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Around the 12th Century the people of the Fujian Province in China decided that their homes did not offer them sufficient protection in times of civil strife and from the armed bandit gangs which plagued the area for hundreds of years.
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Even hands-free conversations are a safety hazard.
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Poring over vintage cookbooks and food advertisements is equal parts intriguing and repulsive: People willingly ate things like "Shrimp Aspi...
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Sunsets are amazing and beautiful. Here are 27 of them.
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A Japanese woodcut by Kamekichi Tsunajima titled Ryūkō eigo zukushi, or A Fashionable Melange of English Words. The print shows images of animals, ac...
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We're not trying to pretend that ground beef is the only food with germs living on it--there is, as we all know, an invisible film of bacteria living on virtually every surface on Earth. But the key word there is surface: the inside of muscle is largely sterile. When meat gets ground up at a processing plant, however, the outsides and insides of numerous animals get mixed together and mashed into homogenized meat spaghetti, and the bacteria is no longer restricted to the outside.
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"I am bored, therefore I make GIFs" -René Descartes (1596-1650)
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Just like humans, animals sometimes need a little romantic help in the "bedroom." For endangered, captive animals, the pressure to perform is even greater as mating is the only way to save species from extinction.
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The pope is the Bishop of Rome and the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church. In the Catholic Church, the Pope is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter, the Apostle. Saint Peter, who was the first Bishop of Rome and the first pope, is thought to have reigned for over 30 years (AD 29 - 64?/67?), but the exact length is not reliably known.
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15 Scary and Ominous Photos of Dust Storms
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As one of the Netherlands' most feared prisons for almost 150 years, Het Arresthuis was not a place you would want to stay.
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It was once a sign of virility and masculinity - whatever happened to the high heel? |
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H. C. Berann and his cartographic panoramas and maps.
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This article lists the twelve deepest lakes found on earth. These are not necessarily the largest lakes on the planet or in the world in terms of surface area but the lakes which hold the largest volumes of water.
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It's no longer possible to think of time as ticking along at a constant rate since the universe was born, separate from our own human perceptions.
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Bosco Verticale is an ambitious eco project in Milan, designed by architect Stefano Boeri, which tries to blend two discrepant mediums, urban and natur
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Millionaire space tourist Dennis Tito and his partners have had to tell questioners repeatedly that they're not "crazy" or "nuts" to think they can launch a man and a woman to Mars and back by 2019 — but if the Inspiration Mars Foundation's "Mission...
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Michelle Young of Untapped Cities gives the lowdown on all of the colorful and descriptive signs you can find in the Big Apple.
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When it comes to our food choices, many of us do the best we can to ensure that what we're putting on our plates are the healthiest and most nutritious foods possible.
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“I don't believe that ghosts exist, but if they did, they'd live in Villa Epecuén,” wrote photographer Federico Peretti in an article for Vice magazine. These images he took of the ruined tourist village capture gnarled tree branches that resemble sinister hands, old cars rusting away like giant carcasses and the crumbling remains of drowned houses.
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At first blush, the emergence of man's best friend is pretty straightforward. The first dogs descended from wolves in Europe about 14,000 years ago. Then
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Land art or Earth art is an art movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked. |
