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Opium smoking in China before the communist takeover in 1949 could be found at all levels of society. From rickshaw pullers to emperors, devotees of the narcotic numbered in the millions. Opium smoking venues reflected the economic status of the smoker. For the wealthy, a private smoking room in the home was fitted out with rich trappings, including an opium bed, and decorated with calligraphic scrolls bearing auspicious sayings. For the poor, a public opium den was the only venue, where for a few coppers cash, low-grade opium could be smoked on woven bamboo mats and amidst simple surroundings.
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September 26, 2013 7:40 AM
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Living near an active volcano can make you nervous, but it's not the only fire down below. Coal is a long-burning mineral hidden underground that can ignite when the circumstances are right. Those circumstances include contact with air, which happens when we try to take the coal out of the ground for our own purposes. Here are five coal seams that have been burning for a long time.
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September 26, 2013 7:38 AM
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The World's Constitutions to Read, Search and Compare
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September 26, 2013 7:36 AM
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A movable bridge is a bridge that moves to allow passage (usually) for boats or barges. An advantage of making bridges moveable is the lower cost, due to the absence of high piers and long approaches. The principal disadvantage is that the traffic on the bridge must be halted when it is opened for passages.
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September 25, 2013 10:59 AM
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Newspapers are going away. That's too bad.
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September 25, 2013 10:55 AM
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September 25, 2013 10:38 AM
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The following is an article from the book History's Lists from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.America's great westward expansion took place between 1807 and 1912.
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September 24, 2013 5:55 AM
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Everlasting Blort - a compendium of the web's weird underbelly, updated daily with links to the strange, absurd, bizarre, humorous, surreal and satiric.
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September 24, 2013 5:52 AM
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Short-beaked echidna. Photo: Jeroen Visser/Shutterstock Quick: what mammal is covered with spikes, lays eggs, has a four-headed penis, and no nipples? The answer is the echidna, one of the strangest animals that exist on Earth today.
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September 24, 2013 5:50 AM
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Mermaid sightings have been reported for centuries and continue to be. You can look at the evidence and decide.
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September 24, 2013 1:35 AM
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Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield grew up in Merrick, Long Island, U.S.A. They became friends in junior high school. Jerry finished college, but wasn’t accepted into any med schools. Ben got into
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September 23, 2013 8:27 AM
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Green beer... not just for St. Paddy's Day anymore! These 7 amazing eco-friendly breweries are helping to save the planet, one cold & frosty mug at a time.
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September 27, 2013 2:16 AM
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September 26, 2013 7:39 AM
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It’s a big world out there and many of America’s biggest brands are eager to get their hands on a piece – or many pieces – of it. But what works on the average American consumer doesn’t always translate well in other countries, and a combination of naïveté, arrogance, and lack of understanding the market have often led to some rather disappointing ventures in the far reaches of the world. Some have suffered defeats in a number of countries, while others couldn’t make it work in very specific markets. Interestingly, many American behemoths struggled especially in China and other Asian markets, largely due to a lack of understanding of local demands and buying habits.
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September 26, 2013 7:37 AM
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Image: Dudarev Mikhail/Shutterstock So, you're a vegan and you're mad that you can't drink Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Latte. Well, maybe you want to skip this post because your day ain't going to get much better.
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September 26, 2013 7:34 AM
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A moveable bridge, or movable bridge is a bridge that moves to allow passage (usually) for boats or barges. An advantage of making bridges moveable is the lower cost, due to the absence of high piers and long approaches.
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September 25, 2013 10:56 AM
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The world of finance is at least partly based on the principle of collecting money for its practical, fiscal value. It’s simple: the more money you have, the wealthier you are. However, there’s a whole different set of monetary collectors who amass “chunks of change,” so to speak, for their novelty value and rarity – not to mention just for fun. Coin collecting, also known more broadly as numismatics, has been going on for thousands of years. In fact, there’s evidence that it took place in Ancient Rome. So it’s perhaps no surprise that, to appeal to this collectors’ market, mints and treasuries around the world have started producing unusual coins in limited quantities.
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September 25, 2013 10:37 AM
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Some things appear where you least expect them. Although dinosaur tracks have been discovered the world over, climbing up a near vertical wall in a Bolivian quarry? Bolivia – yes, fine. Zooming up hundreds of feet towards the skies? Hardly. Yet here they are. Spread across a limestone slab a mile long and almost 300 feet high, this great wall at Cal Orcko near the city of Suvre reveals more than 5,000 footsteps, with 462 discrete trails.
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September 24, 2013 5:54 AM
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Strictly speaking, the term Technosexuality is a word used to get away from the oft-confusing acronym, A.S.F.R., which refers to the sexual interest in machines, robots, androids, gynoids and other sexual devices not really occurring in real life. And sometimes, ones that actually exist.
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September 24, 2013 5:51 AM
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Arranged in perfectly neat rows along Holland’s northern countryside in springtime are extraordinary flower fields that are just a treat to the eyes. More...
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September 24, 2013 5:49 AM
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The long-awaited movie augur is here. It knows all the movies produced to date. And with over 100 vacuum tubes, it reads your mind! Imagine a film and watch it guess it.
Producing failures is an essential part of innovation. It is the way we learn. Here are ten world famous innovation failures meant to inspire you.
Via Ilkka Olander
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