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Household Product Safety
householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov – There’s a reason people put locks on cabinet doors when there are small children around: household products can be dangerous to them. But, don’t forget, they can be dangerous to you, too. This site provides information on potential health effects of many common products (from cleaning supplies to personal care items) as well as handling and disposal recommendations. Search using your own keywords, or browse by category or product name.

Many U.S. Presidents have been college educated, and the college with the most alumni in the Oval Office is Harvard, but of the 43 men to have served as president, eight never went to college: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Grover Cleveland (who was both the 22nd and 24th president). – Provided by The World Almanac 2010

The World Hitler Never Made

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Research Family History
archives.gov/genealogy – If you want to study your family’s history, where do you start? This National Archives site is a great place, since it includes articles on how to conduct genealogical research, what types of records are and are not available online, how to use research tools, and links to genealogical websites. While not all records are available on this site, you will find information here to help you prepare to visit the National Archives and other sources.

RealtyTrac “The Foreclosure Authority. RealtyTrac publishes the largest database of foreclosure, auction and bank-owned homes in the country for investors and homebuyers. Government agencies, financial institutions and media outlets rely on RealtyTrac foreclosure statistics and reports.”

Anne Frank Online
www.annefrank.org – The touching story of Anne Frank, captured in her diary, has inspired people all over the world through books, movies, and plays. You can learn more about Anne Frank through this site as well. Take a virtual 3D tour of the furnished rooms of the Secret Annex—discovered in August of 1944—where Anne and seven others hid from the Nazis. You can also listen to their stories, and place your leaf in the interactive monument called the Anne Frank Tree.

Iraqi forces officially took control of Saddam Hussein’s sprawling presidential palace and the Green Zone, a heavily fortified area in the heart of Baghdad that contains the primary government buildings and numerous foreign embassies, on Jan. 1, 2009. The new U.S. Embassy — one of the biggest and most expensive embassies in the world — was opened a few days later. Above, Iraqi soldiers at the entrance to the refurbished barracks of the 2nd Division of the Iraqi Army on June 5, 2010, in Mosul, Iraq.

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German military report: Peak oil could lead to collapse of democracy:

According to Der Spiegel, the report from a think-tank inside the German military warns that shrinking global oil supplies will threaten the world’s economic foundations and possibly lead to mass-scale upheaval within the next 15 to 30 years.

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Omega-3s May Not Have Huge Impact on Heart Health

Omega-3 fatty acids are thought to help promote heart health by preventing the formation of blood clots and reducing the risk of coronary heart disease, however, a new study suggests that low doses of omega-3 fatty acids do not provide additional benefits to heart attack survivors taking standard medications for their heart conditions. The patients in the study given a margarine enriched with omega-3 oils had the same risk of a second heart attack as those who did not supplement their diet with added omega-3s. More …

The American Chamber of Commerce made Afghanistan its 100th country last week. The launch was celebrated in an iftar at Ambassador Eikenberry’s residence in Kabul. The 101st Airborne Division Band played at the event.. Uploaded to Flickr August 30, 2010 by US Embassy Kabul. Photo dated August 24, 2010.

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Best Airline Seats
seatexpert.com – Flying on an airplane can be uncomfortable for many reasons, not the least of which is a bad seat! This site can help solve that problem, by providing information about the best (and worst) seats available on a particular flight. Just type in your airline, flight number, and date of departure. You’ll see seat maps identifying the best and worst seats, so you’ll know what to request before you book. Need more information about seats or flying in general? Ask the Seat Expert.

Creative Kid Lunches
www.laptoplunches.com – As the school year starts, it’s time to start thinking about creative lunch ideas for your kids. This site offers dozens of nutritious ideas for lunch, prepared bento box style (meaning a box with internal dividers). Try a vegetable soup lunch that includes orange segments, pretzel sticks, and baked potato, or a “sandwich and sides” lunch with olives, stir-fried cauliflower, and fruit. Check out the sections on proper nutrition, how to please picky eaters, and how to cut down on lunchtime waste. You can also sign up for the monthly eNewsletter and weekly lunch menu.

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WWII Started on This Date in 1939

On this day in 1939 Germany invaded Poland, starting WWII.

King Tut’s Family Secrets. DNA analysis reveals a lot of the missing details in his 3,300-year-old story.

Marlene Dietrich. She was an actress famous for her glamor and good looks. She was the highest paid actress of the early 1900′s and was performing all the way to the 1970′s.

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The Library of Congress in Washington D.C. doesn’t just have over 33 million books; it also has 12 million photographs, millions of maps, sheet music, and other manuscripts. Its holdings make it largest library in the world; and having been founded in 1800, it is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. – Provided by The World Almanac 2010


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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Jody Perkins, center, a ground radio operator assigned to the Nangarhar Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), pulls security while other team members attempt to enter the prison complex in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Aug. 14, 2010. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. John Barton/Released)
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Phys Ed: Does Stretching Before Running Prevent Injuries? – .


Doctors Seek New Ways to Treat Loss of Muscle From Aging .

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New infrared light may open new frontier in fighting cancer, Tay Sachs .

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Earlier this month, two Chinese satellites met up in orbit. Depending on who you believe, it’s either a sign of China’s increasingly-sophisticated space program — or a sign of its increasingly-sophisticated space warfare program.A well-regarded Russian space watcher was the first to note that the two satellites, newly-launched SJ-12 and two-year-old SJ-06F, had performed maneuvers indicating a cutting edge procedure called non-cooperative robotic rendezvous. A loose network of amateur space spectators and astronomers soon congregated online, and confirmed that the sats had, indeed, converged.

