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10 Best Groundhog Day Quotes

10 Best Groundhog Day Quotes

Groundhog Day an annual celebration of Puxsutawney Phil's famed weather prediction. The event is held on February 2 at Gobbler's Knob in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. Since 1887, many people have gathered at the Gobbler's Knob to see first hand if Phil sees his shadow and if six more weeks of...

NASA Warns of 'Solar Max' and Coronal Mass Ejections

NASA Warns of 'Solar Max' and Coronal Mass Ejections

NASA researchers from the Space Weather Prediction Center have issued an ominous warning regarding the sun's cycles and possible "Solar Max" eruptions and coronal mass ejections. After two centuries of observation, scientists have discovered the Sun goes through 11 year long cycles marked by...

15 of the Most Realistic UFO Encounters 

15 of the Most Realistic UFO Encounters 

Several famous UFO encounters can be difficult to dismiss as swamp gas or weather balloons -- especially among claims of humanoid creatures. These fifteen cases can make even skeptics scratch their head.

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5 Useful iPhone Apps for Travellers

As someone who spends a good deal of time travelling. One of the things that I've found really valuable is a good smart phone. In this case an iPhone. 1 Say WhereIts big feature is that you can search Google Maps, Yellowpages.com, Yelp, and Traffic.com without having to use the iPhone's often...

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Why Are You Not Supposed to Wear White After Labor Day?

Many etiquette books will say that it is not proper to wear white after Labor Day, which falls on the first Monday of September. Though the rule is not set in stone—and certainly there are no sanctions for the brave souls who decide to defy convention and wear white any day they actually...

California Hit With Hurricane Force Winds and Cold Temperatures

California Hit With Hurricane Force Winds and Cold Temperatures

Residents in California were subjected to hurricane force winds and unusually cold temperatures per reports from the National Weather service. At Whitaker Peak at 3:57 a.m. Thursday, the NWS measured winds at a rate of 94 mph. The NWS has issued wind warnings for the San Fernando and San Gabriel...

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Mid-West Tornadoes in Missouri and Arkansas Kill 7

Several tornadoes touched down in Missouri and Arkansas during the last hours of New Years Eve that wreaked havoc and killed seven people on Friday. The National Weather Service determined that a weak, 50 yard wide tornado which traveled less than one mile was responsible for at least three deaths....

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Aesop's Fables by Aesop

Aesop's FablesBy Aesop Translated by George Fyler Townsend The Wolf and the Lamb Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you...

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Rhode Island Flooding

Rhode Island flooding is causing massive interruptions in the daily activities of residents. Heavy rain has caused massive, widespread flooding in The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has shut down commuter trains to Providence, effective Tuesday, March 30, 2010 and report that...

How to Naturally Relieve Insomnia

How to Naturally Relieve Insomnia

Insomnia is defined as not being able to fall asleep, or not being able to get back to sleep between the hours of 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. Insomnia happens to most people. Often we lie sleepless when we are overburdened, overstressed, depressed, in pain, or when our sleep patterns are impeded by naps...