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This Is Definitely Something You Don't Want To See When Your Plane Is About To Take Off

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This Is Definitely Something You Don't Want To See When Your Plane Is About To Take Off A passenger was filming his first ever flight when he noticed something had come off the airplane's engines. July 27, 2017 at 04:06PM

Minor Leaguer Hits An Inside-The-Park Grand Slam, Thanks To A Clever Slide Into Home

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Minor Leaguer Hits An Inside-The-Park Grand Slam, Thanks To A Clever Slide Into Home ​Now here's something you don't see every day.

This Is Definitely Something You Don't Want To See When Your Plane Is About To Take Off

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This Is Definitely Something You Don't Want To See When Your Plane Is About To Take Off

Picture of the day for July 28, 2017

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Speedway riders Joni Keskinen (Team Jokerit, Kauhajoki), Marko Suojanen (Team Paholaiset, Pori) and Jiri Nieminen (Team Jokerit) riding in a Speedway Extraliiga competition at the Yyteri speedway, Finland..

in silico: Word of the day for July 28, 2017

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Word of the day is in silico : (computing, sciences) In computer simulation or in virtual reality.

in silico: Word of the day for July 28, 2017

in silico , prepositional phrase : (computing, sciences) In computer simulation or in virtual reality.

Article of the day for July 28, 2017

The Article of the day for July 28, 2017 is Yugoslav monitor Sava . The ship that became the Yugoslav monitor Sava began as SMS Bodrog, a river monitor built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. She and two other monitors fired the first shots of World War I on the night of 28 July 1914, when they shelled Serbian defences near Belgrade. She fought the Serbian and Romanian armies during the war, and was captured in its closing stages. She was transferred to the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia), and renamed Sava. During the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, she fought off several air attacks, but was scuttled on 11 April. Sava was later raised by the Independent State of Croatia, an Axis puppet state, and continued to serve under that name until 1944 when she was again scuttled. Following World War II, Sava was raised again, and was refurbished to serve in the Yugoslav Navy from 1952 to 1962. After that she became a commercial gravel barge. In 20...