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Nightmares and Hallucinations
by Bahar Gholipour, Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare may have been inspired by the chest-crushing sensation and hallucinations of sleep paralysis.It was an ordinary night, but Salma, a 20-year-old student...
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Facts About Niagara Falls
Niagara FallsOn October 24th, 1901, a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel.After her husband died in the Civil...
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Little Known History: War Of The Worlds
On October 30th, 1938, Orson Welles causes a nationwide panic with his broadcast of War ofthe Worlds, a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth.H. G. WellsOrson Welles was only 23...
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The "Big Void" In Khufu's Great Pyramid At Giza
by Jonathan Amos The mysteries of the pyramids have deepened with the discovery of what appears to be a giant void within the Khufu, or Cheops, monument in Egypt. It is not known why the cavity exists...
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Little Known History: Space Dogs
A Soviet Space DogBefore cosmonauts and astronauts, a team of Soviet space dogs blasted into the inky unknown. And the descendants of those that survived ended up living in the last place you might...
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Five Poems
Morning Songby Carmine Giordano I walk by you from the showermy man-root and its bellsdangling casuallythe old bod a wankerof what it wasthose days when your blood would have perkedto their music -...
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The Origin of Common Expressions: Diehard
Meaning : A person who strongly opposes change or who continues to support something in spite of opposition.Origin: While it typically refers to someone with a strong dedication to a particular set of...
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The Origin of Common Expressions: Gone Haywire
Meaning: In a mess.Origin: In frontier towns of the United States, wire would be taken from hay bales and used for domestic jobs, such as hanging clothes or binding the stove together. A ‘haywire’ camp...
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The Electorial College
The History of the Electoral CollegeWhen Americans vote for a President and Vice President, they are actually voting for presidential electors, known collectively as the electoral college. It is these...
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New Orangutan Species Is World's Most Endangered Great Ape
by Jeanna BrynerThere are fewer than 800 individuals of the newfound Batang Toru orangutan species left in the wild.An isolated group of orangutans hiding out in a forest in Sumatra is now considered...
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Government Report Says Humans to Blame for Climate Change
by Stephanie PappasHumans are to blame. That's the verdict of an executive-branch government report concluding that Homo sapiens are the dominant cause of planetary warming since the mid-20th century....
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Amazing Physics: How 245 People Jumped Off a Bridge at Once and Survived
On October 22, 2017, 245 people broke a record by "rope jumping" off a bridge in Hortolandia, Brazil.A group of 245 Brazilian daredevils recently set a record when they performed a harrowing feat: In...
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The True History of the Orient Express
by David ZaxSpies used it as a secret weapon. A president tumbled from it. Hitler wanted it destroyed. Just what made this train so intriguing?Georges Nagelmackers, creator of the Orient Express,...
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