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Millions of people from all over the world enjoy the features of YouTube each day. Because of YouTube there is one great place for everyone to look at videos and even comment and review them. The website allows you to really watch anything you could ever think of. From music videos to bloggers, to tutorials and just outright random videos, you can surely find it on YouTube.<br />
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The website is ranked #3 on the Alexa scale and offers 29 different languages for users who live outside of the United States. Though other video websites are available, such as Hulu, none have been as successful as YouTube has been.<br />
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<b>2. eBay – Changed how we buy and sell</b><br />
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While online shopping has become a great fad that it seems everyone has latched onto, eBay is one of many websites that should have credit for advancing this online phenomenon. Even though most websites today offer users the ability to purchase what they want online, eBay not only offers online shopping it also allows users to bid on some of the hottest items each year. eBay has most definitely made shopping something that anyone can do without having to get in the car, drive to a store or the mall, and then look around to find the right size or color.<br />
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With online shopping with a few simple clicks your shopping is done. eBay allows users from all over the world to bid and buy items. The good thing about the website is that many times you pay a lot less than you would in stores and even better is the fact that items are available that may not be sold in a store local to you. eBay has made it easy to find some of the most popular items as well as items that aren’t sold in stores anymore.<br />
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eBay is also well known for its ability for users to sell various items, from perfume to clothing to replica shoes and anything and everything in between. eBay is one of the very few websites that offers live real time auctions for products.<br />
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<b>1. Google – Changed virtually everything</b><br />
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As extreme as it sounds, it’s pretty safe to say that when it comes to the Internet Google can be found anywhere and everywhere. No matter what kind of activity you do online, from watching videos, to blogging, to just reading the local news online, you’re probably some way, somehow using a service provided by Google, and many times you don’t even know it. When you watch a YouTube video, you’re using a Google service. If you’ve ever used Blogger, that’s a Google service. Chrome: Google browser. If you’ve ever seen a Doubleclick ad; yep, that’s Google too.<br />
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So in essence, Google is everywhere; ubiquitous. From watching videos to uploading pictures to show to friends and family, whether you know it or not, Google is a very well used service all over the world. If you ever need to get somewhere, you probably go to Google.com. If you need to search for something, Google.com is probably the first place you go.<br />
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the whole forward deck is for entertaining, a complete beach club with a 14m long swimming pool , a cocktail bar with a 2 leveled lounge area. The tender garage which will hold two custom made tenders will be prepared to switch into a drifting “state of the art ” nightclub with a glass light dance floor and Function one soundsystem. It costs 200 million euros. Unfortunately, or fortunately, this is just a concept.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00962016969249403618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524971931350366603.post-38720779619428609482012-03-23T22:45:00.000-07:002012-03-23T22:45:28.921-07:00Top 5 Symbols Whose Origins Have Been Forgotten<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>5. Salute</b><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The military salute is traditionally performed by touching the eyebrow with four fingers together. Roman soldiers are thought to have initiated the procedure as a sign of shielding their eyes from the great light of their superior officers. Knights may have used it to raise their helmets as an indication that they did not intend to fight. This theory is supported by the fact that the helmet on a suit of armor is called a “sallet,” very close to the word “salute.”<br />
The so-called Roman salute, used in the 20th century as a symbol of Fascism, has no Roman record in discourse or art. In Germany, that salute is now prohibited, punishable by up to three years in prison.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>4. Fingers Crossed</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Crossing your fingers to hope for good luck used to require two people – the forefinger of one to make the wish, and of the other to support it. The cross formed was a symbol of unity and strength, and was used to ward off witches. Crossing your fingers, of course, can also be used to nullify a promise. In that case, the middle finger crossing over the index finger leaves a loophole the false promiser plans to exploit.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>3. Rock, Paper, Scissors</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rochambeau, or rock, paper, scissors, is played all over the world as a means of resolving difficult disagreements. In one unusual case, a Florida judge tired of endless debating over the appropriate venue for depositions to be taken and ordered the participants to settle the case by an RPS game.<br />
