We all know that movies get history wrong by bending the facts, right? And by bending I mean shattering and rewriting …
10,000 B.C.
Director Roland Emmerich is usually a stickler for realism (see: sending a computer virus via Macintosh to aliens in Independence Day). So we hate to inform him that woolly mammoths were not, in [...]

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The Nursing online education database has 50 tips that can help you to improve your life. Sounds like a good plan to me!
I’ve so many things that need to be worked on that it is untrue! I need a plan I think … meanwhile, here’s the list:

Ditching Bad Habits
Put a stop to these harmful bad [...]

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Abandoned library post number two! Not much is known about where this is or why it was abandoned. One of the comments on English Russia says:
They say its some kind of technical library situated near old abandoned factory. Those are mostly technical reference books and some communism theory.
Anyone know any more about this one?
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Abandoned library number one:
the abandoned Detroit Public Schools Book Depository, I went back again to take some more with a better lens in HDR blending different exposures:
This is a building where our deeply-troubled public school system once stored its supplies, and then one day apparently walked away from it all, allowing everything to go to [...]

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As you may be aware, airships are my thing. So this one makes me very happy indeed. Take a look at the gallery:
MANNED CLOUD Cruise Airship, Paris, France
Living in the sky, watching the Earth from above. Rediscovering the marvel of traveling, experiencing contemplation. Exploring the world without trace
Manned Cloud is an alternative project around leisure [...]

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Back in 1942 the future of humanity meant living underground while airships sailed overhead, raining death and destruction in a never ending war.
Well it’s 2008 and we have two never ending wars, drugs and terror, but luckily we’re not living underground. And if we do, can we live like Hobbits please?
It’s 1975! All hell has [...]

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Micheal Jackson’s Neverland ranch has been saved from auction as he’s managed to refinance, just enough to keep it for now. It’s not clear if he’ll ever move back into it, the place is falling apart.
The merry-go-round stands rusting and lifeless. An elaborate floral display that used to stand proudly at the front of the [...]

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Here’s a nice find, get it while you can. It is a free audio book from Iain Banks, a great author and this book is well worth picking up.
Iain Menzies Banks (born on 16 February 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife) is a Scottish writer. He writes mainstream fiction as Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain [...]

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