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A flashy funeral for 'Great Train' robber Ronnie Biggs
Ronnie Biggs, the British criminal who won worldwide fame as a member of the gang that committed the “Great Train Robbery” of 1963, was given a colorful gangster style funeral in London on Friday.
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The Smartest Book About Our Digital Age Was Published in 1929
How José Ortega y Gasset's ‘The Revolt of the Masses’ helps us understand everything from YouTube to ‘Duck Dynasty.’
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The conspiracy to keep you fat
At this time of year, a lot of Americans have vowed to develop more healthful habits. Unfortunately, most of those who have made weight loss resolutions will fail. But it won't be entirely their fault.
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One Marine’s Dying Wish
WE don’t get any say about the kind of world we’re born into — about whether it’s prepared for the likes of us, whether it will open its arms. Hal Faulkner certainly didn’t get the world he deserved. It was needlessly cruel to him, senselessly judgmental. For the most part, he made peace with that.
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Workhorse DC-9 Heads to the Afterlife in the Sky
Delta’s flight 2014 from Minneapolis to Atlanta yesterday had all the attraction of a longish bus ride. Passengers will riding a jalopy of a jet, a 120-seat DC-9 that was manufactured in 1978. The round trip fare on the route is normally is about $550 to $700.
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29 Odd & Wonderfully Confusing Photos From History
The words odd, unusual and confusing genuinely fall short when describing these perplexing photographs from the past. Missing heads, monkey go-karting of monkeys, Batman riding an elephant, zebras ...
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The Real Story Behind the Kerrigan Attack: 20 Years Later
The Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan affair began with unchecked ambition, unbridled greed and a whack to the knee. It ended with four men in jail, a broken shoelace and a highly publicized mouthing-off, at Disney World...
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Hackers, Makers, and the Next Industrial Revolution
When, in November, the publisher Stewart Brand was asked about who carries the flag of counterculture today, he pointed to the maker movement. The maker era might not be upon us yet, but the maker movement has arrived. Many promoters of the maker movement believe that personal manufacturing will undermine the clout of larger corporations. It might even liberate labor in a way that the Arts and Crafts radicals hadn’t anticipated.
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The Burglars Who Took on F.B.I. Abandon Their Shadows And Reveal Themselves
Burglars who broke into an F.B.I. field office in 1971 and stole files that revealed the extent of the bureau’s surveillance of political groups are only now revealing their identities.
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Interesting old method to get people to carpool.
So much WTF in the past.
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Masturbation was once considered more offensive than child abuse
I've written many articles based on Victorian/Edwardian advice books. There was advice for everything, from how to improve your breast size to keeping your man faithful, all written with earnest authority by "experts" of the day. In these old books, I noticed that one subject appeared over and over, usually shrouded with dire euphemisms: The Solitary Vice. Self Abuse. The Vicious Habit.
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Illegal Ass Enhancements May Be America's Next Health Epidemic
The crude inflation procedure consists of shooting a liquid substance such as silicone or mineral oil directly into a client’s butt cheeks and hips through a syringe. There is no substance that is safe to inject into your body to create more volume, not even medical-grade silicone, but these black-market “butt doctors” have, according to victims, allegedly used harsh substances like concrete and the industrial silicone sold at hardware stores in their procedures.
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10 Scientists Who Claim to Have Proof about the Existence of God
Both believers and atheists are constantly waiting for clear evidence to confirm or deny the existence of God. Check out this list about theories and tests conducted by scientists from different fields that are intended to demonstrate the existence of God, Heaven, and Hell. Are they fact or fiction? You decide!
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Indecision is sometimes the best way to decide
Quick decision-making might seem bold, but the agony of indecision is your brain’s way of making a better choice
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15 cars that shaped the Ford Motor Company
Ford & Malcomson Company Limited was incorporated on June 16, 1903.
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1994: "Today": "What is the Internet, Anyway?"
Some confusion is obvious on the set of NBC's "Today" show, regarding the Internet and the @-sign. This is reportedly footage from between segments that was not originally aired, and apparently dates to January 1994, around the time of the Northridge earthquake (that occurred literally five minutes from where I'm sitting, and which I remember very well indeed).
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Remembering Genocide
It wouldn’t surprise me if, at the close of 2014, L’Image Manquante/The Missing Picture (Rithy Prahn, 2013) remained the best film I’ve seen all year. Premiering at Cannes, where it received the Prix Un Certain Regard, and having screened at most of the major film festivals, the Cambodian documentary is on the shortlist of potential nominees for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Gypsy Rose Lee: Rare and Classic Photos of a Burlesque Legend
On what would have been Gypsy Rose Lee's 103rd birthday, LIFE celebrates her life and career with a selection of pictures from May 1949.
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Cloak and Drone: The Strange Saga of an Al Qaeda Triple Agent
For years, Hassan Ghul was a critical member of Al Qaeda, until sources say he was turned and sent back to infiltrate the enemy. So why did a CIA drone kill him in Waziristan?
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Why did the AK-47 become so popular?
The gun is nothing special. Its controls are unsophisticated; it is not even particularly accurate. But this simplicity is a reason for its success.
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