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At Age 90 He Still Aids Youths With Native Language
Offbeat  (tags: culture, native language, interesting, society )

Lone
- 15 hours ago - triplicate.com
Archie Thompson learned the Yurok language as a boy living on his grandmother's ranch.  "She didn't speak English, and I used to make fun of her all the time, but that's how I learned. She spoke to me every day," Thompson said
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THE BEST WAY TO WASTE YOUR FRIDAY AT WORK Go to WAL MART
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Suzybell
- 1 day ago - peopleofwalmart.com
All we're gonna say is this is the best website we've ever seen to make the time at work go by fast. And, you'll be forwarding this link to everyone you know, in and out of your office..
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A Turkey on the Doorstep
Offbeat  (tags: animals, Wild turkeys, interesting, funny, goodnews, unusual )

Tierney
- 1 day ago - wildcarebayarea.org
It sounds like a gift ordered for a holiday feast, doesn't it? But one San Rafael resident was concerned because this particular turkey was looking her in the eye expectantly. Cynthia Smith called WildCare.
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Crazy Horse Memorial Will Be Home to Native Education Programs
Offbeat  (tags: Crazy Horse, memorial, native college, interesting )

Lone
- 2 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com
CRAZY HORSE, S.D. - While the huge likeness of a horse's head takes rough shape from the granite of Thunderhead Mountain, educational buildings begin to emerge at Crazy Horse Memorial, where the massive statuary tribute to a Lakota
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The Largest , Smelliest and Most Bizarre Flowers in the World
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- 2 days ago - gardeninggarden.com
While flowers typically attract humans and insects alike with their enchanting beauty and luscious fragrance, some rather perverse stinking flowers entice flesh and fecal-loving insects to their foul-smelling blooms in the guise of meat by their colors...
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'Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle' - Paw Nation
Offbeat  (tags: mutt, marine corps, miracle, interesting, goodnews )

Barbcat
- 3 days ago - pawnation.com
When Maj. Brian Dennis of the United States Marine Corps met a wild stray dog with shorn ears while serving in Iraq, he had noidea of the bond they'd form leading to seismic changes in both their lives.
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Incredible Cube Art Collaboration
Offbeat  (tags: culture, design, humans, humor, off-beat, interesting, unusual, funny )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - gimundo.com
This amazing time-lapse video shows a group of artists creating an ever-changing painting from a group of large blocks. A must-see!
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Rapping at McDonalds Not Allowed in Utah, Apparently-- Watch Video
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Suzybell
- 4 days ago - metro.co.uk
A McDonalds restaurant in Utah called the police because four teenagers were rapping their orders at a drive-through window.The police, taking this sort of heinous crime very seriously, issued disorderly conduct citations to the teenagers. The teens said
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The World's Strangest Nocturnal Animals
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, interesting, strangest nocturnal animals )

Simone
- 6 days ago - guardian.co.uk
It's 9.30 in the morning, yet darkness is falling in Bristol zoo. Inside Twilight World, the nocturnal animals have been asleep under artificial light. But now it's wake-up time and their synthetic sun is setting. Soon they'll be hunting and foraging by
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Tallest Treehouse Built From Reclaimed Wood
Offbeat  (tags: architecture, green, humans, home, interesting, off-beat, photos, pictures, unusual )

Daphna
- 6 days ago - inhabitat.com
When God told Horace Burgess to build a treehouse, he promised that Burgess would never run out of materials. So far he hasn't. Using tons of reclaimed wood, Burgess has built a 10 story treehouse in Crossville, Tennessee. Burgess claims it is the world's
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7 Lamest Yet Widely Believed Cryptozoological Hoaxes
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Daphna
- 6 days ago - environmentalgraffiti.com
Are alleged species like De Loys' Ape, the Hodag and Mer-People bona fide beasties on earth or do they only roam in the minds of fraudsters and their credulous believers? Despite what many might see as a weight of evidence against their existence, the jur
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Stress Testing Begins on Bay Bridge
Offbeat  (tags: bay bridge, repairs, stress test, interesting, pictures )

Lone
- 6 days ago - sfgate.com
-- Workers finally began testing a patch on the closed Bay Bridge on Saturday night after days of struggling to fix a cracked piece of steel
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Night of 1000 Pumpkins Has Pixies, Fairies, Jimi Hendrix, Lucy and Ricki
Offbeat  (tags: Halloween, funny, humor, interesting, news )

Sally
- 7 days ago - newsblaze.com
Shannon Cheyne, Sutter Street Merchants manager, said We thought this would be a great event for families ... as you can see from the number of people ... it is a huge success.
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U.S. 3rd-Oldest Western Lowland Gorilla Vila Celebrates 52nd Birthday
Offbeat  (tags: gorillas, interesting, animals )

Marty
- 7 days ago - news.xinhuanet.com
Vila, the third-oldest western lowland gorilla in the U.S., unwraps presents while celebrating her 52nd birthday at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park in San Diego, California, October 28, 2009
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