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10 Glorious Lost Cities.

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:43:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Pretty cool! more info on the website.

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MACHU PICCHU (Peru): The Lost City of the Incas _[Wiki]

ANGKOR (Cambodia): Contains the world's largest religious monument _[Wiki]

MEMPHIS (Egypt): ancient capital of Egypt_[Wiki]

PETRA: stone structures carved into rocks _[Wiki]

PALMYRA (Syria): the Bride of the Desert _[Wiki]

POMPEII (Italy): buried by the volcano_[Wiki]

PALENQUE (Mexico): one of Mayan's most exquisite cities _[Wiki]

VIJAYANAGAR (India): capital of one of the largest Hindu empires _[Wiki]

EPHESUS (Turkey): one of the most important cities of early Christianity _[Wiki]

SANCHI (India): the best-preserved group of Buddhist monuments _[Wiki]

Tags: ancient, lost, cities

They did not give up

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:39:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York City caught on.

When Bell telephone was struggling to get started, its owners offered all their rights to Western Union for $100,000. The offer was disdainfully rejected with the pronouncement, "What use could this company make of an electrical toy."

Rocket scientist Robert Goddard found his ideas bitterly rejected by his scientific peers on the grounds that rocket propulsion would not work

An expert said of Vince Lombardi: "He possesses minimal football knowledge and lacks motivation."

Michael Jordan and Bob Cousy were each cut from their high school basketball teams.

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."

After Fred Astaire's first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, read, "Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little."

When Lucille Ball began studying to be actress, she was to"Try any other profes

Clip Source: www.des.emory.edu

As a young man, Abraham Lincoln went to war a captain and returned a private. Afterwards, he was a failure as a businessman. As a lawyer in Springfield, he was too impractical and temperamental to be a success.

Winston Churchill failed sixth grade. He was subsequently defeated in every election for public office until he became Prime Minister at the age of 62.

Socrates was called "an immoral corrupter of youth" and continued to corrupt even after a sentence of death was imposed on him.

Sigmund Freud was booed from the podium when he first presented his ideas to the scientific community of Europe.

Robert Sternberg received a C in his first college introductory-psychology class.

Thomas Edison's teachers said he was "too stupid to learn anything." He was fired from his first two jobs for being "non-productive."

Albert Einstein did not speak until he was 4-years-old and did not read until he was 7.

Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he succeeded

Tags: success, motivation, career, failure

50 Great Free Online Libraries

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:44:51 GMT

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50 Great Free Online Libraries

1. California Digital Library

2. The Online Books Page

3. Free Books

4. Project Gutenberg

5. Research Assistance

6. BookRags - E-Books and Book Notes

7. All Bookstores.com

8. FreeTech Books

10. Free E-Books.net

12. The eBook Directory

13. University of Virginia's E-Book library

14. BizzyDays Ebook Publications

15. Web Source

16. free-ebooks-4u.com

18. Free eBooks and Best Sites

19. Free Electronic Books

20. CIW Free E-Books

21. My Free EBooks

22. Free E-Books

25. EBookstand

26. Bibliomania

27. Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

28. The eText Archive

29. Free Books 5000

33. Page by Page Books

34. bartleby.com

35. Free Books 4 Doctors

37. Chapter-a-Day - Free Books in Your E-Mail!

38. Free-Book.co.uk: The directory of free online books

39. FreeBooknotes.com - Free study guides for over 250 books

42. BeyondBooks.com

46. eBooks4free.net - Download free books and manuscripts

48. Free Joke Books

56. Be Successful!

57. Daily Literature

58. Bookyards: library to the world

4shared.com

ReadPrint.com

Don't Write Like An Idiot

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:19:00 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: This is a reclip of an older clip that Invictus made. His original exceeded the current clip limit so I couldn't revive it.

Refresher everyone.

