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breadbasket: Word of the day for January 21, 2018

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Word of the day is breadbasket : A basket used for storing or carrying bread. A region which has favourable conditions to produce a large quantity of grain or, by extension, other food products; a food bowl. (humorous) The abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack.

Here's A Brutally Effective Way To Curb Your Kids' Phone Addictions

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Here's A Brutally Effective Way To Curb Your Kids' Phone Addictions Want to stop your kids from being glued to phones? Just change the wallpaper to a scary-ass image. January 20, 2018 at 07:43PM

Picture of the day for January 21, 2018

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Picture of the day on January 21, 2018: Engineers successfully tested the parachutes for NASA's Orion spacecraft at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona Wednesday, March 8, 2017. This was the second test in a series of eight that will certify Orion's parachutes for human spaceflight. The test, which dropped an Orion engineering model from a C-17 aircraft at 25,000 feet, simulated the descent astronauts might experience if they have to abort a mission after liftoff.

How The Women's March Has Evolved A Year Later

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How The Women's March Has Evolved A Year Later A deluge of revelations about powerful men abusing women, leading to the #MeToo moment, has galvanized activists to demand deeper social and political change.

How The Women's March Has Evolved A Year Later

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How The Women's March Has Evolved A Year Later

Article of the day for January 21, 2018

The Article of the day for January 21, 2018 is Saguaro National Park . Saguaro National Park is a United States national park in southeastern Arizona that preserves Sonoran Desert landscapes, fauna, and flora, including the giant saguaro cactus. The 92,000-acre (37,000 ha) park has two separate areas—the Tucson Mountain District (TMD) about 10 miles (16 km) west of the city of Tucson and the Rincon Mountain District about 10 miles (16 km) east of the city. The Rincon Mountains are part of the Madrean Sky Islands between the southern Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Madre Oriental in Mexico; they are significantly higher and wetter than the Tucson Mountains, and support many plants and animals that do not live in the TMD. Earlier residents of and visitors to the lands in and around the park before its creation included the Hohokam, Sobaipuri, Tohono O'odham, and Apaches, as well as Spanish explorers, missionaries, miners, homesteaders, and ranchers. In 1933, President Herbert Hoover,

Article of the day for January 21, 2018

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

breadbasket: Word of the day for January 21, 2018

breadbasket , n : A basket used for storing or carrying bread. A region which has favourable conditions to produce a large quantity of grain or, by extension, other food products; a food bowl. (humorous) The abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack.

Here's A Brutally Effective Way To Curb Your Kids' Phone Addictions

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Here's A Brutally Effective Way To Curb Your Kids' Phone Addictions

Picture of the day for January 21, 2018

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Engineers successfully tested the parachutes for NASA's Orion spacecraft at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona Wednesday, March 8, 2017. This was the second test in a series of eight that will certify Orion's parachutes for human spaceflight. The test, which dropped an Orion engineering model from a C-17 aircraft at 25,000 feet, simulated the descent astronauts might experience if they have to abort a mission after liftoff..