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Drove my Chevy to the levy

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Art is in the eye of the beholder

Yakity Yak

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Don't come back Source BBC   Russian

Political savy

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Weston Imer, 12 year old co-chair of Republican nominee’s campaign in Jefferson County shares the volunteer role with his mother Source   The Guardian

Photography before phones

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Source   http://www.golos-ameriki.ru/a/tweed-run-2016/3415051.html

Anime

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charcoal sketch

Aleppo

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“Itis so saddening,” she said. “The strikes and massacres do notstop. Bombings, siege, homelessness, exhaustion, fear, manpowershortage. The silence of the world is killing us. Source   The Guardian

The Company

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we keep

Science based on fiction

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Sidney Perkowitz Nature   537 ,   165–166   (08 September 2016)   doi:10.1038/537165a Published online   07 September 2016 Article tools

We become

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Our Choices

50s Rules

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Wives Were Expected To Adhere To These Crazy Rules Back In The 1950s Taking a look back at the past, it’s always interesting to see how our grandparents and great-grandparents used to live. Back in the 1950s, the concept of women’s equality wasn’t exactly well-known or popular. Women of that time were expected to be good wives and mothers and not much else. In May of 1955, a women’s magazine called Housekeeping Monthly published an article with the title “The Good Wife’s Guide.” The article contained several rules/suggestions for a woman to follow so that she could be the best wife possible to her husband. A lot of these may seem totally outrageous by modern standards, but this was the reality for a woman in those times. Below are some examples of what the article suggested. 1. Plan the next day’s dinner the night before so that you can have it hot and ready for your husband right as he walks in. This lets him know you’re thinking