In Indonesia, it is earwig, human, and elephant. The earwig drives the elephant insane. The human crushes the earwig, and the elephant crushes the human. One amazingly complex version has 101 different gestures and 5050 possible non-tied results. If you’re ready to take it to another level, consult the World RPS Society. If you find out why it is called Rochambeau, please let them know. It’s still a mystery.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
2. Okay</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The source of the ubiquitous “OK” or “Okay” is lost to history, but there are many theories. One is that in the 1830s there was a rash of comic misspellings and shortened communications. NG was commonly read to mean, “No go.” SP meant small potatoes, and OK stood for “Oll Korrect.”<br />
Another theory is that the symbol represented American president Martin Van Buren, often referred to as “Old Kinderhook.” Others say that French soldiers during the American revolution would invite girls to meet them “aux cayes,” down at the docks.<br />
Still another possibility is that bad handwriting caused the OK to flourish. It should have been OR – standing for “order received.” Others think that Obadiah Kelley, an early railroad agent, certified bills with his initials. It is often said that American president Andrew Jackson learned a similar word from Choctaw Native Americans and popularized it. What do you think?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>1. XMas</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Most historians agree that Christ was most likely born in the spring, when Mary and Joseph went to pay their taxes. If that is the case, why do we celebrate Christmas in the wintertime? Pope Gregory can be thanked. He ordered the absorption of other religious festivals into Christianity. Pagan celebrations lightened the burden of cold, dark winters, and evergreen trees were a symbol of hope, that spring and new life would return. It was a natural fit with Christ’s promise of resurrection.<br />
Christmas trees as we know them probably began in the 16th century. It is said that Martin Luther, walking home at night, saw stars through the branches of evergreens and found it a beautiful sight. When he duplicated the effect by putting candles on an evergreen, the modern Christmas tree was born.<br />
Early Christians in the English-speaking world avoided Christmas trees, seeing them as a pagan custom. They became popular in America in the 1820s among Pennsylvania Germans, and the idea spread from there.<br />
St. Nikolaas himself actually lived in Turkey in the 4th century. Known for his kindness and generosity, he was a delegate to Constantine’s Council of Nicea in A.D. 325. His name was eventually shortened from St. Nikolaas to Sinterklaas, and to Santa Claus.<br />
Candy canes? Formed into shepherds’ staffs in the 1700s to transform a simple candy into a Christian symbol. Holly? Christ’s crown of thorns. Gift-giving? What the Wise Men started. Carols? What the angels sang. A star atop the tree? The new star said to have been first seen on the night of Christ’s birth.<br />
Many well-meaning Christians are upset by Xmas, rather than Christmas, on Christmas cards and greetings. They see the X as a way to “take Christ out of Christmas.” Actually, the opposite is true. X is the Greek letter Chi, the first letter of the word Christ. It was used originally to prevent the disrespectful overuse of the Savior’s title in greetings and correspondence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00962016969249403618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524971931350366603.post-67053179387775790392012-03-21T00:59:00.000-07:002012-03-21T00:59:17.622-07:00Awesome Wooden Sculptures<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">Noble tree is a favorite material for the work of many sculptors. What age is growing, standing still in the same place, waiting to be used for artistic work… These beautiful, wooden sculptures are fabulous as woods described in so many stories. Wizards, forest fairies, Mogli… living in the woods, and in this case are like Pinocchio and made of wood.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00962016969249403618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524971931350366603.post-71818424227637528902012-03-21T00:52:00.000-07:002012-03-21T00:52:14.581-07:00Top 5 Great Achievements of the Human Mind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>5. Infinitesimal Calculus</b><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Differential and integral calculus were developed separately by two men who could not have been more different: Isaac Newton was secretive, obsessive, and generally shunned company; personal grooming and even eating took second place to his work. Gottfried Leibniz was charming, well-dressed, had a wide circle of friends, and was the toast of German intellectual circles. Trouble between Newton and Leibniz began over the matter of who discovered calculus first. In 1675 Leibniz used integral calculus for the first time, but did not publish his results until 1684. Newton had already worked out both differential and integral methods in 1666 (which he had employed in his work on gravitation), but did not publish until 1693. Leibniz’s publication and the urging of colleagues prompted Newton to hastily publish his own results. Initially they were more or less cordial on the subject of their mutual discovery, but quickly became enemies, a situation made worse by the interference of supporters. Today both men are credited with the discovery of something without which advanced engineering and physics would be impossible, the messy details of their dispute being left for the historians to mull over.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica</b><br />
