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The Man Who Made Black Panther Cool

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The Man Who Made Black Panther Cool Christopher Priest broke the color barrier at Marvel and reinvented a classic character. Why was he nearly written out of comics history?

Article of the day for January 23, 2018

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Article of the day is Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

Surfer Catches A Terrifyingly Huge Wave

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Surfer Catches A Terrifyingly Huge Wave Nazaré, Portugal has some of the biggest surfing waves in the world, and Sebastian Steudtner caught one to perfection over the weekend. January 22, 2018 at 03:04PM

glossolalia: Word of the day for January 23, 2018

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Word of the day is glossolalia : Speaking a language one does not know, or speaking elaborate but apparently meaningless speech, while in a trance-like state (or, supposedly, under the influence of a deity or spirits); speaking in tongues. Xenoglossy (“knowledge of a language one has never learned”).

glossolalia: Word of the day for January 23, 2018

glossolalia , n : Speaking a language one does not know, or speaking elaborate but apparently meaningless speech, while in a trance-like state (or, supposedly, under the influence of a deity or spirits); speaking in tongues. Xenoglossy (“knowledge of a language one has never learned”).

Surfer Catches A Terrifyingly Huge Wave

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Surfer Catches A Terrifyingly Huge Wave

Article of the day for January 23, 2018

The Article of the day for January 23, 2018 is Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed . Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed is a painting by English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1830. It shows a scene from the Histories by Herodotus, in which Candaules, king of Lydia, invites his bodyguard Gyges to hide in the couple's bedroom and watch his wife Nyssia undress. After Nyssia notices Gyges, he kills Candaules and takes his place as king. The painting shows the moment at which Nyssia, unaware of Gyges, removes the last of her clothes. Etty hoped to impart the moral that women are not chattels and that men violating their rights should be punished, but he made little effort to explain this to audiences. The painting was immediately controversial, seen as a cynical combination of pornography and a violent unpleasant narrative, and critics condemn