Clip Source: web.centre.edu

You may not notice it yourself, but if you don't know the difference between YOUR and YOU'RE, you come across as an idiot whenever you use them. They are not interchangeable, and neither are THERE, THEIR, and THEY'RE, nor any of the examples explained below. As more and more communication takes place online and in writing, through chat, email and messaging, certain common misspellings of words and contractions have become dangerously frequent, reinforcing their repeated misuse. This page doesn't aspire to make you a decent writer, or even a competent speller. It only seeks to keep you from making an ass of yourself.

YOUR ≠ YOU'RE

ITS ≠ IT'S

THERE ≠ THEIR ≠ THEY'RE

*NEW* ACCEPT ≠ EXCEPT *NEW*

NOUNS ≠ NOUN'S

WHO'S ≠ WHOSE

KNOW ≠ NO ≠ NOW

TOO ≠ TO ≠ TWO

OUR ≠ ARE

WHERE ≠ WE'RE ≠ WERE

AFFECT ≠ EFFECT

Tags: spelling, grammar, writing, common mistakes, english language, write.better.look.smarter

Healthier Not to Make Bed

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:10:43 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Failing to make your bed in the morning may actually help keep you healthy, scientists believe.

Research suggests that while an unmade bed may look scruffy it is also unappealing to house dust mites thought to cause asthma and other allergies.

A Kingston University study discovered the bugs cannot survive in the warm, dry conditions found in an unmade bed.

Something as simple as leaving a bed unmade during the day can remove moisture from the sheets and mattress so the mites will dehydrate and eventually die

Dr Stephen Pretlove

The bugs, which are less than a millimetre long, feed on scales of human skin and produce allergens which are easily inhaled during sleep.

The average bed could be home to up to 1.5 million house dust mites.

£700m spent treating mite-induced illnesses each year in the UK.

Tags: dust mites, bedfellows

The amazing paintings of Iranian artist Iman Maleki

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:40:40 GMT

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Clip Source: www.imanmaleki.com

Tags: art, iran

The 10 Weirdest Facts about American Presidents

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:01:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 7. Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president, was reported to be a very interesting character. When not having his head massaged with Vaseline during breakfasts in bed or riding his own mechanical bull, he was ringing the White House doorbell and then running off to hide.

8. So far, all American presidents have claimed ancestry limited to one or more of just seven nationalities: Dutch, English, German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh.

9. Grover Cleveland was the only president to openly admit that he had fathered an illegitimate child.

10. There were four presidents who were not actual presidents of the United States: Sam Houston, Mirabeau Lamar, and Anson Jones were all presidents of the Republic of Texas. Jefferson Davis was President of the Confederate States of America.

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1. Franklin D. Roosevelt (President #32) was related in some way to 11 former U.S. Presidents.

2. James Garfield, the 20th president, was a professor of ancient languages; he was also ambidextrous. He is said to have been able to write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other.

3. John Tyler, the 10th president, fathered an impressive 15 children. He was in his 70s when the 15th child was born.

4. The tall stovepipe hat that Abraham Lincoln (President #16) is usually depicted wearing was, in fact, a useful wardrobe device. He stored important papers inside of it.

5. Our 17th President, Andrew Johnson, was born poor and could not read until the age of 17, when he met his future wife and she tutored him in reading, public speaking, and mathematics.

6. The 22nd and 24th president, Grover Cleveland, was drafted in the Civil War but paid a substitute $150 to take his place so he could stay behind to care for his mother and sisters.

Tags: weird facts

7 Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:26:02 GMT

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Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Popular culture is loaded with myths and half-truths. Most are harmless. But when doctors start believing medical myths, perhaps it's time to worry.

In the British Medical Journal this week, researchers looked into several common misconceptions, from the belief that a person should drink eight glasses of water per day to the notion that reading in low light ruins your eyesight.

"We got fired up about this because we knew that physicians accepted these beliefs and were passing this information along to their patients," said Dr. Aaron Carroll, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. "And these beliefs are frequently cited in the popular media."

Myth: We use only 10 percent of our brains.

Myth: You should drink at least eight glasses of water a day.

Myth: Fingernails and hair grow after death.

Myth: Shaved hair grows back faster, coarser and darker.

Myth: Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight.

Myth: Eating turkey makes you drowsy.

