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POPSThe 'first true scientist' I was fortunate enough to have recently been given the opportunity to dig a little into his life and work through my recent filming of a three-part BBC Four series on medieval Islamic scientists. -By Professor Jim Al-Khalili
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POPSNepoleon This guy is truly 4F: Furious Fabled Famous Faulty (Sorry 'bout that Waterloo dig :-( Tripped ! )
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POPSThe Battle of the Bulge, December 16th, 1944
It began at dawn on Dec. 16, 1944, 64 years ago today, with rapid assaults through the Ardennes forest, as the Germans blitzed one last time, hoping to split the Allied armies and take Antwerp. Hitler’s hope was to cut supplies to the Allied armies, divide the Brits and Americans, get a separate peace in the West and turn his full attention to the Soviets. The Germans punched a bulge in the Allied line deep into Belgium, giving the battle its name. The battle immediately took on the qualities of a strange Teutonic nightmare. 1st SS Panzer Division elements machinegunned 88 American prisoners in the snow at Malmedy, wounded survivors being finished off with headshots, and murdered 11 black American POWS after apparently torturing them with knives in a ditch at Wereth. In a month and a half of fighting in bitter cold, more than 19,000 Americans were killed, 41,000 captured and 23,000 wounded. Oddly similar casualty numbers on the German side, but they lost.
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POPS2000 Year Old Human Brain Found
It's hard to believe that the soft matter inside our brains could even survive for one year, once the body dies. But here it is, a 2000 year old severed human head with brain intact. If there will ever be a way to uncover the entire secrets of the Homo sapien evolution from its very beginnings to today's modern man, it will be through archaeological finds such as this. Isn't that exciting? Makes you a little bit annoyed at your mortality because it will be future generations who will be privy to such enlightenment. "Oh well, that's the way the cookie crumbles!" :-p That's the way the cookie crumbles. (British, American & Australian, informal, American, informal) Something that you say which means that bad things sometimes happen and there is nothing you can do to prevent it, so it is not worth becoming upset about it. i.e. A:" Well, I asked Cindy out, and she told me to swallow my head . . " B:"Hey, that's the way the cookie crumbles!" From: http://www.urbandictionary.com
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POPSBottle of Charity: 1 in 6 People Do Not Have Access to Clean Water
"Most of us have never really been thirsty. Yet more than 1.1 billion people on the planet don’t have clean water." "It’s hard to imagine what a billion people looks like really, but 1 in 6 might be easier. 1 in 6 people in our world don’t have access to the most basic of human needs. Something we can’t imagine going 12 hours without." "Put yourself in their shoes. Carry 80 pounds of water in yellow fuel cans. Dig with their children in sand for water. Line up at a well and wait 8 hours for a turn." "Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease, and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war." charity: water is a non profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. 100% of your donation this holiday season will directly fund sustainable water projects in developing nations. Each $20 can give one person clean, safe drinking water for 20 years.
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