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POPS"The Mysterious Coral Castle" continues (more at source) : Teenagers living in the area claimed they saw him one night, “singing to the massive stone, and it moved like it was a hydrogen balloon, easily settling into place.” By his own account, Edward claimed, “I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders of Peru, Yucatan, and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons.”
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POPS"Clergyman says church has vanished" continues: A survey of the large, two-storey church a few months ago found that it was structurally sound, but now all that remains are the foundations and sections of walls, the statement said. Thieves routinely make off with church property in rural Russia, where unemployment, petty crime and alcoholism are widespread. Criminals target religious icons stored in churches because they can fetch a good price, and church buildings are dismantled to provide building materials. "This is not an isolated case," said Father Vitaly. "In many villages in central Russia sites of historical interest are being dismantled and people suffer by being deprived of their cultural heritage."
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POPSThe Unappreciated, Holding Our Lives in Balance "Despite its humble reputation, the vestibular system has lately won fans among neuroscientists, who marvel at its sophistication and sensitivity, and how it tells us where we are and what we’re doing and why we should never again embarrass ourselves by going roller skating. They praise the machine-tool precision of its parts, the way the vestibular system discovered the laws of Newtonian mechanics some 400 million years before Newton and then put those principles to use to provision the head with little organic gyroscopes and linear accelerometers"
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POPSWhy as our knowledge & expertise increase, our bility to innovate tend to taper off ? In her book, “Innovation Killer: How What We Know Limits What We Can Imagine — and What Smart Companies Are Doing About It,” Cynthia Barton Rabe proposes bringing in outsiders whom she calls zero-gravity thinkers to keep creativity and innovation on track.“Look for people with renaissance-thinker tendencies, who’ve done work in a related area but not in your specific field,” she says. “Make it possible for someone who doesn’t report directly to that area to come in and say the emperor has no clothes.”
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POPS"Subterranean Fortress" The Underground Fortress is an 8th wonder of the world! It is an unbelievable feat of engineering. The Fortress goes a total of 45 feet under the house! That is below sea level! The fortress has over 1600 sq. ft. of living area, plus hundreds of more square feet of passages and secrets rooms. It was all hand dug over a 20 year period, and all the walls were constructed with a small electric hand cement mixer. There are 3 ft concrete walls, using 5-bag cement (20% denser than regular cement).
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POPSSubterranean Fortress # The perfect home theatre room. # A music studio # Artist /craft space # Kids space/noise proof space # Day Care Center # The Best Halloween Haunted House Ever # Huge wine cellar # Party/Rec. room/pool table/wetbar # Dark room # Meditation spaces # Fitness area # Unique home business space # Do tours to cover expenses # Meeting room/conference room # Build fireman’s pole down Man Hole for quick entrance into the “Big Room” # Actually use it as a “Bomb Shelter”, can hold up to 300 people for 1-2 weeks, or one-two families for a few years. # Office Space with full working phone/internet capabilities. # Would make great Hollywood house for filming movies in.
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POPSForts Crumble Into Trenches Period photographs of Sumter show what appears to be total destruction. Yet it was in fact an impenetrable redoubt. And we're left with a remarkable example of how technology informs us. Masonry was no protection against the new rifled cannons, but pulverized walls were. Southern ingenuity was alert to that lesson. By war's end the South had reinvented defensive fortifications. The old masonry forts lingered another half century, but they never again played any important role in war.
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POPSSustainable Prefab Homes in Turkey Sustainable Prefabs from Orca Yapı: a steel-structured prefabricated home unit that could endure temperatures ranging from plus 50 degrees to minus 50 degrees Celsius, durable in earthquakes reaching 7.5 on the Richter scale, that is cheap to make "The baseline cost for a unit, which does not include any alternative energy production methods like the active solar power water heating system that is installed on the show model in Kocaeli, is $295 per square meter... 10 times cheaper than comparable units."
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POPSThe Relationship Between the Media and Society The result is a society dotted with a few people that feel they are capable and worthy and large numbers of people who feel that they do not measure up, believing themselves to be too much or too little of one thing or another; too fat, too thin; too short, too tall; not smart enough or not pretty enough; too different from what is considered acceptable. In the process, worthwhile individuals with much to offer, people who may hold ideas and suggestions for improving the world for all, become silenced, and society becomes the ultimate loser. For many years, the media has been telling people what is socially acceptable, what is valuable, encouraging some and limiting others; perhaps it's time the people begin telling the media that more positive, life-affirming messages are warranted.
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POPSThe White House On List of Creepy Places That's right, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. is not only home to the current President of the United States, it also is home of several former presidents who occasionally decide to make their presences known there, despite the fact that they are dead. President Harrison is said to be heard rummaging around in the attic of the White House, looking for who knows what. President Andrew Jackson is thought to haunt his White House bedroom. And the ghost of First Lady Abigail Adams was seen floating through one of the White House hallways, as if carrying something. The most frequently sighted presidential ghost has been that of Abraham Lincoln. Eleanor Roosevelt once stated she believed she felt the presence of Lincoln watching her as she worked in the Lincoln bedroom. Also during the Roosevelt administration, a young clerk claimed to have actually seen the ghost of Lincoln sitting on a bed pulling off his boots.
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