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Owen and Mzee are a hippopotamus and a tortoise, respectively, that became the subject of much media attention after forming a unique bond of friendship.A baby hippopotamus, Owen, was orphaned in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Kenya near Malindi during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on December 26, 2004. The baby hippo, weighing 600 pounds (270 kg), was rescued during a day long effort by

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Officials in Georgia have alleged that a Russian fighter jet shot down a Georgian spy plane on Sunday. Colonel David Nairashvili of Georgia's air force told Associated Press that the spy plane recorded video of a Russian fighter before it was downed.According to the foreign ministry of Russia, Abkhaz rebels shot down the Georgian spy plane with anti-aircraft weapons. The statement said that

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The moonwalk or backslide is a dance move that gained widespread popularity after being performed by Michael Jackson on the 1983 television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, and has since become his signature move. The purpose of the moonwalk is to give the illusion that the dancer appears to walk forward while actually moving backward.Although he did not invent its mechanics (which

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Nick Vujicic is a motivational speaker and the director for Life Without Limbs, an organization that is for the physically disabled. Nick was born in Melbourne, Australia on 4 December 1982.First born child into his devout Christian family, Nick Vujicic was born in Sunnybank, Brisbane, Australia, limbless, missing both arms at shoulder level, and having one small foot with two toes protruding

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Vancouver Film School (VFS) is a private entertainment arts school located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 1987, it has achieved international recognition. The Vancouver Film School has campus locations around downtown Vancouver and comprises six buildings. As part of the school's upcoming 20th anniversary in 2007, in August 2006 one million dollars was set aside in

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The hibachi is a traditional Japanese heating device. It consists of a round, cylindrical or a box-shaped open-topped container, made from or lined with a heatproof material and designed to hold burning charcoal.In North America, the term "hibachi" is used to refer to a small cooking stove heated by charcoal (actually called shichirin in Japanese), or to an iron hot plate (teppan) used in

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David Wayne Spade (born July 22, 1964) is an Emmy-Award and Golden Globe-nominated American actor, comedian, television personality who gained fame in the 1990s as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. He currently stars as single man Russell on the CBS sitcom Rules of Engagement.Spade, the youngest of three sons, was born in Birmingham, Michigan to Judith M., a writer and magazine editor, and

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William Sledd is a host of a web-based video series hosted on YouTube. His videos center around fashion, hair and the one time cupcake baking episode. The series is most well known for it's "Ask a Gay Man" episodes where Sledd, as an openly gay man, explains the latest trends in fashion and occasionally goes on location to point out fashion "dont's" as part of his Fashion Victim's

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A wave pool is a type of swimming pool in which reasonably large waves are artificially generated. The idea of such a pool is generally to provide an experience more similar to swimming in the ocean than a typical swimming pool can provide. Wave pools are often a major feature of water parks.Several locations claim to have developed the first wave pool in the United States, including Big Surf in

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Catherine Austin Fitts is the president of Solari, Inc., and managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC.Fitts served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush

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The Great Destroyer is a 2005 album by the slowcore band Low. It was their first effort on Sub Pop Records."California", a song about Sparhawk's mother, was the first single, backed with a demo of "Cue the Strings". A remix EP of "Monkey", entitled Tonight the Monkeys Die, soon followed. Music videos were created for both.The title of the album (as well as the song "Silver Rider") is taken from

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Dwarf tossing is a bar attraction in which dwarfs wearing special padded clothing or Velcro costumes are thrown onto mattresses or at Velcro-coated walls. Participants compete to throw the dwarf the farthest. The term "dwarf throwing" is sometimes used. The sport is believed to have originated in Queensland, Australia, around the mid-1980s.The World Dwarf-throwing Championships were held in

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"I Got a Crush... on Obama" is a popular internet viral video, first posted on YouTube in June 2007 featuring an attractive young woman seductively singing of her love for Junior Senator of Illinois and 2008 U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama. Actress and model Amber Lee Ettinger lip-synched the song for the video, and Leah Kauffman (of "My Box in a Box" fame) provided the vocals.The

