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This Old Dude Headbanging To Metallica Is Who We Want To Be When We Grow Up

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This Old Dude Headbanging To Metallica Is Who We Want To Be When We Grow Up

Article of the day for June 15, 2017

The Article of the day for June 15, 2017 is Sweet Track . The Sweet Track is an ancient causeway in the Somerset Levels, England. Built in 3807 or 3806 BC along an earlier structure, the Post Track, it was the oldest unearthed timber trackway in Northern Europe until the 2009 discovery of a 6,000-year-old trackway in Plumstead, London. It extended close to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) across the now largely drained marsh between what was then an island at Westhay and a ridge of high ground at Shapwick. Various artefacts, including a jadeitite ceremonial axe head, have been found along its length. Construction was of crossed wooden poles, driven into the waterlogged soil to support a walkway that consisted mainly of planks of oak, laid end-to-end. The track was abandoned after 10 years of use, probably due to rising water levels. Following its discovery in 1970, most of the track has been left in its original location, with active conservation measures taken, including a water pump...

Picture of the day for June 15, 2017

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Picture of the day on June 15, 2017: Typical landscape in the Atacama desert, the most arid place in the world, but with a special viewer, near Calama, northern Chile.

Here's How Much Businesses Pay To Get On Those Big Blue Exit Signs

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Here's How Much Businesses Pay To Get On Those Big Blue Exit Signs

logion: Word of the day for June 15, 2017

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Word of the day is logion : (theology) A traditional saying of a religious leader. (specifically, Christianity) A saying that is attributed to Jesus but which is not in the Bible. Today is Corpus Christi in 2017, a festival honouring the Eucharist observed by the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian denominations.

Article of the day for June 15, 2017

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

logion: Word of the day for June 15, 2017

logion , n : (theology) A traditional saying of a religious leader. (specifically, Christianity) A saying that is attributed to Jesus but which is not in the Bible. Today is Corpus Christi in 2017, a festival honouring the Eucharist observed by the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian denominations.

Here's How Much Businesses Pay To Get On Those Big Blue Exit Signs

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Here's How Much Businesses Pay To Get On Those Big Blue Exit Signs Drive down any major interstate in the US, and you’ll see big blue signs decorated with business logos near most exits. Here’s who decides which businesses make it on the signs, and how much it all costs.

Picture of the day for June 15, 2017

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Typical landscape in the Atacama desert, the most arid place in the world, but with a special viewer, near Calama, northern Chile..

This Old Dude Headbanging To Metallica Is Who We Want To Be When We Grow Up

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This Old Dude Headbanging To Metallica Is Who We Want To Be When We Grow Up This give-no-fucks senior is a future we can get behind. June 14, 2017 at 07:59PM