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Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children

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Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children

Picture of the day for June 29, 2017

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View of the rich ceiling of the interior courtyard of the Borujerdi House, a historic house located in Kashan, Iran. The house dates from 1857 and was constructed by architect Ustad Ali Maryam for a wealthy merchant as proof of love to his wife..

Picture of the day for June 29, 2017

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Picture of the day on June 29, 2017: View of the rich ceiling of the interior courtyard of the Borujerdi House, a historic house located in Kashan, Iran. The house dates from 1857 and was constructed by architect Ustad Ali Maryam for a wealthy merchant as proof of love to his wife.

Article of the day for June 29, 2017

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Article of the day is Tropical Storm Bill (2003). Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

chunder: Word of the day for June 29, 2017

chunder , v : (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To throw up, to vomit. Colin Hay, the lead vocalist of the Australian rock band Men at Work, was born on this day in 1953. The group’s song “Down Under” (1980; re-released 1981) contains the famous lines “I come from a land down under / Where beer does flow and men chunder”.

chunder: Word of the day for June 29, 2017

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Word of the day is chunder : (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To throw up, to vomit. Colin Hay, the lead vocalist of the Australian rock band Men at Work, was born on this day in 1953. The group’s song “Down Under” (1980; re-released 1981) contains the famous lines “I come from a land down under / Where beer does flow and men chunder”.

Article of the day for June 29, 2017

The Article of the day for June 29, 2017 is Tropical Storm Bill (2003) . Tropical Storm Bill hit the Gulf Coast of the United States in the summer of 2003. The second storm of that Atlantic hurricane season, Bill developed from a tropical wave on June 29 to the north of the Yucatán Peninsula. It slowly organized as it moved northward, and reached a peak of 60 mph (95 km/h) shortly before making landfall in south-central Louisiana. It produced a moderate storm surge, causing tidal flooding. In Montegut in the northeastern portion of the state, a levee was breached, flooding many homes, and in Florida, two swimmers drowned. As Bill accelerated to the northeast, moisture from the storm, combined with cold air from an approaching cold front, produced an outbreak of 34 tornadoes. Moderate winds and wet soil combined to topple trees onto houses and power lines, leaving hundreds of thousands without electric power. By the time Bill became extratropical on July 2, it was responsible for four