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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Should the District of Columbia be given Statehood?

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 461
  Should the District of Columbia be given Statehood? A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet ************************** The short answer is NO! The long answer is: NOOOOOOOOOO! Washington is a city, a government compound, if you please; it is anything but a state! And it should never become a state… unless… ...
  2 days ago

• Just In Time: George Washington’s Updated Rules for Holiday Civility (Sort of)

  
  UVA Today News Blog — Authority: 128
  Those clever filmmakers at U.Va. Magazine are at it again. Click below to see their take on U.Va.’s Civility Project — specifically, how George Washington might adapt his famed 110 rules for civility to modern holiday life.
  3 days ago

• The Frisbee: Spinning the Truth

  
  Play Stuff Blog — Authority: 111
  Some tall tales are so pleasing that you wish they were true. Not the kind that are just mistakes, like believing that John F. Kennedy was a gifted ventriloquist or that Shania Twain is Mark Twain’s great grand-daughter. I’m talking about plausible old yarns like the one about the young George Washington ...
  3 days ago

• Barriers associated with regular exercise in health clubs

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, Dec 18 (ANI): A new study has revealed that negative emotions prevent people from exercising regularly in health clubs.Researchers at The George Washington University Medical Center explored and compared the barriers associated with regular exercise in health clubs between overweight and normal weight ...
  3 days ago

• Teeth of some apes are formed primarily to survive toughest times

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, December 18 (ANI): A new research has determined that the teeth of some apes are formed primarily to handle the most stressful times when food is scarce.The research, performed by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), imply that if humanity is serious about protecting its ...
  4 days ago

• Answer to Thought for Thursday

  
  Kim Kasch Blogsite - A Writer's Blog — Authority: 130
  Answer: George Washington. And these dogs were the founders of the American Foxhound breed. Washington bred descendants of English hounds mixed with a French foxhound given to him by the Marquis de Lafayette.
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• Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen;

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 543
  barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves. Just like the British in the late 1700s, mother England wanted to maintain control. Americans protested a tea tax. But the Boston Tea Party, throwing the tea into Boston harbor, wasn’t enough to rally Americans against the British. George Washington ...
  4 days ago

• Negative emotions outweigh intent to exercise at health clubs

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  St. Louis, MO, December 17, 2009 -- Time and time again, it has been documented that regular exercise has many health benefits including lowering risks associated with the comorbidities of obesity. Link:  http://www.elsevierhealth.com
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• Rashid Khalidi headlines taxpayer-funded Palestinian fest

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC), a U.S. taxpayer-funded organization noted for the virulent anti-Israeli attitudes of its academic members, held a conference in October at George Washington Universitys Elliott School of International Affairs. Most of the conference was apolitical, but two lectures in ...
  4 days ago

• CBB: Field of 65

  
  AthlonSports.com - Season Previews, Predictions and Pre-Game Analysis — Authority: 481
  The college basketball season is nearly a month old but we take a look back at our original predicted Field of 65.
  4 days ago

• Among apes, teeth are made for the toughest times

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  The teeth of some apes are formed primarily to handle the most stressful times when food is scarce, according to new research* performed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Link:  ...
  4 days ago

• The Initiated Eye: Freemasonry and the Architecture of Washington, D.C.

  
  National Heritage Museum — Authority: 114
  Have you read the new Dan Brown book, The Lost Symbol , yet?  Maybe you put it on your holiday wish list?  If your answer to either question is yes, then you probably know the basic outline of the story – it takes place in Washington, D.C., and makes reference to a number of prominent D.C. sites, many of which ...
  4 days ago

• Wilderness Winter

  
  Visual Thoughts Photography — Authority: 137
  The wilderness along the James River in Snowden Gorge in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia on a wintry atmospheric morning. © 2009 D L Ennis, All rights reserved. NOTE: Permission for the use of my images is granted for personal websites and blogs but is to include a link back to this site and proper credit given ...
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• Take it from Snee: And go cry home to mama

  
  SeriouslyGuys — Authority: 139
  I normally stay out of the affairs of other countries, especially when it concerns cultural taboos. I mean, I live in a state where it’s illegal to see a stripper’s vagina … unless I take her home. (The industry refers to this as a “to-go box.”) And even when I get her there, I have to churn it all ...
  5 days ago

• The Founding Fathers got it, why cant liberals?

  
  Coralville Courier — Authority: 437
  "One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington , 1796
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• Gay US students want mixed-sex dorm rooms

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 679
  LGBT students in the US are campaigning for mixed-sex college rooms, saying many of them feel more comfortable living with someone of the opposite gender.
  5 days ago

• Building better markets. Not just better marketing.

  
  Doc Searls Weblog — Authority: 556
  The comment thread in my last post was lengthened by Seth Finkelstein ’s characterization of me as “basically a PR person”. I didn’t like that, and a helpful back-and-forth between the two of us (and others) followed. In the midst of the exchange I said I would unpack some of my points in a fresh post ...
  5 days ago

• Pronoun Sleuth

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  George Washington always refers to George Washington. The pronoun he, on the other hand, can refer to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, or anyone else who is male (not just presidents). So, unlike proper names which have the same meaning regardless of context, pronouns have almost no meaning without ...
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• An Unexceptional Nation

  
  The New Republic - damon linker Feed — Authority: 99
  Neocons have begun to warm to Barack Obama’s foreign policy vision . What they’ve liked about his recent speeches (at West Point, but far more so in Oslo) is his willingness to defend (against the anti-political pacifism that dominates a segment of elite European opinion) the idea that there can be morally ...
  6 days ago

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