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POPSVagina Clip This clip is in honor of the ridiculous decision by a school in New York to suspend a few students for using the word vagina during a reading of The Vagina Monologues.
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POPSAngola Miss Landmine Beauty Pageant The joint winners of the Angolan contest, Augusta Urica, 31, and Maria Restino Manuel, 26, were the embodiment of Traavik's ideal at the finale in the capital, Luanda, swathed in designer gowns, sashes and silver tiaras that crowned them Miss Landmine 2008. With 10 women representing their provinces, she hobbled up the platform on crutches to collect her prize - a golden, state-of-the-art prosthetic limb to replace the leg blown off 10 years ago. In Cambodia there should be no shortage of contenders for the 2009 title. There are 25,000 amputees among the country's 63,000 victims of landmines and blasts from unexploded ordinance left after 30 years of civil war. Up to 1m landmines remain buried, out of the estimated million mines planted along the border with Thailand after the invading Vietnamese left in 1989
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POPSNo vaginas please, we're Floridian OMFG... again with the "vagina is evil" bull... Didn't we go through this a week or so guys? (but with a school play) I'm just stunned that a woman actually complained the the word vagina was offensive...
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POPSwhy did people believe it was reall ? Can it happen today? Orson Wells terrified all of America in 1938 with his Halloween radio play of War Of The Worlds. In honor of the 70th anniversary of the classic Orson Welles radio play about martians invading New Jersey, Radio Lab asks: why did people believe it was really happening? And why has this stunt continued to fool people since?
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POPSSleep no escape from wired world. I first thought the title referred to the electrical interference from electronic devices interfering with sleep but the story is about a bed that monitors sleeping patterns and makes adjustments according to the results. It does include connection to the internet any is the chance of getting little sleep through watching movies or just being online all night.
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POPSSurrealism - pics May 21 2008: The manuscript draft of the first surrealist manifesto is being put up for auction in Paris today. Take a look at photographs of some of the godfathers of the movement
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POPSParents complain about disabled presenter I cannot believe this i watch the same program with my grandchildren if they ask questions we explain and they just get on with enjoying the program.It shocks me to thing that someone would complain.
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POPSThe Real Antartic Explorer Hero: Tom Crean
"Crean is portrayed, telling of his life and adventures, in a one-man play titled Tom Crean, Antarctic Explorer, written and performed by Aidan Dooley. The play premièred in New York in 2003, and has toured around the world, including a run Off-Broadway in the summer of 2007 at New York's Irish Repertory Theatre." "Crean is commemorated in at least two place names: Mount Crean (2550 m) in Victoria Land, and the Crean Glacier on South Georgia. He is also remembered in the 2001 TG4 Documentary 'Ciarraíoch san Oighir' (A Kerryman in the Ice)." "Crean saw service in the WW1, and retired from the navy in 1920. He married and opened up a small pub called "The South Pole Inn." Throughout his life, Crean remained an extremely modest man. When he returned to Kerry, he put all of his medals away and never again spoke about his experiences in the Antarctic" These medals did cause him some grief when Black&Tans turned over his public house. They uncovered them and concluded he'd stolen
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POPS'The readiness is all'... Never ask yourself what you have learnt … Only ask yourself what are the circumstances which are different from last year. In that way, you can apply last year's lessons. Experience means that the ground is prepared. As in Hamlet's last lines, 'The readiness is all.' "
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POPSBafta honour for Monty Python stars more: It will also include interviews with guests including Steve Coogan, Bruce Dickinson, Jeff Bridges, Eddie Izzard, Stephen Merchant, Dan Aykroyd, Tim Roth and Hugh Hefner. The Pythons will collect the Bafta after a screening of the film at New York's Ziegfeld Theatre on October 15, 40 years after the first edition of Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast by the BBC. By Damon Wake
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POPSSimilarities Between the Assassinations of Kennedy and Lincoln Lincoln was shot in the back of the head in the presence of his wife Kennedy was shot in the back of the head in the presence of his wife Lincoln shot in the Ford Theatre Kennedy shot in a Lincoln, made by Ford He was shot on a Friday He was shot on a Friday The assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was known by three names, comprised of fifteen letters The assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was known by three names, comprised of fifteen letters Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and fled to a warehouse *3 Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theater Booth was killed before being brought to trial Oswald was killed before being brought to trial There were theories that Booth was part of a greater conspiracy There were theories that Oswald was part of a greater conspiracy Lincoln's successor was Andrew Johnson, born in 1808 Kennedy's successor was Lyndon Johnson, born in 1908
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POPSFirst Meeting This was such a cute story, and photo, it begins with "This is a photograph of my parents meeting for the first time ... "
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POPSNeuroculture There is currently amazing exhibition at FACT, Liverpool, UK. It is based on sound and sisorientation through disruption of senses, but one room is wired via an artificial neuron to many locations in the UK, from football stadia to schools, where sounds are picked up and fed through software set to mimic thalamic thresholds and into the room at FAXT where you walk between a matrix of suspended speakers and through an everchanging soundscape of analogue real time sounds filtered by digital simiulation of fire/not fire neuron. Conceptually fascinating, experientially wonderful.
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POPSStrange Similarities: The Assassinations of Kennedy & Lincoln Some skeptics say that you could take any two famous people and find a number of similar-type coincidences between them. The only problem with that theory is that there really haven't been any listings of such comparisons. And certainly none has been as extensive as the Lincoln-Kennedy similarities. In conclusion: Facts concerning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy are amazingly similar. It is uncertain if such coincidences have any meaning, but they certainly are strange.
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