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"Series of tubes" is a widely ridiculed metaphor used by United States Senator and then-Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). He was describing the Internet in a speech about network neutrality on June 28, 2006. Stevens was criticizing a proposed amendment to a committee bill which would have prohibited Internet service

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Owned is a slang word that evolved in gaming circles, but has now become a general slang term. The term originated among 1990s hackers, where it referred to "rooting" or gaining administrative control over someone else's computer. By 1997 it was regularly used in website defacements. It then spread to gaming circles, where it came to mean acquisition of superiority through the downfall of another

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Andrew P. Napolitano (born June 6, 1950 in Newark, New Jersey) is a former judge and now an analyst for Fox News Channel. Napolitano started on the channel in 1998, and currently serves as the network's senior judicial analyst, commenting on most legal news and trials. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Notre Dame Law School.Napolitano was a Superior Court judge in New Jersey from 1987

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The Jonas Brothers are an American pop rock band from Wyckoff, New Jersey.The Jonas Brothers band was started as a solo project of the youngest member and brother, Nicholas Jonas. Once it was brought to the attention of recording company that he had two other musically talented brothers as well, they were quickly signed as "The Jonas Brothers" to Columbia Records. The boys recently converted

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Brad Paisley (born October 28, 1972) is an American country music singer, and songwriter from Glen Dale, West Virginia.Brad Paisley has stated that his love of country music stems from his maternal grandfather, who gave Paisley his first guitar at age 8 and taught him how to play. At age 12, Paisley wrote his first song, and by 13 he was an opening act for country singers such as Ricky Skaggs and

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Jake 'Unbreakable' Brown (born September 6, 1974) is an Australian skateboarder who competes in the X Games. He began competing in 1996, turning pro the next year. His skateboard stance is goofy.On August 2, 2007, during the Summer X Games 2007 in The Home Depot Center in Los Angeles, California, Brown suffered what ESPN commentators called the "heaviest slam they had ever seen". On his fifth and

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"Smooth Criminal" is the eighth single from Michael Jackson's Bad album (1987). The song contains a fast-paced beat intertwined with Jackson's lyrics about a woman named Annie, who has been attacked in her apartment by a suave hitman. It was released as a single in 1988 and peaked at seven on the Billboard Hot 100. It was re-released on April 10, 2006 as a part of the Visionary: The Video Singles

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Code Monkeys is an animated series on G4 featuring a pixelated animation style inspired by classic video games of the early 1980s. The show is created, written and executive produced by Adam de la Pena (I'm with Busey, Minoriteam).Many of the references in the show suggest that it is set at the beginning of the video game era, sometime in the 1980s. It centers on a video game publisher called

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Magnetic levitation, maglev, or magnetic suspension is a method by which an object is suspended above another object with no support other than magnetic fields. The electromagnetic force is used to counteract the effects of the gravitational force.Earnshaw's theorem proved conclusively that it is not possible to levitate stably using only static, macroscopic, "classical" electromagnetic fields.

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"AYO Technology" was the fourth single from 50 Cent's upcoming third album, Curtis. The song features Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. Sources from HipHopDX.com claim that 50 Cent had to re-work the song because of pressure from Universal Music Group (parent company of Interscope Records) due to the song being too explicit for airplay. The video for the song, which was supposed to be released on

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Nicole Camille Richie (born September 21, 1981) is an American socialite, actress, author, and singer. The adopted daughter of Lionel Richie, she is known for her role in the reality show The Simple Life and her turbulent personal life.Nicole Richie was born Nicole Camille Escovedo in Berkeley, California. Her biological mother was a backstage assistant for Lionel.At age two, Nicole went to live

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"Louie Louie" is an American rock 'n' roll song written by Richard Berry in 1955. It has become a standard in pop and rock, with hundreds of versions recorded by different artists. The song is written in the style of a Jamaican ballad; and tells, in simple verse-chorus form, the first-person story of a Jamaican sailor returning to the island to see his lady love. The singer brags of his "fine

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