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Free Solo Climber (No Ropes, Nothin') Cruises By Another Climber On A Rock Face

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Free Solo Climber (No Ropes, Nothin') Cruises By Another Climber On A Rock Face

Picture of the day for December 22, 2016

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Picture of the day on December 22, 2016: Seebach Valley and Ankogel (3,252 metres (10,669 ft)) in the High Tauern National Park near Mallnitz, Carinthia, Austria.

endosteum: Word of the day for December 22, 2016

endosteum , n : (biology) A membranous vascular layer of cells which line the medullary cavity of a bone; an internal periosteum.

The movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors who think it does

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The movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors who think it does

endosteum: Word of the day for December 22, 2016

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Word of the day is endosteum : (biology) A membranous vascular layer of cells which line the medullary cavity of a bone; an internal periosteum.

Article of the day for December 22, 2016

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

Picture of the day for December 22, 2016

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Seebach Valley and Ankogel (3,252 metres (10,669 ft)) in the High Tauern National Park near Mallnitz, Carinthia, Austria..

Article of the day for December 22, 2016

The Article of the day for December 22, 2016 is Andrew Sledd . Andrew Sledd (1870–1939) was an American theologian, university professor and university president. A native of Virginia, he was ordained as a Methodist minister after earning his master's degree; he later earned a doctorate at Yale. After teaching for several years, Sledd became the last president of the University of Florida at Lake City from 1904 to 1905, and the first president of what is now the University of Florida from 1905 to 1909. He was president of Southern University from 1910 to 1914, and became a professor and an influential biblical scholar at Emory University's Candler School of Theology from 1914 to 1939. Bibliographies highlight his 1902 magazine article advocating better legal and social treatment of African-Americans, his role in founding the modern University of Florida, his scholarly analysis of biblical texts as literature, his call for an end to racial violence, and his influence on a gener

Free Solo Climber (No Ropes, Nothin') Cruises By Another Climber On A Rock Face

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Free Solo Climber (No Ropes, Nothin') Cruises By Another Climber On A Rock Face We're trying to put ourselves in the mind of this guy scampering up a rock face at 275 feet, but we're really struggling. Much easier to identify with the tethered guy watching in awe. December 21, 2016 at 04:49PM

The movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors who think it does

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The movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors who think it does Over the years, hundreds of people online have shared memories of a cheesy Nineties movie called “Shazaam”. There is no evidence that such a film was ever made. What does this tell us about the quirks of collective memory?