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Though he had to share the development of calculus with Leibniz, Newton can claim the theory of gravity for himself, and it is in the ‘Principia’ (published in 1687) that Newton presents the law of universal gravitation. Using classical geometry and the method of ‘fluxions’ and ‘fluents’ (what we today call differential and integral calculus), Newton could account not just for the fall of an apple, but ballistic trajectories, the orbits of moons and planets, and the motions of stars. With ‘Principia’, physics took a mighty leap forward. As the poet Alexander Pope put it ‘Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night; God said “Let Newton be” and all was light.’</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>3. Quantum Mechanics</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Whereas relativity theory (entry 2) was the product of a single mind, the contributors to quantum mechanics read like a physics hall of fame: Rutherford, Bohr, Planck, Schroedinger, Pauli, Heisenberg, Dirac, Feynman, Gell-Mann, to name a few (Einstein also made important early contributions, but grew to dislike quantum mechanic’s bizarre, counter-intuitive nature). Also, it took several decades and many arguments to bring quantum mechanics to fruition. The frontiers of quantum mechanics are still expanding as ever-deeper levels of matter are probed by powerful particle accelerators and powerful minds alike.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>2. Evolutionary Theory</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Probably the most controversial entry on this list, evolution inspires more heated debate and animosity between its adherents and detractors than any other scientific theory, but let’s get a couple of points out of the way. Darwin never stated that humans evolved from apes; they both have a common ancestor. Also, ‘On the Origin of Species’ (published in 1859) only mentions human evolution in passing, for two reasons: Darwin was wary of the response (‘Vestiges of Creation’ in 1844 had met with controversy), and there wasn’t enough evidence available at the time to make a detailed analysis of human evolution. That said, Darwin’s book brought about a classic paradigm shift; never again could man look at the natural world around him the same way (or himself, for that matter). As for Darwin, over the years his religious beliefs had eroded. By 1859, Darwin considered all religions equally valid, and was critical of the Biblical account of creation. The death of his daughter Anne in 1851 at age 10 had also contributed to his loss of faith, and he stopped attending church entirely (though he never quite became a total atheist). Doing for biology what Einstein would later do for physics, Charles Darwin gained both immortality and notoriety.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>1. Relativity Theory</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Like Newton before him, Albert Einstein was an outsider. Often bemused and frequently saddened by the human world, he considered the secrets of nature the deepest problems anyone could face. Mostly unconcerned with worldly affairs, Einstein’s genius took science to unparalleled heights. Any one of the three papers he produced in his ‘miracle year’ of 1905 would have won him the Nobel Prize; it turned out to be his work on the photoelectric effect which did so, but it was special relativity (and in 1915 general relativity) which would seal his reputation as the greatest physicist since Newton, and one of the greatest thinkers in history. In order to redefine the nature of matter, gravity, mass, and energy, Einstein had to draw together mathematical subjects such as differential geometry, tensor analysis, and electromagnetic theory (tales of Einstein’s poor skills in mathematics are entirely myth). Once when asked by a reporter where his laboratory was, Einstein simply replied “here”, and held up his fountain pen.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00962016969249403618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524971931350366603.post-6345072069445361872012-03-18T02:50:00.000-07:002012-03-18T02:50:55.632-07:006 Most Attractive Natural Wonders of the Africa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million sq. km, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area. With 1.0 billion people in 65 territories, it accounts for about 14.72% of the world's human population. It also includes a wide range of natural wonders and enormous wildlife habitat. Therefore, it is considered as one of the famous place to see some of the most attractive natural wonders of the world. So, here we have list 12 most attractive natural wonders of the Africa. