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Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox, CC, OD (July 28, 1958 – June 28, 1981) was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer research activist. He was a distance runner and basketball player for his Port Coquitlam, British Columbia high school and Simon Fraser University. His right leg was amputated in 1977 after he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, though he continued to run using an artificial leg.
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In 1980, he attempted to run across Canada in the Marathon of Hope to raise cancer awareness.
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His effort began with little fanfare as he left St. John's, Newfoundland in April and ran the equivalent of a full marathon every day.
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He was forced to end his run outside of Thunder Bay after 143 days and 5,280 kilometres when his cancer spread to his lungs. His hopes of overcoming the disease and completing his marathon ended when he died nine months later.

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04-12-2010 , 03:58 PM

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1. I couldnt find one with English subtitles as two people always spoke french and I did not understand a word they said. Do you guys watch it with subtitles? Or do you understand French? Or just go without knowing what they said?

I understand enough French that I knew what was going on. I haven't seen it with subtitles anywhere, unfortunately.

The main thing you get out of the French speakers is that, in the end, Petit turned into a pretty big dick and blew all of them off and it seems like no one keeps in touch that much anymore.

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04-12-2010 , 04:05 PM

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This would fall under the pretty gay category. here is a incomplete list of the 2 million people that have earned eagle scout.

lol was it a requirement of an astronaut to be an eagle scout?? there are a ton on there.

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04-12-2010 , 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by sokiraJ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox

It's funny. Terry Fox is such an ingrained part of Canadian history and culture, what with the annual tributes, the Terry Fox Run annual walkathon, and the near universal perspective of him as a heroic Canadian figure, that you almost forget how unique that run really was. Most people couldn't do that on 2 legs if they were perfectly healthy.

Great choice.

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04-13-2010 , 05:16 PM

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The pirate utopia's motto was "for God and liberty," and its flag was white, in contrast to a Jolly Roger. They were anarchist, waging war against states and lawmakers, attacking their ships, sparing prisoners, and freeing slaves.

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04-13-2010 , 05:23 PM

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Lol, the local media here went crazy over the Montauk Monster. A lot of people claimed that it came from Plum Island, which is a pretty creepy place near where it was found, that does do animal research. It's so obviously a hoax though.

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04-13-2010 , 05:38 PM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ems_in_physics

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This is a list of some of the major unsolved problems in physics. Some of these problems are theoretical, meaning that existing theories seem incapable of explaining a certain observed phenomenon or experimental result. The others are experimental, meaning that there is a difficulty in creating an experiment to test a proposed theory or investigate a phenomenon in greater detail.

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04-14-2010 , 11:33 AM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatics

The generic term for this field of science is the study of modal phenomena, retitled Cymatics by Hans Jenny, a Swiss medical doctor and a pioneer in this field. The word Cymatics derives from the Greek 'kuma' meaning 'billow' or 'wave,' to describe the periodic effects that sound and vibration has on matter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypR3k8Ea9Js

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04-14-2010 , 12:05 PM

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http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm

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04-14-2010 , 12:51 PM

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i didn't click on the guy getting hit by a train, so i guess i won't go look for that picture

LOL. This post made my day.

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04-14-2010 , 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by javi

Feel very little pity for homeless people. The one's that arent crazy or drug addicted do it out of pure choice.

So you feel very little pity for the vast minority of homeless people, is what you actually mean?

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04-14-2010 , 05:47 PM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversa...une_(2005_film)

Very interesting.

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04-14-2010 , 05:56 PM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_misconceptions

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04-14-2010 , 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by good_gamble

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_misconceptions

very interesting

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04-14-2010 , 08:12 PM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_misconceptions

this is really interesting. I knew maybe 10% of these were false but was suspicious of most of them

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04-15-2010 , 02:45 AM

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Inspired by the Terry Fox link:

Douglas Bader

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Bader

An English fighter pilot who lost both his legs in an airplane crash in 1931, but learned to walk again (without a stick) on two artificial legs. He re-enlisted in the Royal Air Force at the outbreak on WW2 and become a fighter ace and squadron leader.

