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		<title>Byron’s Epic Swims: Leaving England</title>
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		<description>Though most famous for his poetry, war heroics, and womanizing, Lord Byron’s greatest achievements all took place in the water. He was born with a deformity in his right foot, or as it was so sensitively known in the 18th &amp;#8230; &lt;a href="http://markarayner.com/archives/7312"&gt;Continue reading &lt;span class="meta-nav"&gt;&amp;#8594;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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		<title>Miss Atomic Test, Las Vegas (1957)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 10:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Would you rather be punched in the face than join Klout?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 11:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I completely sympathize with this perspective, but I would ask you NOT to punch me in the face. Despite my better judgement I joined. Look at Klout this way: it&amp;#8217;s something else to feel inferior about! (Cause life doesn&amp;#8217;t really &amp;#8230; &lt;a href="http://markarayner.com/archives/7266"&gt;Continue reading &lt;span class="meta-nav"&gt;&amp;#8594;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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