This kind of rendezvous can have extremely useful, and benign, applications: removing space debris, refueling satellites or repairing craft in orbit. But the military apps are massive, and include up-close inspection of foreign satellites, espionage — and the infliction of some serious damage to adversarial space infrastructure. In other words, orbital warfare that, given just how reliant we are on satellite technology, would have widespread consequences on the ground.

“These kinds of rendezvous have been done plenty of times with ground control, but robotically controlled satellites, rendezvousing at higher altitudes, is really quite new,” says Brian Weeden, who offers an in-depth rundown of the incident at The Space Review. “The perception of how this technology is being developed, and what it is being used for, is extremely important.”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875) Born on this date, September 1st.

After working numerous odd jobs, Burroughs tried his hand at writing, publishing his first story under the pen name Normal Bean in 1912. Two years later, he published Tarzan of the Apes, a story about an English boy raised by apes in Africa. Wildly successful, the book was the first in a series of 27 Tarzan titles. Burroughs later moved to Hollywood to supervise the filming of the first of the extremely successful Tarzan films. What city is named after his most famous character? More…

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Can a Salad Prevent Lung Cancer? .


Bomb kills head of Iran’s military drone program

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First clear evidence of organized feasting by early humans.


Special report: Living in denial – New Scientist.


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Palestinian security forces in the West Bank detained dozens of Hamas activists on Wednesday in response to a lethal attack on Jewish settlers in the occupied territory, a senior security source said.The Hamas armed wing claimed responsibility for the killing of four Jewish settlers near Hebron on Tuesday on the eve of a new round of U.S.-backed peace talks.”Dozens of Hamas members have been arrested, mainly in Hebron area and across the West Bank,” the source said. “We are investigating if they have any links to the shooting attack. There will be more arrests,” he said.Hamas sources in the West Bank said some 150 activists, including relatives of senior party figures, had been arrested in a sweep that began shortly after the shooting.

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Short Sharp Science: Today on New Scientist: 31 August 2010.


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In 1998, the Pentagon budget was at a twenty-three year low at $361 billion (in constant 2010 dollars). For 2010, the DOD budget was $697 billion (also 2010 dollars, as are all the rest that follow).

According to the analysis of the Project on Defense Alternatives, between 1998 and 2010 Congress appropriated to the Pentagon $2.144 Trillion (with a “T”) more than was anticipated by the 1999 “baseline.” Of that amount, $1.113 Trillion was spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and $1.031 Trillion was added to “base” (non-war) Pentagon spending. (See p. 3 of PDA’s study, “An Undisciplined Defense: Understanding the $2 Trillion Surge in US Defense Spending.” I basically concur with PDA’s numbers, which are from DoD and OMB budget data as described on p. 61.)

What did you get for that extra $1 Trillion? Basically, you got a smaller Navy and Air Force and a tiny increase in the size of the Army. As an extra bonus, the hardware those forces use are now older than they were in the Clinton administration in 1998.

How can that be?

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CultureLab: Nicholas Carr: Surfing our way to stupid.


Taliban operate ‘very extensive’ spy network in British Afghan bases

DUBLIN, Ireland – A British Cabinet Minister and a Cardinal were certain that a Roman Catholic priest was responsible for one of the worst IRA atrocities of the Northern Ireland Troubles, but they colluded to allow him to continue his ministry preaching the Gospel….

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    • Barack Obama DISSES Our Country

    Well, our president has now almost hit the freaking bottom of the barrel when it comes to doing his best to ruin our great country! Now he absolutely DISSES our country to the UN (the freaking dumb ass organization that has countries like Libya and Sudan among others tell US about our human rights abuses).

    As Niles Gardiner points out in the Telegraph:

    There can be few sights more humiliating for the American people than that of a US president kowtowing to a foreign leader or to supranational institutions. Continental Europeans are used to this sort of thing after decades of dominance by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, and have grudgingly accepted over time the gradual and undemocratic erosion of their freedoms. But most Americans fiercely defend their national sovereignty, and find the idea of giving international organisations a say over their laws and lives completely unacceptable.

    The Obama administration however has submitted a report to the UN Commissioner on Human Rights, South African judge Navanethem Pillay, which makes direct reference to a popular Arizona immigration law aimed at tackling illegal immigration, which is fiercely opposed by the White House, and is the subject of legal action by the Justice Department. The report references

    A recent Arizona law, S.B. 1070, (which) has generated significant attention and debate at home and around the world. The issue is being addressed in a court action that argues that the federal government has the authority to set and enforce immigration law. That action is ongoing; parts of the law are currently enjoined.

    Now does the above sound okay with you? If so, you are a freaking dyed in the wool democrat who wants to not just ruin our country but destroy it with all those other leftist liberal assholes like Pelosi and Reid and Obama and Biden.

    And here is something that ALL Americans should also be screaming about!

    The State Department has handed out overseas nearly 3,000 copies of an Islamic book written by Ground Zero mosque promoter Feisal Abdul Rauf, an imam who asserts publicly that America has killed more Muslims than al Qaeda.

    The department is now sponsoring Feisal’s fourth trip as a special U.S. emissary to the Muslim world. He made two trips in 2007 during the Bush Administration and one earlier this year to Egypt. Feisal is now visiting Bahrain, Qatar and U.A.E. at a cost to U.S. taxpayers of $16,000.

    A State spokeswoman told HUMAN EVENTS that Feisal is “an American Muslim voice to the Middle East.”

    The State Dept. bought 2000 of the 3000 books.

    Our own freaking government (or at least all the freaking liberal assholes in our government, especially the state department that is well known for harboring nothing but communists and leftists and socialists) is doing this with OUR tax money!

    Go here to get the full story: State Dept. Aiding Ground Zero Imam’s Book Sales

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