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The global legalisation
of drugs would raise the
Third World out of poverty,
says Duncan Campbell
The recent row over the Government’s decision to change the classification of cannabis reopened, for a moment, the weary debate over legalisation of …
The first color wheel has been attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, who in 1706 arranged red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet into a natural progression on a rotating disk. As the disk spins, …
Below is the message written by the poster of this photo on flickr
Sean…. 지도 보기
이름이 없는 장소
에서 촬영
(여기에서 더 많은 사진 또는 비디오를 보기)
My step-father asked me to take this picture of him after he …
1. There are more people in slavery now than at any other time in human history
2. The value of slaves has decreased.
3. Slavery still exists in the US.
4.Slavery is hidden behind many other names, thus …
This is too true to be funny. It was forwarded to me via email. I wanted to pass it along. I understand how many zeros in 1,000,000,000. Many who don’t wish to type or show …
Foreign drugs like Viagra and Cialis used for treating erectile dysfunction may soon get their Indian counterparts from a ‘caterpillar fungus’ found in the high altitudes of Uttarakhand.
The caterpillar fungus locally called as Keera ghas …
Welcome to the world of lunatics and masochists - that’s what it says when you visit the “About” page on the official site of Le Marathon des Sables. And I don’t think they’re just saying …
The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth.
When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn’t understand German.
St Patrick, the patron …
Take a look around the world at what $1.5 million buys in 20 of the world’s most expensive housing markets.
1. London
Price: $6,191 per sq. ft.
What you get for $1.5 million: …
The Falkirk Wheel, named after the nearby town of Falkirk in central Scotland, is a rotating boat lift connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. The difference in the levels of the …
1. Technically, the prize awarded in Economics is not a Nobel Prize, as it was not specified in Alfred Nobel’s will. It has been nicknamed the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, and is selected by …
It’s actually been done too, in October 2007, a German cathedral, first mentioned in documents in 1297, was moved using a huge trailer platform from its original emplacement by a mining company. The village it …
We’ve all been there: the painfully over-done relationship that neither party has the guts to end. If you’ve been in a dead relationship for a while, or if you’ve been cheated on and can’t get …
A popular e-mail going around features a spinning dancer that has been touted as a test of whether you are right-brained and creative or left-brained and logical. If you see the dancer spinning clockwise, the …
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Skin painted bright red, heads partially shaved, arrows drawn back in the longbows and aimed square at the aircraft buzzing overhead. The gesture is unmistakable: Stay Away.
Behind the two men stands another figure, possibly a …
Palau
Ranked as Number OneIt is 500 miles (800km) east of the Philippines and 2000 miles (3200km) south of Tokyo. Manta rays and eagle rays are attracted to these plankton-fill waters.
Well now, here’s something you don’t see every day: an article stating the names of meds that doctors wouldn’t take. Yikes. These must be really nasty then, eh?
Well, we make no claims as such, but …
The whole mess started on a regular workday—computer, phone, cubicle, all that. I had a new employee, “Tiff,” who I had to start training that morning. “Whoopee!” I thought sarcastically, leaning back my chair. Then …
After 30 years of marriage, cynics might say most husbands and wives would have seen quite enough of each other, thank you very much.
But not in the case of one Saudi Arabian man who managed …
