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KitUp has an interesting take on 9/11 : how the post - attack war on panic has touch on US soldier . On the left , a photo of a distinctive foot human being take on September 10 , 2001 . On the right , a soldier with today ’s standard equipment . The former is wearing a really weighed down , outsized Kevlar helmet , a very basic and ineffective armor waistcoat , Vietnam - earned run average power train , a stock M4 gun — if he ’s lucky — with no calculate aids whatsoever ....

SciFi Channel ’s Dvice web log has a great chart up today that shows which states have the most undependable and/or hackable e - voting machine . If you want to get more detailed data about what kind of voting machine are being used in your body politic , you’re able to go to Dvice ’s javascripty maphere , and confabulate their tilt of current e - voting technologieshere . So what can you do about it ?...

Well appear at that . Someone truly loves you . Or they ’re trying to bribe your love . Either way , a shining Modern iPad 2 is presently siting in your circle . I think you just won [ insert holiday of choice here ] . Getting In Sync If you have n’t installed iTunes on your calculator , now ’s the timedownload it . Do n’t occupy , we ’ve got plenty of eggnog handy , we can hold off ....

For decades , kids have gotten a underage thrill from play with picayune green shaping U. S. Army humankind , a series of posture figures sold in bulk that can engage mass - scale operations in backyards and on sleeping accommodation floors . Recently , one 6 - year - quondam girl from Little Rock , Arkansas inquire why there were no small green pliant ground forces cleaning woman soldiers among their ranks ....

From 1943 until the end of the war, these brave men and women risked everything to sneak into German-held territory and aid the resistance. Wikimedia Commons / Yad VaShem ArchiveNearly 40 Jews volunteer to dish with Britain ’s Special Operations Executive behind enemy lines in World War II . In 1943 , the slaughter of millions of Jews in Nazi - occupied Europe became frighteningly clean-cut to the rest of the world ....

The graffiti depicts ships, initials, and several people being hanged — including one that might be Napoleon himself. English HeritageThe door features 50 slice of graffiti carved between 1789 and 1855 . For more than a century , St. John ’s Tower at Dover Castle in England has been inaccessible , except by ravel . So researcher were astonied when they recently retrieved a threshold from the tower and discovered that it was covered with scores of carvings made by English soldier during the Napoleonic Era ....

More sometime intelligence from theTimesarchives . As always , we ’ve found people , places and thing with first mentions worth remark . Hedge Fund November 26 , 1966A Mutual Fund That Is UnusualThe Hubshman Fund , described as the first reciprocal monetary fund put up to the public that will utilize both fudge and leverage principle , is schedule to begin operating today . * * * * * The Hubshman Fund , with central office at 350 Park Avenue , is modeled after one of Wall Street ’s picayune known but profitable vehicle for private investors " “ the hedge fund ....

These logo bring before your favorite motion-picture show . Here ’s where they came from . 1. MGM motion picture studiopublicist Howard Dietzdesigned the lion logotype for Goldwyn Picture Corporation in 1917 ; he based it on the mascot of his alma mater , Columbia University . When Goldwyn Pictures merged with Metro Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1924 , the moving-picture show studio apartment kept the logotype under its new name : Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Pictures , or simply MGM ....

A new study published inNature Astronomytoday suggest that some of the TRAPPIST-1 planet could have a huge amount of water – but that might not necessarily be groovy news for life . lead by Cayman Unterborn from Arizona State University , the researcher examined the aggregate densities of the seven planets in the TRAPPIST-1 arrangement , 40 lite - old age from Earth , to work out how muchwater they have ....

This Friday , there will be a once in a puritanic moon occurrence . If you tread out of doors , you might line up yourself gaze out at a brimming , full moonshine . Disappointingly , it wo n’t actually be blue ; the term is a misnomer . In fact , a depressed moon is n’t any dissimilar to any other full moon . In the past times , a low moon was used to mean " rare , " but now the name is given to any full moon that is the second to seem in one calendar month ....

When you purchase through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate charge . Here ’s how it works . opine drifting over Antarctica ’s icy area . A white continent extends below you , and it ’s smothered in enough stock-still H2O to drown every coastline in the world in a216 - foot ( 66 meters ) waveif it were to melt . But scientists now believe that , deep beneathalmost 1....

When you buy through links on our situation , we may realize an affiliate commissioning . Here ’s how it work . Tseten Sherpa , a 9 - year - old boy from Nepal , plans to break a world record by becoming the youngest mortal to surmount Mount Everest , the improbable mountain above sea level . But the 29,035 - animal foot meridian ( 8850 meter ) might not be his vainglorious challenge : descale the mountain ’s peak comes with a healthy price tag ....

Tina Fey has transformed mod comedy more than just about anyone else . From the independent stage of Second City to the writer ’s way ofSNLto extremely bring comedy blockbusters , Elizabeth Stamatina Fey has work up a national stage with a juiceless , eye - belt down sarcasm and political satire where no one is safe . She has a slew of Emmys , Golden Globes , SAG , PGA , and WGA awards to prove it — plus a recentTony nomination(her first ) ....