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100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time

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100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time

scaffold: Word of the day for September 23, 2016

scaffold , n : A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building. An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed. (metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.

Picture of the day for September 23, 2016

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Losiny Ostrov National Park in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Russia..

Hillary Clinton Went On 'Between Two Ferns' With Zach Galifianakis And Immediately Regretted It

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Hillary Clinton Went On 'Between Two Ferns' With Zach Galifianakis And Immediately Regretted It In-between his terrible jokes, Galifianakis snuck in some actual difficult questions (like Hillary's flip flop on the Trans-Pacific Partnership). He also snuck in a Trump ad? September 22, 2016 at 07:45PM

scaffold: Word of the day for September 23, 2016

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Word of the day is scaffold : A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building. An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed. (metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.

Picture of the day for September 23, 2016

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Picture of the day on September 23, 2016: Losiny Ostrov National Park in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Russia.

Article of the day for September 23, 2016

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

100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time

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100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time Rolling Stone polled a group of actors, writers, producers, critics and showrunners. Here's what they ended up with.

Hillary Clinton Went On 'Between Two Ferns' With Zach Galifianakis And Immediately Regretted It

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Hillary Clinton Went On 'Between Two Ferns' With Zach Galifianakis And Immediately Regretted It

Article of the day for September 23, 2016

The Article of the day for September 23, 2016 is Sieges of Taunton . The sieges of Taunton (23 September 1644 – 9 July 1645) during the First English Civil War were a series of three blockades of the town and castle of Taunton in Somerset. During all three, Robert Blake commanded the Parliamentarian defences of Taunton, which straddled the main road from Bristol to Devon and Cornwall. The first assault, by Royalist troops from local garrisons, initially drove Blake and his troops into the castle, before settling into a siege intended to starve the town into submission. The defenders were relieved by a force under James Holborne in December. The Royalists began the second, and bloodiest, siege in late March; in May, after five days of intense fighting, a Parliamentarian relief army led by Ralph Weldon forced a retreat. Lord Goring renewed the blockade in mid-May, after engaging Weldon's departing army and forcing it back into Taunton, but the siege was ineffective. The Parliamentar...