Tags: myths, common

Dangerous Airports

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:26:33 GMT

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Clip Source: get-humor.com

Tags: airplane, photography, unusual, airport

Why doing nothing may sometimes be the best action of all

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:41:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: By taking action — even if it’s neither rational nor likely to be successful — they can at least be seen to have done something.If they stand and wait until the ball is kicked and then fail to stop it, they feel worse because of their inaction; and others are far more likely to criticize them for not appearing even to try. It’s better to try a poor action than try a better — but seemingly passive — response if both fail; even though the “inactive” response is more rational and based on a better likelihood of success.

In today’s business world, action is preferred over the alternatives and is more likely to result in forgiveness when a mistake is made. You can always say that you tried. The person who does nothing is doubly damned: once for the mistake and again for not “doing something.”This urge to action — to get things done — is more emotional than rational. “Wait and see” risks your credibility and reputation, even where it can be shown to be the optimal course.

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Fresh research suggests our bias for action is emotional, not rational.

Ofer H. Azar at Ben-Gurion University of Negev in Israel

is interested in

how investors make high-stakes decisions.

Rather than construct some artificial experiment, Azar decided to study professional soccer goalkeepers and how they deal with the toughest, highest-stakes decision they are forced to make on a regular basis: how to act to stop a penalty kick at goal.

By analyzing data on more than 300 kicks, the researchers calculated the action most likely to prevent a goal being scored. Surprisingly, it is standing in the center of the goal and doing nothing until the trajectory of the ball can be seen. This resulted in a 1 in 3 success rate — far higher than the average.

Yet goalkeepers almost never act in this way.

Fearing censure more than failure

Others value action, even when it’s wrong

The researchers suggest that the answer lies in the goalkeepers’ emotions and the response they meet from others after failing.

Tags: economics, football

Russian Bombers Intercepted Off Alaska's Coast

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:33:11 GMT

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Clip Source: www.militarytimes.com

More and more American and Canadian fighter jets are scrambling and intercepting Russian bombers flying off the Alaskan coast, exacerbating tensions between the former Cold War foes.

There have been 16 such intercepts since July, Pacific Air Forces Commander Gen. Howie Chandler told the Anchorage Daily News on March 27. That compares with just one in 2005, and none in the previous 10 years, Chandler said.

The most recent incident occurred March 25, when two F-15s from Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, scrambled to intercept two Russian Tu-95 Bear heavy bombers.

The bomber patrols also raise the possibility that a routine encounter between Russian bombers and American fighters could escalate beyond the intentions of either side

But the flip side is that the bomber patrols encourage the U.S. military to be more vigilant

Tags: military, russia, air force

How Does It Feel To Die?

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:21:43 GMT

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Clip Source: www.newscientist.com

If the flow of freshly oxygenated blood to the brain is stopped, through whatever mechanism, people tend to have about 10 seconds before losing consciousness. They may take many more minutes to die, though, with the exact mode of death affecting the subtleties of the final experience. If you can take the grisly details, read on for a brief guide to the many and varied ways death can suddenly strike.

Drowning

Heart attack

Bleeding to death

Fire

Decapitation

Electrocution

Fall from a height

Hanging

Lethal injection

It takes your breath away

Tags: new scientist, death, dying

Surprise! The Most Aggressive Dog Breed

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:44:40 GMT

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Clip Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Forget pit bulls and Rottweilers - it's the tiny sausage dog that's the most aggressive breed.

One in 12 dachshunds have tried to bit their owner, a study found. And 20 per cent have snapped at strangers or attacked other dogs.

Chihuahuas, an even smaller breed, were the second most nasty.

But the pit bull - notorious for its aggressive nature - was ranked six in the Top 10 list of aggressive dogs.

The study published in Applied Animal Behavior Science quizzed 6,000 owners.

Top 10 aggressive dogs: 1 Dachshund 2 Chihuahua 3 Jack Russell terrier 4 Akita 5 Australian cattle dog 6 Pit bull 7 Beagle 8 English springer spaniel 9 Border collie 10 German shepherd.

