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How BIG Is Google?
Many of us use Google services each day but very few of us ask the question, "How BIG is Google?" Obviously this question cannot be answered directly, however, the sheer size of Google can be realised by the hard facts and figures shown in this short film.
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Where the Nazis Hid Their Art: The Castle Behind ‘Monuments Men’
Built by a mad king and copied by Disney, Neuschwanstein Castle held Hitler’s stash of priceless artworks—until the true-life Monuments Men liberated the stolen collection.
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6-Year-Old Among 55 Bodies Uncovered at Florida’s School of Terror
55 bodies of children have been found on the grounds of a notorious boys’ reform school in Florida. The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys was closed in 2011, yet for nearly a century boys at the school reported beatings, confinement, and witnessing boys going for punishment and never returning.
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Why Ski Jumpers Hold Their Skis In A V Shape
In ski jumping, it's all about how far you fly. Skiers initially hold their bodies in a position that reduces air drag in order to gain as much speed as possible coming down the take-off ramp, or in-run. But once in the air, athletes change their posture and the position of their skis to maximize air lift, which increases the length of their jump.
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Wounded Knee: The Museum
This is really cool. Give it a look!!!
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Apple's Forgotten Designs
The Apple brand name is synonymous with iconic product design. Some of their products, such as the original Apple IIc, was so iconic that it was acquired by the Whitney Museum of Art in New York and voted Design of the Year by Time Magazine. However, there are some Apple products that never took off and have eventually been forgotten by most.
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Remarkable Soviet-Era Monuments That Could Be From A Sci-Fi Film
Long before the former Yugoslavia descended into war and conflict, it was actually home to some of the most progressive names in European Architecture. Dotted around its landscapes were various scu...
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How the Beatles Went Viral: Blunders, Technology & Luck Broke the Fab Four in America
Six weeks is all it took for the Liverpool foursome to go from unknowns to the biggest pop stars in the USA. Here's an exhaustive look at how it happened
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20 Fascinating Historical Photos You Probably Haven't Seen Before
20 Fascinating Historical Photos You Probably Haven't Seen Before
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There Is Actually A Logical Explanation For Why Olympic Biathlon Involves Cross-Country Skiing With Rifles
One sport that seems to confuse people more than others at the Winter Olympics is biathlon, which is cross country skiing combined with rifle shooting. While the inclusion of guns in the Olympics may seem like a weird mix, there is actually a perfectly logical explanation.
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The 1932 Winter Olympics Looked Way More Fun, Dangerous than Sochi
Buried deep in the video database of the Internet Archive is footage of one of the first Winter Games — Lake Placid in 1932. The Olympics have changed since then; they're safer, smarter, and lamer.
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Graves' discovery affects Miss. medical school's plans
1,000 bodies may have been asylum patients; more might be revealed on campus.
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How Cold Can a Living Body Get?
Years ago, doctors went to extreme measures to save a woman with the lowest-ever body temperature on record.
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900-Year-Old Coded Viking Message Carved on Wood Fragment Finally Solved, It Says “Kiss Me”
For the past several years researchers have been trying to crack a Viking rune alphabet known as Jötunvillur, a perplexing code dating back to the 11th or 12th century that’s been found in some 80 inscriptions including the scratched piece of wood found above. Recently runologist (!) Jonas Nordby from the University of Oslo managed to crack the code and discovered the secret message etched into this particular 900-year-old object reads “Kiss me.”
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NBC single-handedly pays for a fifth of all Olympic Games
It's no secret NBC is willing to shell out enormous sums to the International Olympic Committee so it can broadcast the Games to American viewers. In 2011, the network offered $4.38 billion to the IOC in hopes of winning an exclusive broadcast license through 2020.
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China and Taiwan Hold First Official Talks Since Civil War
Representatives of Taiwan and China held their first official talks on Tuesday since the end of China’s civil war in 1949, a meeting expected to produce few concrete results but one that was a symbolic development in the easing of the two sides’ longtime rivalry.
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Police get break, identify sex offender, in 1975 missing girls' cold case
The two little girls vanished nearly 40 years ago, their disappearance long faded from the public consciousness, their names etched in a stone marker their hope-sapped parents placed in a local cemetery. But Maryland police have been tenacious about solving this cold case. And on Tuesday they breathed new life into it, when they announced a possible breakthrough.
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What Cold War CIA Interrogators Learned from the Nazis
At a secret black site in the years after the end of WWII, CIA and US intelligence operatives tested LSD and other interrogation techniques on captured Soviet spies—all with the help of former Nazi scientists.
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The U.S. is in an under-the-radar space race with China — and it's losing
The Jade Rabbit is the cute face of China's space program; from its initial "soft" landing on the moon to engineering complications that mean it may never "reawaken" from its "first lunar slumber," the unmanned rover has received the kind of adoring coverage typically reserved for panda cams. But all of China's ambitions in space are not so friendly: Over the past decade, the country has been quietly militarizing the cosmos and it's gunning for the United States.
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The Dark Origins of 11 Classic Nursery Rhymes
In the canon of great horror writing, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley tend to dominate the craft. But Mother Goose isn’t too far behind. Yes, that fictional grande dame of kiddie poems has got a bit of a dark streak, as evidenced by the unexpectedly sinister theories surrounding the origins of these 11 well-known nursery rhymes.
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