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• Blue Whale ‘Song of Death’ Says Warns World Of 2012 Catastrophe

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 582
  A most interesting FSB report from the Russian Far Eastern Chukchi Peninsula circulating in the Kremlin today states that the tribal shamanic elders of the Siberian Yupik peoples have convened in their most holy of conclaves for the first time since the June, 30 1908 Tunguska explosion, which at over 1,000 times the ...
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• The Great Implant Debate

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 463
  Breast implants are a popular area of plastic surgery. This leads us to the debate on the type of implants that are best and the government?s role in the decisionThe debate on silicone and saline implants is a hot one. For a long period of time, silicone was dominant, but health concerns led to saline [...]
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• Then He Got Elected

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 440
  “The investment community feels very put-upon,” Fass explained. “They feel there is no reason why they shouldn’t earn $1 million to $200 million a year, and they don’t want to be held responsible for the global financial meltdown.” This time around Matt Taibi’s monthly essay blasting the Obama ...
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• Taft-Katsura Agreement Blamed for Starting World War II

  
  ROK Drop — Authority: 527
  Incredibly the Taft-Katsura Agreement which Koreans have long used to blame the US for the Japanese colonization of the peninsula in the last century; is now being used to blame the US for starting World War II: SIXTY-EIGHT years ago tomorrow, Japan attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. In the ...
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• Howard Zinn, Intellectual Moron

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 747
  “Objectivity is impossible,” self-styled “peoples’ historian” Howard Zinn once remarked, “and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of a social aim, if you think history should serve society in some way; should serve the progress of the ...
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• Thailand Premiere of “Lost and Found: Legacy of the USS Lagarto”

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 425
  On December 12, 2009 the Screening Room on Koh Tao will host the Thailand premier of “Lost and Found-Legacy of the USS Lagarto” starting at 7:30. The screening room can be found across from Asia Divers resort in Sai Ree.The documentary investigates the loss of the USS Lagarto, focusing on the submarine’s history ...
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• Luther Smith, member of famed Tuskeegee Airmen, dies at 89

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  By TIMOTHY LOGUE, tlogue@delcotimes.com RADNOR — Luther H. Smith, a World War II pilot who flew 133 combat missions over Europe as a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, died Wednesday morning at Bryn Mawr Hospital. He was 89. A longtime resident of Villanova, Smith dropped out of the University of Iowa in 1942 to ...
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• Finnish Cooks Put Enemy in the Soup

  
  Today's History Lesson — Authority: 122
  We’ve gotten mostly dug out from the biggest blizzard to hit the area in more than 30 years.  It began in earnest Tuesday and, by noon yesterday, had dumped 15″ of snow.  Of course, the snow didn’t fall in a vacuum…it was carried about by 40+ mph winds.  We don’t have a snowblower, just shovels, so it was ...
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• SIR RICHARD TODD . . . Dead at Age 90

  
  Theo Spark — Authority: 644
  11 June 1919, Dublin, Ireland - 3 December 2009, Little Humby, Lincolnshire, England, UK Bullets zipped by as I jumped. I hit the ground 6 seconds later and came under intense fire.. Actor, World War II Veteran; officer, 7th Battalion (LI) The Parachute Regiment. On D-Day this Battalion made ...
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• Hilter isn’t an advanced diver (parody)

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 425
  YouTube have released a parody of Hitler complaining about his treatment by DIR divers for not being an advanced diver.This video clip is actor Bruno Ganz playing Adolf Hitler during the end of world war II in the movie “Der Untergan (Downfall)” 2004 Constatin Films.The premise of this parody is Hitlers highest ...
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• Russians Claim they Burned Body of Adolf Hitler in 1970 and Threw Ashes in a River - Video Report 12/10/09

  
  Freedom's Lighthouse — Authority: 501
  Here is a CNN video report that says Russian officials claim they burned the body of Adolf Hitler in 1970 and threw the ashes in an East German river. In newly released details, the Russians claim they buried the body of Hitler and his wife Eva Braun on an East German Base where they remained until 1970, when the ...
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• Aachen Stadt I

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 771
  You’re familiar with historical re-enactment groups who get together to stage battles from history. Here’s one with a twist: a group of woman who portray the German Red Cross, or Deutches Rotes Kreuz (DRK) of World War II. Aachen Stadt I does not endorse the politics of the Nazi party; in fact they say right up ...
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• Member of famed Tuskeegee Airmen dies at 89 (Pennsylvania)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  RADNOR — Luther H. Smith, a World War II pilot who flew 133 combat missions over Europe as a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, died Wednesday morning at Bryn Mawr Hospital. He was 89. A longtime resident of Villanova, Smith dropped out of the University of Iowa in 1942 to join the U.S. Army Air Corps. “Before ...
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• Coming to a School Near You: The Dangerous Religion of Howard Zinn

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 747
  Sunday night, the History Channel airs The People Speak , a star-studded presentation of Howard Zinn’s Voices of A People’s History of the United States .  Accompanying this series is the Zinn Education Project , a curriculum meant to expose children from pre-school through high school to American history ...
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• Tuskegee Airman who was profiled in Post-Dispatch series dies

  
  The Editors' Desk — Authority: 652
  Luther H. Smith, fourth from right in the front row, graduated from flight training with class 43-E on May 28, 1943, at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama. (U.S. Air Force Historical Research Agency) Luther H. Smith came back from World…
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• Slavery in war and peace

  
  Christchurch City Libraries Blog — Authority: 470
  Tears in the darkness : the story of the Bataan Death march by Elizabeth & Michael Norman This book’s title came from a Japanese kanji for “the loneliest despair” imaginable. So be warned, it is as heart-wrenching as it is compelling a read as you will ever find on the Second World War. The book recounts ...
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• 5 Weird Weapons Of World War II – The Allies

  
  Weird Worm — Authority: 528
  Between 1939 and 1945, one of the worst wars in history was fought out between two opposing forces that were so large and wide-spread, it became known as the Second World War. In a bid to stop Adolf Hitler and his allies, who were known as the ‘ Axis ’ powers, the ‘Allies’ worked on many weapons projects to ...
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• Mental Midgets and Moral Pygmies

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 142
  This post is a guest contribution by Niels Jensen*, chief executive partner of London-based Absolute Return Partners . I have arrived at the fourth and final letter in our series about macro themes likely to shape the future. The topic this month is the role of the consumer; the fact that he has over-extended ...
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• Christmas ‘44

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 612
  “Christmas tree a la mode.” That’s how my grandfather, Bill Mackowski, described it to his wife, LaVerne, back in December of 1944. Bill was stationed in Belgium, part of the 330th infantry regiment of the 83rd Army Division. The world was embroiled in war and, at that 
time, the Battle of the Bulge had been ...
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• A Nation of Star-F%*#ers: Why We Embrace ‘The People Speak’

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 747
  In a publicity event for the new History Channel film “The People Speak” held at UCLA last week , actor/producer Josh Brolin was charming, self-effacing, funny, and down-right likeable.  And, that was the whole reason he was there.  We live in a culture obsessed with celebrity and in full adoration of movie ...
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