Degrees of Blue Sky

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:52:33 GMT

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Clip Source: epod.usra.edu

At first glance, the above photo taken near Wellington, Colorado shows only a featureless blue sky. Nevertheless, it illustrates a phenomenon often overlooked. The sky is not one blue color but a gradation, lighter at the horizon and darker overhead -- the more atmosphere you look through the lighter the blue. Directly overhead there are only a few miles of atmosphere (troposphere), but if you look toward the horizon, the path length of light is significantly greater. As a result, more of the shorter wavelengths (blue and violet colors) are scattered or attenuated. The deepest blues are found approximately 90 degrees away from wherever the Sun is in the sky. Photo taken on November 24, 2005.

Tags: science, interesting

Warm to icy beer in seconds

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:13:41 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nzherald.co.nz

A young New Zealand inventor has found a solution to the unpalatable problem of a can of warm beer - a device that turns a tepid beverage into a cold drink within seconds.

And the portable gadget, which has a cooling capacity almost four times that of regular ice with the advantage that it doesn't water down your drink, could spell the end of lugging a heavy chilly bin to the beach.

"You have plastic cooling cells which are pressed down into the dock which houses the liquid carbon dioxide. The liquid CO2 expands and is pressurised into dry ice in the base of the cooling cells ... in a moment.

With a surface temperature of minus 78.5C, dry ice has a cooling capacity almost four times that of the same amount of regular ice.

"The cooling power is almost instant and is utilised for several minutes and it doesn't dilute the drink like ice would," said Mr Hodgson.

Mr Hodgson said he was looking at patenting the Huski, which he expects to retail at around $50.

Tags: beer, inventions, coolants, refrigeration, gadgets

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10 Glorious Lost Cities.

MACHU PICCHU (Peru): The Lost City of the Incas [Wiki]

ANGKOR (Cambodia): Contains the world's largest religious monument [Wiki]

MEMPHIS (Egypt): ancient capital of Egypt[Wiki]

PETRA: stone structures carved into rocks [Wiki]

PALMYRA (Syria): the Bride of the Desert [Wiki]

POMPEII (Italy): buried by the volcano[Wiki]

PALENQUE (Mexico): one of Mayan's most exquisite cities [Wiki]

VIJAYANAGAR (India): capital of one of the largest Hindu empires [Wiki]

EPHESUS (Turkey): one of the most important cities of early Christianity [Wiki]

SANCHI (India): the best-preserved group of Buddhist monuments [Wiki]

They did not give up

50 Great Free Online Libraries

50 Great Free Online Libraries

Don't Write Like An Idiot

Healthier Not to Make Bed

The amazing paintings of Iranian artist Iman Maleki

The 10 Weirdest Facts about American Presidents

7 Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe

Dangerous Airports

Why doing nothing may sometimes be the best action of all

Fresh research suggests our bias for action is emotional, not rational.

Fearing censure more than failure

Others value action, even when it’s wrong

Russian Bombers Intercepted Off Alaska's Coast

How Does It Feel To Die?

Drowning

Heart attack

Bleeding to death

Fire

Decapitation

Electrocution

Fall from a height

Hanging

Lethal injection

Surprise! The Most Aggressive Dog Breed

Degrees of Blue Sky

Warm to icy beer in seconds

MACHU PICCHU (Peru): The Lost City of the Incas _[Wiki]

ANGKOR (Cambodia): Contains the world's largest religious monument _[Wiki]

MEMPHIS (Egypt): ancient capital of Egypt_[Wiki]

PETRA: stone structures carved into rocks _[Wiki]

PALMYRA (Syria): the Bride of the Desert _[Wiki]

POMPEII (Italy): buried by the volcano_[Wiki]

PALENQUE (Mexico): one of Mayan's most exquisite cities _[Wiki]

VIJAYANAGAR (India): capital of one of the largest Hindu empires _[Wiki]

EPHESUS (Turkey): one of the most important cities of early Christianity _[Wiki]

SANCHI (India): the best-preserved group of Buddhist monuments _[Wiki]