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The Most Intense, Athletic Softball Play We've Ever Seen

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The Most Intense, Athletic Softball Play We've Ever Seen You won't see anything like this ridiculous leap in your softball beer league. May 15, 2016 at 01:31PM

Unearthing The Secrets Of New York’s Mass Graves

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Unearthing The Secrets Of New York’s Mass Graves Over a million people are buried in the city’s potter’s field on Hart Island. A New York Times investigation uncovers some of their stories and the failings of the system that put them there.

Unearthing The Secrets Of New York’s Mass Graves

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Unearthing The Secrets Of New York’s Mass Graves

The Most Intense, Athletic Softball Play We've Ever Seen

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The Most Intense, Athletic Softball Play We've Ever Seen

Article of the day for May 16, 2016

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Article of the day is Blonde on Blonde. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

waft: Word of the day for May 16, 2016

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Word of the day is waft : (ergative) To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air. (intransitive) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float. To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.

Picture of the day for May 16, 2016

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Picture of the day on May 16, 2016: Smock mill in Lette, Coesfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Picture of the day for May 16, 2016

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Smock mill in Lette, Coesfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Article of the day for May 16, 2016

The Article of the day for May 16, 2016 is Blonde on Blonde . Blonde on Blonde is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on May 16, 1966, by Columbia Records. The album completes a rock trilogy, with Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited. Unsatisfied with the initial recording sessions, Dylan brought his keyboardist Al Kooper and guitarist Robbie Robertson to the CBS studios in Nashville, Tennessee, where all but one of the songs were recorded in February and March. Combining the expertise of Nashville session musicians with a modernist literary sensibility, the album's songs have been described as operating on a grand scale musically, while featuring lyrics that the writer Michael Gray called "a unique blend of the visionary and the colloquial". One of the first rock double albums, it peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 chart in the US, where it eventually went double-platinum, and reached No. 3 in the UK. Blonde on Blon...

waft: Word of the day for May 16, 2016

waft , v : (ergative) To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air. (intransitive) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float. To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.

The rise and fall of FriendFeed, the social network that brought you the ‘Like’ button

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The rise and fall of FriendFeed, the social network that brought you the ‘Like’ button

The rise and fall of FriendFeed, the social network that brought you the ‘Like’ button

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The rise and fall of FriendFeed, the social network that brought you the ‘Like’ button It was a site with bold ambitions to “glue together the web,” and innovated in ways we take for granted today. But it couldn’t last forever.