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1. Red Sea Reef</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Red Sea Reef stretches over 1,240 miles along the coast of Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea. There are more than 1,100 species of fish that call this Red Sea Reef home and nearly 10% of these are exclusive to this region. The reef features include abundant aquatic life, platforms, lagoons, and cylinders. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2. Mount Kilimanjaro</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the largest stratovolcanoes in the world reaching 19,340 feet (5,895 m) into the air. As the tallest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro is also the tallest free standing mountain in the world. Kilimanjaro is a composite volcano that includes layers of lava, tephra, and volcanic ash. The volcano is currently inactive with no known history of eruptions. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3. Sahara Desert</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert in the world and the second largest desert apart from Antarctica. The boundaries of the Sahara Desert stretch from the Red Sea on the east, the Atlantic Ocean on the west, the valley of the Niger river on the south, to the Mediterranean Sea on the north. The desert encompasses, at least in part, the countries of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan, and Tunisia.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4. Avenue of the Baobabs</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Avenue of the Baobabs, also known as the Alley of Baobabs, is located in Madagascar but the tree may be experienced in several other parts of Africa. The largest baobab trees are considered to be in South Africa. These trees are reported to have a circumference of 160 feet (50 m).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>5. Aldabra Atoll</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Aldabra Atoll is the second largest atoll in the world behind the Kiritimati atoll. It stretches 21.1 miles (34 km) long and 9 miles (14.5 km) wide. The Aldabra atoll is 26.2 feet (8 m) above sea level and has a land area of 96.5 miles (155.4 km). The lagoon stretches 139.1 miles (224 km) across; much of the lagoon will be exposed during low tide.<br />
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The Aldabra Atoll includes a ring of four larger islands: Grand Terre, Malabar, Polymnie, and Picard, and a few smaller islands. The islands have no inhabitants apart from a small staff of rangers. The atoll accounts for the largest population of giant tortoises. Additional wildlife includes: hammerhead sharks, barracuda, green turtles, hawksbill turtles, mantarays, and various birds. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>6. Zuma Rock</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Zuma Rock is a monolith found in Niger. It is easily observed by driving the road out of Abuja which is the capital of Nigeria. The nickname, Gateway to Abuja, is derived from this road. The Zuma Rock features a naturally occurring face on the side of the monolith. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Imagine having an iPod capable of holding thousands of years of high definition video. A DNA computer would make such a device very possible. DNA is the substance that living organisms use to store genetic information. What makes DNA special is that it is extremely efficient when it comes to storing information in a limited space. Just one milligram of DNA is capable of holding all the printed material in the world. DNA computing is currently in its infancy, with prototypes such as MAYA-II only capable of showing the concept. If DNA computing is perfected, computers will become capable of holding amounts of information that are hard to imagine by today’s standard.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4. Permanent Moon Base</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ever since space colonization was first imagined, it was thought that the Moon would be first object to be colonized since it was closest to Earth. In 1969, when man first walked on the moon, a permanent colony suddenly appeared to be very achievable. However, for a variety of reasons, both economical and technical, the project was never truly attempted. However, NASA currently has plans to have one constructed by 2024. The ESA also has plans to construct a moon base by 2025. Japan and India also each have plans to have a base by 2030. The biggest barrier to a base is money. Many people within NASA, including Buzz Aldrin, have criticized the building of a moon base, saying that NASA should put more focus on different projects, like item number five.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3. Head Transplant</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This bizarre surgery is bound to cause controversy in the near future. In a head transplant, the patient is decapitated, and the patient’s head is attached to a donor’s body so that blood circulates between the head and body. A head transplant would theoretically cure absolutely any disease that did not directly affect the head. However, unless a means of repairing the spinal cord is developed, the patient would be quadriplegic. Head transplants have been done with limited success on mice, dogs, and monkeys. The biggest problem of doing a head transplant is that it raises all sorts of ethical questions. For instance, if organ donors were in short supply, a head transplant would be considered wasteful as a donor’s body would only help one person. A greater fear is that if head transplants were combined with cloning, then people might murder their own clones to double their life spans.