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Vet Who Says He Was 'Kissing Sailor' in Famous Photo Dies
A Navy veteran who claimed to be the sailor who was kissing a nurse in the famous Alfred Eisenstaedt photo taken in Times Square on V-J day has died.
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We Don't Owe Russia More 'Respect'
Contrary to what some believe, we did not "humiliate" Russia after Communism. In fact, America did quite the opposite.
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Forests Around Chernobyl Aren’t Decaying Properly
It wasn't just people, animals and trees that were affected by radiation exposure at Chernobyl, but also the decomposers: insects, microbes, and fungi.
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Inside the Pig War of 1859
Lyman Cutlar hadn’t had much luck out West. He’d left Kentucky in the nineteenth century, pan in hand, but he’d never found any flash to fill it. When he heard the governor of Washington State say the nearby San Juan Island had become a part of the United States, the failed prospector decided to quit the Gold Rush altogether.
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John Lennon Quote
John Lennon Quote
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Ride London’s abandoned underground “Mail Rail”
Before e-mail, London had a different kind of network.
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Wrinkled Mercury's shrinking history
The planet Mercury is about 7km smaller today than when its crust first solidified over four billion years ago. The innermost world has shrunk as it has cooled over time, its surface cracking and wrinkling in the process. Scientists first recognised the phenomenon when the Mariner 10 probe whizzed by the planet in the mid-1970s. But the latest images from the US space agency's Messenger satellite have enabled researchers to refine their estimate for the amount of contraction.
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Another plane like Malaysia Airlines flight 370 vanished with GPS tracking
IN an age of constant information, the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has been dubbed the biggest mystery in aviation history. A plane of its size has never dropped out of the sky. Or has it?
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An assassin divides his native Bosnia 100 years on
The woman paused before a photograph of a young man with dark eyes and a tightly trimmed moustache. "That's that Serb terrorist those Chetniks (Serb nationalists) are praising," she said to a journalist inspecting the image. "He started that war. They started all the wars." Gavrilo Princip stared down from the outer wall of a museum at the riverside spot in Sarajevo where on a summer's morning in 1914 he opened fire on the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
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Vladimir Putin and the Lessons of 1938
He’s not Hitler. But we’ve got to stop him all the same.
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Does Coke Taste Better Out Of A Fancy-Shmancy Glass?
The contour of the classic Coca-Cola glass bottle is absolutely iconic. It was created in 1915 by a glass manufacturer in Indiana, and chosen by Coca-Cola because its distinctive curves wouldn’t be confused with competitors. The bottle was not, however, designed specifically for Coca-Cola's flavor profile, and today the soda maker has set out to remedy that oversight.
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Why Gretzky Had It Easy
One of the most interesting statistical nuggets I ran into while researching a piece about NHL goalies was the improvement in leaguewide goaltending over the past 30 years. It hasn’t just been a small improvement — the league’s save-percentage leaders during the 1980s and early 1990s put up statistics that would rate below-average in recent seasons.
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The myth of the eight-hour sleep
We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.
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How we were fooled into thinking that sexual predators lurk everywhere
Creating a moral panic about social media didn’t protect teens—it left them vulnerable
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The Secret World of Fast Fashion
From 1960s Korea, through Brazil, to today’s Los Angeles: Inside the world that brought you Forever 21—and those skinny jeans in your closet.
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Two killed in WW1 weapon explosion
A shell or grenade buried in western Belgium since World War One, has exploded, killing two people.
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Buddha's World of the Arts and Beyond: Was Nuclear War An Invention of Modern Man, or Did We Borrow From the Past? By Paulo Guimaraes
Showcase of my artistic talents plus, articles about conspiracy theories, news, health matters, and more!!
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Who is the bully? The U.S. has treated Russia like a loser since the end of the Cold War.
One afternoon in September 1987, Secretary of State George Shultz settled in a chair across the table from Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in a New York conference room. Both were in the city for the United Nations General Assembly. As he habitually did at the start of such meetings , Shultz handed Shevardnadze a list of reported human rights abuses in the Soviet Union.
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What Pakistan Knew About Bin Laden
Shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, I went to live and report for The New York Times in Afghanistan. I would spend most of the next 12 years there, following the overthrow of the Taliban, feeling the excitement of the freedom and prosperity that was promised in its wake and then watching the gradual dissolution of that hope.
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These Chevy Vegas were designed for vertical (nose down) shipment. Circa 1969.
The Vega was designed for vertical shipment, nose down. General Motors and Southern Pacific designed "Vert-A-Pac" autorack cars to hold 30 Vegas each, compared with conventional tri-level autoracks which held 18. The Vega was fitted with four removable cast-steel sockets on the underside and had plastic spacers—removed at unloading—to protect engine and transmission mounts. The rail car ramp/doors were opened and closed via forklift.
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