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Most things that implode are pretty much off the list too, with a few exceptions. Anything written under the influence of recreational substances or while tired and emotional. An article about another article, written after the use of aforementioned substances. A fork of an existing article for the sole purpose of adding some humor. The weather ...
We are calling all history buffs, and anyone who likes to have a little fun, to test your knowledge of inaugurations past with our quiz, curated by USA TODAY Network political editors. If you can ...
"The Chaos" is a poem demonstrating the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation.Written by Dutch writer, traveller, and teacher Gerard Nolst Trenité (1870–1946) under the pseudonym of Charivarius, it includes about 800 examples of irregular spelling.
"I think we agree, the past is over." [12] [13] – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 10, 2000; to his former primary election rival John McCain“We can have filters on Internets where public money is spent.” – during his third Presidential debate with Al Gore, October 17, 2000 [14]
Faint young Sun paradox: The contradiction between existence of liquid water early in the Earth's history and the expectation that the output of the young Sun would have been insufficient to melt ice on Earth. Olbers' paradox: Why is the night sky dark if there is an infinity of stars, covering every part of the celestial sphere?
That is until they see something seriously confusing, like a dog with six legs, only to realize that it wasn’t much more than an optical illusion.It’s also not uncommon for people to take ...
The flesh-and-blood competitors were no slouches, either. Brad Rutter had earned $3.26 million playing Jeopardy!, making him the largest dollar winner in the show's history. And Ken Jennings had ...
There is a well-known myth about the word quiz that says that in 1791, a Dublin theatre owner named Richard Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word into the language within 24 hours. He then went out and hired a group of street children to write the word "quiz", which was a nonsense word , on walls around the city of Dublin .