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2. Clean Energy</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">While many alternatives to fossil fuels have been investigated, there is still quite a way to go before mankind’s energy supply is completely renewable. As of today, about 85% of all energy comes from fossil fuels. The reason clean energy is considered to be important is because fossil fuels aren’t expected to last much longer, they pollute the environment, and they have led to tensions between nations. The reason clean energy is hard to come by is that we’ve spent the past 150 years dependent on oil, and it’s quite difficult to make the switch. Some have even suggested that the technology for producing vast amounts of clean energy already exists but is being suppressed by big oil companies. However, several European countries have produced considerable amounts of clean energy. Current methods of clean energy include wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, hydropower, nuclear, biofuel, and several </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1. Cure for Cancer</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases of the modern era. Ever since the days of Hippocrates people have been searching for a cure. Cancer is similar to the common cold in that although there are many ways to treat it, modern medicine is still yet to come up with a cure. This is partially because like the common cold, there are many different types of cancer, and they are all slightly different. Unfortunately, with over seven million deaths per year, cancer is much more serious than the common cold. A wide assortment of drugs, chemicals, stem cells, genetically modified viruses, and even arsenic have all been proposed as cancer cures. However, number two on this list has quite a bit of promise.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">What Do Incest, An Embalmed Corpse, And The Baby Jesus Have In Common? Most people know that, according to the Bible, the magi brought myrrh as a gift to the infant Jesus, along with gold and frankincense. Some people also know that myrrh (dried tree sap) was used as an embalming ointment or as incense for funerals and cremations (to mask the smells). Few people know that, according to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, myrrh trees originated as a result of Myrrha’s lust for her father, Cinyras. With the connivance of her nursemaid, Myrrha repeatedly had sex with her unsuspecting father. When her father realized Myrrha’s identity and that he had been boinking his daughter, he attempted to kill her but she escaped. The gods took pity on her and to release her from her shame, turned her into a myrrh tree. Presumably the Magi did not think to include a gift receipt so that Jesus could return the myrrh, which then became the First Unwanted Christmas Present.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the more unusual bearers of Christmas presents, with a unique delivery method, is the Caga tió (pooping uncle or, in this case, pooping tree trunk). Found in the Catalonia region, it consists of a hollow log. Beginning at the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the family “feeds” the tio and covers him with a warm blanket each night. Then, at Christmas, the family gathers together, sings songs, puts the tio partly into the fire and beats it with sticks, until it excretes presents of candy, nuts or figs. When the tio is finished pooping it signals this by dropping salted herring, a head of garlic, an onion, or by “urinating”, whereupon the entire log is burned. This is where the expression “If you don’t give me a present I’ll beat the crap out of you” originated.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3. Wassailing</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Wassailing sounds like such an innocuous, wholesome tradition, knocking on doors, singing a few songs, and perhaps being offered a warm drink or cookies. The original wassailers, however, were more aggressive, and would invade a home, demanding food, drink or money from the homeowners, and refusing to leave until they received their “recompense”. If forcibly ejected they would curse, threaten and sometimes vandalize the property of their “hosts”. Think of some of the later verses from We Wish You a Merry Christmas: “Now bring us some figgy pudding…. we won’t go until we get some.” If you are ever the victim of a home invasion you could probably lighten the mood by pointing out the similarity between your attackers and people who sing “Don we now our gay apparel, fa-la-la-la-la”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2. Mari Lwyd</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Old Gray Mare, She Ain’t What She Used To Be. The Mari Lwyd is a horse’s skull, decorated with bells and ribbons, which is set on a stick and carried by an operator hidden under a white sheet. The eye sockets are often filled with green glass and the jaw may be spring-loaded so that