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POPSManthropology: men today are the weakest in history His conclusions about the speed of Australian aboriginals 20,000 years ago are based on a set of footprints, preserved in a fossilised claypan lake bed, of six men chasing prey. An analysis of the footsteps of one of the men, dubbed T8, shows he reached speeds of 37 kph on a soft, muddy lake edge. Bolt, by comparison, reached a top speed of 42 kph but McAllister said that, with modern training, spiked shoes and rubberised tracks, aboriginal hunters might have reached speeds of 45 kph.
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POPSIndia's Goldfinger : Abhinav Bindra No individual gold has mattered so much to so many people in the history of Olympics... !!! i don't really understand the distant relation between India & the Olympics??
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POPSHistory's greatest replies "All of them—along with many, many hundreds more—appear in my Viva la Repartee book." Pope John XXIII One of the few pontiffs in history with a rich sense of humor, Pope John XXIII once reported to an interviewer that important problems would frequently come to mind in the middle of the night, disturbing his sleep. Half awake, he'd make a mental note: "I must speak to the pope about that." "Then," he confessed, "I would be wide awake and remember—I am the pope!" Once asked by a journalist, "How many people work in the Vatican?" the pontiff pondered the question, giving the impression that he was trying to come up with an accurate estimate. Then, with a straight face, he answered: "About half." (more at the source)
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POPSLive Music Archive cool resource: Browse All Artists with Recordings in the Live Music Archive Browse All Artists' Collection Pages in the Live Music Archive (alt view 1) (alt view 2) You can readily find artists' shows by date or by year through these specific landing pages. (Note: The browsable view of collection pages is cached for 24 hr.) Most Recent Band Activations Note: This is not cached: updated in real time. Graph of the Number of Shows Added Per Month (For the past 24 months) Most Recently Added Items Browse Artists with MP3's Search for Lossless-Only Recordings (No-MP3) Search for Some 24-bit FLAC Recordings Search the Entire LMA at once Shows on This Day in History Browse a Year in History
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POPSBecause the World is Round !! according to another legend: Best was just fresh married with a new little one and refused to play for low salary with young Lennon and Paul cause he's got some mouths to feed at home. they asked him to give it some time and soon all will be better.. yet Pete went on his way. They went on their's. What's the truth? who knows?..who cares?.. try take a lesson thru yr own experience & go on cause the World is Round .... .. !!
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POPSTolstoy & Gandhi: Two Giants Bound By Pacifism
Enlightening account of the relationship between Tolstoy & Gandhi "In South Africa, Tolstoy's writings landed on the desk of a young Indian dissident, Mahatma Gandhi. He was overwhelmed, declaring that after reading Tolstoy his "lack of faith in non-violence vanished." He hung a picture of Tolstoy on his office wall and named the camp where he trained activists in peaceful resistance Tolstoy Farm. Gandhi wrote five letters to Leo Tolstoy and received four in return, all glowing with praise and intellectual exchange. In his last letter, written in September 1910 only weeks before his death, Tolstoy told Gandhi that his activity was "the most central and important of all the work now being done in the world." Years later, Gandhi repaid the compliment, writing that he knew of no one "in India or anywhere else who has had as profound an understanding of nonviolence as Tolstoy had." Tolstoy had inspired Gandhi's legendary instruction to "be the change you want to see in the worl
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POPSHitler Real Estate "That’s what history does sometimes: it passes, it hides for years, then it comes back, giving new life and new forms to what was about to be forgotten."
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POPSIraq - Genghis Khan could do it better By the time of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the political achievements of the Mongols had been forgotten, and only the destructive fury of their wars was remembered. Yet under the Mongols — and the legacy of Genghis Khan — Iraq enjoyed a century of peace and a renaissance that brought the region to a level of prosperity and cultural sophistication higher than it enjoyed before or after. Any country with a bent for empire could do worse than learn from Genghis Khan.
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POPS 5000 years of Religion in 90 seconds After watching the animated presentation one can reach the conclusion that: All - is but an occupied territory... )) would there be space 4 anything else one day..??