Category Archives: General

The White House Was, in Fact, Built by Slaves

Originally posted on Be a Seed for Change:
SmartNews Keeping you current Along with the Capitol and other iconic buildings in Washington, D.C. By Danny Lewis smithsonian.com July 26, 2016 Earliest known photograph of the White House. The image was…

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Mystery Solved: Black Holes Twist Space-Time Like Taffy

Originally posted on Kill The Boredom:
By Space.com – A 30-year-old mystery about black holes has just been solved. The story starts in the 1980s, when astronomers found that small (stellar-mass) black holes emit X-ray light that flickers in a…

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Brazilian cuisine from The north to The soulth

Originally posted on Gustavo Pasquini:
? The cuisine of Brazil is the result of a mixture of European ingredients , indigenous and “africanos”.1 Many of preparation techniques and ingredients are of indigenous origin , having been adapted by the slaves…

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Myth and reality of absinthe

Originally posted on Alcohol and Drugs History Society:
In early 1900s, France consumed over 36 million liters of absinthe yearly. http://uproxx.com/life/absinthe-alcohol-herbal-myths-reality-french-history/4/

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King of Murals

Originally posted on Only Just Beginning:
Murals are, in my opinion, very impressive. All art is, of course, but envisioning and correctly proportioning art on the side of a building is a skill that would make any artist green with envy.…

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Lisbon’s Spectacular Street Art

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How Altruism Might Have Evolved

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Meet the nudibranch: Seven reasons these ‘naked’ gastropods are more than pretty faces

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Mural by Natalia Rak in old town Malmö

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Did you know that Jupiter doesn’t orbit the Sun?

Originally posted on tylershepard1991:
Jupiter is so big that it doesn’t orbit the sun, rather it orbits just off the sun’s serfice. At more than 300 times the size of Earth, Jupiter has a unique orbit around a point just…

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