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Badass nuns who rode into battle, fought the Klan, and kissed Elvis? These aren't the ladies from Sunday School.BATTLE HYMN OF THE WARRIOR NUN: Ani Pachen (1933-2002)At the age of 17, Pachen Dolma learned that her father planned to marry her off.
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March 6, 2013 9:39 AM
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The following is an article from The Annals of Imrpobable research.by Sally Shelton, Collections Officer, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution"In a word, you must possess Promethean boldness, and bring down fire, ...
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March 6, 2013 9:37 AM
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This Presidents Day article is from the book Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into the Presidency.The White House changes with the times and the presidents.A longtime symbol of American freedom and power, the White House, at its heart, is...
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March 6, 2013 9:34 AM
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The following is an article from Uncle John's Heavy Duty Bathroom Reader.What happens when one of Hollywood's most famous movie mobsters meets up with the genuine article?
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March 6, 2013 9:33 AM
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The Tana Toraja tribe in Indonesia are known for their bizarre burial customs, which include hanging coffins and graves dug in rock
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March 6, 2013 9:30 AM
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If you live in a large, multi-ethnic city virtually anywhere in the world it is a possibility that in the next few weeks you will see groups of people in parks merrily spattering each other with paint. While you might be excused for thinking that it is a new form of corporate team building – and what a great one that would be – you would be wrong. The throwing of multi-colored water and powder is in fact the popular Hindu spring Festival of Colors, also known as Holi.
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March 5, 2013 9:35 AM
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Take some tips from the animal kingdom, where some species pull out all the stops in the quest to bag a partner.
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March 5, 2013 9:33 AM
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The Church By The Sea has gained an online fan club after people noticed its resemblance to a chicken. Its windows have been compared to eyes, while its red tile roof looks like a beak and wings.
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March 4, 2013 10:12 PM
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Internet resources, reviews, news, tips and trivia for learners and teachers of English
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March 4, 2013 10:24 AM
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Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.
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March 4, 2013 10:21 AM
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Journalists, teachers, bloggers and storytellers (to name a few) use Map Tales to chronicle news events, scrapbook holidays, describe walks, plan campaigns, illustrate literature, recount journeys, and bring historical events to life
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March 4, 2013 10:19 AM
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Washing your face won't clear your skin of those pesky pustules. So what will?
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March 7, 2013 8:22 AM
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Edison made the first audio recording with the intention of playing it back in 1877, but people had been capturing sound for centuries. Listen to music dating back to 980 A.D.!
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March 6, 2013 9:39 AM
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This article is republished from the book Uncle John's 24-Karat Bathroom Reader.The unoccupied Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea has been a tense place since the end of the Korean War in the 1950s.
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March 6, 2013 9:38 AM
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In the years before World War I, America faced a terrifying enemy on the home front: yoga.On the morning of Tuesday, may 3, 1910, New York City's newspapers carried fresh headlines about a midnight police raid on an Upper West side yoga school.
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March 6, 2013 9:36 AM
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As medical marijuana gains acceptance across the country, one scientist thinks LSD should be next.
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Together, the world's wealthiest bring $5.4 trillion to the table.
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Although a sense of melancholy surrounds many abandoned institutions, the atmosphere that permeates this one, on the Greek island of Chios, is mixed. The word leprosy may evoke immediate feelings of horror and disgust; even today, centuries of superstition and prejudice have clouded our understanding of the condition. Notwithstanding, this deserted leper colony, surrounded by nature, has been a scene of death and catastrophe but also spirituality.
Read more at http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-abandoned-leprosy-hospital-chios#tkBMk4a18YU1RmK7.99
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It's a potential game changer in the fight against HIV, and doctors say it happened almost by accident.
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Recently, Telstar Logistics had an opportunity to take an authorized tour of the San Francisco Municipal Railway's Marin Division yard, thanks to our friends at Market Street Railway.
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Serves for nothing but saying whether or not it's raining in a given city at this very moment, but it also shows the current weather conditions. Oh, and it makes a great homepage!
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March 4, 2013 10:23 AM
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“Call me tonight when it’s free.” Best humorous, adorable, and loving messages from your fobby papa
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A list of 9 unique military vehicles that carries its own road.
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