Say hello to your new penny! The 13 vertical stripes of the shield represent the states joined in one compact union to support the federal government, represented by the horizontal bar above. The horizontal bar features the inscription E PLURIBUS UNUM—”out of many, one”—while the inscription UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is depicted along the upper [...]
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Dead Colombian woman not really all that dead
A Colombian woman was declared dead after a heart attack only to move her arm several hours later just as the undertaker was about to embalm her. Serna, who has multiple sclerosis, was admitted to the same Cali University Hospital on Monday after a heart attack, Rendon said. She survived for about 10 hours on [...]
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OkCupid thinks you should be dating older women
OkCupid continues their series of putting all that data on single people to good use by telling men they need to stop sending messages to the young, hot girls and give the older, hot girls a shot. In other words, given that nobody is drop-dead gorgeous or drop-dead hideous, your average 25 year-old is roughly [...]
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Anatomy of an assassination
Dubai officials have released this video showing how an 11-person team (possibly Mossad) carried out the assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. The suspects all had European passports, but none of their home nations have been able to confirm their existence. [via]
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Albert Einstein was offered an Israeli presidency
From Letters of Note: Following the death of the Israel’s first president in 1952, then-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion decided to approach a certain physicist at Princeton University to replace the late Chaim Weizmann, and via the Embassy of Israel in Washington sent the following letter to Albert Einstein.
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Cleveland upsets Detroit as country’s most miserable city
At least they still have the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. From Reuters: “Cleveland nabbed the top spot as a result of poor ratings across the board. It was the only city that fell in the bottom half of rankings in all nine categories,” Forbes said on it website. “The city has been dubbed [...]