Wikipedia Tour: The Swinging 60s
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In America the 1960s had a Summer of Love and a seemingly endless war; it had Jimi Hendrix and his unforgettable music but more awful moments of shared tragedy than many care to remember; it had tie d ...
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And move thee on to noble ends." Every woman has had, at some time in her life, an experience with man in the raw. In reality, one cannot set down with any degree of accuracy the age when his rawness ...
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"Cory Doctorow straps on his miner's helmet and takes you deep into the caverns and underground rivers of Pop Culture, here filtered through SF-coloured glasses. Enjoy." ... - Neil Gaiman, author of A ...
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What if Google started working with the Department of Homeland Security?
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"Mama, I'm not a super-villain," Hershie said for the millionth time. He chased the last of the gravy on his plate with a hunk of dark rye, skirting the shriveled derma left behind from his kishka. Ev ...
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The kids in my local bat-house breathe heavy metals, and their gelatinous bodies quiver nauseously during our counseling sessions, and for all that, they reacted just like I had when I told them I was ...
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It's the untethering of my parents' house that's on my plate today. The flying of a kite on a windy Toronto Hallowe'en day and the suspension of worry for a shiny moment. And sail surface isn't even a ...
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George twiddled his thumbs in his booth and watched how the brown, clayey knuckles danced overtop of one another. Not as supple as they had once been, his thumbs -- no longer the texture of wet clay o ...
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My Pa disappeared somewhere in the wilds of 1975, when I was just fourteen years old. He was the Ambassador to 1975, but back home in 1898, in New Jerusalem, Utah, they all thought he was Ambassador t ...
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Wikipedia Tour: Nobel Laureates in Physics
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The Nobel Prize has always been awarded to those individuals whose achievements in the fields of literature, physics, chemistry, peace, and medicine have elevated mankind to new heights of understandi ...
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Wikipedia Tour: Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine
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For more than 100 years the Nobel Prize has recognized excellence in the fields of literature, physics, chemistry, peace, and medicine, and the strides made by Laureates in medicine have made humans t ...
Wikipedia Tour: Nobel Laureates in Chemistry
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The famed Nobel Prize was established in the 1895 will of Albert Nobel, a Swedish chemist. Since their creation these awards have defined excellence and outstanding achievement in the fields of chemis ...
Wikipedia Tour: Fun with Physics (Really!)
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Does hearing the word “physics” bring to mind endless calculations, boring experiments, and sweaty nerds? It doesn’t have to be that way—we swear. Take our Wikipedia Tour to see that you reall ...
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Wikipedia Tour: The Roaring 20s
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The Jazz Age: It is a period that instantly evokes speakeasies, flappers, gangsters, and jazz. In America the 1920s were years marked by conspicuous consumption and more than a drop of illegal liquor, ...
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