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Picture of the day for August 26, 2017

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Prodasineura verticalis emergence..

The Best Dick Gregory Story

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The Best Dick Gregory Story

yeasayer: Word of the day for August 26, 2017

yeasayer , n : One whose attitude is positive, optimistic, confidently affirmative. (pejorative) One who habitually agrees uncritically.

This Japanese Toilet Paper Holder Is Pure Genius

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This Japanese Toilet Paper Holder Is Pure Genius Why aren't all toilet paper holders designed like this? August 25, 2017 at 03:44PM

Article of the day for August 26, 2017

The Article of the day for August 26, 2017 is Operation Bernhard . Operation Bernhard was an exercise by the Nazis to forge British bank notes. The initial plan was to drop the notes over Britain to bring about a collapse of the economy, but the operation was closed in early 1942 after its head, Alfred Naujocks, fell out of favour with his superior officer, Reinhard Heydrich. It was reopened in July as a counterfeiting operation to finance German intelligence operations. Prisoners were sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp to work under SS Major Bernhard Krüger, producing British notes until mid-1945 worth between £130 and £300 million. Counterfeit notes from the operation were used to pay the Turkish agent Elyesa Bazna—code-named Cicero—for his work in obtaining secrets from the British ambassador in Ankara, Turkey. Another £100,000 helped to free the Italian leader Benito Mussolini in the Gran Sasso raid in September 1943. The operation was dramatised in a 1981 BBC comedy-drama m

The Best Dick Gregory Story

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The Best Dick Gregory Story The comedian was able to cross over to white audiences without ever bowing to those audiences.

Picture of the day for August 26, 2017

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Picture of the day on August 26, 2017: Prodasineura verticalis emergence.