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Picture of the day for December 10, 2016

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A Tree trunk spider (Hersilia sp.) capturing a cicada..

Terry Crews And Conan Are Traumatized Playing 'Battlefield 1'

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Terry Crews And Conan Are Traumatized Playing 'Battlefield 1'

Picture of the day for December 10, 2016

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Picture of the day on December 10, 2016: A Tree trunk spider (Hersilia sp.) capturing a cicada.

Inside the Chinese Factory Making Ivanka Trumps Shoes

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Inside the Chinese Factory Making Ivanka Trumps Shoes While Donald Trump rails against outsourcing jobs to China, his daughter does just that with her shoe line. Tour the factory where her footwear is made.

Terry Crews And Conan Are Traumatized Playing 'Battlefield 1'

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Terry Crews And Conan Are Traumatized Playing 'Battlefield 1' Don't get it wrong — they loved the game, but it was all just too real. December 9, 2016 at 02:29PM

Article of the day for December 10, 2016

The Article of the day for December 10, 2016 is Fantastic Adventures . Fantastic Adventures was an American pulp fantasy and science fiction magazine, edited by Ray Palmer and published from 1939 to 1953 by Ziff-Davis. It was almost cancelled at the end of 1940, but the October 1940 issue had unexpectedly good sales, helped by a strong cover (pictured) by J. Allen St. John for Robert Moore Williams' Jongor of Lost Land. Fantastic Adventures soon developed a reputation for light-hearted and whimsical stories. The cover art usually focused on melodramatic action scenes; H.W. McCauley's covers, featuring glamorous, alluring women, were among the most popular. In 1949 Palmer was replaced by Howard Browne, who was knowledgeable and enthusiastic about fantasy fiction. Browne briefly managed to improve the quality of the fiction in Fantastic Adventures, and the period around 1951 has been described as the magazine's heyday. Browne lost interest when his plan to take Amazing Stori

Article of the day for December 10, 2016

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

clomp: Word of the day for December 10, 2016

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Word of the day is clomp : (transitive) To make a clomping sound (with some object). (intransitive) To move in a way that makes loud noises with one's feet. (intransitive, rare) To walk with wooden shoes. To mark Koninkrijksdag (Kingdom Day; 15 December), which commemorates the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we are featuring a series of words of Dutch origin.

Inside the Chinese Factory Making Ivanka Trumps Shoes

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Inside the Chinese Factory Making Ivanka Trumps Shoes

clomp: Word of the day for December 10, 2016

clomp , v : (transitive) To make a clomping sound (with some object). (intransitive) To move in a way that makes loud noises with one's feet. (intransitive, rare) To walk with wooden shoes. To mark Koninkrijksdag (Kingdom Day; 15 December), which commemorates the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we are featuring a series of words of Dutch origin.

Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline

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Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline Alphabet’s CFO Ruth Porat wants to bring focus to Mountain View. Can the moonshot factory adapt?

Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline

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Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline