March 2011
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List of television series considered the worst →
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Minnesota nice →
Minnesota nice is the stereotypical behavior of long-time Minnesota residents, to be courteous, reserved, and mild mannered.
According to Annette Atkins, the cultural characteristics of Minnesota nice include a polite friendliness, an aversion to confrontation, a tendency toward understatement, a disinclination to make a fuss or stand out, emotional restraint, and self-deprecation.She notes that...
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2010–2011 midwinter animal mass death events →
12/28/10 - 1/3/11: 100 tons of dead fish were reported to be washing ashore on the Brazilian coast.
1/3/11: More than 500 starlings, red-winged blackbirds and sparrows fell dead in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, USA.
1/3/11: An estimated 2 million dead fish were found floating in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, USA.
1/5/11: “Hundreds” of dead turtle doves were found at Faenza,...
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Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth →
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Tooth fairy →
The custom of leaving monetary gifts after teeth are lost varies grossly in amount left and depends entirely on socioeconomic status of the homeowner.
Recent surveys published in the American Dental Association’s monthly publication, “Ortho” shows that the average value received by children for deciduous teeth is US$1.00/tooth, and ranges from US$0.25 to US$20.00. The largest...
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Solar puffing →
Solar puffing is the act of using a magnifying lens to heat cannabis for consumption.
Many practitioners of this method believe that by using heat from sunlight, instead of heat from a lighter, that the cannabis is consumed in a more ‘natural’ way, since the sunlight is the only heat source which also comes directly from nature.
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Mind uploading →
Mind uploading is the hypothetical process of scanning and mapping a biological brain in detail and copying its state into a computer system or another computational device.
The computer would have to run a simulation model so faithful to the original that it would behave in essentially the same way as the original brain, or for all practical purposes, indistinguishably.
The simulated mind is...
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“The decoration of masturbation makes mistaken malevolent Marxists marry merry...”
– Clanging refers to a mode of speech and logical association to two or more words primarily based upon word sounds when no logical association between the words exists.
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English words with uncommon properties →
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Category:Lists of people →
List of people with the most children
List of cult and new religious movement researchers
List of heads of state educated in the United States
List of mummies
List of people named after celebrities
List of people in systems and control
just to name a few..
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Roe effect →
The Roe effect is a theory about the long-term effect of abortion on the political balance of the United States, which the practice of abortion will eventually lead to the restriction or illegalization of abortion. Put simply, this theory holds that:
Those who favor legal abortion are much more likely to get one than those who oppose it.
Children usually follow their parents’ political...
Human zoo →
Human zoos (also called “ethnological expositions” or “Negro Villages”) were 19th and 20th century public exhibits of humans, usually in a “natural” or “primitive” state. The displays often emphasized the cultural differences between Europeans of Western civilisation and non-European peoples.
number of them placed indigenous people (particularly...
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Compulsory sterilization →
Over 65,000 individuals were sterilized in 33 states under state compulsory sterilization programs in the United States.
The Oregon Board of Eugenics, later renamed the Board of Social Protection, existed until 1983, with the last forcible sterilization occurring in 1981.
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List of bestselling drugs →
A list of the top 200 pharmaceutical products ranked by sales in U.S. dollars for 2006.
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Chicago 1885 cholera epidemic myth →
The Chicago 1885 cholera epidemic myth is a persistent urban legend, stating that 90,000 people in Chicago died of typhoid fever and cholera in 1885. Although the story is widely reported, these deaths did not occur.