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SinglesThis 1992 classic features Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, Jimi Hendrix and The Smashing Pumpkins. Its exclusive tracks from legendary Seattle rockers propelled this album to more than two million sales. There is truly something here for all grunge and alternative rock genre fans. CluelessStandout tracks on this soundtrack include Radiohead's acoustic version of "Fake Plastic...

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The Exorcism of Emily Rose Jennifer Carpenter, the actress who played the titular character in 2005 film "The Exorcism of Emily Rose," reports that her radio would turn itself on in the middle of the night several times while filming the movie. Not only that, but it would also play a section of a Pearl Jam song that...

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A man who displayed signs of mental health problems as a teenager has been locked up by his parents for 30 years. Dong Hai,46, was caged in a five square metre stone shelter in his parent's back yard when they grew frightened that he could hurt someone. Dong Watou and his wife Xiao Hong from Longhai, southeast China's Fujian...

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Five men gang-raped a woman photographer in India's financial hub Mumbai, police said Friday, fuelling protests and stirring memories of a similar attack last December in New Delhi. The attack took place on Thursday evening in an upmarket district of central Mumbai as the 23-year-old woman and a male colleague were taking photos of old buildings for a...

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Although there is money to be had, poor people seem to have trouble taking all that they can get. It's very easy to remain poor if you don't actively do something about it. So what is it that they are doing wrong? Here’s a list of ten mistakes that poor people make that serve to keep them poor...

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1. BoredI’d say this is the most common reason that people cheat.It’s tough to keep that edge throughout a relationship. Things start off grand and then level off and then you both realize that it’s still real life. When you meet someone else, that inaugural excitement of a new relationship kicks back in.2. DependenceAt first glance, cheating seems...

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Facebook is an online social networking service, whose name stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other. It was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow...

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Beowulf’s poet adapts certain motifs found in Danish mythology to relay a directed moral to his audience. The poet expects his audience to possess a general knowledge of these myths and he uses them to contrast the actions and choices of the mythical characters with the characters in his own poem. There are two important myths that he...

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Main differences between the original Greek myth and the film *According to the myths, Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Hera, Aphrodite and Poseidon all played active parts in the Trojan War. The film presents rites of Greek polytheism, including libation, prayer and Charon's obol (anachronistically, since coinage comes into use only 600 years later), but it does not show the...

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From as early as 1935 science journalists were making humorous associations between the comic strip character Popeye, Iron and Spinach. In 1981 consultant hematologist T.J. Hamblin published a paper in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) entitled Fake which made the traditional humorous association between Popeye, Iron and Spinach and claimed (without any references to support the story) that a 19th...

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Eugenics is the bio-social movement which advocates practices to improve the genetic composition of a population, usually a human population.It is a social philosophy advocating the improvement of human hereditary traits through the promotion of higher reproduction of more desired people and traits, and reduced reproduction of less desired people and traits Myth 1:Eugenics was created in Germany....

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The body of Betty Hudson was found, having been shot three times, in her home of Prentiss, Mississippi, . She was discovered by firemen who had been summonded to a house fire. To date, no one has been arrested for her brutal murder.This 10-year old cold murder case is going to be discussed at the Homicide Cold Case...

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Mysterious Burial Site of Mahsuri in PhuketOne of the earliest written record of Phuket was found in the Kedah Annals of Malaya. Though it is commonly believed the the name Phuket had originated from the Malay name, Bukit, which means Hill, it was not the original name of the island. Furthermore, its mention in Malayan literature was intriguing,...

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The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon occurs when a person, after having learned some (usually obscure) fact, word, phrase, or other item for the first time, encounters that item again, perhaps several times, shortly after having learned it. Origin  The "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon" was coined by a reader of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Terry Mullen. The Minnesota newspaper runs a daily...

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The Kurds are considered an ancient autochthonous population. Although Kurdistan came under the successive dominion of various conquerors, including the Armenians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Ottoman Turks, and Persians, they may have remained relatively unmixed by the influx of invaders, because of their protected and inhospitable mountainous homeland. Genetic testing amongst randomly chosen Kurdish populations has began to shed...

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A Maryland woman treated for a snake bite received another shocker: a $55,000 medical bill.Jules Weiss had stopped to take a photo at an overlook along the George Washington Parkway. On the way back to her car, she felt something bite her."It felt just like a bee sting," Weiss told local station NBC4. "There were two fang marks...

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Vietnamese authorities are trying to reintegrate a father and son to their home village after they allegedly fled war four decades ago to live deep in the forest, an official said Saturday.Ho Van Thanh, 82, and his son, Ho Van Lang, 42, emerged bedraggled from the remote mountainous region on Wednesday in an emaciated condition, wearing loincloths made...

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Aluminum is a chemical element in the boron group with symbol Al and atomic number 13. Itis a silvery white, soft, ductile metal. Stable aluminum is created when hydrogen fuses withmagnesium either in large stars or in supernovae. Aluminum is used in many fields and youcan find the information inaluminum extrusion catalogue. What do you know aboutaluminum’s history?...

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Francis Bacon, a man who rose to eminence by betraying his friends, asserted, no doubt as one of the ripe lessons of experience, that 'knowledge is power'. But this is not true of all knowledge. Sir Thomas Browne wished to know what song the sirens sang, but if he had ascertained this it would not have enabled him...

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