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Picture of the day for November 26, 2016

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Picture of the day on November 26, 2016: View of a row of corners of the walls of Saksaywaman, a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, historic capital of the Inca Empire, today Peru. The first sections of the citadel were first built by the Killke culture about 1100 and expanded by the Inca from the 13th century. The dry stone walls are composed of huge stones, which boulders are carefully cut by workers to fit them together extremely tightly without mortar.

on the wagon: Word of the day for November 26, 2016

on the wagon , adj : (idiomatic) Abstaining from drinking any alcoholic drink, usually in the sense of having given it up (as opposed to never having partaken); teetotal. (by extension) Maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence from some other undesirable habit. Bill W. (Bill Wilson), one of the co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, was born on this day in 1895.

Canadian Black Friday Is The Most Canadian Thing Possible

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Canadian Black Friday Is The Most Canadian Thing Possible If you skip Black Friday sales because you'd rather not be crushed in a stampede, consider moving to Canada. November 25, 2016 at 05:53PM

Article of the day for November 26, 2016

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

Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say

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Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, according to experts.

Article of the day for November 26, 2016

The Article of the day for November 26, 2016 is Warlugulong . Warlugulong (1977) is an acrylic painting by Indigenous Australian artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. In 2007 it was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia for A$2.4 million, a record auction price for a contemporary Indigenous Australian art work. The painting illustrates eight dreamings of traditional locations the artist had knowledge of, and depicts the story of an ancestral creature called Lungkata or the Blue-Tongue Lizard Man, who created bushfire. The painting portrays the aftermath of a fire caused by Lungkata to punish his two sons who had not shared a kangaroo with him that they had caught. The sons' skeletons are on the right-hand side of the image, shown against a background representing smoke and ashes. The painting exemplifies a distinctive style developed by Papunya Tula artists in the 1970s, blending representation of landscape with ceremonial iconography. Art critic Benjamin Genocchio describ...

on the wagon: Word of the day for November 26, 2016

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Word of the day is on the wagon : (idiomatic) Abstaining from drinking any alcoholic drink, usually in the sense of having given it up (as opposed to never having partaken); teetotal. (by extension) Maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence from some other undesirable habit. Bill W. (Bill Wilson), one of the co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, was born on this day in 1895.

Picture of the day for November 26, 2016

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View of a row of corners of the walls of Saksaywaman, a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, historic capital of the Inca Empire, today Peru. The first sections of the citadel were first built by the Killke culture about 1100 and expanded by the Inca from the 13th century. The dry stone walls are composed of huge stones, which boulders are carefully cut by workers to fit them together extremely tightly without mortar..

Canadian Black Friday Is The Most Canadian Thing Possible

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Canadian Black Friday Is The Most Canadian Thing Possible

Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say

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Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say