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• The Heat Drunk Dancing Clip

  
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  Twentieth Century Fox has unveiled a new clip for Paul Feig s comedy The Heat . Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy star as a pair of cops, who team up to take down a drug lord. Watch as the duo has some drunken fun in this latest look. The Heat - "Drunk Dancing" The Heat comes to theaters June 28th, ...
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• Bikini - A Brief History

  
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  This is a bikini ( photo by Vincent Boiteau ) BIKINI Noun. Mid-20th century. [ Bikini , an atoll in the Marshall Islands, where an atomic bomb test was carried out in 1946.] A scanty two-piece beach garment worn by women and girls. Oh dont be so cynical! I know youre thinking that Ive only chosen to ...
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• What happens when the Net goes down…..and other horrors!

  
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  This is the second in my new series of Brilliant Posts , when I feature, approximately weekly, a post which I find stands out from everything I’ve read recently. The shout-out this week goes to the brilliant Pretty Feet, Pop Toe blog which I’ve been Following for some time. Check this one out  - ‘ Lord of the ...
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• 1930: 13 Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang cadres, for the Yen Bai mutiny

  
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  June 17 is an honored day in Vietnam for the sacrifice under the French guillotine this date of 13 early martyrs for national independence. These were members of the nationalist Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang (VNQDD, or Viet Quoc). Not averse to the propaganda of the deed, these revolutionaries labored secretly under ...
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• Laura R. Gale House

  
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  [ Laura R. Gale House (1909) Frank Lloyd Wright, architect /Image & Artwork: designslinger ] In 1891 Oak Park lawyer and real estate investor Thomas Gale asked Frank Lloyd Wright if the architect would design a house for Gale and his wife Laura. Gale owned a parcel of property on Chicago Avenue half a ...
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• Shithead Saatchi Attacks Wife

  
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  Nigella Lawson rowed in public with Charles Saatchi. In photographs published in a Sunday newspaper, the television chef appears to have become embroiled in a violent dispute with the wealthy art dealer. The couple were sitting outside Scott’s in Mayfair, central London, when he appeared to lean over and grab her ...
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• 1923: Daniel Cooper, baby farmer

  
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  On this date in 1923, Daniel Cooper was hanged in Wellington, New Zealand for murder. Cooper and his second wife — his first died under suspicious circumstances; many people suspected Cooper of poisoning her — had a racket as a “health specialist” in the Wellington suburb of Newlands . Their “rest care ...
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• Narcissism and the Minimum Wage Are Destroying Opportunities

  
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  Once upon a time America was a country where a young adult would jump at an opportunity to learn new skills so that he or she could increase their options later. They were grateful. Those days are over thanks to a new ruling against unpaid internships. Thanks to an America that fertilizes Millennial narcissism in new ...
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• A Good Day to Die Hard (Blu-ray / DVD + Digital Copy)

  
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  Starring: Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, Yuliya Snigir, Radivoje Bukvić, Cole Hauser Written By: Skip Woods Directed By: John Moore Studio: 20th Century Fox Buy On Amazon.com A Good Day To Die Hard isn’t that great and probably shouldn’t … Read More
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• Rupert Murdoch Files for Divorce

  
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  Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Murdoch at the Vanity Fair party celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Tribeca Film Festival. Photo: David Shankbone. Wall Street Journal – News Corp Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch filed for divorce from his wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch, in New York State Supreme Court on ...
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• Burn Notice Season 6 DVD Set Unboxing Video

  
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  Here is an unboxing video for the season 6 DVD Box Set for the USA Network TV series Burn Notice. Check out the video after the break.
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• Afternoon Art

  
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  “Green Pan and Black Bottle” by Pablo Picasso (1908)
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• UK Spot for The Wolverine Revealed

  
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  We just got a new international trailer for the July 26 release, The Wolverine , and now 20th Century Fox has released a TV spot for the UK as well. Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day ...
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• The Top 10 Deadly Diseases Cured in the 20th Century

  
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  The development of vaccines in the 20th century helped decrease the mortality rate of human beings. Although vaccines don’t guarantee complete protection from an illness or disease, it helps boost the immune system that can slow down the toxins caused … The post The Top 10 Deadly Diseases Cured in the 20th ...
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• ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Gets Comic-Con Panel For Final Season

  
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  How I Met Your Mother is getting its own panel at Comic-Con this year before its ninth and final season . Despite the show’s unrivaled popularity,  How I Met Your Mother  is only just now making its debut at Comic-Con after eight years. The final season will premiere this fall, and the  HIMYM panel will ...
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• Daily Gallery: Art – Thematic: Dada and related

  
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  Your Vintage Printable Daily Gallery: Dadism and related early 20th Century modern movements.
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• Thoughts on Stuck Rubber Baby

  
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  Howard Cruses Stuck Rubber Baby  is one of those books with a title that felt vaguely familiar to me when I saw it, but didnt remember why  it felt familiar.  I pulled it from the library shelves the other day, read the blurb, and thought to myself, " Now  I remember why it feels familiar."  The blurb, for ...
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• St. Mawr by D. H. Lawrence

  
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  A note to begin: the Wikipedia entry for D. H. Lawrence’s 1925 St. Mawr is kind of pathetically short. Remind me to do something about that, won’t you? So this story caused a rumble in my class when it was discussed, with the girls on one side of the class, straining under the pressure of not clobbering the ...
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• ‘The Wolverine’ survives bomb attack in new trailer

  
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    A new trailer has recently been released for ‘The Wolverine.’ The new promo video sees Logan (Hugh Jackman) saving the life of a man when the atomic bombs are [...]
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• Terra Nova – Dinosauri in giardino

  
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  Siamo nel 2149. La vita sul pianeta Terra rischia di estinguersi per via dell’inquinamento e della sovrappopolazione. Durante l’esecuzione di alcuni esperimenti nucleari, gli scienziati scoprono una frattura spazio-temporale, la quale in seguito verrà sfruttata per la costruzione di un portale che da su una Terra ...
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