the Mari can “snap” at passers-by. She is to be found in Southeast Wales around the Christmas season, particularly at New Year’s. The Mari and her male companions attempt to enter households or pubs via a contest where they would trade insults with the householders via song (apparently an early precursor to rap contests). If the Mari and her male friends won, they would enter and obtain food and drink. The Mari particularly enjoys this because, as the men get drunker and drunker, the Mari begins to appear prettier, younger, thinner, and less dead to them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Leo V became Byzantine Emperor in 813 after forcing the abdication of Michael I, whereupon Leo had Michael’s sons castrated. On Christmas Day in 820, Leo was praying alone in front of the altar of Hagia Sophia. A group of conspirators, disguised as priests and monks, and led by Michael the Amorian (no relation to Michael I), entered and drew their daggers to assassinate Leo. Unarmed and alone, Leo tried to defend himself with an incense burner in one hand and a large wooden cross in the other. After an hour he succumbed to his injuries, Michael was immediately declared Emperor, and Leo’s four sons were castrated. This was not the origin of Christmas tree balls, fortunately.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I’m sure many of you will not even consider this an option, but trust me, it is fun. Going to creepy and out-of-the-way places carries it’s own thrill. Bring cameras and voice recorders, and see what you can find. However, if you go expecting to find anything, you will almost always be disappointed. Whether it is because of lack of spirits or lack of luck, I’ll leave to the individual to decide. But regardless of any evidence or occurrences, or lack of, all of my friends enjoy the activity, both believers and skeptics. Most of the times, the unknown things you will find aren’t eerie voices or pictures, but obscure histories and dark pasts of the locations, and how their legends developed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Find the large area you used to play Stealth, and head back there to play this, also a night-time game. You have to Victims, and the Killer. Victims must wear sunglasses and ear plugs. This forces them to use flashlights to see, and speak loud to communicate. Our Killer, who preferably dresses in dark clothing, must stalk the Victims and tag them. If you want to make things really interesting, give the Victims NERF guns and the Killer and Sharpie marker (to simulate a knife). Last one standing is the new Killer next round. Happy hunting!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Urban Exploration is a pass time that involves going to any place, usually considered undesirable or uninteresting, and discovering things that nobody else knows about. These locations are usually reported to be haunted, and so UE has close ties to ghost hunting, but they are not exclusive. Most Urban Explorers are interested in unusual or dark history, or things that are just strange and weird. I recently discovered a little-known nature preserve, very close to my home, that has an abandoned cemetery and Depression-era homestead, tucked away in the woods. Further poking and research led me the history of the former residents, and the area in general.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Some may consider this disrespectful, but rest assured, none is intended. Go to a cemetery, preferably one in an area you aren’t too familiar with. Find a tombstone that stands out to you, and write down the person’s name. When you get home, research that person, and check out their history. Generally, the more ornate tombstones lead to more eccentric people! I have found some truly amazing stories on my Safaris, which have in turn led me to other relatives in other cemeteries, which augmented my Urban Exploring.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Geocaching is a widespread activity, taking the world by storm. People have hidden things called geocaches around the world. All you need is a GPS device (most phones will be capable) or you can simply load a map onto your computer and bring it along. Geocahces can be anything, from key boxes to Tupperware containers, from baby-food jars to coffee cans. Some even get 5 gallon containers! In the container, you leave several trinkets, usually toys and other things with a low value, and hide it. You then go online, log the GPS coordinates, and leave clues to it’s location for other geocachers. When you find one, sign the logbook to show you were there, and take an item, but also put one back. Caches and be as easy to find as lifting a rock, and some get as difficult as to need rock climbing gear! Some are even hidden underwater, accessible only with SCUBA gear! Some of these geocaches were hidden literally almost in my backyard. Go to www.geocaching.com and register for a free account (they do NOT send spam or newsletters) and you can see a map with geocaches marked in your local area! It is a world-wide game, with competitions and events. Many people own trackig dots, which are coins that have a code that you enter online to log it and see where it has been. The one we found started it’s journey in South Carolina, but had hits all over North America, aven a few in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and Europe!</span><br />
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