Official House 8th Wonder of the World
A Swiss group recently promoted their own "New 7 Wonders of the World" contest and it pretty much fell flat.
Let's hear what modern marvel YOU think deserves to be included.
My vote is for Donald Trump's hair.
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09 Jul 2007 |
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05 Jan 2007 |
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1979-2006: A HipHop Odyssey
800 classic HipHop tracks from 1979-2006 in a 48 minute mix. Courtesy of the BBC. Download it here. Pretty cool. You can take a look at the listing before you download it. It's probably not for everyone.
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12 Dec 2006 |
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1906
If for no other reason than to stop creepy Hugo from staring at me every time I check in on H8... Some random factoids from an email I'm sure everyone received from their aunt.
In 1906:
The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years.
Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.
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03 Mar 2005 |
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Happy Birthday Chicago!
Chicago's 168th Birthday Celebration
March 4, 2005
Chicago Historical Society
Clark Street at North Avenue
11 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Free cake and ice cream!
Just don't start singing Happy Birthday or we'll be owing royalties.
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16 Dec 2003 |
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Reason Mag: "Why Saddam was supposed to kill himself"
Some Arabs...had at least hoped for redemption in Saddam's death; instead they got a bedraggled old man hiding in a dark hole, reportedly armed but calling to his discoverers, "Don't shoot!"
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13 May 2003 |
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Photographing Saddam
Saddam Hussein was omnipresent in Baghdad. It was hard to ignore Saddam's stern face looking down from billboards, statues, memorial plaques, festive paintings and colorful mosaics. The starting gun went off for the desecration of Hussein's image during the first week in April when Iraqis pulled down his statue that was in front of the Palestine Hotel. Within a few days, most portraits in town were damages or at least partly defaced. When I arrives in Baghdad on Sunday, April 13, I immediately started to photograph the Saddam series. The first two days I documented most of the portraits. A week later, most of them were already gone. History. - Teun Voeten