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Thursday, August 7, 2008

Poetry- For The Want of A Nail, Jimmy Jet And His TV Set, Knoxville Tennessee, And How Doth The Little Crocodile

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For Want of A Nail (Traditional) For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider ...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

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Losing 185kg (29 stones) in body weight might seem like an extreme way to get into the record books. Manuel says reading The Bible has encou...

Today In History

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NYSE (1914): Closed due to the outbreak of World War I, but opened again four months later to help the war effort by selling bonds.

Word of The Day

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Oldster: An old or elderly person.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

News; Swimming For Survival

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Slow-moving turtles might not seem like very exciting racers. But this spring, the first-ever Great Turtle Race will pit migrating leatherba...

Today In History; Death of Rufus Bowen, American Mathematician

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1978: Rufus Bowen worked in mathematical dynamics systems theory. His untimely death at age thirty-one cut short his pioneering work, includ...
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Word of The Day

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Wangle: To adjust or manipulate for personal or fraudulent ends. To make or get by devious means, finagle.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

News; Tigers Cuddle With Apes

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Bogor, West Java, in Indonesia Tigers don't normally snuggle with orangutans. The big cats are meat-eaters, after all. But when Demis an...

Today In History; Rasputin, Russian Mystic

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1872: Born Gregory Yefimovich in the icy land of Siberia, Rasputin grew up in poverty with a life as harsh as his environment. As a child an...

Word of The Day

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Impecunious: Having very little or no money usually habitually, penniless.
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