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04-15-2010 , 10:15 AM

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Read most of the thread, didnt see this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_(crocodile)

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Gustave is a massive male Nile crocodile living in Burundi. In 2004 he was estimated to be 60 years old, 20 feet (6.1 m) in length and to weigh around 1 ton, making him the largest confirmed crocodile ever seen in Africa.[1] He is a notorious man-eater, who is rumored to have claimed as many as 300 victims from the banks of the Ruzizi River and the northern shores of Lake Tanganyika. While this number is likely exaggerated, Gustave has attained a near-mythical status and is greatly feared by people in the region. He is said to hunt and leave his victims' corpses uneaten.[1]

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04-15-2010 , 06:57 PM

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The 61 year old potato farmer who revolutionized Ultramarathoning (544 miles)

He just showed up to the race with no marathon experience at all and won shaving 2 days off the previous record.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)

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04-15-2010 , 08:39 PM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)

FYP

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04-16-2010 , 05:10 AM

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FYP

Ty for some reason the last ) didn't HTMLize

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04-16-2010 , 12:25 PM

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I couldn't find a Wikipedia article about it, but I thought you guys would enjoy:

The Adidas/Puma feud:

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The term "sibling rivalry" doesn't quite do justice to the relationship between German shoemaking brothers Adolf and Rudolf Dassler, proprietors of the German athletic-shoe enterprise known as Dassler Brothers. During World War II, Rudolf was convinced that Adolf, better known as "Adi," contrived to have him sent to serve with German forces in Poland. After the German surrender, Rudolf retaliated by denouncing Adi to the Allies for allegedly assisting the Nazi war effort.

Bizarrely, the bickering brothers continued to share a villa, with their wives and children, in the Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach until 1948, when Rudolf and employees loyal to him formed a rival shoe company called Puma. Adi renamed his outfit Adidas (ADDYY). So great was the animosity between the brothers that the whole town became embroiled. Residents declared their loyalty to either Adidas or Puma according to the shoes they wore and sometimes refused to speak to members of the other side.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine...gn_id=rss_null

But don't worry, last year, after 60 years, the two companies finally ended their feud:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/pe...r-1788704.html

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04-16-2010 , 12:30 PM

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Tycho Brahe

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Tycho Brahe (14 December 1546 – 24 October 1601), born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (de Knudstrup), was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. Coming from Scania, then part of Denmark, now part of modern-day Sweden, Tycho was well known in his lifetime as an astronomer and alchemist.

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While studying at University of Rostock in Germany, on 29 December 1566 Tycho lost part of his nose in a duel[11] with fellow Danish nobleman Manderup Parsbjerg.[12] Tycho had earlier quarrelled with Parsbjerg at a wedding dance at professor Lucas Bacmeister's house on the 10th, and again on the 27th. The duel two days later (in the dark) resulted in Tycho losing the bridge of his nose.[12] From this event Tycho became interested in medicine and alchemy.[11] For the rest of his life, he was said to have worn a realistic replacement made of silver and gold[11], using a paste to keep it attached.[12]

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Tycho was said to own one percent of the entire wealth of Denmark at one point in the 1580s and he often held large social gatherings in his castle. He kept a dwarf named Jepp (whom Tycho believed to be clairvoyant) as a court jester who sat under the table during dinner. Pierre Gassendi wrote[12] that Tycho also had a tame moose (called an elk in Europe) and that his mentor the Landgrave Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel (Hesse-Cassel) asked whether there was an animal faster than a deer. Tycho replied, writing that there was none, but he could send his tame elk. When Wilhelm replied he would accept one in exchange for a horse, Tycho replied with the sad news that the elk had just died on a visit to entertain a nobleman at Landskrona. Apparently during dinner[16] the elk had drunk a lot of beer, fallen down the stairs, and died.[12][17]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe

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04-16-2010 , 01:01 PM

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Later to sent to Colditz after being shot down and escaping while a POW.

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04-16-2010 , 02:50 PM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenden_Abbott
Brenden James Abbott (born 8 May 1962 in Footscray, Melbourne) is an infamous Australian bank robber known as the Postcard Bandit. During his criminal career he is believed to have stolen as much as AUD$5 million from a number of banks, though very little of this money has ever been recovered. He is currently detained in the Woodford Correctional Centre and is often moved between this facility and the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre.

He has escaped from custody several times using various means. On 24 November 1989, Abbott made uniforms that resembled prison guards' at Fremantle Prison assisting his escape, and in 1997 he escaped with four other dangerous criminals from Sir David Longland Prison in Brisbane, under a hail of gunfire from an external accomplice, after sawing through cell bars and cutting through four external perimeter fences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Williams_(criminal)

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