Titanic under construction
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The RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. For her time, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world.
On the night of 14 April 1912, during her maiden voyage, Titanic...
Presidential inaugurations through the years
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George Washington
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This 1889 painting by Ramon de Elorriaga titled “The Inauguration of George Washington” depicts the first U.S. president taking his oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City on April 30, 1789.
Andrew Jackson
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This artist’s rendition...
The World’s Top 10 Left-Handed Athletes
Right is wrong and left is … right?
Seems to be. It’s not exactly a bass-ackward revolution, but left-handers are doing okay for themselves in sports these days.
Or are they?
The idea struck me last week when I saw highlights of college quarterbacks Josh Heupel and Matt Leinart winning BCS National...
Was Jack the Ripper a woman?
The notorious serial killer who stalked London’s East End, butchering prostitutes and terrorising the population, may not have been Jack the Ripper - but Jill.
An Australian scientist has used swabs from letters supposedly sent to police by the Ripper to build a partial DNA profile of the killer....
America’s Craziest Laws
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01 15th, 2009 |
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Alabama
# Dominoes may not be played on Sunday.
# Incestuous marriages are legal.
# It is illegal to impersonate a person of the clergy.
# It is illegal to stab yourself to gain someone’s pity.
# It is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.
# Masks may not be worn in public
#...
36 Educational Tips From 70s and 80s TV
Television has always had its share of out-there plots, weird characters and completely unbelievable moments. I got to thinking, what would it be like if someone my age had never gone to school, but instead had been raised by watching TV. Here are a few of the ways he might believe the world works.
The...
Top Poisonous Foods We Love To Eat
Everyday we chow down on food produced from plants that carry deadly poisons. Most of the time we don’t need to be concerned with this as the mass production of fruit and vegetables ensures that we are usually safe, but from time to time people accidentally kill themselves by unwittingly eating the...
The Stories Behind 11 Famous Cocktails
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01 15th, 2009 |
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When you belly up to the bar, how well do you know the cocktail you’re ordering? The ingredients of these famous tipples may be familiar to bar patrons the world over, but some of their origins are as debatable as those of the Flaming Moe. Here’s a quick rundown of where some of your favorite drinks...
25 Best Intramural Sports Team Names
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Once out from the oppressive administration at colleges and universities, those partaking in somewhat organized co-ed sports leagues are forced to come up with their own creative and usually offensive or crude team names. Co-Ed Sports are a past-time for the quarter-lifers and is even called out as #65...
Idiots You’ll Meet on the Internets
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If you fall into one of these Internet stereotypes, kindly choke on your caps lock key.
The IMDB message board name-dropper
Sites affected: IMDB. Also popular on other movie and music sites.
We love IMDB for its ridiculously thorough catalog of TV and movie knowledge, but stepping into their forums...
Museum of Drugs Opened
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Military commanders believe that opening the museum to the public will brought more harm than good …
Mexican Museum of opiates has recently expressed interest in exponates who were confiscated during anti-drug mafia.
In the museum are showed last made ways of production and smuggling of drugs in...
Weirdest Things Found in Sewers and Drains
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At one time, the only things you worried about finding in sewers were alligators, but Roto-Rooter — the international plumbing and drain company — has rescued everything from guns, illegal drugs, GI Joe dolls, live cats, electric razors, currency, coins, snakes, prosthetic eyeballs, iPods and even...
The 20 Worst Fictional Doctors of All-Time
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President-elect Barack Obama has been toiling away at filling his Cabinet positions and this week comes word that CNN’s and CBS’ resident white-coat Dr. Sanjay Gupta has been offered the post of Surgeon General. Known by most as the guy who shames you into thinking that your baby is going...
The 12 Worst People to Gamble With In Vegas
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01 2nd, 2009 |
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Vegas is America’s Tijuana, but without needing to sit on a toilet for 2 days afterwards. Some of the people you meet in Vegas are so shady it can make you feel like the city had been controlled by a bunch of mobsters. Between your pupils never adjusting to the epileptic flashing lights and the shear...
12 Awesome 80’s Movies That Are Perfect
The 80’s were a decade of decadence, with everything being bigger, crazier, and more over the top. It was the beginning of the age of insanity, and yet somehow, out of the midst of all of the big crazy hair and drug use and Reaganomics, a few gems that could withstand the test of time were born. Even...
