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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma..._United_States

its pretty interesting. how about places like u of phoenix, etc, that are semi-legit. i know more than a few people who got a "MBA" from there, and actually promote that on their resume. or like john marshall law school

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10-17-2010 , 04:49 PM

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wow I got fascinated by this image posted in an article in this thread
~10,000 galaxies

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10-17-2010 , 05:07 PM

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Strange that these two people in the 18th century had this condition where they could eat anything and everything and no one has had it since.

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10-17-2010 , 05:34 PM

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

rare incurable genetic disorder where people can't fall asleep one night...and can never fall asleep again, then eventually die from sleep deprivation. runs in family, and children have 50/50 chance of getting it, and have to decide whether they want to be tested for it or be blissfully ignorant

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10-17-2010 , 10:13 PM

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Strange that these two people in the 18th century had this condition where they could eat anything and everything and no one has had it since.

Yeah lol. How do you eat a fork?

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10-18-2010 , 12:11 AM

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Yeah lol. How do you eat a fork?

With another fork and a knife.

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10-18-2010 , 12:58 AM

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there is a recent documentary done on this.dont know title sorry

Nature Untamed: Death Fog

http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...s#tab-Overview

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10-18-2010 , 11:04 AM

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another frenchie can eat some **** and not 1800s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito

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10-18-2010 , 01:48 PM

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There have been lots of weirdos who ate weird ****. I know I've seen things about people eating light bulbs and I think someone ate a whole car or something over many years.

It's not even that those two 18th century guys are unbelievable, but the stuff they ate (live cats, corpses, a toddler?), the amounts, how long ago it was, and it not really happening since or being diagnosed, just makes me think that those cases have to be taken with a grain of salt.

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10-18-2010 , 02:12 PM

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I know someone who can eat (broken) glass, rocks, metal.

he is a friend of my father (both indonesian) and he paid a "magician"
to put him under a spell so he can do it when he visited indonesia
(he was a sailor and now lives in the uk) he didnt pay much and it was more like a joke thing..

but its has been years and he is still well, what can I say magic exists

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10-18-2010 , 02:19 PM

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someone needs to develop an "awesome wiki page" website, with all these linked and more. Just with a little blurb about each thing, maybe sorted by category. I really do think you could get a lot of traffic, though I'm sure it already exists somewhere.

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10-18-2010 , 02:22 PM

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List of unusual articles

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10-18-2010 , 02:24 PM

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nice. this one is priceless

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shing%C5%8D,_Aomori

scroll down to tourist attractions

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10-18-2010 , 02:40 PM

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Wow so does this mean Mel Gibson is going to make a sequel called Passion of the Christ: Brother Isukiri

Jesus was a rice farmer who lived to be 106.

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10-18-2010 , 02:58 PM

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Crazy article about a football player who used to eat glass: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...5320/index.htm

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10-18-2010 , 03:01 PM

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Strange that these two people in the 18th century had this condition where they could eat anything and everything and no one has had it since.

If it is a real thing, I could see it being unlikely to be recognized these days since a person like that in a western country would be barely noticed as food is cheap and plentiful and in a developing country, he would probably just die of starvation at an early age.

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10-18-2010 , 03:14 PM

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Strange that these two people in the 18th century had this condition where they could eat anything and everything and no one has had it since.

There was a CSI episode about someone similar to this. The writers must have heard about someone with a condition like this.

In the CSI episode, the guy had a condition where he always felt hungry, so his brother had to keep him tied to a chair to prevent him from getting up. Because if he did get up, he'd eat everything in the house.

The guy somehow escaped the house and ended up at a hot dog eating contest where he was still hungry after finishing. Then he went to a buffet, where he was kicked out because he was eating too much, before he went dumpster diving behind a restaurant and died.

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10-19-2010 , 01:57 AM

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Just remember, "amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant"

Or sum, es, est, summus, estis, sunt. Might be a tad off as it has been years.

How many people are even taught latin anymore?

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10-19-2010 , 04:05 AM

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Did a search and didn't find this posted.

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

Very cool

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10-19-2010 , 10:17 AM

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Or sum, es, est, sumus, estis, sunt. Might be a tad off as it has been years.

How many people are even taught latin anymore?

summus is an adjective.

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10-19-2010 , 11:39 AM

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Or sum, es, est, summus, estis, sunt. Might be a tad off as it has been years.

How many people are even taught latin anymore?

Saw this in the local paper recently. Good stuff, especially considering this high school is considered the worst of the cities three high schools.

http://www.pressherald.com/life/Live...010-10-01.html

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While some high schools offer few, if any, Latin classes, Portland High now offers 12 sections of Latin and two sections of Greek, with more than 20 students in most sections. The number of students in the program has grown from about 150 in 2000 to about 250 today, and about 50 of them are taking Latin and Greek at the same time.

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The Michael Larson bit cracked me up.

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10-20-2010 , 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Monkey_Tilt

Or sum, es, est, summus, estis, sunt. Might be a tad off as it has been years.

Oops...almost right. Sumus.

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10-25-2010 , 04:17 PM

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I've been lurking around some time now, time for my fist post (non-poker one in a poker forum, kewl)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quacker_%28sound%29

"mysterious sounds, similar to a frog noise, widely reported by the crews of Soviet Navy submarines from various parts of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans during the peak of the Cold War, as well as their assumed sources. They are an example of Unidentified Submerged Objects''