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Women Used to Burn to Death in Their Dresses Kind of All the Time

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Women Used to Burn to Death in Their Dresses Kind of All the Time No matter what they wear, women get burned for it. But in the mid-19th century, this was extremely literal.

Article of the day for December 20, 2017

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

Picture of the day for December 20, 2017

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Barbed wire of a fence, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Colorblind Guy Gets Color Correcting Glasses, Realizes He Hates The Color Of His Truck

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Colorblind Guy Gets Color Correcting Glasses, Realizes He Hates The Color Of His Truck "You don't like red?" "Nope, I don't like that color." December 19, 2017 at 03:07PM

Women Used to Burn to Death in Their Dresses Kind of All the Time

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Women Used to Burn to Death in Their Dresses Kind of All the Time

Picture of the day for December 20, 2017

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Picture of the day on December 20, 2017: Barbed wire of a fence, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Colorblind Guy Gets Color Correcting Glasses, Realizes He Hates The Color Of His Truck

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Colorblind Guy Gets Color Correcting Glasses, Realizes He Hates The Color Of His Truck

Shangri-La: Word of the day for December 20, 2017

Shangri-La , n : A place of complete bliss, delight, and peace, especially one seen as an escape from ordinary life; a paradise. British author James Hilton, who coined the word in his 1933 novel Lost Horizon, died on this day in 1954.

Article of the day for December 20, 2017

The Article of the day for December 20, 2017 is Guilden Morden boar . The Guilden Morden boar is a sixth- or seventh-century Anglo-Saxon copper alloy figure of a boar that may have once served as the crest of a helmet. It was found around 1864 or 1865 in a grave in the village of Guilden Morden in Cambridgeshire. Herbert George Fordham, whose father discovered the boar, donated it to the British Museum in 1904, where it is now displayed. It is simply designed, with a prominent mane; eyes, eyebrows, nostrils and tusks are only faintly present. A pin and socket design formed by the front and hind legs suggests that the boar was mounted on another object, such as a helmet. Boar-crested helmets are a staple of Anglo-Saxon imagery, evidence of a Germanic tradition in which the boar invoked the protection of the gods. They may have been common, and in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, boar-adorned helmets are mentioned five times. The Guilden Morden boar is one of three known to have survived t...

Shangri-La: Word of the day for December 20, 2017

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Word of the day is Shangri-La : A place of complete bliss, delight, and peace, especially one seen as an escape from ordinary life; a paradise. British author James Hilton, who coined the word in his 1933 novel Lost Horizon, died on this day in 1954.

New edit in the Article on Google

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New edit in the Article on Google

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Google Custom Search Engine edited the Article on Google http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W