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5 Ways to Send Real-Life Gifts To Your Twitter Friends


The online nature of Twitter means that it’s highly unlikely you know the physical addresses of many of the people you follow, which if you want to send them something in the real world, could be problematic.
Whether it’s a Twitter buddy’s birthday, someone’s a little under the weather, you want to say thank you, or [...]

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40 Free Dual Screen Nature


With our previous posts on free wallpapers for your desktop, today, we bring you a wide array of another type of wallpapers that you can also download for free… These wallpapers are mostly themed around amazing nature images that will surely take your breath away. The wallpapers are created for dual screens users with astonishing [...]

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15 Terrifying and Little Known Prehistoric Monsters


Who hasn’t heard of a tyrannosaurus Rex or a velociraptor thanks to movies like Jurassic Park? When we think of dinosaurs, we almost all think of a very small subset of these giant creatures from history. But perhaps more interesting are those which are far less familiar to us all.

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Top 10 Geniuses of 10 Fields of Human Activity


[ Competition: This list contains a competition, see the first comment for details.] This is another list of human endeavors but it covers ten of the most important aspects of human life through all history – it is not specifically modern, or ancient.

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Top 10 Places You Don’t Want To Visit


In previous lists we have looked at amazing holiday destinations – today we are looking at the bottom ten; these are ten places you don’t want to visit! Having said that, maybe the curious would get a thrill from visiting some of these strange and dangerous places, but for most of us, reading about it is quite enough. Feel free to mention any other contenders for the list in the comments.

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10 Possible Resting Places of the Holy Grail


The Holy Grail is a sacred object figuring into literature and certain Christian traditions, most often identified with the dish, plate, or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper and said to possess miraculous powers. Conspiracy theories abound on the nature of the grail and the final location. This list looks at ten of the possible resting places of this mysterious object

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11 Facts About the End of the Great War


I have a special fascination with World War One, a fascination that intensified when my father told me that his dad served in the Marines in 1917-1918. (My other grandfather and my wife’s grandfathers served in World War II, but my dad’s dad was in the first war.) My grandpa had trained as a sniper, but was never sent to France and was discharged after the armistice. The following are 11 fascinating facts concerning the people and events of the finale of the most destructive and bloody war in human history (until World War II, of course), which ended at 11 a.m.

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