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Time Magazine, January 2, 1939: Hitler as Man of the Year Time Magazine, April 8, 1966: Is God Dead? Life, November 26, 1965: War In Vietnam Esquire, April 1968: The Passion of Ali Esquire, May 1969: The Drowning of Andy Warhol Playboy, October 1971: First Playboy African-American Woman National
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In Fortune Magazine’s annual ranking of “most admired companies”, Apple has once again walked away with the top spot. Apple was voted #1 for the third year in a row in a poll of executives, industry analysts and company directors. This year, Apple actually took pole position by its widest margin ever. Read more: http://mashable.com/2010/03/04/fortune-most-admired-company/
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As our long national nightmare, the American Idol audition season, winds down, let us pause and reflect on the most notable achievements of the year thus far. As Ryan said, “It has been a long journey for all of us.” And while I’d like to say that I can see the light at the end
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The Milky Way galaxy‘s most massive star has been spotted in a “glowing stellar nursery” in space. The picture (see below) of the massive Milky Way star was captured by the European Southern Observatory’s aptly named ‘Very Large Telescope,’ which measures 27 feet in diameter. The telescope, located at Cerro Paranal, Chile, combined data from
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New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) Bangladesh was the most successful test cricket team in 2009, followed by Australia and India. Bangladesh played 3 test matches last year, winning two and losing one and had a winning percentage of 66.66. Australia played 13 tests, won 7, lost 3 and drew 3 for a winning percentage of
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Firefox 3.7 Theme Makes Your Browser Look Awesome All-Glass Firefox Enables Slick Transparency Effects “Vacuum Places Improved” Speeds Up Firefox with a Click of Your Mouse Gmail Redesigned 3.0 Focuses on Speed and Message Space Dislike 0.2 Adds a Disapproving Dislike Button to Facebook TinEye Adds Reverse Image Lookup to Firefox SkipScreen Lets You Pass
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When Facebook launched the 2.0 version of its iPhone app in September of last year, it was a huge upgrade from its original app that launched with the App Store last July. And now it’s on the verge of launching the 3.0 version of the app, and having tested it today, we can safely say
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By Diego Maradona, Daniel Arcucci, Ernesto Cherquis Bialo Never has Diego Maradona’s extraordinary story been told in his own words—until now. A poor boy from a Buenos Aires shantytown, Maradona’s genius with a soccer ball took him to the heights of South American, European, and world soccer. Here the greatest player of his generation, and
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My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins and Fenway Park, by Steve Kluger is Recommended. In the 11th grade, friends TC, Augie and Alejandra are in Ms. LaFontaine’s English class when they are assigned to do a project detailing their “Most Excellent Year”. Each one of them decides on the 9th grade
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The record for the most non stop push-ups was set in October 1980 by Minoru Yoshida of Japan. Minoru Yoshida managed to do 10,507 push-ups before finally stopping. I couldn’t find any picture with Minoru Yoshida so I added a random picture from Google Images. Source: WORLD’S MOST PUSH-UPS