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Do they look Jewish?

The Lemba people of Zimbabwe and South Africa may look like their compatriots, but they follow a very different set of customs and traditions.

They do not eat pork, they practise male circumcision, they ritually slaughter their animals, some of their men wear skull caps and they put the Star of David on their gravestones.

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Pictures of Farming in North Dakota in the early 1900’s.

Montana Railroad History.

Texas jury jails man 35 years for marijuana possession .

Harness Your Subconscious Wisdom by Asking The Right Questions .

The Psychology of the Taboo Tradeoff.

Photography setup and field darkroom of Sam A. Cooley. Cooley followed the Union Army, and took pictures of the battles around Savannah, and of Sherman’s March to the Sea. The field darkroom was used to create each negative prior to taking a picture, and then to develop it afterwards. It was a very tedious process to take a single picture.

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SCI FI Wire.

Net security and cyberwar

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Fashion is still a feminist issue .

Human behavior is 93 percent predictable, research shows.

Apples, nuts, oats boost immune system .

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Egyptian tomb discovered with ’spells helping travel to afterlife’ .

GALLERY.

‘Painless’ vaccine needle invented in Japan .

IEEE Spectrum: Hydrocarbon Superconductor Discovered.

Black garlic: all the taste, with none of the bad breath .

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The kings of presidential comedy were reunited last weekend — with a little nudge from the Congressional Oversight Panel.

Five former presidential impersonators from “Saturday Night Live” joined Jim Carrey and the show’s current mock president, Fred Armisen, in a White House bedroom set for a sketch that immediately achieved viral video fame. The experience, Mr. Armisen said, felt like “walking into my television set.”

The first-of-its-kind reunion happened not on the show, but on Funny or Die, the popular comedy Web site (funnyordie.com). It was meant to promote financial reforms, and was partly the product of a conversation between the director Ron Howard and Elizabeth Warren, the chairwoman of the oversight panel. She had said to Mr. Howard that the government must do more to curb troublesome banking and lending practices.

“I said I would try to get together with a few people who might be able to get the word out,” Mr. Howard said in a telephone interview Friday.

Ron Howard Directs a Comedy Video With ‘SNL’ Presidents – NYTimes.com.

Funny or Die’s Presidential Reunion from Will Ferrell, Chevy Chase, Ron Howard, Jim Carrey, Fred Armisen, Darrell Hammond, Dan Aykroyd, Maya Rudolph, Dana Carvey, FOD Team, Jake, and Antonio Scarlata – Video.

If you thought buying textbooks for your college classes cost too much, then take a look at the prices attached to these books, some of the most valuable in the world. From the first book ever printed to the most valuable comic book to the children’s picture book worth the most money, check out these ten books that will bring a pretty penny to anyone lucky enough to have one in their collection.

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Earthquake in Chile [50 Photos (WARNING: Very Graphic) .

Scientists Reaffirm Asteroid Theory in Dinosaur Deaths .

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Snowball Earth: New evidence hints at global glaciation 716.5 million years ago.

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Salmonella-based food flavoring recall is spreading .

The Sculpture by the Sea outdoor art exhibition at Cottesloe Beach in Perth, Australia .

LifeCoach: How to cope with fatigue.

240m-year-old skeleton discovered in Africa rewrites dinosaur story .

Yemen has been in the news a great deal recently – because of its supposed links with the training of terrorists. Yet little attention has been paid to the country itself – particularly its rich and surprising architectural heritage. So little known outside the country this remarkable architecture has survived hundreds of years. Take a look at the secret cities of Yemen CLICK HERE

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Surface of the Red Planet: images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite .

20 Amazing Color Images of the First World War .

The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll’s tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel.

Every day trucks pass us on the highway and we are completely unaware of what they may be carrying. But when one overturns, we get a peek into what is being carted around right under our noses. Sometimes, it’s just a common item that we’re not accustomed to seeing spilled on the road. Sometimes, it’s a truck full of things we never thought about being hauled around by the truckfull.

Truck Spills

Urinals with a View.

These photographs of albatross chicks were made in September, 2009, on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.

See the gruesome photos here.

When whales die a natural death, they store tons of carbon on the sea floor for centuries. Whale hunting over the past hundred years the same effects as destroying forests in contributing to climate change.

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Man with a ticker tape machine. Ticker Tape was used to print stock prices. The data was transmitted to the machine over telephone or telegraph lines.

New study shows teens who drink 100 percent fruit juice have more nutritious diets overall .

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The Farber Gravestone Collection is an unusual resource documenting the sculpture on over 9,000 gravestones most of which were made prior to 1800.

Farber Gravestone Collection.

Origami is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a representation of an object using geometric folds and crease patterns preferably without the use of gluing or cutting the paper, and using only one piece of paper.

Won Park is the master of Origami. He is also called the “money folder”, a practitioner of origami whose canvas is the United States One Dollar Bill.

Bending, twisting, and folding, he creates life-like shapes in stunning detail.

Dollar Bill Origami Artist Lives in a Garbage Truck .