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Garry Hoy
"Garry Hoy (1955 – 9 July 1993) was a lawyer for the law firm of Holden Day Wilson in Toronto. He is best known for the circumstances of his death; in an attempt to prove to a group of his partners at the firm that the glass in the Toronto-Dominion Centre was unbreakable, he threw himself through a glass wall on the 24th story and fell to his death after the window frame gave way. He had apparently attempted this stunt many times in the past, having previously bounced harmlessly off the glass"

Mount Sunflower

"Mount Sunflower, although not a true mountain, is the highest point in the state of Kansas."

The Tree That Owns Itself

"The Tree That Owns Itself is a white oak tree, widely assumed to have legal ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet (2.4 m) of its base. The tree is located at the corner of Finley and Dearing Streets in Athens, Georgia, USA."

Manfred Gnadinger

"Manfred Gnädinger (Dresden 1940 - Camelle, 28 December 2002) a.k.a. Man or O Alemán was a German hermit and sculptor who lived in the village of Camelle, on the Costa da Morte, in Galicia (Spain). He lived a very simple and natural life, building sculptures on the beach where he lived and tending to his small garden. In November 2002, when the oil spill of the Prestige destroyed his sculptures and the ecosystem of the area he lived in, it is thought that Man let himself die of melancholy and sadness, thus becoming a symbol of the destruction unleashed by the oil spill."


Vasiliy Arkhipov
"Three officers on board the submarine — Savitsky, the Political Officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov, and the Second in command Arkhipov — were authorized to launch the torpedo if they agreed unanimously in favour of doing so. An argument broke out among the three, in which only Arkhipov was against the launch, eventually persuading Savitsky to surface the submarine and await orders from Moscow. The nuclear warfare which presumably would have ensued was thus averted."


Timothy Dexter

"'Lord' Timothy Dexter (January 22, 1748 – October 26, 1806), as he was sometimes termed by admiring contemporaries, was an American eccentric businessman who was peculiarly lucky and never bothered to learn to spell."

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[Bearsy]

Those are interesting as hell man, thanks.

[Dr. Drew]

cool shit maing

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[Waves]

hell yeah keep it comin baby

[mookie]

random fyi

Wikipedia testing new policy to stop spread of false information -- chicagotribune.com

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that has drawn some decidedly juvenile pranks, is looking to impose discipline with new restrictions on the editing of articles.

The latest changes come as Wikipedia tries to balance credibility and a desire for openness.

While anyone still can edit entries, the site is testing pages that require changes to be approved by an experienced Wikipedia editor before they show up.

If the site's users respond well to the test run, the new restrictions will apply to all entries for living people in the next few weeks.

The idea is to block the kind of high-profile vandalism that has marred some pages.

In recent embarrassments, Democratic Sens. Robert Byrd and Edward Kennedy were declared dead by rogue editors.

Still, Wikipedia risks discouraging legitimate editing if restrictions on changes or additions become too burdensome, such that articles won't get better or keep up with events. That may be especially true on more obscure pages with fewer active volunteers to approve edits in a timely way.

Aware of the risks, Wikipedia has set the criteria for "experienced editor" status relatively low. Users who are registered for a few days can OK the changes, said Jay Walsh, a spokesman for the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the site.

A more uniform system for filtering changes on Wikipedia represents a step back from the site's original philosophy, which called for harnessing the collective knowledge of volunteer editors without any major restrictions.

But it is not the first time Wikipedia has attached strings.

The same flagging process, for example, has been imposed on all entries in the German-language Wikipedia for more than a year. On the English site, too, high-profile pages that are likely to be defaced have been tightly restricted.

Separately, the Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment group started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, said Tuesday it is committing $2 million over two years to the Wikimedia Foundation to support Wikimedia's key goals of bringing free educational content to people around the world.

The word "roach" entered American English from a Mexican Spanish slang word for marijuana (the name "marijuana" itself originated in Mexican Spanish), or a cigarette stub of marijuana, or tobacco adulterated with marijuana: cucaracha ("cockroach"; see also the folk song La Cucaracha.) In Spanish, tabaco de cucaracha refers to adulterated tobacco generally.[1][2]

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rofl i live in kansas and have gone to mount sunflower. umm....take it from me, dont waste the gass, lol. for fucks sake you dont even drive up a hill to get there.

ims till not really getting what the "nothing happened here in 1897." plaque is all about. to the best of my knowledge i dont think anything did happen on that spot......ever.

Black Mesa Oklahoma is better. (hide your weed well, lol the oklahoma panhandle is ruthless)

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Leck mich im Arsch

"Leck mich im Arsch (literally "Lick me in the arse") is a canon in B-flat major composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, K. 231 (K. 382c), with lyrics in German."

Fish ladder

"Fish ladders are known to be very effective. Written reports of rough fishways date to 17th-century France, where bundles of branches were used to create steps in steep channels to bypass obstructions."

Crazy Horse Memorial

"The monument has been in progress since 1948 and is still far from completion. When finished, it will be the world's largest sculpture."

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

"On December 8, 1995, Bauby, the editor-in-chief of Elle magazine, suffered a stroke and lapsed into a coma. He awoke 20 days later, mentally aware of his surroundings but physically paralyzed with the exception of some movement in his head and eyes (one of which had to be sewn up due to an irrigation problem). The entire book was written by Bauby blinking his left eyelid, which took ten months (four hours a day)."

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"The Tree That Owns Itself is a white oak tree, widely assumed to have legal ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet (2.4 m) of its base. The tree is located at the corner of Finley and Dearing Streets in Athens, Georgia, USA."

so i could stand under this tree and legally smoke?