By Sami on October 14th, 2009

- Interesting – Amazing Illustrations by Karl Hans (BibliOdyssey).
- Interesting – Two-year-old with same IQ as Einstein (Telegraph UK).
- Interesting – The economics of piracy (Scientific American).
- History – Decline and decay in former Communist ‘model town’ (Telegraph UK).
- History – 10 Forgotten Facts About Historical Events (Listverse).
- History – The Development of the US Army Dog Gas Mask (LMaG).
- History – Top 10 Greatest Military Achievements That Changed the Face of War (toptenz).
- History – The History of Hacking (Global).
- History – Porsche to investigate forced labor under Hitler (DW-World).
- Wiki – Blue Peacock, the chicken-powered nuclear bomb (Wikipedia).
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By Sami on October 13th, 2009

- Photography – The Berlin Reunion (The Big Picture).
- Science – Can Life Survive Deep Space? Let’s Send It There! (Wired)
- Science – The 10 Biggest Intellectual Fights Of All Time (Weird News).
- History – Hermann the German, once sullied by Nazi propaganda, is enjoying a revival (The National Newspaper).
- History – French Revolution was a “‘mistake” says French “King” (Telegraph UK).
- History – States Battle U.S. For Billions in Lost War Bonds (Washington Post).
- History – 20,000 year old cave paintings found in Spain (eitb).
- Interesting – Babe Ruth Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before (NY Times).
- Interesting – Money Does Grow on Trees (Trifter).
- Wiki – Hermann the German (Wikipedia).
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By Sami on October 12th, 2009

- Interesting – The Diving Horses of Atlantic City (Petticoated).
- Interesting – Shell’s 600,000-ton megaships will process natural gas and shrug off typhoons (Pop Sci).
- Science – Europa, Jupiter’s Moon, Could Support Complex Life (Discovery).
- History – Pre-Columbian Graves Found in Peru (Latin American Herald Tribune).
- History – The Internet’s first banner ad was created by AT&T (sctimes).
- Wiki – Tritone, people were excommunicated for playing these notes (Wikipedia).
- Wiki – Baseball Rubbing Mud, professional baseball depends on this secret mud (Wikipedia).
- Wiki – Phallic processions (Wikipedia).
- Wiki – D-IX, drug cocktail used by the Nazis for military use (Wikipedia).
- Wiki – Great Hedge of India (Wikipedia).
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By Sami on October 06th, 2009

- Interesting – Why I Slept with 1300 Women (Open).
- Interesting – Amazing way to visualize a billion dollars (Information is Beautiful).
- Interesting – An Illinois woman who set out on a treasure hunt for buried gold coins after finding a cryptic note in an antique rocking chair may have been the victim of a prolific prankster who died more than 30 years ago (Fox News).
- Interesting – The waking nightmare of sleep paralysis (The Guardian).
- Science – Wired Science News for Your Neurons Termite Altruism Might Have Roots in War (Wired).
- Science – 7 new luminescent mushroom species discovered (Eureka Alert).
- Dinosaurs – Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton looking for home after $6m auction fails (Telegraph.co.uk).
- History – Jack the Ripper’s identity finally uncovered? (Telegraph.co.uk).
- History – Adolf Hitler was actually a great leader… until WWII (Forbes).
- Wiki – Raymond Robinson’s face was severely disfigured by a childhood accident, terrified children turned him into an urban legend (Wikipedia).
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By Sami on October 06th, 2009

- Science – Baby mammoth yields secrets after 40,000 years in Siberian tundra (Times Online).
- Science – Why humans will never meet another intelligent life form (The Daily Galaxy).
- Science – One of the world’s largest freshwater fish is on the verge of going extinct (BBC).
- History – The Dark Pre-History of the World’s Favorite Sports Car (SPIEGEL ONLINE).
- History – Sir Isaac Newton’s “list of sins” (The Newton Project).
- History – The Halifax Explosion was history’s largest explosion until the invention of atomic weapons (Maritime Museum of the Atlantic).
- Interesting – Back From the Suburbs to Run a Patch of Somalia (NYTimes).
- Interesting – How the name “Natasha” became a Russian byword for prostitute (Russia Today).
- WTF – Tourists relieving themselves atop rare shrimp are blamed for its extinction (ABC News).
- Wiki – The Battle of Cable Street, British Fascists face off… well, everyone (Wikipedia).
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